Ten miles ahead of the [Gu Family Flying Courtyard]’s front picket fence, the two-hundred-mile Void Whale Matriarch floated like a floating mountain range of sapphire stardust.
Up close, the sheer scale of the cosmic creature took the breath away from every sailor on the five thousand merchant skiffs behind the courtyard. A single barnacle-encrusted wrinkle around the Matriarch’s eye was wider than a city street, and the gentle breath venting from her spatial blowhole sent shimmering auroras dancing across the dark-matter fog.
“She stopped! The two-hundred-mile Whale Matriarch actually stopped ten miles from the fence because the three-year-old young master called out to her!”
On the bridge of the lead merchant freighter, fifty-five-year-old Merchant-Guild Master Qian wiped the cold sweat off his brow with both hands. His legs shaking so hard he had to sit down on the deck. “If Immortal Master Gu hadn’t locked our cannon triggers thirty seconds ago, we would have fired on a Rank 7 Void-Whale pod and blown the whole sector into a black hole!”
However, even though the two-hundred-mile Whale Matriarch had forced herself to stop in front of Little Fifth, the other eleven hundred-mile Void Whales behind her. Especially the fifty-mile baby whale calf tucked beneath the Matriarch’s left fin—were still shivering and convulsing in unbearable pain!
