Zhan Meisen, the Sovereign of the Flame Emperor Continent, held his fingers in a delicate pose and rolled his eyes at Jiang Pingle. "What’s the rush?" he said.
As he spoke, he unhurriedly took out a rope woven from the hide of some unknown animal.
The rope in his hand was less than a meter long. He casually tossed it into the air and called out, "Go!"
The rope immediately began to lengthen at an incredible speed. In the blink of an eye, it stretched for tens of thousands of meters and was still growing. Its tip seemed to have locked onto the Beast King Sponge, and as the rope grew longer, it rapidly closed the distance.
’An Immortal Binding Rope?’ Su Ze’s eyes widened in disbelief. He thought he’d stumbled into the wrong story.
In the space of a single breath, the rope caught up to the Beast King Sponge... but it didn’t bind its target as Su Ze had expected of the legendary Immortal Binding Rope.
With the Beast King Sponge at its center, the rope drew a large circle on the seabed, forming a prison five kilometers in diameter.
Many other Marine Beasts and ordinary schools of fish were also trapped inside this large circle.
But when these fish and beasts tried to swim out of the circle, it was as if they had slammed into an invisible meat grinder, instantly turning into a bloody mist.
Land Lock. Just as its name implied, it enclosed the area to create a lock, drawing a boundary to form a prison.
The Beast King Sponge sped to the edge of the circle and slammed against the barrier. Although it wasn’t shredded into a bloody mist like the other beasts and fish, it was still thrown back.
It then turned to attack the rope itself on the seafloor, but the rope seemed unaffected by the force. It simply floated back a few meters, making the circle irregular, but the invisible prison remained.
Furthermore, it discovered that the silt on the seafloor had become incredibly hard. Although it could still dig, moving quickly underground was impossible, making it hopeless to escape the rope’s prison that way.
The Beast King Sponge shot upward instead. Since moving sideways or digging down had failed, its only escape was toward the sky.
The yellow, spongy mass burst from the surface of the sea, shooting straight for the sky.
But the higher it flew, the more its speed visibly decreased.
There was resistance above it. The higher it flew, the stronger the drag became!
Land Lock was a purely defensive artifact, designed only to trap enemies, with no offensive power at all.
The Beast King Sponge sensed that, given enough time, it could definitely break free from the Land Lock’s restraints.
Unfortunately for it, Jiang Pingle and the others had already caught up.
"Contract!" At the command of the Black Legendary powerhouse, Zhan Meisen, the Land Lock’s perimeter rapidly shrank. It continuously compressed the Beast King Sponge’s range of movement until it stopped at a diameter of roughly one kilometer.
The Beast King Sponge spat some kind of energy attack at the group from a distance, but it was blocked by the Land Lock’s invisible barrier.
The effeminate black man, Zhan Meisen, shook the end of the rope in his hand, and an opening immediately appeared in the otherwise sealed, invisible barrier. The four Legendaries—Jiang Pingle, Deng Sui, Marina, and Zhan Meisen—swiftly entered through it.
The Land Lock had effectively created a kilometer-wide dueling arena for the four Nian Race Legendaries and the Beast King Sponge.
Meanwhile, seeing that the battle was about to begin, Su Ze immediately turned and flew toward the Beast King Sponge’s lair.
He didn’t have time to watch the show; the Sands of Time was his primary objective.
...
The invisible Magic Cube descended to the bottom of the trench, completely unnoticed by the Great Sea Shell and the hermit crab below.
The hermit crab was a sixth-tier beast, but a beast’s combat power was usually no match for an evolver of the same tier.
Su Ze had previously fought hard against a Legendary powerhouse. With his combat strength back then, defeating a sixth-tier hermit crab would have been no problem at all, but that was only with the boost from his Bloodthirsty skill.
Right now, he didn’t have time to farm stacks for his Bloodthirsty skill. If he relied only on his current combat power, a fight against the hermit crab would be a grueling stalemate.
It was a pity Pulamon wasn’t with him.
Su Ze had no time to waste. Any delay could lead to unforeseen complications.
However, his goal wasn’t to kill the hermit crab, just to snatch the Sands of Time.
Su Ze took control of the Magic Cube, gunned the engines to full throttle, and violently rammed it into the Great Sea Shell.
BOOM! The impact knocked the invisible Great Sea Shell out of its stealth state, embedding it deep into the trench’s stone wall.
The Great Sea Shell and the hermit crab residing within it were both knocked aside, revealing a purple Energy Shield underneath.
Through the Energy Shield, Su Ze could faintly make out chunks of golden Sands of Time, each the size of a fist!
’Ram it again!’
Su Ze knew this Energy Shield had been created by the seventh-tier Beast King Sponge. It was a god-tier defensive barrier, and it would be extremely difficult for him to break it on his own.
Even his Perception Tentacles couldn’t penetrate it.
’Probably only Mr. Ya’s "Void" skill could pass through it. The problem is, once you’re in, you can’t get out right away. You have to wait for the skill to cool down again. If the Beast King Sponge or the members of the Nian Race showed up in the meantime, I’d be in deep trouble.’
Therefore, he could only rely on ramming it with the Magic Cube.
The Magic Cube had no offensive weapons; it could only rely on its sturdy defenses and incredible speed to ram its targets.
SZZZT...
The Magic Cube crashed into the purple Energy Shield, creating a loud sizzling sound, but the shield only flickered and remained intact.
The Beast King Sponge, in the middle of its battle, felt the impact of Su Ze’s attack.
The Energy Shield it had deployed was under attack, so of course it sensed it.
Jiang Pingle and the other three Legendaries were working together to besiege the Beast King Sponge. Facing an enemy a major tier above them, their own strength was largely ineffective. Therefore, they focused solely on using the power of their god-tier artifacts.
Jiang Pingle blew on the small Storm Horn, unleashing a powerful gale. Wherever the storm passed, seawater was swept up and evaporated in an instant. All creatures in its path, from fish and shrimp to other beasts, were instantly disintegrated into microscopic particles.
But when this violent storm rushed into the Sponge Beast, it seemed to be completely absorbed by its body, causing barely a ripple.
However, the Sponge Beast, originally only half the height of a person, suddenly swelled in size, transforming into a giant sponge dozens of meters tall.
Sensing its lair was under attack, the Beast King Sponge went berserk. It let out a long, piercing cry that seemed to reach for the heavens.
The cry was bizarre and piercing, and it spread out across the entire Blue Star.
"It’s summoning a beast tide!" Zhan Meisen, the Black sovereign, exclaimed in alarm.