Sea Cultivation: Giant Ships and Heavy Artillery Knock on the Door to All Races

Chapter 184: Still Water, Ice Abyss, and the Great Cold Pond

For the boatmen in the Qi Refining Realm, the experience along the way was too magical and exceeded their understanding of the word "secret realm".

"The reasons for the formation of secret realms vary. Every time the Vast Ocean World devours other small worlds, it suffers from indigestion and generates a large number of secret realms. The collapse of a large secret realm can also create a large number of small secret realms...

Furthermore, I've heard that some fifth-order creatures are already capable of creating/transforming secret realms on their own, and even secret realms can form on their bodies after death. Over the years, all sorts of bizarre secret realms have become quite common."

As the sinking current continues to sink, the ambient temperature is also gradually decreasing, and the inner space gradually reveals its true appearance to people.

Countless ice crystal prisms hang down from the dome made of ten thousand years of black ice. A faint blue spiritual light continuously seeps out from the ice layer, and the blue light reflects the entire surface of the ice abyss into floating black jade.
The dead water surface was completely still, with barely a ripple. Instead, the cold air formed frost patterns that continuously formed spider-web-like ice flakes in the air, fluttering and swirling.

The Qi-refining monks who were close to the protective formation tried to exhale, and the scalding spiritual energy in their breath instantly turned into ice chips and fell down. This was a still water ice abyss that was much smaller than the Linglong Mist Sea!
"What a shame! It seems this is an ice attribute opportunity."

The ice attribute of this place is too obvious, and in the Lin family, only Lin Qianxue can use the ice attribute pill-forming opportunity. However, Lin Qianxue already has a high probability of forming a pill, and the pill-forming opportunities produced here cannot improve the quality of the pill, so it is of little use to Lin Qianxue. If it is not necessary for the Lin family, there is no need to take the lead.

"That's a shame. Time is limited. Our main task is to work together to hunt down the water spirit guards here."

"Well, I can only say that the Blood Shark has no chance."

"That's not true. Right now, we're experiencing a massive beast tide that only happens once every thousand years. Perhaps we can buy a highly suitable opportunity for Core Formation directly in Thousand Star City? The more niche something is, the harder it is to sell."

"maybe."

Bang bang bang~
With the sound of impact, eighty-two monster-hunting ships entered the Still Water Ice Abyss safely. The fleet intending to get the final chance began to head towards the depths of the Ice Abyss to find the Ice Lord there, while the other fleets separated into small fleets to search for the Water Spirit Guards.

That’s right, the greatest opportunity here is not the elixir or the spiritual object, but the lord of this place, a powerful creature similar to the Water Spirit Guardian that was bred in the Linglong Secret Realm for two hundred years.

Killing it can obtain a large "Big Demon Pill" whose effectiveness far exceeds that of the Water Spirit Pearl. This Big Demon Pill, which has been continuously purified by the Linglong Secret Realm, is relatively purer and does not contain too many impurities. It can be directly taken as an opportunity for the peak foundation-building cultivator to form a pill.

However, its strength is not weak. It belongs to the false dan realm creature, and it has absolute home advantage here. If you want to defeat it, you need to take great risks, so it requires the cooperation of several forces, and finally the distribution of spoils needs to be considered.

The seven ships of the Lin family fleet gave up directly and began to work together to find the water spirit guards. The number of water spirit guards in the Jingshui Ice Abyss was much higher than outside, so it was most cost-effective to hunt them together.

"Ding~ Traces of a second-level water creature were discovered in the northwest direction!"

"Ding~ Traces of a second-level water creature were discovered in the due west!"

“Ding…”

The detection systems of the seven ships each have slight differences. Everyone integrates the information and selects the most suitable target for hunting. Although the efficiency is lower than hunting in the northern ice field, the target value is high enough.

the other side,
Five fleets, led by the sixteen ships of the New Business Alliance and the twelve ships of Guanlan Fairy City, acted together. They were going to look for the special life form that appeared every time the secret realm was opened, which was obviously beyond the second-level strength range but far from the third-level range.

"Brother, the strength of this new trade alliance doesn't seem that great. Half of them are just junk ships that are just there to make up the numbers. We should wait and see when the time comes. We can't let this rare opportunity slip away."

"Well, we have to act according to the circumstances. We have a great chance of getting the opportunity, but don't be too extreme. We also need to consider the future. We can't offend anyone again."

