The boats were linked together, with hundreds of torches piercing through the darkness of the night.
Incessant black lines of rain fell, plunging into the shimmering orange waves.
In the water enclosed by the side-by-side boats, several sheepskin rafts floated and spun. Eight Galloping Horse martial masters held short spears in their hands, their cold sweat mixing with the rain as it dripped from their chins.
The turbid yellow stream churned with red foam and occasionally, pieces of tattered clothing surfaced.
"Damn beast!"
"Where did this freak fish come from!"
The Galloping Horse martial masters cursed and gasped for breath, not daring to let their gaze stray for even a moment, all staring intensely beneath the water.
Despite being from the vicinity of Blackwater River and Jianghuai Great Marsh and having seen water beasts before, this was their first encounter with such a vicious and formidable fish monster.
