134: Chapter 134: Igniting the River Styx

In the Nether River, six Bone Fish, each six meters long, wagged their tailbones.

Ryan swam at the very front.

After mimicking a Bone Fish, the high-density oppressive feeling of the Nether River's dead water vanished completely.

The dead water wove through the gaps in his bones, bringing a strange sense of buoyancy.

He could feel the subtle changes in the current, and even the extreme cold of the water temperature became nourishment for his Soul fire.

"Spread out the formation and maintain communication." Ryan issued the order through the fluctuations of his Soul fire.

The five team members dispersed to Ryan's sides.

"Captain, the environment at the bottom of this river is too evil." Li Xuan's Soul fire flickered.

Ryan followed Li Xuan's line of sight.

There were no water plants or coral in this river.

There were only countless dark red root systems rooted in the silt.

The surface of these root systems shimmered with a liquid metallic luster, exactly the same as the man-eating saplings on the shore.

The root systems intertwined at the bottom of the water like a massive net, absorbing the free energy in the dead water.

Occasionally, a few dead native Bone Fish would sink to the bottom.

The dark red root systems would instantly break through the silt and entangle the skeletons.

Within seconds, the skeletons, along with the residual Soul fire inside, were sucked dry.

"Don't touch those tree roots." Ryan warned via telepathy.

They followed the current deeper.

The Nether River was extremely wide, and the underwater terrain was complex.

They swam past underwater rifts and crossed through reefs piled up with metal Ore.

Along the way, except for shoals of native Bone Fish, they did not see any other creatures.

The native Bone Fish ignored them.

As long as they emitted pure Death Qi fluctuations, these indigenous inhabitants treated them as their own kind.

"There only seem to be Bone Fish here." Blue light flickered in K's skeletal eye sockets as he scanned the surrounding silt layer.

"There are no energy signatures of any antidote; should we go to a deeper trench to take a look?"

Ryan pondered for a moment.

The clansmen on the shore were still waiting for the antidote, and the longer the delay, the more people would mutate.

"Continue diving, keep watch." Ryan took the lead and swam toward a deep underwater rift.

The six of them had just swum past a raised silt hill.

Without warning, the silt hill suddenly exploded.

A black shadow darted out at an extremely fast speed, lunging straight at the Body Cultivator Gangku, who was swimming on the far right.

Gangku reacted extremely quickly, whipping his tailbone hard in an attempt to distance himself.

But he underestimated the speed of the attacker.

A giant dark golden pincer broke through the water current, accurately clamping onto Gangku's spine.

The surface of the pincer shimmered with a liquid metallic luster, and high-frequency Void Oscillation waves were conducted into Gangku's bones through the pincer.

Crack!

Several cracks appeared in Gangku's Bone Fish spine.

His Soul fire swayed, and intense pain spread throughout his body.

"What the Hell is this!" Gangku roared.

He saw the true form of the attacker.

It was a giant crab reaching seven meters in size.

Its carapace was dark gold, and its eight jointed limbs were deeply rooted in the silt.

Its two giant pincers were as large as millstones, and the pincer mouths were covered in serrated teeth.

An Oscillating Liquid Metal Crab.

This Liquid Metal Crab had been hiding in the silt, using the silt's property of blocking spiritual detection to perfectly conceal its figure.

It had mistaken Gangku for a lone native Bone Fish and launched a fatal strike.

The high-frequency oscillation waves continuously damaged Gangku's bones.

The Liquid Metal Crab's giant pincers tightened continuously, attempting to snap Gangku in two.

"You're courting death!"

Gangku already had a short temper, and being ambushed by a crab further incited his ferocity.

He chose not to break free from the giant pincers.

He mobilized the Time Demon Origin within his body, forcibly pouring it into the Bone Fish's body.

He opened his mouth, which was full of fangs, and bit down on the joint of the Liquid Metal Crab.

"Break for me!"

The Soul fire in Gangku's eye sockets suddenly expanded.

He concentrated his Peak Body Cultivator strength into his head and rammed it into the Liquid Metal Crab's eye.

Bang!

A burst of air bubbles exploded underwater.

The Liquid Metal Crab's left eye was smashed, and dark purple body fluid gushed out.

The Liquid Metal Crab felt the pain and loosened its giant pincers.

