"Contact Elder Qi," Lie Yan Yang said through gritted teeth. "That turtle shell—I'll smash it to pieces if it's the last thing I do." As he spoke, he rose above the sea, and the others followed.
Xu Yi was hiding inside the shell, and he couldn't move that Myriad Bone Skeleton anyway. Besides, they had the tracking secret art, so there was no fear of Xu Yi slipping away.
To their surprise, just as Lie Yan Yang sent the message, he sensed a stir from Xu Yi beneath the sea.
"Not good! The kid's trying to escape!" Lie Yan Yang was both alarmed and delighted. He was alarmed that, at a moment like this, Xu Yi would dare return his immortal soul to his body and flee beneath the sea. But he was delighted that this time, he would never again give Xu Yi's immortal soul a chance to escape into that Myriad Bone Skeleton.
Lie Yan Yang immediately sent another message, explaining that the situation had changed and everything was back under his control.
The instant he sent it, he and the others plunged into the sea again. As soon as they were underwater, they realized that things had gone completely awry. Xu Yi had vanished. The seawater ahead churned into a vast whirlpool, surging down into the depths.
Clearly, Xu Yi had dug a tunnel beneath the seabed and was burrowing forward at full speed.
In an instant, everyone realized that Xu Yi's helper had returned.
Back then, they had chased Xu Yi relentlessly behind the Black Rank Strange Beast Raging Heaven Ape, yet he had still managed to escape. That chase alone had proved that Xu Yi's helper was no less capable of tunneling underground than the Raging Heaven Ape.
But the Raging Heaven Ape had already