A cave located in the deep ocean!
Sora sat resting, practicing his airbending, and trying to recalibrate his breathing back to normal.
With the passage of time, Sora discovered that his process of separating oxygen from hydrogen was producing gas, causing gas bubbles to appear and burst with great speed.
It was fortunate for Sora that he was bending only a small amount of the air atoms.
Because continuing to separate the atoms would poison him and the nearby water due to the abundance of unhealthy gas.
Hunger struck Sora, and he did not know whether to eat the tiny shrimp (krill) or not.
After a period of time, he decided to eat, as his stomach began to make loud noises.
He took a small handful of the tiny krill that was in front of him.
Sora used airbending to pull the air toward his direction, which sucked the krill toward him.
Sora extended his hands, locking them over a group of krill, and shoved them into his mouth.
The sound of his teeth chewing the creatures while they were alive was jarring.
This was the first time in Sora’s life that he ate in this manner, let alone eating live creatures!
He had no excuse; if he did not eat, he would weaken or hunger would torment him.
Sora continued his airbending, and after he recovered his wellness a little, he decided to begin the dangerous experiment.
Sora raised his right hand and placed it over the fracture site on his left hand.
After feeling the exact location of the break, Sora closed his eyes and began to sense the place of the fracture with his internal senses.
Sora’s perception reached the exact position of the fracture; he knew the break had affected the upper forearm bone.
Sora took a deep breath, then began to bend the air very weakly.
Sora continued his control over the air surrounding the broken bone, which moved the bone slightly.
”Aaaagh!” Sora groaned from the pain.
Sora did not stop and tried to push the air surrounding the broken bone back into its correct place so it would align with the bone!
The operation was terribly painful.
After three minutes, Sora felt his left hand.
Despite the pain, the position of the fracture had eased, but it would need time to heal.
If he had not used airbending to move the broken bones and return them to their correct place, perhaps the duration of recovery would have lasted nearly twenty days or less, but now, perhaps within four days, it would heal.
For Sora’s body possessed a healing efficiency greater than normal humans.
After finishing the treatment of his body, Sora directed his sight to the cave opening, looking at the shark as it swam around the mouth of the cave, waiting for Sora to come out.
”I must find a solution for this shark, as my staying in the deep ocean increases the danger.” Sora thought about his techniques that he used to train on; he decided to begin launching compressed air blades.
Although their impact weakens in the deep ocean, if he could increase their cutting power, he would achieve another milestone.
Sora began moving his hands in a circular motion, bending the air surrounding him, whether in the water or at the ceiling of the cave.
Sora moved his right hand in a sharp circular arc, launching a compressed air blade toward the shark outside the cave!
The air blade shot out with great speed, cutting the distance and reaching the shark in less than two seconds.
”Sssiiis!!” The sudden air blade struck the shark’s right eye, causing it to pop and blood to pour from it, creating a linear gash above and below the eye.
The shark moved swiftly and violently from the pain that struck its right eye, causing it to thrash in the water and try to endure the agony.
Sora’s attack was treacherous and sudden for the shark; it had felt the air blade coming, but it could not dodge in time.
Sora looked from inside the cave at the shark as it writhed in pain, and he did not stop, knowing that these moments were his greatest opportunity to kill the shark.
Sora moved his right hand sharply again, bending the air surrounding him to launch compressed air blades toward the shark.
The air blades tore toward the shark, causing it deep wounds, exposing the flesh and bone inside its body.
Sora discovered while launching the air blades that when he bent the air, molecules of the gas were mixing with it weakly!
Sora decided to experiment; he mixed the previous scattered gas with the air molecules and moved his right hand in a sharp circular arc toward the shark.
The gas-filled compressed air blade shot forward toward the shark.
At first, Sora discovered that the blade filled with gas molecules did not differ much from regular compressed air blades, but in the next fraction of a second.
”Boooth!” The gaseous air blade struck the body of the massive shark, causing it a sharp cut and a large explosion inside the shark’s body, creating a mangled hole from the impact of the blade!
The sound of the blade’s explosion was loud, causing a boom in the deep ocean water.
The explosion caused a large amount of water to rush rapidly inside the cave.
The shark’s blood began to fill the cave’s perimeter, staining the area around the cave with its blood.
Sora looked outside the cave and saw the blood filling and spreading throughout the water.
Sora did not hesitate or delay, for he was aware that the shark’s blood would attract creatures vaster than it, such as the giant squid, which was more terrifying than the shark.
Sora dashed outside the cave with great speed and began bending the air surrounding him, creating a spherical circle of air; this technique had become significantly easy for Sora.
Sora exited the cave and propelled himself upward rapidly and desperately, not looking or turning toward the shark, for Sora knew that the shark had bid farewell to life.
”Booooooooothth!” The sound of Sora breaking through the ocean water was like a submarine moving through water.
At that moment, a massive sharp hook extended to the corpse of the shark, locking the hook onto the shark.
The giant squid began pulling the shark’s corpse into the deep ocean.
Sora continued rushing upward, not caring about the grinder that would occur below.
At that moment, the sound and light of electricity filled the deep ocean!
The “Electric Eel” dashed with great speed toward the squid, releasing electrical shocks approaching 600 volts.
The sound of the battle and clash between the marine creatures was violent and its range was vast, for the fight between the two massive marine creatures swept along with it smaller creatures of sharks and dolphins.
Sora decided to use his broken left hand to increase the power of his airbending and assist him in exiting the depths.
”Woooth!” Sora rapidly broke through the ocean water, propelling himself upward.
Sora reached the mid-level ocean water and began seeing the sunlight in the ocean.
Sora knew he had reached safety, so his body relaxed and he began floating upward smoothly while looking downward.
”In my past life and in this life, the ocean will remain the forbidden zone for all living beings, haha!” Sora began to laugh, for in his past life, humans could not discover the ocean, so out of their fear of it, they turned their eyes to space.
Sora continued rising until he reached the surface of the ocean and exited it, welcoming the warm rays of the sun.