Three thousand members sailed across the sea with the help of seafood.
The members stood directly on the larger creatures. For the smaller ones, they tied ropes to them and had them pull wooden rafts, relying on their astonishing brute strength to travel swiftly through the water.
Xiong Wenhui marveled, "I have no idea how the leader got them to obey. They don't look reluctant at all. If anything, they're working their tails off."
Jin Yuanjiang smiled. Maybe he had sweet-talked them into it. They didn't seem all that bright.
Just then, an astonishingly long blue whale at the front suddenly let out a pained groan.
The blue whale trembled and writhed in the water. The members standing on its back lost their footing and fell into the sea.
The giant sea turtle said irritably, "What's wrong with you? Do you still want this job or not? If Lord Sea King blames us, you'd better not drag us down with you."
The blue whale didn't answer. It thrashed violently in the sea.
As it rolled, its body began growing longer, bit by bit.
Everyone stopped and watched the blue whale.
A short while later, the blue whale calmed down and let out a long, excited cry.
"I leveled up!"
The seafood all looked at the blue whale enviously. Another companion had grown stronger.
Once its excitement subsided, the blue whale asked in confusion, "Wait, Lord Sea King didn't bestow any divine power on me. How did I level up?"
That was right. Could they level up without divine power?
The giant sea turtle scoffed. "Do you even have to ask? My guess is that you're so devoted to Lord Sea King that he bestowed his divine power on you without you noticing."
"Lord Sea King is watching us at every