Chapter 4787 — The Starfall Formation
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"Pfft!" Wei Zhao nearly burst out laughing. With a sly, teasing grin, he spoke through his primal-soul link: "Senior, this thing's looking for you. Should I go out and say hello on your behalf?"
"..." The ghostly creature was momentarily speechless. After a long, choked pause, it finally said: "If I went out there, I'd likely scare him to death. Better leave this one to you, kid. The thing you've run into this time is no small fry—and as it happens, it's a distant relative of mine."
"A relative? Don't tell me it's a spirit beast?" Wei Zhao started in alarm.
"Not that, no. It's a proper sea beast, through and through. Who ever said I couldn't be related to sea beasts?" the ghostly creature said with a dismissive curl of its lip.
"Uh... your family connections really do run wide—related to sea beasts and all. I'm impressed, truly." Wei Zhao shook his head, at a loss for words, then asked: "So what do I do now? Take you over to meet the relative?"
"Go right ahead if you've got a death wish—I certainly won't stop you," the ghostly creature cackled. Never mind that this was a sea beast so distant in the family tree it barely counted; in its present state, it wouldn't dare claim kinship even with a true spirit beast of its own clan—it might well end up as the other's nutritional supplement.
"Then what do we do? Can this Starfall Formation beat your relative?" Wei Zhao asked.
"The power's barely passable, but you'll have to be the one commanding it for us to have any chance. Otherwise I guarantee they won't land a single hair on it. Once three hours pass, you can all sit tight and wait to die," the ghostly creature said scornfully.
"Me? Command it?" Wei Zhao was taken aback. Watching Oda Ba pacing in circles over there, he shook his head again and again: "I'm not their captain. Hand a life-or-death matter like this to some clueless outsider like me? How could that possibly work—unless their brains are waterlogged!"
Before this, Oda Ba had regarded him with undisguised hostility, just waiting for him to slip up so he could kick him while he was down. Though his attitude had shifted somewhat by now, getting him to hand over command would be a pipe dream. If Wei Zhao dared to say such a thing, he'd be flung out to feed the sea beasts within a minute.
"Heh heh. I'm not telling you to demand command right now. Wait until they've tasted some hardship and are at their wits' end—then you open your mouth, and it's done," the ghostly creature said with a laugh.
"All right." Wei Zhao nodded and watched Oda Ba's next move. By now, the man seemed to have made up his mind.
"Since it refuses to come out, this captain will blast it out. Hear my command: lock onto the four Mountain-Opening sea beasts. Starfall Formation—fire!" As Oda Ba's words fell, his four fingers traced a light stroke across the luminous star chart before him, and the four star points he touched blazed with renewed brilliance.
BOOM! Four colossal beams of light descended from the sky once more, in an instant crashing down upon the four Mountain-Opening sea beasts. Ten thousand feet of white radiance, waves towering to the heavens—the sheer momentum set the ancient warship shuddering back and forth. Once again, Wei Zhao felt that unprecedented shock to his core.
The light faded. Oda Ba and the others stared tensely at the sea ahead—but this time the result sent a chill through every heart. The four Mountain-Opening sea beasts had not gone the way of the Mount-Sea Whale as expected. Apart from the Thousand-Legged Tyrant Emperor Crab, whose speed was little better than the Mount-Sea Whale's, being blasted to fragments, the other three had come through completely unscathed.
Whether the Deep-Sea Frenzy Shark, the Netherworld Ghost Mother, or the Soul-Hooking Monster Fish—in the open sea, their speed was the stuff of phantoms. The Mount-Sea Whale and the Thousand-Legged Tyrant Emperor Crab had been unable to dodge the Starfall Formation's barrage, but these three could.