This Blackfish Demon was one of the few Reverted Elixir Great Demons under the Qiantang Dragon Palace. He held the post of general in its water court and commanded many demon soldiers. He had fought in several campaigns before and clashed more than once with the cultivators of the Eastern Sea.
His trident thrust had just missed, and a sudden sense of foreboding flashed through his mind. Su Che stood with his sword held across his body. Those last two exchanges had taught him something.
Though the head-on clashes had shaken his blood and qi, those were merely superficial injuries. His foundation remained untouched.
During those two exchanges...
His sword intent had moved like a probe, following the principles of the Investigation of Things as it roamed through the towering waves.
Through the Investigation of Things, Su Che observed the waves tugging at everything around them from the perspective of underlying principles. It let him see from a higher vantage what truly lay beneath the towering sea.
This was no simple water-controlling formation. Something else was hidden beneath those immense waves.
Behind the surging tide lay streams of demonic power from the demons, pulling at the surrounding energy of heaven and earth like the tides.
Together, they followed a fixed rhythm, drawing that energy inward again and again before thrusting it back out.
Their powers flowed together into a fine-meshed net. Several nodes were crucial to it, each guarded by a Reverted Elixir demon that guided the power so the streams would not clash.
This formation was no mere art of controlling water. It was a true method of combining their strength.
Su Che stood with his sword across his body. He had seen enough to grasp the broad workings of the demons' formation.
The Blackfish Demon's earlier thrust had