The oppressive pressure of the sea and the humid mist almost pressed against Tunzuo’s face.
Watching the sky-obscuring tsunami approach, the crushing wave seemed ready to swallow the entire beach in the next second.
Tunzuo didn’t hesitate.
She raised her hand and took Huanye from her storage ring, the umbrella handle light turning as the canopy opened.
The concentric circle rune symbolizing the “Key to the Door” suddenly shone.
“Yuge.”
At Tunzuo’s soft call, a cloud of rainbow-colored bubbles mixed with mist appeared out of thin air.
Yuge still maintained the appearance of a well-dressed skeleton gentleman, appearing gracefully by Tunzuo’s side.
The moment Yuge was summoned, before Tunzuo could give any order, it seemed to perceive all cause and effect.
Without a moment’s hesitation, it gently raised its right hand and made a light grasping motion toward the overwhelming wave that was surging toward them.
Hum—
A dull roar came from the air, as if an invisible giant hand had taken complete control of the space.
The originally roaring wave that seemed about to devour the entire beach suddenly came to a halt in midair, only a few dozen meters from the shore, as if it had slammed into an invisible, transparent wall of lament.
The violent kinetic energy was instantly neutralized.
The surging seawater solidified in midair, and even the splashing droplets stopped moving.
The giant wave stood still on the sea surface like it had been frozen.
Next, Yuge flipped its hand and pointed upward, a rainbow light flashing between its finger bones.
The originally monolithic wave was instantly split apart by Yuge’s spatial law.
Grid lines emerged on the wave surface, cutting with the precision of scalpels.
The wave was divided into tens of thousands of transparent, even water cubes, floating in the air like exquisite crystals, refracting a riot of colors under the sunlight, revealing the turbulent sea surface behind the wave.
Seeing that the crisis was temporarily resolved, Tunzuo let out a long sigh.
She patted her chest with her hand, then quickly turned to look at Hai Lanyue, who was lying on the sand, her tone filled with urgency.
“Hai Lanyue, are you okay? Are you hurt?”
Hai Lanyue struggled to get up from the sandy beach, brushed the fine sand off her clothes, her face pale from the shock.
She shook her head and said to Tunzuo:
“I’m fine, Classmate Tunzuo. But there’s a big thing underwater…”
Hearing this, Tunzuo’s eyes narrowed.
Her grip on the fishing rod tightened, her knuckles turning white from the pressure.
“That’s what caused the giant wave just now.”
She turned and shouted to Hai Lanyue:
“It’s dangerous here. Hai Lanyue, you go first. Find Teacher Lei Ruiya and the others. Leave this to Olivia and me.”
Hai Lanyue nodded, turned around, and ran in the direction of the other witches.
Not long after Hai Lanyue left, the fishing rod in Tunzuo’s hand was suddenly jerked by a force strong enough to tear steel.
The rod instantly bent into a crescent, almost yanked out of Tunzuo’s hand.
“Tch, that bastard is coming up.”
Just as Tunzuo expected, with a deafening sound of water breaking, a huge black shadow burst through the sea surface, sending up a spray of water and violent waves.
It was a giant whale several hundred meters long, but its appearance was extremely grotesque and ugly.
Instead of a dorsal fin, the whale’s back was covered with dense clusters of eyeballs and tumors of various sizes, where the skin should have been smooth.
The eyeballs on the whale’s back rolled wildly, their whites bloodshot.
Finally, they all focused, staring at Tunzuo and Olivia standing on the shore with a look full of brutality and hunger.
When she saw the giant whale break through the surface, Olivia’s originally calm expression instantly turned ugly.
Her ferocious dragon might exploded, golden dragon flames blazing on her fists, a terrifying aura flowing through Olivia’s body.
Tunzuo looked at Olivia, ready for battle, then glanced at the imposing whale.
She frowned and asked:
“Hey, pervert dragon, what’s up with this whale? No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t fit the vacation style of Golden Sand Beach.”
Olivia tilted her neck, cracking it, and explained in a grave voice:
“This is a demon whale, an apex predator that lives in the lava sea of hell. At Golden Sand Beach, the Gold Family raises some dangerous sea beasts for fun, to provide hunting games for witches who like thrills.”
