Dimensional Invasion: I Can Fish for All Heavens

Chapter 375 The dragon gains water and its life level leaps; the tribulation enhances individual strength!
"Look at that whirlpool!"

"The surrounding seawater has turned blood red!"

A member of the Tian Shu Bureau wearing glasses pointed at the screen and exclaimed in surprise.

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately zoomed in on the surveillance footage.

Sure enough, at the edge of the huge whirlpool with a diameter of a thousand meters, the seawater was a strange dark red, as if it had been soaked in countless drops of blood. From time to time, some mutilated corpses of mutated sea beasts would float out of the whirlpool and be torn to pieces in an instant.

"It hunts other mutated beasts through the vortex! It devours their flesh and blood energy to promote its own evolution!"

A commotion immediately erupted within the Tian Shu Bureau, and then someone said, unable to understand:

"We've seen quite a few mutated beasts that have awakened the ability to devour, but none have increased their spiritual power this quickly."

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by a piercing alarm.

The monitor's face was extremely grave:
"His spiritual power has exceeded 180,000! This speed is unbelievable!"

"Wait! Look at the sky!"

A member of the Tian Shu Bureau suddenly pointed to another screen.

In the surveillance footage, the clouds above the vortex had turned an eerie purplish-black, with countless electric snakes slithering through them, yet they did not descend.

"This strange phenomenon doesn't seem like a normal increase in strength; it's more like...evolution?"

A brief silence fell over the Tian Shu Bureau, as everyone stared intently at the ever-increasing numbers on the screen and the increasingly violent celestial phenomena.

"The carp leaping over the dragon gate?"

The answer gradually emerged in their minds.

Although the cause of this strange phenomenon was not a "carp" but a "sea snake," in the ancient legends and myths of the Great Xia Dynasty, snakes were very special creatures, representing change and regeneration.

Furthermore, in the legends of the Great Xia Dynasty, snakes could undergo multiple transformations and eventually become true dragons.

It takes 500 years to become a python, 500 years to become a boa constrictor, and 500 years to become a dragon.

Although the dragon possesses the wisdom of a dragon, it does not yet have much divine power.

Generally speaking, a jiao (蛟) will go through a process of entering the sea and then truly transforming into a dragon; that is, a jiao will go through a process of flowing along a river into the sea, which is called "walking jiao" (走蛟), transforming into a dragon along the river into the sea.

Although this refers to snakes in rivers rather than sea snakes, to some extent, snakes in rivers still need to "walk the dragon" into the sea after evolving into a dragon, while this mutated sea snake skips this process and gets there in one step.

Judging from its size, this mutated sea serpent, with a body nearly 100 meters long, has long surpassed the human definition of "python" and "boa". So, can they interpret this mutated sea serpent as evolving into a "jiaolong"?
At this moment, the scene on the monitor screen suddenly changed drastically.

The thick clouds churned and surged like boiling ink, with countless electric snakes darting wildly within them, converging into a terrifying thunderstorm vortex with a diameter exceeding one hundred meters.

At the center of the vortex, blinding lightning continuously gathered, as if the sky had opened a thunderous eye, locking onto the evolving sea serpent below.

"Boom!!!"

With a deafening roar that shattered eardrums, a purple lightning bolt with a diameter of ten meters descended from the sky!

This pillar of lightning pierced through the heavens and the earth, ionizing the air in its path and releasing a pungent ozone smell. Under the pressure of the lightning, the sea surface instantly caved in, creating a vacuum zone hundreds of meters in diameter.

The lightning struck the mutated sea serpent's back with tremendous force, piercing through its scales that were harder than steel.

In an instant, countless metallic scales scattered and flew away, and a shocking blood hole was blasted into the sea serpent's huge body. Dark purple blood gushed out like a waterfall, dyeing the surrounding seawater an eerie purple.

"hiss!!!"

The mutated sea serpent let out a heart-wrenching roar, the sound like thousands of sharp blades scraping against glass, causing the monitoring equipment to emit a piercing buzz.

Its nearly 100-meter-long body writhed wildly on the sea, creating giant waves tens of meters high. The pain caused its vertical pupils, which had turned pale gold, to become bloodshot.

But what's even more terrifying is that the thunderstorm vortex in the sky did not dissipate; instead, it re-condensed in an even more violent manner.

The lightning in the clouds gradually changed from purple to dark purple, and the air above the entire sea area began to distort, as if it could not withstand the impending divine might.

"Boom!!!"

In an instant, the dark purple lightning bolt struck down from the sky!

This attack was even more terrifying than before. The moment the lightning struck, the sea within a ten-mile radius churned, and the blinding light turned the entire monitoring screen bright white. Everyone instinctively closed their eyes.

When the light faded, nearly half of the mutated sea serpent's body was mangled and bloody from the lightning strikes, but a single horn had appeared on its head at some unknown time. It was covered with some unknown patterns and wriggled like a living creature, frantically absorbing the remaining lightning energy.

As it absorbed the nutrients, its wound began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye. The newly formed scales shone with a bluish-purple metallic luster and were thicker and stronger than before.

The value on the spiritual energy monitoring device broke through the 200,000 mark at this moment, and it is still rising!

"A tribulation lightning can actually grant such a tremendous boost to the one undergoing the tribulation?"

