Water Vortex Continent

In the South Sea, Lu Zhiyu piloted his yacht, searching the area for Sakun. Through the Universe Scroll, he had already located Sakun. He had no intention of using the Dimensional Gate to capture it. Instead, he wanted to catch it off guard and pull it into the Dream World!

With a flash, Lu Zhiyu's yacht vanished into thin air. It crossed hundreds of miles and arrived above a stretch of sea. Lu Zhiyu immediately spotted Sakun, which was frolicking on the seabed, boiling the sea for hundreds of meters around it. Dead fish covered the surface, and Sakun gulped them down one after another.

Steam shrouded the sea, making the whole world seem to disappear into mist. Bubbles churned across the water as Lu Zhiyu piloted his yacht closer to Sakun. Even now, Sakun hadn't sensed a thing!

The moment Lu Zhiyu laid eyes on Sakun, he saw that it had grown five or six times larger than before. It was now half the size of a human. It had grown this much in just two years. It seemed to have drawn a great deal of Source Substance from the Zero-Dimensional Otherworld, too.

That was one reason Lu Zhiyu had come to capture it. He had once granted Sakun access to the Zero-Dimension World, but now he was going to take that access back. Even if he decided to let it use Source Substance again in the future, he wouldn't offer it unlimited access like this!

Sakun seemed to sense something, too. It felt Lu Zhiyu's presence and turned to look at him, only to see a white yacht cutting through the water and heading its way. It tried to attack in a fury, but it was already too late.

"Dream Entry!"

Lu Zhiyu immediately locked onto Sakun. Sakun felt the entire world change in an instant. An immense pull and a flood of information began assimilating its consciousness, dragging it into Lu Zhiyu's Dream World.

Sakun fought back with all its strength, but to no avail. The instant Lu Zhiyu locked onto its consciousness, it had already lost. If it had defended itself in advance, it might have been able to fend off Lu Zhiyu's dream invasion. But now, it could only meekly enter his world!

Sakun entered the Dream World as a giant squid and began attacking everything in sight. After it destroyed the entire town, the Dream World shattered, and Sakun, too, entered the cycle of death.

The Dream World entered its second cycle, and the whole world was restored. Part of Sakun's consciousness seemed to have been assimilated, and its soul began to change as well. This time, Sakun attacked the Dream World again.

Again and again, Sakun's will was gradually erased. In the end, Lu Zhiyu's information began to alter Sakun's form, turning it into a sturdy middle-aged man. Its chaotic will and furious emotions were gone. Bewildered, it wandered through the town beneath the Blood Moon.

Sakun suddenly spotted a blacksmith's shop. As if guided by some mysterious force, it went inside. Sakun picked up a hammer, lit the furnace, and worked the bellows. Then it began hammering out ironwork, one strike after another!

It had become like a puppet, a part of the Dream World. Bewildered, it took up the life of a blacksmith in the dream town, and its consciousness became part of the Dream World's information!

Lu Zhiyu, who had been lying in the cockpit, sat up in a flash, drenched in sweat. That really had been dangerous. His clash with Sakun in the Dream World had nearly ended in failure, with Sakun almost breaking free. If that had happened, Lu Zhiyu's Dream World might have shattered, and his consciousness would have suffered a devastating blow.

But in the end, Sakun couldn't hold on. Its consciousness was assimilated by Lu Zhiyu's Dream World. Lu Zhiyu also discovered that after he incorporated Sakun's consciousness into his Dream World, his own soul gradually grew stronger.

Still, it would take several more years for the Dream World to fully assimilate Sakun's consciousness. It would have to slowly erase the imprints of Sakun's will, wearing them away until nothing remained. The process seemed time-consuming and extremely dangerous, but once the assimilation was complete, Lu Zhiyu's mental strength would instantly increase by at least seven or eight hundred units—saving him more than two years of meditation!

At the same time, every one of the Children of the Sea God across the ocean seemed to hear a wail. The Blood of Sakun within them made them let out piercing cries, as though they had lost something precious.

But at the same time, with their master gone, they had lost the Blood of Sakun's control and gained their freedom. They had become true Children of the Sea God. Without the Sea God, they were finally free of their shackles. Perhaps one day, one of them would gather the Blood of Sakun anew and become the next Sea God.

Lu Zhiyu was delighted. Defeating and completely killing Sakun had shown him just how powerful his dream-control ability was. Sakun was a somewhat weak mythical creature, a simplified version of the mythical creatures Lu Zhiyu had created. Its size had been reduced, and the Deified Cells used to create it had been limited. Its mental strength was even on par with Lu Zhiyu's.

But in terms of its nature, it was already a mythical creature. Even another mythical creature of equal strength would find it nearly impossible to kill Sakun outright. Yet Lu Zhiyu had managed it before he had even become a mythical creature himself!

"Flaws in consciousness and the soul really are the only weakness of mythical creatures. Luckily, I discovered that weakness early and learned to exploit it myself. Otherwise, if someone used the same trick against me in the future, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to withstand it!"

Lu Zhiyu walked up onto the deck and waved his hand. A black squid more than a meter long rose from beneath the water. Its skin even gleamed like metal!

"This is a treasure!"

It was Sakun's body. Although it had lost its consciousness, its body wasn't dead. Its cells remained active; it was still "alive." It contained all the Deified Cells of a mythical creature. If Lu Zhiyu broke it down in the sea, he could contaminate the entire ocean and tens of thousands of creatures!

By then, the mist had dispersed, and the sea that Sakun had boiled quickly cooled. The whole ocean settled down. Through the lingering haze, Lu Zhiyu could finally make out a distant silhouette. Its vast, unbroken outline showed that it was a continent.

"I actually made it all the way here. I never would've expected that!"

Lu Zhiyu piloted his yacht toward the continent. This was his first time setting foot there. It was an extraordinary continent formed in the Maria World: Water Vortex Continent. It looked like an island, but it was so enormous that it could easily be called a continent.

Of course, it couldn't compare with Yala Continent or Alan Continent. It was only a tenth the size of Alan Continent. From above, it looked like a ring, with a huge lake in the middle connected directly to the sea. The terrain was so extraordinary it seemed almost divinely crafted. But it had nothing to do with Lu Zhiyu; the landscape had formed naturally long ago!

"There's no life on this continent yet, is there? Only plants and plenty of insects, with very few animals!" It was Lu Zhiyu's first time setting foot here, so he took the opportunity to look around. When he saw the enormous saltwater lake within the continent, it seemed almost indistinguishable from the sea. He couldn't see the far shore at all!