Evolving infinitely from ground zero

Next second!

The entire sea surface suddenly surged violently!

Right after that!

A giant water arm composed of the sea water shot up from the depths of the sea, instantly!

It spread its palm wide enough to cover the sky and the sun!

With the force of a great mountain pressing down, it furiously slapped down on the hunchbacked masked person!

"Boom——!"

The hunchbacked masked person had no time to react and was directly slapped into the seabed, setting off a deafening noise.

The power of this slap was extremely terrifying.

The residual waves, from hundreds of meters away, shook Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan from the sea and threw them high into the sky.

Just as the two were thrown to the highest point and about to start free-falling back into the sea,

A giant water arm, composed of sea water, quickly shot up from below and gently caught the two with an outstretched palm as they were about to fall.

Lin Zichen looked at the giant water arm below him, a rush of thoughts flooding his mind.

It was also a giant arm.

When facing the hunchbacked masked person, it fiercely slapped down.

But when facing him and Shen Qinghan, it was as tender as if holding a precious jewel in its palm.

"Could it be... this is Han Han's mysterious water-related superpower?"

Lin Zichen, feeling the giant water arm beneath him, thought of this possibility.

Just then, Shen Qinghan suddenly moved closer to him, a bit frightened,

"Xiao Chen, what is this?!"

Surrounding her body were numerous oddly shaped droplets of water.

These droplets seemed to have life of their own, forming various symbols that looked like characters as they floated past her eyes.

Seeing these water droplets lingering around her, Lin Zichen felt increasingly incredulous and quickly reassured her, "Don't be scared, this is probably a manifestation of that water-related superpower of yours."

After saying this, he quickly asked, "Did you hear any strange sounds just now?"

The strange sounds he referred to were those eerie murmurs Shen Qinghan had heard previously when she went into the sea.

Shen Qinghan's eyes were still somewhat red.

Tears glistened at the corners of her eyes.

Upon Lin Zichen's questioning, she raised her hand to wipe away her tears and belatedly remembered, "Yes, I heard something about offending a god, divine punishment, and then suddenly the sea swelled up with towering waves."

Offending a god?

Divine punishment?

Lin Zichen looked seriously at the very familiar Shen Qinghan and speculated, "Could you really be a mythical being like a water god or sea god?"

Shen Qinghan shook her head, "I don't know..."

Lin Zichen thought for a moment and asked, "Can you control this giant water arm?"

Shen Qinghan shook her head again, "I can't..."

Lin Zichen fell into deep thought upon hearing this.

This was the first time in his life he had encountered something so mysterious and unknown.

"Thump——!"

Suddenly, a piece of the sea hundreds of meters away exploded with a splash that filled the sky.

Lin Zichen looked up.

The scene that met his eyes was the hunchbacked masked person bursting out from the sea floor, with a face full of horror, frantically trying to flee the area beneath him.

But just less than a second after he surfaced, another giant water arm rose up from the water beneath him and firmly grasped the fleeing hunchbacked masked person.

As the fingers exerted force, the trapped hunchbacked masked person immediately showed a pained expression, coughed up fresh blood, and his life force rapidly drained away.

"Principal Yuan, don't kill me!"

"I am of great value to use alive, more useful than dead!"

"I know many secrets that are unknown to others!"

Feeling the approach of death, the hunchbacked masked person's face was covered with a look of terror, and his survival instinct made him desperately plead aloud.

Lin Zichen heard the pleading and knew that the hunchbacked masked person mistook Yuan Dongzhi for his attacker.

"Principal Yuan!"

"Principal Yuan, do you know the truth about the death of your son and daughter in Origin Land?!"

"Spare my life, and I'll tell you the truth!"

The hunchbacked masked person continued to cough up blood while desperately yelling with an increasingly hoarse voice.

But no matter how much he pleaded, there was never any response.

Because Yuan Dongzhi wasn't there at all.

At the moment, Yuan Dongzhi was still barely alive, floating in another part of the sea, waiting for the Living Dead Slug gene to repair her severely injured body.

"The truth about death?"

Hearing the hunchbacked masked person shout this, Lin Zichen felt a stir in his heart.

