Chapter 140: Banzhu Attack

After leaving the Great Zhou, Baichuan flew straight toward the sea. Now he was about to leave the land of Great Qin once more, because the source of his Iron Armor ability was not on this side.

And he had to trigger another evolution; the ocean was undoubtedly the best choice.

In the blink of an eye, another seven days passed, and after those seven days, Baichuan had finally returned to the ocean once again. At the same time, his body had once more slimmed down a little.

This meant that the energy stored within his body had once again been consumed quite a bit. Even with him controlling his feeding from time to time, it was still not quite enough to keep up.

LV5, after all, consumed far too much energy.

While pondering, Baichuan felt himself surrounded by the familiar seawater, and he once again opened his panel, directly selected the Sperm Whale's ability "Diving LV3 (Overlord)," and placed it into his body.

The familiar drowsiness surged once more, and he was wrapped in the familiar viscous fluid and fell asleep.

Evolution began once again.

……

Sometimes, Time really does pass especially fast.

Just like now, Baichuan only felt he had taken a single nap, and roughly five days had passed just like that.

Of course, he wasn't entirely sure, because he could no longer rely on his lifespan from before his slumber to judge how much Time had passed.

Thanks to the Blood Worm's "Deep Sleep LV4 (Limit)" from before, he was currently in a state of evolution, and his lifespan was no longer decreasing, because that also counted as a kind of deep sleep state.

And the reason he judged that five days had passed was simply based on his previous records, guessing from the fact that a single LV3 ability evolution took five days.

At this moment, Baichuan realized that although the length of his lifespan had not increased, in a certain sense it could already be considered a pseudo-immortality.

Time was gradually beginning to lose its meaning on him.

After clearing away the various accumulated debris on his body, Baichuan regained his body's balance and swam directly toward the direction in his mind through the water, rather than choosing Flight.

The influence of his heavy weight meant that his swimming speed had once again surpassed his Flight speed.

If he couldn't still fly, looking at it now, his wings were actually already a burden to him.

Time passed once again. The entire journey was tedious and boring, at least for the now invincible Baichuan, it truly was so.

The only things that could lift his spirits were the great white sharks and various whales that suddenly appeared.

These enormous creatures, not to mention with his current strength, even before they weren't opponents. Meeting him could only have one outcome—becoming food!

On this day, Baichuan, who was traveling as usual, suddenly froze and stopped his swimming figure.

He floated on the water surface using his already altered body structure, looked around, and laughed soundlessly.

A perception range of a full three kilometers allowed him to instantly discover a large number of huge creatures about eight meters long surrounding him. Their movements were orderly and uniform, like well-trained powerful soldiers.

At the same time, the various same-frequency complex sound waves constantly sounding in the seawater allowed Baichuan to directly sense from them meanings of excitement, agitation, or cursing.

Without using his naked eyes, he instantly knew what the creatures about to surround him were—Banzhu!

The true overlord of the ocean, the top-tier existence.

Only this kind of creature would exhibit such a high degree of social behavior and utter all kinds of cursing swear words.

It seemed they had taken him for an adult whale. Baichuan recalled the relationships between various creatures in the ocean, and then thought of his own body, now a full thirty meters long.

They probably mistook him for a blue whale, preparing to use the large number of their own kind in this sea area to bully and kill him.

But unfortunately, what they had run into this time was not a blue whale, but a deep-sea flood serpent that was both on fire and electrified.

Baichuan licked his mouth with great interest. He seemed to have already seen the sight of these guys about to kick an iron plate and flee in panic.

Although he really wanted to just stop and wait for them to arrive, in order not to arouse their suspicion, he decided to start swimming again, only much slower.

Soon, half an hour later.

Baichuan could already see with his naked eyes a patch of pitch-black in the distant water. Countless Banzhu with curved-knife-like dorsal fins exposed surrounded him from all directions.

And they no longer made any sound, each one silent and solemn, like assassins in the deep sea, swimming without stirring up any obvious ripples.

Baichuan counted carefully; there were about ninety of them. This was an extremely large number, perhaps all the Banzhu in this sea area. It seemed he had accidentally strayed into the territory belonging to the Banzhu.

Baichuan thought silently.

To be honest, if he really were a blue whale, with a slightly smaller body, leaving would perhaps be an extremely difficult matter, and it was even very possible that he could die miserably in this sea area. But unfortunately, he was not.

Seeing the Banzhu about to approach, Baichuan smiled, leaped up directly, spread his enormous wings, and flew toward the sea surface.

"Woo~~?"

"Woo~~?"

……

In an instant, Baichuan heard countless Banzhu stop their swimming bodies one after another, making puzzled sounds, as if wondering where the prey that was just there had gone?

Until one of them looked toward the sky and discovered a flood serpent with enormous wings flying, and sounded a warning, did the other Banzhu raise their heads one after another to watch.

In an instant, countless gazes turned toward the sky in unison, saluting Baichuan in the air.

Looking from afar, at this moment the sea surface was full of black-and-white Banzhu heads, looking very much like hungry baby birds waiting to be fed, especially since Baichuan could sense the comical wagging of their tail fins underwater.

At this, he laughed directly at this comical scene.

But since they had come all this way, of course a few needed to be left behind to serve as his food; he happened to be a little hungry.

Thinking this, Baichuan also extended a claw and rubbed his belly. Right now, he was consuming massive amounts of energy every moment.

Although he liked these creatures very much in his previous life, Baichuan now would not show mercy. When a creature cannot eat its fill, all other emotions are empty.

He looked toward the densest cluster of Banzhu, instantly adjusted his body, folded his wings, and plunged down violently.

"Boom!!!"

His enormous body slammed into the sea surface, raising tremendous waves, with countless sprays of water flying into the sky and turning into fine mist.

And among them, several Banzhu that were relatively far away were directly carried into the sky by the waves, and were now falling back into the sea along with the planet's gravity.

"Boom!!"

Another huge roar sounded, which was the sound of those several Banzhu falling back into the sea. Not long after, those few Banzhu were seen turning over their white bellies, clearly knocked out from the fall.

And at the center of the greatest disturbance on the sea surface, a patch of bright red slowly spread from the sea surface. That was a Banzhu smashed to death directly by Baichuan falling from a great height.

At this moment, the sea surface was turbulent, and the fluttering sprays of water began turning into small patches of fine rain falling back into the sea. And in this constantly churning sea, all the Banzhu were stunned.

As the true Banzhu of the ocean, in this relatively primitive era, so long as they were not surrounded by large numbers of water-attuned martial artists like those of the Great Zhou, they were, in a certain sense, invincible.

But these so powerful beings, today, in their usual bullying of the weak, encountered a monster.

A terrifying monster!

(End of this chapter)