The Dragon Abyss Boat, which had leaped onto the sea surface after Quan Yue's maneuver, wasn't traveling in a straight line but gliding along a bizarre, curving path.
This was a navigational tactic to avoid underwater reefs.
At this stage, the Dragon Abyss Boat's speed far exceeded that of ordinary thousand-year Soul Beasts.
The Dragon Abyss Boat's speed was directly proportional to the Soul Power input and the strength of the person wielding the oars.
With Soul Saint-level Soul Power input and the skillful coordination of eight people, the Dragon Abyss Boat's speed could even rival ten-thousand-year sea Soul Beasts.
Quan Yue watched the sea leopard closely following behind, a glint of excitement flashing in his eyes.
The sea leopard had a two-meter-long horn, the sharp, bony horn faintly radiating a purple light, and its body was twenty meters long.
Its large, fat body, coupled with the long horn, made it look even bigger than the twelve-meter-long Dragon Abyss Boat.
The medium-sized ship Su Ling'er was on was only twice as large as this.
Imagine the damage to a ship if it were struck by such a large sea leopard.
Su Ling'er judged the sea leopard's information from the length of its horn and body.
"This isn't a hundred-year Soul Beast; it's a thousand-year Soul Beast, and a two-thousand-year Poison Horn Devouring Sea Leopard at that. To go after such a big prey right away, aren't they afraid of capsizing?"
Su Ling'er's eyes twitched slightly as she covered her forehead.
The Poison Horn Devouring Sea Leopard closely followed the Dragon Abyss Boat, Quan Yue controlling the output of Soul Power, teasing the ferocious sea leopard from a distance that was neither too close nor too far.
Before long, Quan Yue drove the Dragon Abyss Boat out of the reef area, only five kilometers away from the fleet.
The Dragon Abyss Boat brought the sea Soul Beast to the predetermined location according to the planned strategy.
The Poison Horn Devouring Sea Leopard happened to fall into the fleet's encirclement.
Although the Soul Beast sensed the surrounding auras, it wasn't too worried because the distance was beyond four kilometers.
Its primary focus now was to use its long horn to pierce the sea vessel that was provoking it.
The enraged sea leopard had completely fallen into the carefully prepared trap.
Seeing this, Su Ling'er decisively ordered the firing.
"Bang!"
The giant cannon emitted a violent explosion, the powerful explosive force launching the hundred-kilogram spear from the gun mount at a speed of two thousand meters per second.
"Shriek!"
The cannon on the lead ship instantly streaked with a red glow, carrying the force of thunder, and instantly shot into the sea leopard's body.
"Aowu!"
In an instant, the azure sea surface surged with blood-red splashes as the sea leopard struggled.
Taking the cannon fire as a signal, in less than two seconds, the entire fleet fired together, four red flashes shooting towards the sea leopard, two of which deeply penetrated its body.
Three out of five cannon shots hit.
This was already an extremely high hit rate.
Su Ling'er excitedly waved her hand and shouted, "Good, well done! Order the ships that hit to immediately pull in the opposite direction."
Su Ling'er's ship immediately sailed in the opposite direction.
Su Ling'er saw the Poison Horn Devouring Sea Leopard's struggles clearly through the telescope.
Three two-meter-long iron spears had directly entered its body, but even if they were completely submerged, it was still great pain for the ten-meter-long, fat sea leopard.
In addition, the barbs on the iron spears completely prevented the possibility of the iron spears falling off.
The three ropes pulled in opposite directions, the force of the pull causing even greater pain to the Poison Horn Devouring Sea Leopard.
It desperately rolled over, but the pulling force of the three medium-sized sea ships was terrifying. Unless it endured the pain of having chunks of flesh torn off, it would have no power to escape.
Moreover, what was even more terrifying was that the entire spear body was cast from the Blazing Heart Iron Essence forged by Quan Yi.
Being pierced by the long spear was extremely painful for the sea Soul Beast. The Ultimate Fire aura emitted by the Blazing Heart Spear was a terror more frightening than death for a mere two-thousand-year Soul Beast.
