Immortal Martial Emperor

"Little Gold?"

The Golden-winged Six-tooth Shark beneath Hong Yu’s feet nearly stumbled, almost doing a somersault in the sea.

’I’m a dignified Sea Tyrant!’

’Once I reach adulthood, I’m the kind of being that would dare to fight even a Flood Dragon and eat it like a delicacy.’

’And you dare call me "Little Gold"?’

If not for the fact that Desolate Beasts couldn’t speak until they reached the Yin Yang Realm, the Golden-winged Six-tooth Shark would have long since roared in fury.

’Huh? Isn’t that one of the experts from the White Tiger Duchy? Seems like one of Zhang Weihu’s lackeys.’

The Golden-winged Six-tooth Shark’s speed was simply too fast.

In the blink of an eye, it had already caught up to the group ahead.

The closest person was a familiar face. The day Zhang Weihu had rammed the Celestial Dragon Warship to provoke them, this person had appeared alongside Zhang Weihu to taunt Hong Yu and the others.

’What a small world for enemies!’

Zhang Linchong was very frustrated.

He had gone through so much trouble to snatch a Desolate Beast with Zhang Weilong’s help, but this particular beast was utterly useless.

It was a chubby Ocean Giant Elephant.

The name sounded incredibly badass, but in reality, it was just a chubby Desolate Beast walrus, and it was extremely slow.

If the rules didn’t stipulate that he had to cross the Sumeru Sea on a mount, Zhang Linchong would have long ago abandoned this walrus and flown across himself.

’Still, compared to those who couldn’t even get a mount, I’m already incredibly lucky!’

As Zhang Linchong thought this, he recalled how there had been only one sickly-looking Desolate Beast left when he departed. He couldn’t help but sneer. ’That pathetic, sickly beast is definitely much slower than my walrus. I think Hong Yu was even really eager and excited to grab it. Heh, thinking about it that way really cheers me up!’

Although Zhang Linchong’s strength wasn’t weak, he was nowhere near the Ultimate True Dragon Level.

In fact, the gap was enormous!

Hong Yu, on the other hand, was a being who could fight on par with Unparalleled True Dragon experts like Zhang Weilong and Zhao Wushuang.

His Desolate Beast was so much worse than his own.

This was definitely something to be excited about.

Just as he was reveling in this fantasy, Zhang Linchong was suddenly stunned. "What’s going on? Something seems to be approaching at high speed."

He looked back and was instantly dumbfounded.

Tens of thousands of meters behind him, a massive wave was rushing toward him.

Looking closely, he could see it was clearly a gigantic Desolate Beast swimming at an incredible speed, its powerful velocity parting the seawater and kicking up towering waves on both sides.

It was riding the wind and breaking the waves, an unstoppable, surging force!

"Wh-What kind of Desolate Beast is that? H-How can it be so fast?"

Zhang Linchong was flabbergasted, his eye twitching as he muttered, "Could it be some expert who already left has turned back?"

As it drew closer, Zhang Linchong was finally able to get a clear look at the newcomer.

It was a Desolate Beast whose entire body glittered with a brilliant golden light.

Standing on the back of this ferocious Desolate Beast was a young man.

This young man was also familiar.

He had been causing a huge stir recently, his fame skyrocketing. This person was Hong Yu.

"How could it be him? Didn’t that guy Hong Yu snatch that two-meter-long, sickly thing? Th-this..." Zhang Linchong’s face was a mask of terror.

He suddenly remembered that his own Zhang Weihu and Zhang Weilong had a major grudge against Hong Yu.

And he himself had followed Zhang Weihu in mocking Hong Yu earlier.

At this thought, Zhang Linchong broke out in a cold sweat. "Faster, go faster!"

He urged his mount on relentlessly.

But...

Even if it killed itself, this was the fastest the walrus could go!

"Crap, he’s getting closer and closer."

"Come on, move faster! For the love of god, go faster..."

