Two minutes earlier.
Inside the secret chamber in the village chief's room.
Yang Yi used Limb Enhancement to increase his strength, trying to forcibly pull out the Great Sea Lung Larva.
This brute-force approach brought a series of consequences.
First came an increasingly violent earthquake, but Yang Yi was utterly unafraid. His face turned purple with exertion as he pulled upward with all his might.
"Come on, up!"
He roared, his wolf claws tearing through the skin of the Great Sea Lung Larva's face.
At last, brute strength worked a miracle. The weight in Yang Yi's hands suddenly lightened, and he pulled out an enormous human head, holding it in his hands...
"This..."
Yang Yi's right eye widened in apparent disbelief, because he had just torn the Great Sea Lung Larva's head clean off.
The head's neck had snapped, its cross section resembling torn dough, with structures that appeared to be blood vessels and nerves dangling from it, along with segments of spine.
Below it was a fish tail buried in the ground, its surface covered in rootlets embedded in the Great Sea Lung Mother Body. That was why it had been so hard to pull out.
Viewed as a whole, the Great Sea Lung Larva resembled a giant tadpole, only with a human head.
Before Yang Yi could inspect its condition, tremendous suction came from behind, dragging him backward.
To resist this force, he could only cling desperately to the Great Sea Lung Larva to keep from being sucked away.
Finally... with a sharp crack, the Great Sea Lung Larva's spine snapped, and Yang Yi was sucked into the secret passage behind him along with the enormous human head.
Yang Yi never let go during this, tumbling several times with the head. Eventually, the giant human head became wedged