I Accumulate Spirit Roots for My Next Life - Chapter 163 - 67: Treasure Acquired
Chapter 163: Chapter 67: Treasure Acquired
Fear stems from the unknown!
And the vast deep sea is filled with endless fear.
Fortunately, the pitch-black seabed, under the vision and perception of the Tier Three Great Demon Gua Gua, was like broad daylight, not bringing much oppression.
Commanding Gua Gua to swim deeper, following the perception from Han Di back then.
Along the way, various demon beasts frequently appeared.
However, the moment they sensed Gua Gua, they all scattered and fled.
In the peripheral areas, there were more at the Late Stage of Tier Two and Early Stage of Tier Three, and most of the Tier Threes had condensed Fake Pills.
Seven days later, Gua Gua reached the location perceived by Han Di.
Li Jizhou instructed it to stop from a distance, restrain its aura, and sink into the seabed silt, leaving only its eyes exposed.
It remained still, observing the conditions of the predetermined location.
After a month of lurking, no abnormalities occurred in the area ahead.
Other than occasionally witnessing a Great Demon at Tier Three Late Stage passing by in a hurry, there was nothing else discovered.
“It’s time!” Li Jizhou commanded Gua Gua to swiftly charge toward the designated location.
As soon as it got there, a fist-sized chunk of metal emitting a dim cold light appeared in view.
“Dragon Saliva Cold Gold?”
Li Jizhou felt a surge of joy in his heart,
Gua Gua, sensing Li Jizhou’s emotions, immediately dived down, its tongue shooting out to wrap around the Dragon Saliva Cold Gold.
However, once Gua Gua’s tongue wrapped around the Dragon Saliva Cold Gold, it found that something was still attached underneath, and pulling with force didn’t budge it.
It immediately exerted all its strength and gave a fierce tug.
“Boom~” The Dragon Saliva Cold Gold was pulled up, bringing with it a massive object beneath it.
It turned out to be a segment of a tentacle!
The sight of skin like rocky mountains and tentacles as thick as barrels made Li Jizhou change color abruptly in his vision.
“Retreat!”
But it was too late.
The next moment, a similar tentacle emerged from behind Gua Gua, with immense suction power, binding Gua Gua tightly.
Soon after, another eight thinner tentacles emerged from the ground, wrapping Gua Gua firmly.
Until then, in a twisting turn of events, the nearby seabed shaken as though in an earthquake, a concealed reef ten feet away suddenly came to life.
The silt fell away quickly, revealing its true form.
It was actually a squid as large as a mountain!
And the terrifying aura it emitted was akin to Tier Three Late Stage!
Tier Three Late Stage Great Demon!
“Gua!” Gua Gua roared, attempting to break free from the restraints, but was unable to move even a fraction under the grip of the ten tentacles.
“Boom~” A water dragon shot toward the squid’s face, but it didn’t even break through its protective demonic aura.
“Buzz~” Gua Gua instantly activated its illusion.
However, the squid clearly had a greater strength of Divine Soul and was unaffected by Gua Gua’s illusion.
Even though Gua Gua had just entered Tier Three, with its Half-step Golden Core demonic power, it was worlds apart from the squid at Tier Three Late Stage.
Facing the squid, it had no ability to resist whatsoever.
Moreover, it now understood why the squid used ten tentacles to seal it completely, as the squid was targeting its Demon Pill, and ten tentacles were barely enough to seal its Demon Pill to prevent detonation.
The rapid turn of events made Li Jizhou’s expression grim.
Without any hesitation, he immediately used his divine sense to connect with the three Quasi-Third Tier puppets stored in Gua Gua’s Spirit Pet Bag.
A flash of brilliance on site, as three puppets flew out of Gua Gua’s mouth.
Li Jizhou used his divine sense to command all three puppets to attack the squid’s face.
Two Vajra Puppets charged directly at the squid’s eyes.
