Chapter 253: Bloody Octopus, Sudden Aberration

The blood lake's diameter is over twenty kilometers; even though the bloody octopus is huge, trying to find its silhouette in this blood lake where visibility is almost zero is certainly no easy task.

Fortunately, the search involves over two thousand pale undead beings, who comb the blood lake in a carpet-like search from all directions.

With this numerical advantage, in less than half an hour Su Hao heard a booming bang coming from within the blood lake.

Immediately in his perception, the soul fires of over a dozen pale skeleton warriors were extinguished.

"Finally found you!"

Su Hao's face showed a hint of joy; he immediately mounted the pale bone dragon beside him and flew toward the direction where that squad of pale skeleton warriors had died.

Boom—! But just then, a sudden loud noise came from another direction, and in Su Hao's perception, the soul fire of another squad of pale skeleton warriors was extinguished.

"Could there be another bloody octopus?"

The time between the two booms was extremely short, yet their distance was extremely great, clearly indicating that the beings that killed these two squads of pale skeleton warriors were not the same.

But logically, there should only be one overlord in a given place.

Even if this blood lake is not small, it's impossible for two bloody octopuses to survive here.

As the saying goes, one mountain cannot hold two tigers; even if they are male and female, living in the same blood lake would force them to fight to the death.

After all, the blood in the blood lake is directly tied to the bloody octopus's survival.

As long as the blood in the lake can dry up, the bloody octopus can continually heal its wounds, effectively gaining an undead ability; how could they possibly share this lake with other bloody octopuses?

Boom—! Before Su Hao could think further, another loud noise came from yet another direction, and the soul fire of yet another squad of pale skeleton warriors was extinguished.

Then came the third, fourth...

In the end, a series of twelve booms sounded, and twelve squads of pale skeleton warriors perished in the blood lake.

"Twelve third-tier supernatural bloody octopuses—this blood lake is not so simple."

Su Hao stroked his chin, his brows slightly furrowed.

If there were two bloody octopuses in this blood lake, one could still argue that the lake is large enough to meet their survival needs, allowing them to coexist peacefully.

But if twelve bloody octopuses were simultaneously living in this blood lake, that would clearly be off; likely the lake hides some secret unknown to Su Hao.

Su Hao stood on the pale bone dragon's back, looking down at the mysterious, profound blood lake below; its water was scarlet and viscous, concealing some unknown danger and secret.

But Su Hao had no interest in that; his purpose here was clear—to hunt a bloody octopus, take its heart, and concoct the magic elixir he needs to advance to third-tier blood mage.

This matter concerns whether Su Hao's supernatural sequence can rise to third-tier; he cannot afford the slightest distraction.

As for other potential secrets in the blood lake, though intriguing, Su Hao knows now is not the time to investigate them.

His primary task is to complete the hunt and withdraw safely; after all, in a world full of unknowns and dangers, curiosity could bring unnecessary trouble.

Therefore, he resolved that once the hunt succeeded, he would immediately withdraw from the area.

He believes that as long as his actions are swift and decisive, any potential danger will be hard to reach him.

After all, speed often determines the line between survival and danger.

As for the lake's secrets, one can first kill the bloody octopus, leave this blood lake, and then explore them.

Su Hao's gaze was deep; he had already made his decision.

He temporarily set aside his curiosity; his top priority is a quick battle—kill a bloody octopus and fulfill the main objective of this expedition.

He controlled the pale bone dragon, flying toward the nearest bloody octopus.

He took from his storage bag that death scythe emanating a faint magical power.

This death scythe is not only unmatched in sharpness, but can also directly attack the souls of living beings, making it the best weapon against bloody octopuses.

The bloody octopus, this third-tier monster, possesses astonishing regenerative ability.

As long as it is in the blood lake, it can swiftly heal any wound by absorbing the scarlet blood, giving it an almost indestructible flesh.

Therefore, Su Hao did not choose conventional physical attack but plans to directly shatter the bloody octopus's soul with a single strike of the death scythe.

Once its soul fire is extinguished, no matter how astonishing its flesh's regenerative power, it will ultimately be futile.