Could there be more to the story?

Did Liu Chuanwu and Yuan Dongzhi's children die because of someone's foul play?

At that moment, the gigantic arm holding the hunchbacked mask quickly moved over, stopping in front of Lin Zichen.

More precisely, it stopped in front of Shen Qinghan, who was beside him.

The hunchbacked masked person had initially wanted to continue begging for mercy from Yuan Dongzhi, whose location was unknown.

But the moment he opened his mouth, he saw the droplets of water swirling around Shen Qinghan, constantly changing shapes.

Furthermore, considering Yuan Dongzhi had not appeared nor responded from the beginning to the end.

He belatedly realized that those attacks he had suffered previously were not the handiwork of Yuan Dongzhi, but that of the girl before him!

At this, his eyes widened in disbelief, "You! It was you! Who exactly are you..."

"... Boom!"

Before the hunchbacked masked person could finish speaking, the gigantic hand gripping him suddenly exerted force, and in front of Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan, burst him into a mass of blood and water, staining much of the giant arm made of seawater red.

Dead?

Staring at the giant arm dyed red by fresh blood before him, Lin Zichen was somewhat stunned for a moment.

He hadn't expected that a powerful Rare-level creature would suddenly fall like this, with no sign at all before its death.

"Splash—"

After killing the hunchbacked masked person, the giant arm stained with blood quickly dissipated into a rain of beans-sized droplets, falling into the water one after another.

Lin Zichen watched this scene unfold before him.

It felt unreal.

A Rare-level creature had just died because of Shen Qinghan, powerless to retaliate.

It was almost like a dream.

Not long after, the giant arm supporting Lin Zichen and Shen Qinghan also began to slowly turn into droplets and scattered back into the sea.

The droplets revolving around Shen Qinghan also fell into the sea along with it.

In just a few seconds, losing their buoyancy, the two quickly fell back into the sea, their faces showing a flicker of bewilderment as they looked at the calm and waveless sea surface in front of them.

It was as if everything they had just experienced was all a dream.

Lin Zichen didn't remain stunned for long.

Seeing the blood water in front of him growing fainter, "Survival of the Fittest" started throbbing nonstop, urging him to absorb the blood water rich with the essence of life.

After coming to his senses.

He quickly swam towards the blood-stained water of the hunchbacked masked person, then deftly thought to himself: Absorb!

The next second, four notification messages popped up in the void.

[You have absorbed a large amount of the life essence of "Wood Elf"]

["Forest Lord" strength +87%]

[You have absorbed a large amount of the life essence of "Nine-Turned Soul Worm"]

["Advanced Spirit" strength +99%]

Lin Zichen glanced at the content, feeling somewhat disappointed.

A Rare-level Fighter had only fused two Exotic Beast Genes; wasn't that a bit too meager?

As he was thinking this.

A high-energy mass was rapidly approaching from a thousand meters away in that body of water.

This mass of energy was familiar.

It was Yuan Dongzhi!

A few seconds later.

Yuan Dongzhi, her body covered in dragon scales, burst out of the water in front of the two.

Her condition was not good, her body riddled with horrifying wounds.

The Living Dead Slug gene had the ability to heal various injuries, but the premise was that there was enough energy inside the body to enable it to work.

And Yuan Dongzhi, at the moment, clearly didn't have sufficient energy within her body to heal her wounds.

"Is the Ninth Elder of the Divine Plant Cult not here?"

While Yuan Dongzhi spread her spiritual power to sense the surroundings, she asked with a voice slightly weak.

Without a second thought, Lin Zichen immediately responded, "I don't know, I haven't seen him."

Yuan Dongzhi was not an outsider.

But he still chose to keep Shen Qinghan's secret.

About the death of the hunchbacked masked person, he told no one, trusted no one.

Yuan Dongzhi didn't ask any further.

Seeing that the two of them were fine, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Where the hunchbacked masked person was, didn't matter.

What mattered was that the two top talents before her were unharmed.

With that thought, Yuan Dongzhi wasted no time, immediately concentrated her thoughts, lifting the two out of the water from afar, and swiftly evacuated them from the coastal forest.

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