I was just fishing, how did I become a Great Old One?

Three thousand meters deep in the ocean, before the Gates of R'lyeh.

The enormous green tentacle, powerful enough to crush an aircraft carrier, swept across the Black Pearl like a raging python, its force overwhelming. The surrounding seawater was churned into violent eddies, and the Black Pearl's shields creaked and groaned under the water pressure.

Inside the cabin, apart from Jiang Li and Da Huang, everyone else was forced to lie on the ground, unable to move, by the terrifying divine power emanating from the ancient rulers.

That's an absolute crushing on the level of life!

"It's over...we're going to die..."

Liu Wei closed his eyes in despair.

This is Cthulhu! Even if it only extends a single tentacle, it's not something a mortal can withstand!

however.

"These squid tentacles look a bit old, and they have so many barnacles on them. I wonder if the meat will be tough."

Jiang Li stood in front of the control panel, commenting as he pressed the main gun's fire button.

"Let's give it a perm first!"

"boom--!!!"

The psionic main cannon at the bow of the ship (Star Destruction Cannon - Pseudo) roared once again.

A thick black beam of light, streaked with dark red lightning, carved a vacuum in the deep sea and slammed into the coiling tentacle.

"Pfft!"

The thick layer of mucus and cuticle on the surface of the tentacles was instantly vaporized, revealing the dark green flesh inside.

Although it didn't interrupt the attack, it still created a huge wound, and green divine blood gushed out like a fountain, staining a large area of ​​the sea green.

"Roar—!!!" (This was actually a scream caused by some kind of mental disturbance)

The tentacle suddenly retracted, clearly in pain.

"Now's the time! Big Yellow! Go!"

Jiang Li shouted.

"Woof!"

Big Yellow transformed into a streak of yellow light, piercing directly through the shield (as a spacetime creature, it could ignore physical barriers) and plunged into the deep sea.

It swelled up in the water, turning into a giant hound ten meters long. It opened its gaping maw that could devour time and space and bit down hard on the wound on the tentacle!

"Rip—"

A large chunk of divine flesh was forcibly torn off!

Without even chewing, Dahuang swallowed it whole, and then an even stronger light of evolution emanated from its body.

"Well done!"

Jiang Li was not to be outdone.

He did not leave the cabin (after all, he had not yet learned how to fight hand-to-hand at a depth of 3,000 meters in the deep sea), but instead piloted the Black Pearl.

"Old buddy! Charge at it! Use your horns to butt it!"

He pushed the control lever hard.

The Black Pearl's antimatter engine at the stern was operating at full power, spewing out blue exhaust flames.

This colossal ship, transformed from the remains of Leviathan, was like a mad bull, charging headlong into the injured tentacle with its shields on!

The sharp ram at the bow of the ship (forged from fragments of the Pillar of Stars) gleamed with a cold light.

"Bang!!!"

A muffled thud.

The ram pierced deep into the tentacle, pinning it directly to the gate frame of R'lyeh!

"Awooo—!!!"

A deeper, more deafening roar came from inside the door, shaking the entire underwater city.

That means the sleeping master has been hurt!

"You dare to yell? I'll teach you to yell!"

Jiang Li activated all the weapon systems on the ship.

"Plasma cannons! Fire! Torpedoes! Fire! Bomb them!"

"Boom boom boom boom—"

A series of explosions erupted on the tentacle, tearing the once invincible divine tentacle to shreds and leaving it riddled with craters.

at last.

That tentacle was scared.

It twitched violently, tearing off a section of the nailed end, and then recoiled back into the doorway as if electrocuted.

"Clang!"

The door was about to be closed.

"Trying to run? Block the door!"

Jiang Li reacted quickly, maneuvering the boat sideways and wedging half of it into the middle of the gate.

"That's what you call—blocking the door!"

Jiang Li looked triumphantly at the massive tentacle tip (weighing tens of tons) that had been severed outside the gate.

"Although we didn't catch the whole thing, this antennae are pretty good! They're full of collagen!"

He turned to look at the people who were paralyzed on the ground.

"Get up, all of you! Stop playing dead! Get to work! Drag this piece of meat in here!"

Wang Ergou and the others shakily got up, looking at the still wriggling green piece of flesh outside, their hearts filled with boundless admiration.

They even dared to cut off the tentacles of the Great Old Ones...

This is their captain! This is God!

"Yes! Move the meat!"

……

The Black Pearl is stuck at the gates of R'lyeh, like a rogue robber, neither going in nor letting the gates be closed from the inside.

