On the seabed not far from Watatsumi Island.
A shark was searching for its prey as usual when it suddenly discovered a human corpse lying beneath it.
It thought it was in luck today, stumbling across such an easy meal. Without a second thought, it moved to bite into the corpse's arm.
Suddenly, the corpse's chest began to tremble, and an invisible pulse instantly blasted the shark to pieces.
"Cough, cough, cough..."
Zhong Baiye violently coughed up a lump of red flesh. These were pieces of his internal organs, shattered by the Musou no Hitotachi. If his body's regenerative ability had not been so powerful now, the damage to his organs alone would have been enough to kill him.
Although he was several thousand meters beneath the sea, Zhong Baiye was completely unaffected by the depth.
He examined his body right there on the seabed, and what he found gave him a fright.
Almost no part of Zhong Baiye's body was intact. A large patch of flesh on his chest had been charred by lightning, while a blade wound in his back pierced through his body, reaching all the way to his heart.
If he had still been the Zhong Baiye of the past, he could easily have died on the spot.
His internal organs were in even more horrifying shape. The flesh he had coughed up was only a small portion of the damage. Almost none of his organs remained intact.
A blade's energy had pierced his heart, leaving a circular wound several centimeters across. If it had not still been beating, Zhong Baiye might have thought his heart was finished too.
After examining his wounds, Zhong Baiye's first impulse was to return to land. The seabed was far too oppressive.
Although the surrounding darkness could not obstruct his