The torrential rain poured down.
River wind suddenly rose.
Ba Er Si Tai ran across the water in relentless pursuit.
The Creation Treasure Ship sank beneath the surface and slipped through the depths.
The two sped forward.
Above and below the water, separated by a dim water mirror, waves surged in overlapping layers, filled with flashing sky light.
Crack!
Jade shattered.
Black-and-white radiance exploded at once, colliding head-on!
Ripples spread across space.
One horizontal, one vertical, interlocked in a cross.
The black-red vertical slash did not pause in the slightest. It severed the circling silver light and plunged straight into the water!
The layered waves were annihilated without a trace.
White foam fell back. At the edge of the break, it was as though cold water had struck a blazing red copper furnace, hissing sharply.
Liang Qu's Golden Eyes blazed. He tapped off the ship with his toes, leaped thirty feet from the water, seized the black-red blade light, and twisted both hands in opposite directions to crush it. His palms felt as though they had brushed flames, scalding hot. The killing intent within drew his blood and qi into a boil, as hard to settle as water choking into his nose.
Ba Er Si Tai leaped down, stepped on the water again, sprang back into mid-air, and took out a second jade token.
Liang Qu gripped one in reverse as well.
Crack!
Again!
Another collision!
Golden Eyes burned.
The world turned gray-white. The striking black-red vertical slash severed the silver ring, its colors dim and lusterless.
The vertical slash broke through the water and landed in his hands once more.
Bang!
The blade light shattered.
Before the lingering force of the first strike had faded, danger came again.
Wave after wave followed, stacking atop one another. Liang Qu's two-hundred-and-ninety-onefold