Gangku did not let up; he used his tailbone to strike heavily against the Liquid Metal Crab's back shell.

The power of a Peak Body Cultivator erupted.

The liquid metal shell dented, and the internal organs were shattered by the vibration.

The seven-meter-long Liquid Metal Crab twitched a few times, its eight jointed limbs hanging limply; it was clearly dead.

"Gangku! Calm down!" Ryan's telepathic message carried urgency.

He wanted to stop him, but it was already too late.

The corpse of the Liquid Metal Crab slammed into the silt, and the dark golden body fluid spread through the dead water.

The smell of this body fluid became a signal.

The silt around Ryan and the other five began to churn on a large scale.

Pairs of blood-red eyes lit up in the darkness.

Dense, boundless.

Thousands of Oscillating Liquid Metal Crabs burst out of the soil.

They waved their giant pincers, and the high-frequency oscillation waves intertwined into a death net underwater.

"Damn it! Retreat!" Ryan roared.

The six of them immediately changed direction, swimming desperately toward the upper water layer.

The swarm of Liquid Metal Crabs pursued relentlessly.

Tens of thousands of giant pincers opened and closed simultaneously, and the oscillation waves crushed all the metal reefs along the way.

The actions of Ryan and the others completely broke the tranquility of the Nether River underwater.

The large-scale riot of the Liquid Metal Crabs attracted the attention of the native Bone Fish shoals in the upper water layer.

For the Bone Fish, the river bottom belonged to the crabs, and the water domain belonged to the Bone Fish.

These crabs, which usually hid in the mud, suddenly came out in full force and were even hunting their own kind.

This was a serious provocation to the territorial consciousness of the Bone Fish clan.

Without any communication, the war broke out directly.

Hundreds of thousands of Bone Fish gathered from all directions.

The Soul fire in their eye sockets connected into a sea of deep blue fire.

The Bone Fish shoals, like arrows released from a bowstring, plunged into the formation of the Liquid Metal Crabs.

Sharp bone spurs collided with liquid metal carapaces. High-frequency oscillation waves tore apart the bodies of the Bone Fish.

A chaotic battle was imminent.

Ryan and the other five were caught in the middle of the two major clans, in a dilemma.

A Liquid Metal Crab waved its giant pincer and smashed it toward Li Xuan.

Li Xuan flicked his tailbone to avoid it, and a nearby native Bone Fish immediately rushed up and bit the joint of the Liquid Metal Crab.

"Captain, we've been dragged into this!" Li Xuan transmitted while dodging the oscillation waves.

"Don't fight back! Swim to the rhythm of the Bone Fish shoal! Find an opportunity to break away!" Ryan remained calm.

They dared not reveal their true strength.

Once exposed, they would inevitably become a common target for both sides.

The scale of the chaotic battle grew larger and larger.

The Nether River's dead water churned violently, forming underwater whirlpools one after another.

Suddenly, a terrifying pressure rose from the depths of the underwater rift.

The water current was forcibly pushed aside.

A super Liquid Metal Crab reaching twenty meters in size slowly crawled out of the rift.

Its carapace was a pure, bright gold, and its two giant pincers were wrapped in tangible spatial cracks.

Peak Platinum, Liquid Metal Crab King.

The moment the Crab King appeared, a majestic low roar also came from the upper water layer.

A Bone Fish King with a body length of over fifteen meters broke through the water and descended.

Its skeleton was completely jade-like, and the Soul fire in its eye sockets was a deep black-blue; the surrounding dead water was even ignited by the Soul fire.

Peak Platinum, Bone Fish King.

The two kings confronted each other across thousands of meters of water.

The Crab King waved its giant pincers.

Crack!

A spatial crack a thousand meters long spread underwater, cutting thousands of Bone Fish into powder.

The Bone Fish King let out a sharp sonic wave.

This sonic wave spread throughout the entire battlefield, and all the native Bone Fish received the command.

[Legion Body Integration]

The water current around Ryan and the other five suddenly tightened.

Thousands of native Bone Fish suddenly rammed toward them.

"Dodge!" K shouted.

"You can't dodge!" Ryan stopped him sternly, "This is their Body Integration skill!"

"We are currently carrying the pure aura of the Bone Fish; once we resist the Body Integration, we will be judged as aliens!"

