113: Chapter 113: The Weight of a Drop of Water

Ten thousand meters deep in the ocean, it was deathly silent.

The "black tide no. 1" submersible hovered silently in the darkness like a ghost.

Inside the command cabin, the black-robed priest Heimu stared at the holographic screen, his face filled with obsession.

On the screen, the black pollution had already crawled to the edge of the spiritual vein.

The black pollution collided with the pure energy of the spiritual vein, and each collision stirred up a silent wave of energy.

Spiritual energy was being constantly consumed and eroded.

That patch of pure blue was turning black at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Wonderful... truly wonderful." Heimu stuck out his tongue and licked his dry, cracked lips, his eyes filled with insane fanaticism. "Life and death, order and chaos! This is the true truth of the universe!"

"Report, Lord Heimu!" An operator's voice interrupted his wild thoughts. "The pollution process is slower than expected. The Xia Kingdom's 'base station' seems to be operating at full capacity, resisting the 'Mother's' erosion."

"Oh?" Heimu glanced with some interest at the steel mountain-like base station not far away. "An interesting toy. However, it is just a toy."

"In the face of the 'Abyss's' will, any struggle is a waste of effort."

He waved his hand and muttered in a sing-song tone: "Ignore it. Let the 'Mother' continue. Once the entire spiritual vein is converted, this small base station will naturally become an inconspicuous ornament on the 'Mother'."

"Yes!"

Just then, another operator responsible for external monitoring suddenly screamed.

"Alert! High-energy reaction at the right rear! Something is rushing over at high speed!"

"What?"

Heimu frowned and immediately switched the main screen to that view.

In the pitch-black deep sea, a bright blue dot trailing a long tail was rushing straight toward them at an unreasonably fast speed.

The speed was so fast that even the most advanced detection system could only capture a trail of shadows.

"Is it a torpedo? No... that's not right! No torpedo can have this kind of speed and agility!"

"Its energy level... Good heavens! It's climbing crazily!"

"Intercept! Intercept it for me immediately!" Heimu's expression darkened for the first time.

From that tiny blue dot, he felt a threat that made him panic.

Several specially made interceptor missiles were fired from the "black tide no. 1", tracing eerie arcs in the water as they headed toward the blue dot.

However, the scene that followed left everyone in the command cabin dumbfounded.

Just as the blue dot was about to be hit by the missiles, it made a hard right-angle turn, nimbly dodging all the attacks.

Then, it traced a blue arc in the water and finally stopped less than a hundred meters in front of the "black tide no. 1".

The light dissipated, revealing what was inside.

It was a person.

A person wearing form-fitting blue battle armor, quietly hovering in the seawater.

"This... what is this thing?!"

"A person? How did she get here? Why... hasn't she been crushed by the water pressure?!"

The command cabin was filled with the sound of people gasping.

The situation before them was completely incomprehensible.

Heimu stared fixedly at the petite figure on the screen, his pupils shrinking to pinpoints.

He saw that the other party had no diving equipment and no life-support system.

She stood so naturally in the terrifying water pressure of the ten-thousand-meter deep sea, as if she were standing in her own backyard.

The surrounding seawater even actively formed a small waterless zone around her.

All waters, paying homage.

This was a skill that only legendary big shots who had mastered water-elemental power to the extreme possessed!

"Damn... the Xia Kingdom people... what exactly are they hiding?!" For the first time, the emotion of "fear" welled up in Heimu's heart.

...

Jiang Ning hovered in the icy seawater, glanced at the strange-looking submersible in front of her, and then looked at the black pollution spreading in the distance, her expression turning even colder.

She could feel that the core of the pollution was directly below this submersible.

A malicious energy source, stuck in this sea like a malignant tumor.

Blast it directly with brute force?

No.

Jiang Ning immediately dismissed this idea.

This energy source was very unstable; if stimulated too strongly, it would likely detonate immediately. By then, the submersible would be gone, but the explosion would cause the pollutants to instantly spread to the entire spiritual vein.

That would be the real disaster.

She had to use a more skillful, more controllable method.

Seal the pollution source first.

Then deal with this annoying fly.

Jiang Ning instantly had an idea.

She looked around.

Ten thousand meters deep in the ocean, what could be utilized here?

Water.

Endless water, compressed to the extreme by terrifying pressure.

In ancient cultivation classics, there was an extremely precious material called "One-Yuan Heavy Water".

It was formed by the purest water condensing over ten thousand years under the high pressure of the Earth's core. A single drop was as heavy as a mountain, making it an excellent material for sealing artifacts.

The environment here almost perfectly replicated the formation conditions for "One-Yuan Heavy Water".

Although there wasn't ten thousand years of time, this pressure was enough.

What was missing was just a "catalyst" to guide and trigger it.

Jiang Ning reached out, and a simple, ancient seal engraved with mountains, rivers, and flowing clouds slowly appeared in her palm.

It was her natal magic artifact, the Pangu Seal!

"In my name, I command all waters!"

Jiang Ning injected a stream of spiritual power into the Pangu Seal.

The Pangu Seal emitted a soft sound, and the mountain and river patterns on it instantly lit up.

An invisible yet majestic power instantly spread out with Jiang Ning at the center.

The surrounding seawater began to rotate and compress crazily in an eerie way.

Impurities in the water were automatically separated out.

Only the purest water elements remained, constantly being purified under the terrifying pressure and the power of the Pangu Seal.

Soon, a drop of liquid, thousands of times deeper in color than the surrounding seawater and looking like black crystal, slowly formed at Jiang Ning's fingertip.

Although it was only one drop.

But the moment it appeared, the surrounding space began to distort.

In the command cabin of the "black tide no. 1", the alarm sounded crazily again.

"Alert! Detected a super-high-density mass point directly in front of the submersible! Gravitational anomaly!"

"Our ship... is being... sucked towards it!"

Heimu was scared out of his wits, staring at the drop of black liquid on the woman's fingertip on the screen.

He didn't know what that was.

But he could feel that inside that tiny droplet, there was a terrifying weight capable of crushing everything!

"Quick! Set engine power to maximum! Back up! Get out of there!" he roared at the top of his lungs.

However, it was already too late.