The previous second, he had still been absorbing blood on Blood Island. But the moment he opened his eyes again, bone-chilling cold wrapped around his entire body.
Before him stretched an oppressive, unfamiliar deep sea. Everything was scarlet, and the seawater was incredibly viscous.
Lin Tian's heart pounded with shock. Instinctively, he tried to raise his hand, but his movement abruptly froze—he couldn't feel his hands.
With all his might, Lin Tian focused his awareness, trying to sense his upper limbs. All he could control, though, were two stubby, round wrists.
He struggled to turn his neck and look beneath his shoulders, but to his surprise, he couldn't feel his head either.
No matter where he focused his awareness, all he could sense was a wrist.
He had actually turned into a monster with five pink wrists!
His body began trembling with fear. He wanted to scream, but he didn't even have a mouth. Only his shuddering body stirred ripples through the water, showing just how unsettled he was.
Just then, before he had even gotten used to this strange new body, the currents around him suddenly churned violently.
A strange figure shot past him at blinding speed.
Lin Tian didn't have time to react before the streak of red slammed straight into him. His two pink wrists shattered on impact, bursting into countless flecks of pink blood that drifted into the seawater.
And that wasn't all. The impact had taken half his body along with those two wrists.
Except for the central core, more than half of everything else was simply gone.
"What the hell? I haven't even gotten started, and I'm already dead. Where the hell have I ended up this time?
Is this even still Douluo Continent?
My Twin Martial Souls, my Titled Douluo待遇 in the Holy Spirit Cult, my wonderful life at the Spirit Pagoda, and even the astonishingly wise one back home—they're all gone!
If I die here, will I actually be dead for good?
I don't even know what I've reincarnated into this time, and now I'm dead already? This is ridiculous, heavens!"
The massive loss of body parts and blood, along with the dizzying effects of severe blood loss, made him lose consciousness in an instant. His vision went black, and he sank under the weight of the deep sea, all the way down to the seabed.
After who knew how long, amid the utter darkness and cold, Lin Tian finally began to wake.
This new creature he'd been reborn as had no brain, no nose, no ears—nothing.
He figured he must have reincarnated as the one animal least suited to being reborn as.
After waking, Lin Tian could only rely on a tiny black spot at the tip of his two remaining wrists to sense the outside world. After finally getting used to his body, he had discovered that this was his visual organ.
With great difficulty, he shifted his viewpoint and saw the state he was in: a horrifying mess. Half his body was gone, and of his five wrists, only one and a half remained. The rest had all been smashed away.
"How am I not dead? What the hell!
Not only was he alive, he was slowly recovering from his injuries. This body he'd transmigrated into had an astonishingly tenacious life force.
Where the hell am I?
What kind of creature did I transmigrate into?
If his body had still been intact, he might have been able to hazard a guess. But half of it was destroyed, and his vision was so poor that he couldn't see any colors at all. He could barely make out shapes."
But when he saw what his body was doing, an unbearable wave of nausea rose up in him, and a chill shot straight to his scalp.
This was absolutely the most disgusting thing he had ever seen in his life!
At the torn-open end of his half-body, there were no normal internal organs at all. Instead, there was a mass of folded flesh membranes covered in countless sticky hairs, writhing wildly as they absorbed the remains of marine corpses scattered across the seabed.
He couldn't make out the colors or shapes of the corpses. He could only sense that they contained abundant energy and vitality.
The stomach in his new body had detached itself and was devouring these corpses right there in the open.
"What is this?
This is way too disgusting!
What kind of creature eats with its stomach on the outside?
So not having a mouth means it skips straight to the stomach?"
Lin Tian really wanted to die. But however disgusting it was, he could clearly feel pure vitality pouring into his body as the stomach broke down its food.
A tingling sensation spread through his mangled wounds. The flesh at the breaks was visibly healing, and new flesh began to sprout along the edges of his missing half, spreading and growing bit by bit.
He was beginning to understand. The reason he could survive such horrific injuries and even begin to recover was this disgusting stomach of his.
So he had no choice but to endure the recovery process.
There was no sense of time in this vast deep sea. Lin Tian had no idea how long it took. Only after everything in the area had been absorbed did the changes in his body finally stop.
He immediately opened all his eyes and examined his body from his unique vantage points. His heart surged with shock.
His body, which should have been doomed to die, had grown back. The wrists shattered in the collision had all returned to normal, and were even a little thicker than before. All his injuries had healed, and he had even undergone a complete transformation!
Regenerated limbs and a remade body—this was practically an immortal body!
Lin Tian was deeply shaken. The abilities of this new body far exceeded his expectations. He was starting to like this feeling.
How fragile the human body was, especially that of a Soul Master. If they had a Soul Bone in their arm, it was even worse: lose the arm, lose the Soul Bone, and even lose a level.
But now he had an immortal body. With that and his clever mind, he could surely carve out a place for himself in this underwater world!
First, he'd take a look around and figure out where he was.
Even if he had transmigrated again, so what? It wasn't as if he'd had a choice. He couldn't just sit there and wait to die.
Even as a monster, he was going to live well!
Once he had made up his mind, Lin Tian immediately controlled every eye in his body with his thoughts. The five black eyes atop his five wrists opened at once, instantly revealing everything around him in the deep sea.
The sight before him made his heart jolt. Other than the area he had just drained dry, the entire seabed was covered in corpses, packed together so thickly that there was no end to them!
"Wait, Sea Soul Beasts?
Blood Sea Monsters?
That's right, Blood Sea Monsters!"
Lin Tian spotted the corpse of a familiar donut-shaped monster. It was still intact, lying cold and lifeless not far in front of him.
He immediately controlled his five wrists and slowly moved toward the corpse. Once he had confirmed it up close, delight surged through him—it was a Blood Sea Monster, a Red Blood Cell Monster!
And as he was still reeling from the shock, something farther ahead finally confirmed his guess beyond all doubt.
The appearance of a corpse filled him with joy.
"Isn't that my angel investor, Blood Shadow Douluo Blood Fiend?"