Chapter 88: A Great White Shark Appears

It had to be said — as a land creature, facing the moment when he could take to the sky, he was, after all, somewhat anxious and lacking in confidence.

Baichuan lowered his head and looked at the wing hands resting against his left and right sides like armor, and the tough membrane wings.

Then he raised his head and gazed through the clear seawater toward the firmament — that was the place he was about to conquer.

He exhaled deeply, sending up a string of bubbles, and suppressed his nervous emotions.

At this moment, his gaze once again returned to calm.

His body began to slowly heat up, and the tail fin beneath him started to sway unconsciously, stirring up a patch of murky sea sand.

And within that unconscious swaying, his body also began to slowly drift upward, getting closer and closer to the sea surface.

This meant he was ready.

The next instant, his gaze sharpened. Silently, he opened his mouth and let out a roar. His entire body was like a bow drawn to the full, and the tail fin beneath him lashed violently.

In the blink of an eye, he became an arrow shooting toward the sea surface above.

"Boom!"

Amid a tremendous splash, a massive dragon head burst out of the water, sending a string of crystalline droplets flying through the air, which refracted into a brilliant rainbow in the warm winter sun.

As the dragon head appeared, the slender body of the flood dragon followed right behind, bursting out of the water and surging toward the firmament.

Baichuan felt his body gradually breaking the surface and leaping toward the sky, and he grew more and more focused. Every sensory organ on his body began operating at full capacity.

He was frantically calculating all the external factors acting upon him, computing step by step the optimal moment to spread his wings.

"Now!"

In an instant, Baichuan sensed that the best moment to spread his wings had arrived!

In a flash, he forcefully extended his newly grown, folded wing hands that resembled armor draped over him.

Then the membrane wings connected to the wing hands also began to unfold.

In just a few breaths, they transformed into two clouds hanging from the sky, casting a massive shadow over this stretch of sea.

"Whoosh — whoosh —"

This was the sound of wings with a fifteen-meter wingspan beating the air, like thunder shaking the heavens.

As Baichuan's wings beat, large amounts of water droplets also began to scatter continuously from his wings, turning into a fine drizzle over this small area.

And at this moment, a sea breeze blew at just the right time. Baichuan, who had long sensed the wind coming, immediately spread his wings wide against the wind, converting this timely gust into thrust.

At this moment, unhurried, he began to tilt and adjust his thick, long body. After maintaining his balance, he decisively began gliding across the sea surface.

As the gliding distance increased — one meter… two meters… ten meters…

And then, the wind suddenly vanished.

Baichuan began to sense his body about to sink, and he hurriedly beat his wings.

However, the beating was only at a slow frequency, and his wings were still dripping wet at this moment.

For a time, with his own immensely heavy body weight and those water-soaked wings, and without wind, he did not hold out for long.

He increasingly felt his wings growing heavier. Those newly grown wing hands had already begun to turn sore and powerless, as limp and aching as if he had been beating them for ten days and ten nights, and they began to beat slower and slower.

In the end, unable to keep beating, he crashed thunderously into the sea with a "thud."

At the last moment, the only thing he could do was adjust his posture, folding his wings in as much as possible.

Even so, the fall left Baichuan dizzy and seeing stars.

And so, Baichuan's first maiden flight ended just like that — flight… oh no. It would be more accurate to say gliding; calling it flight was too embarrassing for a flood dragon.

The gliding distance reached a full fifteen meters — truly "astonishing."

At this moment, Baichuan himself was not seriously injured. The only soreness and pain he felt was in the wings that hadn't had time to fully retract before plunging into the sea.

The fall and pain of the wings nearly knocked the breath out of him.

After about five minutes of recovery, Baichuan finally emerged from that unpleasant sensation.

He shook his dragon head. For a moment, Baichuan stared blankly and speechlessly at the azure firmament, quietly letting his spread wings buoy him as he floated on the sea surface.

However, whether it was because Baichuan in this scene looked like a bird, or because of the thick blood in the water earlier, an uninvited guest in the nearby waters had caught the scent of food.

It was slowly swaying its tail fin as it drew closer.

From afar, Baichuan, who had been staring at the sky in exasperation, immediately spotted it within his brand-new sensory world.

A giant fish with a body length of six meters had appeared, currently swimming over while swaying its thick, crescent-shaped tail fin from side to side.

That familiar vibration amplitude, that familiar swaying frequency, and that dazzling reflected light he could sense even without looking directly at it.

In an instant, Baichuan's gaze sharpened and he grew serious — this was —

A great white shark!

It seemed a fierce battle was unavoidable today.

Baichuan no longer slipped into sage-contemplation mode either.

He began slowly folding in his great wings, which had been spread flat across the sea surface. The membrane contracted, pulling the wing hands back to fold against the two sides of his upper body, like armor on either flank of a warhorse.

Then, with a backward tilt, his massive, majestic dragon head dipped back into the water, and his sleek, slender body gradually disappeared beneath the surface with smooth, swaying movements.

Finally, his huge tail fin lashed once, sending up a string of water droplets as he returned beneath the sea surface.

Slowly adjusting his posture in the seawater, Baichuan felt a surge of eagerness at this moment.

A great white shark — he just wondered how many moves it would take to take down this big fellow.

That's right, Baichuan now had no doubt whatsoever about whether he could take down the great white shark. The only difference was whether it would be without injury or with slight damage, and the minimum number of moves required.

While pondering, it didn't take long.

A terrifying monster with a spindle-shaped body, a pointed and protruding snout, and a wide, arc-shaped mouth gape — a full six meters in length — slowly began to emerge.

It swayed its crescent-shaped tail fin, even larger than Baichuan's, and broke through the water with a dorsal fin on its back that resembled a curved blade.

Just looking at that terrifying mouth filled with triangular, blade-like teeth was enough to send chills down one's spine.

No need to wonder — once bitten by such a dangerous mouth, a large chunk of flesh would surely disappear.

Baichuan looked at the giant creature before him and got serious too; after all, despite his body now being eight meters long,

his build was long and slender, sleek and flowing, not thick and burly.

The contrast between the two was like comparing a water vat to a water bucket, and Baichuan was that water bucket.

Compared side by side, facing each other head-on, it was usually the former that brought the stronger sense of pressure.

But does Baichuan still need to be afraid now?

He absolutely doesn't!

With an inward smile, the agile tail beneath him swung forward, driving the tail fin along with it.

Instantly, an invisible electric current shot out from his tail fin, spreading out in all directions.

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(End of this chapter)