The journey passed without another hitch. By that afternoon, according to the sea chart, Tang Changsheng should have been nearing the Canglan Sea.
Just then, Tang Changsheng suddenly sensed something. He was about to look up at the sky...
The wind rose without warning, and the waves turned fierce. Swells several meters high came crashing toward him.
Under ordinary circumstances, a little boat like the one beneath Tang Changsheng's feet would have broken apart under waves like those.
But with Tang Changsheng's Dharma Power protecting it, the tiny boat rode the waves like a surfboard, racing across the sea faster than before.
Dark shapes crowded the waves. Sharks at least five or six meters long burst from the water and surrounded Tang Changsheng.
"Huh..."
Tang Changsheng gave a soft exclamation. Sharks could hardly frighten him, but there were riders on their backs... That was strange.
No, the things riding the sharks were not people. They were merely human-shaped monsters.
Each was covered in scales, with claws like knives and webbed feet.
They charged at Tang Changsheng astride their sharks, like cavalry.
"Could these be the Dragon Palace's shrimp soldiers and crab generals?" Tang Changsheng wondered.
Whatever they were, they had dared attack him. Tang Changsheng would not spare them!
He swept a sheet of Sky Silver Wishfire toward them. Sharks and monsters alike burned and died in the sea before they could get anywhere near him.
Yet not one bore a wound. At a glance, they looked fast asleep... In truth, their Hun and Po had scattered to the winds.
Still, the sharks and monsters seemed endless. They pursued Tang Changsheng across the sea.
But without strength of a certain level, no number of them could harm so much as a hair on his head. At most, they would use