The purple coral rock shook under the weight of eight thousand tons of surging ocean water.
Behind the jagged spire, Envoy Xue Sha scrambled to his feet. Dozens of purple sea urchin spines stuck out from his ragged trousers and backside like a pincushion. His sausage lips throbbed with stinging ghost-pepper oil, and his nose bled steadily from Jiang Tuntun’s skipped pebble.
Across the water, the thousand-foot Kraken King was already bearing down on him like a moving mountain.
Eight massive tentacles rose into the sky, casting long, dark shadows over the reef. The neon-yellow [Gu Family Chief Lifeguard] vest stretched tight across Ba Hai’s armored mantle, glowing like a second sun under the noon sky.
“No, no, no!” Xue Sha shrieked, backing into the surf as his legs trembled. “You brainless squid!
Have you lost all your beast pride?!
I gave you bloodline ascension! I gave you the path to slaughter the surface and ascend to the Upper Realm!”
“You gave me a migraine and bad breath!” Ba Hai bellowed, his voice rattling every shell on the reef. “And you almost got me sliced into teriyaki rings on Master Gu’s griddle!
