In Xiang Yufei’s eyes, as Master Xuan Song’s disciple, he was naturally superior to these Independent Cultivators. When they faced him, they should give him whatever he demanded.
"If you want someone to blame, blame yourselves for not having three Golden Core Master Venerables backing you."
He spoke in a tone tinged with pity.
Iron Head gave him a pitying look and suddenly retracted his Long Spear. He no longer needed to make a move. Yinjiao’s Sword Intent, held at the ready, was no longer drawn taut like a bent bow.
Xiang Yufei thought they were preparing to surrender without a fight and was instantly overjoyed. He wasn’t a fool; he knew that the Power of Iron Head and Yinjiao was far beyond that of ordinary Foundation Establishment Cultivators. If the two of them surrendered in the face of overwhelming odds, it would also reduce his losses.
Before he could say anything, a terrifying wave of Demon Qi suddenly erupted in the distance.
Even from so far away, the bone-chilling killing intent made him feel as if he’d been plunged into an ice cellar.
"That direction... That’s Dawn Island!"
Xiang Yufei looked toward Dawn Island, his face a mask of horror.
Such terrifying power far surpassed that of the Three Friends of Dawn. He even suspected that a Demon Saint of the Nascent Soul Level had attacked Dawn Island.
"Looks like your masters are about to die."
Yinjiao locked onto Xiang Yufei with his Sword Intent and spoke coldly.
Wu Huai’an had already flown clear of Golden Bell Island, so his experience of the event was far more profound than that of the cultivators on the island. The biting Demon Qi was so intense it even triggered the Flying Boat’s Defensive Array automatically. The entire vessel was battered like a leaf in a storm, lurching violently.
Since they were no longer far from Dawn Island and high in the sky, the cultivators on the Flying Boat could already glimpse the Demon attacking the island. It was a whale of horrifying size.
The great whale had feathered fins, the color of deep cyan, that looked like clouds hanging down from the sky. Every breath it took let out a tremendous roar, like the sound of a great river rushing.
Having never witnessed such a scene, the Independent Cultivators on deck tumbled into a heap. Many of the more timid ones were so scared they soiled themselves.
As a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, Wu Huai’an barely managed to maintain his composure. He released his Magical Power to quell the chaos among the Independent Cultivators on deck, then hastily ordered the Flying Boat’s crew to turn around.
Though he was not worldly enough to recognize this particular Demon, he knew that anything capable of such a display of power was certainly no ordinary creature.
Dawn Island and the Three Friends of Dawn were finished.
Recalling Xiang Yufei’s earlier, swaggering arrogance, Wu Huai’an felt an inexplicable urge to laugh, despite the danger they were in.
The people on the Flying Boat were terrified from a great distance; the cultivators on the island were scared out of their wits, crying out in alarm as the terrifying Demon Qi blew directly against the Defensive Array, causing the Array to waver.
BOOM!
The great whale shot into the air, its streamlined body leaping completely out of the sea before crashing down with the force of a mountain.
The Defensive Array frantically drew Spiritual Qi from the Spirit Vein, its Array Formation now at full power. Above Dawn Island, dense clusters of Talismanic Script flickered, coalescing into a massive Spiritual Light Protective Shield that enveloped the entire island.
A cataclysmic boom echoed, as if the heavens were falling and the earth splitting asunder.
The Defensive Array, which had weathered demon tides and remained rock-steady, began to tremble slightly under the great whale’s impact.
Everyone on Dawn Island looked up, only to see the whale’s belly blotting out the sky and sun.
The great whale’s body pressed down on the Grand Array. It executed a roll, and its tail fin slapped down with the momentum.
The Defensive Array shook violently once more. Several shrill sounds of snapping metal rang out across the island. After withstanding the tremendous impact, the Grand Array’s foundation pillars were actually blasted out of the Spirit Vein.
With some of its foundation pillars destroyed, the Grand Array’s Spiritual Light dimmed in an instant.
The expressions of the Three Friends of Dawn turned ugly in an instant. They never imagined they would be so unlucky as to have inexplicably provoked such a powerful Demon.
The thought of retreat surfaced in their minds, but Dawn Island was, after all, the foundation they had built over a hundred years. To abandon it was not a decision that could be made lightly.
The three of them mustered their courage, unleashing the Magical Treasures they had spent many years refining and sending them flying toward the great whale in the sky.
Having been Island Masters for so many years, the Magical Treasures in their hands were naturally no ordinary things. They had been meticulously crafted by an Artifact Refining Master using all sorts of rare Spiritual Objects they had collected. In the past, during Magical Combat with cultivators and Demons of the same rank, their treasures had been unfailingly effective.