"Leave no trace, I understand!"

Deep in the still waters of the icy abyss, a gigantic cold pond giant scorpion woke up from its slumber.

It was awakened by an unknown biological instinct, which made it extremely eager to devour these abnormal creatures from the outside world on the water surface. It seemed that as long as it devoured them all, it could make up for its own defects, thus breaking the limit and advancing to the third level.

hiss~
Greed and desire took over, and the Cold Pond Giant Seal immediately took off and dived towards the surface of the water.

Wow~

A huge pale tentacle wrapped in a solid ice shell stretched out from the bottom of the sea. With deliberate planning, the huge ice tentacle pierced the protective formation of a small demon-hunting ship and at the same time exerted tremendous force to pull it into the water. The two foundation-building captains on it were unable to escape.

"Brother! Xiaojie! Don't!"

The other ship closest to this one was from the same faction. Some of the crew members on the ship watched with their own eyes as their fellow crew members were dragged into the ice abyss before they could offer any resistance or support.

The other monster-hunting ships in the New Merchant Alliance fleet realized it later. Some of them fired at the place where the tentacles disappeared, some chose to speed away, and some tried to rescue people. Their response was disorganized and chaotic.

The twelve ships of the Guanlan Xiancheng fleet following behind them were closely connected in energy, in neat formation, and always on high alert. Even the monitoring array on the lead ship could see the target clearly, but he just didn't choose to remind the other party.

"The target has appeared. Ting Tao has applied to become the commander of the large fleet. Fellow Daoists, please vote."

The Tingtao, piloted by the first repairman of Guanlan Fairy City, wanted command.

In view of the poor performance of the New Business Alliance just now and the fact that everyone's relationship with them was not very good, Tingtao successfully became the commander.

"Target species confirmed: This Ice Abyss Lord is the Cold Pond Giant Seal, a mutant of the Ink Abyss Demon Seal. Lock its location, deploy depth charges and demon-repelling poison to force it to the surface."

Qi Tianyu, the first cultivator of the Qi family who got the command, showed everyone the powerful underwater detection capability of Tingtao, and directly began to exercise the power of commander, requiring everyone to fully cooperate with the action.

puff puff~
"Depth charges have been released!"

"The demon-repelling poison has been deployed!"

"Very good, fellow Taoists, prepare for battle!"

The sirens like to dive, but humans won't easily leave their boats and go into the water to fight. In such a small space, there are naturally many ways to force it out.
Having just devoured two foundation-building cultivators, the Cold Pond Giant Seal, whose cultivation had been stagnant for a long time, seemed to loosen a little, and even its long-silent thoughts became a little more agile.

It was extremely excited. From the moment it was completely transformed into a creature in the secret realm, it was destined to never leave the secret realm and was bound forever. Its only pursuit was to become stronger.

Ever since it became the strongest creature in the Still Water Ice Abyss, it began to become inexplicably sleepy, as if it was waiting for today's opportunity, waiting for the chance to forcibly break through to the third level.

Boom ~ boom ~ boom ~
The depth bombs and the demon-repelling poison were aimed at the location of the Cold Pond Giant Seal. The damage from the bombs was difficult to effectively harm it, as its body had mutated to a size far beyond that of its peers, but the special irritation of the demon-repelling poison made it feel extremely nauseous.

"It's coming up. Prepare the second-level harpoon. Fellow Taoists, please stand in the designated positions and follow my instructions! Ready..."

They come in once every two hundred years, and the target species may be different each time, but each time they are giant monsters mutated from common monsters. It seems that only this method can allow them to continue growing after reaching the peak of the second level and approach third-level creatures, so the large Jindan forces have a complete set of cooperative hunting plans.

“…First group, release!”

Twelve harpoons from different medium and large monster-hunting ships were fired simultaneously, targeting the rapidly rising giant seal from the cold pond.

Although the Cold Pond Giant Seal has mutated into a giant beast, it is no more ignorant than ordinary deep-sea monsters. As it is not a true third-level creature, it does not have the corresponding defensive capabilities, so it did not choose to take these sharp harpoons head-on, but instantly condensed a large amount of black ice armor on its body surface, and even dodged by twisting its body.

bang bang bang
The harpoons hit the black ice armor. The harpoons of the medium-sized ships were unable to break through the black ice armor and were bounced sideways, but the harpoons launched by five of the large ships successfully broke through the black ice armor and pierced into it.

