“You want to use me as your whetstone?” The Sea Lord recovered his composure and coalesced his true self again, showing himself as a middle aged man with a solemn face. Both his hair and beard were blue, and he wore a long cerulean robe. He wielded a frosty blue bident and was a… mermaid instead of human.

Rather than legs, a blue fish tail waved around for his lower body. Its blue crystalline scales glistened with a glassy sheen thanks to hellfire. Each gleam of light sparkled with the glyphs of sea dao.

Endless waves rose and fell once more over the water’s surface, keeping the Sea Lord safe. His personal weapon was the bident in his hand; it was a connate treasure formed from the dao of the sea. Though the local vicinity had been isolated from the outside world, the blue bident still supplied endless power from his great dao to the Sea Lord.

“I’d like...