I'm not just human!

It seems that beneath this primeval desert lies a terrifying behemoth, whose body parts protrude from the desert, forming the shape of this small sand dune.

"Could it be..."

With a sudden thought, Xia Fa shot downwards like an arrow, crashing through the sand and plunging deep into the underground of the primeval desert.

Beneath the primeval desert lies sand, not the hard earth's crust.

However, because it was sand, the resistance was not strong, and Xia Fa continued to rush downwards. The gaps behind him were filled with hot sand, but it did not affect him much, except that he felt like he was buried in hot sand.

Xia Fa suspected that there might be a mummified corpse of an Outer God buried in this primeval desert.

If we could find it ourselves and get some bones or dried flesh from the Outer God's corpse, we would make a fortune; it would have extremely high research value.

Even if we can't study it, we can still eat it. We can even eat secret contracts and physical flesh. What's a little flesh and blood of an Outer God?

Thinking this, he pressed down even harder, breaking through the sand and rapidly plunging into the ground.

Suddenly, the soft resistance from the sand disappeared, and there was nothing in front of me, as if I had emerged from the sand.

Xia Fa suddenly stopped in his tracks, then his expression froze.

It is estimated that he descended to a depth of tens of thousands of meters, which means that the sand in this primeval desert is tens of thousands of meters thick.

However, after breaking through this distance, what appeared before my eyes was... a huge underground cave that seemed to have no end!

The underground cave was covered with purple, spotted mushrooms that emitted a dreamlike glow, illuminating the deep, dark place.

In the very center of the cave, there was a monster that was ten thousand meters long.

The monster resembled a tangled mass of seaweed, a large, dark blob, but its body was not made up of seaweed, but of countless arms covered with all sorts of organs, including eyes, ears, heart, spleen, stomach, lungs, and kidneys.

These arms seemed to have been forcibly straightened and lengthened by some unknown force, all plunging upwards into the desert. This is probably the origin of those small, protruding hills.

Countless creatures, or rather, supernatural creatures, crawled and burrowed into the monster's body and the organs in its arms.

There was a scorpion with three stingers, each with a small knife protruding from it. The knife even had a blood groove, from which green venom dripped.

There was a small lizard whose entire body looked like it was cast in metal, with a crossbow on its back, ready to fire needle-like bolts at any moment.

There were also eight spiders with legs like spears, moving with lightning speed and extreme agility, capturing the dark gold-shaped beetles crawling out of the monster's body.

Besides these insect-like supernatural creatures, Xia Fa also saw giant creatures resembling cactus trees, but instead of thorns, they were covered with countless swords, spears, and halberds, as well as a skunk as big as a truck with a tail shaped like a meteor hammer... and so on and so forth, giant supernatural creatures.

"Judging from the looks of it, this monster has probably been completely devoured, and its rank is indeed at the level of an Outer God..."

Xia Fa's gaze swept over the colossal seaweed-like creature, which stretched for tens of thousands of meters, and he sighed inwardly.

Of course, this trip wasn't a complete waste. Capturing these supernatural creatures directly around this monster is much easier than finding a needle in a haystack in the desert.

He was about to rush forward and capture everything in sight when suddenly, a thought struck him and he remembered something.

A picture slowly emerged in my mind, gradually becoming clearer.

That was when he first explored the power of the Calamity-Slaying Blade through divination in Rum City.

At the time, he thought this calamity-slaying sword was a sealed artifact, and he didn't even know its real name. However, through the strange current at the spine, he still managed to divine the sword's first ability—recording and reproducing.

At that time, this ability did not enter his mind directly as information and intelligence, but first presented a scene that seemed to come from ancient times.

In that scene, a long, slender, black figure with twelve arms was facing... the monster in front of him!

As the memories surfaced, Xia Fa remembered even more clearly how the slender, black figure with twelve arms, wielding a massive, ten-thousand-meter-long saber, cleaved the monster in two with a clean and decisive leaping slash.

