Chapter 4789 — Claiming Victory
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"Sea Dragon..." Wei Zhao finally caught on. No wonder Gui Dongxi had said it was a distant relative of his—so they were all of the dragon clan. Except one was a spirit beast and the other a sea beast, and the bloodline was so far removed that the connection practically amounted to nothing at all.
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"Sea Dragon! It's a Sea Dragon! We've actually run into a Sea Dragon!" Oda Ba suddenly cried out in an agitated flurry, gesturing wildly and tripping over his words. This was the legendary god of the sea, virtually the totem creature of the endless ocean—and he had sailed the seas for over three hundred years without ever once laying eyes on one!
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Everyone else erupted on the spot. If there was one sea beast they talked about most in ordinary times, it was the Sea Dragon beyond all doubt, for tales of it were far too numerous to tell—three days and three nights would not suffice—and yet today they had actually laid eyes on a living Sea Dragon.
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But before the crowd could finish rejoicing, this Sea Dragon, haloed in the aura of the sea god, came charging at them once more. With a thunderous boom the warship heeled over violently again, and once the hull was barely steadied, the still-excited crowd felt as though a basin of ice water had been dumped over their heads—the defensive formation had shattered!
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Oda Ba included, everyone turned deathly pale at the instant the halo of the defensive formation winked out. Only now did they realize that encountering a Sea Dragon, that legendary apex sea beast, was no stroke of luck at all but the rarest of calamities. With the defensive formation gone, every soul aboard was going to die here. There was no chance of escape.
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Just then, in the midst of the chaos, Wei Zhao gathered his true qi and bellowed: "Starfall Formation—loose!"
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Fortunately the crew had not completely lost their heads, and at Wei Zhao's command they responded on instinct. In an instant seven pillars of falling starlight descended from the sky, and each one landed in exactly the same position as the seven that had missed before.
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Only now did Wei Zhao realize—by repeating the Starfall pillars at the same positions, the charging time was cut short by more than a hundredfold. At such speed, not to mention someone in the Mountain-Opening stage, even a far stronger being would have no time to react.
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But the foe, after all, was the Sea Dragon known as the god of the sea, and its instantaneous reaction in that moment still broke Wei Zhao out in a cold sweat. It actually managed to dodge six of the seven Starfall pillars outright, and only when there was nowhere left to evade did it take one. Without that final pillar, everything would have come to nothing, and the fate awaiting them all would have been death with no place even to be buried. Fortunately, the piece had not fallen on empty ground.
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This was entirely Gui Dongxi's handiwork. His earlier placement of pieces at those seven points had already sealed off every escape route the Sea Dragon had; with seven Starfall pillars, one was bound to strike home. The being said to come closest to the sea god had, in the end, still been outplayed by this distant relation of its own.
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A roar split the heavens. Struck by a Starfall pillar, the Sea Dragon did not shatter into fragments like the Mountain-Opening whales; it merely had a great hole bored clean through its body. The wound was far from light.
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Having taken such a heavy blow, the Sea Dragon did not flee. Instead its ferocity was roused, and it charged the warship again—one strike and it could kill them all. Unfortunately for it, Wei Zhao clearly had no intention of granting that chance: "Starfall Formation—loose again!"
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