Xia Yan froze.
The figure surfaced and swam toward him. It was a twenty-meter-long shark with a perfectly streamlined body, its white skin carrying a faint sheen. It moved with incredible speed, the seawater rippling strangely wherever it passed.
A little shark, less than half its size, swam beside it.
The Jade Green Luan slowed, watching the newcomer in the water warily.
If it could speak, it had to be a hundred-thousand-year soul beast.
"Human riding a hundred-thousand-year green bird, the one who flew here from the eastern sea. You killed the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, didn't you?"
Xia Yan raised an eyebrow. A twenty-meter-long white shark that could speak... wasn't this Xiao Bai, the Demon Soul Great White Shark King who guarded Sea God Island?
"That was me."
"Did... the Sea God tell you?"
There was only one possible explanation for this: the Sea God.
One of the Sea God's Nine Trials was to kill the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King. The Sea God himself had blinded one of his eyes back then.
"So it really is you."
The Demon Soul Great White Shark King finally had her confirmation, and a weight lifted from her heart. She and her daughter had waited for almost a month, and at last, he had arrived.
"Hey, human, can my daughter go with you? Treat her well. Don't let her suffer."
"If my daughter comes crying back to me, you'll have me to answer to!"
The Jade Green Luan looked back and forth, utterly bewildered. What's going on, Master? Why is she suddenly coming with you?
Xia Yan thought for a moment.
"..."
"What did the Sea God tell you?"
"To send your daughter with me?"
"Is that any way to ask someone a favor?"
At the mention of the Sea God,