Every treasure ship had guards aboard, and they soon noticed the arrays reacting abnormally. Those onshore also sensed an immensely powerful aura rapidly approaching and turned to look.
Waves surged along the shore. Suddenly, as though a tsunami had risen, towering crests reared into the air.
A savage, blood-red giant shark soared into the sky like a whale breaching the sea, like a kun taking wing.
The shark was over six hundred zhang long. Densely packed red eyes covered its head in a spiral pattern that left onlookers dazed, while white spots surfaced across its body like markings of stars. This was none other than the famed powerhouse of the North Sea, the First Chieftain of the Blood Shark Bandits-the Blood Shark King!
He belonged to the Hundred-Eyed Bloodstar Shark clan and had been born a demon king. Blessed with spiritual awakening and the ability to assume human form, he possessed both a demon body and a human body. What he displayed before the crowd now was his true demon form.
A moment later, blood-red light flashed, and he transformed into a burly man over a zhang tall before descending.
He was imposing and powerful. Though his face was far from handsome, with bandlike fissures resembling gill slits running along both sides, making him look savage and terrifying, he possessed a strange charisma.
Everyone looked up at him with expressions of admiration and reverence.
"We pay our respects to Your Majesty!"
The Second Chieftain, the Jade-Eyed Demon King, led the crowd in a thunderous salute.
"We pay our respects to Your Majesty!"
The others snapped out of their daze and joined in.
"We pay our respects to Your Majesty!"
Demon cultivators great and small, along with the pirate underlings, raised their arms and shouted. The gathering brimmed with fervor.
Standing