Chapter 322 - 290: Relentless

Chapter 322: Chapter 290: Relentless

The other crew members on the ship, not just Jiang Xu, were also focused on the shocking cataclysm unfolding outside.

The crew broke into a flurry of discussion.

"What’s going on? Why have they suddenly set up the Hundred Jue Water-Suppression Array?!"

"Is this... Is it going to rain? But ordinary rain, even a downpour, wouldn’t warrant this kind of response, would it?"

Some were panicking, while others remained perfectly calm.

But regardless of their reactions, no one could tear their attention away from such a natural disaster.

Beneath the terrifying might of the heavens, no one was safe.

The storm grew fiercer.

At some point, the gentle drizzle had turned into a downpour.

Peals of thunder cracked endlessly across the sky, blasting in everyone’s ears.

The scene from the Sea View Map was starting to come true.

The Crew Leader was glad he hadn’t let his guard down and had continued to watch the Sea View Map as usual, without a moment’s lapse.

The power of the Jue Pearls needed time to accumulate.

If he hadn’t discovered this ahead of time and had only started setting up the Hundred Jue Water-Suppression Array now, the Array’s power would likely have been insufficient to calm the sea’s raging waves.

The Captain probably would have had to step in personally to handle it in the end.

And just then, Jiang Xu’s eyes narrowed as he looked into the distance.

On the distant horizon, a distinct dividing line had abruptly appeared.

It was a zone where black and deep blue intertwined, like a ferocious beast slowly opening its slumbering eyes.

Jiang Xu’s heart skipped a beat.

’That’s the sign of an approaching tsunami!’

The thunder in the sky grew more frequent and deafening, as if all the fury and power of Heaven and Earth had gathered here, ready to unleash the most terrifying roar on this stormy night.

The waves on the sea’s surface began to churn madly. The once-calm swells instantly became frenzied, and a powerful sense of pressure spread as the sea level rose rapidly.

At the forefront of the waves, a colossal wall of water rose up, advancing toward the Dharma Ship like a moving mountain, immense and unstoppable.

The atmosphere on the ship instantly dropped to a freezing point. Panic spread through the crew, and even the old, storm-weathered sailors couldn’t hide the terror in their hearts.

However, none of the sailors were scared witless by the terrifying tsunami.

They all knew that at this moment, their only chance of survival was to trust the Crew Leader’s judgment and hold firm to the Array.

The Array was still operating at full power. The barrier of blue light, formed from the Jue Pearls, stood stubbornly in the wind and rain, becoming the last line of defense against the tsunami.

The Crew Leader’s expression was grim and cold sweat beaded on his forehead, but he remained composed, constantly adjusting the Array and striving to push its Defense to the absolute limit.

The Dharma Ship remained as steady as a rock on the surging sea, while ahead, the tsunami’s giant waves grew ever higher, like a beast opening its cavernous maw to devour everything.

Finally, the furious waves rolled in, drawing ever closer!

In that instant, Jiang Xu felt as if his heart had stopped.

He stared intently at the colossal tsunami wave—like a toppling mountain, a roaring beast—his eyes reflecting boundless shock.

Jiang Xu could feel the savage power from the depths of nature. The very air felt compressed and suffocating, and the entire world seemed so small and helpless before the immense wall of water.

Though his body stood steady on the Dharma Ship, protected by the Array, his soul felt as if it were swept up by the gale and giant waves, hovering on the brink of life and death.

Jiang Xu could clearly hear the violent THUMP-THUMP of his own heart—a tremor of the soul born from a mixture of fear and tension.

The crest of the tsunami was now within arm’s reach. The frigid seawater charged forward with unparalleled destructive power, like ten million stampeding wild horses.

Jiang Xu’s gaze was locked on the screen of blue light—the final line of defense formed by the Hundred Jue Water-Suppression Array, and their only hope in the face of this natural disaster.

Just as the tsunami’s massive wave was about to crash down on the Dharma Ship, the Jue Pearls in everyone’s hands flared with brilliant light, tightly enveloping the entire Dharma Ship and forming an airtight defensive barrier.

That towering wall of water charged toward the Dharma Ship, carrying the force to topple mountains and overturn seas, possessing the momentum of a thousand thunderbolts.

But in the instant before it could strike the Array’s blue light barrier, the seawater around the Dharma Ship seemed to be suppressed by an invisible force.

The tsunami’s momentum slowed abruptly upon contact with the Array.

Its all-consuming impact force was dispersed by the Array’s buffering effect.

Like a flood crashing against a sturdy dam, it threw up layer after layer of spray but couldn’t move the Dharma Ship in the slightest.

The people on the ship clutched the Jue Pearls in their hands. Though their faces were pale, their eyes shone with elation.

Not only had the Hundred Jue Water-Suppression Array successfully withstood the tsunami’s first impact, but it had also used the Array’s rebounding force to reflect some of the impact back into the sea, further reducing the effect on the Dharma Ship.

After the tsunami passed, the sea’s surface returned to a brief moment of calm.

But the sailors on board did not let down their guard.

They knew this was only the beginning of the disaster; more tsunamis were still to come.

The Crew Leader continued to calibrate the Array, preparing to face the next impact.

Wave after wave of tsunamis, like bloodthirsty beasts, relentlessly battered the Dharma Ship.

Each impact seemed to threaten to tear the Dharma Ship apart and push everyone on board into an abyss of despair.

Whenever a giant tsunami wave approached, the blue light barrier formed by the Jue Pearls would emit a deafening hum, like a lighthouse stubbornly and tenaciously resisting the tempest.