While the eagle puppet, fused with the Demon Core of the golden-armored monster fish, slipped to the back of its head, attacking incessantly with its talons and beak.
Fortunately, this Tier Three Great Demon Squid mainly relied on its physical body and hadn’t awakened any magical divine abilities.
Its ten tentacles tightly sealed Gua Gua’s Demon Pill, preventing explosion, leaving no room to clear the puppets.
Alternatively, the Quasi-Third Tier puppets posed no threat to it, hence being ignored.
And indeed, the initial attacks from the three puppets couldn’t even breach the squid’s outer layer of demonic power shield.
The squid completely disregarded them, instead continuously applying pressure with its tentacles, aiming to crush Gua Gua alive.
Gua Gua’s demonic power surged furiously, fiercely opposing.
Li Jizhou sensed that Gua Gua was already exhausting its essence source at that moment.
Facing a formidable foe two tiers higher, it was its only chance.
Li Jizhou was powerless in this situation, even with his greatest trump card, the Celestial Thunder Talisman, which would only be effective against the Early Stage of True Core.
Against the squid comparable to the Late Stage of Core Formation, if not for Gua Gua being in deep mire and worrying about the return path through the Spiritual Storm Zone, he should have already returned to his mansion miles away.
“Gua!” Gua Gua struggled desperately.
Not only resisting the squeezing of the tentacles but also continuously casting magic to attack.
Yet the squid remained unhurried, barely reacting to Gua Gua’s frantic struggles as its prey.
Calmly waiting for its essence source to deplete, to devour its Demon Pill.
Until half a month passed,
Gua Gua was nearing its limits, the attack frequency of its Water Element magic had significantly decreased.
And just then, the previously steady squid suddenly became less so, with a burst of inky black ink emerging beneath it.
The ink instantly dyed its surroundings pitch-black.
Through the mutual sense connection with Gua Gua, Li Jizhou felt the intense corrosive toxicity and Divine Soul toxicity contained within.
In a split second, Gua Gua felt a burning sensation on its skin.
However, in just a moment, it was absorbed and dissolved by the colorful patterns on its surface, causing no significant problems.
But the three puppets suffered stronger corrosion.
Especially the puppet with the skin of a Tier Two demon beast, its outer skin almost instantly dissolved into a puddle of black water.
Fortunately, its interior was made of Tier Two metal materials, and while there were signs of corrosion on the surface, it did not affect its complete functionality.
The eagle puppet, fused with the demon core of the golden armored strange fish, was also corroded at the first moment, leaving only the metal material skeleton.
However, its increasingly brave bloodline divine ability allowed it to continue attacking the squid.
Ten days ago, the eagle puppet continued its assault, with power already comparable to the early stage of True Core.
As the base number grew larger, the cumulative enhancement of its one-tenth power became somewhat terrifying.
Today is the fifteenth day, and the squid felt threatened, which is why it suddenly released poison.
Unfortunately, a puppet is just a puppet, and the squid’s poison was ineffective.
Until the poisonous ink dissipated, the squid began to move its body to avoid the eagle’s attack.
However, the eagle puppet’s movement speed accumulated countless layers, stronger rather than weaker compared to the squid, which was not adept at speed.
“Roar~” The squid roared angrily, and a tentacle suddenly left Guagua, swinging towards its back.
Li Jizhou frowned, as the eagle puppet was the only hope, immediately directing the Tier Two puppet to block.
“Boom~”
With just one hit, the adamantine puppet was smashed to pieces, parts scattered on the ground, completing its life mission.
Before it could strike again, Guagua suddenly erupted once more, attempting to break free.
The squid’s tentacles hurriedly returned, tightly restraining Guagua.
Meanwhile, the eagle puppet’s attack became even fiercer.
Until Guagua’s aura weakened slightly, the squid was forced to pull out a tentacle to deal with the eagle puppet.
Another puppet also sacrificed itself to buy more time for the eagle puppet.
