Courage

Eight Gold Pattern Blue Silver Grasses instantly coiled around the Tentacle smeared with Ye Lan's blood.

These Eight Blue Silver Grasses were not the ones currently battling the other Tentacles, but eight Blue Silver Grasses Ye Lan had never released before.

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The number of Blue Silver Grasses Ye Lan could summon was not sixteen, but twenty-four!

These additional Blue Silver Grasses were the contingency Ye Lan had kept in reserve to prevent any unforeseen accidents.

Crack! Crack! Crack!

The eight Blue Silver Grasses continuously tightened, and cracking sounds kept coming from the completely entangled Tentacle.

Two Blue Silver Grasses could barely contend with one Tentacle of the Ancient Beast's Touch.

But eight Blue Silver Grasses stacked together were far more than a simple one-plus-one.

The Tentacles of the Ancient Beast's Touch simply could not withstand the strangling force of eight Blue Silver Grasses!

Before long, chunks of white flesh from the Tentacle were blasted everywhere.

Just as Ye Lan thought he could use the extra eight Blue Silver Grasses to surround and destroy the remaining Tentacles, the Ancient Beast's Touch gave its response!

Splash, splash, splash~

The Ancient Beast's Touch sprayed an enormous amount of Black Ink from its mouthparts. This ink could help it escape in the ocean.

But now, the Ancient Beast's Touch had no intention of fleeing. It had another purpose.

The ink sprayed by the Ancient Beast's Touch was not only viscous, but also extremely slippery.

Seeing the Ancient Beast's Touch's head swell, Ye Lan did not know what it intended to do next, so he widened the distance between them.

Not long after, a great deal of Black Ink sprayed out from beneath the Ancient Beast's Touch's body.

As the Ancient Beast's Touch's swollen head rapidly contracted, the ink rushed toward the deck.

Starting from directly beneath the Ancient Beast's Touch, the deck rapidly turned black in all directions.

Feeling the loss of traction beneath his shoes, Ye Lan immediately realized something was wrong.

That was right—Ye Lan could no longer move quickly across the deck. It was simply far too slippery now.

The moment he exerted force with his legs, Ye Lan would slip and fall.

This was the Ancient Beast's Touch's true intention. It wanted to leave the Blond Youth before it without a single place to stand.

Ye Lan could no longer move, but the Ancient Beast's Touch could use the suckers on its Tentacles to firmly grip the deck and move about.

The Ancient Beast's Touch's enormous body slowly closed in on Ye Lan.

Like an abyss about to devour the light.

"We're done for! We're done for!" The fisherman gripped the helm tightly, constantly steadying the rocking boat to help Ye Lan keep his balance.

At the same time, he silently prayed for Ye Lan.

The fisherman had not expected the Thousand-Year Ancient Beast's Touch to be so terrifying. Ye Lan was already far stronger than he could have imagined, yet he had still fallen into a disadvantage.

The only thing the fisherman could do now was steady the boat for Ye Lan.

Ye Lan spread his arms and continuously balanced himself, preventing himself from slipping onto the deck.

If he fell and got covered in that black, sticky fluid, it would become even harder to get back up and regain his balance.

But the Ancient Beast's Touch did not care what Ye Lan did. It advanced toward him step by step.

Unable to move on the ground, Ye Lan could only choose to fight the Ancient Beast's Touch to the death in midair!

Eight Blue Silver Grasses were tied to various parts of the fishing boat—the railings, the barriers, the windows, and so on.

These Blue Silver Grasses suspended Ye Lan above the deck. At that moment, he was level with the Ancient Beast's Touch's eyes, staring directly into its dozens of twisted, bloodshot eyes.

Seeing Ye Lan hanging in the air, the Ancient Beast's Touch was not discouraged.

After all, the more Blue Silver Grasses Ye Lan wasted suspending himself in the air, the fewer he had available to deal with it.

Besides, hanging in the air made him a living target!

As soon as the Ancient Beast's Touch approached Ye Lan in midair, it frantically used seven Tentacles to attack him.