This time, however, before the three shimmering Magical Treasures could even strike the great whale, they were sent flying by the Gang Qi that wreathed its body.
The Spiritual Light of the three Magical Treasures dimmed, having already sustained significant damage.
The great whale let out a long cry, turned its body, and one of its eyes peered into the Array.
Relative to its enormous body, its eye was so small as to be almost comical. But to the cultivators on the island, it was like looking at the brilliant Great Sun in the sky.
A chill ran down the spines of the Three Friends of Dawn, as if they had been plunged into an ice cellar.
The eye radiated a horrifying killing intent, locking firmly onto the three of them.
They were being targeted.
’Dammit, is this Demon Whale really so vengeful? Our Magical Treasures clearly didn’t even scratch it, yet it’s already holding a grudge.’
The Three Friends of Dawn exchanged a glance, their decision made in an instant.
’Targeted by a Demon Whale like this, we have to abandon Dawn Island. The Demon Whale’s destructive power is shocking, but a creature of its immense size surely can’t be fast.’
The next instant, the three transformed into dazzling beams of Tunneling Light, fleeing in three separate directions.
The cultivators on the island never imagined that the rulers of Dawn Island would abandon them. Even the disciples and followers of the Three Friends of Dawn were left stunned.
Morale plummeted instantly.
The great whale in the sky let out a long shriek. With a flap of its wings, it vanished from its spot and instantly reappeared above one of the beams of Tunneling Light.
Master Bizhu’s Divine Sense detected the overwhelming Demon Qi surging up behind him. Before he had time to beg for mercy, the great whale’s body smashed through his Defensive Magical Treasure and obliterated him into a mist of blood.
A Golden Core Master’s Escape Technique wasn’t so fast as to leave a cultivator’s field of vision in a few breaths. The cultivators on the island, as well as the two remaining Friends of Dawn, clearly witnessed Master Bizhu’s horrific death.
The great whale turned nimbly in the air and, in the blink of an eye, killed the two remaining Friends of Dawn in quick succession.
Amidst their pleas for mercy, their bodies were swatted into clouds of blood mist.
Thus, the Three Friends of Dawn, who had held sway over the Thousand Islands Alliance, met their end without even a complete corpse to show for it.
After witnessing the gruesome end of the Three Friends of Dawn, the cultivators on the island lost all will to resist. Facing a Demon of such world-shaking ferocity, they could only close their eyes and await death.
And just as they expected, the great whale’s enormous body turned and reappeared in the sky above Dawn Island.
Without the Three Friends of Dawn to command it, the Defense Power of Dawn Island’s Defensive Array was greatly diminished. It swiftly collapsed and shattered under the great whale’s next impact.
No longer shielded by the Grand Array, the cultivators within directly faced the great whale’s Demon Qi, which raged like a boiling sea and nearly suffocated them.
Just then, a streak of cyan light shot across the sky, slashing straight for the great whale.
The cyan light pulsed with a sharp killing intent, so piercing it seemed capable of freezing the very heavens and earth.
A vicious glint flashed in the great whale’s eye, and the Gang Qi covering its body flared up, burning like a roaring flame.
CLANG!
With a sharp ring, the streak of cyan light sliced through the Gang Qi as if it were bamboo and struck the great whale’s back.
The unstoppable streak of cyan light shattered in an instant, revealing the hazy cyan Flying Sword within.
The Flying Sword was brimming with Spiritual Essence, obviously a rare treasure, yet it had only managed to cut about a foot deep into the great whale.
Such a wound would be fatal for a cultivator, but to a behemoth like the great whale, it was nothing more than a flesh wound.
The great whale let out a long shriek, and with a flash, it vanished from the spot.
The next instant, the great whale reappeared dozens of miles away, its massive body crashing into the sea and throwing up a monstrous wave.
"Vile beast!"
Following a furious, exasperated roar, a middle-aged man with a piercing aura appeared in the sky above Dawn Island.
He had just controlled his Flying Sword from dozens of miles away to slay the Demon, but he never imagined his cherished Flying Sword would be carried off, wedged in the Demon Whale’s body.
According to his senses, the Flying Sword was now moving away at an astonishing speed.
Unwilling to lose the Flying Sword he had painstakingly nurtured for several hundred years, the middle-aged man could only track it remotely and give chase after the great whale.
The cultivators on the island watched this scene, dumbfounded. One of the more knowledgeable cultivators recognized the middle-aged man at a glance. He was none other than the Thousand Islands Alliance’s Nascent Soul Sword Cultivator, Wood Palace True Monarch.
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