However, the monster reassembled and attacked the twelve-armed figure. But immediately another identical twelve-armed figure appeared and delivered a leaping slash to the monster.

That is the "record and reproduction" ability of the Calamity Slashing Blade, which can be activated at the cost of a drop of blood.

"Wait a minute, something's not right. After that monster was killed by the second leaping strike, didn't it just turn into ashes and vanish?"

Xia Fa suddenly remembered this and felt genuinely puzzled.

"Hmm, even a Sovereign can fully recover its physical body when it only has a drop of blood left. This monster has reached the level of an Outer God, after all. Let alone being annihilated, even if its soul is shattered, it probably has a chance to be resurrected and return..."

Xia Fa slowly nodded, having figured it out.

As for how this monster was eventually captured and taken to the underground cave in this primeval desert, that remains unknown.

Based on a simple deduction, the long, slender, black figure with twelve arms is undoubtedly the [Rhine Calamity], but it should be the [Rhine Calamity] before it became a Great Old One, as it only had one sword.

At that time, He probably only defeated the monster, not killed it completely. Then, after becoming an Old One, He found the monster again and killed it completely. He then placed it underground in this primeval desert to provide nourishment for countless supernatural creatures.

Although this monster was at the level of an Outer God, after its fall, it was common for its corpse to be devoured by animals over time.

Of course, these animals themselves had to go through countless rounds of evolution and elimination before they could finally resist the influence of the corpse of an Outer God and continue to feed.

This kind of evolution is actually not complicated to understand. The initial evolution basically came from those who had been tainted by the blood or flesh of the corresponding Outer God's corpse, so they were naturally not afraid of the influence of the Outer God's corpse. With each generation of evolution, they became what they are now, able to feed on the corpses of these monsters.

"Since that's the case..."

Xia Fa narrowed his eyes slightly, and after thinking for a while, he decided to take advantage of the ample time to explore the inside of the monster's corpse!

Since we're already here, we can't let this trip go to waste. Besides catching enough supernatural creatures to craft the secret treasure, let's go on an adventure. Who knows what unexpected surprises await us?

Thinking this, Xia Fa did not act rashly. First, he mobilized the strange currents at his spine, hundreds of them, covering his cerebral cortex. Then, he grasped the Calamity Horse-Slaying Blade in the shape of a shark-tooth folding knife before flying towards the monster's almost hollowed-out corpse.

More than 30,000 years have passed, and the monster was already dead, its corpse devoured by supernatural creatures. It was actually difficult for it to cause any uncontrollable impact on the superhumans, but Xia Fa still chose to be cautious.

As soon as he got close, he smelled a strong stench of decay, accompanied by the smell of dried blood.

"Hiss—!"

A shrill scream rang out. It was a spider-like monster with the upper body of a human, wielding a rusty spear, while its lower body seemed to be attached to a giant spider. As Xia Fa approached, it seemed to sense the threat and attacked with a scream.

"There's even an angelic figure among them..."

Xia Fa's expression shifted slightly, and he casually waved his hand.

Several silvery-white flashes of light burst forth from his palm, instantly slicing the spider-like monster, who had just leaped into the air, into several pieces.

Xia Fa grabbed again with his five fingers, and the spear in the spider monster's hand flew over and landed in his hand. The rest of the spider monster's body fell downwards, as if falling into an endless dark abyss.

Now comparable to a veteran transcendent monarch, if he were to use [Silver Slash] against an angelic being, a single strike would destroy their life force and soul, eliminating the need for a follow-up strike, [Pillar of Mind Storm].

After the spider-like monster was killed, the scent of its blood caused the surrounding supernatural creatures to act on their biological instincts of seeking advantage and avoiding harm, and they all moved away from Xiafa.

Xiafa flew unimpeded all the way into the belly of the giant, seaweed-like monster.

This is also His most core part.

Carrying the strong stench of decay, Xia Fa had just flown in when he saw a place emitting a faint light.

