Deep beneath the ocean.
Yu Xian instantly appeared within the construction barrier.
A drop of seawater fell. He instinctively leaned back slightly to dodge, watching the droplet fall past his eyes.
The droplet was spinning, and it contained a dense accumulation of corpse qi. He immediately looked up, and sure enough, the barrier above was covered in dense cracks, looking like a sheet of black glass crisscrossed with countless white spiderwebs.
Something was attacking the barrier.
The ocean was far too vast to turn into a zombie in a single instant; something must have succumbed to zombification ahead of the rest.
With a flick of Yu Xian's finger, a bubble shot upward in a flash. It rapidly expanded, blanketing the outer surface of the barrier to provide an extra layer of protection.
"Fish God, you're here! Any idea what's out there?" Zhang Yubao rushed over at that moment, looking at Yu Xian.
Zhang Yubao was actually quite formidable, considered a capable hand even among the Heaven Rank. Yet he had never expected that a backwater place like Earth could produce not only a prodigy like Yu Xian, but now also a monster capable of breaching his barrier.
Earth was truly far too perilous. As expected of the ancestral home etched into the hearts of countless humans—even if it was just some Earth tucked away in an obscure corner, it was still utterly terrifying.
"Don't worry, now that I'm here, everything will be fine. Keep doing what you need to do. I'll handle whatever is outside," Yu Xian reassured him.
Zhang Yubao breathed a sigh of relief and nodded. "All right, good. We'll get back to work."
With that, he turned around and instructed his subordinates to resume construction.
Seeing that the crew inside had calmed down, Yu Xian said, "I'll go take a look outside."
Before Zhang Yubao could respond, Yu Xian flew straight up, passing through the barrier in an instant into the deep sea. At the same time, a thin layer of energy coated his body to resist the crushing pressure of the abyss.
Suddenly, something parted the seawater and lunged swiftly through the darkness.
The Heavenly Megastar immediately flew out from between Yu Xian's brows, colliding with the incoming attacker and obliterating it in a split second. The creature resembled a slime; upon bursting from the impact, it dissolved into liquid and blended into the water, leaving nothing behind.
*Congealed seawater?*
Yu Xian wondered inwardly. He then circled the exterior of the barrier, searching for the zombie truly attacking it.
Since he knew everything was caused by corpse qi, he naturally understood that whatever was assaulting the barrier beneath the sea had to be a zombie. It was just that this particular zombie might be somewhat abstract.
After completing a circuit, he found no enemies.
Yu Xian hovered in the water, scanning his surroundings. His eyes shifted instantly to green, and beneath the silt of the seabed, he saw what looked like tree roots—a dense, crisscrossing network of veins.
The corpses on the ocean floor had fused into a single entity.
Yu Xian immediately activated Appraisal.
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True Name: Infinite Sea Corpse Vein Dragon
Race: Scourge of the Ocean
Gender: None
Age: 0
Health: 9,999,999,999 / 9,999,999,999
Fate:
Strength: 200,000
Luck: None
Theoretical Lifespan: 0
Rank: Li Rank
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Cultivation Method: None
Abilities:
[Infinite Power: The longer it exists, the stronger it becomes, endless and without limit.]
[Infinite Undying Body: Fused with shards of the Infinite Pot, it possesses an inexhaustible stream of vitality, forming an almost immortal physical form.]
[Infinite Sea Corpse: Fused with a vast multitude of marine corpses from the seabed, taking the remains of sea creatures as bone and seawater as flesh. So long as the sea endures, its true body will regenerate without end.]
[Corpse Vein Dragon: All attributes enhanced by 1,000%. Immune to water-attribute attacks, immune to mental attacks, immune to soul attacks, and capable of unleashing dragon breath.]
[Myriad Grudges: Can split and manipulate infinite sea corpses. Its body can coalesce and disperse at will—shapeless, without weakness, and without a core.]
[Hatred of Chaos: Harbors malice toward all living beings, reveling in slaughter. The more creatures it kills, the greater its power grows.]
