Water God! The Ninth Elder of the Divine Plant Cult Falls!

What's going on?!

The moment the Hunchbacked Masked Man's expression changed drastically, Lin Zichen also sensed the terrifying energy surging rapidly from below.

However, the [Danger Perception] indicator did not activate.

Before he could think further...

The next second, the once calm sea suddenly became turbulent.

In an instant, a terrifying, towering wave was unleashed.

He slammed his fist down on the Hunchbacked Masked Man above.

The giant wave formed extremely quickly, and crashed towards the Hunchbacked Masked Man even faster.

The Hunchbacked Masked Man had no time to react and was swept into the giant wave, dragged to the bottom of the sea.

Lin Zichen, who was entangled by the Hunchbacked Masked Man with vines, was also caught in the crossfire and swept away by the giant wave, dragged to the bottom of the sea.

However, before he had sunk very far, Lin Zichen felt a powerful yet gentle pushing force on his body.

Then he stopped sinking and began to rise rapidly to the surface of the sea.

"Uproar--"

A crisp sound of water breaking rang out.

Lin Zichen burst out of the water instantly, propelled forward by a wave beneath him, surging towards Shen Qinghan was hundreds of meters away.

Before he could figure out what was going on, he was already pushed back to Shen Qinghan's side.

Almost simultaneously.

The waves beneath him vanished instantly.

The sea returned to calm, as if everything that had just happened was an illusion.

"Xiao Chen!"

Shen Qinghan hugged Lin Zichen while crying, her eyes looked swollen from crying, and large tears kept streaming down her cheeks.

Seeing her crying so hard, Lin Zichen wanted to comfort her.

But knowing that now was not the time to comfort her, he let her hold him and cry, while swimming away from the water and using all his senses to see what was going on.

That terrifying, towering wave just now appeared too suddenly.

It shot straight up from below.

The Hunchbacked Masked Man, whose Biological Rank was extremely Rare Tier, was swept into the sea and disappeared without a trace.

"Is that Principal Yuan?"

As Lin Zichen swam away from the water, he constantly sensed and surveyed his surroundings, searching for Yuan Dongzhi.

In his mind, only Yuan Dongzhi had the ability to stir up such a terrifying and overwhelming wave.

After sensing for so long and looking around the whole area, I still couldn't see Yuan Dongzhi.

It seems that the towering wave just now was not Yuan Dongzhi's doing.

Lin Zichen was puzzled by this.

Just then, he noticed that as Shen Qinghan's tears fell onto the sea, a pair of small hands, palms facing upwards and joined together, would rise from the sea surface, as if receiving a blessing, and graciously catch Shen Qinghan's tears.

It looks like a baby's tiny hand, and it's made of water—it's incredible.

Looking at this scene before me.

Then he thought about how he had just been pushed directly next to Shen Qinghan by the waves.

Lin Zichen couldn't help but realize that the wave he had just witnessed might not have been formed by Yuan Dongzhi, but by his childhood sweetheart, Shen Qinghan.

Shen Qinghan has been inseparable from water since she was a child.

Even after growing up, he heard strange noises from the sea several times.

It seems to have some connection with the sea.

So...

Is she Water God?

Sea God?

Water spirit?

Or what?

Lin Zichen was filled with a myriad of thoughts.

"Bang--!"

Suddenly, a loud bang erupted as something burst through the water.

Lin Zichen instinctively looked in the direction of the sound.

I saw the Hunchbacked Masked Man emerge from the seabed, covered in wounds and blood, looking quite disheveled.

"Yuan Dongzhi, you forced me to this!!!"

The Hunchbacked Masked Man shouted as soon as he emerged from the sea.

Without any hesitation, he immediately sacrificed a large amount of his Essence Blood to feed the Exotic Beast genes within his body, thereby enhancing his strength by over-activating the Exotic Beast genes within him.

He neither saw Yuan Dongzhi nor sensed Yuan Dongzhi presence.

But this did not prevent him from believing that it was Yuan Dongzhi who had attacked him.

Because among everyone present, apart from Yuan Dongzhi, no one else could control such a terrifying, towering wave.

Now, he's following Yuan Dongzhi's example and going all out.

Sacrificing a large amount of Essence Blood excessively activates the Exotic Beast genes within the body.

Significantly enhance one's own strength.

The goal is to eliminate Yuan Dongzhi as quickly as possible and bring Lin Zichen back to the Main Cult before reinforcements from the Military District arrive.

Soon, the Hunchbacked Masked Man's body began to undergo strange changes.

The hair and skin turned dark green.

The limbs twisted like vines.

Four fleshy wings covered with blood vessels sprouted from its back.

In the blink of an eye, he transformed from a human into an ugly, giant "Wood Spirit".

