Da da ~ The small motor hummed deeply as the inflatable boat gradually distanced itself from Bengma Island, speeding across the shimmering sea surface, leaving a long white wake behind.

The sea breeze brushed against the face, carrying a hint of salty ocean scent.

The calm journey was soon interrupted by a gigantic octopus tentacle.

A red octopus tentacle emerged from the sea, like a giant snake coming out of the water, extending about six stories high, slapping towards the inflatable boat.

The octopus tentacle was not only long but also broad, the scene of it slapping down was like a tall building collapsing.

"Xiaoruan, blow the wind."

Xiaoruan jumped to the back of the inflatable boat, blowing out a powerful airstream, instantly propelling the inflatable boat away with a strong backward force.

The sudden acceleration spared the inflatable boat from being crushed by the octopus tentacle.

The attack didn't stop.

Tentacle after tentacle, red and snake-like, emerged from the sea, reaching for the inflatable boat.

However, none of them hit.

The tentacles were enormous and relatively slow, plus the inflatable boat had the Xiaoruan-brand thruster, its speed was fast enough to soar.

After breaking through the encirclement of tentacles for more than ten minutes, Li Cunxu still hadn't let Xiaoruan slow down.

Li Cunxu could still sense the creature extending the gigantic octopus tentacles from the sea, persistently chasing him.

Li Cunxu's black pupils transformed into a bewitching Blood Lotus Eye, through the sunlight refracted on the sea, Li Cunxu clearly saw the shape of the giant creature and identified it as a certain pet beast.

The Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus.

A trace of confusion flashed in Li Cunxu's eyes.

No, buddy, why are you chasing me?

I didn't attack you.

The Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus isn't particularly aggressive, as long as it's not provoked, under normal circumstances, it wouldn't attack humans.

Occurrences of the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus attacking humans are exceedingly rare, with no more than five instances in total.

Half an hour later.

Li Cunxu was a bit angry.

The Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus was still chasing.

"Xiaoruan, stop, let's fight it out."

Golden Seven, with a marine home advantage, logically Xiaoruan shouldn't be able to contend, but the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus was slow.

In terms of combat, it's slow, but when it comes to pursuit, the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus isn't slow, otherwise, Li Cunxu would have lost it already.

The Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus's talent is [Ocean Current Channel (Blue)], a talent that can transform the surrounding water flow into a favorable ocean current, speeding up the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus's movement in the ocean.

The Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus once again extended a giant claw toward the inflatable boat.

Li Cunxu stood on a floating water ball, waved the Space Ring, and put away the inflatable boat.

Xiaoruan slashed at the descending octopus claw with several Cyan Lotus Sword Blades, but the claw was quite resilient, not severed, only bearing several wounds, from which blue octopus blood spurted.

Li Cunxu's Burning Lotus Blood Fire followed closely, inflaming the spurting octopus blood like gasoline, instantly turning the red octopus claw into a flaming octopus claw.

The Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus withdrew its burning claw back into the sea, but the flame persisted, as long as there was blood, the fire would keep burning.

The pained Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus didn't abandon its attack due to this, instead, it attacked even more fiercely, all remaining eleven octopus claws attacking.

Leaving Li Cunxu somewhat puzzled, did I have some deep-seated hatred with it?

For it to chase me like this.

Xiaoruan engaged in a fierce battle with the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus.

Xiaoruan's skills repeatedly knocked the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus's claws away, and the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus continuously extended its claws to strike.

Although it seemed the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus was hit many times, in reality, it didn't suffer any effective damage.

The Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus had thick skin and strong recovery abilities.

"Dark Crow, come out and help too."

Dark Crow's Curse Feathers could only scratch the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus a bit, but the curses carried on the feathers penetrated into its body upon contact with the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus.

Slow, blind, deaf, weak... various negative states gradually manifested on the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus over time.

Logically, if the fight continued like this, the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus would surely die, it should have fled.

But the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus didn't retreat.

Until Xiaoruan killed it.

"Why didn't the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus retreat?"

Li Cunxu wondered.

"An inexplicable attack, an inexplicable fight to the death, it's too strange."

Li Cunxu raised his sleeve, sniffed himself.

"Could it be those two Blood Cultists smeared the blood of the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus's young on me?"

"Impossible! I never touched those two Blood Cultists during the whole process."

Unable to figure it out, Li Cunxu took the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus's spirit core and continued forward.

As for the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus's corpse, Li Cunxu left without even looking at it.

The Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus had nothing else valuable aside from the spirit core.

Skill seeds?

The Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus didn't have those things.

Throughout the fight, the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus did nothing but slap, without any other attack means.

The Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus family doesn't learn skills, not that they can't learn them, they simply don't want to.

They adhere to the brute's creed of "Power can move bricks."

What about the Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus's meat?

Worthless, left there, not even little fish are inclined to eat it,

The Twelve Giant Clawed Octopus evolved its flesh to be bitter to fend off predators, a hundred times bitterer than Coptis root.

Half an hour later.

Li Cunxu once again began to doubt whether the Blood Cultists had done something to him.

Because Li Cunxu was being hunted by another sea beast.

A swift Swine Porpoise.

The Swine Porpoise is herbivorous and enjoys helping others; many people in maritime distress have been aided by Swine Porpoises, therefore they hold the reputation of 'Marine Lifeguards.'

There was no reason for this pet beast to chase Li Cunxu, but it did, and relentlessly so.

"Stop chasing, I beg you," Li Cunxu shouted.

"If you keep chasing, you're going to die."

Golden Six Swine Porpoise, but it's not good at fighting, Xiaoruan can suppress it in battle.

The Swine Porpoise's back was covered in wounds, bleeding incessantly.

But Xiaoruan had no choice but to fight; if it didn't repulse the Swine Porpoise, the inflatable boat would be capsized by it, and Li Cunxu would be rammed to death.

Fighting posed another problem.

The Swine Porpoise's talent is [Kind Blood (Purple)]

[Kind Blood] becomes very fortunate when doing good deeds and kind acts.

Besides this effect, there's a hidden effect too: it brings misfortune to whoever kills it.

Thick fog ahead, Li Cunxu sighed in relief.

The blockade fog enveloping Celestial Sea Island had arrived.

Entering it would shake off the Swine Porpoise.

The blockade fog existed not only on the sea surface and sky but also beneath the sea.

Sea creatures entering the sea area covered by the blockade fog likewise lost their way.

The boat entered the fog isolating the heavens and the earth.

Visibility instantly reduced to within a meter.

Li Cunxu sat at the back of the inflatable boat, seeing only a blur of the boat's outline.

Blood Lotus Eye activated.

The vision range increased by just two meters.

Within half a minute of entering the blockade fog, the pursuing Swine Porpoise lost sight of Li Cunxu.

Feeling the terrifying visual limitation of the blockade fog, Li Cunxu held Xiaoruan, touched the Void Turtle in his pocket, and felt a bit more at ease.

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