Xiao Yi

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The muffled thunder of the Mad Shark Axe cleaving open the waves and the sharp shriek of the Sea God Halberd tearing through the air wove together above the dark-red sea. Commander Mad Shark gripped the door-sized giant axe in both hands; every swing carried the bloodthirsty laws of a Third-Rank Martial Venerable. Wherever the axe blade passed, dark-red bloody light ripped through the air like a bolt of silk, carving trench after trench into the sea below, each one deep enough to see the bottom.

His axe art was broad and forceful, rough and violent. It looked utterly without pattern, yet every strike precisely sealed off Lu Changsheng's vital points. Across the Blood Shark Race's centuries of warfare, the number of human Martial Venerables who had died beneath this Mad Shark Axe could not be counted on two hands. He was confident this young man before him, who looked like nothing more than a First-Rank Martial Venerable, would not withstand more than a few blows.

And yet the Sea God Halberd's might in this sea far surpassed his prediction. In the first few exchanges, the two were still locked in an inseparable battle, the huge crashes of axe and halberd colliding rising and falling over the sea. But very quickly, Lu Changsheng keenly noticed a change—the Sea God Halberd was actually taking the initiative to absorb the water-law power of the surrounding sea!

The deep-blue trident trembled slightly in his palm. With every swing, massive amounts of water-law power peeled away from the waves on their own and flowed into the halberd like young swallows returning to the nest. The azure spiritual light grew more and more radiant, and the water laws flowing over the halberd blade gradually thickened from their initial thin layer into a