Water World Beast Taming: My Pets Can Evolve Infinitely

Chapter 158 The Royal Family of the Sea (5000 words)

The underground world.

Jiang Chen, Li Qing, and Zhao Ziyi immediately channeled their spiritual energy, fully alert to any sudden movements that might occur around them.

After confirming that there was nothing amiss, Jiang Chen breathed a slight sigh of relief, then looked at Yan Mengmeng with a strange expression.

As a seasoned driver of ten years, I have to say, Jiang Chen got dizzy from the milk because of that collision...

Seeing that there was nothing unusual around him, Li Qing jumped off the back of the dragon-headed sea eel and walked to the golden silk thread.

He crouched down, removed his black blindfold, revealing a pair of thick eyebrows and large eyes. He stared intently at the fine, hair-like threads shimmering with a faint golden sheen, and murmured, "This is the Golden Silk Spirit Net!"

Jiang Chen: "!!!"

Jiang Chen was not shocked by the so-called "Golden Silk Spirit Net," but by the fact that this Senior Brother Li Qing was not blind!

Holy crap, are you blind? Why are you wearing an eye mask?

"We haven't even entered the territory of the Red Skull Devil Fangfish yet, have we?" Hearing Li Qing's words, Yan Mengmeng asked in surprise, "They actually went so far as to lay down the [Golden Silk Spirit Net]?"

"Yes, this is something I never expected either," Senior Brother Li Qing nodded solemnly.

The so-called "Golden Silk Spirit Net" is specifically used to prevent and warn against the dragon-headed sea eel, a creature known as the Earth Spirit.

It is composed of the magical artifacts "Golden Threads" and "Spiritual Net" arrays, which are costly and difficult to produce.

However, because the gold threads are extremely fine and hidden, the spiritual energy fluctuations contained within them are also extremely subtle!

The dragon-headed sea eel and the money rat were almost deceived by the other party just now. So, if Tu Xingsun is not careful, he will run into it headfirst, thus triggering the spirit network alarm array.

Generally, only high-level human and sea city cities will set up defenses around their territory.

Li Qing opened the map. After traveling for most of the day, they were on the edge of the battle zone between the humans and the sea creatures, still a long way from the territory of the Red Skull Devil Fangfish.

Golden silk nets appeared at the edge of the battlefield. One can imagine that the army on the seabed at this moment has probably even beaten their brains out!

The four of them dug and searched around the "golden silk net," and the dragon-headed eel even sneaked up to take a look.

Sure enough, a fierce battle had just taken place in the sea above them. A team of human beast tamers had encountered a sea army, and the two sides were locked in a fierce fight!

Judging from the traces at the scene, it seems that the two sides fought to a standstill and then retreated.

Upon confirming it was an accident, the four of them breathed a slight sigh of relief.

Yan Mengmeng couldn't help but rub her chest lightly, complaining, "It was just an accident, but my chest hurts so much from the impact!"

Jiang Chen glanced at the rising and falling curves of Yan Mengmeng's chest and cried out that he was wronged, "I was the one who was hit!"

……

The four humans and two beasts reconnected, and after the earlier incident, they proceeded with even greater caution.

Senior Brother Li Qing put the black blindfold back on and, together with the Money Rat, directed the Dragon Head Eel forward.

Jiang Chen couldn't help but ask, "Senior Brother Li Qing, there's nothing wrong with your eyes, so why are you wrapping them in cloth?"

Hearing Jiang Chen's question, Li Qing turned around, looked at Jiang Chen with his covered eyes, and asked in return, "Junior Brother Jiang Chen, have your eyes been fully tempered and reached the level of super-sensory perception?"

Jiang Chen nodded: "Yes."

"I'm so envious."

"kindness?"

Li Qing shook his head and repeated, "I really envy you."

Jiang Chen: "???"

Li Qing's tone was somewhat bitter: "I've been working on improving my visual acuity for almost half a year, but progress has been very slow."

Uh?

Jiang Chen scratched his head, feeling a little embarrassed and unsure how to answer.

Is this binocular extrasensory perception really that difficult? I didn't notice it.

You spent half a year refining your eyes, while I refined my Yi Jing and facial features in half a year, and also broke through to the third level of Beast Tamer...

"This is not an ordinary eye scarf. It was specially made by my classmates in the weapon crafting department. It is a spiritual artifact that can continuously stimulate and nurture the acupoints of my eyes."

