Everyone's gaze was drawn to it.
The tide rose in tandem with the violent surging of the aura.
Countless currents formed, resembling enormous dragons and pythons weaving through the sea in pairs at tremendous speed.
Spires of dark currents materialized simultaneously, growing ever more numerous—their count skyrocketing!
Before long, there were hundreds upon hundreds of sinister dark vortices, blanketing the surrounding waters.
"What is this?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng blurted out in astonishment.
"An ancient desolate beast!" Fang Yuan's eyes flashed with sharp light as he spoke the truth.
Ordinary wild beasts, Hundred Beast Kings, Thousand Beast Kings, Ten Thousand Beast Kings, Beast Emperors, Desolate Beasts, Ancient Desolate Beasts, Primordial Desolate Beasts…
Among them, Primordial Desolate Beasts were beings of power rivaling Eighth Transformation Gu Immortals!
Shark Demon and Su Baiman, husband and wife, fixed their burning gazes at the center of the aura—where the form of the Primordial Desolate Beast was gradually taking shape.
With the situation unclear, Burning Heaven Demoness paused her offensive as well. With a mere thought, she recalled the flame bird back to her side.
Tides rose and fell, waves crashed.
Above the sea, fierce winds and savage storms raged. Below, dark currents surged.
After a few breaths, the mysterious Primordial Desolate Beast finally revealed its true form.
This powerful Primordial Desolate Beast was unexpectedly small.
So small that it was the size of a single human finger.
It was a shark.
Tiny and quite adorable.
Roughly the size of an adult's index finger.
Its entire body shimmered with a silvery glow. The glow was not blinding—rather, it was gentle as water, like silk, softly wrapping around the little shark's body.
"Such a powerful aura. And yet its true form is so…" Tai Bai Yun Sheng sighed, his expression peculiar.
But across from him, Burning Heaven Demoness wore a look of deep gravity.
The little shark paid no attention to Fang Yuan, Shark Demon, or the others behind it. The moment it appeared, it fixed both eyes on Burning Heaven Demoness, radiating intense hostility.
Shark Demon let out a long breath at last and transmitted his voice to Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng: "My plan has succeeded, by a stroke of luck… You two must not underestimate this little shark. It is the One Finger Flow Shark!"
"This is the One Finger Flow Shark?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng exclaimed, his expression shifting, his eyes filled with obvious shock.
Ordinary Gu Immortals might not know of the One Finger Flow Shark. But Tai Bai Yun Sheng, a Time Path Gu Immortal, had long heard of its great reputation.
In fact, virtually all Time Path Gu Immortals knew a certain maxim: One Finger Flow Shark. Fleeting Bloom. Clear Sound of Passing Waters. Heaven's Will is without mercy.
The One Finger Flow Shark sat at the very top of that maxim—a testament to its legendary fame.
It was an Eighth Transformation Time Path Desolate Beast, bearing immensely rich Time Path Dao Marks on its body, which allowed it to traverse the River of Time in physical form!
"This One Finger Flow Shark usually hides within the River of Time and does not reveal its true form. My wife and I discovered its traces only by a fortunate accident. Later, we deliberately requested this stretch of sea from Alliance headquarters and eventually created the Shark Sea," Shark Demon continued explaining to Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng.
Burning Heaven Demoness let out a soft laugh. "So that's how it. No wonder you two were willing to pay any price to obtain from Alliance headquarters the Immortal Killer Move of the slave path grandmaster Bai Ba Shi Nu—Inferior Surmounting Superior. It was all to use this slave path technique to subdue the One Finger Flow Shark."
The slave path had always been about the superior commanding the inferior.
For example, when Fang Yuan was in the Northern Plains, he used the identity of Wolf King Chang Shan Yin to participate in the Throne争. During that time, he manipulated the wolf army en masse through Ten Thousand Beast Kings, Thousand Beast Kings, and the like.
After all, soul depth was limited. A slave path Gu Master could not bring every wild beast under direct control.
The larger the beast swarm, the weaker the slave path Gu Master's grasp became—the greater the burden on their soul, the less they could achieve precise control.
But this was not absolute.
Gu were the true essence of heaven and earth. Humanity was the foremost spirit of all creation.
The intellect of humans was, without question, the undisputed pinnacle of all living things.
In the long history of Gu cultivation, there had once appeared a slave path grandmaster. His early years were marked by hardship—he was born a slave, his status low. Through repeated opportunities and repeated risks, he continually grew, eventually ascending to the pinnacle of life.
That was Bai Ba Shi Nu.
A prodigy of his generation.
Ordinary slave paths operated from superior commanding inferior. But he had done the exact opposite—commanding the superior from below.
This was not without rationale.
Consider an example: the Emperor is lord of all under heaven, holding power over life and death, elevated above all. Yet sometimes, when the people stand united in one will, even the Emperor can be swept along by public sentiment, forced to act against his own desires.
In response to Burning Heaven Demoness's conjecture, Shark Demon nodded and admitted frankly: "Your guess is correct. That is indeed the case. The reason I have been continuously cultivating the shark swarm in these waters is that I hoped to use the mass of sharks to subdue the One Finger Flow Shark. Unfortunately, my attainment in the slave path is insufficient, and I do not possess the Immortal Gu needed to compose the Inferior Surmounting Superior killer move. That is why I have yet to succeed."
Hearing this, Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng exchanged a glance.
Shark Demon's ambition was truly vast.
He was merely a Seventh Transformation zombie immortal, yet he aspired to subdue a Primordial Desolate Beast.
Anyone who could become a Gu Immortal was, without exception, no simple person.
If he truly succeeded, then with such a fighting force at his disposal, Shark Demon would be the equivalent of half an Eighth Transformation Gu Immortal. His status would rise accordingly, and fame and profit would come rolling in.
At this stage, though he had not yet succeeded, he had made progress.