Faced with strikes like a raging storm, Ye Lan could only struggle to respond, constantly blocking the Ancient Beast's Touch's attacks.

Although a single Tentacle was stronger than two of Ye Lan's Blue Silver Grasses, one of the Ancient Beast's Touch's Tentacles had been destroyed by Ye Lan, leaving it with only two.

With both sides evenly matched, neither could defeat the other as they traded attacks, and the situation reached a stalemate!

After the stalemate continued for a long time, the Ancient Beast's Touch came up with another strategy.

It would attack the Blue Silver Grasses suspending Ye Lan in midair. As long as Ye Lan fell onto the deck, it would win!

The Ancient Beast's Touch immediately changed its target and fiercely lashed at the taut Blue Silver Grasses in the air!

Ye Lan noticed the Ancient Beast's Touch's intention, but he could only struggle to deal with it.

After all, the Blue Silver Grass suspending Ye Lan had already been fixed in place, and Ye Lan could not control it.

As the taut Blue Silver Grass holding Ye Lan aloft was continuously snapped by Ancient Beast's Touch, Ye Lan could only divert the Blue Silver Grass used in battle to reinforce those broken spots.

At first, Ye Lan's response was effective, but as time passed, the Blue Silver Grass dancing wildly through the air and available for battle grew fewer and fewer.

The regeneration speed of the damaged Blue Silver Grass gradually failed to keep up with Ancient Beast's Touch's rate of destruction.

The Blue Silver Grass on the field dropped from twenty-four to twenty-three.

Twenty-two!

Twenty-one!

Twenty!

As the number of Blue Silver Grass on the field dwindled, the balance between Ye Lan's Blue Silver Grass and Ancient Beast's Touch was completely shattered.

For Ye Lan to remain stable in the air, he could only reduce the number of Battle Blue Silver Grass.

As the number of Battle Blue Silver Grass decreased, Ancient Beast's Touch would attack Ye Lan.

Ye Lan could only pull from the supporting Blue Silver Grass to deal with Ancient Beast's Touch's attacks.

In the end, the supporting Blue Silver Grass gradually grew fewer. Ye Lan patched one hole only to create another, and the gaps only widened.

Ye Lan became increasingly unstable in the air. Finally, like the last straw that broke the camel's back, an important supporting Blue Silver Grass was twisted apart by Ancient Beast's Touch.

Ye Lan lost his balance and crashed directly onto the pitch-black deck.

The instant he fell, Ye Lan instinctively pushed himself up.

Smack!

Ye Lan slipped and fell to the ground again!

A pungent, fishy stench assaulted Ye Lan's nostrils. Before he could adapt, Ancient Beast's Touch moved.

Seeing Ye Lan fall onto the deck, Ancient Beast's Touch swiftly slid toward him.

Its seven tentacles all curved down toward the deck.

Crack!

With a leap, Ancient Beast's Touch's massive body sprang several meters into the air before crashing heavily down on Ye Lan.

If the deck had not been covered in black slime, Ye Lan could have easily dodged this attack with a quick movement.

Unfortunately, the ground was covered in black slime!!!

Meanwhile, the fisherman in the captain's cabin

saw Ye Lan completely fall into a disadvantage and collapse onto the black deck.

Moved by Ye Lan's repeated counterattacks, the fisherman felt immense courage rise in his heart.

He absolutely could not let this talented Soul Master die before his eyes, just like his son and daughter-in-law had ten years ago.

The fisherman had witnessed the deaths of his son and daughter-in-law with his own eyes back then. This time, he did not want Ye Lan to die before his eyes!!

As Ancient Beast's Touch closed in on Ye Lan, the fisherman intended to go down and help, using those two bags of Sea Salt.

By the moonlight, the fisherman's clouded eyes continuously swept across the deck.

Yet he discovered that the spot where the Sea Salt had previously been stored on the deck was completely empty. The Sea Salt was gone!

Alarmed, the fisherman planned to go down to the deck to search for the Sea Salt.