With that, Li Xiaoya moved in a flash, wheeled around, and shot off in another direction along the way he had come... Countless torrents of seawater burst apart to either side as he passed. Before long, he became a rushing current and vanished into the ocean...
Li Xiaoya suddenly realized that he had taken too much for granted. The Old Dragon Master was an Immortal Cultivator, after all. Even with his tail severed, how could he possibly have no way to stop the bleeding?
Clearly.
The Old Dragon Master had deliberately muddied the water to give him a false trail, luring him into pursuing in that direction. In truth, the Old Dragon Master had long since fled to who knew where...
However...
Li Xiaoya was also rather puzzled. He had only pursued him for a few dozen miles. If there had been any disturbance, his five senses should have picked it up. With such an enormous body, the Old Dragon Master should have caused quite a commotion even while fleeing through murky seawater. How had he vanished so suddenly...?
As Li Xiaoya searched through the seawater, he wondered, Could that damned bastard have burrowed beneath the seabed, just as I did back then? I really shouldn't have let this big fellow escape just to kill those other two! With that thought, he began paying attention to the sand and gravel on the seabed...
Meanwhile...
In the seawater hundreds of miles away.
There!
"Gurgle, gurgle!!" A slender little dragon, several hundred feet long and wrapped in a layer of blue liquid, revealed himself, shooting forward at tremendous speed...
Judging by his dark blue scales and severed tail, this little dragon was clearly the Old Dragon Master whose tail Li Xiaoya had cut off, shrunk to a tiny fraction of his original