"Ever since I put on this eye scarf, the tempering of my eyes, which had been stagnant, has started to improve slowly. If I wear it for a few more months, my eyes should be able to achieve super-sensory perception."

Jiang Chen: "..."

Jiang Chen was speechless again. Was super-sensory vision really that difficult? How come I didn't notice it?

Senior brother, don't try to fool me just because I'm not well-educated!

"Of course, there's another reason why I wrap my eyes with a blindfold." Li Qing reached out his right hand and touched the head of the dragon-headed moray eel, which let out a soft whimper.

"Because if you don't use your eyes to see, you'll have to keep using Kuro's [Sound Wave]."

"Under this method, Xiao Hei's proficiency in the [Sound Wave] skill increased rapidly. In another two or three months, it should be able to reach the perfect level."

That's it!

Jiang Chen, Yan Mengmeng, and Zhao Ziyi suddenly realized.

Senior Brother Li Qing has gone to great lengths for cultivation!

but……

Is it really that hard to improve skill proficiency? Isn't it just about learning the skills you don't know how to use?

……

Before we knew it, two days had passed.

Over the past two days, the four humans and two beasts have been like earthworms in the soil, burrowing into places where the spiritual energy is thin, slowly approaching the territory of the Red Skull Devil Fangfish in a roundabout way.

For the past two days, everyone has spent almost all their time on the back of the dragon head sea eel, traveling during the day and resting at night.

The more dangerous the place, the more important it is to conserve physical strength and maintain a good mental state.

After all, you never know when the enemy will suddenly appear from somewhere. If you are in a bad state at this time, you are just giving away free kills.

Similarly, the closer you get to the territory of the Red Skull Devil Fangfish, the more sentry posts and guard arrays you'll find on and beneath the seabed.

Relying on the keen senses of the dragon-headed sea eel and the money rat, the four of them were able to anticipate and quickly avoid the danger.

"We've successfully passed the border guards of the Red Skull Devil Fangfish. We're still 100 kilometers away from the White Tail Pearl Pond. We should arrive by noon today." Sensing the movement overhead, Li Qing spoke slowly.

"Okay." Jiang Chen and the other two nodded solemnly and entered combat mode.

Jiang Chen's heart stirred, and the Seven-Star Knife Fish slowly emerged from behind him, landing automatically in his hand.

Upon seeing the seven-star knife fish, Li Qing, Yan Mengmeng, and Zhao Ziyi were immediately shocked!

The three of them looked at Jiang Chen with a mixture of astonishment and envy, at the Seven-Star Knife Fish in his hand!

"Junior Brother Jiang Chen, the quality of your third pet is actually this high?" Senior Brother Li Qing was envious again.

"It was just a stroke of luck. General Yan Chao gave it to me because he thought I was handsome," Jiang Chen replied with a smile.

"..." Li Qing was speechless. If his eyes hadn't been covered with a blindfold, he would have been able to see Li Qing rolling his eyes.

Hearing Jiang Chen's words, Yan Mengmeng breathed a sigh of relief.

She bit her rosy lips slightly with her pearly teeth and scoffed, "I thought you'd gone bankrupt buying this seven-star knife fish, spending all your money. Good thing you didn't!"

Jiang Chen: "..."

Girl, aren't you focusing on the wrong thing?

Shouldn't you be focusing on the seven-star knife fish in my hand?

Other body parts that you're good at are fine too, but why do you keep staring at my wallet?

As soon as the Seven Star Knife Fish appeared, Zhao Ziyi, who had been calm and collected for the past two days, sitting at the tail of the Dragon Head Eel with his eyes closed and resting, immediately became a little unsettled!

He stroked the Tiger Might Golden Spear in his hand, which his family had specially tailored for him at great expense, and suddenly it didn't seem so appealing anymore!

Damn it, I really want to have a majestic and powerful seven-star knife fish too!

"It seems we've most likely succeeded in our mission this time!"

Looking at the pure white, silvery-white, and domineering Seven-Star Knife Fish in Jiang Chen's hand, Li Qing sighed with a mixture of admiration and envy, saying, "With this Seven-Star Knife Fish's help, Junior Brother Jiang Chen's combat power must have skyrocketed, right?"

"I can easily take on a commander-level sea monster single-handedly," Jiang Chen said with a smile.

This confidence comes from the dual cultivation of beast taming and body refining!

