Chapter 372: Meeting the Bloodcoral Sect
Standing atop the floating body of a dead monster. Spear through his side, blood trickling down his leg. Anxious cultivators all around him, ready for violence.
Everything would turn on this moment. So Kai gave them all his best grin.
"Threw on instinct, huh?" He gripped the spear and pulled it out of his side without a grunt of pain, then held it up non-aggressively. "I don't blame you. I could really use a bath after that."
The tension broke and cultivators lowered their qi all around them. A few smiled at him, one swatted the young man who had thrown the spear, and some just pulled out magical artifacts to begin working on the body of the Great Cetae. Apparently he'd made the right choice based on what Zae Zin Nim had told him about Cloudspire's cultures.
Just in case there was still some aggression, Kai didn't make any sudden movements. His side hurt just a little now that he wasn't high on adrenaline, but a spear through his side was no longer a serious injury. Behemoth's Heart was strong enough to resist the qi shockwaves, so now the hole was closing up quickly. Meanwhile he took a look at the spear in his hand and discovered that the bright blue color appeared to be because it had been carved, or perhaps grown, from coral. How strange.
Once he was free, Kai dropped into the water to clean off all the blood and gore. When he popped out again, he saw that the cultivators had flown some sort of ship closer to the corpse: a large disc of stone. It was covered in markers that he didn't know and weren't translated by the Alltongue Fruit, so it was either an ancient language or some sort of symbolism.
The other young man he'd noticed during the battle was standing atop the stone, apparently flying it with his qi alone, and gestured for him to approach. Kai leapt from the water, this time avoiding the shockwaves from Thunderbird's Wings and instead gracefully arcing to land on the disc. He shed water everywhere, but it sluiced off the sides as if the vessel was built for such things.
"Thank you for your assistance," the man said with a deep bow. Not exactly the way Zae Zin Nim bowed, but close enough. Kai mimicked his posture and bowed back.
"I'm honored to assist in your hunt." Hopefully that was inoffensive enough.