Chapter 156: The Mystery of the Dragon Shadow

Jiang Qing lay on the ship, covered in seawater. She had been dragged by Zuo Zhicheng earlier and swallowed quite a lot of water when they reached the sea.

“Thank you.”

Zuo Zhicheng nodded toward Li Xunyi and Liu Manwen. Then, he shook his body slightly and shook off all the water droplets. It was a technique called Yama Golden Body, where every muscle was forcefully vibrated outward.

In less than a second, he went from being soaked to looking exactly as he did before entering the water, which seemed incredibly magical.

But after spending just a second shaking off the water, Zuo Zhicheng turned his head and looked toward the direction of the approaching tsunami. Not only was the sea surface changing rapidly, but the thick clouds in the sky also pressed down, with flashes of lightning appearing among them. Strong winds blew across the sea, making the clothes of everyone on the ship flap loudly.

The storm was coming.

“Hurry, hurry, hurry! Start the ship, set sail, get away from here!”

Following Liu Manwen’s roar, the crew and soldiers around sprang into action. Some injured soldiers, along with Liu Manwen and Jiang Qing, hid inside the cabin, while Zuo Zhicheng and Li Xunyi voluntarily stayed behind to help.

Unfortunately, there was not much they could do. Once the ship set sail, the only thing they could rely on was hoping for divine protection.

The captain looked at the distant clouds and the tsunami, his face full of panic: “There was no warning at all. In this situation, we can only pray for the Sea God’s protection!” As he said this, he and the crew nearby clasped their hands together and began to pray.

Zuo Zhicheng and Li Xunyi stood at the bow of the ship. He looked at the gradually approaching tsunami in the distance, his face also filled with tension. In the face of such a natural disaster, their so-called Dao Arts and Martial Arts had lost all meaning.

“Thank you for dealing with the Ghouls earlier. If not for you, we would have died back then,” Li Xunyi said, holding his Flying Sword, and smiled. “What a pity. Just after escaping danger, we encountered this once-in-a-century tsunami.”

“Even if I die, I will struggle and make the heavens work harder,” Zuo Zhicheng said coldly. “How much power do you have left?” Compared to Li Xunyi’s carefree attitude, Zuo Zhicheng’s determination to survive could be described as obsessive.

“After fighting those monsters earlier, the only Spiritual Power I have left is enough to control the Flying Sword,” Li Xunyi replied. “Shattering a few waves shouldn’t be a problem.”

“Then, if we encounter waves, I’ll throw your Flying Sword, and we’ll work together to shatter the waves. Then you make it fly back. Is that okay?” Zuo Zhicheng asked.

“Are you sure you want to do that?” Li Xunyi asked in surprise.

“It’s better than waiting to die inside the cabin.”

Relying solely on Zuo Zhicheng’s strength or Li Xunyi’s strength, splitting a small wave was possible. But trying to split the waves crashing toward the ship in a tsunami and storm was impossible.

Even with both of them working together, they could only handle part of it. It would only increase the already slim chance of survival by a few percentage points.

Over the next ten minutes, the warship desperately sailed westward toward the Island. The clouds in the sky had turned gray. After a night of fighting, it should have been dawn, but they couldn’t see the Sun at all.

The wind and waves on the sea grew more intense, with wave after wave crashing against the hull of the warship, as if striking the hearts of everyone on board.

If they looked back, the entire Island was shrouded in a layer of mist, making its exact appearance unclear.

At that moment, Zuo Zhicheng’s brow furrowed sharply.

The sailor on the lookout platform also exclaimed, pointing toward the Island, stammering, “Look… look… look…”

“Dragon! There… there… there’s a dragon! The Dragon King has come!”

Where the Island had been, a shadow at least several kilometers wide, almost covering the entire Island, rose from the sea. The shadow was like a snake climbing upward. After emerging from the sea, it continued to extend through the clouds, flying higher and higher.

From where Zuo Zhicheng and the others were, they could clearly see the dragon-like body shadow reflected in the mist, occupying almost everyone’s field of vision. Its size was hundreds, if not thousands, of times larger than the Underworld King Snake Zuo Zhicheng had seen before.

Judging by the shadow’s width, if this long thing lay down, it could crush the entire Xinlu Port.

The crew on the ship trembled with fear at the sight and began shouting and screaming.

“The Sea Dragon King has come!”

“The Dragon King has appeared!”

Even a few crew members from ethnic minorities kneeled on the spot, shouting madly, “The Dragon King has turned over! Please show mercy, don’t take our lives!”

Zuo Zhicheng quickly pulled them up and asked, “What is the Dragon King turning over?”

The person said it was a legend along the coast of the New Continent. He hadn’t believed it before, but now that he saw it with his own eyes, he knew it was true. According to the legend, when the Dragon King of the sea woke up hungry, he would come out to find food. Sometimes, he would swallow an entire Island whole.

It was said that some once-in-a-century tsunamis were caused by the Dragon King turning over.

Zuo Zhicheng’s first reaction was that it was absurd. But the huge figure in the distance seemed to tell him that it was all true.

‘If there really is a massive sea creature emerging that could cause a tsunami of this level, how big must its body be?’ Zuo Zhicheng couldn’t imagine it, but the figure before him, comparable to hundreds of skyscrapers combined, seemed to explain something.

The mountain-range-sized black shadow stood still. With its stillness, the entire sea surface, clouds, and sky seemed to freeze. All sounds faded away, and everyone was immersed in an eerie silence.

The air was filled with a heavy atmosphere.

But this heaviness came quickly and left just as fast.

The next moment, the giant shadow’s head moved slightly, and like a dragon opening its mouth wide, it lunged fiercely toward the Island ahead.

Amid the earth-shattering roar, the giant shadow swallowed the entire Island and then plunged into the seabed.

With that sky-collapsing strike, the entire sea began to rage. A hundreds-of-meters-high tsunami spread in all directions, and the strong winds in the sky added fuel to the fire, stirring up terrifying waves everywhere.

One of the nearly ten-meter-high giant waves rushed toward the warship where everyone was. Zuo Zhicheng let out a loud shout, holding Li Xunyi’s Flying Sword in his hand. The air roared, emitting a shocking screech.

In the next moment, with the combined effort of Zuo Zhicheng and Li Xunyi, the Flying Sword transformed into a laser-like light, sweeping toward the giant wave at the bow.

What happened next stunned everyone. As if countless cannons had rained shells or thunder had struck out of nowhere, the wave shattered into pieces with a loud boom.

“How is this possible!”

“Even such a huge wave was split apart!”

“Are these two really human?”

Li Xunyi was commanding the Flying Sword to return, while Zuo Zhicheng turned his head and saw everyone’s eyes nearly popping out of their sockets. He said coldly, “Don’t just stand there watching. Hurry up and help.”

“Hard to port!”

“Push through the storm!”