What Senior Brother Li Qing didn't know was that compared to the Seven-Star Knife Fish, his other two pet beasts were actually even more outrageous!

At this moment, Xiao Jiu and Chu Yun's strength completely overwhelmed that of elite sea beasts of the same level.

It's a bit of a pity that during the nearly one week of seclusion before departure, he and the Seven Star Knife Fish had not yet successfully unleashed the Spirit Martial Skill Star Slash.

The difficulty of spiritual martial arts techniques is much, much more difficult than he had imagined!

The movements of both the human and the animal must be perfectly coordinated, perfectly unified, and perfectly in sync!

Only through true unity of man and beast can this technique be successfully executed!

In the week before their departure, Jiang Chen and Xiao Kuang practiced together many times, but they still couldn't work in unison and were unable to unleash their full potential.

……

When we were about 30 kilometers away from Baiwei Pond, the Longtouhai eel suddenly braked again, and the money rat jumped up and squeaked urgently!

Something's up!

Li Qing suddenly stood up from the eel's back and looked up at a spot in front of him!

Because of previous experience, none of the three people were thrown off the bus when the car braked this time.

Jiang Chen and Zhao Ziyi both firmly grasped the eel's body, while Yan Mengmeng, the voluptuous and fierce loli, was naturally the first to be embraced by Jiang Chen, resulting in an intimate encounter.

Yan Mengmeng's pretty face was filled with both shame and anger. As soon as the car came to a stop, she quickly broke free from Jiang Chen's embrace.

Hundreds of meters in front of the dragon-headed sea eel, familiar golden strands of hair reappeared, which were the [Golden Silk Spirit Net] that restrained Tu Xingsun.

What's a little strange is that this [Golden Silk Spirit Net] is brand new and shiny, as if it was just laid out.

"About three kilometers ahead of us, there are powerful and majestic sound waves!" Li Qing said after sensing for a while.

"But their spiritual energy is very special, very weak, almost imperceptible!" Yan Mengmeng said with a slight frown, sensing through the money rat.

This is very strange!

Generally speaking, the stronger one's strength, the stronger one's spiritual energy, and the more powerful and majestic the sound produced will be.

How could the sound waves be majestic and powerful, yet the spiritual energy aura be so faint?

In other words, at this moment, the senses of the dragon-headed sea eel and the money rat are misaligned and contradictory!

Furthermore, the fact that the [Golden Silk Spirit Net] in front of them was clearly just laid out makes it even more intriguing!

"Should we go and take a look?" Yan Mengmeng asked.

"We're 3 kilometers away from them, so we should be able to sneak a peek without any problem. Besides, we're quite close to the [White-tailed Pearl-Nourishing Pool], only 30 kilometers away," Senior Brother Li Qing pondered.

"The battle we're going to have in the White Tail Pearl-Nourishing Pool is going to be quite a commotion. If something gets attracted to it, the risk will be pretty high."

"At the same time, this direction also happens to be our escape route, so it's safer to figure it out!"

"I agree," Jiang Chen said.

"I agree," Zhao Ziyi said.

The four people and two beasts quietly pushed aside the soil and burrowed onto the seabed.

The moment the soil was broken, the sound waves of the dragon-headed sea eel and the spiritual power detection of the money rat were released again, confirming that there was no unusual movement on the seabed. The four people and two beasts, like seeds sprouting, slowly pried open the soil!

Fresh, salty seawater immediately rushed towards them. After traveling underground for two days and two nights, the four of them felt as if the condom that had been covering them had finally been removed, leaving them completely free of any restraint.

The four of them immediately opened their pinkish-white cheeks behind their ears and took a few breaths of fresh seawater without saying a word.

The four men tapped their ears and cheeks together while their eyes warily scanned their surroundings, observing the environment.

This is a desolate and flat sea area, empty and devoid of any fish.

Moreover, because the seabed here is very deep, about four or five hundred meters below the surface, the surrounding seabed is pitch black, like night.

Generally speaking, sunlight can only penetrate to a depth of two or three hundred meters in water.

Therefore, most of the ocean is absolutely dark, so dark you can't see your hand in front of your face!

Jiang Chen looked up and saw that the sea above him was like a bright white window, casting shimmering white moonlight that made him yearn for it.

Honestly, with this dark and gloomy underwater scene, it would be better to continue traversing through the soil...

