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"Retreat!"

Zi Yue’s body flashed with purple light as she took the lead in falling back.

Murong reacted, grabbing Bai Yu and they both retreated swiftly.

As a top-tier Wind Sorcery practitioner, even in the vast ocean, her speed was incredibly fast. However, as quickly as they retreated, the pursuing tentacles were even faster!

The entire space was densely packed with them, thick as a person’s body and numbering in the millions. This spectacle, accompanied by the terrifying currents of the sea, was so grand that even these worldly-wise trio found their eyelids twitching uncontrollably.

What in the world were these things?

Not daring to engage lightly, the three retreated at breakneck speeds. Yet, the tentacles, seemingly capable of stretching endlessly, persistently followed. After retreating tens of thousands of fathoms, they were still within their chasing range, and soon they realized they were being encircled.

It was as if the monster had preempted their retreat route, with many tentacles already sweeping in from behind.

Just how massive was this creature?

It was almost discernable that these tentacles were all part of the same being. Given the horrifying number and length, the monster’s own size must be unimaginable, perhaps as large as a Provincial Government Office!

The thought alone was absurd to the trio. A monster larger than a Provincial Government Office?

Wouldn’t it simply bulldoze the Central Plains if it came ashore?

How could such a creature possibly exist in this world?

And this was only one of them. If all the creatures from the Dragon Palace were let loose, what on earth could survive?

But at the moment, the so-called future couldn’t be contemplated. They had to first dodge to stay alive.

"Go upwards!"

Unleashing the full force of Murong’s Wind Technique, concentrated wind energy transformed into razor-sharp blades, with thousands of wind blades erupting and severing the encircling tentacles!

"They are not very strong!" Murong remarked with a glimmer of joy in her eyes. This creature was unbelievably enormous, but its physical strength wasn’t impressive, not even as strong as the Third Rank demonic wolves from the plains. At most, it was akin to a Fourth Rank Warrior’s vitality.

But Murong’s smile quickly faded.

The severed tentacles suddenly twisted on their own, wriggling for a few moments, then eerily started swimming swiftly towards her!

A chill ran down Murong Yunji’s spine as she once again unleashed countless wind blades, slashing the swarming tentacles into numerous segments.

However, a more horrifying scene unfolded. No matter how many pieces they were cut into, these flesh strands could rapidly move and reform, swiftly lunging towards them again, as if they could never be killed, leaving Murong stunned.

"Move!" Zi Yue roared, charging upwards on the wind, with Murong and Bai Yu promptly following suit!

"This creature... it’s not quite rational!" Bai Yu looked below, suppressing her astonishment, "An indestructible flesh, and the severed pieces seem to be under command, constantly targeting us!"

Zi Yue nodded. There are indeed some soft-bodied creatures in reality that can move after being severed, but they lose control after the cut, acting only on instinct.

But this beast seemed different, as if even its severed flesh had a consciousness, focusing only on them.

"And it can contaminate the water," Zi Yue observed the spreading black blood, "This creature’s blood likely carries a potent poison!"

Murong looked down and instantly saw that the black liquid oozing from the creature’s wounds seemed to have a life of its own as it spread. Just the thought made her scalp tingle.

Luckily, they had retreated quickly, for if they had been entangled by those tentacles for even a moment, the toxins alone might have prevented them from ever getting out.

"Doesn’t that make this beast invincible?" Murong said, disbelief writ large on her face.

Vast in size, its flesh almost impossible to kill, each slash of the blade only seemed to complicate matters. How were they supposed to fight this?

"There are no invincible creatures in this world," Zi Yue stated coldly, recalling the King of Qin’s words.

Don’t be frightened by the terror of these monsters. Everything in this world, no matter how strong it seems, has a weakness. The stronger they seem, the more deadly their weakness!

With that thought, Zi Yue’s hands moved in Technique gestures, her body flashing with starlight. The next moment, a purple flame, sharp as a sword, beamed down and instantly pierced through hundreds of oncoming tentacles.

And this time, the tentacles did not split like before—the flesh tainted by the flames rapidly dissolved, and from the depths of the dark, a terribly horrific wail erupted!!

"Afraid of fire?" Murong’s eyes lit up.

But the light died instantly...

