Grinding EXP From a Demon Hunting Ship

Chapter 364: Chapter 359: Another Piece of Remains, Battle Fluctuations

The next day.

Within the Mist Forest.

Aboard the Ghostly Flood Dragon.

’These aberrant creatures are rather interesting...’

Su Ye sat cross-legged, observing the aberrant creature before him with great interest.

Was it a slug, or perhaps a snail?

A massive, mountain-like shell covered in moss protected its soft, viscous body.

Su Ye had tested this brownish-tan snail shell. It had a Defense Power close to Tier Four Peak, no weaker than a Titan Giant’s, making it incredibly sturdy.

However,

this sturdy shell

could do little to protect the slug’s life.

WHOOSH.

A snow-white powder sprinkled from Su Ye’s fingertips.

It drifted with the wind, floating into the slug’s shell and causing its body to begin melting!

The slug’s grotesque face, which bore a striking resemblance to a middle-aged woman, streamed with tears as it screamed incessantly, as if begging for mercy!

The snow-white powder appeared to be some sort of potent poison.

But in reality...

"It’s just ordinary salt."

Su Ye himself was quite surprised. "This monster’s shell has Defense Power comparable to a Titan Giant."

"But against a small bag of salt, it’s so helpless that it can only watch its own body melt away?"

"What a bizarre existence..."

"The creatures of this Divine Kingdom are even more hyper-specialized than I thought..."

Su Ye stroked his chin.

This humanoid slug was an aberrant lifeform Su Ye had discovered by chance while exploring the Forest Sea.

Compared to the Humanoid Scorpion Spider, this slug was not very aggressive.

Even after being startled by Su Ye,

it didn’t attack.

Its only action was to retreat into its snail shell and take a defensive posture.

It could be said to be completely harmless.

But the problem was,

Su Ye was a bad seed.

Upon discovering the slug,

a thought stirred in his mind, and he naturally decided to see if he could kill it!

After all, what if this slug also had Sea Successor Remains inside it?

’I don’t eat it ≠ I don’t collect it.’

The Su Ye inequality.

...

However,

this slug’s shell had extremely high defense.

It was highly resistant to all sorts of attacks.

The two rounds of cannon fire Su Ye ordered the Ghostly Flood Dragon to unleash were both ineffective.

As for techniques involving Divine Sense, they were, as expected, completely nullified.

"Divine Sense is almost useless in this Divine Kingdom."

Su Ye lamented.

Just as his evil deeds failed and he was about to take a detour, a whimsical idea suddenly struck him!

’The creatures of this Divine Kingdom often have fatal flaws.’

’This humanoid slug... is probably no exception?’

’I remember that salt is highly lethal to creatures like slugs and snails. Maybe it will have an unexpected effect?’

Of course,

Su Ye didn’t have high hopes for this; it was just something he tried on a whim.

After sprinkling a few circles of salt near the slug, he pretended to leave.

Unexpectedly, a short while later, Su Ye heard the humanoid slug’s wails from a distance!

’It actually worked?’

Su Ye hurried back, his eyes gleaming.

What followed was simple.

Add salt!

Su Ye, with a heart of stone, completely ignored the humanoid slug’s wails.

If he killed an ugly monstrosity like this, so be it.

"So sorry."

"You’re too ugly. You’re better off dead."

Su Ye was completely nonchalant, shrugging his shoulders.

His hands moved quickly, constantly channeling his Magical Power to scatter more salt!

Before long, the hundred-foot-long humanoid slug had completely melted into a pool of pus.

Within the pus, a familiar shade of eerie blue shimmered brightly.

’As expected...’

’Sea Successor Remains.’

Su Ye’s eyes flickered as he pulled the piece of Sea Successor Remains toward him.

The intense feeling of hunger surfaced once again.

However,

Su Ye had experience this time.

The process of reining in the temptation and suppressing his desire was much easier.

Then,

Su Ye threw out a fire-attribute talisman.

FWOOSH!

A scorching spiritual flame erupted.

It scorched the Sea Successor Remains.

Once the pus was all gone, Su Ye formed another seal and summoned a high-pressure stream of water, meticulously washing the surface of the Sea Successor Remains clean before storing it in his Storage Ring.

...

’The second piece of Sea Successor Remains...’

"Heh... so aberrant creatures commonly have Sea Successor Remains inside them?"

Discovering this fact, Su Ye couldn’t help but reveal a cold sneer.

According to his observations,

the source of these aberrant creatures’ power had no connection to the Sea Successor Remains—their power came from the corruption of sinful power!

The deity was plagued by sin, so the Divine Kingdom was naturally polluted as well.

In this polluted Divine Kingdom, most creatures struggled for a time before gradually weakening and eventually dying.

But the miracle of life is that it will find a way!

A very small number of the Divine Kingdom’s creatures did not die under the assault of sinful power. Instead, they reached a balance with it, causing their physical bodies to mutate into aberrant monsters!

Su Ye guessed.

This was the origin of the aberrant creatures within the Divine Kingdom today!

Of course, Su Ye’s research wasn’t very detailed, so there might be discrepancies... but the general idea had to be correct!

The filthy aura of sinful power on these aberrant creatures was incredibly obvious.

It was completely different from the aura belonging to the lineage of the Old Gods found within the Sea Successor Remains!

’So...’

’These Sea Successor Remains aren’t the source of their mutations.’

’In that case... the Sea Successor Remains inside the aberrant creatures must be foreign objects, forcibly embedded within their bodies by someone!’

Reaching this conclusion, a thoughtful look flashed in Su Ye’s eyes.

’Which means...’

’The God of Mist Forest’s goal is to use these aberrant creatures as delivery boys, to place the Sea Successor Remains within their bodies into my hands?’

Su Ye made a bold conjecture!

’If I’m not mistaken...’

’I’ll be encountering more aberrant creatures next.’

’And if they also have Sea Successor Remains inside them...’

Su Ye fell silent.

...

「Several days passed in a flash.」

In the blink of an eye, Su Ye had been trapped in the Mist Forest Divine Kingdom for more than half a month.

In the captain’s cabin.

"Just as I thought..."

Su Ye stroked his Storage Ring, his gaze complex.

Inside the Storage Ring’s space, there were now five pieces of Sea Successor Remains!

Needless to say, they were all contributed by the aberrant creatures Su Ye had encountered over the past few days!

As for the battles themselves, there was little worth mentioning.

The strengths and weaknesses of the aberrant creatures were obvious, and they all had fatal flaws.

As long as he wasn’t instantly killed in the first encounter, he could discern their weak points after a moment of observation and kill them with ease.

’These five pieces of Sea Successor Remains... seem to belong to a single whole?’

Su Ye mused.

When he brought them close together, the five pieces of remains showed a clear tendency to merge.

’Does it want me to combine them and then eat them?’

’It’s so obvious...’

Su Ye couldn’t help but feel a little exasperated.

Weren’t the mastermind’s methods a bit too crude?

’Is it stupidity?’

’Or... is it just acting with impunity?’

Su Ye sank into thought.

Suddenly, his expression froze, and he looked into the distance.

It was very faint, almost at the extreme limit of his Divine Sense.

But...

’Combat fluctuations?’