The moment the monk opened his eyes, Wang Ba shuddered in alarm.
A sense of suffocation stronger than anything he had ever experienced rose within him.
Horrified, he immediately withdrew his gaze.
Only after a long while did he cautiously glance diagonally upward from the corner of his eye.
Waves churned and rolled.
Yet he found that both the monk and the octopus had vanished without a trace.
He did not know whether the fierce currents below had obscured them or whether they had already left.
Wang Ba immediately felt relieved.
Then he promptly urged Dafu on.
By comparison, however, the Burrowing Sea Otter was clearly much faster than Dafu.
After all, a creature named for burrowing was naturally no ordinary digger.
Before long, all he could see was sediment spreading through the seawater, with the Burrowing Sea Otter nowhere in sight.
Dafu, meanwhile, dug on without haste or agitation.
The two spirit beasts soon excavated a spacious tunnel, but just as quickly encountered a problem.
"Why is the rock here so hard...?"
Somewhat startled, Wang Ba pushed against the rock layer before him.
Even under the effects of the Mother Qi of Ten Thousand Arts, the rock did not budge.
Scratches of varying widths were faintly visible across it, left by Dafu and the Burrowing Sea Otter.
These two proud, battle-hardened champions of digging had both met defeat before this rock wall.
After a moment's thought, Wang Ba took a third-tier short-bladed law artifact from his storage law artifact.
This time, he barely managed to scrape off a few stone chips.
"So hard!"
Wang Ba could not help frowning.
He could roughly guess why this place was so hard.
It was simply because the Sea Barrier probably lay directly above this rock wall.
Under the terrifying impact of the