I'm not just human!

If it weren't for the abundance of marine life in this ocean, with fish and shrimp swimming freely, this place would truly be a bit frightening.

But Xia Fa didn't care about that now. He flew with the chestnuts to an even higher place, tens of thousands of kilometers above the sea, and pointed down.

"Chestnuts, look."

Chestnut's clear eyes widened instantly, as if she had seen something incredibly incredible.

"Wow!"

High in the sky, looking down over the ocean, a strange humanoid figure could be seen very clearly.

To be precise, a large section of the seabed has sunk inward, with a diameter of at least a million kilometers, and this large depression has formed a strange human shape.

It is described as humanoid because its outline does indeed have hands, feet, and a head. What makes it strange is that the outlines of countless weapons can also be seen on this humanoid outline.

These weapons seemed to be embedded in the humanoid silhouette's body, with swords and knives stuck in its shoulders, maces in its ribs, and a meteor hammer on its head... giving the impression that the humanoid silhouette had been brutally killed by these countless weapons.

"This should be an Outer God who perished here. As for whether He actually looked like this or died from these weapons, we don't know."

Xia Fa's eyes flickered as he pondered and gave his judgment.

More than 30,000 years have passed, and this place, which seems to be a small world of its own, with such a large ocean and abundant sunshine, naturally has an ecosystem that can develop in cycles.

In other words, this Outer God was slapped to death on the seabed, and his body disappeared long ago, probably devoured by marine creatures.

However, the damage to the seabed topography is obviously not so easy to restore, which is why such a strange, sunken humanoid outline was left behind.

"I understand! Shafa, you mean that the treasure chest belongs to this Outer God, but because He was killed, it was left at the bottom of the sea?"

"Yes, that should be it. And it just so happens that because the Rhine Disaster intercepted this ocean, no one has been able to find it for over 30,000 years. We are lucky."

Xia Fa replied with a smile, saying that flying at such a high altitude, he could see countless marine creatures in the ocean.

Most marine life appears normal, but the supernatural creatures among them are quite bizarre.

Xia Fa first saw a sea bream that looked like it had been pierced by an arrow. The sea bream looked perfectly normal, wagging its tail lively, and swimming freely in the sea with its plump body.

But then, an arrow pierced through its long, flat left side and exited through its right side.

As the sea bream swam, this tiny fish, no bigger than a palm, suddenly encountered a great white shark.

Just then, a miraculous scene unfolded: the sea bream's eyes lit up, and the arrowhead stuck in its body suddenly shot out a crystalline light.

The crystalline light pierced the great white shark's head in an instant, and blood gushed out, staining the surrounding seawater red.

The sea bream swung its body and darted directly to the left belly of the great white shark, biting open the shark's skin and beginning to gnaw on the shark's most succulent liver.

Although he had seen all sorts of supernatural creatures, Xia Fa was still somewhat stunned.

This bow and arrow... could it have grown out of this sea bream on its own?

Chestnut, on the other hand, seemed to be deep in thought as he said:

"From this perspective, the fallen Outer God must have originally been covered in various weapons, rather than being killed by being surrounded by weapons."

Xia Fa understood what she meant and smiled:

"So, even after generations of reproduction, the supernatural creatures born from the sea creatures that absorbed His flesh, bones, and organs still share similar characteristics with Him?"

Chestnut smiled broadly:

"That should be it. We can also capture some supernatural creatures and bring them back to the church. Maybe we can get a lot of contributions in return! The church's great scholars love to study these new supernatural species."

Xia Fa said thoughtfully:

“That’s a good idea…maybe we can even use this to find out which Outer God fell here.”

Without hesitation, the two dove down and returned to the sea, first grabbing the sea bream that looked as if it had been pierced by an arrow.

Although the sea bream was fierce enough to easily kill a great white shark, it became nothing more than fish to be slaughtered when faced with the two extraordinary individuals.

After catching it, Xia Fa sensed it briefly and discovered that the sea bream actually had a wolf-level rank, which was not low.

Since he couldn't put any live creatures in the black bag, Xia Fa had to take out the pet bag he bought in the City of Ten Thousand Stars, fill it with seawater, and put the arrowhead seabream inside.

The difference between the Beast Pet Bag and the Black Crow Bag is that the Beast Pet Bag can only contain living creatures, but cannot contain humans, demi-humans, or humanoid supernatural beings.

Moreover, living creatures of too high a status cannot be contained inside.

Therefore, only those extraordinary individuals who have signed high-level contracts such as "Beast Master," "Grand Druid," and "Battle Pet Expert" have a high demand for pet bags.

"First, focus on the materials you need to craft the treasure. Take some extra back to the church. Hmm... I don't really know how to craft treasures. I was hoping to help you."

Seeing that he had caught the arrowhead sea bream, Chestnut seemed to remember something and added an extra comment.

Xia Fa smiled and said:

"It's alright. I don't really know how to create treasures either. The important thing is to participate. Anyway, we've already gained something."

What he said was true; there must be good stuff in that treasure chest that was suspected to have been left behind by an Outer God. All that was left was to figure out how to open it.

Of course, if Xia Fa could obtain the Rhine Blade, he would never give it up. Therefore, he needs to start collecting the crafting materials now.

Next, the two began hunting in the primeval ocean. Of the ten people who entered the old blacksmith's shop this time, only the two of them chose the primeval ocean, and they were quite happy to enjoy themselves.