At this moment, Guagua received Li Jizhou’s transmission, knowing that whether it could escape this calamity depended on whether it could buy a few more days for the eagle puppet.
In the following five days, whenever Guagua saw the squid free up a tentacle, it would suddenly connect to the demon pill, using the aura of self-destructing the demon pill, forcing the squid to recall its tentacles to fully suppress the demon pill within its body.
And on this day, the squid could no longer withstand it.
The eagle puppet’s current power was almost reaching the Tier Three Late Stage Great Demon level.
“Boom!” With a loud noise, the protective demonic aura of the squid shattered, and the eagle puppet, after twenty days of persistent assault, finally touched its flesh for the first time.
“Roar~” The squid instantly sensed a huge threat, ignoring whether Guagua would self-destruct, and rapidly pulled back a tentacle.
The eagle puppet was now at its peak speed, swiftly dodging.
The furious squid pulled back another tentacle to confront the eagle.
…
However, at this moment, the eagle comparable to the Tier Three Late Stage demon was extraordinary in both attack and speed, rendering its two tentacles completely useless.
The third, fourth… up until the sixth tentacle returned to deal with the eagle,
“Gua~” Guagua deliberately lowered its aura to the minimum, then suddenly exploded,
leaping out of the squid’s restraint in one bound.
Subsequently, under Li Jizhou’s urging, it swiftly retreated without looking back.
Three days later, a still frightened Guagua returned in front of Li Jizhou, finally allowing him to relax.
“Let’s go!”
He immediately wanted to put Guagua back into the Spirit Pet Bag.
“Gua~” However, at this moment, Guagua opened its mouth,
revealing a clump of metal shining with a ghostly cold light.
“Dragon Saliva Cold Gold!”
It turned out Guagua, before leaving, had snatched this item directly from the squid’s tentacle amidst the chaos.
“It really is Tier Four treasure material! Losing three puppets… was worth it!” Li Jizhou felt slightly relieved and hurriedly packed up the Dragon Saliva Cold Gold.
“Roar~” At this time, the deep sea domain’s squid’s roar resounded.
The final vision linked to the eagle puppet showed it being torn apart by the squid’s tentacles.
It was, after all, only a quasi-third tier puppet, with talent stacking having its limits. Furthermore, after twenty days of continuous battle, the Spirit Stone within it had almost exhausted its energy.
Li Jizhou did not hesitate any longer, immediately fleeing with Guagua.
Yet, the image of the squid lingered in his mind, especially the ten tentacles, with a celestial treasure image attached to each tip, leaving a deep impression.
Some creatures are born with the divine ability to sense celestial and earthly treasures, such as some treasure-hunting spirit rats in the inland, even like Han Di before, possessed this kind of talent.
This squid is likely the same.
But what use does it have for collecting so many celestial and earthly treasures?
If they were celestial and earthly spiritual objects, they could be consumed, but these materials, for demon beasts who do not practice artifact refining, have no use.
“Could it be that it uses them to attract prey?”
Li Jizhou thought of a possibility.
He shook his head, tossing the thought aside.
This squid, given his current capabilities, is like a mountain difficult to shake; there should be no wishful thinking. Sending Guagua this time was already risky, returning alive is not easy.
However, the remaining nine kinds of celestial and earthly treasures were firmly remembered in his heart.
One day, when he is fully prepared, he will definitely return to conclude this cause and effect.
Guagua, after flying out of the deep sea zone, also turned its head, glaring back hatefully.
After passing through the Spiritual Storm Zone, Li Jizhou allowed Guagua to return to the Spirit Pet Bag, transforming into a rainbow, and returning to Linglong Island.
Just arriving outside Linglong Island, he found a circle of sea island guards surrounding the entire Linglong Island like a treasure, heavily guarded.
Although the reason is unclear, he, Zhang Ruoyu as an upright person, with a Tier Three Great Demon present, had nothing to worry about.
He flew over boldly and confidently.
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