Beneath the roiling, restless waters of Li Lake, Li Hai had no idea how much water he had already sucked in.
It might have been a million tons, or several million, or even more.
Li Hai hadn't bothered to work it out. He couldn't be bothered.
All he knew was that the basin in East Forest Garden, inside Guiyou Grotto-Heaven, was almost full.
Yet countless streams still surged in from every direction, as if they would never run dry.
"Looks like Li Lake is really deep."
Li Hai, now a human-shaped whirlpool, marveled, "It's only two or three li across, but after sucking in water for so long, there's still this much left."
As he spoke, a gigantic black shadow suddenly shot upward from the dark depths below him.
"How foul..."
Li Hai looked down with a cold laugh. "You must be that fish monster."
As he spoke, he shut every Cave Heaven Portal. At the same time, the steel whip in his hand suddenly stretched much longer. It glowed a dark red as he swung his arm, and lashed viciously at the black shadow rushing up from below.
Screee—
A shrill, grating sound that set one's teeth on edge rang out. Li Hai's powerful whip strike abruptly slid off the shadow's surface and hit the murky water instead.
Boom!
With a muffled crash, the roiling lake water was blasted apart by the whip. A spherical void bubble appeared for an instant, lit by a flash of Spark.
Li Hai's sharp gaze pierced through the bubble, and in that brief moment he saw the gigantic shadow pressed against it.
A human face and a fish's body, several zhang long, eyes like red lanterns, six fins and eight arms, pitch-black from head to tail and covered in iron scales.
Sure enough,