Chapter 536 - 299: Planet

Chapter 536: Chapter 299: Planet

’The Secret Sea... Why has it become like this?’

Rhine scratched his head, truly perplexed.

’I heard the Secret Sea is facing its Doomsday, but what am I supposed to do about that?’

’It seems like all I have to do is kill myself to go back.’

’But killing myself would hurt... I’d rather not if I don’t have to.’

’Besides, I’m really curious.’

’What’s going to happen to the Secret Sea?’

Rhine had always been full of curiosity, passionate about exploring everything the world had to offer.

’As for danger and all that...’

’If I really run into it, I’ll just have to chalk it up to bad luck~ Haha.’

"Well, this is a tough spot."

Rhine was in the seawater, watching the Demons surging toward him from all directions. ’Tier Seven Demons?’

’This is really bad.’

A few Tier Six Submerged Land Level Demons would have been manageable, but with this many Tier Seven Demons, it really felt like his doom was upon him.

’Looks like my time is up~’

Rhine rubbed the back of his head, a helpless look on his face.

The Demon’s giant maw opened before him, ready to snap shut!

But just then.

SWOOSH!

The darkness leading into the mouth of some unknown Demon suddenly transformed into colorful fireworks!

BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG—

Wave after wave of fireworks exploded before his eyes!

"Ooooh~"

"I didn’t expect to run into a passerby in distress here. Hahahaha, you’re saved." A man with curly brown hair had appeared out of nowhere.

And the moment he appeared,

all the surrounding Demons had turned into celebratory fireworks!

’Fireworks?’

"You are?"

Rhine tilted his head, asking in confusion.

"Just a kindhearted person passing by, ah ha~ I was hiding from a terrifying group of pursuers these last few days, and while I was hiding, this place suddenly turned into this."

"I have a feeling there’s something down below."

"Want to go check it out with me?"

"Me?" Rhine asked. "Haha, but we just met, right?"

The curly-haired man laughed heartily. "Ahaha, it’s fine. I feel like we’ll get along great~ Are you from Yakadikto’s faction?"

Without any hesitation, Rhine answered frankly, "Yeah."

"Oh, what a coincidence! I have a friend who used to be in the Lucky Church too..."

The two of them hit it off as if they were old friends.

They quickly struck up a conversation, and Rhine completely forgot about the Demons that had nearly killed him just moments ago.

...

「Secret Sea—Deep Sea」

The golden Holy Flame burned continuously. Even in the seawater, the Flame showed no sign of extinguishing.

The Sea of Parasites, tainted by this Flame, was constantly receding.

In the seawater, its colorful parts were also being burned away.

This Divine Artifact provided an immense boost to his combat power.

Lu Cang even felt that with this Divine Artifact, he could easily defeat the Golden Dragon even without the Heaven-Ascending Realm of Perfection.

As long as he could keep up with its Speed.

This sword should also be able to cut through the Golden Dragon’s scales... which meant he could easily break the defense of any Reincarnator below Level 8.

Mm.

Of course, he had another way to break through defenses: directly attacking his opponent’s Date of Death.

The Date of Death of these Demons.

They were all around a few hundred years in the future.

Perhaps this meant that in a few hundred years, someone would come to deal with them.

Countless colorful streams enveloped Lu Cang!

It was a liquid, a type of seawater, and at the same time, a form of life...

WHOOSH!

His sword stabbed into the colorful seawater. Although it didn’t hit anything solid, the paint-like body of his opponent began to incinerate.

It was a creature that was almost incorporeal.

This place was the sea itself.

And it, too, was the sea.

The two had completely merged into one...

At the same time, Lu Cang’s Perception of matter was also picking up many sensations.

In truth, it could be considered a special type of liquid.

The golden Holy Flame seared it from multiple places at once. The Sea of Parasites inevitably collapsed, finally transforming into a mass of iridescent Undead behind Lu Cang.

It spread out across the entire stretch of sea behind him.

SPLASH—

Like a great net!

The countless Demons behind him were still in hot pursuit of Lu Cang...

’No, they aren’t necessarily chasing me.’

After a closer look, Lu Cang realized they all seemed to be chasing Kumironi. In fact, all the Demons within a ten-thousand-kilometer radius had been drawn to her.

When he realized their true target was actually Kumironi,

Lu Cang couldn’t help but recall that Aertemi’s target had also been Kumironi.

A Divine being... traveling thousands of miles from the Moon Sea’s main base, all the way to the Secret Sea just to capture Kumironi.

’Thinking about it carefully, it was no simple matter.’

Considering Kumironi’s potential as a Healing Mage, ’Could she be like Tang Monk’s Flesh?’

However, Lu Cang couldn’t just leave Kumironi to fend for herself.

In this place teeming with Demons, all of them were targeting Kumironi, and she had never shown any combat ability capable of defeating a Tier Seven Demon.

’I can’t possibly just abandon her here to die, can I?’

SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH—

After he finally defeated the Sea of Parasites, the Demons behind him attacked again.

But this time, as they charged, they went straight into the body of the Sea of Parasites.

Lu Cang watched as their bodies turned colorful at a visible rate.

Then, they gradually changed from the inside out. Their original flesh-and-blood forms blurred, and in just over ten seconds, they became nothing but an ethereal patch of color.

And from start to finish, these Demons didn’t resist at all.

The Sea of Parasites had no killing intent and no subjective will.

It was just like seawater.

The only difference was that when it sensed a creature it wanted to prey on, it would spread toward the target like dye poured into the ocean.

This was its method of predation.

And an Undead with no killing intent... meant it had no hostility in the eyes of the Demons.

Demons would actively hunt creatures with High Spirituality.

But toward a creature with such Low Spirituality, it was like a zombie seeing one of its own—they would simply ignore it.

They wouldn’t react unless attacked first.

"This is really useful."

’This dive has certainly enriched my collection of Undead.’

Lu Cang made a casual gesture.

Tentacles thrashed about, and a massive wall of blood and shell rose up.

These were all Tier Seven Demons.

’I already have several hundred of them in my Little Nether Realm.’

Lu Cang maintained a state of combat as he continued to descend. About another half hour passed... His Divine Level·Heaven-Ascending Realm of Perfection had been stacking for a full hour.

Now, his physical strength was at 60,000 times its base.

The damage reduction, however, required continuous combat against a specific target to take effect.

Suddenly, the sea around him grew quiet.

Quiet and dark.

The seawater gradually thinned. The sensation was less like being in the sea and more like walking through a water-vapor-filled space.

Suddenly, Lu Cang’s Perception made contact with something.

The outline of a curved hemisphere entered his Perception.

Lu Cang’s heart pounded as he rapidly approached it.

Soon, the full outline of the sphere entered his Perception. It was a massive, planet-like orb.