Mysterious artifacts aplenty.
Lin Suo knew little, but each artifact was a natural treasure of great value.
They had various fantastic uses.
The inherited mysterious artifact in Lin Ni·Xi Na Ya’s hands, though crafted by her ancestors, was quite effective.
The method alone that helped Lin Ni maintain her sanity was a huge help, such as when studying genetic diseases in Synthetic Beasts—the scepter could likely suppress them.
It could even achieve a peeling effect, unraveling a failure into a successful sample.
Its prospects for use in experiments were very clear.
"It’s been so long already, a little more delay won’t hurt; wait here for me a while, I need to finish a task assigned by the academy first."
Lin Ni had no choice but to agree.
There was no other way, encountering Lin Suo was already a tremendous fortune; since they had made a pact, there was no need to create further complications.
Lin Suo didn’t make her wait too long.
Just about half a month, running through all the points on the map, rescuing over twenty thousand people, all stored in a cubic space filled with sufficient living supplies.
He needn’t worry too much.
The number of people was too few, so he had no choice but to visit a few more places, finally bringing the number to around thirty-two thousand.
Only then did he return.
As the saying goes, "see one part and understand the whole," the townsfolk surviving against such odds were literally one in a hundred; it was like living through hell.
This level of survival test was simply outrageous.
Looking over the entirety of Dan Dong, it would be good if a million survived, brutally and mercilessly.
He couldn’t understand the reason but tried to contribute his modest bit, stabilize his mindset, and believed a reasonable explanation would soon emerge.
Half a month, neither too long nor too short.
When Lin Suo came again, Lin Ni seemed to have disappeared; the water was calm without the slightest disturbance.
"How strange, doesn’t she have the patience? Or has something happened..."
Lin Suo was somewhat worried that Lin Ni had been captured.
A rational Sea Demon was highly valuable; any Wizard that encountered one wouldn’t simply let it go.
He knew little of tracking witchcraft.
The Judgment Committee did have a Seventh Ring witchcraft called "Vite’s Retrospective Shadow," which involved a minor application of the Power of Time, allowing one to see past scenes of a place.
Unfortunately, he didn’t know it, but trying Bloodline Tracking might work.
Searching through the Space Ring for a while.
Lin Suo produced a dried vocal cord meat.
"Sea Demon Throat..."
One of his past captures, never used; initially planned for creating underwater Synthetic Beasts, analyzing the genes within.
Its owner was none other than Lin Ni·Xi Na Ya’s own sister.
"Bloodline Tracking, seeking familial connection!"
A blood-red thread, visible only to Lin Suo, quickly formed and stretched far away.
He applied a Buffing Witchcraft of acceleration and lightness to himself.
With a whoosh, he flew out.
In terms of witchcraft, Lin Suo could be called well-informed, knowing a little about everything.
In such times, he could only hope nothing had happened to her.
Bloodline Tracking ended above the water, hanging like a Blood Jade Fish Line into the water.
This area was originally land.
Now submerged by seawater, not very deep, but still about twenty meters, the water wasn’t muddy.
It was just profoundly blue.
Giving a mysterious sense of the unknown.
Transitioning to Inner Breath, Lin Suo plunged underwater.
Before long, an underwater town came into view, with not the slightest stir in the water, eerily quiet.
Lin Suo looked up at the ocean’s surface.
At this depth, one can actually see the sunlight above the ocean, even the sunlight penetrating down, shining on the clock tower at the center of the small town.
The atmosphere became beautifully eerie.
Lin Suo heightened his vigilance; with his vision, he couldn’t spot the small town from the ocean’s surface, there was no reason he could spot the ocean from underground.
Circular water sound waves expanded from the corner of his mouth, instantly enveloping the entire town, still very quiet.
The possibility of being captured by a wizard decreased sharply.
If it was captured by a sea monster, there might already be little hope for survival.
Monsters... they eat flesh, not like wizards who appreciate the value of your research.
"It’s impossible to go in, common sense tells you this place is haunted."
Lin Suo decisively summoned the World Tree Magic Ring.
Barbaric Growth + Super-speed Regeneration + Plant Control.
"Self-created witchcraft· World Tree Domain!"
The ground cracked, the sea water turned muddy with scattered sediments, and giant vines emerged from the ground, devastating the entire underwater town.
A giant vine forest replaced the town’s unknown origin.
Lin Suo felt the plants had rooted in something strange, like the corpse of some long worm.
"Sea Snake? Or what... Lin Ni *Sinya is not here? She’s probably dead."
Bloodline Tracking led here, since there’s no one, there’s a 99% chance she was eaten by the monster.
This is a bit preposterous.
Just as Lin Suo thought of retreating, the seabed stirred again, constantly rumbling like an earthquake.
Beneath the vine forest, a colossal tentacle emerged from the ground, stretching endlessly.
"That’s too exaggerated!"
One tentacle was bigger than a small town, hard to imagine what kind of terrifying giant creature it was.
Conservatively estimating, it was Legendary.
"What in the world..."
Lin Suo’s face turned ugly as he thought to leave.
Resembling an octopus, the monstrous tentacle suddenly slammed down, like a cloud falling from the sky, with the force to end worlds.
His keen eyes, beneath the tentacle, spotted dense suckers, each harboring a writhing human face.
In one of those suckers, only half a body was inside, the upper body still exposed.
Clutching a White Pearl, refusing to let go.
It was indeed Lin Ni *Sinya.
Lin Suo roared, his body swiftly enlarging into a ten-meter-tall humanoid Giant Dragon.
Scales wrapped in rapidly steaming flames.
Forming a Flame Dragon Claw, firmly grasping the tentacle to prevent it from slamming down.
The intense heat reacted with the sea water.
The steam formed bubbles, completely blocking the view.
But this did not hinder him.
With a thought, four cyan Magic Power Hands moved swiftly, two responsible for pulling Lin Ni’s upper body.
The other two transformed into two machetes.
Without hesitation, they struck her waist.
Blades entered flesh.
Her beautiful fish tail was devoured by the tentacle’s suckers, ignoring the intestines spilling from Lin Ni, he quickly surfaced with her half body.
Lin Suo couldn’t hold on either.
Decisively, he released his grip, shrunk his body, and with a step, instantly teleported to the sea surface with the help of Space Witchcraft.
"Huff, huff, huff..."
"That was terrifying."