Although the size of the Cold Pond Giant Seal has mutated many times, its magical ability has not changed at all. It is even unable to effectively provide high-intensity defense for its super-sized size after the mutation.

hiss~
After being hit by the harpoon, the Cold Pond Giant Clam paused in its rising form and tried to use its tentacles to pull out the five chains.

"Second group, let go!"

"Keep releasing the demon-repelling poison!"

Twelve more ships activated twelve chains at the same time, seven of which were the ships in the first group that failed to break through the black ice armor.
Medium-sized ships usually have two harpoons at the bow and stern. While they are retrieving the harpoon that just missed, they are shooting out another one. If this one misses, they need to evacuate temporarily.

As for the five large ships that were successfully hit in the first group, they were immediately dragged with all their strength in five different directions. They needed to straighten the chains to increase the difficulty and cost for the Cold Pond Giant Clam to pull out the harpoon hook, trying to anchor it on the water surface.

hiss~
The giant seal in the cold pond was furious. Instead of running away, these insects were actually thinking of hunting it. It immediately endured the severe pain and created a vortex in the water to resist the twelve incoming harpoons. Once these things pierced into its body, it was as if they had taken root and it could not get rid of them no matter how hard it struggled, causing it unbearable pain.

Five harpoons launched by the small demon-hunting ship were easily broken by the whirlpool of water, and were swept away without the power to move forward. Five of the remaining seven harpoons were pushed away by the force of the whirlpool, but two still hit the tentacles of the Cold Pond Giant Seal that were stretched out to resist.

"Third group, release!"

"Keep releasing the demon-repelling poison!"

The ten ships in the second group with empty hooks had lost their ability to attack the sea. After completely pouring out the demon-repellent poison, they immediately dragged the recovered hooks out of the battlefield to avoid affecting other demon-hunting ships. The twelve harpoons in the third group had already been shot.

hiss~
After being isolated from the world for too long, the Cold Pond Giant finally remembered the origins of these creatures. They were humans! They were organized monster hunters! They were the overlords of the sea world!
It must not follow the rhythm of human attack, it needs to break the routine, no matter what the cost, as long as it can eat them in the end, it will have the opportunity to be promoted to the third level!

puff~

The Cold Pond Giant Clam went against its biological instincts and forced itself to dive towards the bottom of the sea despite its extreme disgust for the exorcist poison. It used its other tentacles to painfully pull out the harpoons that were getting tighter and tighter one by one.

As long as you are not afraid of pain and cutting off large chunks of flesh, a harpoon is not a big deal to a giant beast.

"Loose? What happened?"

The two originally taut chains suddenly loosened, and the two medium-sized ships pulling it suddenly jumped out a lot, and it felt bad.

Then, the five harpoons of the other five large ships also detached one after another, indicating that they had lost control of it.

"It's broken! The third set of twelve harpoons are all empty. The target dived early and has left the detection range."

"Huh? How can this monster be so smart? It's been trapped here and dormant for a hundred years. Logically, it shouldn't have much intelligence."

Several hooks were successively gotten rid of by the opponent, leaving only a large piece of white flesh without any blood at the end of the hook, and even half of the giant tentacle was pulled up, which surprised everyone.

"We've lost track of the target. It must have gone into hiding."

In single combat, the Cold Pond Giant Seal, which is beyond the peak of the second level, should be able to crush any captain of the fleet in a single fight, and even the ninth level of Foundation Establishment is not its opponent, but this place is closed, and with the cooperation of dozens of senior monster hunting ships, it can only avoid the edge temporarily.

"Huh? Why did the noise over there disappear?"

"Maybe the hunt failed."

Because the target was discovered fast enough, the Lin family fleet could still faintly sense the fighting movements over there, but after a while, it could no longer detect the fluctuations of the fighting over there. It should not have succeeded so quickly.

"This is dangerous. We should stand closer together and stay away from them as much as possible. They are the primary target of retaliation."

It is not uncommon for a hunting round to fail. There are precedents where the fleet can still fight after regrouping and finding the target.

Even if the hunt fails this time, it doesn't matter. It will just be a waste of a lot of Linglong Pearls and the opportunity to hunt other prey. Two hundred years later, it will still be the lord who comes in next time. Suppressed by the heaven and earth of this secret space, it is destined not to be able to successfully advance to the third level, unless one day this secret realm is upgraded to a third-level secret realm.

(End of this chapter)