114: Chapter 114 Strange Mechanism

Passing through vast collapsed coral stone pillars and ruins, a dilapidated circular plaza entered the field of vision.

In the center of the plaza stood a mangled, broken stone statue, and in the heavy shadows behind the statue, an extremely oppressive aura of the peak of Excellent Grade surged wildly.

The surrounding seawater was displaced by this aura, forming tiny, visible whirlpools.

"Clang—"

A crisp sound of a sword ringing tore through the water pressure.

Li Taiping's eyes were cold, his wrist flicked slightly, and the tip of the sword in his hand pointed directly at the shadow on the seabed.

The water curtain was roughly torn open by him.

A behemoth, five meters tall, stepped out of the shadows slowly with heavy footsteps.

[Waifang Clan · Twin Sea Beast]

[Life Level: Peak of Excellent Grade]

Same humanoid form, same disgusting giant single eye occupying half the face.

The only difference was that this monster's skin was deep blue. A dim light flowed beneath its rough skin, as if some strange energy was flowing in its blood.

"The Waifang Clan again? How come it can change its skin?"

Lin Weiyu gritted her teeth, her arms shook violently, and cyan dragon scales instantly emerged from under her skin, standing on end, while violent dragon might spread out, directly resisting the opponent's pressure.

Li Taiping raised his eyebrows slightly, his thoughts swirling in his mind.

If the opponent was exactly the same as the previous monster, the threat, even if present, was not too high.

With four girls at the early stage of Excellent Grade on his side, facing one at the peak of Excellent Grade, wasn't this just a ready-made top-tier "experience pack"?

They held [Resurrection Scroll] in their hands, and with his ability to control the field, even if this sea area collapsed, he could forcibly hold it together.

Xia Zhi and the others' Talent was indeed top-notch, but if they didn't experience the brutal beating of life-and-death, cross-tier kills, they would always just be a bunch of flowers in a greenhouse.

In this man-eating survival world, having Talent alone wasn't enough to live long.

"You four, go."

Li Taiping took half a step back, voluntarily giving up the main attack position, his gentle voice transmitted through the communication channel.

"Huh?" Xia Zhi was stunned for a moment, the hand holding the sword tightening slightly.

With the captain's perverted strength, this monster clearly wouldn't live past three seconds, so she thought it had nothing to do with her.

"Use it for practice, I'll cover for you."

Li Taiping only replied with eight words.

Just in the gap of his speech, Li Taiping's peripheral vision suddenly caught a flash of dark red ghost-like light in the shadows of the ruins far away.

The light was extremely faint; if his mental power hadn't been far superior to ordinary people, he would never have detected it.

Li Taiping's heart jumped heavily.

A dark red afterimage? Are there other monsters in ambush nearby?

He calmly suppressed the surging killing intent in his eyes and raised his vigilance to the maximum.

His mental power, like an invisible net, silently spread toward that darkness, locking onto that position tightly.

This damn place, it really was evil everywhere.

"Received!" Lin Qingxue was the first to react.

There was not a trace of fear in the Little Girl's eyes, but rather, they shone with excitement.

The engine of her silver-white mecha emitted a deafening roar, and the underwater thrusters on her back spewed violent tail currents, slamming into the deep blue sea beast!

"Bang!"

A muffled, loud noise exploded on the seabed.

The sea beast was angered by this sudden collision, and a bucket-thick, deep blue beam of light shot out from its giant single eye, smashing hard into the mecha's energy shield.

Water waves exploded violently, and the shield rippled in layers.

Lin Qingxue gritted her teeth, her legs plowing two deep trenches in the seabed silt, holding off this terrifying impact force.

At the same time, the energy cannon on her mecha's shoulder instantly finished charging, and a blinding white light illuminated the dim seabed.

"Eat this shot from your grandma!"

With a "boom," the energy cannon fired point-blank, directly exploding a patch of charred black on the sea beast's chest.

The aggro was instantly pulled!

The deep blue sea beast let out a furious roar, and its giant palm smashed down towards Lin Qingxue.

"Sword Qi, condense!"

Xia Zhi seized the opening when the sea beast raised its arm and darted out like a fish. The cold iron sword tore through the heavy water pressure, the blade coated with a layer of cold white frost.

A point of cold light arrived first, followed by sword qi like a dragon!

"Puchi!"

The sharp blade pierced precisely through the edge of the sea beast's single eye. Deep blue, foul-smelling blood sprayed out like a fountain, instantly staining the surrounding seawater blue.

The sea beast roared in extreme pain, its thick giant arms waving wildly, stirring up turbulent undercurrents, and even the rubble on the ground was swept up.

"Too slow."

A cold, extreme female voice sounded unexpectedly beside the sea beast.

Sa Wanwan's figure flashed out of thin air like a space jump.

She held a pure black horizontal blade, the blade slicing through the seawater, bringing with it an invisible spatial crescent blade.

