"Eee!!"
A piercing, ear-splitting screech like metal grinding echoed through the cabin.
Behind him stood the crew members who had come down to help collect the spoils.
Xia Nan frowned slightly as he looked at the strange creature kept in a water barrel before him.
It was roughly half the size of an adult human torso, resembling an octopus living inside a conch shell.
Yet its shell, which refracted a metallic sheen like a seashell, did not look like something it had picked up and temporarily worn on its head. It seemed to be part of the monster's body itself. Its texture was remarkably fine, as though it had been carefully polished by a professional blacksmith, while its surface flowed with a crystalline glimmer like light refracted through water.
Beneath the shell were more than a dozen long, curling tentacles extending outward. They were a pale blue close to flesh tone, matching the color family of its upper shell, along with a pair of flawless dark eyes like gemstones.
No one present, Xia Nan included, recognized this bizarre-looking creature.
That was perfectly normal.
The ocean had always been a cradle of life, especially in a Transcendent world like this, one filled with active Magic Particles. New species that had never existed before were born almost every moment.
Often, the aftershocks produced by two powerful beings fighting could cause colliding, chaotic Magic Particles to have a massive and irreversible impact on the local environment in a short period of time, naturally giving birth to new life formed from those fused particles.
Forget Xia Nan, who had only crossed into this world less than two years ago. Even the elderly Elf scholars of Barracuda Bay with the richest knowledge in related fields would not dare claim to know every creature in the