Chapter 818 - 813: Two Black Shark Queens
Yellow Springs Belt. Half an hour ago.
The Black Shark Queen held the Black Shark King Bead, dividing the waters of the Yellow Springs, with streams on either side like walls of waves, constrained by invisible water control power.
Dongbo Chengzhi’s swordsmanship was formless and intangible, graceful and exquisite, like a dragonfly skimming the water, hitting one demon after another’s vital spots, executing them instantly.
Beiming Jihu’s heavy sword swept with grandeur, a single slash imposing like a mountain ridged with solemnity!
No demon was his match for even a single move, and even if by fortune they deflected and parried, the next moment they would find their guard violently shattered, spewing blood as they were flung away.
Yellow Springs Belt was the habitat of the Yellow Springs Ghost Frogs; the guardian demon general here — Ghost Frog Bai Shao was gravely wounded early on, hiding within the heart of the Yellow Springs pillar, self-sealed.
When the first wave of demon reinforcements — Shadow Scythe, Nether Fire — arrived with their forces, they barely held their own against Dongbo Chengzhi and Beiming Jihu.
To put it nicely, it was a standoff.
To put it bluntly, they were being chased down like dogs.
Because Dongbo Chengzhi and Beiming Jihu were indeed among the top three experts of the Guardian Camp, able to simultaneously handle two to three demon generals without losing ground.
Originally, Dongbo Chengzhi was somewhat inferior, but after acquiring the White Dragon Fang, his realm greatly improved, touching almost upon the threshold of Ten Thousand Things in Nature, nearly keeping pace with Beiming Jihu.
If anything was still lacking, it was Beiming Jihu’s decades of honing, resulting in a body robust to the human limit — translated into numerical language, the physique attribute was slightly lower.
Demon generals Shadow Scythe and Nether Fire, leading their elite demon warriors and enhanced warriors, fought while retreating.
They were not in mortal danger for the moment, at the cost of the continuous reduction of demon warrior numbers around them.
Until Demon General Cangming arrived, bringing Demon General Earth-shaking, Xianlv, Frost Remains, and other main forces, reversing the tide of battle.
"Retreat." Beiming Jihu calmly commanded, "I will cover the rear; hurry onto the arrow boat, head back to the turtle ship!"
The two sworn expedition teams hurriedly withdrew.
Several demon generals led their forces in pursuit, but Beiming Jihu slashed horizontally with his sword, an endless mountain phantom pressing down.
Invisible yet intentional.
Even as a phantom, falling upon the pursuing demons’ hearts, it was heavier than a mountain, the slash akin to bringing heaven and earth crashing down, seemingly aimed directly at their heads to cleave down.
The demons hesitated, not daring to approach.
As the sword struck the ground, it cleaved a fissure over a hundred meters long across the coastal island floor, with seawater flooding madly.
Beiming Jihu boarded the arrow boat last, leaving proudly.
The turtle ship set sail, heading further north to the Spider Demon Cave Island.
The Earth-shaking Bull Demon was helpless, following along, heading northward. The distance to the Profound Water Palace was growing ever longer.
Fortunately, each demon general had their tricks. Among them, the Demon General Cangming, a Tide Demon General, used his talent skill [Echo of the Roaring Tide], leaving a "Tide Echo Mark" on the native experts like Beiming Jihu and Dongbo Chengzhi.
The Tide Echo Mark could not be erased, and its demonic power could last 24 hours. During this time, Demon General Cangming could determine the rough location of Beiming Jihu and others through the Echo of the Roaring Tide.
This ensured at least the confirmation of the expedition team’s true position, avoiding being tricked by an empty turtle ship.
If not for Demon General Cangming’s ability to locate, humans could perform the "Golden Cicada Shell" strategy, the turtle ship drawing the demon legion north, while Beiming Jihu and Dongbo Chengzhi stealthily took the arrow boat south to the Profound Water Palace, which would be a disaster of annihilation.
