Divine & Bizarre: Increasing Points to Invincibility-Chapter 860 - 235: Sea Beast? Demons and Devils! The Offspring of Human and Demon Interaction?

At night... Feeling the bursts of sea breeze head-on, Yun Jiuqing stood on deck, yawning with a look of utter exhaustion. Then, in sheer boredom, she propped her elbow on the railing at the edge of the merchant ship, gently cradling her cheek in her palm and muttered to herself, "No one ever told me that sailing could be such a boring affair."

Yun Jiuqing’s gaze drifted forward, finding nothing but the pitch-black sea and hearing only the variety of sounds made by the splashing water. Only by looking up could one see the stars and a very dim crescent moon. Besides that, there was nothing else to see.

Clearly, this was somewhat different from what she had imagined a voyage would be like. After all, in her expectations... Such a vast and spectacular sea would never grow tiresome to look at, and she might even see many novel types of fish. In reality, the first two days had been somewhat interesting, but by the next two days, everyone had become numb to it.

Other than the seawater, there was nothing else to see. As for exotic fish? The merchant ship wouldn’t stop specially to fish them out of the sea for her viewing pleasure, so she hadn’t even seen a single lake fish.

Unless... Yun Jiuqing was willing to dive straight into the water to get her fill of the sights in the vast sea. Otherwise, she would see nothing. But the problem was... in this tumultuous ocean, if she jumped in, would there be any chance of swimming back?

At this thought, Yun Jiuqing involuntarily shivered, feeling that the odds of her being able to swim back were slim, especially since she wasn’t particularly good at swimming.

Moreover... the owner of the trading company had mentioned that there were Sea Beasts in the ocean. These Sea Beasts were like Demons and Devils, threatening every merchant ship.

What if, upon diving in, there was a Sea Beast with its gaping maw waiting below?

Yun Jiuqing figured that although she was a Cultivator, in this great sea, she was in the Sea Beast’s territory.

Especially when in the water, trying to fight a Sea Beast.

It was truly... a bit too much for her.

"Ah..." Yun Jiuqing sighed skyward, "Why does sailing have to be so boring? The only amusement I’ve had these past few days was that Xing Fengzi actually gets seasick. An eighteen or nineteen-year-old grown man, vomiting so much on the ship that heaven and earth seem to merge. Other than that, there hasn’t been much excitement. Taking a boat out to sea is as boring as a Cultivator’s retreat."

Just as Yun Jiuqing finished speaking, she suddenly noticed the ship trembling violently. The shake was so vigorous that it almost caused her to slip and nearly fall into the sea. Fortunately, in this unexpected and critical moment, she quickly grabbed onto the railing at the edge of the ship; otherwise, she really would have fallen overboard.

"What’s happening?" Her face was full of astonishment as she looked around in a panic. She then saw that some of the sailors were also beginning to panic. Logically, these experienced sailors wouldn’t lose their composure over a sudden shake of the ship, right?

"We’ve hit a reef! We’ve hit a reef!" Yun Jiuqing heard a bearded sailor cry out in panic, "Quick, go down to the lower deck to check, see which cabin is leaking! If a leak is found, plug it up fast, and if it can’t be plugged, seal that cabin off!"

"We’re sailing along a previously used route; how could we have hit a reef out of nowhere?" An older sailor shouted fiercely, "We must have hit something strange, maybe a big fish."

"What big fish would avoid such a huge ship?" Another person shouted with an ugly look on his face, "We’re likely facing a Sea Beast from the ocean! Damn it, we finally take a long sea journey, and we run into this nightmare!"

"Hiss! A Sea Beast? Get the copper gongs and drums, all of them out, and start beating them to see if we can scare it off! If we don’t scare it away, we’re done for!"

"Get ready with the fish spears for hunting! If it comes to it, we’ll fight that damned Sea Beast! If we injure it, it should... sensibly retreat, right?"

"One of our sea-traveling ships was sunk by a Sea Beast, and over twenty sailors died."

"Don’t be afraid, don’t panic! Don’t think the worst, maybe it really is just a big fish?"

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Wake up those sleeping in the cabins!"

"Do we need to shout? Can’t they wake up on their own?"

"..."

A succession of panicked cries gave Yun Jiuqing a vague understanding of just what was happening. Could it really be that a Sea Beast had appeared? This made her expression turn quite peculiar – she had only complained briefly about the boredom of days at sea, and then, out of the blue, the ship was attacked by a Sea Beast; it couldn’t be... her own jinxing, could it?

While Yun Jiuqing was lost in her myriad thoughts, she noticed that the ship beneath her feet was undergoing a tremor even more violent than before, one that almost twisted her ankle. And because she just happened to be standing at the bed edge, she used the very dim moonlight overhead... and suddenly noticed a peculiar shadow below the water’s surface!