Chapter 87: The Dragon in the Sea Spreads Its Wings

At this moment, he saw all kinds of waves rippling through the seawater—ultraviolet rays, infrared rays, geomagnetic field lines, and colors like red, blue, and green that he had been able to see before.

And now there was also the shockwave of light—yes! He could now truly see one form of light's activity.

No longer merely seeing light rays as before, but the shockwave of light.

Those who have never truly experienced this feeling cannot truly understand it.

It's like how humans have always lived in air, but have they truly seen the concrete form of air? Have they seen the trajectory of air's movement?

No.

Perhaps they only see the flow of air indirectly, through falling leaves when the wind blows past.

But at this moment, Baichuan directly saw a kind of shockwave trajectory of light, appearing in bundles, slowly rotating in the water like small whirlpools, slowly drifting apart.

This light reflected on every creature on the seabed, thickening and brightening them in Baichuan's field of vision, as dazzling and conspicuous as torches in the darkness.

Leaving them nowhere to escape when facing Baichuan!

Even if hiding in a cave, that vortex-like light shockwave would slowly seep out through the cracks.

This feeling was like a game Baichuan had played in his previous life, where all targets were highlighted and outlined.

At the same time, layer upon layer of transparent sound waves continuously emanated spontaneously from his mouth, sweeping out in all directions.

Then, upon encountering an obstacle, they carried a wealth of information and bounced back, drilling into his ears.

At this moment, a transparent and clear world slowly opened its curtain in his mind.

In the world that previously perceived only black and white, he now had one more new world of perception.

This clearer world replaced the previous black-and-white one.

It was a transparent world like the 3D modeling from his previous life.

He seemed to have activated a God's-eye view; everything around him was laid bare in minute detail through the feedback of sound waves.

He saw—saw the wave about to rise once more on the sea surface, a seabird about to strike the water to snatch a fish caught in the wave; saw the trajectory of every moment of countless fish swimming, the positions they would soon reach…

At the same time, he also saw a large predator one meter and eighty centimeters in length—a grouper.

At this moment, it was charging toward him with menacing momentum.

Yet Baichuan couldn't even be bothered to pay it attention; at this moment he was immersed in this wondrous and beautiful sensation.

The senses, already as clear as viewing a 3D-modeled world from a God's-eye view, the moment he looked with his eyes, that transparent modeled-world perception slowly became dyed with layer upon layer of brilliant color—beauty beyond words.

At this moment, he felt as if he were omnipotent; endless information swept toward him, then was instinctively gathered, analyzed, summarized, and fed back by the various organs of his body.

Hoo!

A faint tremor in the water current came through.

Baichuan also timely pulled back part of his attention and gave a casual glance at the lunging grouper.

It is worth mentioning that before this,

Baichuan had never left that already-collapsed cave, with only his dragon head exposed outside.

In that instant, facing the lunging great maw, he closed those sharp eyes.

Was he afraid?

No!

In the instant that great maw bristling with dense sharp teeth drew closer and closer.

Baichuan moved; his massive tail fin gave a sudden Burst.

Driving his entire slender body to spin acrobatically through the water current, breaking free from the collapsed cave.

Throughout the entire process, he was like a Dragon Species clad in sturdy armor, dancing gracefully through the water; his slender body, seemingly slow yet actually swift, escaped the lunging bite of that dangerous maw.

Finally, as the crescent-shaped tail fin swept past that great maw.

Baichuan lashed his tail once more.

Boom!

Even underwater, it startled out a violent crash.

Amid that crash, that beautiful crescent-shaped tail fin delivered a mighty slap to the owner of the great maw.

Sending it tumbling three or four full rolls through the water before it finally wobbled belly-up and passed out.

Then, without waiting for it to come to, Baichuan immediately halted his body.

He twisted his supple, powerful body, propped up his front half, turned his dragon head, and gazed at the fainted giant grouper; he began to hold his breath and focus his Spirit.

Then he raised his now incomparably agile tail high, standing his tail fin upright.

At this moment, that raised, upright crescent-shaped tail fin, seen from afar, resembled an incomparably sharp executioner's blade.

He began to gather power!

Then—

Burst!!

In an instant, as Baichuan unleashed his Burst, that tail fin—even underwater—became a streak of afterimage in a flash, slashing down viciously.

In the blink of an eye, it sliced through the fainted giant grouper, leaving a long, narrow white trail from top to bottom in the seawater.

A few breaths later, where Baichuan's tail fin had slashed down, a violent surge of water exploded, turning into fierce waves.

The violent waves drove the seawater into motion, and the corpse of this grouper—a true behemoth even among its kind—slowly split apart with the current.

It turned out this grouper had already been cut clean in two!

Crimson blood first seeped out in wisps, then, once its body had separated to a certain extent, burst forth like a fountain in an instant.

Turning this small area into thick, blood-tinged water.

At the same time, besides that piece, blood also flowed from Baichuan's tail.

At this moment, he paid no heed to the dismembered grouper; he frowned as he looked at his own tail fin.

There, wisps of a fresh-red, somewhat viscous liquid were slowly seeping out; even in this endless seawater, this thick red liquid was hard to quickly break apart and disperse.

Obviously, his tail fin had been injured by that slash.

He let out a sigh — in the end, he had still been overconfident.

A tail fin was ultimately meant for swimming; it couldn't be used as a weapon. Or rather, if he wanted to use it as a weapon, he would have to make it far harder and sharper.

Or perhaps plate a layer of protective iron membrane over its surface.

Still, this move could for now be used as a killing technique — the price was just a little steep.

Sighing, Baichuan paid it no further heed; a minor wound like this would not take him long to recover from.

Right now, he was absolutely ravenous.

He swayed his body and swam toward the center of the blood-filled water.

Soon, a string of spine-churning feeding sounds rose from the thick, blood-tinged water.

……

Ten minutes later, a grouper nearly two meters long had been completely dismembered and eaten by Baichuan.

Yet he only felt less than five-tenths full.

He had to admit, after evolving teeth capable of gnawing and tearing, his eating speed had grown much faster.

But now that he was no longer hungry, it was time to test whether he could use Flight.

Otherwise, if he ate too much, he was afraid he wouldn't be able to take off later — that would be awkward.

Or worse, if he accidentally fell from the air into the sea, it would make him throw up on the spot.

Baichuan felt a tension he had never known before — so much so that, before even starting, he was already imagining scenes of failure.

(End of this chapter)