This place... is underwater!

If they were on the shore, she could have combined efforts with Zi Yue, using the wind to aid the fire, confident that no matter how large the monster, she could burn it thoroughly. But underwater, even a powerhouse like Zi Yue could not expand the scale of fire with her technique!

Sure enough, even the flames strengthened by Zi Yue could not last long in the water and quickly dimmed!

What to do now?

Murong’s heart sank into an icy chill—facing such a monster, and underwater at that, it was sheer despair!

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Damn, my luck really stinks!

At this moment, deep under the sea, Chen Qing rapidly used his flesh and blood to dodge the endless pursuit of tentacles.

I’d forgotten—this monster can use water techniques!

When I designed it, I indeed made it somewhat too perverted...

A being that could expand its body without limit, physical cutting was completely ineffective, and worst of all, once a tentacle was severed, it could act independently and carry a deadly poison; it was the nightmare of every physical warrior!

This design was based on the characteristics of an octopus. Those who understand octopuses know that each tentacle has its own nervous system; Chen Qing exaggerated this characteristic when he created it, making the creature exceedingly deadly.

Imagine this scene: an octopus monster the size of a city comes ashore, the soldiers muster their courage, exerting all their strength to chop the monster’s enormous tentacles into several segments, but then those tentacles immediately start crawling up and killing people on their own.

If you cut them into a thousand pieces, you get a thousand enemies; cut them into ten thousand, and there appear ten thousand terrifying aliens.

Endless and pervasive. No matter how huge it was, as long as there was a gap, it could squeeze in.

Remember when such a monster first appeared in a city?

Players toiled hard to shred the beasts into countless pieces, only to turn around and find soldiers and civilians cleanly slaughtered by the severed tentacles in a scene of utter despair.

Moreover, this creature possessed a potent neurotoxin; the more you killed, the longer you were exposed to its blood, the less you could muster your fighting strength.

Even the strongest warriors would grow weaker with toxin exposure; I remember in those days, the official forum was filled with warriors’ players sending affectionate regards to my whole family.

Chen Qing knew he absolutely could not engage this thing in close combat underwater. Not to mention himself, even if King Gui Xiang came at this stage and tried brute force, he’d likely be played to death by this thing here!

Of course, Chen Qing naturally knew its weakness.

The creature feared fire and light, so the Dragon Clan would take advantage of rainy, overcast days to let it invade the cities onshore.

The Dragon Clan originally designed this creature to cooperate with the weather.

Capable of controlling the climate, they would simply lure the monster ashore, annihilate the enemy, and then immediately dispel the stormy weather, making it easy to resolve such a menace by letting it bake under the sun for a short while.

This thing was a bona fide biological weapon. Used up and then dried into jerky, it could even replenish the army’s food supplies—simply perfect.

But you have to be careful underwater. Once released, if it devours too powerful a creature, it will rapidly expand.

If it gets too big, it might honestly burst the sea floor!

I recall a few servers where players accidentally released the thing underwater, allowing it to swallow thousands of flood dragons and grow massively.

By the time it reached the shore, it was about the size of the Central Plains, and with one plain attack, the entire Central Plains region was shattered, and all the players were done for.

Chen Qing naturally did not dare let this thing loose.

He had to avoid it and find that particular item he was looking for in the next space.

As the designer, if the Abyss Jade was still following his original design, he would naturally know how to navigate through the many spaces, but he was also very clear that once he crossed, this creature, starved for tens of thousands of years, would certainly follow him through.

The gate could not be opened lightly; this thing, having grown to its current scale, would likely be unbeatable by the monsters behind the other gates.

If it were to devour something of a similar level, the array. .. might not hold it any longer!

By then... everyone would be utterly doomed.

This was also why Chen Qing cursed his own bad luck.

According to his initial idea upon entering, regardless of any monster he encountered, he was unafraid.

As long as he wasn’t killed instantly, he could flee to the spatial gate and into the place where another monster was detained.

With the aggressive nature of biological weapons, any monster following him to another space would surely fight with the monster there.

Using such a fire-supplying effect, he could solve most of the terrifying creatures in this abyss.

But alas... the Heavenly Ghost Octopus was the exception. It was the only one he had to avoid using as firewood.