Chapter 4789 — Claiming Victory
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 3
Seven more pillars of falling starlight, another inescapable dead angle—and another great hole was punched through the Sea Dragon. This time it finally dared not push its luck further. With a shrill, piercing scream it turned and fled into the distance, yet Wei Zhao still had no mind to let it go. At once another volley of Starfall pillars came pounding after it in relentless pursuit.
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The world fell silent.
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"Is it... is it dead?" Oda Ba swallowed hard and stared ahead, but the waters there had long since been dyed a murky, churning red with blood, and nothing could be seen beneath the surface. After that final barrage of Starfall pillars, the Sea Dragon had never resurfaced; perhaps it had been blasted to bits.
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As for those three Mountain-Opening sea beasts from before, they had been ground to pieces in that earlier storm of fire—not even bone fragments remained.
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"You tell me," Wei Zhao said, giving him a noncommittal glance. He turned and walked over to Huo Yudie's side, let out a long breath of stale air, and said: "It's over. Let's head back."
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At those words from Wei Zhao, the rest of the crowd finally burst into earth-shaking cheers. Anyone who had hovered so long at the gates of hell would be left gasping for breath; their nerves had been stretched nearly to the breaking point, and only now could they finally relax. To survive a calamity—that was cause for celebration indeed!
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Watching Wei Zhao and his companion leave with his own eyes, Oda Ba could not help but wear a complicated expression. He wanted to speak yet held back, and for a moment he did not know what to say, and could only stand there dumbfounded.
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"Senior Gui, is that Sea Dragon really dead?" Wei Zhao asked in his mind as he and Huo Yudie made their way back to the Eastern Continent disciples' living quarters. This question puzzled not only Oda Ba and the others—in truth, he himself was not sure either.
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"I already told you it's a distant relative of mine—how could I kill it?" Gui Dongxi chuckled darkly. Even he felt a twinge of shame saying it; knowing full well it was a distant relative and still scheming against it, he had no choice but to add: "It's only badly wounded and has fled, that's all."
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"Huh? Then won't it come back for another round?" Wei Zhao was startled. Dawn was about to break, and the ancient warship, its spiritual energy exhausted, was completely defenseless—it could not withstand even a casual strike from the creature.
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"That it won't. Its wounds won't heal so easily. Having taken such a heavy loss, it won't dare come looking for trouble again any time soon—though who's to say about later on," Gui Dongxi said.
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"Later? Later has nothing to do with me. Once I'm off this ship, let the floods rage for all I care." Wei Zhao laughed it off with a shrug, then asked again: "By the way, I was just wondering—why would this Sea Dragon go to such lengths to make trouble? Did Oda Ba and the others provoke it before? That doesn't seem likely. From the look of them, it was their first time seeing one too..."
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"Heh heh, they didn't need to provoke it. The very existence of this ancient warship is already an irreconcilable grievance to a Sea Dragon," Gui Dongxi said with a laugh.
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"What do you mean by that?" Wei Zhao asked, puzzled.
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"A ship must have a keel. Do you know what they use for the keel of a sea-borne leviathan on the scale of an ancient warship?" Gui Dongxi answered with a question of his own.
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Wei Zhao was taken aback for a moment, then it suddenly hit him: "Don't tell me it's made from Sea Dragons?"
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"Exactly—that's the reason. Put yourself in a Sea Dragon's place: how would you feel watching a warship like that sail right over your head?"
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