Published: February 19, 2025
the opportunity for him to test his strength.
The armored beast was injured, and the deep sea black dragon was also affected by Luo Fei and others. As a result, Chen Chu was slightly distracted, paying attention to the situation in Kailya City. Occasionally, he would inquire about their conditions in the group chat.
It was unclear why the cult of the evil god was so frenzied. In the following days, fierce battles erupted frequently outside Kailya City.
Moreover, many blood disciples were risking their lives to infiltrate the city, targeting key figures in the newly established Keluoya government, causing explosions that created significant chaos.
However, the desperate counterattacks from these cult members could not shake the local situation.
Within the city, some powerful cultivators were stationed, with elite true martial talents patrolling and hunting down enemies. Outside the city, there were high-rank cultivators from the sixth and even seventh levels of heaven taking action.
Every time these strong individuals appeared, they were in teams of ten, a daunting number to behold.
As for the top-level cultivators above the seventh level, their figures could also occasionally be seen. They would find and eliminate any threats that appeared, gradually stabilizing the situation.
This chaotic scenario only settled down five days later.
Seeing this, Chen Chu gradually stopped focusing on that side and shifted his attention back to the sword armored beast.
On December 25th, with less than a week left before the trial ended, under three hundred meters of deep sea, the sword armored beast had grown to nine meters after several days, its entire body pitch black and adorned with a row of sharp spines on its back.
As it grew, the appearance of the armored beast became increasingly menacing and regal, resembling the dragons from mythical legends—albeit only slightly.
At this moment, a mutated fish, seventeen meters long with a flat body and a seven-meter long serrated edge, was hunting a group of eight-meter long mutated bull sharks several hundred meters in front of it.
This mutated serrated fish was incredibly fast, cutting through the seawater like a sharp sword, leaving behind severed shark corpses in its wake.
In just a moment, it had slaughtered more than a dozen bull sharks, their thick blood staining the surrounding sea red and releasing a strong metallic scent.
This mutated fish seemed to harbor a grudge against the bull sharks.
After eliminating all the sharks, it only consumed a bit of their entrails and then swam around, watching the smaller fish attracted by the blood feast on the bull shark corpses.
However, unbeknownst to it, there was another mutated beast in the distance keeping a close eye on it.
From the perspective of the sword armored beast, this mutated serrated fish appeared very powerful. Its abilities were likely related to speed, and in a normal state, it could match its own speed.
Moreover, whenever there was a strong energy fluctuation from its body, black arcs of light would shoot out from its serrated edges, the brilliance sharp enough to easily sever nearby prey.
Regardless, the sword armored beast was preparing to hunt it.
During this period, every time it fed and grew, the cells all over its body would split and compress, leading to an increasingly terrifying body density and naturally more formidable strength.
In addition to its power, defense, and speed attributes, the sword armored beast had also recently discovered other abilities.
For instance, the seemingly decorative feathered horns on either side had developed the 'perception' function through multiple evolutions, allowing it to sense distant objects through subtle fluctuations in the seawater.
This was also why it could hide in the pitch-black depths of the ocean and spot even observe this mutated serrated fish from afar.
The sword armored beast, like an excellent predator, subtly swayed its tail to minimize the water waves caused by its movements and slowly approached directly beneath its target.