"Buzz... buzz... buzz!"

A whooshing sound followed.

The Hunchbacked Masked Man's limbs suddenly stretched out like rubber, transforming into countless eerie, Blood-Colored Vines that shot towards the sea below with lightning speed.

"Bang... bang... bang!"

Numerous vines shot into the sea, creating large waves.

The moment they entered the sea, these vines transformed into agile pythons, Death Entanglement any living creatures they passed on the seabed and sucking their lifeblood.

The Hunchbacked Masked Man didn't know exactly where Yuan Dongzhi was hiding.

But he was certain that Yuan Dongzhi was hiding in the sea right beneath his feet.

He intends to launch an indiscriminate attack on all creatures in this sea area to force Yuan Dongzhi, who is hiding among them, to come out.

Today, we're not just taking Lin Zichen away.

They also want to kill Yuan Dongzhi!

On the other side.

Seeing that the Hunchbacked Masked Man had gone mad, his humanity gradually being replaced by bestiality, Lin Zichen didn't dare linger for even a second longer and immediately tried to take Shen Qinghan away from the water.

However, he had only just begun to swim away.

The next second!

The entire sea surface suddenly began to surge violently!

Immediately afterwards!

A giant arm made of seawater suddenly shot up from the depths of the sea!

Spread your hands wide, covering the sky and the sun!

With the force of a five-fingered mountain, it slammed down on the Hunchbacked Masked Man!

"Boom--!"

The Hunchbacked Masked Man had no time to react before he was slammed into the seabed with a single palm strike, creating a deafening sound.

The power of this palm strike was terrifying.

The aftershocks, hundreds of meters away, shook Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan out of the sea and threw them high into the sky.

Just as the two were thrown to their highest point, preparing to begin freefall and crash into the sea.

A giant arm made of seawater suddenly shot up from below, its flat palm catching the two people who were about to fall.

Lin Zichen looked at the giant arm made of seawater beneath him, and a wave of thoughts washed over him.

It's also a giant arm.

When facing the Hunchbacked Masked Man, he slammed his palm down.

But when facing him and Shen Qinghan, she treated them with the tenderness of a precious jewel.

"Could this be... Hanhan's mysterious Water-Type Superpower?"

Lin Zichen felt the giant arm made of seawater beneath him and realized this.

At this moment, Shen Qinghan suddenly shrank to his side, a little frightened, and said:

"Xiao Chen, what is this?!"

Around her body floated numerous strangely shaped water droplets.

These water droplets seemed to possess a life of their own, changing into various symbols that resembled writing as they floated past her eyes.

Seeing the water droplets swirling around her, Lin Zichen was even more incredulous. He quickly reassured her, "Don't be afraid, this is probably just a manifestation of your Water-Type Superpower."

After saying that, he quickly asked, "Did you hear any strange noises just now?"

The strange sounds he was referring to were the eerie whispers that Shen Qinghan had heard when she went into the sea before.

Shen Qinghan's eyes were still a little red.

Her eyes were filled with glistening tears.

Upon hearing Lin Zichen's question, she wiped away her tears and belatedly realized what she was saying, "Yes, I heard it. It was something about offending the gods and Divine Punishment, and then suddenly a huge wave rose up on the sea."

Offending God?

Divine Punishment?

Lin Zichen carefully examined the incredibly familiar Shen Qinghan before him and guessed, "Could you really be Mythical Tier being like Water God or Sea God?"

Shen Qinghan shook her head. "I don't know..."

Lin Zichen thought for a moment and asked, "Can you control this giant arm made of seawater?"

Shen Qinghan shook her head again. "No..."

Lin Zichen fell into deep thought after hearing this.

This was the first time in his life he had encountered something so mysterious and unknown.

"Bang--!"

Suddenly, a spray of water erupted from a stretch of sea several hundred meters away.

Lin Zichen looked up.

The next scene that came into view was Hunchbacked Masked Man rushing out of the sea, his face full of terror, frantically trying to escape the water beneath his feet.

But less than a second after emerging from the water, a giant arm shot up from the water beneath the Hunchbacked Masked Man tightly as he tried to escape.

As the five fingers exerted force, the Hunchbacked Masked Man gripped within them immediately showed pain, coughed up blood, and his life force rapidly drained away.

"Principal Yuan, don't kill me!"

"I am extremely useful; keeping me alive will make me even more useful!"

"I know many secrets that no one else knows!"

The Hunchbacked Masked Man sensed death approaching, his face filled with terror, and his strong will to survive made him desperately beg for mercy.

Hearing the pleas for mercy, Lin Zichen knew that the Hunchbacked Masked Man had mistaken Yuan Dongzhi for attacking him.

"Principal Yuan!"

