Blue Squid Whale

Luke was swimming fast, with his flippers going as fast as they could, but it wasn't enough, not because he wasn't fast enough, but because the centipedes were popping out of the ground all over the place, and eventually Luke was surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of centipedes.

'I have no other option to fight, do I? Whatever I can do this let's just get this over with.'

Luke then looked at the surrounding centipedes and then grasped his will to fight and started to attack them.

He pushed off with an explosive start to his swimming, he pushed the water behind him to give him a boost, he then looked towards the centipede in front of him and attacked from the bottom with a qi-infused earth spike, and it went right through the centipede's body.

'That's one only...hundreds of more to go.'

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A couple of hours later.

Luke was laying on the seabed panting, and covered in bloody mist, around him lay hundreds of centipede bodies.

'That took a lot out of me, although not every one of them was the 9th beginner spirit realm, they were mostly the 5th or more, it was a tough battle.'

After laying on the ground for a while Luke got up and went to one of the centipede bodies, 'I hope these aren't poisonous', after thinking that Luke went to town and started eating the centipede the only reason he was doing that has because their exoskeleton was extremely hard if they didn't have a soft spot under them Luke wouldn't be able to defeat them because even with his qi infused water blade he wasn't able to even scratch it.

The centipede tasted disgusting and Luke felt disgusting eating it, but he stomached it down because he really wanted a shell that hard around him.

After eating all of the centipedes Luke had a decent gene point harvest, 'Status, gen points.'

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Gene Points - 221/1000

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Luke decided that this would count as his hunting today and went back to the cave to meditate.

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The next day Luke had woken up from his cultivation nap, and afterward something strange accrued. The earth started to shake and tremble with vigorous might. Luke was getting a bit scared but he thought this might be an opportunity to discover how to escape this barrier since nothing abnormal had happened since he entered the ocean.

As he exited the cave he made for himself he saw something in the water above him, it looked like a whale? It was a whale alright, but it was bigger than anything he had seen before, Luke used inspect on it.

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Blue Squid Whale

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Luke was confused, 'Squid? What about this is a squid?' Luke then saw the end of the whale which looked like its butt and he saw the answer to his question, at its rear end were tentacles that helped him move, when the tentacles went in and out he moved a lot but he was just too slow. Then Luke heard something in his mind.

'You, water dragon. Come here.'

Luke was startled the whale could speak to him, not just speaking normally but in his mind! Luke wasn't sure whether he should listen to the whale or not and the whale started to speak to him some more.

'You don't have to worry about your safety, if I wanted you to die you would be dead by now, don't underestimate me just because I'm slow, now come up here or you will end up dead.'

This time the whale said it in a more demanding tone and Luke decided to listen to him, mostly because of the question marks on his status, that was the only reason he chose to believe what he was saying.

Luke then swam up to the whale and the whale started to speak to him again, 'Hello there friend, I'm sure by now you have figured out what keeps you here by now, yes? Of course you have, you see I have been watching you since you have come to my humble sea area, and after watching you fight and fight once again I have decided to let you on the team even though you haven't entered the advanced spirit realm.'

'The team? What does he mean the team?'

'Let me finish before you ask questions, the team is a group of fish across this sea that I have gathered together so that the next time the participants come in this sea area we can slaughter them all and escape. I'm sure you are wondering what I mean by participants as well. The participants are young cultivators that are allowed entry into this sea area to train themselves and grow stronger by doing so. You see this is a training area of sorts for cultivators and every year or so they allow them to train here so this year we have decided not to be lambs to the slaughter, or at least I did all the other fish I have gathered are pretty stupid, but they still got the message when I told them. You on the other hand have potential as a dragon and are smart, so will you join our team to hopefully escape this wretched sea area?'

Luke had to think about it for a while and while he was he covered his brain with qi just to see if it would stop him from reading his thoughts, and after a while, he had come to a decision.

'I will help you whale if and only if you give me your full support in me getting stronger, that is the only way you will get me to join you.'

'I don't see any problem in that young sea dragon, I will raise you like my own child, welcome to the team.'

After saying that last line the blue squid whale took Luke to the place where he would meet his teammates.