Bat King and the Lion Tiger Beast

Back to the present.

Under Death Waterfall in the Morse Mountains.

After blocking several waves of tremendous water, another impossibly huge boulder came crashing down.

The boulder nearly covered the entire sky above them, casting a vast shadow beneath the waterfall.

"What a huge rock!" Natalie exclaimed, her mouth hanging open in disbelief.

Sani said, "That isn't a boulder. It's a mountain."

"A mountain?"

"That's right. The tremendous force of the water upstream broke off the mountaintop and sent it crashing down."

"Who cares what it is?" Leiyin said as he drew the Kusanagi Sword from behind his back. With a swing, a powerful sword wave packed with a vast amount of chakra shot out.

"Kusanagi: Tanuki Sword Wave!"

The massive slash tore through the air with a howl. With a thunderous boom that shook the entire mountain range, the boulder-sized mountaintop was split in two and fell to either side, sending two towering columns of water surging upward.

All three were drenched, and Sani was nearly swept into the lake.

Fortunately, their efforts had not been in vain. They had made it through Death Waterfall and spotted a cave in the cliff wall.

The Sparkling Silky-Foot Fish they were looking for was inside this cave!

Because the queen's body was far too enormous to enter the waterfall, Leiyin carried Natalie on his back while Sani used his hair to latch onto the cave entrance. The three of them entered just like that.

The cave was huge, measuring twenty to thirty meters in both width and height. It was not nearly as dark inside as they had imagined, because this end of the cave opened onto the waterfall and was very bright. Not only that, but light also flickered deep within the cave, so the interior was not dark.

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