In the boundless sea, the tides churned. Stirred by the beast tide, the waves were especially turbulent.
A Stellar Whale sped past, whipping the waves into even more surging frenzy.
From time to time, dark Blood Leeches emerged from its deep, shadowy maw and swiftly spread into the surrounding waters.
Ye Haisheng stood within the whale's mouth, his face still somewhat pale. Repeated uses of Soul Attendant Blood Escape and Three-Origin Blood Escape, even when prepared in advance, placed an immense burden on the body.
He hastily took out several spirit pills and stuffed them into his mouth.
Before he had time to praise the spirit pills Ye Jingcheng had refined, he pulled several spirit talismans from his storage pouch again.
Most of these talismans were enhancement-type talismans such as Divine Concealment Talismans and Swift Travel Talismans, and he had already lost count of how many he had used.
Yet his eyes remained filled with gravity.
He had thought he had escaped, but he had underestimated the Stellar Whales. A late-arriving peak third-rank Stellar Whale had latched onto him relentlessly from behind, and it even excelled in concealment techniques.
Had he not been using Blood Leeches to scout from the very beginning, these Stellar Whales might have deceived him and ambushed him when he let down his guard.
The Stellar Whale Clan truly deserved its reputation as a race comparable to the dragon clans. Their innate gifts, intelligence, and various secret concealment arts were all beyond what ordinary demons could match.
Ye Haisheng drew out another talisman. It was a fourth-rank Cold Origin Eternal Frost Talisman, and also his only fourth-rank talisman.
The moment the talisman appeared, vast swathes of frost and extreme ice froze over behind him.
At that instant, it seemed even the sea had frozen solid. Waves