Guo Xingyue swiftly released the golden flying sword within his body. His body spiraled as he faced the rapidly approaching creature with full alertness. The monster swam extremely fast and entered Guo Xingyue's field of vision in the blink of an eye. This monster was about ten plus zhang in length and roughly two zhang in thickness. It had the body of a fish. At its midsection, it had eight huge tentacles like those of an octopus on Pangu Star. The tentacles were covered with black suction cups. There was a huge five-foot-long horn on the fish's head.
Guo Xingyue sensed the presence of demonic aura on this sea monster. Although it was far less intense than the demonic aura of the giant spirit snake that was killed by thunder tribulation, it was still quite remarkable. Guo Xingyue knew from Haotian's jade pendant that spirit beasts can cultivate as demons (demonic beasts), or as devils (demonic beasts), or even as immortals (true beasts). Demonic beasts cultivate demonic infants within their bodies. The levels of cultivation are generally similar to those of human cultivators. Only when they reach the combination stage, the demonic infant in the body of a spirit beast cultivating as a demon transforms into a natal essence pearl. While the nascent soul of a human cultivator combines with the physical body. No matter which type of cultivation a spirit beast undertakes, after achieving success in cultivation, it has considerable wisdom. However, it cannot transform into a human form. Only after surviving the great heavenly tribulation and ascending can it transform into a human form. Guo Xingyue scanned with his spiritual sense and found that the demonic infant within this demonic beast was roughly equivalent to the middle stage of human emergence. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and thought to himself: Good! This is a perfect opportunity to test his attack ability in the water.
The sea monster seemed to also understand that the opponent in front of it was not easy to deal with and launched an attack first. The demonic beast opened its huge mouth and shot a white light at Guo Xingyue. At the same time, the demonic beast waved its eight huge tentacles and suddenly swept towards Guo Xingyue. Guo Xingyue didn't know what special abilities this demonic beast had and didn't counterattack. He just quickly dodged to one side on his flying sword. The demonic beast's attack missed and it seemed to be enraged. With a swing of its huge tail, it pounced on Guo Xingyue extremely quickly. Continuously shooting out white lights from its mouth, it wove a light net. The eight huge tentacles spread out in all directions, covering nearly twenty zhang of space around Guo Xingyue.
Guo Xingyue thought to himself: Well, it's for real. He circulated his true essence power and transformed the flying sword into a golden great sword. He slashed fiercely at the oncoming light net. The huge golden sword easily cut through the light net woven by the demonic beast like cutting tofu. Without reducing its speed, it slashed towards the demonic beast. As soon as the demonic beast saw that the situation was bad, it hurriedly retracted its spread tentacles and wildly waved them in front of it, trying to block the golden sword. Guo Xingyue controlled the golden sword and slashed fiercely on the tentacles of the demonic beast. With a loud bang, the seawater was pushed aside by the colliding force, forming a huge vacuum. Although the tentacles of the demonic beast were tough, they couldn't block a treasure-level flying sword. Immediately, several tentacles were cut off. Dark green blood sprayed in the vacuum. The demonic beast howled in pain. The surrounding seawater quickly rushed back, forming a powerful turbulent current in the sea. Although this turbulent current couldn't harm Guo Xingyue, it also prevented Guo Xingyue's next attack. Although the demonic beast had lost several tentacles, its main body was not greatly damaged. Seeing that it couldn't defeat its opponent, it immediately took advantage of the moment when Guo Xingyue avoided the turbulent current and quickly turned around and ran away. The demonic beast retracted all its tentacles and pressed them close to its body. The whole body became streamlined and quickly swam back the way it came. Although Guo Xingyue was blocked by the turbulent current for a moment, his spiritual sense had already detected that the demonic beast was running away. He retrieved the flying sword and locked onto the demonic beast with his spiritual sense. Then he stepped on the sword and quickly chased after it.
