Chapter 401: Chapter 404: The Time It Takes an Incense Stick to Burn

Mu Can was busy for half the day, hacking the frozen sea water into countless flying ice shards with the longsword in his hands, and even the small island at his feet was already piled too high with them. Looking out, the scenery was akin to that of a snow-covered nation.

“No, something’s not right,” Wang Cai said with a puzzled expression. They’d already turned the area around the island upside down, yet there was still no sign of the Tentacle Monster. This simply defied all reason.

“Ice Control,” Wang Cai pondered for a moment and didn’t stop moving his hands, arranging the Array as he cautioned.

Now, Mu Can could be said to have reached considerable tacit understanding with Wang Cai. After fighting side by side for so long, a single glance was enough for them to grasp each other’s intentions.

The ice flakes around him had all formed under the influence of his Spiritual Power, so Mu Can had no difficulty controlling them. With a grand wave of his arm, the ice flakes in the entire space danced wildly like a Blizzard, slowly converging beneath Mu Can’s feet. In just a short moment, a crystal-clear fortress emerged under Mu Can’s feet, ingeniously created from the readily available ice around him into massive walls.

“Woof! There it is,” Wang Cai barked sharply, and from the Compass in his hand, a beam of light shot out toward what appeared to be an empty patch of ground.

It’s worth mentioning that after the sea water had been completely Ice Sealed, everything around the island had revealed its true form. The sea that seemed unfathomable was only about ten or so meters deep. What appeared boundless was in fact only a few meters in radius. Mu Can had now used it all to craft the ice fortress at his feet, exposing the barren seabed. Looking closely, it was very different from a real seabed, flat and tidy like a plain. It was unclear whether this was because the creator of this space had inadequate understanding of the ocean or for some other reason.

Illuminated by the light, a miniaturized Tentacle Monster appeared on the spot.

What kind of creature was this after all? The miniaturized Tentacle Monster looked like an octopus, but it had countless more tentacles than what would be considered normal, spreading out in the air like hair, and at the tip of each strand twinkled the same small Daggers that Mu Can had seen before.

“It’s shrunk,” Mu Can stated as the Tentacle Monster showed itself, and his attack followed instantly, improvising with the materials at hand—the nearly endless blocks of ice beside him made the best weapons.

“Unleash, Ice Dragon Whirlwind,” Mu Can was increasingly discovering the strength of another ultimate skill he had comprehended in the Scripture Pavilion during actual combat. The diversity of attacks derived from these two kinds of Spiritual Power was truly boundless, giving Mu Can a whole array of new techniques.

As soon as he spoke, two ice dragons took shape instantaneously around the Tentacle Monster’s standing spot. Upon opening their eyes, they started to spin rapidly around the Tentacle Monster at the center, whipping up gusts of wind, and faint deep blue chills emitted from the bodies of the two ice dragons could be seen slowly clinging to the Tentacle Monster’s body, causing it to gradually begin icing over.

“Be careful, it’s about to grow larger.” Wang Cai was manipulating the Array to limit the Tentacle Monster’s movements, when suddenly, a surge of great power came flooding from the Qiankun Compass, almost slipping from his grip. It seemed this Tentacle Monster had already reached the threshold of the Void Level, no wonder so few can pass the Fourth Layer’s Heavenly Pillar. To fight beyond one’s level without any special ace up one’s sleeve is simply unthinkable.

Boom!

Without even a chance to cry out, the two Ice Dragons instantly exploded. Under Mu Can’s control, the fragments of the two Ice Dragons turned into silver-white Ice Blade Fragments, spinning around and slashing at the Tentacle Monster at high speed.

Originally, under the suppression of Wang Cai’s Big Formation and the Ice Seal, the Tentacle Monster’s speed had already plummeted to extreme lows, and with its original optimum battle illusion now shattered by Mu Can, the monster, under the slicing of the Ice Blade Fragments, let out painful howls. Star-like wounds appeared on its body, and even at the Void Level, it was impossible to remain unscathed under the joint forces of Mu Can and Wang Cai.

Awoooo!

Mu Can had never heard an octopus cry out, but it might have been because his attacks brought it great pain; the Tentacle Monster let out a howl. Then, Mu Can saw a massive creature appearing beside the small island.

Such an enormous being, each tentacle was as thick as Mu Can’s entire body, with thousands of them reaching out, bearing the resemblance of an octopus with tentacles covered in large and small round suckers. At the forefront of each tentacle was clenched a longsword. Atop its round, smooth head, a pair of eyes burned like miniature suns, full of raging flames, in which Mu Can could even see towering murderous intent. Without hesitation, he took Wang Cai and leaped straight into the fortress.

Sure enough, the next moment was like a downpour of raindrops; thousands of tentacles attacked the fortress in unison, relentlessly chopping down upon the Ice Wall.

The Tentacle Monster was enraged. In the endless years it had guarded this place, very few had reached this Fourth Heavenly Pillar, but none had ever pushed it to this extent. First, it was nearly boiled into seafood, then almost turned into frozen food, and finally, its habitat was utterly destroyed. The warm seawater it favored had been turned to ice. Enraged, the Tentacle Monster unleashed its full firepower. A thousand tentacles, divided into groups of a hundred, took turns attacking the fortress on the small island.

It would definitely not stop until it caught the little mice inside. And even if it managed to catch the hidden mice, it was determined not to let them off easily.

“The firepower is so fierce.” Wang Cai felt the intensity of the surrounding attacks and stuck out his tongue. He had poked a hornet’s nest indeed. They say sensitivity tends to be inversely proportional to alertness, but it seems the opposite is true for this Tentacle Monster. Watching its attack speed, even Mu Can had to admit he was no match.

“Woof! You still have the nerve to ask, after you’ve parboiled it, then froze it, and then destroyed its favorite environment, I guess you would be more furious than it is.” Wang Cai felt speechless. You have the nerve to ask after you’ve bullied it to this extent—the harm is akin to cutting off someone’s wealth and digging up their ancestor’s grave.

“Damn, weren’t those all your ideas? What now, can this fortress hold out for the time it takes an incense stick to burn?” A thousand tentacles wielding longswords were endlessly chopping at the fortress; even the time for an incense stick to burn was a testament to Mu Can’s powerful Ice Control over Ice Attribute Spiritual Power.