Chapter 397: Chapter 292: New Spatial Skill
As a Tier Five Coral Insect, a type of Marine Beast, the ocean was its home turf. It was its home.
However, Su Ze was in his liquid state, merged as one with the seawater. He was already incredibly fast thanks to his Water Escape ability, and with the added underwater movement bonus from his Celestial Sea Wings, entering the water was like coming home for him as well.
He zipped through the depths freely, like a fish. No, no fish could match his speed. He was like a phantom, covering miles in a single instant.
The Tier Five Coral Insect fled for its life. As a Tier Five beast, it was highly intelligent, and it was baffled. How could this human be even more adapted to the ocean than it was?
In fact, the Tier Five Coral Insect still wasn’t sure if Su Ze was even human, because he hadn’t revealed his human form at any point.
He was just a current of water, fused with the seawater even here on the ocean floor. If it weren’t for the hundred-plus living Marine Beasts Su Ze was carrying inside him, the Tier Five Coral Insect would have had a hard time pinpointing his location.
The Tier Five Coral Insect continuously summoned its minions to act as an escort. Before long, it had gone from a single, bare Coral Insect to a composite creature the size of a hot-air balloon.
Meanwhile, Su Ze gave chase relentlessly, periodically electrocuting one of the beasts inside him to extend the duration of his Bloodthirsty skill.
When he was close enough to the Coral Monster, Su Ze used Gravity Chain.
He knew the Coral Monster had a move called Golden Cicada Shell, which allowed it to shed some of the Coral Insects or coral rock on its body to block the Gravity Chain’s hook.
Sure enough, as soon as the Gravity Chain hit, the Coral Monster immediately broke apart from the ensnared Coral Insect.
All Su Ze’s hook managed to reel in was a single Tier Two Coral Insect.
But he was prepared. This time, he hadn’t fired just one Gravity Chain. He had silently created clones in the water, splitting himself into fifty doppelgangers.
His strength and size had surged, and so had the number of doppelgangers he could create. Fifty wasn’t even his limit in his current state.
All fifty doppelgangers attacked at once, unleashing their Gravity Chains.
One had to admit, the Tier Five Coral Insect’s reaction speed was astonishing. Even against this, it managed to react, constantly detaching and abandoning the Coral Insects hooked by the Gravity Chains...
It was like stripping the Tier Five Coral Insect layer by layer. The fifty Gravity Chains peeled away the low-tier Coral Insects making up its body, and in the blink of an eye, the Coral Monster had shrunk considerably.
Using fifty Gravity Chains at once consumed an enormous amount of energy. Fortunately, Su Ze had a way to constantly replenish himself. He unleashed a blast of electricity that raged through the water, instantly killing all the Marine Beasts passing near him, while also finishing off the fifty Coral Insects he had just reeled in.
He was currently moving through a beast tide, completely surrounded by Marine Beasts. But in his liquid state, the average beast couldn’t even detect him, let alone attack him.
After all, beasts below Tier Four generally had low intelligence, a far cry from that of humans.
The beasts in a radius of several dozen meters around him were instantly wiped out. Many of them died without a clue, never knowing where the attack came from.
The flesh and blood energy from the slain beasts massively replenished Su Ze’s expenditure.
Thus, Su Ze was immediately ready for another round of Gravity Chains.
SWOOSH SWOOSH SWOOSH...
Another volley of fifty Gravity Chains completely tore away the Tier Five Coral Insect’s last defenses, leaving it bare and exposed before Su Ze once more.
When the third round of Gravity Chains launched, the Tier Five Coral Insect could no longer fend them off and was finally hooked by Su Ze.
Without its minions to combine with, a Coral Insect’s combat power was pathetically weak.
Su Ze’s fifty liquid doppelgangers merged back into one. A massive hand made of water closed tightly around the Tier Five Coral Insect. The creature wasn’t large—about the size of a small dog—but it was surprisingly strong, struggling with all its might in Su Ze’s palm.
’As expected of a Tier Five beast, it has some real brute strength.’
At the same time, it constantly unleashed a chaotic barrage of attacks against Su Ze’s liquid hand.
Among them was a Tier Five poison that might have been able to kill Su Ze in his normal state.
Under normal circumstances, Su Ze truly would have been helpless against it.
But right now, the Bloodthirsty skill had elevated Su Ze’s strength to the Supreme level. No matter how the Coral Insect struggled, it couldn’t escape the palm of his hand.
"Needle Strike," "Impact Cannon"... A variety of attack skills were unleashed inside his grip, directly blowing the Tier Five Coral Insect to pieces and killing it for good.
Afterward, Su Ze decisively discarded the portion of his liquid body that formed the hand, now contaminated with venom.
’A Tier Five beast, indeed!’
Feeling the feedback from his Bloodthirsty skill after killing the Tier Five Coral Insect, Su Ze couldn’t help but marvel.
The immense amount of flesh and blood energy not only restored him to his peak condition but also left a large surplus inside him.
Of course, the boost to his strength was already at its limit. What Su Ze truly cared about was the golden energy.
The Tier Five Coral Insect didn’t disappoint. The golden energy he extracted from it pushed the digestion progress of the Golden Bloodline Crystal inside him to three-quarters complete!
Only one-quarter remained before he would completely digest the Golden Bloodline Crystal!
’This is about what I predicted...’ Su Ze was quite satisfied with his progress. He figured if he turned back now and worked with the Dongli Saint Envoy to kill the Seven-Colored Conch on the beach, he could probably finish the digestion process completely.
But after a moment’s thought, he decided against it. Instead, he turned against the beast tide and headed for its source, continuing his investigation.
