Chapter 355: The Colossus
She swam for who knows how long, when Lin Wan suddenly felt her whole body lighten. That crushing weight of ten thousand jun suddenly dissipated, as if she had passed through an invisible boundary.
She suspended in the dark blue deep sea, the surroundings so quiet she could hear her own heartbeat. That strand of Water Essence Soul no longer dove deeper, but instead circled around her like a happy swimming fish, blue light tracing dreamlike paths in the pitch-black water.
This was a world completely different from the Return to Ruins. The water curtain overhead was already unreachable, transforming into a blur of faint light.
The abyss beneath her remained bottomless.
"Wu——"
A long whale cry suddenly came from the abyss. That sound was low and desolate, as if crossing through eternal time, vibrating the surrounding seawater slightly.
Lin Wan looked towards the sound, seeing only a huge shadow faintly emerging in the darkness in the extreme distance. That shadow was vaster than a mountain range; the water current brought up by its slow swimming made the entire sea region tremble.
The whale cry sounded again.
This time, the sound was closer.
Lin Wan could feel the trembling of the sound waves piercing her body, as if even her soul was resonating. That sound carried an unspeakable loneliness, as if it had wandered alone in this deep sea since ancient times, waiting for a meeting that would never arrive.
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The Water Essence Soul suddenly trembled violently, its dark blue light blazing like fire, speeding away towards the direction of the whale cry. Lin Wan followed close behind, passing through layers of dark currents, and finally saw that incomparably huge figure in the pitch black.
At first, she only felt an invisible oppression, as if the entire deep sea was trembling for that existence. Subsequently, two huge halos suddenly lit up in the darkness—those were the giant creature's eyes, like two sunken bright moons, quietly gazing at her in the abyss.
Lin Wan looked into those eyes; she felt no hostility, but rather an indescribable desolation and loneliness.
She had just wanted to approach, when suddenly, the currents of the entire sea region started churning madly!
At the same time, she finally saw clearly that this giant creature was actually a giant whale with a silver-white body.
But right at this moment, an indescribable majestic power squeezed in from all directions, the seawater churning as if boiling. The next second, several tentacles thick as mountain ranges suddenly stretched out from the gloomy abyss; each was covered in hideous suckers, with strange dark red patterns flashing on them.
Those tentacles twisted and coiled like living creatures, sweeping towards the giant whale!
"Wu——!!"
The giant whale let out a deafening cry again; the sound waves surged, and the entire sea region trembled. Its huge body swung abruptly, setting off sky-high undercurrents. Lin Wan didn't even have time to react before being pushed hundreds of zhang away by this force.
She barely stabilized her figure and looked up, only to see another colossus slowly emerging in the deep sea—
That was a terrifying creature shaped like an octopus, its body like a pitch-black island. Countless tentacles stretched wildly in the deep sea, each enough to crush mountain ranges.
Its head split open into a hideous huge mouth, filled with ghastly white sharp teeth, as if it could devour even light.
The giant whale and the deep sea giant octopus collided with a boom!
In an instant, the entire sea region boiled completely.
Undercurrents were like knives, churning everything. The giant whale's tail fin swept across, setting off sky-high whirlpools, while the deep sea giant octopus's tentacles coiled up like chains, suckers dead-set sticking to the giant whale's scale armor, tearing out ear-piercing friction sounds.
Lin Wan stood in the distance, feeling this slaughter of ancient giant beasts.
She had never thought that such terrifying existences were hidden in the deep sea beneath this Return to Ruins.
The giant whale's tail fin swept like a sky curtain, setting off sky-high undercurrents. The seawater was forcibly torn apart under its majestic power, forming a vacuum belt stretching a thousand zhang.
This strike solidly lashed against the deep sea giant octopus's head, letting out a muffled impact sound like thunder. The giant octopus's skull was smashed inward; ink-black blood sprayed out from the cracked wound, turning into patches of hideous blood mist in the icy seawater.
However, the giant octopus's counterattack came faster.
Its tentacles, thick as mountain ranges, suddenly tightened, and the saw-toothed barbs on the suckers plunged deep into the gaps of the giant whale's scale armor.
Lin Wan clearly heard the ear-piercing sound like metal twisting—those ancient scales capable of withstanding deep sea heavy pressure were actually torn off forcibly! Several bloody wounds immediately appeared on the giant whale's silver-white body; broken scales drifted away with the undercurrents, like a fall of silver snow.
"Wu——!"
The giant whale let out a painful hiss-cry; the sound waves vibrated the seawater within a hundred li to boil violently. It abruptly turned, opened its huge mouth capable of swallowing mountain ranges, and viciously bit down on one of the giant octopus's tentacles.
The sound of sharp teeth cutting into flesh was horrifying; dark blue blood sprayed from the wound, dyeing the surrounding seawater a strange dark blue color.
The giant octopus felt pain, and its remaining tentacles whipped wildly.
The two giant beasts rolled and entangled, churning the entire sea region upside down.
The giant whale suddenly dove, enduring the giant octopus's tearing and biting, and fiercely knocked it towards an even deeper sea region. The giant octopus took the opportunity to wrap two tentacles around the giant whale, and the suckers contracted frantically.
The giant whale's silver-white scales began to glow with an abnormal dark red color.
Just at this life-and-death juncture, a blinding golden light suddenly erupted from the giant whale's eyes.
The star patterns on its entire body lit up at the same time, and every scale began to tremble at a high frequency. Under the effect of some mysterious power, the seawater suddenly became viscous like glue, and the giant octopus's tentacles immediately slowed down.
The giant whale seized this fleeting opportunity and violently shook its head—
"Zhi-la!"
Accompanied by a tearing sound that made one's teeth ache, the giant octopus's bitten tentacle was actually forcibly ripped off! The column of blood spraying from the severed limb was like an undersea volcanic eruption, dyeing the seawater within several li a dark blue color.
The giant octopus let out a soundless wail; its remaining tentacles twitched madly, and granulation buds rapidly grew at the wound, actually beginning to regenerate!
But the giant whale also paid a heavy price.
Its throat area was strangled into a wound deep enough to see bone, with silver-white blood continuously gushing out. Even more terrifyingly, the barbs on the giant octopus's tentacles seemed to carry some kind of toxin; the scales around the wound were rotting black at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The giant whale's swimming became obviously sluggish, and the golden light in its eyes also dimmed significantly.
The two giant beasts temporarily separated, confronting each other in the seawater filled with blood mist.
The giant octopus's severed tentacle had stopped bleeding, with nauseating granulation buds wriggling at the break; the giant whale's wound continuously dripped silver blood, accumulating into a small lake in the seawater.
They were both panting, both accumulating their final strength.
This slaughter of ancient giant beasts had already entered the most tragic stage.
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