The bone dragon's speed is astonishing as it speeds across the lake surface.

Soon, it brought Su Hao rapidly close to that bloody octopus.

This bloody octopus's appearance is horrifying; its body over a hundred meters tall is entirely formed of surging fresh blood, like a moving blood tower, and a pungent bloody smell assaults the nose.

Its body flickers with an eerie red light; blood drops continually slide from its surface, re-merging into the blood lake, each drop containing powerful evil energy.

Its head presents an irregular, twisted shape; a pair of huge blood-red eyes flash with cold, cruel light.

In its enormous mouthpart, there are no distinct teeth, but one can faintly see its immense suction within, as if it could devour everything.

The bloody octopus's most striking feature is its eight thick tentacles.

These tentacles are soft yet powerful, astonishingly long, and they wave and twist in the air.

These tentacles are not only immensely strong but also extremely flexible, able to easily coil and constrict prey until suffocation; whenever they swing, the surrounding lake water is churned into huge waves, displaying their tremendous power.

About one-third of the bloody octopus's body is deeply submerged in the blood lake, as if fused with the water, allowing it to continuously draw strength from it.

Whenever its body is injured, it can swiftly draw fresh blood from the lake to instantly heal the wound; this ability makes it nearly immortal.

When the bloody octopus saw Su Hao approaching, it instantly became ferocious; its huge blood-red eyes flashed with cold light, and without further ado it launched a violent attack.

Only see its tentacles lash out like lightning, their suckers flaring open, shooting out hundreds of blood arrows from within.

These blood arrows pierce the air with a fierce whistling sound, forming a crimson rain curtain aimed directly at Su Hao and the pale bone dragon beneath him.

But that's not all; the bloody octopus has rich combat experience; although it hasn't gauged Su Hao's true strength, it can tell at a glance that the pale bone dragon is also a third-tier supernatural being.

Relying solely on these blood arrows is clearly insufficient to end the battle.

Immediately afterward, the bloody octopus swung its tentacles in momentum.

These tentacles, as lively as living snakes, lashed at the pale bone dragon from eight different directions, kicking up gusts of wind.

Even though they were tens of meters apart, they still caused the lake surface below to roll up waves several meters high. At the same time, the bloody octopus's entire body surged with blood energy, controlling the lake's blood water to form a hundred-meter-high blood wave that swept toward the pale bone dragon.

These blood waves surged like a tsunami, carrying the power to destroy heaven and earth.

The bloody octopus's movements are extremely fast; these three attacks were nearly simultaneous, completely sealing off the pale bone dragon's evasion space.

Moreover, these three attacks all contain extremely terrifying destructive power.

Even a Third Tier supernatural, if they forcibly resisted this barrage, would likely suffer serious injury.

However, facing such an attack, the pale bone dragon acted as if it hadn't seen it, making no defense at all and flying straight toward the bloody octopus.

Su Hao, on the back of the pale bone dragon, was as steady as Mount Tai, his expression unchanged.

When Su Hao possessed a fourth-tier supernatural physique and spirit, his physique had reached mid-fourth tier.

Although the blood arrows, tentacles, and blood waves launched by the third-tier bloody octopus were fierce and violent, they could not pierce his defenses; to him, these attacks were like a tickle, posing no threat.

However, the pale bone dragon beneath Su Hao did not possess such formidable strength.

Seeing the sky-full of blood arrows pouring down like a heavy rain, under Su Hao's command the pale bone dragon neither dodged nor evaded, flying straight ahead.

To achieve a quick victory, some sacrifices are necessary.

In the end, these arrows imbued with great power pierced the pale bone dragon's bones, leaving shocking round holes.

Next, the bloody octopus's tentacles lashed from eight directions, striking the pale bone dragon's body hard; its body shook violently under the heavy blows, nearly falling apart.

The most terrifying attack, however, was the ensuing blood wave.

This huge blood wave, hundreds of meters high, surged like a tsunami and completely engulfed the pale bone dragon.

Under the blood wave's crushing pressure, the dragon's skeleton emitted sounds of being unable to bear the load, finally collapsing completely into a pile of bone fragments.

