Chapter 1992: Blood Shark Sea Area and Being Hunted

Wang Ruyan smiled sweetly. With a flip of her right hand, a blue light flashed, and four glowing blue talismans appeared in her hand. The surface of the blue talismans was covered with intricate, rice-grain-sized mystical runes, and they emitted strong spiritual energy fluctuations, revealing them to be Rank 5 talismans.

After acquiring the Golden Palace Brush, her success rate in crafting Rank 5 talismans had increased significantly.

"I've finally crafted a Sky Cloud Talisman," Wang Ruyan said with some excitement. The Sky Cloud Talisman could conceal one's figure, and it was one of the few Rank 5 talismans she currently mastered.

When they first arrived at Zhenhai Palace, they visited cultivators from the Ascension Faction, exchanging insights on cultivation methods, which included lessons on crafting talismans and artifacts.

"Excellent! I've also crafted a Rank 5 puppet beast," Wang Changsheng said, delighted. "We should be able to find True Monarch Mystic Turtle's secluded cultivation cave." With this, his confidence grew even stronger.

"We've stayed quite a while in Heavenly Merman Market, and it's time to leave," Wang Changsheng suggested. "The sooner we obtain True Monarch Mystic Turtle's secluded cultivation cave, the sooner we can return to human territory." If it weren't for the secluded cultivation cave of a Void Refinement cultivator, he wouldn't have stayed here this long.

With the Merman Cloud Pendant and Heavenly Illusion Pearl, the chances of them being discovered by the Sea Race were relatively low.

They quickly packed their belongings and left Heavenly Merman Market.

After leaving the market, Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan transformed into two streaks of light, moving rapidly into the distance, and soon vanished into the vast ocean.

Three days later, Jiao Yao and Gui Shisan also left Heavenly Merman Market and disappeared into the boundless ocean.

The Golden Scale Clan was the largest tribe of the Sea Race, with vast territories and numerous masters.

Hailin was an illegitimate child and was not valued by his father or stepmother from a young age. He relied on his own efforts, enduring countless hardships and nearly dying several times along the way.

At the age of seven hundred, Hailin advanced to the Deity Transformation stage, bringing glory to his ancestors, as his father was only at the Nascent Soul stage.

Hailin was primarily responsible for transporting cultivation resources and occasionally hunted demonic beasts.

One day, Hailin invited several friends to hunt demonic beasts in the Blood Shark Sea Domain. For the Sea Race, only those who could assume human form were considered kin; demonic beasts were not included in this definition. The demonic beast resources in the sea domain were abundant. Demonic beasts capable of transforming into human form naturally became part of the Sea Race, while those unable to transform were merely unintelligent fierce beasts.

They had hunted demonic beasts multiple times and were well-versed in the process.

Hailin and two companions stood on an uneven seabed. Looking into the distance, they could see many blood-red sharks chasing each other in the water.

"Let's set up the formation here!" Hailin said solemnly. "Drawing in just two blood shark beasts will suffice. Don't attract too many; they are highly sensitive to blood. It would be troublesome if other blood shark beasts caught the scent of blood." One or two blood shark beasts were not frightening, but if there were dozens or hundreds of them, they would only be able to flee in disarray.

His two companions readily agreed, as it was not their first time hunting demonic beasts.

They took out formation flags and disks and set up a formation on the seabed.

After setting up the formation, Hailin patted a blue leather pouch at his waist, and a red light flew out, revealing a large blue water python, thick as a human waist, its body covered with blue and white patterns.

He punched the blue water python's head, which instantly burst open, gushing out a large amount of blood.

Hailin threw the python's corpse onto the seabed. All three of them then lit up with a dazzling blue light, becoming transparent and disappearing from sight.

The blood quickly spread. Blood shark beasts were highly sensitive to blood, and before long, two house-sized blood shark beasts swam over from a distance at incredible speed.

These were two Rank 5 blood shark beasts; if trapped by the formation, their chances of survival would be slim.

Just as the two blood shark beasts were about to enter the formation, a low roar suddenly echoed.

The blood shark beast pack seemed to explode into activity; each one became excited and swam towards the distance.

The two blood shark beasts seemed to be guided by something; they immediately turned around and swam into the distance at an exceptionally fast speed.

Faint, miserable cries could be heard from afar, and the seawater churned violently.

A blue light suddenly lit up on the seabed, and Hailin and his two companions abruptly reappeared, their brows tightly furrowed.

"What's going on?" one companion asked, confused. "Aren't blood shark beasts most sensitive to blood scent? Why didn't they fall for it this time? Did they see through our disguise?"

"Probably not," Hailin said, somewhat uncertain. "Perhaps the blood fiend beasts found new prey! Let's wait here; we should still be able to wait for the blood shark beasts."

A hundred li away, a five-zhang-long blood-colored shark was fiercely attacking another blood-colored shark of the same size. Evidently, two blood shark beasts were fighting amongst themselves, a situation not uncommon.

One blood shark beast was covered in wounds, with more than a dozen thick, long blood streaks on its back, and its aura was weak. It opened its massive bloody mouth and bit the attacking blood shark beast, but only a dull thud was heard, as if something had blocked it.

The five-zhang-long blood-colored shark's eyes suddenly shot out two blue lights, which accurately struck the other blood shark beast.

An agonizing roar resounded, and two terrifying blood holes appeared on the body of this blood shark beast, bleeding incessantly.

The scent of blood attracted the covetous gaze of numerous blood shark beasts. Without knowing who led the charge, they swarmed forward, attacking both blood shark beasts simultaneously.

Strangely, when they attacked the five-zhang-long blood shark beast, it did not bleed at all; their sharp teeth hitting its body only produced dull "clinking" sounds.

Since it wasn't bleeding, the other blood shark beasts naturally no longer attacked this one. Instead, they turned their attention to the other blood shark beast, which was torn to shreds by more than a dozen Rank 5 blood shark beasts, its bones even gnawed clean.

Taking this opportunity, the other blood shark beast suddenly moved away into the distance, and the other blood shark beasts did not stop it.

Inside the blood shark beast, there was a space about ten feet square where Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan stood, their expressions tense.

Beside them was a miniature formation array, inlaid with twelve high-grade spirit stones.

Directly in front of Wang Changsheng was a jade screen, smooth as a mirror, on which images of a group of blood toad beasts were displayed.

After Wang Changsheng and Wang Ruyan discussed, they decided to pass through the Blood Shark Sea Domain. Compared to dealing with demonic beasts, they were more unwilling to deal with the Golden Scale Clan.

Wang Changsheng re-refined the Rank 5 puppet beast, dyeing its surface blood red to disguise it as a blood shark beast. Surprisingly, along the way, they hadn't aroused the suspicion of the blood shark beasts and had remained safe.

After passing through the blood shark beast pack, an open area appeared ahead. Wang Changsheng quickly navigated the shark puppet beast in stealth, moving at an extremely fast speed.

After about a quarter of an hour, a vast seabed appeared ahead.

The moment they entered the seabed area, hundreds of blue lights shot up from the seabed, forming a massive blue water screen. The seawater was pushed out of the blue water screen, creating an independent space.

Hailin and his two companions abruptly appeared, their expressions cold. They had finally waited for their prey to arrive.

"Oh no," Wang Changsheng said, his brow furrowed. "We're being hunted as demonic beasts." He hadn't expected their luck to be so bad, to have stumbled into a Sea Race formation and be hunted by them as demonic beasts.