"It’s over, it’s over, he’s gonna catch me..."

Zhang Linchong wailed and looked back, only to freeze. Hong Yu and the golden Desolate Beast behind him were gone.

His eyes filled with confusion. "Wh-What happened? How did he disappear? Was I just seeing things?"

BLUB BLUB BLUB!

While he was still confused, he realized his mount, the Desolate Beast walrus, had suddenly stopped moving.

It was trembling all over, letting out a series of low roars.

"What’s wrong? Are you constipated or something?" Zhang Linchong asked in confusion.

He soon realized the walrus wasn’t constipated. It was...

BOOM!

A golden light suddenly burst out from under the sea.

It kicked up a giant splash, launching the five-meter-long walrus high into the air. It flew over two hundred meters up, struggling helplessly in the void.

Zhang Linchong instinctively leaped away from the walrus.

And then he saw a sight he would never forget for the rest of his life.

ROAR!

A gaping, blood-red maw, a full eight meters high when open, suddenly snapped wide.

It was like a gateway to the Netherworld, its upper and lower jaws lined with sharp, serrated teeth. With every movement, a foul, stormy stench billowed out, making one feel nauseous and dizzy.

CRUNCH!

The massive mouth snapped shut.

The walrus was swallowed whole by the golden Giant Beast.

Only then did Zhang Linchong see the Giant Beast’s true form.

It was clearly a Golden-winged Six-tooth Shark, over thirty meters long, with a massive, savage build, covered in Scale Armor that shone with a golden light—an incredibly ferocious beast!

Its huge, lantern-like eyes swept over Zhang Linchong with a look of apparent disdain.

It twisted its body, slammed back into the sea, and sent a hundred-meter-high wave surging outward.

Then, with another ROAR, it twisted its body and rode the wind and waves away.

Zhang Linchong was left in the air, gulping frantically, on the verge of tears but unable to cry. "Ma Le Gobi! Who the hell said that Desolate Beast was a sickly weakling? If th-this thing is a sickly weakling, then isn’t Brother Long’s Deep Sea Demon Whale a total pushover?"

The frustrated Zhang Linchong squatted in mid-air, silently drawing circles and cursing the bastard who had called the Golden-winged Six-tooth Shark a sickly weakling.

"Hahaha, nice work, Little Gold!"

Hong Yu, however, was full of high spirits and excitement. He patted the Golden-winged Six-tooth Shark beneath him and yelled, "Let’s go, brother! Let’s swallow up anyone who dares to block our path!"

ROAR!

Upon hearing there was food involved,

the Golden-winged Six-tooth Shark no longer cared about being called ’Little Gold’ by Hong Yu.

It roared with excitement, breaking the waves and riding the wind.

The might of the Ocean Tyrant was on full display.

Everywhere they passed, the waves churned as he and the Golden-winged Six-tooth Shark easily surpassed one expert after another.

Within three thousand kilometers, Hong Yu and the Golden-winged Six-tooth Shark had already overtaken more than a thousand people.

Among these thousand-plus people, any expert from the White Tiger Duchy or the Sword God Kingdom had their Desolate Beast mount swallowed by the Golden-winged Six-tooth Shark and was helplessly eliminated.

This left everyone utterly speechless.

Hong Yu was simply too strong!

The Golden-winged Six-tooth Shark under him was also too ferocious.

The man and beast worked in perfect concert: one would attack the expert on the mount, while the other opened its mouth and swallowed the Desolate Beast. One after another, their coordination was flawless.

They were simply unstoppable!

...

In the waters ahead, Xiahuang Dun, Zhao Wushuang, Zhang Weilong, and other experts were leading the pack.

Xiahuang Dun was seated steadily atop a fast and enormous Deep Sea Profound Turtle. "Zhao Wushuang, your idea was truly insidious. The few of us teamed up to distract Hong Yu, then helped the others snatch the Desolate Beast mounts. I bet Hong Yu has definitely been eliminated by now!"

