Dust

"All right. The smell of blood, and it died recently... Let's leave first."

Ye Rong hesitated only briefly before making a decisive call.

This wasn't something they needed for the trip. If there was danger, they could just go around it!

But just then, Ye Feng's expression suddenly changed.

"Watch out! Something's coming from below!"

He let out a low growl and pressed both hands against the yacht's deck!

"Crystallize!"

As he roared, Tao Yu sensed a surge of spiritual energy. Ye Feng had poured at least a third of his spiritual power into the deck beneath his feet.

That power then spread an enchantment over the entire ship.

The enchantment was rather ingenious. In Tao Yu's assessment, although it was evenly distributed overall,

once the ship was attacked, the enchantment on other parts would rapidly converge, allowing it to concentrate its power for defense.

The power itself wasn't particularly impressive, but the technique was commendable.

Boom!

A tremendous impact sent the sailboat yacht flying several meters above the sea.

Even with Ye Feng's ingenious defensive technique,

a huge hole was still blasted through the hull's bottom, sending fragments flying!

The culprit behind the attack had also revealed itself: a thick, slick, repulsive tentacle!

An unknown slime coated its surface, seemingly keeping the seawater at bay.

The whole tentacle looked as if it had grown straight out of the seabed. Just looking at it made one feel sick.

But Tao Yu was already accustomed to the bizarre atmosphere inside his Inherent Domain. Seeing the tentacle stirred no particular feeling in him, only some confusion.

"Seems like this wasn't summoned through a sacrifice..."

Following the tentacle, Tao Yu could faintly sense that it was the source of the contamination!

The cruise ship hadn't been contaminated. The contaminated monster had infested the