"You fake! How did you find this place?!" Fake Ye Liang roared, clearly not expecting Ye Liang's sudden appearance.
"If you don't want people to find out, don't do it in the first place!"
Ye Liang flapped his webbed feet and shot toward the turtle. His Slimey could freely change its shape, so under Ye Liang's control, it had already transformed into webbed feet—perfect for swimming.
"Damn it!" Fake Ye Liang gave chase without hesitation.
By now, the time-space turtle had already dived deep into the dark trench, where it was pitch black and impossible to see anything.
Ye Liang frowned tightly.
Earlier, when Fake Ye Liang fought the giant squid, he spread toxic ink everywhere. With the trench already dark by nature, visibility was now completely gone.
The two chased through the darkness for a while until they both ended up hopelessly lost.
"Where exactly is this? Why do I keep feeling like something's wrong?"
Ye Liang looked around but saw nothing except scattered glowing seaweeds. He continued deeper, but suddenly felt his foot get caught.
"Not good! This thing is sucking my blood!" A sickly greenish vine-like seaweed coiled around Ye Liang's foot. Though there were no obvious symptoms, he could no longer swim freely.
"Hisssss!"
Slimey began shrieking loudly.
Normally, being a soft-bodied creature, Slimey feared any kind of physical attack—but Ye Liang could clearly feel its pain, and as time passed, Slimey's body started visibly shrinking.
Once Slimey could no longer fully cover Ye Liang, the ocean pressure weighing tons on them might crush him in an instant!
"No more delays—I must resolve this fast!" Ye Liang whispered, then a surge of blue chakra wrapped around his hand.
[Scalpel]!
Because Slimey was currently attached to his body, using powerful Ninjutsu like [Shinra Tensei] would be too risky. But techniques like Scalpel, which gathered chakra outside the body, were still viable.
He furrowed his brow, focusing intensely.
A stream of water slowly began condensing at his palm.
With a swift wave of his hand, he finally broke free.
Just then, a violent current burst from the darkness ahead—charged with a powerful surge of chakra!
"It's Shinra Tensei!" Before he could even finish thinking, a terrifying beastly roar echoed from ahead.
"Fake Ye Liang is fighting some unknown sea monster! Sh*t—he swam straight past me!" Realizing instantly, Ye Liang kicked his webbed feet and swiftly dove further into the abyss.
The currents still drifted, but the commotion faded into silence.
"It looks like the battle ended."
Ye Liang kept swimming forward—just in time to spot a massive dead shark. Continuing ahead, he came upon countless strange mutated sea creatures lying lifeless.
At first, there were just regular carnivorous fish, followed by mutated sea monsters, sea witches, and various kinds of soft-bodied animals.
"What's with all these powerful beasts hiding down here in the dark?"
Even in his previous life's advanced world, Ye Liang had never seen so many types of sea beasts, each one more terrifying than the last.
He didn't just spot a two-headed sea beast resembling a whale shark, but also another with eight legs looking like a seahorse. It looked like a post-apocalyptic marine nightmare, as if birthed from a nuclear fallout.
"Could there be something down here?" Ye Liang wondered. He stopped moving forward and slowed down, diving deeper.
The seafloor was covered in floating seaweed, surrounded by coral reefs and scattered with strange fish.
Ye Liang glanced left and right and immediately frowned.
This type of seaweed was exactly what had previously stuck to Slimey. There was an abundance of it—practically a dense clump every ten meters. He quickly coated Slimey in chakra to effectively solve the adhesion problem.
As he continued scanning the area, Ye Liang suddenly noticed something odd: nestled within a crevice in the coral was a turtle glowing entirely in gold. After a quick glance, he recognized it at once—it was the golden turtle he had been searching for!
"So that's why I didn't spot you earlier—you've been hiding in these dark coral reefs all along." Thinking about how Fake Ye Liang had run off chasing the time-space turtle, Ye Liang felt a surge of delight.
He immediately placed the turtle into his Storage Space, yet no sooner had he turned around when he encountered a large group of mutated fish.
These strange fish had blood-red eyes and were covered in the same blood-sucking seaweed from earlier. Their expressions looked unnatural, and they clearly seemed hostile toward him.
"Have these guys considered the turtle one of their own?" As he thought this, Ye Liang dodged an incoming tiger shark.
"Boom!"
Ye Liang's body shook. Though he wasn't attacked directly by the tiger shark, its movement-generated current pulled him into swirling turbulence.
"Unbelievable speed!"
Seeing their companion attack, the other carnivorous creatures naturally weren't willing to fall behind—they all rushed fiercely toward Ye Liang.
Panic surged through Ye Liang!
This wasn't the moment to use Shinra Tensei. Faced with such a widespread assault, particularly from massive native marine animals, he really didn't know any other options!
All he could do was dive deeper into the water.
There were hollow coral reefs below—if he managed to dive into the gaps between them, these large ocean creatures wouldn't be able to catch him.
Without hesitation, Ye Liang dove straight into a narrow crevice below him.
It seemed to be a geological fissure between two corals. Both sides were covered in seaweed, so Ye Liang stayed alert as he entered.
"Boom!"
Just as he stepped inside, the sea monster behind him smashed into the coral reef outside. Perhaps their flesh wasn't tough enough—the collision severely damaged them.
Yet they still didn't give up on Ye Liang. Despite clearly having no chance, they kept slamming into the coral reef relentlessly, one after another, until they dropped dead right before Ye Liang's eyes!
"What the hell—these guys are crazy suicidal?" Ye Liang was deeply puzzled. Gradually, he realized something wasn't quite right.
At that moment, Ye Liang suddenly noticed something: the blood-sucking seaweed that originally lived on the bodies of the sea monsters was gradually drifting toward him now.
The bloodsucking algae moved extremely fast—much faster than when Ye Liang first saw it.
"Oh no! This could be a parasitic organism!"
In his past life (his previous incarnation), Ye Liang had once seen a type of mushroom that spread spores onto insects. Once infected by these spores, the insects would become mindless puppets controlled by the mushroom!
This bloodsucking algae was clearly the same kind of creature.
"Damn it! We rushed into this crevice earlier to escape those sea monsters, only to end up as sitting ducks now!" Ye Liang secretly cursed his luck. Unfortunately, there was no way the bloodsucking algae would let him escape.
Within half a minute, the bloodsucking algae had completely surrounded the coral reef!
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