“ROAR!”
Accompanied by a massive roar, they finally got a clear look at that mutated sea beast in the ocean.
A giant octopus towering hundreds of meters tall!
The giant octopus stared at the three of them with its golden pupils, its eyes full of excitement.
This aura!
This was the aura it had sensed back then!
“ROAR!”
Its tentacles coiled into a massive circular opening. Black light gathered within it, then suddenly shot toward the three of them.
The terrifying black beam carried immense power, as if it wanted to annihilate everything in its path.
“Hmph!”
“Hum!”
Qin Tian let out a cold snort. With a dragon’s cry, a massive crimson dragon emerged from behind him, charging toward the black beam.
“BOOM!”
A terrifying explosion rang out. The ocean at the center of the blast split apart directly, waves churning violently without end. But Qin Tian’s attack had actually pierced through the black beam — though it had shrunk somewhat, the terrifying energy within it could still be faintly felt.
“ROAR~~”
At this moment, the mutated giant octopus seemed to have seen some kind of tempting food. It opened its massive jaws and swallowed the crimson dragon formed of flames whole. A look of enjoyment appeared in its golden pupils.
“What?!”
Qin Tian’s eyes narrowed, somewhat in disbelief.
He wasn’t surprised that a mutated creature could awaken a devouring ability. But this was the first time he had seen one that could devour his flames.
And judging by its appearance, even if the previous attack hadn’t been partially offset by that black beam, it probably could have been devoured anyway.
“Let’s see how many you can devour.”
Qin Tian leaped into the air. Endless flames wove together beneath him, and faintly, fire runes seemed to flicker within them.
He raised his right hand high and slowly clenched his fist.
“BOOM!”
Countless crimson flames gathered in his hand, then continuously compressed, finally forming a flame spear several meters long.
If one looked closely, they could see a crimson dragon coiling around the shaft of the spear, breathing out flames.
Not just Huo Yu and Chen Bing — even the soldiers and Spiritual Energy Bureau members who were building defensive fortifications and searching the city for survivors all turned their eyes to the man in the sky, silhouetted by flames.
“If you can do it, then show me.”
“Devour this spear!”
His cold voice carried endless chill. In an instant, a streak of firelight tore through the sky, shooting toward the mutated giant octopus.
“ROAR!”
The mutated giant octopus waved its tentacles. Black light gathered into a massive barrier, as if trying to block Qin Tian’s attack. Without a doubt, it had sensed danger from this strike.
“CRACK!”
In less than two seconds, cracks appeared on the black barrier, and then the crimson spear pierced straight through.
“ROAR, ROAR, ROAR—”
A painful wail rang out. The mutated giant octopus twisted its body, its massive tentacles repeatedly slamming against the sea surface. Violent waves roared across the ocean.
But this was only the beginning.
The flame spear that had been compressed to its absolute limit suddenly burst open. Wild, blazing flames poured out from the spear without reservation, directly engulfing the mutated giant octopus.
“Is this… over?”
A soldier building the city wall asked hesitantly.
The true culprit behind Sea City’s destruction, the mutated sea beast that had made countless people fear it — just died that easily?
Well, it wasn’t exactly “easily,” but it looked pretty easy, okay? He didn’t know how to describe it either. Anyway, was it dead or not?
“It should be, right? After all, it was the Dragon Emperor who acted.”
The soldier beside him also spoke hesitantly.
After all, it seemed to have been resolved a bit too simply. That massive hundreds-of-meters body was practically like a monster.
For it to just die like that… it felt a little unbelievable.
But after all, it was the Dragon Emperor — the strongest known in China besides the White Emperor. It wasn’t that hard to believe he could defeat it.
So what if it was huge? Maybe it was all for show.
“No, look at the Dragon Emperor. It seems like it’s not over yet.”
A sudden voice made them instinctively look toward Qin Tian. Sure enough, Qin Tian was still staring gravely at the mutated giant octopus. He could sense that the creature’s life force was still present.
In fact, his earlier attack hadn’t dealt much damage to it at all.
“ROAR!!!”
An angry roar came from within the flames. Then, under everyone’s incredulous gaze, black mist spread outward in all directions from the center of the fire.
The blazing, violent flames — after a brief resistance upon encountering that darkness — were actually covered and devoured by the darkness. Gradually, the flames were completely consumed, and darkness shrouded the entire area.
“The Yami Yami no Mi?”
Huo Yu looked at the scene before her and spoke hesitantly.
Could this mutated giant octopus have eaten the Yami Yami no Mi?
But with Devil Fruits, aside from hers, anyone who ate one should fear seawater, right?
Even if it wasn’t to the point of being unable to swim, in seawater it should still lose most of its combat ability. But this one didn’t seem like that at all.
Or maybe creatures of the ocean who ate Devil Fruits didn’t fear the ocean?
Or perhaps she was just wrong — maybe it had simply awakened a darkness ability and hadn’t eaten a Devil Fruit at all.
“Never mind.”
Huo Yu shook her head, her expression gradually turning serious.
Regardless of whether it had eaten a Devil Fruit or what ability it had awakened, what she needed to do now was work with Qin Tian to kill this thing!
“Click!”
“Click!”
“Click!”
A sudden sound attracted the attention of the mutated giant octopus, Qin Tian, and Huo Yu. Following their gaze, a massive black-and-white creature — no smaller than the mutated giant octopus — surfaced on the ocean, letting out a roar at them!
“Is this… an orca?”
The black-and-white coloration, the white patches resembling eyes — despite its massive size, it actually looked somewhat cute.
But…
“Orcas aren’t cute creatures at all.”
Huo Yu said gravely.
Before the spiritual energy resurgence, orcas were practically the overlords of the ocean.
Their intelligence, bite force, and stamina were extremely powerful. A single orca had almost no rivals in the ocean, and they usually hunted in groups.
Aside from humans, they had no natural enemies.
Even blue whales were only larger than them in size. To hunt one, a group of at least thirty orcas would be needed — but typically, orca pods numbered around ten.
Yet when they moved as a group, even adult blue whales could only retreat and avoid them.
A normal orca’s body length was between 7 and 9 meters. The largest orca ever discovered was 9.75 meters long — and there might be even bigger ones.
But this one…
Looking at this massive creature hundreds of meters long, its size in no way inferior to the mutated giant octopus, Huo Yu’s mouth twitched slightly.
It seemed like every mutated creature grew in size. The stronger they became, the more enormous they got.
But why didn’t this happen to humans?
Are we special or something?
