Chapter 142: Giant Beasts of the Deep Sea

At the same time, not long after Baichuan released the power of the Light Point.

In some far more distant and deeper waters, within a space that was pitch-black at a single glance.

Suddenly, several dozen pairs of crimson eyes lit up; along with the appearance of those crimson eyes, the currents began to churn violently, stirring up a cloud of murk.

"Moo——!!!"

From within that murk, a sound that was both distant and ethereal began to rise, spreading outward from the deepest seabed across the entire stretch of water.

Then a massive shadow began to move, heading in the direction of the white Light Point; as it swam, the several dozen pairs of crimson eyes spread apart, and only then was it revealed that those crimson eyes had actually been growing along thick, long black shadows.

If at this moment Baichuan—or any creature capable of understanding the information carried within the sounds of various living beings—were present.

They would surely have been able to hear that distant, ethereal voice conveying a somewhat muddled piece of information: half… half-body?

Unfortunately, this was the deepest seabed on the entire planet.

……

At this point, Time once again began to slip away.

In the blink of an eye, five days had passed.

And on this day, the giant flood serpent finally found, within this topographically complex seabed, a colossal volcano that stood upon the ocean floor like a mountain range on land.

Before even getting close, Baichuan had already felt the surrounding water temperature begin to rise sharply.

One must remember, this was more than two thousand meters beneath the sea; from this alone, one could tell that this volcano was certainly not one of those dormant dead volcanoes.

Fortunately, Baichuan was not afraid of heat—in fact, he could now be called a darling of flame; this much temperature was to him merely "not quite cold enough."

Without much hesitation, he directly swung his enormous tail fin and swam toward the vicinity of the volcano's crater.

He hoped this trip would go smoothly; so many days had already been wasted.

Baichuan thought silently to himself. Now that he had grown accustomed to having an entire dynasty search for resources on his behalf, he increasingly felt that searching alone, just him as a single snake, took far too long. What a pity that no one could help in waters this deep.

While pondering, he also drew near the volcano and began searching inch by inch; every living creature he encountered, he devoured using the Light Point.

That's right—creatures devoured by the Light Point also counted as something he had eaten. Perhaps on his panel, the Light Point was considered a part of him.

It was just a pity that his panel was too rigid: only ability models that had been successfully scanned would display specific information, and only then would he know which ability model belonged to the scaly-footed snail.

Sighing, Baichuan began the long wait of searching; he simply kept eating the various creatures near the volcano while waiting for the panel to scan out the scaly-footed snail's ability model.

Time slipped by once again—another three days.

Baichuan had gradually grown used to this; Time no longer needed to be taken too seriously by him.

For him, who possessed the ability "Deep Sleep LV4 (Limit)," even without entering the state of deep sleep where his lifespan came to a complete halt, it was already enough to slow the consumption of his lifespan during rest, letting him treat one day as two or even three.

After all, the lifespan displayed on his panel did not factor in such special abilities—it only calculated cellular health and division count.

And on this day, as a notification popped up on his panel, Baichuan was instantly thrilled; looking at the ability model he had been longing for—the scaly-footed snail—he was for a moment beside himself with excitement.

It was no wonder he was so excited, still flustered after so long; the significance represented by this ability model was simply too weighty.

This was the very foundation of all his plans!

Without it, although his plans could still begin, the time required would be far too long and far too wasteful.

"Hoo~~"

He exhaled a deep breath of stale air, sending up a string of bubbles; now that he had truly obtained this ability, Baichuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He had been afraid this little fellow didn't exist in these waters, on this seemingly-familiar yet unfamiliar planet; now the great stone weighing on his heart had finally dropped.

Without much hesitation, Baichuan impatiently opened his panel, went straight to the ability structure library, and selected this ability model to examine.

As the faint glow of the panel flickered, the information upon it was fully reflected into Baichuan's eyes:

【Species: Scaly-footed Snail.】

【Abilities: Tunjin LV3 (Banzhu), Naire LV3 (Banzhu).】

Tunjin: Chews through iron and gold, transforming the metals swallowed into armor for itself.

"It's done!"

That was Baichuan's very first thought upon seeing this ability model; the moment this ability was evolved out by him, he would possess the first step of wingless Flight!

Thinking of this, Baichuan was so excited he wished he could begin evolving on the spot, but for safety's sake, he still restrained his impatient mood.

Although he was very strong, the moment he began evolving was when he was at his weakest.

In this Shenhai Qu, it wasn't as if there were no creatures comparable to him in size; moreover, he hadn't finished exploring the deep sea—exactly whether there were any on par with him… hmm?

While pondering, Baichuan suddenly sensed an odd situation arise: his Chaoshenbo Ganzhi Xitong had silently developed a problem!

Baichuan slowly turned around and looked a kilometer away; there, an incomparably massive beast was rapidly approaching, and all the sound waves emitted by his Chaoshenbo Ganzhi Xitong had, without a sound, vanished in one patch.

This phenomenon was just like encountering that special material from Yingu back then—the ultrasonic waves were silently absorbed, completely unable to carry information back as echoes.

If he hadn't possessed more than one sensory system, by now the unknown creature would probably have had to get right up next to him before he sensed it.

Fortunately, his water-current fluctuation sensory system had detected massive water-current disturbances a kilometer away.

For the first time, Baichuan was grateful that the sensory systems on his body were not just one set, but one after another!

Only in this way could he detect the target in advance despite the failure of his ultrasonic system; otherwise, he might very well have been ambushed.

While pondering, Baichuan also slowly adjusted his posture and gradually entered a combat state.

At this moment, the mysterious rune-like indentations across his body began to light up.

That was because he was getting excited; the excitement caused the heat within his body to become full, so much so that the heat revealed itself through the indentations that had always remained across his body's surface.

An unknown colossal beast charging toward him with such momentum—it was a foe, not a friend.

On this planet where he had almost no equal, suddenly encountering another massive deep-sea monster once more, Baichuan's first thought was excitement.

Because it had been a long time since he had met a worthy opponent; ever since that one fight with Zhang Dadan back when he was still weak, he had never again encountered an opponent who could match him blow for blow.

Crushing victories were satisfying, but he also wanted a thrilling, blood-pumping, flesh-against-flesh brawl—a thrilling, blood-pumping, flesh-against-flesh brawl!

Come on, put up a real fight!

At this moment, Baichuan was silently muttering within his heart.

(End of Chapter)