Evolving infinitely from ground zero

What's happening?!

The moment the hunched masked person's face drastically changed, Lin Zichen also sensed the terrifying energy rushing up from below at a high speed.

But [Danger Perception] didn't alert.

Without time to think further,

the next second, the previously calm sea suddenly turned turbulent.

In an instant, it whipped up a terrifying, sky-high tidal wave.

It violently struck towards the hunched masked person above.

The creation of the tidal wave was extremely fast, and it moved towards the hunched masked person even faster.

Caught off guard, the hunched masked person was instantly engulfed by the tidal wave and dragged into the depths of the sea.

Lin Zichen, who had been entangled by the masked person's vines, was also affected and swept away into the sea along with him.

However, he didn't sink much before he felt a huge yet gentle pushing force on his body.

Then he was no longer sinking; instead, he rapidly rose toward the sea surface.

"Splash—"

A crisp sound of breaking water resounded.

Lin Zichen burst out of the water in an instant, pushed forward by the wave beneath him, surging hundreds of meters towards Shen Qinghan.

Before he could figure out what was happening, he was already pushed back to Shen Qinghan's side.

Almost at the same time,

the wave beneath him disappeared in an instant.

The sea became calm again, as if everything that had just happened was an illusion.

"Xiao Chen!"

Shen Qinghan cried and embraced Lin Zichen, her eyes so swollen from crying that large tears streamed down her cheeks non-stop.

Seeing her cry so hard, Lin Zichen wanted to comfort her.

But knowing it wasn't the time for comfort, he let her cry while he swam away from the area with her, all the while spreading his senses to gauge the situation.

The terrifying tidal wave that appeared just now was too sudden.

It surged up from below, charging towards the sky.

It directly dragged the hunched masked person, whose Biological Level was as high as Rare Level, into the depths of the sea, vanishing without a trace.

"Was it Principal Yuan?"

Lin Zichen, while swimming quickly away from the area, constantly sensed and scrutinized his surroundings, searching for Yuan Dongzhi's figure.

In his mind, only Yuan Dongzhi had the power to summon such a terrifying tidal wave.

But after sensing for so long and looking around, he still hadn't spotted Yuan Dongzhi.

It seemed that the tidal wave just now wasn't Yuan Dongzhi's doing.

Lin Zichen felt puzzled by this.

Right at that moment, he noticed that when Shen Qinghan's tears fell to the sea surface, a pair of tiny hands would rise up from the sea, palms up and joined together, as if reverently catching Shen Qinghan's tears like accepting a sacred gift.

The hands were baby-sized, made of water, and were quite incredible.

Witnessing the scene before him,

and then recalling how he had been pushed right to Shen Qinghan's side by the wave,

Lin Zichen couldn't help but realize that the tidal wave might not have been caused by Yuan Dongzhi, but by his childhood sweetheart, Shen Qinghan.

Shen Qinghan had been inseparable from water since she was a child.

As she grew up, she even heard strange voices from the sea several times.

It seemed she had a deep connection with the ocean.

So...

Is she a water deity?

A sea god?

A spirit of water?

Or what else?

Lin Zichen's thoughts were racing.

"Boom—!"

Suddenly, an explosive sound of something breaking the water surface echoed.

Lin Zichen instinctively looked towards the sound.

He saw the hunched masked person bursting out of the sea, covered in wounds and blood, looking extremely disheveled.

"Yuan Dongzhi, you forced my hand!!!"

The moment the hunched masked person emerged from the sea, he yelled.

Without any hesitation, he immediately sacrificed a great amount of Qi-Blood to feed the Exotic Beast Gene inside his body, boosting his strength through over-activation of the Exotic Beast Gene.

He didn't see Yuan Dongzhi nor sense his presence.

But this did not prevent him from concluding that Yuan Dongzhi was attacking him.

Because among all the people present, no one besides Yuan Dongzhi could control such a terrifying tidal wave.

Now, he was going all out just like Yuan Dongzhi.

Sacrificing a great amount of Qi-Blood to over-activate the Exotic Beast Gene inside his body.

Significantly increasing his strength.

To dispose of Yuan Dongzhi as quickly as possible and take Lin Zichen back to the Divine Plant Cult before military reinforcements arrived.

Soon, the hunched masked person's body began to undergo a transformation.

His hair and skin turned dark green.

His limbs twisted into vines,

and four blood-vessel-laden fleshy wings grew out of his back,

In just the blink of an eye, he mutated from a human into an ugly, giant "wooden sprite."

"Whizz... whizz... whizz!"

Accompanied by a whistling sound,

the hunched masked person's limbs stretched like rubber, turning into countless bizarre blood-red vines, shooting towards the sea surface below at lightning speed.

"Thud... thud... thud!"

A large number of vines shot into the sea, stirring up huge waves.

The moment they hit the water, these vines turned into agile pythons, ensnaring all living creatures in their path on the seafloor, sucking their Qi-Blood.

The hunched masked person did not know exactly where Yuan Dongzhi was hiding,

but he was certain that Yuan Dongzhi was concealed beneath this area of the sea.

He planned to launch indiscriminate attacks on all creatures in this sea area, forcing the hidden Yuan Dongzhi to reveal himself.

Today, he intended not only to take Lin Zichen,

but to kill Yuan Dongzhi as well!

On the other side,

Seeing the hunched masked person had gone mad, with human nature gradually being replaced by the beast within, Lin Zichen didn't dare to linger for another second and immediately tried to take Shen Qinghan far away from this area.

However, he had only just moved to swim away,