With a tooth-achingly dull "hiss" sound, the power of space directly ignored the sea beast's tough physical defense, cutting a half-meter-long, bone-deep blood groove in its thick waist and abdomen!

In the rolled-up flesh, one could even see the pale bones.

"Down you go!"

Lin Weiyu's angry shout came from overhead.

She had already entered her full dragon form, her whole body covered with hard cyan scales.

Borrowing the thrust of the water current, she descended from the sky like a cyan meteorite, her glowing dragon claws carrying immense force, tearing through the water and slamming onto the sea beast's broad back!

"Crack!"

The crisp sound of bone cracking was exceptionally harsh on the seabed.

The sea beast's massive body sank abruptly, its knees smashing heavily onto the plaza's stone slabs, creating large spiderweb-like cracks.

One tank, two assassins, one heavy warrior.

The four girls' coordination could be called textbook level.

Without extra nonsense, without dragging movements, they forcibly beat this peak-level monster that was a whole major realm higher!

Li Taiping, watching the battle from the back, nodded imperceptibly.

Lin Qingxue's mecha was also at the peak of Excellent Grade; this was a battle trial without suspense.

"Boom—!"

With Lin Qingxue's final charged main cannon blast, the blinding beam of light completely pierced through the deep blue sea beast's chest.

Its massive body stiffened suddenly, and the light in its single eye faded rapidly.

Subsequently, the entire body, like a weathered sand sculpture, turned into sky-filling deep blue light spots and completely dissipated in the cold seawater.

"Hoo... We won!"

Lin Weiyu released her dragon form, shook her sore arms as if drained of strength, breathing heavily, her face full of excitement after a cross-tier kill.

However, Li Taiping's expression sank.

"Captain, nothing dropped?"

Xia Zhi swam to the place where the light spots dissipated, poked the silt with the tip of her sword—it was empty.

No treasure chest, no materials, completely clean.

Killing a peak Excellent Grade monster across tiers, and not even a hair dropped?!

A flash of inspiration struck Li Taiping's mind, and he turned his head abruptly, staring dead at the dark corner far away.

The dark red light that had been locked by his mental power flashed violently the moment the deep blue sea beast died.

Then, like a frightened rat, it fled frantically toward the deeper part of the ruins!

"Watched for so long, and you want to run?!"

Li Taiping snorted coldly, his face revealing a fierce look.

The killing intent that had been dormant for a long time erupted without reservation at this moment!

Bestialization, activate! Cyan dragon scales instantly covered his whole body, his muscles bulging high!

Mecha, attach! The silver-white streamlined armor perfectly meshed with the dragon scales, emitting a tooth-aching mechanical friction sound!

Space travel, activate!

"Boom!"

Only a muffled sonic boom was left in place.

The violent airflow blew away the surrounding silt completely.

Li Taiping, like a teleporting cannonball, crossed hundreds of meters in distance with three consecutive space flashes.

He brutally tore through the water pressure, like a god of slaughter, and crashed into the front of the fleeing dark red light!

The water current stirred, and the light dissipated.

It was exactly that dark red single-eyed sea beast that he had already beheaded!

At this moment, a translucent deep blue energy line was extending from the neck of this disgusting headless corpse.

It was frantically absorbing the energy scattered after the death of the deep blue sea beast, and a brand-new tumor-like head was visibly reorganizing and expanding with a disgusting, sticky sound!

"So it was loading here?"

Li Taiping instantly saw through this disgusting mechanism.

Twin sea beasts, born together and die together.

Killing one, the other would immediately hide in the shadows to load and resurrect it!

"Roar—"

The red monster, which had only grown half a head, with even its eyeball hanging outside the socket, let out a terrified hiss.

It seemed to have sensed the terrifying killing intent radiating from the man in front of it.

"The loading isn't even finished, who allowed you to scream?"

Li Taiping's eyes were as cold as ice, without any nonsense.

The giant sword in his hand carried violent spatial power, and black void cracks were cut into the water flow around the blade.

He gripped the sword with both hands, from top to bottom, and slashed down with one stroke!

"Crack!"

The deep blue energy line connecting the two monsters' lives was like a fragile spider web in front of this devastating sword, forcibly severed!

The shrill scream stopped abruptly.

The remains of the dark red sea beast, as if drained of its last bit of vitality, twitched violently twice, then instantly disintegrated, turning into sky-filling gray-white fly ash, completely merging into the cold seawater.

This time, it didn't fake death again.

"Ding! Ding! Ding!"

Crisp system prompt sounds rang out in Li Taiping's mind one after another.

In the silt where the light had faded, a full twelve loot light orbs emitting tempting blue light, like the brightest stars on the seabed, floated quietly at Li Taiping's feet.

The light intertwined, illuminating his cold face.

Li Taiping casually swirled the sword, put it away, looked at the loot on the ground, and chuckled.

This is more like it.

Loot!

Mechanism monster? I kill exactly mechanism monsters!

In the face of absolute power, all these fancy mechanics must obediently drop equipment for me!