Luckily, through Echo of the Roaring Tide, the demon legion could confirm that the strong individuals like Beiming Jihu were always on the turtle ship and had not used the Golden Cicada Shell tactic.
However, they were unaware that beside the turtle ship, the Black Shark Queen Mei Xi silently vanished —
She was summoned back to the Star Realm.
Indeed, before the war against the Shadow Island Chain was initiated, Mei Xi had already become Bai Pu’s "summoned creature"!
It was thanks to Bai Pu’s cultivation of the [Divine Descent Warrior’s Comfort] skill after killing the Divine Descent Warrior Ferudo in the Demon Fighting World.
[Divine Descent Warrior’s Comfort: Applies a soothing effect to a selected target, attempting to tame it. The target must be one of the Divine Descendants, Dragon Species, Beast Species, or Demon Species, or have one of the aforementioned bloodlines. If tamed successfully, the target will become your summoned creature, ascending to the Star Realm.]
The Black Shark Queen Mei Xi was a humanoid species, but possessed a portion of demon bloodline, commonly referred to as "half-demon" in the Heart Demon World.
Having Demon Species bloodline, she qualified as a taming target for [Divine Descent Warrior’s Comfort].
After learning the inside story, eager for revenge, she naturally did not resist and was directly tamed successfully by Bai Pu.
Once tamed, Bai Pu granted her pure blood, subduing the demon bloodline within Mei Xi. Her mermaid tail turned back into long human legs, allowing her to switch between the two at will, adding another mutated talent skill.
Mei Xi occupied the space of Bai Pu’s spiritual power limit of 40 points, while the Winged Tooth Beast King Da Fei occupied 70 points. Based on Bai Pu’s current 140 points of spiritual power, the remaining space was already scarce, making it difficult to tame more strong summoned creatures, and unless weaker summoned creatures had special uses, they were often better not included.
After all, Bai Pu was not a summoning profession focused on summoning; he merely relied on high spiritual power, plus the summoning divine skill [Divine Descent Warrior’s Comfort], using force of Da Fei’s bricks to conjure two summoned creatures.
— Other Source Blood Apostles, Pure Blood Servants, do not count towards the summoned creature slots.
If one specialized in summoning within the spiritual talent profession, they would develop exclusive summoning spaces in the Star Realm based on the species of summoned creatures or utilize existing shared summoning spaces.
Like the Giant Dragon Island, Wolf Valley, Dream Forest...
This way, by spending only a small amount of spiritual power limit, one could extend their reach to amass a large number of summoned creatures, establishing their own summoned creature system, while also managing to learn a few magic tricks for support combat.
This is the orthodoxy of the summoning profession.
If the orthodox summoners knew Bai Pu had the summoning divine skill [Divine Descent Warrior’s Comfort] and only summoned two creatures, they would surely bemoan the waste of resources.
After Mei Xi was summoned back to the Star Realm, she closed her eyes, and upon opening them, was summoned again to the south-central section of the Shadow Island Chain, beside Bai Pu’s arrow boat.
At this moment, Bai Pu and others had also finished resting. Although summoning Mei Xi consumed energy, given that Mei Xi only had the Enhanced Warrior Template, the cost was far less than for the Winged Tooth Beast King Da Fei.
The Black Shark King Bead inherently had divine effects, and Mei Xi’s manipulation of water consumed similarly minimal amounts.
At this time, she had undergone the battle at Yellow Springs Belt, yet still retained much of her demonic power!
Bai Pu, Rein, and Leia first set foot on the island, while Mei Xi remained hidden by the shore.
Sure enough, the Guardian Demon of Profound Water Palace opened the Yellow Springs Gate floodgate, intending to use the Yellow Springs waters to hinder Bai Pu and his companions.
In the midst of the Yellow Springs waters’ mighty rush, Mei Xi appeared in her long-leg form, parting the Yellow Springs streams, protecting Bai Pu and his group, and charging toward Profound Water Palace.
This is the truth of the "two Black Shark Queens"!