Surrounding the light were interwoven, crisscrossing bones, like a spider web, protecting the light, making it appear eerie and extraordinary.

"That is……"

Xia Fa's heart stirred, and he flew towards the source of the light.

Chapter 309 The Rhine Blade is finally in hand! The secret of the Old Ones? (Part 2)

boom!

In the quiet and deep darkness, a holy silver fireball emerged from Xia Fa's palm.

Although his spiritual intuition did not trigger a premonition of danger, Xia Fa still took precautions against the possibility that the location of the light was a trap.

Therefore, they chose to directly condense a silver fireball to provide illumination.

This is the effect of his increasingly proficient use of the various abilities of his most basic and fundamental overlord-level secret contract, [Silver Throne], after signing four overlord-level secret contracts. Simply put, silver mercury vapor mixed into this fireball and was ignited together.

The silver light, like holy light capable of purifying all evil, instantly dispelled the surrounding darkness.

Suddenly, a bright light shone from the belly of this Outer God-level monster.

Whoosh—!

A group of unidentified supernatural creatures, resembling birds but with spears stuck in their backs and six wings, flew over Xiafa's head with a whooshing sound, creating a strong gust of wind that almost extinguished the silver fireball.

Xia Fa raised his hand to protect his head from the strange birds, then looked back at the source of the light.

It was fine if he hadn't looked, but after seeing it clearly, Xia Fa was utterly astonished.

In the center of that "spider web," magnified countless times and formed of bones, was a heart the size of a water tank.

The heart was bright red, but it was covered with all sorts of cold weapons: longswords, rapiers, lances, halberds, bronze axes... and countless others.

No, to be precise, these cold weapons seemed to have "grown" from that heart the size of a water vat.

In the very center of the heart is a round gem that emits a faint glow.

Just now, that light must have come from this round gemstone.

Those bones were actually dried-up blood vessels, all connected to the heart.

Both the heart and blood vessels had long since lost their vitality after tens of thousands of years, but Xia Fa could still recognize that those blood vessels and the heart did not originate from the same entity.

This heart... seems more like the one from the Outer God who was brutally killed in the primordial ocean, carrying an intense aura of killing and metal.

These blood vessels, however, have a strong putrid and bloody stench, which is likely the origin of this monster.

"What's going on? Grafting?"

Xia Fa had to admit that the [Rhine Calamity] had really played some tricks while it was alive, actually transplanting the heart of an Outer God into the body of another Outer God-level unknown being, namely this monster.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that so many supernatural creatures covered in weapons have been cultivated.

Having witnessed the crafting of the secret treasures last time, Xia Fa truly felt that every weapon growing from these supernatural creatures was crafted using the top-tier materials for secret treasures of the same rank or level.

Moreover, it naturally increases the success rate of crafting secret treasures and the quality of the finished products.

If these "weapons" were taken outside, they would probably be fought over by treasure craftsmen and treasure masters.

Furthermore, considering the current situation where [Rhine Calamity] deliberately performs this transplant surgery solely to cultivate supernatural creatures capable of growing weapons...

"Could it be that these three primeval zones were created specifically by the [Rhine Calamity] to provide it with materials for crafting its own secret treasures?"

They would capture oceans, forests, and deserts from the real world, then kill several Outer Gods, and graft the organs of one of these Outer Gods onto the corpses of the others, providing nourishment for the creatures in these areas…

Xia Fa once again exclaimed sincerely, "[Rhine Calamity] really knows how to play. No wonder it is an Old One with the same status as the true gods."

If [Rhine Calamity] weren't an Old One who seemed to be naturally opposed to humans, demi-humans, and the nine Great Gods, He might have become a very popular deity.

Thinking this, Xia Fa's gaze fell on the heart covered with weapons, especially the round gem in the center of the heart.

This round gemstone is jet black, yet it emits a light, and after 30,000 years, it seems to still possess a spiritual quality.

He's obviously not simple.