Rumble!
Over the sea, snake-like flashes of lightning flickered without end. Every flicker sent them shooting more than ten miles away, their speed reaching an extreme.
Yet the blue stream of light chasing behind that lightning-serpent radiance was not slow in the slightest. The Sea Covering Command Flag hovered above the Great Sage of the Sea's head like a sail swollen full by the wind, carrying him as he doggedly bit at Ye Zhen's heels!
Each time the Sea Covering Command Flag flashed, the Great Sage of the Sea accelerated once, narrowing the distance between himself and Ye Zhen by another fraction!
Less than ten breaths had passed since this contest of flight and pursuit began—barely eight breaths. When the blue radiance emitted by the Sea Covering Command Flag blazed as fiercely as the sun—
The Great Sage of the Sea had already closed the distance to within five miles of Ye Zhen!
And five miles was already the range that the Great Sage of the Sea's Sea Covering Command Flag could envelop in an instant.
Rumble!
After another Thunder Serpent Blast landed, in the instant before the next one could rise, the Great Sage of the Sea abruptly accelerated. The Sea Covering Command Flag shot forth, blotting out the sky as it covered the space above Ye Zhen's head, while the Great Sage of the Sea burst into laughter.
"Ye Zhen, you've lost!"
"Not necessarily!"
The instant Ye Zhen spoke, two balls of fire flew from his left and right hands respectively, hurtling like meteors toward the Sea Covering Command Flag sweeping at him!
Bang! Bang!
The explosive force of two Three-Array Profound Fire Drills caused the Sea Covering Command Flag to surge and heave like the waves, abruptly stalling its downward sweep!
Almost at the same time, the