Chapter 2521

The journey by sea was a bit boring, but Su Xiao was already used to this feeling. He had experienced worlds with seas—the Pirate World and the Sea of Thieves—all of which required long periods of sailing.

Since boarding the ship, Amu had been sitting upright on the deck as if facing a formidable enemy; only he knew how powerful an enemy the ocean was.

After six hours of sailing, the sky turned overcast. This wasn't a change in the weather, but rather the nature of this sea area; on this sea, any danger could appear.

"From now on, don't say a single word, and don't make any sound."

The gap-toothed Captain sat under the main mast, tapping his long-stemmed pipe to knock out the black ash inside. This old man had sailed back and forth through the Devil Sea 17 times; he had long since looked past life and death. He had to continue doing this until he died; he was not sailing voluntarily.

Under the washing of the waves, the wooden planks of the ship's hull rubbed against each other, creaking as if emitting the final groans before falling apart.

A black shadow swept past under the sea. The gap-toothed Captain's hand holding the long-stemmed pipe paused, and he grinned.

"Old friend, have you come to take my life?"

"Shh, shh!"

The sailor beside him had legs turned to jelly from fear. He knew what was under the sea and had even witnessed it with his own eyes—that thing had coiled around a giant five-masted ship, snapped it in two, and caused it to sink beneath the waves.

"You are afraid."

The gap-toothed Captain's smile began to turn eerie.

"Shh!!"

The sailor had already gripped the sailor's knife at his waist; he swore that if this old man dared to make another sound, he would slit his throat.

"They can sense your fear. They are a group of cowardly fellows; only when they sense fear will they attack this ship."

No sooner had the gap-toothed Captain finished speaking than the entire ship began to sway from side to side. Something seemed to have happened under the sea, and it only calmed down after a few minutes.

A dripping wet hand reached out from over the gunwale and grabbed the rail. It was Qifu, who was now climbing onto the ship with the Dragon Heart Axe on his back, dripping with seawater.

Qifu upheld the principle of acting rather than talking. Sensing movement under the sea, he had jumped into the water with his Dragon Heart Axe and hacked six super-giant octopuses to death.

The sea surface calmed down. The gap-toothed Captain looked at the Dragon Heart Axe on Qifu's back, his shoulders trembling with laughter.

Was this a mysterious old man who knew secrets? No, he had just sailed the Devil Sea for too long and had become a bit insane. This was also the reason Su Xiao chose to take this ship; the more one fears death, the faster one dies. He had found a captain who didn't fear death to sail the ship to the opposite shore.

"Not good, carrying monsters across the sea, very not good."

The gap-toothed Captain glanced at Su Xiao, who was sitting on the gunwale, and continued to laugh madly.

Whether it was because of the dark sky or some other reason, it wasn't long before the sky turned completely black, and the sea surface became pitch black.

Splash~

The ship suddenly tilted. A behemoth emerged from the nearby sea; the waves it stirred up while surfacing nearly capsized the three-masted ship.

Liu looked up at the behemoth a dozen meters away; her widened eyes showed that she was stunned by the scene before her.

A whale of indeterminate size had half its body floating above the sea surface. That giant eye, over ten meters in diameter, was looking at the tiny thing floating beside it.

"Woo~"

A long, deafening whale song came, accompanied by layers of air waves.

Su Xiao pressed one hand onto the hilt of the blade at his waist; the whale not far away was not easy to deal with, as its size was too massive.

"Woof."

Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang barked, attracting the super-giant whale's attention.

"Woo~"

Another whale song. A few seconds later, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang shook his dizzy head and dashed forward a few steps, leaping into the sea.

A shocking scene occurred: the super-giant whale opened its massive mouth, and seawater surged wildly into it. A moment later, the whale closed its mouth.

With a crash, the three-masted ship collided with the whale's head. Broken wooden shards splattered everywhere, and the sailors on board showed looks of despair.

"Another old friend has come."

The gap-toothed Captain laughed madly, still leaning against the main mast.

"Lord Liu, my home is in the Royal Capital. My mother, wife, and children are still there. My son is 10 years old this year. Please help me take care of them."

Leaving these words behind, Qifu prepared to leap into the sea.

"Use your brain. If this whale wanted to swallow the ship, you'd already be in its stomach. It's asking for help."

Baha's words made Qifu's forward momentum pause.

"Prepare to change ships. Xiang Bubu's new friend can get us to Talin faster."

Baha grabbed Liu and Qifu and flew toward the back of the super-giant whale. Under the astonished gazes of the sailors on the ship, Amu froze a path on the sea and followed Su Xiao as he walked toward the giant whale.

"Woo~"

The giant whale tilted its head slightly, appearing to be in some pain. A moment later, its body relaxed, and when those giant eyes looked at Su Xiao again, they already revealed goodwill.

Su Xiao leaped onto the giant whale's back, and the giant whale began to swim forward at a speed dozens of times faster than the ship. As for Xiang Bubu, he was in the "first-class cabin," which was the giant whale's stomach. The giant whale had a pathological change in its abdomen, and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, wearing full protective gear, was working with Amu, who had just arrived, to treat the giant whale using Su Xiao's alchemical potions.

Who would have thought that the sea monster that had inadvertently destroyed hundreds of ships was actually just asking for help? It was merely one of the many dangers in this sea area; there were many things in this sea more dangerous than it.

In less than an hour, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang and Amu had dealt with the diseased tissue in the whale's abdomen. If Su Xiao hadn't been on its back, it would have already performed a spinning leap out of the sea for Su Xiao to show its goodwill.

When the sky had not yet brightened, land appeared ahead. The giant whale stopped a hundred meters from the land; the water was too shallow, and it couldn't swim any further.

Crack, crack, crack...

An ice path froze over the sea, and Su Xiao led Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, Amu, and Baha toward the shore.

"Woo~"

The giant whale let out a long cry; this was to bid farewell to Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang. There was some reluctance in those huge eyes. Finally, its massive body leaped from the sea and crashed onto the water surface with a boom, sending huge splashes of water surging high into the air.

Liu stood on the ice path, watching the surging water. She couldn't help but feel overwhelmed; this was the first time in her life she had encountered such a miraculous encounter.

"Why aren't you surprised at all?"

Liu looked at Su Xiao, who was still moving forward, and couldn't help but ask.

Su Xiao looked puzzled, glanced at Liu, and continued forward. The water splashed by a giant creature was nothing worth being surprised about, nor was it a miraculous sight. He had once seen a world crumble into dust before his eyes; that was a miraculous sight.

Arriving at the beach on the coast, Su Xiao took out a metal tube. After pulling it open, mechanical bees flew out and scattered. Baha shot straight into the high sky, and Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang disappeared into the bushes on the shore.

Half an hour later, Baha found a fishing village. As long as a population center was found, obtaining the location of the Talin Royal Capital would be simple.

Su Xiao looked at the "Wind Passing" long blade in his hand, pondered for a moment, and wrapped the blade with cloth strips. His goal for going to the Talin Royal Capital this time was only one: to find the Source Water. As for playing power games with the rulers of Talin? There was simply no need for that.

After obtaining the 【Ancient Mask】, it had become much more convenient for Su Xiao to do certain things, such as disguising himself as the King of Talin when necessary.