The Giant Whale Demon's 'Field'

The number of fleeing enemies was roughly equal to the number of ships in the joint force of the three commanderies and their prominent clans that was now pursuing them. Without Governor Zhang needing to give an order, each family's ship immediately set off after a different enemy.

To save their lives, these enemies exhausted every method and gave it their all. They fled at astonishing speed, employing all manner of mystical escape arts to distract attention, conceal their forms, and evade pursuit, each with its own subtle wonders.

Take the enemy pursued by the Liang Family ship, for instance. Under the pursuit of the Black Lotus Ship, seeing that escape was becoming impossible, the figure suddenly swayed in the sea and split into seven or eight figures, fleeing in all directions.

To Liang Zhaohuang's eyes and Spiritual Sense, these seven or eight figures were identical in both appearance and aura. He could not tell which was the true body and which was false.

Only by simultaneously activating the Five Elements Dharma Eye and Heavenly Eye Insight, and observing the Five Elements Dao Marks, could he distinguish truth from falsehood.

No matter how convincing the false bodies were, even possessing identical auras, the enemy was ultimately only at the third tier, the Golden Core level, rather than a Nascent Soul True Lord. They could not alter or duplicate things on the level of laws and Dao Marks.

With a single glance, Liang Zhaohuang locked onto the enemy's true fleeing body. He ignored all the other distracting and deceptive escape figures, controlled the Black Lotus Ship, and pursued only the true body.

Seeing that the false bodies had failed to deceive Liang Zhaohuang, the fleeing figure ahead abruptly let out a long howl.

Even beneath the seawater, the howl carried in