Chapter 455: Damage Rebound Mechanism, the Water‑Drinking Octopus

Jiang Chen, in a single breath, flew over hundreds of kilometers, crossing countless Giant Stone fragments.

Until the earth began to change, he stopped.

He knew he had entered another BOSS's territory.

On this land, the boundaries of each area were clearly visible.

Just as between the realm of the giant‑leaf mother tree and the domain of the venomous jiao, there is an obvious boundary.

Jiang Chen was not clear about how these BOSSes interacted, nor whether they would fight.

But none of that concerned him.

Once he detected terrain change, he immediately descended.

Being in the air draws too much attention; if he encountered another flying BOSS, he would likely be targeted.

The ground where he landed was slightly soft.

There grew teal‑colored grass about half a foot tall, forming a meadow.

The meadow stretched endlessly; when Jiang Chen was in the air he couldn't even see its horizon.

Compared with the barren snake‑monster land, this place was full of vitality.

A gentle breeze brushed, lightly bending the grass, producing a rustling sound.

The meadow was not flat, but constantly undulating.

The grassy slope connected to higher grassy slopes, resembling a rolling Sea.

Jiang Chen walked on the meadow, constantly feeling something odd.

The earth was soft, the temperature pleasant, yet he could always feel a chilling cold from his feet.

Curious, Jiang Chen summoned a Skeleton Berserker, preparing to tear open the grass to see what lay beneath.

What exactly is under the grass, and why does it make him feel cold?

The grass proved unexpectedly tough; the Skeleton Berserker could not move it an inch.

That made it even stranger; if it were ordinary grass, how could it be so resilient?

Now this meadow gave Jiang Chen the feeling of being a single entity.

The grass does not grow

in the soil, but on some kind of solid mass.

Under Jiang Chen's command, the Skeleton Berserker raised its axe and struck down with full force.

A muffled thud.

Jiang Chen could feel the earth tremble slightly.

The Skeleton Berserker's power was Absorbed and digested, causing no damage.

"So tough."

Through this strike, Jiang Chen confirmed the meadow was incredibly tough, not much less than the previous snake‑monster land.

Another gust of wind blew, the grass bent slightly.

Jiang Chen sensed something wrong; this time the bent grass corners all pointed at the Skeleton Berserker.

Looking at the tips of the grass, they seemed to flash with a sharp sheen.

Whoosh!

A crisp sound of cutting through the air suddenly rang out.

Jiang Chen instinctively stepped back several paces.

Countless surrounding grass spears shot out like swords, striking the Skeleton Berserker with a tinkling "ding‑ding‑ding" sound.

The Skeleton Berserker instantly suffered massive damage.

Jiang Chen was greatly surprised; if not for the full connection, that Skeleton Berserker would have been dead.

In that instant, at least a hundred blades of grass flew out simultaneously.

After one round of attack, the grass returned to the ground, regaining its softness.

The previous scene seemed as if it never happened, extremely dreamy.

Jiang Chen was somewhat shocked.

He thought it was the Skeleton Berserker's strike that triggered the grass's counterattack.

The reason there was only one wave of counterattack was because the Skeleton Berserker only struck once.

If it had struck several times.

Jiang Chen again ordered the Skeleton Berserker to smash the ground with its axe, using slightly less force than before.

Jiang Chen then stepped back again, watching from afar.

Sure enough, another batch of grass flew out, striking the Skeleton Berserker like swords.

Only

this time the number of grass blades was far fewer than last time.

After a synchronized wave, the grass returned to its original place, back onto the earth.

"Try again."!

Jiang Chen felt a stir in his heart, and the Skeleton Berserker struck down again.

This time the Skeleton Berserker's axe flashed with Red Light, activating a Skill, its power several times greater than before.

With a booming crash, the earth shook again, sending the sound far.

The next second, something that shocked Jiang Chen occurred.

Within a radius of several hundred meters, all the grass simultaneously pointed at the Skeleton Berserker.

In an instant, ten thousand grasses flew together.

Crack—clack struck the Skeleton Berserker.

The once blue‑green grassland instantly became a barren patch.

Jiang Chen didn't even think; he quickly summoned the Undead Legion, letting the Lich General perform healing.

Within a radius of several hundred meters, the number of small grasses numbered in the tens of thousands.

At the same time, it hit the Skeleton Berserker, instantly dealing massive damage.

