12dz Chapter 77 Trials 15
Chapter 77 Trials 15
The environment here made the little cloud beast a little uneasy. It used to like to fly fast, but now it has slowed down its flight speed.
The water surged beneath the surface, and a giant mouth leaped out of the sea, swallowing a cloud and a person whole in one swift motion.
The little cloud beast tightly wrapped its body around Cheng Jiu. After an unknown amount of time, as seawater surged in, they landed in a dry yet moist place. Most of the seawater drained away from an unknown source, leaving only Cheng Jiu and the little cloud beast.
Under the protection of the little cloud beast, Cheng Jiu floated in mid-air and carefully examined the area. This should be the belly of the giant beast.
Besides the food scraps from the giant beast, you can vaguely see some fragments of rusty weapons in some pink corners. It's obvious that the unfortunate creatures from before were eaten and left behind only fragments of their weapons as their final proof in the world.
Cheng Jiu took out the jade slip. Inside the belly of this ghostly thing, communication was impossible, even though it was connected to the ghost realm.
A strong, sour smell lingered around my nose, and some green liquid slowly oozed out from somewhere.
It's obvious that this giant beast has finished eating and is trying to digest.
Cheng Jiu held the Heavenly Wood Sword, looking at the large piece of flesh above his abdomen.
Actually, she had felt something was wrong earlier. She wondered if it was just her imagination, but this giant beast seemed to have no cultivation!
Seeing the green liquid constantly pouring in, she didn't have the mind to think too much. If she didn't find a way out soon, even if he wasn't destroyed, he would be enveloped by this disgusting liquid.
Just thinking about her makes me feel disgusted.
She twirled her sword, her body becoming one with hers as she charged upwards, leaving a large gash in her flesh, blood gushing into her stomach.
The giant beast that was out hunting was writhing in agony. Cheng Jiu charged out from above its back. The beast struggled and rolled around in pain for a while before finally stopping in the middle of the sea.
The crimson hue spread across this stretch of sea.
Cheng Jiu also felt very uncomfortable; the other person's blood really smelled terrible, both fishy and foul!
After emerging, it was immersed in a pool of bloody seawater.
The little cloud beast's body swelled up from absorbing water, and it was no longer as soft and dry as before, but instead floated wetly in the middle of the sea.
Seeing that it was uncomfortable, Cheng Jiu put it back into his spirit beast pouch.
She rummaged through the rings, found a water-repellent bead, and put it in her mouth.
Although she was a cultivator, she had not completely escaped her mortal body. She still had a wood spirit root, making life in the sea extremely difficult for her.
Aside from water-based spiritual energy, the ocean contains very little other spiritual energy.
After she recovered, she began to examine the sea beast that had swallowed her. Just as she had thought, the sea beast had no cultivation, but in terms of physical strength, it was definitely comparable to a Nascent Soul cultivator.
Moreover, it was extremely large, with a fish head, a crocodile body, and four legs covered with sharp scales. Its mouth was enormous and full of fangs. Cheng Jiu seemed incredibly small in front of it.
It had a large hole in its back, which actually appeared relatively small compared to the rest of its body. Blood gushed out from within like a hot spring, continuously widening the opening due to the constant flow of blood.
Even a small tear can be fatal tens of thousands of miles underwater, let alone one that pierces through the abdomen.
The blood of the sea monster quickly attracted predators in the area. While it struggled and Cheng Jiu observed, dozens of deep-sea behemoths had already surrounded it.
Cheng Jiu originally thought this sea area was extremely dangerous, since she couldn't sense the cultivation level of the surrounding sea beasts and assumed that their cultivation levels were very high, which she couldn't detect.
But now it seems they are all sea beasts without any cultivation.
These sea beasts ignored Cheng Jiu and instead pounced on the large sea beast, chewing it vigorously. Although the large sea beast stopped struggling, it was still alive. When the group of predators pounced, the pain caused it to struggle violently again, and the smaller sea beasts were all whipped away by its tail.
However, under the siege of dozens of sea monsters, it slowly breathed its last.
After dividing up the giant sea monster, the group of sea creatures left contentedly and in good spirits. Several sea creatures even swam past Cheng Jiu, but showed no interest in the prickly little treat.
Now that she knew this sea area wasn't as dangerous as Cheng Jiu had imagined, she decided to explore it. However, her swimming speed was only a few hundred miles per minute. With such a vast sea, it would take her forever to swim there!
The little black dragon on her wrist detached and grew larger. Two years later, its body grew from more than two meters long to a full twenty meters long. It swayed its body, indicating that Cheng Jiu could ride on its back, and it carried Cheng Jiu to explore.
Although the little black dragon is of the fire and wood element, it is still a dragon after all, capable of soaring through the clouds, spitting out mist, and summoning wind and rain.
They were quite at ease in the sea, and after swimming for a while, they finally left the blood-mist-filled area. From a distance, the huge skeleton bobbing in the water was extremely terrifying.
In the water, all you can feel is stillness; it is extremely vast, and apart from the occasional sound of deep-sea monsters swimming by, there are no other sounds.
From Cheng Jiu's perspective as a cultivator, this sea area was far too barren!
After swimming for a long time, they finally saw a plant that could barely be called a spiritual herb. Moreover, every fish here was bigger than Cheng Jiu and the little black dragon. Swimming among them felt like a tiny person had wandered into a land of giants.
However, these two little people were a bit too ferocious. After all, the giant wouldn't care about the tiny people he couldn't see beside him, so he didn't care when he moved around.
But the little man didn't want to get hit by the giant's tail, so he killed any big fish that stood in Cheng Jiu's way.
Fortunately, these sea creatures are also very ferocious; any dead fish are devoured immediately before they leave.
Suddenly faced with a huge corpse, Cheng Jiu had to figure out a way to get around with the little black dragon.
In the sea, it's nearly impossible to communicate with others using the jade slip, but it's still possible to manage to let them know you're safe.
After swimming for three or four days, the only thing that caught Cheng Jiu's eye was a pearl produced from a huge clam shell. Surprisingly, this pearl had no grade, which meant that the huge clam shell that produced the pearl had no cultivation.
It's just for looks. After all, who knows how many years it's lived? The pearl is really big and round. Cheng Jiu feels like he could use it to build a pearl house.
Then there were two or three unidentified first-grade spiritual herbs. Although they were only first-grade, the important thing was that they were unidentified.
Cheng Jiu was taught by Cang Jiyue, that freak who had ascended over 100,000 years ago and had seen and witnessed countless things.
When Cheng Jiu was learning alchemy in Tutorial Nine, she had memorized many complete lists of spiritual herbs, but this thing was not even in the scope of what Cang Jiyue taught her.
Even a first-grade item is extremely precious.
She also found a huge shipwreck, which was occupied by a giant octopus-like monster. Although it looked like an octopus, its body was covered in bulges. During the battle, the bulges would burst open and spray out strange secretions and venom, which was extremely disgusting.
Cheng Jiu wanted to give up during the fight; it was too disgusting.
However, the other party was the only sea beast with cultivation that she had seen in all her time in the sea, although it was only at the Golden Core stage.
There must be something in this shipwreck, and this sea beast is also extremely strong, equivalent to the Nascent Soul stage.
With the help of the little black dragon, Cheng Jiu managed to kill the opponent, but because the opponent was covered in venom, no sea beast came to eat or clean it up.