Jiang Li didn't actually plan to go in and fight Cthulhu one-on-one (after all, that's the real body, so he was a bit afraid of him). His strategy was to just hang around the entrance!

"Big Yellow! Go inside and see if there's anything you can easily pick up."

"Woof!"

As a time-space hound, Big Yellow can freely travel through non-Euclidean geometric spaces like R'lyeh.

It squeezed through the crack in the door and came out a short while later carrying a glowing object in its mouth.

It was a huge golden cup, covered with blasphemous runes.

"Good stuff! It looks like an antique vase!" Jiang Li accepted it.

After a while, Big Yellow brought out a huge green stone slab with densely packed text (R'lyeh Text) on it.

"This stone slab is nice, it's flat, I'll take it back and use it as a cutting board!" Jiang Li accepted it.

A little while later, Big Yellow dragged out a... small octopus monster (a Star Familia cub) that was still sleeping.

"Oh! There's a free gift? This little octopus looks quite tender. Maybe I'll keep it as a pet, or make takoyaki."

that's it.

A man and a dog blocked the gates of the Old Ones and began an operation ostensibly for "stockpiling" but actually for "looting".

Inside R'lyeh.

Cthulhu, in his slumber, had a nightmare.

It dreamed that a group of rats broke into its house, not only emptying out its furniture but also cutting off its whiskers (tentacles)!

It was furious and wanted to wake up and kill the mice.

but……

Whenever it tries to gather power, it senses an extremely annoying aura at the doorway (the suppression of the Star Pillar + Jiang Li's power of rules) interfering with its awakening.

Moreover, it sensed its power was being drained away.

Because the man at the door was grilling its tentacle meat! The aroma wafted in and made it hungry!

"Damn it... this dream... when will I wake up...?"

Cthulhu rolled over and decided to continue sleeping.

Anyway, I have a lot of stuff at home, so it's okay if some things are lost, just don't take me with you.

……

three days later.

The Black Pearl returned fully loaded.

The ship's hold was filled with all sorts of treasures "picked up" from R'lyeh:

Ancient gold from the abyss, divine stone tablets, otherworldly plants, and that enormous tentacle of flesh.

Of course, there's also the "little octopus" (a Star Clan cub) that Jiang Li kept in a bucket.

Jiang Li stood at the bow of the ship, watching the gates of R'lyeh recede into the distance, feeling somewhat unsatisfied.

"This place is really nice, I'll come again next time."

He waved. "Goodbye, giant octopus. Thank you for your hospitality!"

……

Back in Jianghai City.

Deep Blue Seafood Restaurant has launched a new dish – [God's Mustache BBQ].

Although it's only a small skewer (because the energy is so high, even if it's cut into strands as thin as a hair, the average person can't handle it), it's priced as high as 88888 yuan!

Even so, they were still snapped up in a frenzy.

It is said that eating this thing can not only regenerate severed limbs, but also awaken water-based superpowers!

The stone slab that Jiang Li used as a cutting board was later discovered by an ancient script expert who happened to be having a meal. The expert suffered a heart attack on the spot and was rushed to the hospital.

Upon waking up, the experts cried and begged to spend a billion dollars to buy the board, saying it was the key to unlocking the mystery of human origins.

Jiang Li did not sell it.

The reason given was: "This cutting board won't damage the knife, it's easy to use, and we're not selling it."

As for that little octopus...

It was adopted by Jiang Xiaoyu, named "Wanzi", and kept in the large fish tank containing the Dragon King's Eye.

Its daily tasks are to let Jiang Xiaoyu blow bubbles for fun, and... to provide fresh tentacles when Jiang Li makes takoyaki (anyway, it has strong regenerative abilities, so it can grow back even if you cut it off).

……

A month later.

Jiang Li sat in his office in the commercial street he had just bought (now renamed "Deep Blue Plaza"), looking at the long string of numbers in his account, and let out a tedious sigh.

"Money is just a number."

He is now the richest man in Jianghai City and is even famous internationally (known as the "King of the Sea").

But he was getting a little bored.

We've eaten enough of what's in the sea; it's time for a change of pace.

"Big Yellow, do you think... the stars in the sky taste good?"

Jiang Li looked at the starry sky outside the window, her eyes sparkling with a new light.

"I heard there's something on the moon called the 'Moon Beast,' and its flesh is very tender?"

"And that [Outer God] thing, it looks like a cloud of mist, I wonder if it could be made into cotton candy?"

Big Yellow: "Woof?" (Master, are you trying to fly?)

"Yes! Heaven!"

Jiang Li stood up and slammed his hand on the table.

Our goal is—the stars and the sea!