“But these guys are supposed to be locked up in the abyss’s seals. I don’t know why this one got out.”
Before Olivia could finish, the demon whale opened its huge mouth full of jagged teeth and let out a terrifying whale song at the two witches on the shore.
The powerful sound waves made the sand on the beach bounce, even shattering the shells on the distant reef rocks.
But Olivia acted as if she hadn’t heard the demon whale’s intimidation, continuing to explain to Tunzuo, though a hint of coldness crept into her voice.
“Also, to keep the sea beasts fierce, the Gold Family only feeds them a little. Most of the time, the sea beasts locked in the abyss can only get food by killing each other.”
“This one looks really hungry.”
With that, Olivia grinned, a ferocious smile curling at the corners of her mouth.
The Golden Knuckledusters appeared on her fists out of thin air, flashing with dangerous light.
“Heh, Little Ghost, the fishing game might be temporarily suspended. Now it’s a hunting game.”
Tunzuo listened, silently glanced at Olivia, then neatly cut the fishing line and put the rod into her storage ring.
She shrugged, a crazy smile spreading across her face.
“Heh, a bit troublesome, but sometimes using an American-style net isn’t bad either.”
As soon as she spoke, the starving demon whale had already opened its huge mouth, lunging at the shore.
The fishy wind hit them, and a huge shadow instantly covered the entire beach.
“Yuge.”
Tunzuo called softly, her voice frighteningly calm.
Yuge stood in place, the hem of his coat fluttering in the wind.
He casually raised his hand, his fingers gently stirring in the void.
The water cubes that had been floating in midair, under Yuge’s manipulation of spatial law, were instantly compressed and spun into countless high-speed drilling water bits.
They tore through the air, emitting a piercing shriek as they slammed into the demon whale.
Pew! Pew! Pew!
The dense water drills slammed into the tough skin of the demon whale, making a sound like raindrops hitting banana leaves.
Although Yuge’s water drills couldn’t directly pierce the demon whale’s body, they still made the whale retreat step by step, its flesh and blood splattering, its huge body riddled with holes.
The injured demon whale let out a mournful cry, and then swung its huge head violently, trying to avoid the rain of water drills from the sky.
But before the demon whale could dive into the water, a flash of golden light appeared.
Olivia’s figure shot out like a cannonball, accompanied by the roar of a sonic boom.
The sand beneath her feet flew up, golden grains scattering.
Olivia turned into a golden streak of light, and with an uppercut, she struck the demon whale’s soft belly.
Boom—!
With a dull, heavy slam, the demon whale’s belly immediately caved in, leaving a huge crater.
The tremendous impact force made blood spurt from the whale’s seven orifices.
Its massive body was sent flying into the air by Olivia’s punch, losing its balance and tumbling like a washing machine drum.
At that moment, several silver flashes zipped across the demon whale’s body like lightning splitting the sky.
Tunzuo swung her silver sword, sword energy slashing out—precise, cold, and ruthless.
The demon whale’s fins, along with the bulging eyeballs and tumors, were all sliced clean off by Tunzuo.
The demon whale didn’t even have time to scream before Tunzuo had shaved it into a bare whale.
Tunzuo stood on the sand, executing a beautiful flourish with her silver sword, her expression calm and unfazed.
Not a single drop of blood stained the edge, as if she had only cut through air.
Olivia looked at the shaved whale falling from the sky, then at Tunzuo, and teased:
“Isn’t that a bit too malicious, Little Ghost?”
“It was just convenient.”
Tunzuo spread her hands, looking indifferent, as if she wasn’t deliberately retaliating for having her peaceful fishing mood ruined.
The injured demon whale fell into the water and went completely berserk.
Its eyes turned bloodshot, and lava-red veins emerged across its body.
The originally blue seawater was boiled by the heat radiating from the demon whale’s body, bubbling violently.
The demon whale opened its mouth wide to the sky, spewing out countless streams of scorching magma.
The magma turned into burning fire meteors in the air, carrying a pungent smell of sulfur as they fell from the sky, raining down on Tunzuo and Olivia on the beach.
“Heh, a fish in the water is playing with fire now.”
Tunzuo scoffed.
Yuge stepped in front of her, turning sideways and raising one arm.