Even if it wanted to release powerful water-attribute Soul Skills, its Soul Power was suppressed by the Ultimate attribute, and it couldn't exert its due power.
However, even if it could release skills, it wouldn't cause much damage to ships several kilometers away.
At this moment, it could feel its body weakening at an extremely fast rate.
Its Soul Power was also being suppressed. The Poison Horn Devouring Sea Leopard, which had always roamed freely, had never experienced such a terrifying situation.
Gradually, it lost its ability to resist.
Seeing this, Su Ling'er ordered the ships that hadn't hit to fire again.
"Bang! Bang!"
Two more flashes shot out, and this time, they accurately hit the struggling sea leopard.
"Hiss~!"
The sea leopard's miserable roar sounded again as two spears pierced its body. Then, after a while, these two spears pulled in opposite directions.
The pulling force wasn't strong, but the forces from the five directions restrained and balanced each other, completely eliminating the Poison Horn Devouring Sea Leopard's chance of escape.
The fleet didn't pull forcefully but let nature take its course, quietly waiting for the Soul Beast to slowly bleed and lose its resistance.
However, the vitality of a Soul Beast was stronger than that of ordinary animals, and this process lasted a full hour.
Throughout the entire process, Quan Yue and Su Ling'er didn't take action but carefully guarded their surroundings.
As the person closest to the sea leopard, Quan Yue noticed that the Poison Horn Devouring Sea Leopard was gradually losing its movements.
Finally, a purple halo condensed on the sea surface, and he excitedly slapped the control crystal ball.
He excitedly roared at the crew behind him, "We succeeded!"
The crew members excitedly threw down their oars and hugged each other.
They were crying with joy, and the fear and tension were completely released at this moment.
As bait to attract the Soul Beast, they had been under extreme pressure this time.
If it weren't for Quan Yue, this Sea Stabilizing Divine Needle, sitting in command, they would likely have collapsed directly.
Even though these eight people were among the few Soul Greatmasters in the entire Quan Family.
However, when facing a two-thousand-year-level Sea Soul Beast, they inevitably felt fear in their hearts.
But, in the end, seeing that they had successfully captured the Soul Beast, the joy and pride in their hearts were indescribable.
Quan Yue piloted the Dragon Abyss Boat, rising out of the sea and docking next to the corpse.
Seeing this, Su Ling'er understood that the Poison Horn Devouring Sea Leopard was dead and immediately ordered the fleet to approach.
A quarter of an hour later, Quan Yue retrieved the Dragon Abyss Boat and returned to the deck above.
Quan Yue and the other crew members landed on the ship, and loud shouts immediately rang out around them.
Quan Yue was like a hero, receiving everyone's enthusiastic cheers.
Quan Yue smiled and waved in response, quickly walking to Su Ling'er's side, picking her up in a hug, and excitedly shouting, "We succeeded!"
Although Su Ling'er was somewhat dissatisfied with Quan Yue's unexpected action, she still didn't want to embarrass Quan Yue in public.
However, her hand had already pinched Quan Yue's lower back hard.
Quan Yue felt the pain, his expression froze, and he immediately put Su Ling'er down.
He whispered in Su Ling'er's ear, "I'm sorry, Ling Er, it was my fault this time, don't be angry."
Su Ling'er rolled her eyes and said, "Hurry up and deal with this sea leopard."
Quan Yue grinned and followed the crew members to deal with the sea leopard.
As the sun set, in front of the pier built by the Quan Family.
Quan Li and Yun Qiong stared anxiously at the direction where the sun was setting.
The brilliant golden sunset couldn't soothe the worried hearts of the two elders at all.
They were anxiously waiting for the fleet's return.
At this moment, in the distant golden light curtain, a miniature black shadow slowly appeared.
Quan Yue immediately took out his binoculars to observe and saw a familiar figure on the ship.
He excitedly said, "They're back, the fleet is back!"
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