"I doubt he’s been eliminated. With his strength, snatching a Desolate Beast should be simple. However..."

Zhang Weilong interjected, "I took a look when I left. There weren’t many Desolate Beasts left, and they were all weak ones. I’m afraid that even if he managed to grab one, it’s just a piece of trash!"

"Hmph. If the Eldest Prince hadn’t told me to eliminate him in the first round, I would’ve wanted to leave him for Demon Island and find a chance to kill him there!" Zhao Wushuang’s eyes flashed with a chilling, murderous light.

The battle in the Liger Garden could be called an indelible stain on Zhao Wushuang’s life.

Even though many experts understood that he hadn’t used his full strength in that fight and had lost due to carelessness and underestimating his opponent, the public opinion among ordinary experts was different.

After that battle, his ranking among the Unparalleled True Dragons was severely affected, and quite a few experts were now itching for a fight, thinking of challenging Zhao Wushuang themselves.

Because of this, Zhao Wushuang was incredibly eager to kill Hong Yu and wash away his own stain with his blood.

And reforge his legend of invincibility!

"Lord Wushuang, it seems there’s an expert on an extremely powerful mount approaching quickly from behind!" someone suddenly came up and reported.

Zhao Wushuang paused. "Who is it?"

"It’s not clear!" the person said.

Beside them, Xiahuang Dun frowned. "Could it be Hong Yu?"

"Tch!"

Zhang Weilong scoffed disdainfully, "All we left him were the dregs of the Desolate Beasts. Even if he managed to grab one, it’s useless scrap. How could he possibly catch up to us?"

Zhao Wushuang nodded. "It’s probably not him."

He looked at the person who had delivered the report. "Go take another look. Only come back when you have accurate information!"

"Understood!"

The person withdrew.

Only then did Zhao Wushuang turn to the other two. "Let’s pick up the pace and meet up with Xiahuang Ba and Ling Aotian ahead. Regardless of whether that person is Hong Yu or not, we need to find a way to join forces with those two. After all, the Eldest Prince gave us other tasks to handle!"

"You mean helping the Eldest Prince eliminate those people?" Zhang Weilong asked.

Zhao Wushuang nodded. "The conflict between the Fifth Prince and the Eldest Prince is becoming more and more obvious. They are destined to face off in the War Dragon showdown. We must clip the Fifth Prince’s wings as much as possible before the True Dragon War."

"Alright!"

Xiahuang Dun nodded. "It would be best if Hong Yu also makes it to Demon Island. We can kill him along with the others then."

"Not just him, but also his friends from the Southern Ten Nations Alliance. They aren’t slow either; they’re already ahead of us!" Zhang Weilong grinned, a wicked smile on his face.

"Heh heh, why do you think we slowed down? Isn’t it so we can catch up to them later and torment them properly?"

The three of them let out sinister cackles, their laughter grating and cold.

With the Ocean Desolate Beasts charging forward, they had already crossed half of the ten-thousand-kilometer sea.

Feng Xue Xin and Young Master Yeban were in the leading group.

This was thanks to how quickly they had snatched their Desolate Beasts; they had been racing madly ever since and were ranked in the top twenty.

"Yeban, I feel like something’s not right," Feng Xue Xin said with a frown, looking around.

He noticed that the group far ahead seemed to have slowed down, while experts from behind were speeding up to catch them, showing signs of surrounding the two of them.

Young Master Yeban nodded as well. "I feel it too. We should find a way to go around."

"Okay!"

The two of them quickly steered their Desolate Beast mounts to attempt a detour.

However...

They were frustrated to find that the others seemed to have noticed their detour and were continuously closing in on them.

After being entangled like this for about five hundred kilometers, Young Master Yeban and Feng Xue Xin finally fell into the encirclement.

Zhao Wushuang stood atop his Deep Sea Demon Whale, a murderous light dancing in his eyes, and let out a great roar...

"All those associated with Hong Yu—kill them without mercy!"