Buzz—
At a thought from Li Hai, a message suddenly unfolded in his field of vision:
"Raise the Northern Profound Fate-Defying Art from Level 0 to Level 3—Yes/No?"
"Hm? It really works!"
Delighted, Li Hai immediately selected "Yes."
Then, in a daze, he felt himself plummet into the deepest reaches of an endless ocean, surrounded by cold, briny seawater.
The seawater seemed almost alive. Stream after stream, it surged into Li Hai's eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, brimming with malice, as if trying to cut off his breath and suffocate him.
Yet at the same time, hundreds upon thousands of clear, viscous streams, colder than the water in the deepest sea, abruptly appeared around Li Hai and shot into every pore across his body.
In an instant, these icy streams seeped through and permeated all his organs, meridians, and bones, down to even finer layers.
As they coursed through him, they also thoroughly transformed every part of him, inside and out.
Whoosh—
As if he had undergone a cycle of reincarnation, Li Hai felt that in the space of a single breath, his body and soul had both become fish—he had become a Great Kun, swimming through the boundless ocean and speeding across the ten-thousand-zhang-deep abyss.
He no longer feared the deep sea's cold and darkness. Instead, the vast ocean felt so familiar, so full of boundless vitality. That vitality continually nourished and strengthened him, making him forever unharmed, unscathed, invincible, and fearless.
But Li Hai knew that all of this was merely an illusion.
There was no ocean, and he had not become the North Ditch Great Kun.
According to the records in the North Ditch cultivation manual, this was simply a normal phenomenon caused by practicing Demonic Martial Arts, brought on by fragments of memory in the demon