[Eight Hundred Treasure Body: Treasures from the ocean floor have been incorporated into its body, granting eight hundred types of resistances and elemental attacks, while nullifying all attacks of its own rank.]
[Infinite Deep Cold: Detonates all corpse qi within its body to freeze all surrounding matter. For every meter its body expands, the area of effect extends by ten meters.]
[Cold Breath Corpse Dragon Cannon: Combines internal corpse qi with draconic power to fire an exceptionally potent beam cannon. This attack consists of two stages: the first freezes the target, and the second shatters the target.]
[Super Turbulent Blade: Gathers the wills of countless powerhouses who perished in the sea into an endless, chaotic flurry of strikes; no one can predict what techniques will erupt.]
[Summary: An amalgamation of the Infinite Pot, Infinite Sea Corpse, and Corpse Vein Dragon. Possesses limitless potential. The longer it remains, the higher its danger level—a genuine world-destroying monstrosity.]
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After reading the stats of these seabed 'tree roots,' Yu Xian nearly gasped in a mouthful of seawater.
He quickly refreshed the appraisal results. Sure enough, the Infinite Sea Corpse Vein Dragon's power had climbed again. Its strength was practically ticking up with a +1 every second. If it were allowed to linger, it wouldn't be long before even Yu Xian would be unable to defeat it.
*This* was a true monster—an off-the-charts existence born from the Infinite Pot combined with countless corpses and a massive surge of corpse qi.
Without a doubt, the Infinite Pot was the red amphora Thales had previously used to hide himself.
From the intelligence gathered so far, this Infinite Pot had to be a treasure forged by a Transcender, which was precisely what had given rise to the Infinite Sea Corpse Vein Dragon before him.
"This is no place for a battle. I need to move the battlefield first."
Yu Xian knew full well that the Infinite Sea Corpse Vein Dragon could not be dispatched in short order. With its endless vitality alone, he wasn't even certain he could kill it.
Therefore, the most critical priority was to relocate the Infinite Sea Corpse Vein Dragon to a suitable battlefield.
Fighting the Infinite Sea Corpse Vein Dragon in the ocean gave it every advantage of time and terrain. No matter how powerful Yu Xian was, unleashing his full might here would be difficult.
Furthermore, fighting on Earth tied his hands. If he accidentally blew up the planet, he would instantly go from humanity's hero to humanity's greatest sinner.
If he really pulled something like that, his name would undoubtedly be recorded in the Prison Canon.
But how was he supposed to relocate a body as colossal as the Infinite Sea Corpse Vein Dragon? And where should the battlefield be chosen?
Outer space?
His current strength likely placed him at the System Rank, granting him the ability to move freely in space.
Yet fighting in space would still put him at a disadvantage. After all, he was human, accustomed to having solid ground beneath his feet and clear directions of up, down, left, and right. Space lacked those distinctions, and in zero gravity, the formless Infinite Sea Corpse Vein Dragon would hold the upper hand instead.
After weighing his options, he decided to move the battlefield to Mars.
On one hand, Mars was familiar to him. On the other hand, a dry, barren place like Mars favored him far more. Once the Infinite Sea Corpse Vein Dragon was dragged onto Mars, it would turn into an infinite mud-corpse vein dragon in no time.
All these thoughts flashed through his mind in a single second—perhaps even less.
Having settled on the battlefield, Yu Xian immediately commanded the Heavenly Megastar to radiate freezing cold in every direction. With the Heavenly Megastar as the epicenter, the entire ocean rapidly began to freeze.
Because the freezing occurred so fast, the ice didn't even have time to float before spreading straight down to the seabed. The silt on the ocean floor instantly turned into permafrost, while a small portion of the Infinite Sea Corpse Vein Dragon's appendages was swiftly frozen along with it.
Yet just as Yu Xian thought freezing might work against the creature, its appendages burst forth from the sea silt in an instant.
Countless ice spikes erupted, filling Yu Xian's pupils with the sight of razor-sharp ice spikes.
Chapter 363