Azure-Blue Heavenly Dragon, True Persons' Dharma Images

Waves surged, and fierce winds howled.

Between sea and sky, eight Spirit Transformation True Persons charged together. Though Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals swarmed to block them, they could not slow them in the slightest.

The eight not only worked in perfect harmony, each was formidable in their own right. Even against the Dragon Palace marshals and generals who had accompanied Ao Qi, they gave no ground.

Ao Qi saw clearly that a young Spirit Transformation cultivator, dressed in a brocade robe patterned with waves and looking every inch a carefree nobleman, held off two Dragon Palace marshals with nothing but a jade-green bamboo flute. The marshals drove towering waves at him with their water arts, yet that flute held back the heaven-toppling deluge.

Another was a female cultivator carrying a flower basket. She stopped tens of thousands of Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals alone. With a lift of her hand, her magic power wove itself into a net. She formed some sort of seal, and a net flew from her basket to envelop the aquatic troops. They lunged this way and that, trapped in place and spinning like headless flies.

The remaining six were no less extraordinary. A scholar wielded an iron sword, his arts blazing like fire as he held off three Spirit Transformation cultivators alone. A physician used the wood-arts Divine Ability Evergreen Four Directions to raise towering trees that trapped and slew sea-going flood dragons. A graceful lady performed the Lotus-Walking Art, conjuring countless dreamlike water lotuses that divided sea from sky. A wild-spirited man swept the battlefield with a spear that struck like a soaring dragon.

As the eight fought together, Ao Qi discovered that the Dragon Palace marshals who had always seemed so imposing, so capable of crushing petty villains and monsters, were astonishingly