Chapter 117: Choosing Ability, Terrifying Giant Beast

Chapter 117: Choosing Ability, Terrifying Giant Beast

Boom!

Beneath the surface of the sea, raging waters churned violently as two oceanic titans engaged in combat.

A seventeen-meter-long gray giant squid wildly thrashed its barrel-thick tentacles, covered in suction cups and razor-sharp teeth. With each strike, these tentacles unleashed tremendous force, stirring the surrounding waters into a murky frenzy.

However, it remained in a defensive posture.

Over the past few days, the Sword Armored Beast had grown even larger, nearly ten meters in length, resembling a fierce dragon as it circled the mutated giant squid and launched relentless attacks at terrifying speeds.

Each swipe of its claws left dreadful wounds on the squid’s tentacles, occasionally tearing off a segment.

Within a moment, the surrounding waters turned darker under the squid’s blood, driving it frenzied as its two longest tentacles swept like pythons.

Boom! Boom!

The water exploded from the force of the tentacles’ swings, but they failed to catch the attacker. Instead, one of them was torn apart by a swipe of the Sword Beast’s claws.

Unlike the shorter supporting tentacles, these two primary tentacles were the squid’s main weapons for hunting and combat. As they were torn apart by the armored beast, it emitted piercing screams like that of a baby.

Puff!

At that moment, a dense black energy surged from beneath the squid, enveloping the surrounding area within dozens of meters in an impenetrable darkness.

Within the cloud, the Sword Beast sensed no waves, saw no light, and even felt no sensation of the water as it moved its limbs.

It was like entering a realm of dead silence.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The Sword Beast finally sensed vibrations in the darkness, only to find itself ensnared by massive tentacles, binding it into a bundle and dragging it towards the mutated squid’s gaping maw.

Spewing ink had originally been a survival skill for a squid to escape after blinding its predator. After numerous mutations, this skill had now evolved into a special ability that temporarily deprived prey and predators alike of all senses, even affecting their consciousness.

The squid, meanwhile, could move freely within the dark energy, allowing it to swiftly capture prey with its powerful tentacles and suffocate them before slowly devouring them.

Today, however...

With a roar resembling that of a tiger, the beast’s muscles swelled, and it unleashed a terrifying burst of strength as it started to struggle.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Under the beast’s hundredfold strength, the squid’s tentacles were ripped off one by one, and its claws reached out, tearing the squid apart.

Puff!

The squid’s seven-meter-long body was nearly torn in two halves by the Sword Beast, gushing out a large amount of blue blood that turned the surrounding water a deep cobalt in an instant.

At the same time, a black bone spike shot out, piercing through the squid’s three squirming hearts to completely kill it.

Suddenly, the darkness vanished to reveal the Sword Beast holding both halves of the squid’s body. Its figure was menacing, exuding a terrifying and ferocious aura.

With the battle over, it was time to feast.

The Sword Beast grabbed the squid’s corpse and tore into it, chewing on the tentacles as if they were snacks, while its icy eyes showed signs of contemplation.

The Deep Sea Restricted Area!!

Subconsciously, the term popped into the Sword Beast's mind.

After temporarily sparing that group of Crystal Horn Fish, the beast had been hunting and wandering in one particular direction. Normally, it frequented waters with a depth of one to two hundred meters, but it had also discovered that the deeper the sea, the more abundant the transcendent energy, and the more powerful the mutated creatures that inhabited it.

The Sword Beast didn’t know why that was the case, and it was something that it had been intending to investigate once it had gotten stronger. It just didn't expect that it would already reach a Deep Sea Restricted Area and become witness to a terrifying giant beast's activities.

Despite the overwhelming aura surging from afar, the Sword Beast was able to suppress its instinctive urge to blindly flee. It gave the giant beast a long look, then turned to leave.

It would have to stick within a range of two to three hundred kilometers from the coast for now; any further away was simply too dangerous.

The Sword Beast blended in with the fleeing marine creatures. As the distance from the giant beast's activity range grew farther and farther away, that terrifying aura gradually weakened, until finally...

Boom!

In an instant, the ocean started hustling once again, as countless predators launched attacks on the surrounding prey.

That included the Sword Beast, targeting a fifteen-meter-long mutated swordfish covered in spikes. Its claws descended with a thunderous crash like collapsing heavenly pillars.

Bang!

In an instant, the water roiled, and a huge vacuum shockwave exploded. Under the Sword Beast’s claws, the swordfish’s skull was smashed open.

As the beast’s size grew larger and larger, its ability to erupt with hundredfold strength became more terrifying. Coupled with its ability for explosive speed, a mutated beast one level higher than it would be instantly killed if it wasn’t paying attention. Its combat power was truly, horrifyingly formidable.

***

Evening had arrived. On the balcony outside the ward, Chen Chu’s aura became heavier as warm currents appeared in his body and strengthened his physique, increasing the density of his flesh to a frightening degree.

Suddenly, a majestic spiritual force surged, covering Chen Chu’s entire body, and the heavy aura disappeared instantly.

Withdrawing his attention from the beast, Chen Chu's gaze fell on the scripture in his hand, and he rubbed his brow with a sigh. "These scriptures really aren't meant for the ordinary."

Although most of his attention had been on the Sword Beast, Chen Chu had flipped through the Pure Heart Scripture several times over half an afternoon.

Although he recognized each of the words, however, the phrases only left him confused.

Thankfully, it wasn’t for nothing. After sitting in meditation and reading for an afternoon, Chen Chu found that his mind had indeed become slightly calmer, as if the scripture really did have some effect.

Knock knock!

A knocking sound came from inside the room, followed by a middle-aged female doctor in a white coat entering the ward with a nurse.

Seeing this, Chen Chu couldn't help but walk over. Luo Fei had also woken up by now.

"Ms. Luo Fei, I've reviewed today's examination report. Most of your vital signs have returned to normal, though your cardiopulmonary function is still a bit weak. You'll need to stay in the hospital for observation for another two days. If there are no complications by then, you can be discharged."

Luo Fei nodded slightly. "Okay, thank you, Doctor El."

She shook her head slightly. "We should be the ones thanking you. If it hadn’t been for the Federation's intervention, Kyria would have become a hell on earth under the demon cults."

The doctor gave a few more reminders and politely left.

Seeing this, a smile appeared on Chen Chu's face.