In the meantime.
Hanging in the night sky was a bright moon.
Somewhere in the sea, waves were running high and glistening under the moonlight. The water was dark. There could be countless beasts hiding under the surface. Bang, bang, bang. Water splashed. Three massive creatures reached the surface. A creature appeared; it was four to five meters tall with a slim figure. The creature looked like a human but it had scales and spikes on its body and its arms were sharp and long like reaping hooks.
The creature looked down at the three beasts in the ocean from that height and announced the order.
“Blood Shark, we’ve dug out the tunnel heading to the land. The order from our Lord is to move out tonight!”
One of the three beasts with a crooked back replied in a hoarse voice. “Why the rush?”
“Rush?”
The slim creature squinted its silvery eyes and said, “We’ve waited for a thousand years; we cannot allow another second to slip by without doing anything! War is here. Our armies in the north have already begun taking action. We must capture and kill all those obnoxious, straight-walking little things before they can react!”
The three beasts looked at each other but none of them said a thing.
Eventually, the beast with the crooked back that was the Blood Shark answered, “I understand. I’ll summon my people right away.”
The slim creature gave them one last glance and nodded. “Do hurry.”
The creature had nothing else to say; it faded away into thin air.
One of the three beasts asked in a low voice after that creature vanished, “Brother, do you think we should listen to that guy?”.
The Blood Shark answered. “I heard that even the Ocean Emperor has sworn allegiance to that Lord so we will have to at some point. That guy… you can tell that he’s close to the ‘heaven’s rank’ as we call it. I don’t think the three of us can win against him, not even working together. Those things from the Deep Caves are more vicious than we are!”
The mentioning of the Ocean Emperor silenced the other two beasts.
The Ocean Emperor!
It was the ruler of the ocean, acknowledged by all the beasts in the ocean!
Still, the Ocean Emperor would always keep a low profile while living in the depths of the ocean. Given the aquatic beasts’ nature—the Ocean Emperor, as well as the other beasts in the water-they never cared about the sorry little piece of land above the water.
There was more water than land on this planet, after all.
The ocean was their home, a place they lived in and loved to stay in. They did not care about the harsh environment on the land. They never liked staying on land and as such, they had never bothered to invade the land.
Buzzing!!
Since they had reached an agreement, the Blood Shark’s gills suddenly trembled. A sonic wave was spread across the ocean.
The water began to tumble in an instant.
Many creatures made their way to where Su Ping was from a distance. Those beasts were all giganti; most of them had fins which had evolved into their reaping hooks.
Each one of those beasts could have easily bitten through a ship and swallowed it!
In an age with astral pets, the Blue Planet’s ocean was off-limits to humans. No one would conduct any trade over the ocean. Only a small number of fishermen would take the risk and hunt nearby the beach. After all, some low-rank ocean beasts were quite delicious and the rich people enjoyed such meat. Eating such meat was a representation of their high status.
Plop!
The Blood Shark rolled around and smashed the water with its tail. A wave that was hundreds of meters high emerged. Taking the lead, the Blood Shark swam toward its destination.
Following the Blood Shark closely were two huge shadows; behind them are beasts of various sizes. The wilder beasts in the ocean were swimming around gaily.
That army of ocean beasts was charging toward a continent.
The Tower.
Even though it was the night, the Mysterious Realm was still as bright as day. There was a source of light in the sky. The energy source was unknown but the light source did manage to keep darkness away from the Mysterious Realm.
“Sir!”
“Sir!”
“Sir!!”
Many emergency reports were delivered into the Mysterious Realm. Many titled battle pet warriors were running around and sometimes, they would bump into each other.
Inside a hall on one of the floating hills, Gu Siping was brooding in his seat with a clouded face. That was his office; the cottage was just a place for his closed-door cultivation.
A map was being projected midair.
There were several other legendary battle pet warriors sitting next to him as well as some titled battle pet warriors waiting on them. The glow from the map shone on all their faces, lighting up their frustrated looks.
One of the legendary battle pet warriors reported with a grave tone, “The Nordic Continent has collapsed. The West Ocean Continent is on the verge of falling. I just heard that five beast kings at the Fate State are leading the charge to the West Ocean Continent. There’s another thing… Ocean beasts are also getting involved!”
One of the continents had been marked red on the floating map. As to the other four continents, two of them were halfway marked in red. Only their continent and the Roaring Thunder Continent remained safe at the moment!
“Damn those ocean beasts!”
“That Ocean Emperor has broken its promise!”
“The Ocean Emperor signed a contract with us, agreeing that it would never invade the land. How could it allow its minions to help those monsters from the Deep Caves?”
The other legendary battle pet warriors were livid with rage.
Humans and ocean beasts would rarely have conflicts. The two groups lived in separate environments and they didn’t share many interests. Even if humans wanted to give a piece of land to the ocean beasts, they would be unwilling to go there.
It was the same with humans. Even though the water was there, no human was interested in entering the water for no particular reason.
Besides, the ruler of the beasts in the ocean, the Ocean Emperor, had signed an agreement with the first Master of the Tower. The agreement stipulated that the two sides would never invade each other’s places and it worked both ways.
The agreement had been in effect for a thousand years. It seemed that the agreement had been abandoned.
