That was less the depths of the ocean
than some kind of colossal active volcano.
The seething heat had directly boiled all the seawater throughout the entire area.
It was genuinely at boiling-water temperature.
Any mutated sea beast capable of living here was, without exception, the heat-resistant type.
Moreover.
Perhaps because this was located in the deep sea, the mutated Sea Beasts here were far more unconstrained in appearance... They specialized in savagery and distortion. Especially after evolving all sorts of twisted limbs and shells to withstand the heat and environment, they looked like evil fiends or alien creatures.
They did not resemble native lifeforms from Earth at all!
At the very least.
When Ling Wuyuan saw those especially free-form mutated Sea Beasts, he did not feel as though he were on Earth whatsoever...
It gave him the sudden feeling that he was beating up extraterrestrial lifeforms on another planet.
Honestly.
The feeling was actually not bad.
However, what surprised him most was the enormous creature coiled near the mouth of the meteor crater.
It was a squid as massive as a mountain range, half-asleep and half-awake. Its entire body was grayish-brown, its body surface covered in bizarre folds resembling warts.
Each of its tentacles stretched for a thousand meters. Even when it remained perfectly still, it resembled an undersea mountain peak.
And when those tentacles, covered in suckers and sharp teeth, began to sway randomly with the currents, the scene immediately evoked a Demon Realm on earth.
After sizing up the giant squid from top to bottom.
Ling Wuyuan immediately realized that his earlier estimate—that Earth would naturally produce a [Qi Nourishing Realm lifeform] after secondary energy continued to accumulate for another hundred years—had actually been rather conservative. Taking the giant squid before him as an example, perhaps it