"Hiss, hiss, hiss..."
"Sea's Enchanting Fantasy Music!"
The Sea Witch fixed Jian Shang with an icy stare and began playing the Sea Flute...
In an instant, Jian Shang felt heaven and earth slip away. The chaotic, brutal battlefield vanished, replaced by the tranquil beauty of an isolated island. Beneath blue skies lay an azure sea, a beach glittering gold in the sunlight, leisurely fish frolicking at the surface, and countless seashells scattered across the sand like stars.
"Hmph!"
Though the scene was lifelike and intoxicating, Jian Shang's wealth of combat experience had taught him to rely on instinct and his own heart. How could the beauty before his eyes and the sensations it evoked deceive him?
With a cold snort, he poured vast amounts of innate true qi into the Scarlet Sky Sword. A blade aura nearly ten feet long flared out and easily pierced the whale's back. He flipped his left hand, bringing the eighteen-foot Heaven-Setting Dragon Halberd into his grasp, and prepared to thrust it down...
"Don't!"
A woman's cry rang out, enough to make the heart tremble, and the beautiful island vanished instantly.
"Have you decided?" Jian Shang asked, pausing.
Di Sili pouted in distress, her little face pitiful. "His Majesty the Sea Emperor ordered me to join this battle. I can't withdraw, even if I wanted to. At most, I could have Little Blue..."
"Pfft..."
Before she finished, Jian Shang lost all patience with listening. This was war, not child's play! He would not needlessly make powerful enemies, but neither would he submit to an enemy's threats or show them mercy!
The Heaven-Setting Dragon Halberd stabbed down like lightning. Its sharp crescent blade, coupled with Jian Shang's formidable strength, easily sank deep into the whale. Roughly eighty percent of the eighteen-foot shaft disappeared inside, tearing open