In the bloody octopus's perception, the pale bone dragon's aura had vanished under its attack, and its ferocious face instantly broke into a grin.

Boom! But at that moment, a figure burst through the blood-filled sky and appeared above the bloody octopus.

"It's over..."

Without waiting for the bloody octopus to react, Su Hao chuckled lightly, then used his giantification skill to enlarge the death scythe in his hand to over a hundred meters long.

Immediately, Su Hao swung the enormous death scythe, striking the bloody octopus with almost inconceivable speed and force.

All that was heard was a 'puff' sound, like a blade slicing paper, as the death scythe cleaved the bloody octopus's body in half.

A large amount of fresh blood spurted out, dyeing the entire lake surface red, as the bloody octopus's massive body collapsed with a thunderous crash, sending up huge waves.

If the bloody octopus's body were merely cut in half, it would not be enough to kill a creature with astonishing regenerative ability.

However, the death scythe is no ordinary weapon; besides being extremely sharp, it also contains a lethal attack on the soul.

When Su Hao's spirit power rose to the supernatural level, the power of this fifth-tier supernatural weapon—the death scythe—had been largely unsealed.

At the moment the scythe fell, the bloody octopus not only had its body split in two, but its soul also suffered severe damage.

For a fourth-tier supernatural with slightly weaker soul strength, a single blow from the death scythe would shatter its soul, let alone a third-tier supernatural creature like the bloody octopus.

After the blow, the bloody octopus's originally cold and ruthless gaze quickly dissipated, losing all luster.

It seemed that, because death came too swiftly, its flesh had not yet realized its soul had vanished, and it instinctively continued to self-repair its wounded body.

The blood-red lake water seemed to respond to some summons, beginning to ripple and slowly flow into the bisected body of the bloody octopus.

Nourished by the blood, the flesh buds at the wound grew at a visible speed, attempting to reconnect the divided body.

As time passed, the two halves drew closer, the flesh buds merged, forming new tissue.

Before long, the bloody octopus's flesh had fully healed, as if it had never been injured.

However, all this does not change the fact that the bloody octopus is already dead.

Even though his flesh had healed, without a soul he could not be revived.

On the lake surface, the bloody octopus's body drifted silently, merging with the blood lake as if it were merely a part of it.

Su Hao fell into the lake water, watching this scene, his expression unchanged.

Killing a mere third-tier supernatural monster—there's simply no accident, right?

Based on the foregoing events, Su Hao immediately moved his thought and stored the bloody octopus's corpse into his storage bag.

Although this lake still hides some secret, the huge commotion caused by the recent battle may have already attracted the attention of some monster.

Moreover, refining such a third-tier supernatural monster often consumes considerable time.

No matter how you look at it, refining here is unsuitable; Su Hao plans to first leave the blood lake and find a safe place to talk.

However, just as he was about to set off, an anomaly suddenly erupted in the blood lake.

Seeing the surrounding lake surface suddenly churn, forming eleven giant whirlpools, as if eleven deep eyes were spinning on the lake.

Next.

From these whirlpools, bloody octopuses emerged one after another, waving their tentacles in the lake water and letting out angry roars.

These bloody octopuses look and are sized exactly like the one Su Hao previously killed, obviously also possessing third-tier supernatural combat strength.

These bloody octopuses were originally scattered across various corners of the blood lake, some several kilometers from Su Hao, some even over ten kilometers away.

But at the moment that bloody octopus died, they seemed to have undergone instantaneous movement, bursting from the whirlpools and all appearing beside Su Hao.

This abnormal situation made Su Hao deeply feel the strangeness and unusualness of this blood lake.

At least from this we can be certain: in this blood lake there will certainly not be only these bloody octopuses; very likely there is also some fourth-tier supernatural entity.

Or perhaps the blood lake itself possesses some special power.

As for whether there exists a fifth-tier supernatural being, Su Hao cannot yet determine, but regardless, it is inadvisable to stay here; he must quickly escape the encirclement of these eleven bloody octopuses.

(End of chapter)