Chapter 4588 — Five-Phase Killing Aura? This Is Indeed a Feast Beneath the Sea, Only the Master of the Feast Is Not the Hundred-Plus Fierce Sea Beasts That Have Gathered Here—They Are Merely the Food Set Upon the Table, Nothing More.
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Wei Zhao stared at the staggering scene churning through his mind and was struck utterly speechless. He could only watch helplessly as that top-tier sea beast—something that resembled a colossal electric eel—surged up from the depths and swallowed the stunned sea beasts whole in a single gulp. Such was the dread majesty of that ferocious creature emerging to devour all under heaven that even Wei Zhao felt an impulse to kneel and submit.
After it had eaten everything clean, the giant electric eel left untouched only that first bloody, tempting sea-beast carcass. Then it flipped its body over and sank back into hiding among the sand and gravel of the deep trench, waiting for its prey to take the bait once more.
Watching this, Wei Zhao fell into thought. The ghost thing had once told him that although the sea-beast clan and the spirit-beast clan were both beasts, they belonged to entirely different systems. Spirit beasts, in a sense, were not so different from human cultivators—across their long lives, cultivation was their primary pursuit.
Sea beasts, however, were another matter. No matter how powerful a sea beast became, it still retained an exceedingly high degree of bestiality, and so they rarely cultivated of their own accord. To them, devouring blood and flesh was the finest form of cultivation; the higher the order of being they consumed, the faster their strength advanced. This was a pure law of nature—the four words "the weak are meat for the strong" were embodied in them to the fullest.
Yet what interested Wei Zhao even more than the sea-beast clan's way of life was another matter entirely: that fleeting flash of deep-purple electric arc!
Wei Zhao had been observing closely from the very start. Of the hundred-plus sea beasts drawn in by the scent of blood, any one of them possessed at least the strength of the Mystic Ascension stage; sea beasts of the Mountain-Opening stage were everywhere, and there were even those of the Sea-Splitting stage—more than one of them, in fact. Yet a single flash of that electric arc had stunned every last sea beast present beyond any shadow of doubt. What terrifying power was this!
In that instant, Wei Zhao once again experienced what it meant for his hair to stand on end. Yet even amid the lingering dread, some strange impulse arose in him for reasons he could not fathom. His mind replayed over and over the moment the deep-purple electric arc had sliced through the air, and that restless, stirring sensation grew ever stronger. Driven by the instinct to grow ever more powerful, Wei Zhao unconsciously wanted to imitate it.
Unfortunately, the scene had been far too swift and fleeting. Even replaying it endlessly in his mind, he simply could not make it out clearly. Wei Zhao had the instinctive urge to imitate it, yet he could never grasp its essence.
The memory fragments surfacing in his mind continued. The giant electric eel still lurked among the sand and gravel of the deep trench. This time, however, what came to be drawn in was not those bloodthirsty sea beasts—in truth, that earlier feeding had already devoured every powerful sea beast within a hundred miles. To lure in the next wave, it would have to wait several months at the very least. Yet this time, a mere few hours later, an uninvited guest arrived.
The Five-Venom Flood Dragon! Gazing at that existence from afar within the memory fragment, Wei Zhao's pupils abruptly contracted. What had taken the bait this time was a flood dragon whose entire body shimmered with five colors—its appearance identical to the mightiest Five-Phase Killing Aura he had seen before, only the impression it gave was far more real. Its bulk was more enormous, and its aura more piercing and formidable.
Though he had never truly seen a Five-Venom Flood Dragon, Wei Zhao was instantly and utterly convinced: this was certainly a Five-Venom Flood Dragon!