"But..."

"No buts! Merge into it! Play dead!"

Ryan took the lead in letting go of the control of his body.

The skeletons of thousands of Bone Fish interlocked with each other.

Ryan's body was stuck in the middle section of a super Bone Fish's spine, Li Xuan became part of the ribs, and Gangku was squeezed into the position of the tailbone.

In just ten seconds.

Hundreds of super Bone Fish with body lengths exceeding one hundred meters appeared on the battlefield.

Ryan and the other five were forced to become parts of one of these super Bone Fish.

The control of the super Bone Fish was dominated by a massive aggregated Soul fire.

Ryan and the others could only suppress their own consciousness and let this body take them charging toward the Liquid Metal Crab camp.

"What the Hell is this!" Gangku cursed in the communication channel.

"Shut up! Restrain your aura!" Ryan suppressed the Time Demon Origin in his body tightly.

The super Bone Fish swung its huge tailbone, taking Ryan and the others crashing into the phalanx of the Liquid Metal Crabs.

The underwater war entered a white-hot stage.

This was a pure melee collision.

Hundreds of super Bone Fish formed a charge formation.

They opened their giant mouths full of bone spurs, crazily devouring the Liquid Metal Crabs in front.

The liquid metal carapaces deformed and shattered under the bite force of the super Bone Fish.

Dark golden body fluid sprinkled over the entire water area.

The Liquid Metal Crab swarm did not retreat.

Tens of thousands of Liquid Metal Crabs piled up like an arhat, forming metal shield walls a hundred meters high.

The surface of the shield walls erupted with oscillation waves of a unified frequency.

The super Bone Fish crashed into the shield walls.

Bang! Thud! Thud!

Visible shockwaves exploded underwater in circles.

The skulls of the super Bone Fish were shaken with dense cracks by the oscillation waves.

The outer layers of Bone Fish parts fell off one after another, turning into bone powder.

Ryan hid in the middle section of the spine, watching his companions on the periphery being shattered, his heart pounding with fear.

"Hold on! Wait until they finish fighting!" Ryan transmitted to comfort his team members.

The duel between the Liquid Metal Crab King and the Bone Fish King was even more earth-shattering.

Every time the Crab King's giant pincers swung, it would tear apart a large area of water.

Spatial cracks crisscrossed, cutting the dead water into independent areas.

The Bone Fish King did not show weakness.

It manipulated the dead water to form countless high-pressure water spears, shooting toward the Crab King like a torrential rain.

The jade-like tailbone struck the Crab King's back shell again and again, smashing out huge dents.

Hundreds of thousands of the population were fighting crazily underwater.

Severed limbs and broken arms fell like raindrops to the river bottom.

The dark red magic tree root systems at the bottom of the river ushered in a carnival.

Countless root systems broke through the soil, moving beneath the battlefield.

A half-dead Liquid Metal Crab had just fallen into the silt when a dozen metal tree roots pierced its carapace, draining its body fluid.

A severed Bone Fish tail was entangled by the tree roots and digested along with the Soul fire inside.

The magic tree root systems even began to take the initiative to attack.

They extended to the edge of the battlefield, forcibly dragging those seriously injured Bone Fish and crabs into the abyss.

Ryan looked at the tragic scene below, feeling cold all over.

The plants in this God Realm were even more terrifying than these monsters.

They ate people without spitting out bones, and even handled the battlefield cleanup.

The war lasted for two full hours.

Both sides suffered heavy casualties.

The number of super Bone Fish was reduced by half, and seventy percent of the Liquid Metal Crab shield walls were also broken.

The outer armor of the super Bone Fish where Ryan was located had already fallen off, and the rib position where Li Xuan and Ayla were located was directly exposed.

"Captain! I can't hold on much longer! The oscillation waves on the periphery are too strong!" Li Xuan's Soul fire was dim.

"Prepare to break away!" Ryan gritted his teeth.

Both sides were at the end of their rope; breaking away now offered the best chance to fish in troubled waters.

Just as Ryan was preparing to give the order.

Above the water surface, a strange fluctuation suddenly came.

The dead water overhead surged.

The lead-gray light was obscured by a large shadow.

Plop! Plop! Plop!

Dense black objects smashed into the Nether River.

