NOVEL WEB Chapter 307: Cutting the Sea with a Single Strike
"You little bastard, I didn't expect to run into you here, really, enemies do cross paths!"
In the midst of Zhang's wild laughter.
The youth Xiao Yi bumped into yesterday emerged from behind him, his face tainted with a vengeful grimace, followed by a bald strong man with a heavy saber on his back.
The gazes of the two men landed on Xiao Yi, filled with a cold evil qi.
Xiao Yi furrowed his brows and cursed his bad luck under his breath, then said indifferently, "Indeed, I didn't expect to bump into someone spewing crap like you here!"
"Who are you calling a crap-spouter?"
The youth flew into a rage, pointing at Xiao Yi and cursing, "You bastard who's born without upbringing, I..."
Crack!
A streak of silver light flashed by.
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His finger broke off cleanly and he fell to his knees in front of Xiao Yi with two thuds.
Xiao Yi looked down with an icy face, "Dare to curse me again, and the next thing to break will be your head!"
"You bastard, let go of my brother!"
The bald strong man's face darkened as the heavy saber on his back hummed, ready to make a move, when an icy rebuke came, "Who allowed you to start a fight here? If you want to fight, get off my ship and do it!"
A group of sailors closed in.
At the forefront was a one-eyed man in a large coat, his sole surviving eye sharp as an eagle's, resting on the trio. Around him, the sailors were full of killing intent, grinning maliciously at them.
"Cyclops?"
The youth's face changed, and he quickly called out, "Boss Cyclops, this isn't my fault! It was, it was him who struck first!"
"Shut up!"
Cyclops sneered coldly, "Don't think I didn't see what just happened. Trouble should not extend to family, nor insults to parents. You cursed his mother, so him breaking your finger is only just and fair!"
Xiao Yi raised his eyebrows, casting a curious look at Cyclops.
He hadn't expected Cyclops to say something like that.
The youth's face turned from pale to green, but he didn't dare to retort, pressing down the resentment in his heart and said to Xiao Yi, "Earlier, it was indeed my fault. Please forgive me!"
"Get lost!"
Xiao Yi flicked his arm and gave a cupped fist salute towards Cyclops.
Cyclops nodded and limped towards the cabin, his left leg below the knee a pitch-black short sword.
The youth glared at Xiao Yi viciously, "You little bastard, since Boss Cyclops has spoken, I'll spare your life today. If you dare to leave the ship, I'll make sure to avenge this day's disgrace!"
Xiao Yi said indifferently, "I'll be waiting!"
"Hmph!"
The youth huffed coldly and left with the bald strong man.
Only then did Xiao Yi find a sailor to ask, "How long will it take to reach Beast Emperor City from here?"
"We should arrive by early morning the day after tomorrow!" said the sailor.
Xiao Yi nodded, "Thank you!"
"Think nothing of it!"
Seeing that Xiao Yi's aura was profound, and his cultivation far exceeded his own, plus the fact that only a few who could stay in a first-class cabin were ordinary people, the sailor was quite polite.
If it were in the lowest class cabin, even asking a simple question would cost you!
Sea voyages are extremely tedious and dull.
But they are also full of change and danger.
Morning might shine with blazing sunshine and clear skies, but by afternoon it has become a torrential downpour with fierce winds and towering waves. The huge ship's formations were buzzing intensely, pushing to their limits.
Doing everything possible to stabilize the vessel.
Without these formations, the ship, even a hundred meters long, would have no fate other than sinking into the vast ocean under such severe weather.
Boom!
Rumble!
Through the window, Xiao Yi saw the pitch-dark world outside, lined with successive thunderbolts connecting heaven and earth, and huge waves a kilometer tall crashing down as if a colossal beast was opening its maw to swallow the lightning.
"Come out and look, there's someone on the sea!"
"Look, that person is daring to cross the sea in this weather; is he exceptionally skilled and brave, or just ignorant of death?"
"No, he's practicing with a saber..."
Shouts of surprise reached Xiao Yi's ears.
He arched an eyebrow.
In such harsh weather, with driving rain, fierce winds, towering waves, and thunder striking the world, even warriors at the Peak of the Tao Tribulation Realm would not dare to cross the sea.
And yet someone was practicing with a saber at sea now?
Xiao Yi left his cabin and headed for the deck.
