"Hold on tight."

Old Mo gave a low shout and pressed a button on the top of the wooden pillar.

boom!

A powerful stream of blue energy shot out from the stern of the flatboat. This cumbersome wooden boat, like a heavy torpedo launched from its barrel, plunged headlong into the bottomless black Dead Sea below at a speed defying the laws of physics.

Bang!

Water splashed everywhere.

Through that azure protective shield, the surrounding seawater was forcibly pushed aside by the enormous kinetic energy generated when the flatboat submerged.

Without any resistance or sluggishness during descent, this vehicle, crafted by a master craftsman, is even faster underwater than it is flying in the sky! 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

The surrounding light dimmed rapidly.

In just a few breaths, the small boat had silently submerged thousands of meters below the surface of the sea.

The water pressure outside was increasing exponentially, and a series of teeth-grinding creaking sounds came from outside the protective shield. It was the deep-sea pressure that even a max-level shield warrior could not withstand with his bare body, but it was completely blocked by this thin layer of blue light, which showed how heaven-defying Mo Lao's creation was.

There is no life in the depths of this sea.

Occasionally, a few enormous, ferocious-looking deep-sea monsters would swim by in the darkness, but upon touching the unique divine craftsmanship law fluctuations emanating from the flatboat, they would all flee into the unknown depths of the trench as if they had encountered their natural enemy, frantically wagging their tails.

All around, there was only darkness and silence.

The small boat continued its downward descent, heading straight for the planet's core.

Just as they descended to a depth of about 10,000 meters.

A silvery-white light flashed in Zhou Huai's eyes as Viktor's 【Void Omniscience】 passive ability gave a high-intensity warning.

His sensory nerves twitched violently.

"arrive."

Zhou Huai spoke in a low voice.

As he finished speaking, the boat's descent slowed, eventually coming to a steady stop in a deep-sea area.

Old Mo didn't speak, but simply reached out and touched the control panel of the machine.

A powerful beam of light shone from the protective shield at the bow of the flatboat, piercing straight through the deep-sea fog and darkness ahead.

With the help of this beam of light, Zhou Huai finally saw the scene on the seabed.

Directly below him was not the seabed or the earth's crust at all.

Instead, it was the silhouette of a monster so enormous that it completely exceeded the limits of human cognition!

Its body was a continuous, gigantic black mountain range, lying silently in the mud and sand of the seabed. When the beam of the searchlight shone on it, it couldn't even fully illuminate one of its scales.

In Zhou Huai's omniscient vision of the void, the monster's length had exceeded several hundred kilometers, and the length of its health bar had transformed into a deep purple question mark representing a bottomless pit!

It lay there quietly beneath the deep sea, lost in eternal slumber.

But it did not die.

Because, in this deep sea, under immense water pressure...

Thump—

"Thump—"

Faintly, a very slow yet powerful heartbeat pierced through the thick seawater and protective shield, echoing dully directly in Zhou Huai's eardrums.

With each heartbeat, it causes a violent undercurrent to surge through tens of thousands of tons of seawater around it, and the entire underwater world rises and falls with its pulse.

Beneath the deep sea, all is quiet and without a sound.

Through the azure energy shield, the searchlight beam emitted from the bow of the flatboat cleaved through the dark seawater, striking the endless, massive outline below.

Zhou Huai stood with his hands behind his back at the bow of the boat, the silvery-white laws of space quietly flowing in his eyes.

Using the passive feedback of Viktor 【Void Omniscient】, he looked down at the colossal creature below, which resembled an underwater mountain range.

Even though it wasn't fully illuminated, the familiar high-dimensional law fluctuations and the deep-sea death aura mixed with decay and greed still allowed Zhou Huai to make an immediate judgment.

"So it was you..."

Zhou Huai sneered and muttered something under his breath.

He recognized the other person at a glance.

Back then, when he controlled his clone Gandalf to venture deep into another underwater ruin, he painstakingly extracted the artifact, the Pendulum of Life, from this guy's stomach!

At that time, this enormous deep-sea monster was attempting to forcibly reshape its physical body using the heaven-defying primal power of the pendulum of life, in an attempt to achieve a resurrection that transcends eras.

It was precisely because of his decisive action, using extremely ruthless means to seize the pendulum of life, that he forcibly interrupted its resurrection process, causing it to fail at the last minute.

After going around in circles, I never expected to run into this old acquaintance again in the deepest part of the ruins of Castlandis.

"So, this huge guy who looks like a mountain is the so-called sea god of the seventh world that you've been talking about."

Zhou Huai turned his head and glanced at Elder Mo beside him. His tone was calm, showing no fear or awe in the face of a monster that surpassed the limits of SSS level.

Upon hearing Zhou Huai's nonchalant words, the burly men and others standing behind him all had their eyes twitching wildly.

Even through the protective shield, just sensing the faint aura emanating from the sleeping monster, these top experts from the old era felt their hands and feet turn ice-cold.

But this young man in the present world remained completely calm and composed.

Old Master Mo nodded solemnly.

"You can't see its whole picture with just this beam of light."

As Old Mo spoke, he made a light sweeping motion in mid-air with his withered hand.

"Whoosh—!"

As he moved, several pearls of light, each the size of a baby's fist and pure white, flew out from his sleeve, pierced through the energy shield of the flatboat, and merged into the dark seawater outside.

"burst."

Mo Lao's lips moved slightly.

The few orbs of light exploded violently when they sank to within a kilometer of the monster!

"Buzz!"

An extremely intense burst of light illuminated several small, dazzling suns beneath the surface of the ocean, thousands of meters below!

The dazzling light dispelled all the gloom and fog, completely illuminating the underwater world spanning hundreds of kilometers!

At this moment, the monster known as the "Sea God" by the natives of the Seventh World finally revealed its true form to the visitors from the present world.

When Zhou Huai saw the monster clearly, his brows furrowed involuntarily.

"hiss......"

Zhou Huai couldn't help but mutter a complaint to himself.

That's fucking ugly!

When he was trying to seize the pendulum of life, he only saw the monster's abdomen, which was like the tip of an iceberg, due to the deep-sea environment and obstructed vision.

Now, seeing the whole picture under the intense light, Zhou Huai's worldview was greatly shaken.

That was not a majestic and sacred ocean overlord at all. Its overall shape was that of a deformed catfish that had been magnified countless times and had undergone severe genetic mutation!

Its enormous body, hundreds of kilometers long, is covered with disgusting pustules of varying sizes, oozing green venom, and each of its pitch-black scales, the size of a door panel, is edged with barbs.