114: Chapter 114 The Kraken? That's just a broken windshield wiper.

The far north of the Cultivation World, the North Sea Abyssal Depths.

This is the end of the Cultivation World, shrouded year-round in fog so thick you can't see your hand in front of your face. Legend has it that this fog can devour Divine Sense, and any Cultivator brave enough to venture deep inside will eventually lose their way and be dragged to the bottom of the sea by "unspeakable things" lurking in the deep.

But today, the peace of the North Sea was shattered.

Boom—! Boom—! Heavy footsteps crushed the floating ice on the sea's surface. An "expeditionary force" with an extremely absurd art style appeared on the horizon.

Tens of thousands of Rock Giants (formerly Flame Giants, now Air Conditioning Units), dozens of zhang tall and radiating cold air, were marching in formation through the water. With every step they took, the seawater beneath them instantly froze into an icy path. Sitting on the shoulders of these giants were the teachers and students of Tianhe Academy, wearing yellow vests and carrying various maintenance tools.

"Achoo!" Butcher Xiao was wrapped in several layers of fur coats, his nose running, and even the megaphone in his hand was frosted over. "Dean, this North Sea is too eerie." "My Divine Sense only extended three meters before it was 'eaten' by this fog! And my head is full of buzzing static, like thousands of cicadas chirping!"

Mobile Command Room (hovering above the giants' heads).

Li Mo sat in a warm leather chair, staring at a holographic screen in front of him. The screen was full of static, and the signal strength was zero.

"Divine Sense being eaten?" Li Mo shook his head. "That's not eating; it's signal interference." "This place is the battleship's **'Visual Sensing System' (Radar/Eyes)**. Because it hasn't been maintained for a long time, the sensors have aged, and the massive amount of electronic noise generated has materialized into this fog."

He pointed at the gray fog outside the window. "The so-called 'getting lost' is actually just... being disconnected."

[System Scan Report:] [Target: Pangu-003 Optical/Spiritual Composite Detection Array (Left Eye).] [Current Status: Total Blindness.] [Cause of Failure: Severe contamination of the lens surface + Malignant mutation of the automatic cleaning unit (wiper).]

"A mutated wiper?" Li Mo raised an eyebrow. "It seems this is the legendary 'Kraken'."

...

Deep in the North Sea, the Dragon Palace (actually the radar base).

A group of Sea Folk with fish, shrimp, and crab heads were kneeling and trembling before a massive crystal mountain that emitted a faint red light. The crystal mountain was extremely magnificent and hemispherical, but its surface was currently covered in black, seaweed-like viscous tentacles.

"O Great Sea God!" An old turtle demon (Prime Minister Turtle) at the Golden Core Stage wailed, "Those barbarians from the land are attacking! They are commanding Frost Giant Gods and are going to freeze the North Sea into a popsicle!" "We beg the Sea God to manifest and bring down divine punishment to devour them!"

Gurgle— That "crystal mountain" moved. The black tentacles covering it (actually a massive soft-bodied monster) slowly slithered, revealing a... cloudy, giant eye underneath. There was no divinity in that eye, only deep exhaustion and... eye crust (precipitated Impurities).

"Roar—!! (It itches so much!!)" The massive monster let out a dull roar, the sound whipping up thousand-foot waves. It didn't want to attack; it was just really itchy. As the battleship's "Biological Cleaning Unit," it had been lying there for tens of thousands of years, and its body had long since grown into the lens, making it completely unable to move.

...

On the sea's surface.

Giant waves surged, accompanied by the battle cries of countless Sea Folk. "For the Sea God!" "Drown them!" Thousands of Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals rode the waves toward the maintenance army.

"Enemy attack! Prepare for battle!" Director Lei (Head of the Physics Department) shouted, his High-voltage Electric Baton already poised for action.

"Wait." Li Mo's voice rang out again over the broadcast. "Don't fight; those are 'security personnel'." "Even though they're a bit ugly, they're part of the staff."

Li Mo stepped out of the command room and stood atop the tallest Air Conditioning Giant. He looked at the rolling waves ahead and the massive dark shadow (the radar wrapped in tentacles) faintly visible behind them.

"Xiao Hei." Li Mo snapped his fingers. "Translate."

Xiao Hei (Abyssal Clone) immediately transformed into a giant black megaphone and shouted a string of obscure Ancient God Language (battleship low-level commands) toward the sea: [Command: I am the new Captain.] [Inquiry: You, the cleaner in front, are you on a freaking strike?] [Warning: If you don't start working, your salary (Spirit Stones) will be docked!]

