I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

He failed to notice the bizarre and twisted architecture, and did not realize that the towering obelisks actually presented angles that could not possibly exist in this world.

He had no interest in appreciating these temples that originated from antiquity and have stood for millions of years.

The fish-man just wanted to run away.

Standing at the edge of the temple, you can see the huge door standing in the very center. The heavy door looks like it was made of a single piece of bluestone, giving it a sense of solidity like a mountain peak.

The merman was running toward the door when he suddenly felt someone tug at him from behind.

He hurriedly turned around and threw a clump of seaweed from his arms.

The seaweed began to grow wildly in mid-air, turning into a huge, wriggling creature large enough to entangle a human.

Deep within the seaweed, one can see ferocious mouthparts opening and closing continuously.

"Nobody here?"

The merman saw nothing. He stopped and took out a dagger with gears and a spring from his pocket. He tried to dig some stones from a nearby pillar to use as material, but soon he was surprised to find that the stones on the pillar were extremely hard and the dagger could not budge them at all.

There's no other way.

The merman turned the gears on the dagger, causing it to vibrate rapidly. He glanced again at the wriggling seaweed behind him and prepared to turn and leave.

At that moment, he suddenly felt a strong force pushing his body forward, crashing into a dark blue stone pillar.

He thought to himself that he had broken at least two bones, and just as he got up, he saw someone appear in front of him.

His appearance was quite different from that of the merman and his companions. The merman had only seen similar creatures from other lands in the slave markets of his own world, and in his mind, these creatures were symbols of backwardness and inferiority.

But the person in front of me didn't feel that way at all.

He was much taller than the fishman, and although he had nothing in his hands, he exuded an astonishing sense of intimidation.

The man's deathly pale skin, far too pale for a merman, gave off a sickly appearance. He moved closer to the merman, and his fingers seemed to twitch.

Suddenly, a strange melody rang in the fishman's head.

"Good luck, may good luck bring you joy and love..."

"What's this……"

The fish-man couldn't understand those sounds; the melody sounded noisy and unpleasant to him, yet he couldn't make it dissipate.

He was terrified, surprised, frightened, and tried to struggle.

Until the fishman saw the terrifying beast, the hound that would kill its target even when traversing time and space, come from afar, circle around the man's feet twice, and then, instead of swallowing the man as the fishman had expected, it affectionately rubbed against his trouser leg.

The fishman's worldview collapsed.

Is this the monster on the [Alienation] difficulty level?

This vicious hound, which had easily killed two chosen ones in succession, was now groveling like this man's pet.

So this man...

The fish-man was already in a deadly despair when suddenly, silver smoke flowed from the man's mouth, eyes, nose, and ears, condensing and forming the shape of another person around him.

"It feels quite peculiar."

Lu Ban glanced at Feng Yu beside him.

Feng Yu was naturally wearing her original clothes. She did not answer Lu Ban's question, but instead went to the fishman whose mind was full of "Good Luck" and raised her right hand.

After a pause, Feng Yu turned to look at Lu Ban.

Are you sure you want to watch this? It might be a bit hard to accept.

"This is going to scare me?"

Lu Ban didn't quite believe it.

Immediately, he saw Feng Yu's hand transform into silver smoke, which formed tentacle-like structures that rapidly burrowed into the fishman's body.

The merman rolled his eyes and began to convulse violently.

Then, more silver tentacles emerged from Feng Yu's body. In Lu Ban's [True Vision], Feng Yu was no longer a human, but a combination of flesh and tentacles. Those tentacles extended from under her clothes, sucking the brains of the fishmen.

A moment later, Feng Yu suddenly opened his mouth.

Her originally pale pink lips transformed into a gigantic maw covered in tentacles. Feng Yu's mouth opened wide enough to be much larger than her head. As the silver tentacles lifted the fishman, Feng Yu slowly swallowed it. Once the maw closed and all the tentacles retracted, Feng Yu returned to human form.

Taking out a handkerchief to wipe his mouth, Feng Yu glanced at Lu Ban.

"As I said, it might be a little hard to accept."

"Is it tasty?"

Lu Ban couldn't help but ask.

"Does the fish-man taste more fishy or more human?"

"...like seafood."

Feng Yu hesitated for a moment before answering.

"By eating these creatures, I can acquire some of their memories and knowledge. Of course, I will also bear the corresponding pollution, but it will be less severe."

She raised her hand, and her once fair skin was now covered in scales, making her look like a cursed fish-woman.

Thinking about it this way, the large mouth on Feng Yu's chest might have appeared because he had devoured a similar creature.

Now that the three chosen ones have been eliminated, their mission has clearly failed.

But Lu Ban knew that their work was not over yet.

To make this city sink, the scene must be completely destroyed.

"So...should we go down and take a look?"

Lu Ban pointed to the large door.