During the hunt, Xia Fa and Ban Li became increasingly certain of their earlier suspicions.

Because almost all the supernatural creatures they encountered had various weapons on their bodies: octopuses with flails at the ends of their tentacles, giant sharks that could shoot darts from their gills, sailfish with spears on their heads... and almost all of them had very strong attack power.

Besides supernatural creatures, many extraordinary plants on the seabed also have weapon-like shapes, such as seaweed that can shoot steel wires, kelp that is as thin as a blade and has a metallic sheen, and staghorn grass that looks like a steel blowpipe, etc.

In just a few hours, the two captured over a hundred supernatural creatures, and their pet bags were almost overflowing.

Unfortunately, apart from the first treasure chest, no other treasure chests could be found.

However, they found many huge metal fragments, each the size of a small hill, embedded in various parts of the seabed.

These metal fragments appear to be made of some extraordinary mixture of metals, but unfortunately, after more than 30,000 years, they have long lost their spirituality and are now just scrap metal.

Xia Fa only made a copy of the secret text on it and then ignored it.

Looking at the time, with less than ten hours left until dawn, which meant they would have to hand over a secret treasure, Xia Fa and Ban Li chose to return from the primeval ocean.

Where they entered the primeval ocean, there was a circular pillar of light, within which the image of an old blacksmith's workshop could be faintly seen.

As soon as Xia Fa swam to the vicinity of the pillar of light, he could hear the clanging of hammers striking metal, the roar of flames in the boiler, and smell the burning of metal and wood.

He and Chestnut exchanged a glance, and both immediately flew into the circular pillar of light.

Inside the old blacksmith's shop, a flash of light appeared, and two figures materialized.

At this moment, the old blacksmith shop had changed again.

Around each treasure crafting platform, a circular light shield appeared, making everything inside blurry.

Therefore, even though one can hear the sounds of someone crafting a secret treasure, one cannot see what exactly is being crafted.

However, the treasure-forging platform where Norton Dragon was located did not have that circular light shield. He was hammering a piece of red-hot, shiny metal, while a piece of black wood was burning in the boiler on his left.

Rusconsin sat in the square of the old blacksmith's shop, looking somewhat lost in thought.

Xia Fa had met Ruscond once before, and seeing this, he walked over and said:

"Rusconsin, what's wrong?"

Upon seeing Xia Fa, a former champion of the Super Fighting Grand Prix, Rusconzo immediately showed an expression of seeing a familiar face and complained:

"I miscalculated, I miscalculated, alas..."

Before Xia Fa could ask any more questions, He continued:

"Each person can only craft one secret treasure per day, and then they can no longer use the secret treasure crafting table. I originally planned to just craft one secret treasure to warm up, but now I don't know if I can make it to the second round."

Xia Fa was taken aback, not expecting such a rule to exist.

It has to be said that if Ruscond hadn't reminded him, he might have chosen to forge a few treasures first to familiarize himself with them.

Xia Fa could only comfort her by saying:

"It's alright, what if you can advance? Do you know how to forge a secret treasure?"

Rusconsin nodded:

"Hmm, I've signed two secret contracts: one for apprenticeship to treasure crafting and the other for master treasure crafting. I used to frequently take on treasure crafting jobs, but I never expected that this old forge would have such rules. Sigh..."

He sighed again, as if he were very sorry.

Just then, Nidhogg's imposing figure stepped out from the pillar of light amidst the primeval forest. He seemed to have overheard Rusconsin's words and couldn't help but sneer:

"Where did this stray dog ​​come from? Even if you knew the rules beforehand, do you really think you can win the championship?"

Faced with Nidhogg, Rusconsin naturally didn't dare to utter a single word in rebuttal. In fact, his face turned pale with fright, and he quickly got up from the floor and hid inside the circular light shield of his secret treasure forging table.

After all, he only had the rank of angel and had never joined any organization other than the Church of Nature. Rusconsin could hardly bear to face Nidhogg, the Pope of the Wrong Church, a mysterious emperor who had signed twenty-five secret covenants and was also the head of the Star Dragon family.

Nidhogg seemed completely unconcerned, gave a cold snort, and suddenly turned his head, only to see Shafa again.

Upon seeing Xia Fa, a smile actually forced onto His usually cold and domineering face.

But perhaps because he is usually serious and doesn't smile much, this smile actually looked quite ugly.

"Xia Fa, how's your material gathering going?"

Faced with Nidhogg's sudden greeting, Shafa was somewhat surprised and could only reply:

"I'm alright, how about you?"

Nidhogg smiled smugly:

"I can easily create treasures of the Sovereign level. You can't compare to me. Give up. If you want to use the Rhine Horse-Slaying Blade, your only option is to join our Starry Sky Dragon Clan."

Xiafa: ...

Thor Loki, who is currently crafting a secret treasure: ...

Amphion, who had just returned from the primeval desert: ...

No, Nidhogg is really persistent in poaching people.

At this moment, if they weren't outmatched by Nidhogg, both Thor, Roger, and Amphion would have wanted to hurl insults at Him.

Xia Fa was somewhat at a loss, and could only manage a perfunctory smile:

"We'll see. It's still uncertain who will win the Rhine Blade."

Without waiting for Nidhogg's response, he grabbed Chestnut and they each darted into the light shield of their respective treasure-crafting platforms.

Seeing that Shafa had retreated inside as if avoiding the topic, Nidhogg chuckled and shook his head before heading towards his own treasure-forging platform.