These damages were collectively shared by all members of the Undead Legion.

All Skeletons were wounded simultaneously.

Fortunately, this attack lasted only one wave; after that wave, things returned to normal.

"One hit, then another."

"The stronger the attack, the stronger the counterattack."

"This grassland seems to have a damage‑reflection property."

He recalled a Knight skill: Damage Reflection.

A Knight's Damage Reflection skill can bounce the enemy's attack back unchanged.

This grassland appears to work the same way.

The stronger the Skeleton Berserker's attack, the greater the reflected damage.

But when he stepped on the small grass, clearly flattening it, he seemed to receive no counterattack.

This shows it has a threshold; only when exceeded does the damage‑reflection mechanism activate.

Jiang Chen tried to lift

his foot, pressing down with a slight force.

Its strength is no weak; this step, Jiang Chen estimated, used about 50,000 points of force.

Sure enough, the next second, Jiang Chen saw hundreds of small grasses simultaneously point at him, locking onto him.

It was a lock from the Spirit, unavoidable.

The small grasses flew out, striking him, but were blocked by Bone Armor.

After several experiments, Jiang Chen confirmed his hypothesis.

This land, besides being incredibly resilient, also possesses a damage‑reflection property.

Normal walking causes no issue, but applying a bit of force will provoke a counterattack.

For example, a Skeleton Berserker walking on it causes no problem.

Once it exerts force to run, overexerting will likewise trigger reflection.

In the experiment, the Skeleton Berserker sprinted ahead, while small grasses continuously rose from the ground behind to attack the Skeleton Berserker.

That scene was indescribably beautiful.

Having clearly understood this, Jiang Chen decisively used Lightning Nether Spirit Wings, no longer stepping on the grass,

maintaining roughly half a meter altitude, flying forward at speed.

Walking step by step was too slow; moving faster would invite attacks.

Low‑altitude flight was better.

The grassland was very quiet; Jiang Chen traveled several kilometers, still encountering no monsters.

All this made him think there were no monsters on this land.

Until he saw a Lake.

Lakes appearing on a grassland are perfectly normal, and Jiang Chen felt no surprise.

He even wondered whether the monsters might be in the lake water.

But what happened next completely shattered his imagination.

In the center of the Lake, a vortex began to form, the lake water vanishing rapidly, in the blink of an eye

already disappeared without a trace.

This Lake wasn't large, its radius about thirty meters; calling it a pond wouldn't be inaccurate.

After the water dried, a gigantic monster crawled up.

The monster resembled an octopus from the Sea, its whole body blue‑green, bearing eight massive tentacles.

Each tentacle exceeded twenty meters in length.

The octopus monster swiftly crawled across the grassland, its coloration changing simultaneously, blending with the blue‑green grassland, and finally vanishing outright.

This disappearance wasn't Invisibility; it altered its color to merge with the grassland.

Not only was it hard for the naked eye to discern, even Jiang Chen's Spiritual Power struggled to separate it from the grassland.

Its color merged with the grassland, and its aura did as well.

Jiang Chen instantly felt a chilling dread.

Jiang Chen thought that perhaps he had already encountered a monster along the way, without realizing it.

Without startling it, Jiang Chen arrived at the spot of the previous Lake.

A deep pit appeared here, a circular hole thirty meters in diameter and five meters deep.

The surface grass had vanished, revealing what lay beneath.

Jiang Chen then realized that about a meter beneath the grass was a thick layer of ice.

The ice layer was thick, its depth bottomless.

"It's drinking water."

Jiang Chen realized that the monster had melted the ice layer, then drank the resulting meltwater.

After drinking, it left, the whole process silent.

The wind blew over, and Jiang Chen felt something strange.

A grassland full of vitality, a grassland that harms and rebounds, a grassland of unparalleled toughness.

Under it

Below, there was a thick layer of ice.

"Could it be that this used to be a Sea?"

"It's just that it froze into ice, and then grass grew on top."

Jiang Chen thought that only this could explain the scene he saw; otherwise, how could a water creature like an octopus, which lives in the Sea, appear here?

It's far too illogical.

Just as he was thinking, an Explosion sound suddenly came from not far away.

The Explosion sound, bearing massive force, swept in all directions.

The vast grassland trembled, and countless blades of grass within a range of thousands of meters sprang up, shooting toward the direction of the Explosion.

Jiang Chen once again beheld an astonishing sight.