Chapter 920

Tai Bai Yun Sheng is startled by a vast, surging aura. The sea turns turbulent as thousands of undercurrent vortexes twist together across the seabed. Fang Yuan names it: an immemorial desolate beast, comparable in power to rank eight Gu Immortals. Blazing Heaven Demoness, unsure what she faces, halts her attack and recalls the fire bird to her side. ^{ch. 920}

After several breaths, the beast’s true form is revealed: a shark no bigger than an adult’s finger, glowing with a mild silver light. Blazing Heaven Demoness shows a trace of seriousness. The shark ignores everyone else, fixing its eyes on her alone and radiating intense enmity. ^{ch. 920}

Shark Demon transmits that his plan has fortunately succeeded and that this small shark is a one finger flow shark. Almost every time path Gu Immortal knows the name from a mnemonic. It is a rank eight time path desolate beast. It carries extremely large amounts of time path dao marks, letting it swim the river of time in its own physical body. Shark Demon explains that it normally hides there unseen; he and Su Bai Man found its tracks by chance and built shark sea there. ^{ch. 920}

Blazing Heaven Demoness deduces that the couple spared no expense to obtain Hundred and Eighty Slaves’s killer move Lower Controls Higher from Zombie Alliance, meaning to subdue the shark. Enslavement path normally uses beings of higher status to rule those of lower status; Hundred and Eighty Slaves, its grandmaster, reversed this, ruling the high with the low. Shark Demon confirms her guess. ^{ch. 920}

He admits he has been managing this sea area’s shark groups toward that end, but that his enslavement path attainment and the killer move’s Immortal Gu are still insufficient, so he has not yet succeeded. Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng exchange a glance: this ambition is huge for a mere rank seven immortal zombie, and success would make him half a rank eight Gu Immortal. But the shark’s hatred falls on Blazing Heaven Demoness rather than his own side. ^{ch. 920}

Shark Demon adds that the shark carries several time path Immortal Gu. Saying so reveals nothing, since the aura already overflows unconcealed, and he means it to make her retreat. Such a shark is extremely rare, findable only by chance, which is why the couple spared no expense pursuing it. Fang Yuan wonders privately whether the shark’s ability could carry him deep into the river of time for Red Lotus Demon Venerable’s inheritance. ^{ch. 920}

This only strengthens Blazing Heaven Demoness’ urge to strike; she mocks Shark Demon for trying to win without fighting, and sends the fire bird at him. The shark moves first, colliding with the bird at extremely fast speed. There is no sound and no explosion; instead both sides turn from extreme speed to extreme stillness, as though frozen into a painting. ^{ch. 920}

In the stillness the shark pokes the bird, then leaps over it; when it ends, the shark is already charging at Blazing Heaven Demoness while the bird turns toward Shark Demon’s group. Shark Demon and Su Bai Man, extremely alert, brace for it, but at the last instant it veers off to chase the shark instead. Fang Yuan reasons the bird definitely mixes wisdom path methods into its flight. Tai Bai Yun Sheng judges the earlier stillness likely came from a time path Immortal Gu in the shark slowing time extremely, their true speed never actually changing. Su Bai Man adds that a second such Immortal Gu likely activated when the shark poked the bird, its effect not yet clear. ^{ch. 920}

The fire bird, already clear of the sea, detonates with a thunderous blast, evaporating an immense quantity of water and killing countless lives, tearing a crater down to the seabed. Huge waves stir up as surrounding water rushes in, and the churned sea leaves visibility extremely poor, forcing Fang Yuan and the others to fly clear and watch from the air. From there they see the shark shoot like a silver arrow at Blazing Heaven Demoness’ face. Her expression grows more focused; she does not dare take it head on. This tiny shark, however small, conceals an immemorial desolate beast’s brute strength. ^{ch. 920}