Published: February 19, 2025
Chapter: The Return of the Behemoth, The Blade Technique's Limit
Beneath the pitch-black depths of the sea, the sword-armored flame beast, with its black and red patterned tail, swam upward at an astonishing speed, the cold seawater receding wildly behind it.
At the same time, the sword-armored flame beast gripped the body of a damaged mutated fish in its claws, but it did not feed immediately; instead, it stayed vigilant, observing its surroundings.
Just as the sword-armored flame beast blinked and reached a depth of three hundred meters, a shadow suddenly lunged from the left.
Puff!
In the darkness, the water surged as the shadow was instantly pierced by the long tail of the sword-armored flame beast, transforming it into a corpse that hung from its tail as it sped up towards the surface.
Bang! The tumultuous sea surface erupted as a vicious black exotic beast poked its head out of the water.
Based on the direction, swimming speed, and timing indicated by the orca's guidance, the sword-armored flame beast estimated it was now over eight hundred kilometers away from the shore.
However, this time it was heading in the opposite direction, not towards where it had encountered the deep-sea behemoth before.
Lost in thought, the sword-armored flame beast dipped its head underwater to look back.
It saw a strange mutated creature about eight meters long, resembling a snake but without scales or a head, only a mouth full of sharp teeth strung along its tail.
The sword-armored flame beast glanced at the peculiar mutated beast and then began to eat the blue velvet mutated fish it had caught, realizing it hadn't 'eaten' in two days.
It was unexpected that upon venturing out today, a mutated fish had come right to it.
By consuming the flesh, which contained energy, the sword-armored flame beast assessed that the strong mutated fish was likely at a fifth-level, in the late stage.
Moreover, its mutated ability was formidable, capable of unleashing all the icy energy within its body through the blue velvet surface, with lethality comparable to a typical sixth-level mutated beast.
Soon, after being 'hungry' for two days, the sword-armored flame beast devoured half of the blue velvet mutated fish, its massive form visibly expanding.
Then, the sword-armored flame beast turned slightly, extending its right claw to grab the body of the incoming mutated fish, and with a slight exertion of its claws, it tore it into two pieces.
Oh! The sword-armored flame beast's gaze fell on the center of the fish meat on the left, where a crystal shimmered with a lustrous light.
A third-level Life Crystal.
The sword-armored flame beast displayed a ferocious smile as it carefully pried out the Life Crystal, gently pinching it with its claw tip and slowly placing it into the snake skin bag hanging around its neck.
There was no other choice; given its current power, if it wasn't careful, even a slight exertion could crush the Life Crystal into powder.
Since Chen Chu returned to Eastern Summer for three to four days, the sword-armored flame beast had hunted and consumed many mutated fish, but it had only obtained a few Life Crystals.
It had only accumulated two third-level Life Crystals by now.
However, accumulating two third-level crystals in just three to four days was still quite rewarding, equivalent to eighty contribution points.
The unexpected gain lifted the sword-armored flame beast's spirits, and it happily took a bite, crunching through the remaining parts of the mutated fish in just a few minutes.
Just as it had barely eaten its fill, a splash erupted from the distant sea surface as a shadow tore through the waves, charging towards the sword-armored flame beast.
As the shadow drew closer, the sword-armored flame beast suddenly struck, its massive right claw sweeping with terrifying power, smashing the seawater along with half a fish head that was rushing towards it.
Boom!
The seawater exploded, shooting up over ten meters high, while the corpse of a nine-meter-long mutated shark mixed with seawater soared into the air before crashing back into the sea with a loud thud.