A transparent spatial barrier erected around Tunzuo, blocking all the falling fire meteors.
The fire meteors slammed into the barrier, exploding into gorgeous sparks and smoke, but they had no lethality.
Olivia coiled her arm, golden dragon flames gathering fiercely on her iron fist.
She suddenly thrust a straight punch into the sky, and a majestic dragon roar shook the heavens and earth.
A huge golden dragon phantom shot out from Olivia’s fist, its mouth wide open in a silent roar, crushing all the falling fire meteors into dust.
Golden dragon flames and magma collided in the air, turning into a rain of fire, reflecting a copper-red glow on the sea surface.
Just as the fire meteor attack was neutralized, the shadow beneath Tunzuo’s feet churned violently, stretching out as if alive.
The black shadow extended rapidly across the sea toward the demon whale, turning into several pitch-black shadow vipers that opened their fangs and bit fiercely into the whale’s wounds.
The shadow vipers’ bites made the wounds deteriorate rapidly.
The body parts bitten began to rot quickly, soon turning into black pus.
Tunzuo slowly drained the life force from the demon whale, even tearing off a chunk of its soul with her shadow magic.
The demon whale let out a piercing, mournful cry, full of pain.
Just as the demon whale tried to shake off the shadow viper attacks, Olivia fell from the sky.
Her golden figure descended like a meteor, and with a heavy, powerful punch, she struck the demon whale’s spine.
The fierce force of her punch even dented the sea surface slightly.
*Crack!
A crisp sound of bone breaking echoed across the sea.
The demon whale’s spine snapped instantly.
The huge impact stirred up a series of turbulent waves on the sea surface.
After this strike, the demon whale rolled belly-up on the surface, its eyes losing their light, seemingly unable to move anymore.
Olivia leaped lightly back to the shore, landing on her toes.
She wiped the residual blood off her hands and asked Tunzuo with a smile:
“So, Little Ghost, wasn’t the hunting game pretty good?”
Tunzuo shook her head and yawned, replying casually:
“It was okay. A little warm-up now and then isn’t bad.”
Just as Tunzuo and Olivia were talking, a huge shadow suddenly fell over them.
Tunzuo and Olivia turned around calmly, staring coldly at the demon whale that still wasn’t dead, trying to use its last bit of strength to make a desperate, final counterattack.
Tunzuo tightened her grip on her silver sword.
Olivia clenched her knuckledusters.
Just as the two witches were about to send this ungrateful beast on its way, a green figure suddenly leaped into the air.
The Monarch Serpent Xiao Qing coiled in the sky, her huge body blocking the sunlight.
She gathered a beam of emerald-green energy in her mouth, filled with terrifying power—pure, refined wood-type energy under the sunlight.
*Boom—!
The high-temperature solar beam shot out with a piercing roar, directly piercing through the demon whale’s massive body, leaving a huge, charred hole.
The demon whale crashed heavily onto the sand, raising a cloud of dust.
It completely lost its life, becoming a corpse.
Tunzuo and Olivia turned their heads.
It was Hai Lanyue leading Lei Ruiya, Shirley, and Lena, rushing over in a hurry.
Lei Ruiya ran up to Tunzuo, her voice full of concern.
“Are you two okay? Hai Lanyue told us something happened here.”
Tunzuo put her silver sword back into Huanye’s handle, waved her hand, and said casually:
“Just a small matter. An unruly big fish.”
Meanwhile, Olivia stared at the demon whale’s corpse, a complex look in her eyes, as if lost in thought.
Far away, on a sea cliff, a tall red dragon witch with long, fiery hair looked down from above.
The red dragon witch narrowed her eyes, her gaze moving back and forth between Olivia and Tunzuo, finally settling on Tunzuo.
A playful, cold smile curled at the corners of her mouth.
The red dragon witch whispered to herself, her voice carrying a hint of sinister laughter.
“So that’s your sweetheart, Olivia?”
“Don’t worry. That little fish was just an appetizer. There’s an even bigger surprise waiting for you…”
“My… dear aunt.”
The red dragon witch laughed loudly, turned around, and disappeared into the shadow behind the cliff.
Only the sound of waves crashing against the rocks remained, as if no one had ever been there.
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