After all, this demonic beast was an aquatic animal and was extremely proficient in swimming. Its swimming speed was extremely fast. However, Guo Xingyue's cultivation was one level higher than it. The flying sword under his feet was also a treasure. In just a moment, he had already caught up with the demonic beast. The demonic beast sensed Guo Xingyue's approach. Suddenly, it sprayed out a thick ink-like liquid from its mouth. This black liquid was like the thick ink sprayed by squids on Pangu Star. It quickly spread in the seawater, dyeing the seawater within a radius of several tens of zhang black. But the difference was that the liquid sprayed by squids could only block the sight but couldn't block the scanning of the spiritual sense of cultivators. While the liquid sprayed by this demonic beast was actually its demonic essence. It could not only block the sight of cultivators but also disrupt the spiritual sense of cultivators to a certain extent. Unfortunately, it had found the wrong target. Guo Xingyue's spiritual sense was far above his cultivation. The black liquid of this demonic beast could only slightly interfere with Guo Xingyue's spiritual sense. In just a moment, Guo Xingyue had caught up again. This demonic beast had spit out a large amount of demonic essence and was already greatly weakened. Its speed also slowed down and it simply couldn't escape from Guo Xingyue's grasp.
Guo Xingyue was just about to release the flying sword and end the life of this demonic beast when his spiritual sense suddenly detected that there was a powerful pressure rapidly approaching him from a hundred zhang away. Danger! It was a demonic beast. Its cultivation was extremely high and its speed was extremely fast. In the blink of an eye, it had already approached to within forty zhang. Then, his spiritual sense detected that there were enemies attacking from both sides. Guo Xingyue didn't have time to end the demonic beast in front of him nor did he have time to observe what kind of demonic beast was coming. He stepped on the flying sword and quickly fled along the way he came.
The spiral true essence power in Guo Xingyue's body circulated at high speed, raising his forward speed to the maximum. Guo Xingyue was already at the later stage of emergence at this time. Moreover, he had entered the path of cultivation through martial arts. The flying sword under his feet was also a treasure. His speed was not slow. However, after traveling in the sea for a while, he found that he hadn't pulled away from the enemies behind him. Even more unfortunately, his spiritual sense detected that there was also a powerful demonic aura faintly coming from not far ahead. If he rushed forward again, it would be like walking into a trap. Seeing that the situation was not good, Guo Xingyue quickly made a spiral and changed from charging forward to rising up, attempting to break through the water surface. Unfortunately, Guo Xingyue was currently deep in the ocean and was too far from the sea surface. Just after rising for a while, he found that the pursuers under his feet had arrived.
A white light as thick as a bucket shot up from under Guo Xingyue. Before the white light arrived, the pressure came first. The powerful water pressure made Guo Xingyue's feet tremble. Guo Xingyue quickly made a side spin. Using the characteristics of the spiral true essence power, he swayed to the right. The white light rushed past not far from Guo Xingyue. The magic robe on Guo Xingyue's body emitted a soft light, resisting the compression of the water waves.
Guo Xingyue didn't dare to stop and rushed to the right. Not far behind him, three huge bodies appeared. These three demonic beasts had the same appearance as the demonic beast that had almost lost its life under Guo Xingyue's sword. Only their sizes were more than twice as large. Especially the one in the middle was much larger than the other two. The three demonic beasts closely chased after Guo Xingyue. Guo Xingyue traveled at full speed in the sea. His true essence power was consumed extremely quickly. He quickly took out a Guiyuan Pill from his storage bracelet and took it. Then he took out a green crystal diamond and held it in his hand to replenish the consumption of true essence power at any time.
In this pursuit and escape, unknowingly, Guo Xingyue had reached the deepest part of the ocean. The water pressure was getting greater and greater. Although the magic robe on Guo Xingyue's body could resist this powerful water pressure, his traveling speed inevitably slowed down. After all, these three demonic beasts were aquatic creatures and had originally lived deep in this ocean. They were already accustomed to this water pressure. Their speed was not affected. The distance between them and Guo Xingyue was continuously shortening. It seemed that Guo Xingyue would have nowhere to escape.