The voice was like rolling thunder, instantly penetrating the fog and giant waves.

The charging Shrimp Soldiers and Crab Generals were stunned. The old turtle demon was so scared he retracted his head into his shell. "Cap... Captain? What kind of divine rank is that?"

And the "Kraken" (mutated wiper) perched on the crystal mountain suddenly froze the moment it heard the string of commands. That was code etched into the depths of its genes. It was the majesty of the Creator.

"Whimper—!!" The Kraken let out a pitiful whimper. It waved several giant tentacles, pointing at its own body and then at the filthy lens, roughly meaning: "It's not that I don't want to wipe! I'm too fat! I'm stuck! And there's no washer fluid! Wiping dry hurts a lot!"

Li Mo: "..." He looked at the Tentacle Monster that had grown as large as a mountain, and his lip twitched. "Fine, it's a workplace injury."

"All units, hear my command!" Li Mo once again issued an absurd combat order: [Mission Codename: Clear Eyes, Bright Heart.] [Step 1: Put that 'wiper' on a diet (cut off the excess fat; that's high-quality seafood).] [Step 2: Spray 'washer fluid' (mix the World-Devouring Insect fluid collected in the East Sea with water).] [Step 3: Manual window cleaning assistance!]

"Go! It's seafood time!" At the mention of "seafood," the Tentacle Monsters from the Abyss (now the Tianhe Academy Cleaning Crew) were the first to go crazy. They had long been annoyed by that "Kraken"—everyone is a Tentacle Monster, so why are you so big? And why are you hogging such a good spot?

Splash! Splash! Thousands of Abyssal Tentacle Monsters jumped into the sea, waving dinner knives and forks (issued by Li Mo), and rushed toward the Kraken. "Roar! (Brothers, carve it up!)"

A battle named "Trimming the Wiper" began. Although the Kraken was massive, in front of thousands of starving kin, it instantly became a buffet. Excess tumors were sliced off, and the thick calloused layer was stripped away.

Meanwhile, the Demon Pig Tanks began spraying "washer fluid" at the giant crystal sphere (lens). The liquid, which possessed strong corrosive and cleaning properties, doused the sphere with a "sizzling" sound. Tens of thousands of years of grime began to dissolve.

"Comfortable... so comfortable..." The Kraken stopped roaring and instead let out a pleasant groan. Its body became lighter, and the feeling of being bound by grime vanished.

Finally, after the successful "weight loss," the Kraken's remaining few lean and strong tentacles regained their vitality. As if remembering its mission, it suctioned onto the now-clean surface of the crystal sphere.

Swish—! Once to the left. Swish—! Once to the right.

With its movements, the fog (electronic noise) that had shrouded the North Sea for tens of thousands of years began to dissipate at a visible speed. The originally cloudy "Eye of the Sea God" became crystal clear again, emitting a deep, ethereal blue light.

Hum— An invisible ripple swept across the entire world. It was the scanning wave of the radar rebooting.

[System Notification: Visual System reboot successful.] [Full Map Vision: Enabled.] [Current Detection Range: Covers this plane and extends 100 light-years toward the Abyss.]

Tianhe Command Room.

Li Mo's screen instantly lit up. The static disappeared, replaced by an incredibly clear star map. At the edge of the star map, a massive red shadow was slowly but steadily crawling toward them.

[Warning: Main Abyssal Fleet detected.] [Distance: Contact countdown 28 days.] [Enemy Scale: Ultra-large (possibly carrying 'Karma-law Weapons').]

Li Mo looked at the red dot, his gaze becoming sharp. "I can finally see." "Before, it was like blind men feeling an elephant, but now..."

He picked up the walkie-talkie, his voice chillingly calm: "Director Lei, stop cutting the seafood." "The eyes are fixed; it's time to use the knife." "Final step: Weapon System."

"According to the blueprints, this ship's 'Main Cannon'... seems to be in the Southern Desolation (which is beneath the Heavenly River Sword Sect)?"

Li Mo glanced at the "ship" beneath his feet. Since the eyes were bright, the engine was running, and the air conditioning was cool... if he didn't install an Italian... oh no, an Antimatter Star-Destroyer Cannon, how could he justify this interstellar trip?

"Return to base!" "Back to the Heavenly River Sword Sect!" "We're going to... draw the sword."