Chapter 304 Large but Weak Ship

The deep blue gate was already ajar, just enough for one person to pass through. Inside, there was a deep, dark space.

Lu Ban and Feng Yu arrived at the door and saw that the two sides of the door were covered with foreign characters. Although Lu Ban did not recognize these characters at all, he could feel the distortion and madness in them just by looking at the patterns. If it were an ordinary person, he would probably lose consciousness and reason after just one glance.

Do you recognize the characters on this?

Lu Ban asked Feng Yu.

Although Feng Yu was indeed quite frightening just now, Lu Ban didn't think there was a big problem. He believed in respecting the appearance of every race and not engaging in racial discrimination. He was a peace-loving person.

What's more, those silver tentacles are actually quite cool.

If humans could grow tentacles, many things would become much more convenient.

Of course, Lu Ban didn't mean he wanted to grow tentacles; he was just using an analogy, like how humans grow wings.

However, Lu Ban still let his thoughts wander. Modern humans are already clearly different in appearance from apes tens of thousands of years ago. If the knowledge gained during this evolution is also corrupted, then humans have actually been alienated.

Therefore, if the world continues to be polluted, then in order to adapt to the new environment, humanity will inevitably evolve, or rather, become alienated.

By then, it might not be surprising if tentacles grow.

While Lu Ban was lost in thought, Feng Yu was carefully reading the inscription on the door.

"This is an ancient language. I've only ever seen it in some foreign ruins. Those ruins were already tens of millions of years old at the time, and the civilization that built them has long since vanished. I can only understand a little of the text on it."

Feng Yu pointed to several passages of text.

"Deep sea, stars, awakening, the right location... this should be the way to break the seal."

As soon as she finished speaking, she felt a nauseating gust of wind carrying a strong, fishy stench blowing in from the doorway.

The stench was like a mixture of feces and dead fish, plus the pungent smell of burning rubber and other such things; just the smell of it was enough to make one vomit up everything they had eaten in the past few days.

After a while, the wind blew into the doorway from the island outside, as if it were breathing.

"Could it be that the so-called evil god is sleeping down here?"

Lu Ban glanced inside while the other person was inhaling.

In an instant, countless twisted patterns, chaotic light spots, and strange spaces filled Lu Ban's entire field of vision. This door was not ordinary darkness; on the contrary, it contained colors more dazzling than the universe. These colors protected Lu Ban, making him only dizzy and unable to see the truth hidden by these shimmering lights.

“This is not His whole being, or rather, it is only one of His bodies, the one that is closer to His essence than His other bodies.”

Feng Yu told Lu Ban to step back.

"After transcending a certain level, deities no longer have a specific form. They transcend vision, like your eyes, and are purely for the transmission of information. However, most deities still retain some forms that ordinary creatures can see, but these forms are unstable and often appear in many different forms."

She looked at the large door.

"For example, this one has several avatars. Besides the one sealed here, there is another one that is a cold cloud of blue-green fluorescence. That mist will devour the thoughts of all living beings and turn them into puppets that can be controlled. Another avatar only appears in dreams. It is composed of visual images such as twisted and flashing lines, eerie green arcs of electricity, and mottled snowflakes. It contains a large amount of disordered knowledge. Just one glance will pollute the brain, but at the same time, it can also provide inspiration."

Feng Yu seemed to know a lot about the deities sealed here.

"This knowledge exists in the mind of that fishman. If I'm not mistaken, his race should worship this god. In his alien realm, the sea occupies the entire world, and the whole planet is covered by seawater, with no prominent landmasses."

"So how should we destroy this place?"

Lu Ban tried to hit the pillars with his [Last Words], but apart from causing the pillars to vibrate slightly, he couldn't destroy them at all.

He picked up the dagger that the merman had dropped. The gears and springs on the dagger had fallen off, and it had become an ordinary dagger. It seemed to be a product of the merman's extraordinary abilities. Once he died, this thing would fall into the mortal realm.

"This temple cannot be destroyed. It is the location of the seal. We don't need to destroy it. We just need to let it sink to the bottom of the sea. With the development of human technology, even if it takes thousands of years, they will not be able to open these seals at the bottom of the sea."

Feng Yu said.

"Its rise is due to the position of the stars. Perhaps there is one of His avatars on a certain star, which echoes Him from afar, thus causing the temple to rise."

"Shall we shoot down the stars?"

Lu Ban looked up at the sky. The eye of the typhoon had shrunk a bit, but the surrounding clouds seemed to be moving faster.

"..."

Feng Yu was speechless.

"We cannot stop the ascension of this temple for the time being, but it is enough to destroy the scene that allows the chosen ones to descend."

She glanced at the Starship, which had come to a stop due to losing power.

"This ship, and the Nanmadol ruins on Pohnpei Island, must be destroyed."

"That's easy."