Two days after setting out, the ship carrying Ning Xiaochuan and Little Red encountered a demon beast with cultivation at the ninth level of the True Person Realm.
"A demon beast is coming!" someone on the ship suddenly shouted, and everyone immediately became vigilant.
A gigantic black octopus suddenly surged up from the deep sea. Its cultivation rivaled the ninth level of the human True Person Realm. It whipped the waves thousands of meters high, each of its tentacles as thick as a water barrel. With a savage sweep across the sea's surface, enormous waves engulfed Ning Xiaochuan's ship in an instant.
All the True Person Realm martial artists aboard flew into the air, each bringing out their trump cards to deal with the gigantic octopus.
However, the highest cultivation among these cultivators was only at the seventh level of the True Person Realm. Their attacks landing on the giant octopus had no effect whatsoever.
Because they were at sea, creatures of the ocean were stronger than creatures of the land at the same realm.
They lived in the sea, where every day they had to evade threats from marine creatures stronger than themselves and learn to withstand the undercurrents lurking everywhere. From the distant primordial era until now, their constitutions had long surpassed those of creatures on the continent. Even land creatures at the same realm might not be a match for ocean creatures, much less those several realms apart.
The martial artists aboard all turned ashen-faced. They had not expected to encounter such a powerful demon beast the moment they went to sea. Today, they would very likely be wiped out to the last man.
These True Person Realm cultivators were all powerful independent cultivators. Without the support of vast resources, reaching the True Person Realm was already