Ryan looked up, his Bone Fish eye sockets filled with horror.

Bugs.

Hundreds of thousands of Zerg.

Nether-Uranium Heavy Armor Beetles, Psionic Plasma Bugs, Mad Sickle Shadow Blade Beetles...

These Zerg that lived underground and on the wasteland had actually gone into the water!

They completely ignored the high density and corrosiveness of the Nether River's dead water.

The surface of the Zerg's carapaces was covered with a faint psionic shield, perfectly isolating the dead water.

Their movements in the water were familiar and practiced, their formation was tight, clearly as if they had done this many times before.

"Are the bugs in this God Realm crazy!" K's mechanical voice carried a tremor, "They even know how to fight underwater!"

The Zerg army did not stop for a moment and directly killed their way into the battlefield.

Tens of thousands of Nether-Uranium Heavy Armor Beetles formed the first line of defense.

They smashed straight into the remaining formation of the Liquid Metal Crabs.

The Heavy Armor Beetles relied on their terrifying weight and defense to withstand the oscillation waves of the Liquid Metal Crabs, waving their jointed limbs to pry open the carapaces of the crabs.

Psionic Plasma Bugs hovered behind the Heavy Armor Beetles. They raised their tails, and thousands of high-energy plasma balls were fired underwater.

The plasma balls streaked through the dead water with deep blue trajectories, bombarding the bodies of the super Bone Fish.

Rumble!

The plasma exploded.

High temperature reacted with the dead water, producing large-scale cavitation effects.

The super Bone Fish where Ryan was located was hit by more than a dozen plasma balls.

The huge body swayed, and another batch of Bone Fish parts was blown into fragments.

The addition of the Zerg made the already tragic battlefield completely out of control.

They used Pain Link to share damage and used Void Oscillation to stack attacks.

Ryan and the other five were all stunned.

They had seen countless familiars in the God Realm, but they had never seen such an involuted, such an outrageous ecological chain.

Sea, land, and air three-dimensional combat, cross-species melee, and even the plants underground were picking up leftovers.

What kind of Hell is this!

"Captain! We are surrounded!" Morgan transmitted in horror.

Hundreds of Mad Sickle Shadow Blade Beetles had locked onto this broken super Bone Fish where they were and were approaching rapidly.

At this critical moment.

The Bone Fish King and the Liquid Metal Crab King, who were in fierce confrontation, stopped their movements at the same time.

The two Peak Platinum kings looked at each other across the battlefield.

There was no verbal communication, only the tacit understanding cultivated by countless life-and-death battles.

For them, fighting each other to the death was a territorial dispute, an internal conflict.

But this group of bugs were robbers who came to snatch food.

The Bone Fish King raised its head and let out a sharp howl that pierced the Soul.

The Liquid Metal Crab King held its giant pincers high, erupting with unprecedented high-frequency oscillation waves.

All the native Bone Fish and Liquid Metal Crabs stopped attacking each other at the same time.

They aimed their targets uniformly at the Zerg army above.

The next second, a scene that made Ryan and the others' scalps tingle occurred.

The Bone Fish shoals began to crazily burn the Soul fire in their eye sockets, injecting all their Death Qi into the Nether River.

The Liquid Metal Crab swarms adjusted the frequency of their oscillation waves to a specific band, causing it to resonate with the dead water of the Nether River.

"What are they doing?" Ayla's voice trembled.

Ryan was occupying the core position of the fish body.

He perceived the rapidly rising destructive energy in the surrounding water.

"They are igniting this river!"

The Nether River's dead water itself contained compressed Death Qi.

Under the catalysis of the Bone Fish's Soul fire and the resonance of the Liquid Metal Crabs, the structure of the dead water began to collapse.

First, a spark of deep blue fire lit up underwater.

Immediately, the dead water of the entire Nether River boiled.

Endless black-blue flames erupted underwater, swallowing all the Zerg, Bone Fish, crabs, and Ryan and his five companions.

The destructive shockwave swept through the entire underwater world with a force that crushed everything.

The water surface shattered and collapsed, lifting black water columns tens of thousands of meters high.

Ryan's vision was filled with endless flames and water.

Before he lost consciousness, only one thought remained in his mind.

These lunatics, they're even blowing up their own home.