Fang Yun and the Dragon Boat subdued the whirlpool before the typhoon gap, opening the first path for the boats behind them.
The whirlpool stood still, and the boats behind followed one after another. The Dragon Boat led the charge, leaving a long wake in the pitch-black water as it surged toward the typhoon gap.
From the instant the whirlpool stopped, something began brewing within the dark gap. A colossal wave rose slowly like a city wall, eventually towering above the Dragon Boat to a full twenty zhang!
With the wind lending it strength, this wave's destructive power surpassed a Hanlin Academician's all-out strike. Yet War Poetry could not defend against this blow; Fang Yun could only rely on the Dragon Boat and his own will to endure it head-on.
The Dragon Boat was already a behemoth, yet before this colossal wave, it seemed so tiny, so powerless.
Fang Yun straightened his spine, his figure more towering than the typhoon.
Even a colossal wave could not make Fang Yun bow!
The boat owners behind Fang Yun instinctively blinked. For a moment, they had seen an illusion: ahead lay not a towering wave bringing annihilation, but two evenly matched opponents locked in a decisive battle.
"Boom..."
The Dragon Boat struck the colossal wave like a fist swung by the heavens. After a momentary pause, it blasted a great hole through the wave.
With an invincible bearing, the Dragon Boat broke through.
The colossal wave hung suspended for an instant, then collapsed with a thunderous crash like a building stripped of its foundations, exploding into spray that filled the sky.
"The momentum of ten thousand soldiers, the majesty of a king!" a Grand Academician could not help exclaiming.
After the colossal wave burst apart, it became a dense succession of smaller waves,