The sudden attack had aggravated Golden Toad True Person's injuries. Even Meng Zhang had been affected, forcing him to leap out of his spirit creature and rise toward the surface for the moment.
Jiang Yi acted decisively, driving the giant dragon eel forward. Azure lightning exploded through the seawater, instantly engulfing an area several miles across.
Bzzzt...
The powerful current electrocuted nearby fish and shrimp, turning them belly-up. Even several unidentified fish more than ten feet long, hundreds of yards away, were caught in it and killed instantly.
The Dread Dragon Shark was a spirit creature avatar formed from spirit essence, but the current affected it too, stiffening its body and slowing its movements.
Yet at some point, a faint blood-red glow had appeared around Meng Zhang and Golden Toad True Person, standing out sharply in the sea.
It was a protective gang condensed from essence-blood vital energy. Meng Zhang apparently already knew how this spirit creature attacked and had prepared his defenses in advance.
Once the giant dragon eel had discharged all its electricity, it stopped, exhausted.
"Let me out," Fang Qianyuan said.
Jiang Yi immediately opened the spirit creature's body. Fang Qianyuan circulated his wind essence, formed a solid bubble around himself, and swiftly rose.
All along the way, he had been considering how to move underwater. In the end, he had actually devised a way to use the Wind Path to mirror the Water Dao: forming an air bubble around himself with wind essence to gain freedom of movement.
But the moment he did so, Fang Qianyuan felt immense pressure bearing down on him from every direction.
His body could indeed move freely, but the entire bubble was subjected to the crushing pressure of the seawater, making him slow and heavy instead.
*This method doesn't work very