"Principal Yuan, do you know the truth about your son and daughter's deaths in the Origin Land?!"

Spare my life, and I'll tell you the truth!

The Hunchbacked Masked Man coughed up blood as he continued to beg for mercy in an increasingly hoarse voice.

No matter how much he begged for mercy, no one responded.

Because Yuan Dongzhi isn't here at all.

At this moment, Yuan Dongzhi was still floating on the other side of the water, barely alive, waiting for the Living Dead Slug gene to repair her severely injured body.

"The truth about death?"

Hearing the Hunchbacked Masked Man's words, Lin Zichen's heart stirred slightly.

Is there more to the story?

Were Liu Chuanwu and Yuan Dongzhi's children murdered?

At this moment, the giant arm holding the Hunchbacked Masked Man moved quickly over and stopped in front of Lin Zichen.

More accurately, it was in front of Shen Qinghan, who was standing next to him.

The Hunchbacked Masked Man originally wanted to continue shouting for mercy to Yuan Dongzhi, whose whereabouts were unknown.

But the moment he opened his mouth, he saw the water droplets surrounding Shen Qinghan, and he saw those droplets constantly changing into various shapes.

Then I thought about how Yuan Dongzhi never showed up or responded at all.

He belatedly realized that the attacks he had suffered earlier were not the work of Yuan Dongzhi, but rather the work of the girl in front of him!

His eyes widened in disbelief. "You! It's you! Who are you...?"

"... Bang!"

Before the Hunchbacked Masked Man could finish speaking, the giant hand that was tightly gripping him suddenly exerted force, and in front of Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan, he crushed the man into a pool of blood, staining most of the giant arm made of seawater red.

Dead?

Lin Zichen was momentarily stunned as he stared at the giant arm stained with blood before him.

He never expected that a powerful, Rare Tier creature would suddenly perish without any warning.

"Uproar--"

After killing the Hunchbacked Masked Man, the giant arm, stained red with blood, quickly turned into countless water droplets, falling one after another into the water.

Lin Zichen looked at the scene before him.

It feels so unreal.

A Rare Tier creature died because of Shen Qinghan, utterly powerless to resist.

This is like a dream.

Before long, the giant arm that had been supporting Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan began to slowly turn into water droplets and fall back into the sea.

The water droplets surrounding Shen Qinghan also fell into the sea.

In just a few seconds, the two who had lost their support quickly fell back into the sea, their faces pale as they looked at the calm, waveless surface before them.

It felt as if everything that had just happened was a dream.

Lin Zichen didn't freeze for long.

Seeing the blood in front of him becoming increasingly diluted, the [Survival of the Fittest] began to throb incessantly, driving him to devour the blood that contained the rich Life Origin.

After realizing it...

He quickly swam up and touched the Hunchbacked Masked Man's blood, then skillfully conceived a plan: Devour!

The next second, four notification messages popped up in the Void.

[You have devoured a large amount of the Life Origin of the "Wood Spirit"]

["Lord of the Forest" Strength +87%]

[You have devoured a large amount of the Life Origin of the "Nine-Turn Soul Worm"]

["Higher Spirit" Strength +99%]

Lin Zichen glanced at the contents and felt somewhat disappointed.

A Rare Tier powerhouse only fused with the genes of two kinds of Exotic Beast —isn't that a bit too meager?

Just as he was thinking about these things.

A high-energy entity is rapidly approaching from the waters a kilometer away.

This energy mass looks familiar.

It's Yuan Dongzhi!

A few seconds later.

Yuan Dongzhi, whose body was covered with Dragon Scale, emerged from the water in front of the two.

Her health was very poor; her body was covered in shocking wounds.

It's true that the "Living Dead Slug gene" can heal itself from various injuries, but only if there's enough energy in the body to power it.

As for Yuan Dongzhi, at this moment, the energy in her body was clearly insufficient for her to heal her entire body.

"Isn't the Ninth Elder of the Divine Plant Cult here?"

While using her Mental Power to perceive the surrounding environment, Yuan Dongzhi asked in a slightly weak voice.

Without hesitation, Lin Zichen replied, "I don't know, I didn't see him."

Yuan Dongzhi is not an outsider.

However, he still chose to keep Shen Qinghan's secret.

He wouldn't tell anyone about the cause of the Hunchbacked Masked Man's death, and he didn't believe anyone.

Yuan Dongzhi didn't ask any further questions.

Seeing that both of them were alright, she breathed a sigh of relief.

It doesn't matter where the Hunchbacked Masked Man is.

The important thing is that neither of these two top geniuses is in any danger.

After thinking it over, Yuan Dongzhi wasted no more time. He immediately used his imagination to lift the two people in the water and quickly evacuate them from the Coastal Forest.

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