Chapter 78: Gazing at the Starry Sky, A Moment of Peril

In other words, within this range right now, to a certain extent there exists no living thing that could ambush him.

Mm, as long as he stays alert against any living thing approaching him, and as long as nothing sinister is lying in ambush buried in the sand.

This much he could guarantee.

It could be said that his ability to survive in water had greatly improved; from now on, as long as he didn't go looking for death himself, he basically wouldn't die.

Of course, if there existed some intelligent creatures that knew how to fight as a group, and also knew full well that the limit of his perception range was one kilometer, and thus deliberately encircled him from beyond that one kilometer.

Then there was nothing he could do about it either.

Now, this exaggerated sensory ability was not only brought by the shark itself, but was the result of countless sensory abilities he had evolved.

Besides this, right now a ring of invisible, strange, undulating lines had also suddenly appeared before his eyes.

That was the electromagnetic field shrouding the entire ocean… no, shrouding the entire world!

At this moment, the shape of the whole world finally shed its veil of mystery, slowly emerging before his eyes! It was—

A sphere!

It was a world shaped like a planet!

In other words, the world he was in was a planet similar to what he had known in his previous life.

Not a Heaven Round Earth Square continent!

Looking at it this way, perhaps beyond the planet lay the cosmic starry sky.

Thinking of this, Baichuan couldn't help raising his dragon head at this moment, looking through the clear seawater toward the surface, toward the heavens — which was also the direction of the starry sky.

There, even in broad daylight, one could faintly see bright stars twinkling with light.

Perhaps after he became a true dragon in the future, or became invincible within the planet.

He might just set out toward that vast starry sky.

At this moment, for the first time Baichuan felt that the world he lived in was somewhat small, and that he himself was even more indescribably tiny.

On this day, the dragon in the sea gazed far at the starry sky, and planted a seed.

……

After resting in place for a day.

The next day, Baichuan took advantage of the moment when the sun had just risen from the horizon, and left these waters.

After a full day of perception and planning yesterday, Baichuan had also carefully studied the geographical differences of this world.

He discovered that the geography of this world seemed to bear some resemblance to his previous life.

Therefore, he now planned to travel far from the continent where Great Zhou was located, to take a look at other regions.

There were three reasons for this.

First, he wanted to see whether these Strange Beasts existed throughout the entire world, or were unique to the Great Zhou region.

Because ever since coming to this world, the only few times he had obtained information about Strange Beasts were all related to the humans of Great Zhou.

In the wild, he had never encountered any at all.

So he had some suspicions, and wanted to conduct an experiment.

Second, he wanted to go to other ocean regions to search for creatures with powerful abilities in the sea, while also giving himself some time to grow, so as to avoid appearing before the eyes of those humans.

Third, he wanted to see the level of civilization in other regions; if there were no Strange Beasts elsewhere, then what was their level of civilization like, and did other special powers exist that he could plunder?

If, after this tour around the world, these special Strange Beasts turned out to exist only in Great Zhou, then perhaps for the sake of his evolution, once he had grown strong enough, he might truly have to face Great Zhou head-on.

While pondering, Baichuan also swung his crescent-shaped tail and swam swiftly forward.

……

Time flowed on leisurely, and in the blink of an eye another week had passed.

And by now Baichuan had finally moved far away from Great Zhou; because he had left with his back to Great Zhou's direction, it was impossible that he was still in the Great Zhou region.

Now, he had completely entered the deep-sea domain — no longer a place where diving less than a hundred meters would bring him to the seabed, touching the sand and stones of the ocean floor.

Instead, like a rootless duckweed, with no sky above and no seabed below, and no end in sight no matter which way he looked, forward or back.

If not for the geomagnetic field in his eyes constantly guiding his direction of travel, he wouldn't even dare be sure where he had swum to.

On this day, he was traveling as usual, constantly pressing onward.

Suddenly he stopped, his tail no longer swinging.

At this moment, his underwater perception frantically warned him that there were massive, chaotic water-current vibrations ahead.

This tidal wave of information nearly overwhelmed his underwater perception, bringing it to the brink of crashing.

He stared blankly ahead, his mind full of confusion.

"What's going on?"

Before he could remain puzzled for long, he saw that at some unknown moment, dense swarms of fish had appeared ahead of him and to his sides, madly swimming toward him.

The number of these fish was so great that they filled every inch of seawater.

Instinctively, Baichuan thought these fish were rushing at him.

Fortunately, he realized this was far too unrealistic.

He examined them carefully and found that among these fish were both ones he recognized and ones he didn't. For instance, the white-edged reef sharks, the reef sharks, and the massive great white sharks he knew best were all among them.

"What's happening?"

Why had a huge number of fish and sharks from coastal areas all come running to this place? Had he almost reached the shore? But why were they here? It seemed like they were fleeing?

Could there be some terrifying Strange Beast ahead?

For a moment Baichuan's mind was full of doubts as he watched the countless fish swim past his body and continue on ahead.

But he soon didn't need to wonder any longer, because his underwater perception told him.

Hundreds of millions of various vibration and wave signals came sweeping toward him.

In an instant, these chaotic signals constructed a massive vortex-shaped tidal whirlpool within the perception system in his mind.

"What is this?!"

Baichuan was stunned for a moment, then immediately understood, and he stared at this tidal vortex in shock.

To verify that his guess was not wrong, he shot straight up toward the surface; in less than forty meters of depth he arrived in an instant, then broke through the water and raised his head.

Only at this moment did he discover that everything above the sea had changed!

The sky and earth were dim and heavy; above the thick, pitch-black cloud layer, something enormous seemed to exist, pressing it down inch by inch toward the sea surface.

It gave people a suffocating feeling, as if the sky were about to collapse.

Within the clouds, bright lightning flashed again and again from time to time.

The air carried a suffocating smell.

And in the distant place above the sea, a giant white wind column connecting sky and sea had somehow risen at some unknown time, with vast amounts of water being continuously swept up and flung about.

Under the howling gale nearby, the sea surface was occasionally lifted into waves over ten meters high, which then smashed down heavily onto Baichuan, carrying him as he bobbed up and down.

This was a super typhoon!!

And it was out on the open sea—he had actually encountered a once-in-a-lifetime super typhoon!

In an instant, Baichuan understood.

At this moment, with no time to think, he immediately turned around; his huge crescent-shaped tail fin whipped once, violently splashing up countless sprays of water, and he dove beneath the surface and fled forward frantically.

In that moment, Baichuan joined the fleeing mass of sea creatures.

At this moment, countless animals, in order to escape the great typhoon, began to gather together and swim forward as one…

(End of this chapter)