Wan Hongzhuang

Chapter 253 The Beast Tide Assaults the Small Island

With their cultivation levels, once engulfed by the beast tide, let alone the attacks from the thunder beasts, even a mere bump from them would be fatal.
Individual strength felt exceptionally insignificant before such a vast horde.

Seeing Fang Xiaoyu about to turn back to save Big Shark, Wan Lei glanced at the rapidly approaching beast tide and hardened his heart.

"Little Fish, don't blame me, I'm saving you!"

Wan Lei pulled out a formation bead, emitting a beam of light, and simultaneously controlled Big Shark, directly collecting it into the Myriad Demon Formation.

Their speed was already slower than the beast tide, and if they were to carry a Big Shark while flying, their speed would be even slower, making it highly likely they would perish in the beast tide.

To sever decisively, collecting Big Shark into the Myriad Demon Formation meant it would lose its freedom, but it was still better than dying.

"Go!"

Wan Lei grabbed Fang Xiaoyu's hand. The two pushed the speed of their Wind Thunder Wings to the maximum, simultaneously channeling their energy into the energy ring, seeking any slight increase in speed.

Fang Xiaoyu even employed wind-attribute divine abilities, further enhancing their speed.

With this, they were only slightly slower than the beast tide, and there was hope of escaping back to the Primordial Limitless Formation.

The great formation was also to their east.

They had been out exploring for several days and were quite far from the small island. Rushing back now was not something that could be accomplished in a short time.

The scale of the beast tide grew larger, and as they advanced, they gathered more thunder beasts, and their speed gradually increased.

Out of necessity, each time the beast tide drew near, Wan Lei had to desperately use his Thunder Escape technique to create distance from the horde again.

Thus, relying on Thunder Escape, they narrowly escaped death time and again, without even a moment to speak.

The beast tide roared, charging desperately towards them.

When the beast tide was closest, they were even struck by the lightning emitted by the thunder beasts at the forefront of the horde.

"Why aren't we there yet?"

After a day and night of fleeing for their lives, Young Master Lei's mood clearly became anxious. He kept wielding the Thunder God's Hammer, attempting to activate something.

It wasn't that his thunder power was depleted and he could no longer use Thunder Escape.

Indeed, continuously using Thunder Escape consumed a great deal of thunder power, but he still had the power of his Nascent Thunder Essence that he hadn't used.

"What are you muttering about?"

Fang Xiaoyu, annoyed by Wan Lei's constant mumbling, asked curiously.

"We should be there by now, why aren't we? The distance should be enough, I'm already in the Nascent Soul stage."

"Hey, stop mumbling. The thunder beasts behind us are almost here. Can you still use your teleportation?"

Fang Xiaoyu frowned, anxiously looking back at the increasingly close beast tide.

"I have something even more powerful."

"Use whatever more powerful thing you have quickly! The thunder beasts behind us are getting faster... Quick, they've accelerated again!"

The beast tide behind them suddenly accelerated, closing the distance significantly in the blink of an eye.

"We're not there yet."

"When will we be there?"

"Wait... no need to wait, it's enough!"

The thunder beasts behind them opened their cavernous mouths and lunged towards them. Wan Lei let out a long roar towards the sky, and Fang Xiaoyu suddenly raised her head, seeing a seven-colored bolt of lightning strike down towards them.

The two figures vanished.

The thunder beasts lunged at empty air. The thunder beasts in front looked around confusedly, and in an instant, were crushed by the thunder beasts behind them, transforming into bolts of lightning and absorbed by the other thunder beasts.

On a small island bathed in gentle sunlight, a seven-colored lightning bolt struck, and the two figures reappeared.

"This is... Inheritance Island?"

Fang Xiaoyu stared at the familiar great formation before her, her mouth agape in shock.

"Go, hurry inside."

Wan Lei placed his hand on the formation's barrier, and also pulled Fang Xiaoyu's hand to place it there together. Runes appeared on their palms, and the two instantly entered the formation.

Exhausted from a day and night of frantic escape, the two collapsed onto the ground without any grace. They were simply too tired.

Now that they were finally in a safe place, the two completely relaxed, feeling utterly drained and unwilling to move.

"Hey, that seven-colored lightning of yours is actually a teleportation array? You know quite a lot. Is that a divine ability or a one-time use teleportation talisman?"

"It's a divine ability, just like Thunder Escape and Thunder Defense."

Wan Lei picked up his Thunder God's Hammer, held it up to Fang Xiaoyu's eyes, pointed at the runes on it, and said,

"Each rune represents a divine ability or capability; it's one of my life-saving trump cards."

"This teleportation divine ability also has conditional limitations, right? I noticed you kept saying 'not there yet, not there yet'."

"Yes, the distance it can teleport depends on my cultivation realm, and it can only teleport to places I've been. If I had tribulation crossing cultivation, I could teleport from the Thunder Star Sea back to the Thunder Wind Continent."

"You're bragging."

"Hey, you two, what happened to you? Did you run into some trouble with the thunder beasts?"

Little Yellow Dog saw them lying on the ground as soon as they returned and thought they were injured.

"Little Yellow Dog, why are there beast tides in the Thunder Star Sea too?"

"Beast tides? You encountered beast tides?"

Little Yellow Dog was startled by this.

"These thunder beasts are all creatures without intelligence. Perhaps some higher-level thunder beasts have intelligence, but it shouldn't be enough to form beast tides to attack you two. That's really giving you too much credit."

"You have no idea. These thunder beasts truly darkened the sky and blotted out the sun, it was terrifying. Just a sweep of the eye, and the front row alone had at least a million thunder beasts, and who knows how many were following behind."

"Alright, alright, you two quickly get up and recover your cultivation. Look at yourselves, I thought you'd been in bed fighting for three hundred rounds. Young people just don't have the stamina."

"Get lost."

Wan Lei and Fang Xiaoyu got up and went into the Spirit Gathering Formation to replenish their cultivation.

Neither the two nor the dog paid much attention to this matter, as this great formation could be considered the most secure and safest place in the entire Thunder Star Sea.

Half a day later, their cultivation had recovered somewhat when suddenly, the entire small island began to shake.

The two, along with Little Yellow Dog, immediately flew out of the Spirit Gathering Formation and hovered in mid-air, looking towards the west.

Beast tide...

It had appeared again.

They had finally arrived here.

"Holy cow, is this a beast tide? It's too magnificent."

Little Yellow Dog stared at the distance with a dumbfounded expression.

The small island initially only shook violently, but as the beast tide drew closer, the ground began to tremble.

"Doggy... this great formation should be able to withstand the beast tide, right?"

Looking at the terrifyingly imposing beast tide in the distance, not only Wan Lei but even the dog felt uncertain.

"It probably can, it's a formation laid out by a Grandmaster."

The beast tide grew ever closer. The violent tremors of the small island caused landslides, and the surrounding mountain peaks continuously collapsed onto the great formation.

Finally, the vanguard of the beast tide crashed onto the small island.

This small island, which extended deep into the sea and spanned an area comparable to a prefecture, was like paper in the face of the beast tide, delaying its advance not even for a moment.