As the water churned and surged, a colossal creature, far larger than the fish monster from before, suddenly thrust up from the mud beneath Li Hai's feet.
Carrying with it a force of tens of thousands of catties and wave after wave of dense, briny salt stench, it shot upward like lightning, rumbling as it drove him from below toward the lakebed above.
In an instant, thousands of tons of lake water and silt were churned into rolling mud currents by the abruptly appearing giant, sweeping in every direction and plunging the lakebed into utter chaos.
And in the brief span of time this chaos had been unleashed, the giant had already carried Li Hai hundreds of zhang upward.
Li Hai, shoved upward by its tremendous force as it pushed aside wave after wave of heavy lake water, finally got a clear look at the giant in its entirety.
It was... a gigantic ship, entirely black and covered in iron armor, ten zhang wide and dozens of zhang long. All across its surface were countless eyes and arms, large and small, like the back of a Surinam toad.
At that moment, Li Hai was being rammed by the bow of the black warship, which was cleaving through the lake and slicing apart the waves as it charged toward the surface.
"Hahaha, I never would've guessed..."
As countless raging currents hammered him, Li Hai gazed at the Black Ship a stone's throw away and laughed. "You, Salt God, are actually a ship."
That's right. Relying on his Wildness instincts and various clues, he had instantly recognized the ship's identity.
It was the Salt God of Li Lake.
Character Name: Salt God
Level and Rank: Monster → Green Rank
Skills: Strange Monster Life Source Copper Head Iron Arm Explosive Salt Heavy Cannon