Chapter 4785 — You Noticed It Too
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The tension in the air was electric.
Gasps of alarm broke out on every side—five Mountain-Opening sea beasts had revealed themselves in that instant, no fewer than five!
Each one a legend of the deep.
The Abyssal Berserker Shark, the Netherworld Ghost Mother, the Soul-Hooking Monstrous Fish, the Thousand-Legged Overlord Crab, and the Mountain-Seat Whale—every one of them a dread sovereign of the seas whose name alone made men tremble. To meet even one of them would spell annihilation for a human cultivator; an ordinary treasure ship would never withstand their assault. Thank heaven this was an ancient warship.
Yet even a warship of that caliber was not unbowed.
But even an ancient warship—that ultimate weapon of war—could not help feeling the crushing weight of facing five overlords of the sea all at once. Everyone aboard, Oda Ba included, found it hard to breathe.
The air grew thick as lead.
"Ignore them! Kill the Xuan-Sheng ones first—kill them all!" Oda Ba snapped out of his daze and bellowed into the transmission array at the top of his lungs.
It was the only sound strategy.
Only by wiping out those countless Xuan-Sheng sea beasts first could they afford to contend slowly with the five overlords afterward. Otherwise, once they were dragged into a war of attrition, those Xuan-Sheng beasts would grind the defensive array down bit by bit—the final, fatal straw that breaks the elephant's back.
But the enemy had other ideas.
It was the right call, the only call. Yet before Oda Ba's voice had even faded, a colossal shadow, massive as a mountain, had already slammed into them first. A thunderous boom—and a vessel of the ancient warship's tonnage was actually knocked askew by several degrees. Such raw force was simply inconceivable!
The impact sent shockwaves through the hull.
"The Mountain-Seat Whale!" Oda Ba ground out the name between clenched teeth. This was the most massive living thing in all the oceans, bar none. It was no exaggeration to say that every Mountain-Seat Whale, with the slightest movement, could shift mountains and overturn seas—for they were themselves walking mountains!
And it was already upon them.
It was close enough to touch. Its sheer bulk alone imposed an unparalleled psychological pressure on everyone aboard, but that was not the worst of it. The worst came from the frantic report crackling through the transmission array: "Captain! This monster is blocking the firing ports! We cannot lock onto the Xuan-Sheng sea beasts!"
A wall of living flesh.
"It is nothing but a meat shield..." The moment Wei Zhao heard this, he knew things had gone badly wrong. They had just gained the slightest advantage, and the enemy had immediately plugged the gap with the thick-hided Mountain-Seat Whale. Clearly, this Mountain-Opening sea beast—this overlord of the sea—was nothing more than a pawn in the enemy's hands.
All eyes turned to Oda Ba.
Every eye was on Oda Ba now. A decision had to be made at once, without the slightest hesitation. The order he gave next would determine the life and death of everyone aboard.
The weight of command pressed down on him.
Attack? Given the Mountain-Seat Whale's hide, thick and tough as it was, attacking was useless. Even if they blasted dozens of transparent holes through it, it would be no more than a tickle. Don't attack? Then they would immediately fall on the defensive, able only to take hits without striking back—and no matter how strong the defensive array, it could not hold out for long.
It was a dead end either way.
"Cease fire," Oda Ba ordered in a low, heavy voice.
The command fell like a stone.
"Captain, should we activate the Ten-Thousand-Mile Array?" The first mate's voice came through the transmission array, and everyone's eyes flickered. Almost without thinking, they nodded slightly.
It was the only hope left.
"What is the Ten-Thousand-Mile Array?" Wei Zhao asked Huo Yudie in a low voice.
She did not answer.