When a chance of attaining power emerged, the limitations of an agreement could be put aside!
“When a wall is about to collapse, everybody’s eager to give it a push-everybody hits a man when he’s down. Beasts are beasts at the end of the day… They don’t honor their promises!” One of the legendary battle pet warriors snarled and clenched his fists.
Another legendary warrior asked the Master of the Tower. “The West Ocean Continent is asking for help. Sir, what should we do?”
The Master of the Tower had told them that they didn’t have to worry, back when those people from the Interstellar Federation took their leave. He had also said that the beasts were digging their own graves. However, those beasts had proved him wrong in less than one day.
First of all, the Nordic Continent had collapsed, faster than anyone could have expected. Then, the West Ocean Continent was being attacked; they had sent over a flurry of messages requesting help.
That night had been peaceful for the Subcontinent District and the Roaring Thunder Continent. On the contrary, the other continents were in an abyss of suffering. People were crying!
The legendary battle pet warriors looked at their Master of the Tower; they did not like what he had said before.
They didn’t know whether he truly had a way out or if he was just bragging. Gu Siping didn’t look happy, either. He didn’t know that those beasts would arrive that soon, and on such a scale. He gazed at the legendary battle pet warriors. He knew that people’s morale would plummet if he could not help with the situation in the West Ocean Continent!
After all, they had already lost one continent!
No matter what he said, he would never be able to convince anyone again if the West Ocean Continent had to be abandoned as well.
“I will personally head to the West Ocean Continent; you will send people to the other continents with the intention of bringing as many people as possible to the Subcontinent District.”
Gu Siping then commanded, “The world is too big and we don’t have enough legendary battle pet warriors. There are too many beast kings from the Deep Caves. I can kill Fate State beast kings, but I cannot be in two places at the same time. I can save one continent but not one more! We must gather everyone!
“It just so happens that our head office is here and we have the best group of people that the world can aspire to get. Go and tell those in the Roaring Thunder Continent to come here as well.
“This will be the place where we and the beasts will have our final battle.”
The legendary battle pet warriors looked at each other; they were still unhappy.
They lived in a large world with a few legendary battle pet warriors but many beast kings. That was the problem. But they knew that!
It was too late for relocating!
Each continent would, to say the very least, have a population of over a billion. The Roaring Thunder Continent had the smallest population, but they still had one billion people!
One billion. Not ten. Those people couldn’t leave just like that. There was an ocean between the Roaring Thunder Continent and where they were. The migration would have to be handled in the air! However, there would be wild beasts in the sky. The journey would also be long. Not even a titled warrior would have the courage to fly across the ocean. A titled warrior could only take care of a few people.
It would take the titled battle pet warriors more than half a day to make a trip to the Roaring Thunder Continent and back. Let’s say each titled battle pet warrior would summon all their flying pets to transport the people, few of them could arrive in one day.
That wasn’t a feasible plan when the population was one billion.
Legendary battle pet warriors would not make the relocation any easier.
The number of legendary battle pet warriors was small; they couldn’t have mobilized tens of thousands to migrate in one trip.
Gu Siping knew what they were thinking. He added, “I’ll ask my Vulture to help you. It will create space tunnels across the ocean so that people can come over. Go and help relocate the Dragon Swamp Continent. Call them and get them ready.”
“The Vulture?”
The legendary battle pet warriors seemed to be happier.
The Vulture was Gu Siping’s battle pet.
The Vulture was at the Fate State and its understanding of spatial rules was better than theirs!
“Go and do your job. Save as many as you can.” Gu Siping stood up. The legendary battle pet warriors knew that was the only way at the moment. They stood up as well. “Sir, wouldn’t it be too dangerous for you to go to the West Ocean Continent without taking the Vulture?”
“Yes, sir. If…”
Gu Siping shook his head. “I know what I’m doing. I can deal with five beast kings at the Fate State.”
With that said, he strode forward and vanished from the hall.
The other legendary battle pet warriors looked at each other with worry.
The problem of the West Ocean Continent had a solution but that wasn’t the end of the strike. Even beasts from the Ocean were involved. They knew that the number of beast kings in the ocean was in the hundreds; there could be more that they didn’t know anything about.
Also…
Would the four Heavenly Kings be taking part in the strike?
Each Heavenly King was as powerful as the Master of the Tower.
Gu Siping had once fought against one of the four Heavenly Kings; he had barely claimed an advantage. Back then he had cut off the beast king’s tail, but it got away in the end.
If the four Heavenly Kings were to attack together… It would be too horrifying to even think about it.
In the meantime-Longjiang Base City.
Pixie Pet Store.
Su Ping was counting his battle pets. He had two fruits and he already had an idea of who to give those fruits to, but the difficult thing was to select the battle pets.
Qin Duhuang has one beast king and he can sign 10 more beast kings in total, but he already has other battle pets. I have to fully equip him; I will ask how many battle pets he can put aside for the time being.,Su Ping said to himself.
He saw that he had several beast kings and three were at the Void State.
The Chained Ghost had been prepared for Venerable the Blade.
Speaking of that fellow, Su Ping realized that he was also a candidate to become a battle pet carrier.
“So, if I can get forty Void State beast kings, I could still sell them all…” Su Ping said.
Forty. That was a big number.