He did not notice...
...that the veiled woman opened her eyes as he left, a hint of azure light flashing through her pitch-black pupils. A persistent sadness lingered between her brows.
Above deck, despite the protection of the formation, the storm raged on.
Raindrops, as big as beans mixed with sea spray, struck the face with a tearing pain.
In the boundless thunder ahead.
A figure stood proudly upon the pinnacle of the wind and waves, his feet stepping on kilometer-high waves, holding a black long knife in hand. His body stood tall like a pine, his spine arrogantly erect like a sword, facing the descending purple-gold thunder without flinching or avoiding.
Suddenly...
He swung his knife down.
Boom!
The black knife light rose shockingly into the sky, a thousand-zhang blade aura tearing through the void, the terrifying black light actually obscuring all the brilliance between heaven and earth, plunging this area into darkness.
Suddenly.
The black blade aura ferociously slashed down, and with a thunderous boom, the knife light passed, shattering thunder and dispersing the wild wind.
Only the massive wave beneath his feet continued to surge relentlessly.
"Wrong!"
Xiao Yi's pupils suddenly contracted.
He saw that the kilometer-high waves beneath that person's feet were like a piece of silk, torn apart by force. Starting from the crest of the wave, a crack spread along the direction where the blade aura vanished.
A hundred meters.
A kilometer.
Ten thousand meters...
On the sea surface stretching for ten thousand meters, the water was literally split in half.
A single strike severed the sea.
A ten-thousand-meter-long trench appeared on the sea surface, the water walls on both sides stood tall, and the sea water kept pouring into the trench, the thunderous sound even drowning out the shocking thunder and the storm.
The figure who had shattered the Azure Sea then sheathed his long knife, broke through the air, and disappeared into the horizon.
"This one strike..."
Xiao Yi stared at that terrifying stroke, his mind exploding like a thunderclap.
He suddenly closed his eyes.
Repeating that one stroke over and over in his mind.
The stroke swift as thunder, the slash that shattered the Azure Sea.
"Speed, speed pushed to the extreme… The speed of that one strike has surpassed the wind and the thunder, that's why it could shatter them, even splitting the sea with one strike…" Xiao Yi closed his eyes tightly, his pores opening freely.
He was feeling the wind, feeling the thunder, feeling the storm and the thunderclap.
Suddenly...
Xiao Yi's eyes snapped open, as he pointed a sword finger forward.
Whoosh!
Without using any elemental qi, just a single finger thrust, but Wind Thunder was only dispersed, not shattered.
"Still not fast enough!"
Xiao Yi continued making his moves.
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Whoosh!
Time after time, each move met with Xiao Yi's own rejection.
Many onlookers also noticed Xiao Yi's actions, including that young man from the morning who was among the crowd, sneering over and over, "Has that guy gone mad? Does he think he's the one who can sever the sea with a single strike? Ridiculous..."
"If just by watching someone else perform a move, one could learn it, what's the point of martial arts heritage?"
"He's way out of his league!"
People around shook their heads and laughed.
Only the one-eyed man, looking at Xiao Yi, revealed a trace of amazement.
"No, that's not right..."
He kept recalling that one strike in his mind. Suddenly, a glint of understanding swept across Xiao Yi's eyes, "Right... Wind, thunder... Wind Thunder are elemental forces of nature, going against them naturally meets great resistance, but what if one follows their path? Going with the wind, with the thunder..."
Xiao Yi carefully felt it out, and then suddenly unleashed a sword finger strike.
Whoosh!
A single sword finger point created a vacuum zone within ten feet in front of him.
The wind was broken.
The rain extinguished.
The thunder disappeared.
This finger actually carried a hint of the essence of that one strike!
"How, how is this possible?"
"Damn, he actually learned it?"
"Is he even human?"
Amid the shocked cries, the young man's face alternated between green and white, feeling as if he had been slapped hard across the face, he glared at Xiao Yi viciously, grinding his teeth, "Motherfucker, this brat has just lucked out..."
He angrily returned to the cabin of the ship.
At this moment, Xiao Yi was completely immersed in the sensation of that last finger strike, the corners of his mouth slightly curved upward, "Sword Intent at the fourth layer, the sword moves at will, I never expected to encounter such a marvelous adventure on this sea voyage!"