Humans have an instinctive resistance to darkness, especially in the pitch-black depths of the sea. You can't help but imagine a pair of cold eyes watching you from behind, or a huge black shadow suddenly appearing in the darkness ahead.

Li Qing, Yan Mengmeng, and Zhao Ziyi instantly entered a human-beast fusion mode. With the blessing of the pet beast phantom, their visual acuity was greatly enhanced, allowing them to see a large number of things in the darkness.

Jiang Chen didn't need to. His eyes had already been successfully tempered, granting him super-sensory abilities, so his night vision was quite strong!

Jiang Chen narrowed his eyes slightly, and the surrounding darkness receded rapidly like a tide, revealing the entire scene within a radius of several kilometers clearly in his eyes!

The seabed is rugged with gullies, a few withered and lifeless seaweed plants, and hard, sandy soil...

Jiang Chen quickly scanned the area, then looked towards a point three kilometers directly ahead.

Upon seeing this, Jiang Chen was slightly startled. He shrank back and quickly burrowed back into the soil, leaving only his eyes showing.

Li Qing, Yan Mengmeng, and Zhao Ziyi did the same, letting out a soft gasp and shrinking their heads back like groundhogs.

At this moment, an army of Red Skull Devil Fangfish appeared three kilometers ahead!

This army of Red Skull Devil Fangfish seems to be only temporarily stationed here. They are not many, probably around a hundred, but they are all strong and powerful, and all have extraordinary cultivation levels!

Jiang Chen and the others immediately realized that this was an elite force of the Red Skull Devil Fang Fish sea tribe!

Because the soldiers of the sea race army are usually only at the awakened level, and the more powerful ones are at the elite level, but this force in front of us is all at the extraordinary level!

You should know that most of the third- and fourth-year students at Yingtian Academy only have pets with extraordinary cultivation levels!

Although this elite squad was temporarily stationed here, they were very disciplined, making no noise whatsoever, and even hovering upright around, vigilant in all directions!

It's important to understand that sea monsters that haven't reached the commander level lack intelligence; they only possess instinct!

Transforming sea creatures, which are driven only by instinct, into a disciplined army is extremely difficult and challenging!

Jiang Chen, Li Qing, and Yan Mengmeng exchanged a silent look of shock and apprehension.

After observing for a while, a red skull devil fangfish located in the center of the army caught the attention of the four.

The Red Skull Devil Fangfish was covered in a glossy, scarlet flesh, like a ruby.

The fish was large and robust, much larger than the surrounding fish.

What's most surprising is that this Red Skull Devil Fang Fish is wearing a long, golden silk robe that glitters, and it also has a golden crown on its head!

Holy crap!

Jiang Chen and his three companions stared wide-eyed. It was a fish wearing clothes and a crown!

this!!!

Jiang Chen and his three companions were utterly horrified!

Then another Red Skull Devil Fangfish, nearly twenty meters long, slowly appeared. It was dressed in a long purple sea silk robe, and every move it made exuded a majestic and terrifying aura.

General level!

A fifth-level general, capable of commanding an army of sea creatures!

As soon as this twenty-meter-long Red Skull Devil Fang Fish appeared, its pair of white, cataract-like eyes seemed to sense something, and its sharp gaze shot towards Jiang Chen and his group!

but--

The place it was looking at was empty; there was nothing there.

The general-level Red Skull Devil Fangfish frowned slightly. Had it misread something?

Underground, in the soil.

The dragon-headed sea eel carried Jiang Chen and the other three as they frantically burrowed, burrowed, burrowed underground!

In fact, the moment they saw that general-level sea creature expert, the four of them immediately burrowed underground!

The general-level sea beast was something that even the four of them combined could not possibly defeat!

If they encountered a sea monster of that magnitude, they would almost certainly be doomed!

The terrified dragon-headed moray eel carried the four people for nearly dozens of kilometers before finally coming to a slow stop, still shaken!

"They are royalty of the Red Skull Devil Fang Fish clan!"

As soon as they stopped, Yan Mengmeng couldn't help but exclaim in shock, "That red skull devil fangfish wearing a long golden robe and a crown definitely possesses [King's Bloodline]!"

"Yes, that red skull devil fangfish dressed in purple, which is a general-level creature, should be its personal bodyguard," Li Qing said, his face also pale and heavy.

"Our luck is terrible! To encounter this in the vast and desolate ocean!" Jiang Chen said, his face pale.

(End of this chapter)