The gale continued to howl, but the sea surface now presented a strange, deathly silence.
Just as Zhou Huai's god-like palm was about to completely crush that dark purple heart, a sudden change occurred!
"Hiss—!"
The surface of that heart, which had originally been beating violently and was as massive as a small mountain, suddenly cracked with countless blinding silver fissures.
Immediately following, accompanied by a scalp-numbing tearing sound, the entire heart disintegrated with a boom. Instead of flesh and blood flying everywhere, it instantly transformed into thousands of tiny silver snakes that looked as if they had been cast from mercury!
These silver snakes were extremely fast, each one exuding rich fluctuations of Space and Water Law.
Like startled fish, they traced countless silver threads in mid-air, dodging Viktor's dimension-slicing Space lock at incredible angles, and scattered as they fled frantically toward the vast ocean below.
Zhou Huai's left hand, held in a void grip, stopped in mid-air. A flash of surprise passed through his dark golden pupils, but he did not immediately move to stop them.
"As expected, you have some tricks up your sleeve."
He watched with great interest as those silver snakes fell into the sea like a rainstorm, a cold arc curling at the corner of his mouth. "Abandoning your quasi-god level Physical Body and breaking your Origin Divine Soul into pieces to escape the fate of being completely obliterated. This means of self-preservation is far more decisive than the Extreme Ice Empress."
As soon as those silver snakes touched the seawater, they vanished without a trace like melting snowflakes, not even leaving behind a ripple of energy.
It was at this moment that Zhou Huai keenly sensed an abnormality in the sea area below.
The dark green poisonous blood that had been gushing out due to the severed tentacles of that deep-sea behemoth was undergoing an extremely bizarre qualitative change.
That murky dark green, as if forcibly eroded by some higher-dimensional power, was transforming at a visible speed into an unfathomable pure black.
Like a drop of thick ink falling into a cup of clear water, this pure black color spread frantically through the seawater.
Ten kilometers... twenty kilometers... fifty kilometers!
In just a few breaths, the sea area for dozens of kilometers below had completely turned into a deathly silent Black Sea!
There were no waves, no whirlpools, and even when the sea breeze blew, it could not stir up the slightest ripple on the mirror-like surface of the black water.
What surprised Zhou Huai even more was that when he tried to penetrate this black water with Viktor's supposedly unsolvable 【Void Omniscience】 perception, he actually felt a strong sense of obstruction.
It was like a blind man feeling an elephant; beneath that black water, it seemed there was an absolute barrier isolating all Law-based probing.
Zhou Huai's eyes narrowed slightly, and the Battle Intent in his eyes did not diminish; instead, it grew even more intense. "This is interesting."
"This guy wants to hide the ruins' entrance."
Beside him, Chun, sitting on the Dragon's back, frowned deeply, her emerald-green eyes filled with wariness. "It abandoned its Physical Body to flee back to the ruins, and at the same time, triggered the ancient Formation of this sea area. This black water contains an extremely powerful shielding Law; it doesn't want us to find the specific location of Castlantis."
"It looks like the opponent knows we have ill intentions." Chun crossed her arms and analyzed, "For this level of shielding Formation, even for me in my ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ prime, it would be extremely difficult to forcibly parse the coordinates in a short amount of time."
"Parse the coordinates?"
Zhou Huai sneered, his tone filled with a domineering air that looked down upon the world. "Since I can't perceive it, then I won't perceive it! If the door is locked, I'll just smash it open!"
"You're going to hard-charge it?!" Chun was stunned.
"Otherwise what? We don't have time to play hide-and-seek with it here." Zhou Huai's gaze locked tightly onto the strange black water below.
As soon as he finished speaking, the Abyssal Magic Dragon Xiao Hei beneath his feet, as if in telepathic communication with him, let out a violent, earth-shaking Dragon roar.
"Roar—!"
The Dragon's Aura was vast!
Zhou Huai took a deep breath, the energy within his body surging wildly, and he did not hesitate to activate the ultimate form of the Imperial Heaven Ancestral Dragon Rider.
"abyssal blood battle armor, possess!"
In an instant, the massive, sixty-meter-long body of the Magic Dragon Xiao Hei suddenly erupted with blinding dark golden light. Its flesh and blood body, which was capable of tearing through space, rapidly disintegrated and reorganized within the light, transforming into streams of light filled with destructive Aura that surged frantically into Zhou Huai's body!
"Click, click, click..."
Accompanied by the clang of metal colliding, a ferocious, heavy, dark black dragon-patterned armor exuding the pressure of a quasi-god level condensed and formed on Zhou Huai's body at a visible speed!
The surface of the armor was covered in fine dragon scale patterns, with two roaring dragon heads as shoulder guards, and a dragon ball core burning with Abyssal Netherflame embedded in the chest. This armor not only perfectly fused with the terrifying defense of Magic Dragon Xiao Hei's over-a-hundred-million HP, but also pushed all of Zhou Huai's attributes to an unprecedented Peak!
After the Body Integration, Zhou Huai was like a world-destroying demon god stepping out of the abyss.
He gripped the void with his right hand, and a dark golden long spear woven from high-dimensional energy and Thunder Law instantly condensed. The spear tip pointed directly at the sea surface, and the mere Aura unintentionally emitted caused the Void Realm around Zhou Huai to let out an unbearable wail.
"Rumble!"
The entire sea surface surged with monstrous waves, and the originally deathly silent black water was forced to churn wildly by this Aura!
Zhou Huai tilted his head slightly, his dark golden eyes hidden beneath the dragon-shaped helmet looking at Chun beside him. "The water down there is very deep; if your wood-elemental Clone goes down, it's just asking for death. Find a place to hide yourself, and once I drag that so-called Sea God out, you can come out to finish things off."
Feeling the terrifying power on Zhou Huai that was enough to make her heart palpitate, Chun knew that following him down now would only make her a burden.
"Be careful yourself. As the Dominator ruins of the Seventh World, Castlantis definitely has more than one quasi-god level exotic beast inside!"
Chun nodded, said no more, and instantly condensed a pair of green wings made of Life Law on her back. She turned into a stream of light and flew rapidly in the direction away from the Black Sea.
Only after confirming that Chun had retreated to an absolutely safe distance did Zhou Huai turn his gaze back to the black ocean below, which looked like the gaping maw of an abyss.
"Let me see just how hard this turtle shell of yours really is!"
Zhou Huai let out an arrogant, cold shout.
"Bang—!"
The Void Realm beneath his feet was instantly trampled to pieces, exploding into a visible white sonic boom cloud. Zhou Huai transformed into a meteorite burning with dark golden light, and with the momentum of a thunderbolt, he violently plunged into that strange black water!
"Boom!"
The moment he hit the water, there was no splashing; there was only an extremely muffled, loud sound.
That black water, which could shield all perception, the moment it touched the abyssal blood battle armor, was like snow encountering boiling oil; it emitted a "hissing" sound and was forcibly pushed aside.