"No, it should be said that they began to benefit during the tribulation process!"

A young researcher stared wide-eyed at the screen, a look of sudden realization on his face.

Although the concept of "tribulation" is not uncommon in the legends of the Great Xia Dynasty, and everyone knows that heavenly lightning is both a calamity and a blessing, no one truly knows how this "creation" manifests, and can only speculate.

This was even the first time they had ever truly witnessed "transcending tribulation."

"not good!"

"An anomaly has appeared on the coastline!"

Suddenly, a gasp from the monitor shattered their stunned atmosphere. The scene quickly switched to coastal surveillance.

Several kilometers away from the defensive line, swarms of mutated sea monsters were seen rushing frantically toward the shore.

Among them were enormous mutated crabs, strange fish covered in bone spurs, and even several mutated sea turtles the size of artificial mountains. They all rushed onto the beach in a panic, completely ignoring the firepower of the shore defenses.

"It's a mutated sea monster tide!"

"These sea beasts were terrified by that sea serpent that was transforming into a dragon, and fled ashore in a panic!"

Everyone frowned slightly upon seeing this, but there was little panic.

They had withstood this level of mutated sea monster tide many times. As long as it wasn't a fourth-tier being like the "Deep Sea King" that landed on land, it wouldn't pose much of a threat to Zhenhai City's defenses.

Moreover, long before that mutated sea serpent underwent its tribulation, they had already arranged for the evacuation of the people and their entry into shelters.

"How is the evacuation of the public progressing?"

"I asked the director of the Tian Shu Bureau of Zhenhai City."

"All coastal residents have entered underground shelters as planned!"

The emergency response team leader quickly reported the situation.

"The first and second lines of defense have been activated, and the superhuman squad is assembling!"

"Do not allow any mutated sea monster to breach the defenses! Notify all combat units to hold the coastline at all costs!"

The director nodded, then gave the order.

On the large screen, real-time battle footage kept switching.

Along the coastline, the Tian Shu Bureau's defenses were fully activated, and the electromagnetic cannon array on the high walls roared deafeningly, blasting the mutated sea monsters charging at the forefront into pieces.

Members of the Tian Shu Bureau, equipped with the "Sky Drive" tactical exoskeleton system, formed a defensive line and killed all the mutated sea monsters that broke through the firepower. Various supernatural powers shone brightly on the beach. In mid-air, dozens of armed drones formed a formation and carried out precise strikes against the beast tide.

"Boom!!!"

The deafening roar of artillery fire instantly tore the coastline apart.

The electromagnetic cannon array on the high wall spewed out dense blue plasma, each electromagnetic projectile drawing a dazzling trajectory in the air and accurately hitting the mutated sea monster horde charging at the forefront.

"Bang bang bang!"

Amid a series of muffled explosions, several massive mutated crabs were blasted into pieces. Their thick shells were as fragile as paper in front of the electromagnetic cannons developed by humans, instantly exploding into a shower of blood and flesh.

Blue plasma spread wildly across the wound, burning the remaining body parts into charcoal.

“Da da da da!!!”

Along the coastal defense line, countless heavy machine guns opened fire simultaneously.

The specially designed bullets created a metallic storm, tearing the horde of mutated sea monsters that followed into pieces. The muffled thuds of bullets piercing flesh blended together, and the screams of the sea monsters were completely drowned out by the deafening gunfire.

A mutated sea monster resembling a crocodile broke through the fire net. Its back, covered with bone spurs, was riddled with holes, yet it still roared as it charged toward the defensive line.

Just as it was about to hit the high wall, three soldiers wearing "Sky Drive" tactical exoskeletons descended from the sky.

"Crack!"

The lead warrior wielded a high-frequency vibrating blade, the hydraulic system of his mechanical exoskeleton emitting a piercing hum; the blade, carrying terrifying kinetic energy, cleaved down, splitting the crocodile sea monster's head in two.

The other two soldiers picked up specially made anti-materiel rifles, their muzzles spitting out tongues of fire half a meter long, blasting two bloody holes more than half a meter in diameter into the remains of the sea monster.

"boom!"

A tracking missile roared out from a swarm of drones and accurately struck a giant sea turtle that was trying to break through from the side.

The explosion sent flames soaring into the sky, and the shockwave sent dozens of small sea creatures flying.

After the smoke cleared, only a charred crater ten meters in diameter and scattered fragments of tortoise shell remained.

"Reload!"

In the center of the defensive line, a heavily armed squad is rapidly changing ammunition belts.

As the ammunition belt was reloaded, the six-barreled rotary machine gun once again spewed out deadly flames, turning the mutated fish that tried to approach into mincemeat.

"Pay attention to the three o'clock position!"

An urgent warning came through the communicator.

Three octopus-like mutated sea monsters broke through the firepower blockade, waving their tentacles covered with suckers, each as thick as a bucket.

The tentacles slapped against the defensive line, and spiderweb-like cracks immediately appeared in the concrete wall.

"boom!"

A high-explosive armor-piercing round came hurtling in from a distance and struck one of the octopus-like sea monsters squarely in the head.

In the flames of the explosion, thick blue blood splattered everywhere.

Before the remaining two could react, they were harvested in the same way, blasted into countless pieces in the blinding flames.

(End of this chapter)