Once the Tidal Wave Destiny was formed, its miraculous effects appeared instantly.
Jing Qian felt that the seawater around him was no longer a cold and silent dead thing. Instead, it had been endowed with a real and substantial life, forming some subtle connection with him.
The seawater gently brushed against his body, bringing waves of mild yet powerful sensation, as if an old friend were warmly greeting him.
He could clearly sense the Essence fluctuations contained within the seawater. As though summoned, the Essence gathered toward him, nourishing his body and soul.
Although he had yet to master the Essence Extraction Art corresponding to the Tidal Wave Destiny, as long as he remained within the seawater, the recovery rate of his Destiny Essence rose dramatically!
With Essence replenishing him, Jing Qian no longer even needed to breathe.
He sank into the deep seabed, entirely free from the need to draw breath.
Just by attaining a single Destiny, this endless ocean had become Jing Qian's home turf.
From this moment onward, he was a true ocean creature!
The wonders of a Destiny were once again revealed in all their breathtaking glory.
Jing Qian silently regulated his breathing, quickly adapting to the Magic Power of the Tidal Wave Destiny.
Within the memories he had stripped from the giant crab, he had once transformed into a giant crab and roamed the great ocean.
Life in the sea had long since merged into his very being, becoming instinct itself.
He only needed to reactivate this part of his memories, and his command of the tides would leap into an entirely new realm!
And the best way to fuse with those memories was to personally experience the might of the Tidal Wave Destiny.
Jing Qian suddenly began to move, riding the tides as he toured westward.
His figure threaded through the sea in astonishing harmony. The waves heaved and surged, and the surrounding seawater rejoiced.
As he increased the Magic Power he poured forth, his speed continued to climb.
He swam forward with unwavering resolve, never changing direction in the slightest.
He was testing his own top speed!
To Jing Qian's surprise, despite having only just refined the Tidal Wave Destiny, his speed in the water had already shot straight up to two hundred kilometers per hour!
For such a terrifying effect, he had only one evaluation:
"Awesome!"
Jing Qian held nothing back with his Magic Power output, maintaining his breakneck speed as he tore wildly through the seabed.
Humanity's pursuit of speed surpassed its instinctive aversion to danger!
No one could resist the allure of the tides!
The scenery around him swept past like slides in a projector.
Reefs, aquatic plants, schools of fish—everything blurred into a swift haze. Only the exhilaration and freedom in his heart remained as sharp and clear as a biting sea breeze.
He felt a release like never before. The pressure brought by the perilous environments he had encountered since crossing over was completely shed in this moment.
As he pressed onward, he added another source of power.
First came the eruption of the Sumeru Destiny's power, and the void swallowed him whole.
Yet before a second had passed, he reappeared a hundred meters away. His speed had not diminished in the slightest—in fact, it had even increased.
Then the entire process repeated itself.
He jumped in and out of the dimensional void, swimming back and forth.
Using the brief bursts of Sumeru power, Jing Qian achieved one void leap after another. Each disappearance and reappearance was as abrupt as a ghost, yet so natural.
Jing Qian's control over the Tidal Wave Destiny was rising at breakneck speed!
And now that he had the Tidal Wave Destiny, the secret art he had obtained from the Crimson Scale Dragon Carp also had a use.
The Dragon Travel Technique, derived from the dragon race's bloodline, contained the true dragon's control and understanding of ocean currents.
It was an acceleration secret art with a low threshold yet astonishing effects.
The Crimson Scale Dragon Carp could use this secret art to boost its swimming speed to over a thousand kilometers per hour, showing just how powerful it was.
The combination of the Tidal Wave Destiny and this secret art was even more perfectly matched, like a tiger with wings.
Jing Qian took the initiative to merge this secret art into his swimming.
Under his control, the ocean currents created by resistance began to gather, forming a powerful counter-thrust.
He accelerated once again, and the speed left even him stunned.
At that moment, he seemed to have transformed into a true proud dragon, soaring through the ocean as his speed continued to climb.
At first, Jing Qian was somewhat worried that his body would not be able to endure it, but he soon discovered that the combination of the Tidal Wave Destiny and the Dragon Travel Technique had deepened the resonance between his body and the seawater.
Essence from the seawater continuously poured into his body, nourishing his flesh and soul and keeping both his stamina and spirit in peak condition.
Only when his speed surpassed five hundred kilometers per hour did he reach his limit.
Even better!
As he swam, Jing Qian adjusted his direction without stopping, throwing himself forward at full force.
This swim lasted for more than an hour!
He had crossed more than a thousand li in one breath and arrived in a new stretch of sea!
Maintaining his speed at its extreme, he held the Iron Skewer before him.
With man and skewer as one, he was like a drawn sword!
Where the sword's edge pointed, a gigantic sailfish was patrolling the seabed.
The Sumeru Destiny erupted, and Jing Qian's figure completely slipped into the void and vanished.
Within the dimensional space, he was like a void fish. With a turn of his body, he followed the sailfish's enormous mouth and burrowed into its belly.
This Ninth-Rank Whitefang Sailfish was basking comfortably in its own territory, thinking about where to find some plump sea fish to satisfy its craving later.
But suddenly, a violent pain erupted from its abdomen!
The sailfish seemed to have been struck by lightning. It shot up from the seabed and struggled forward.
It knew it had been ambushed, yet had no idea where its enemy was!
It swam frantically, but could not even find an opponent to strike back at. All it could do was turn back and forth across the seabed.
It violently slammed its belly against the sharp reefs, wishing it could slice open its own abdomen and claw out the foreign object inside.
But everything was futile!
The beast in its belly was utterly devoid of humanity. It stabbed apart all the organs the sailfish had painstakingly tempered and nourished. In no more than the time it took an incense stick to burn, the sailfish had breathed its last.
The giant sailfish's corpse slowly sank to the seabed. As its Destiny Essence dispersed, its enormous, heavy body could no longer stay afloat.
Only then did a tiny figure emerge from the fish's mouth, holding half a Whitefang fishbone as lustrous as white mutton-fat jade.
After refining the Tidal Wave Destiny, Jing Qian had not paused for even an instant. He had launched a thousand-li raid and directly slain this Whitefang-rank sailfish.
With the boost of this Destiny, the increase in his personal strength was beyond all reckoning!
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