At the bottom edge of the Underwater Demonic City beneath Dihua Ability Institute, a damp cavern had been isolated there in the dead of night.
Yu Jing was meditating with Commissioner Ruan's assistance.
Around Yu Jing's body was a special formation drawn in ink by Commissioner Ruan. The formation was inscribed with advanced characters from the Old World.
As for the formation's origin, it was precisely the advanced communication formation Yu Jing had copied from Cthulhu's shrine inside Kloster Island when Commissioner Ruan had led a team there during the First Stage of Transcendence.
With the formation and the ocean environment bolstering it, Yu Jing slowly established contact with this deep-sea evil god.
There was a misconception that everyone needed to understand. Cthulhu was not currently in the ocean of the real world (the original work indeed had him living in the ocean). He had long since been exiled to the depths of the universe when the Old World was destroyed.
However, he had inhabited the ocean for many years before that. Thus, even after being exiled, he could still use the ocean as a gigantic medium to call out to humans who relied on the sea for survival, grant them revelations in their dreams, and even create minor miracles, turning them into his devout believers and providing him with faith.
Once the power of faith became strong enough one day, his restraints could be removed, and Cthulhu would return once more.
At that moment, within the Chaos Green Lotus in Yu Jing's body, the lotus leaf radiating blue light shimmered with a sea-blue glow in rhythm with his meditation. A thin layer of blue light also drifted around his body.
An hour passed.
Yu Jing's eyes suddenly flew open, and his face turned purple.
"Ugh!"
Supporting himself with both