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When Ye Qingchuan arrived with Ye Zhenzhen, he saw the Tentacle Monster binding Shen Xingyan's and Ye Qingyao's hands and feet with its tentacles, ready to drag them straight into the sea.

Ye Zhenzhen: ?

How did this happen?

According to the original book, the vicious supporting character Luo Bingyao had deliberately used a Beast-Attracting Talisman to lure this Tentacle Monster onto the Flying Boat and frighten the heroine, Ye Qingyao. But then the hero, Shen Xingyan, defeated it, rescued the beauty, and deepened their feelings for each other. So why did it now look as though Shen Xingyan was no match for the Tentacle Monster? He had failed to save anyone and gotten himself caught too!

Could it be that taking his opportunity in the Illusory Forest had kept him from breaking through to the Nascent Soul Realm, leaving him unable to beat the Tentacle Monster?

What were they supposed to do now?

Seeing his senior sister tightly wrapped in tentacles and about to be dragged into the sea, Ye Qingchuan turned pale with fright. He set Ye Zhenzhen down on the deck and swung his sword at the tentacles to save Ye Qingyao.

Third Senior Brother, you can't leave me here! The Tentacle Monster will snatch me away! The baby on the deck panicked, her little face turning red as she cried. She had meant to ask Ye Qingchuan to take the Weak Water from her Heaven and Earth Pearl String and splash it on the Tentacle Monster. Instead, the moment he saw Ye Qingyao in danger, he lost his head and rushed to save his senior sister without a thought for anything else.

So Senior Sister matters, but Junior Sister doesn't? she thought indignantly.

Before long, the Tentacle Monster spotted the Little Glutinous Rice Ball all alone and stretched a tentacle toward her.

But just as it was about to wrap her up, the mole between Ye Zhenzhen's brows glowed gold. Sensing that familiar aura, the Tentacle Monster's pupils contracted, and its tentacle stopped.

It was her!

The supreme powerhouse who had once saved it from a megalodon's jaws when it was little! How had she become so small—and so weak?

It had searched for her for years and had finally found her. Nothing else mattered. It promptly knocked everyone else unconscious with its tentacles—including Luo Bingyao, who had fled to the stern—then shrank its enormous body several times over, sprang nimbly onto the Flying Boat, and slithered to Ye Zhenzhen's side like a water snake.

The Little Glutinous Rice Ball was scared out of her wits. What do you want? Don't come any closer! I may be small, but my meat is tough. I won't taste good at all!

To her surprise, the Tentacle Monster extended all eight tentacles and began waving them in a strange dance, as though performing some kind of welcome. Each blood-red tentacle seemed to have a life of its own, moving at a different angle and in a different pose. The sight was bizarre, comical, and even a little alluring.

What had gotten into the Tentacle Monster?

Had something gone wrong with its brain?

When the dance ended, the Tentacle Monster wrapped its eight slender tentacles tightly around one of Ye Zhenzhen's legs, looking very much like it wanted to cling to someone powerful.

Ye Zhenzhen rubbed her eyes in astonishment. She could have sworn the Tentacle Monster was smiling, its enormous maw stretched wide.

Do you want to accept me as your master and form a contract with me? She thought she understood what the Tentacle Monster meant, but she wasn't quite sure.

The Tentacle Monster nodded its round head. That's exactly what I mean, Master.

The Tentacle Monster was a Nascent Soul Realm sea beast, practically the ruler of these waters. How could she refuse such a windfall? Ye Zhenzhen struggled to bite her finger open with the tips of her newly grown teeth and let a drop of blood fall onto the Tentacle Monster. With that, their contract was sealed.

She blinked at the Tentacle Monster in delight, and it blinked back. It was ugly, adorable, and ridiculous all at once.

Inspiration struck Ye Zhenzhen. I'll call you Xiao Ba from now on. Xiao Ba, Xiao Ba—ka-ka, here comes the cash! A contracted beast with eight tentacles had to be a good omen for the fortune she would make next.

But how was she supposed to keep Xiao Ba with her?

She thought for a moment, took off her Heaven and Earth Pearl String, and motioned for Xiao Ba to stay inside her Heaven and Earth Pearl.

Xiao Ba wasn't having it. All eight tentacles shook like rattles. I agreed to a contract with you; I didn't become your prisoner! Is it right to lock me in a cage? My ocean is huge, and this little pearl of yours is tiny. I'm not going in.

That made things difficult.

In principle, a contracted beast had to obey its master. One command from her, and it would have to comply. But if she forced it to do something it didn't want to do, a melon twisted from the vine would never be sweet.

The Little Glutinous Rice Ball scratched her head, then reluctantly poured a big, plump Spirit Fish out of her Heaven and Earth Pearl String for the Tentacle Monster to try.

After eating it, the Tentacle Monster was so happy it could hardly contain the Primordial Power surging inside it. That was way too delicious! Its eight tentacles launched into another lively dance to a peculiar rhythm.

You could call the Tentacle Monster's dancing wild, but every tentacle kept its own beat. You could call it good, but each one moved to a different rhythm, and together they looked like demons dancing in a frenzy.

Terrible at dancing, but loves it anyway, Ye Zhenzhen concluded.

Xiao Ba, go into my Heaven and Earth Pearl String for now. When we get back to Cloudsky Mountain, I'll build you a fishpond and fill it with lots and lots of Spirit Fish. You can guard them for me and eat as many as you like every day. Ye Zhenzhen began painting a tempting picture for the Tentacle Monster.

She had already planned to bring back plenty of sea fish this time and experiment with feeding them spirit herbs to see whether ordinary fish could become delicious Spirit Fish. Now a Tentacle Monster had shown up on her doorstep and could guard the pond for free. She would never have to worry about someone stealing the fish she raised. It was a deal with nothing to lose!

Xiao Ba was clearly won over. It shrank to the size of a grain of rice and bounced happily into the Heaven and Earth Pearl. Spirit Fish every day from now on! Ye Zhenzhen hurriedly aimed the pearl at the sea and drew in a great deal of seawater and fish, doing her best to recreate Xiao Ba's happy life in the ocean.

About an hour later, Shen Xingyan was the first to wake. He looked around and said, "Strange. Where's the Tentacle Monster?"

Seeing that it had vanished, he woke Ye Qingyao and Ye Qingchuan, then searched the flying boat. On the other side, he found Luo Bingyao lying there with a Beast-Attracting Talisman in her hand.

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