71: Chapter 71 Lightning strikes the poisonous swamp! Water beasts slay them

Spiritless Ruins, 5th Underground Level, Yin Water Poison Swamp.

On the pitch-black water surface, a foul stench assailed the nose.

Gu Shen stood like a mountain at the edge of the dilapidated refined iron sluice gate. He did not move rashly, like a stone statue that had lost its breath.

Ten zhang below the water surface, that Middle Stage Rank 2 water beast was swimming about anxiously. Those two fleshy tentacles emitting green light constantly probed above the water, testing the prey's bottom line.

A beast is a beast after all, lacking the patience of a cultivator.

Splash!

An extremely violent sound of water exploded. Unable to suppress its craving for fresh blood any longer, the water beast's massive body, like a pitch-black torpedo, tore through the water surface, opening a bloody maw filled with razor-sharp fangs, and lunged straight at Gu Shen on the shore!

A fishy wind hit his face.

"Perfect."

Gu Shen's eyes were cold. He did not retreat, nor did he conjure a shield to resist it head-on.

Just as the bloody maw was about to crush his skull, Gu Shen's entire body slid half a step to the side and back in an extremely eerie manner.

This half-step dodged the fatal pounce, but it completely exposed the thunder pattern gold-slaying blade in his hand beneath the water beast.

Gu Shen gripped the blade with both hands, not hacking at the indestructible pitch-black scales, but instead, with extreme decisiveness, thrust the tip of the blade fiercely into the churning black water of the poisonous swamp in front of him!

"Thunder, explode!"

Gu Shen let out a sharp shout in his heart, and the Qi Refining Level 7 mana in his Dantian, like a bursting river, poured into the blade without reservation!

Clang—!!!

On the blade, the extremely piercing dark blue thunder patterns were instantly lit to the extreme. The violent Thunder-Magnetic Force flowed along the top-grade fierce metal blade and poured into the pitch-black poisonous water without any obstruction!

Sizzle!

With the tip of the blade as the center, the water surface within a ten-zhang radius instantly transformed into a terrifying dark blue thunder pool! Countless arm-thick electric snakes darted crazily underwater!

Water is the best conductor of lightning in this world.

That water beast, at this moment, had just rushed out of the water with more than half of its body, its tail still submerged in the water.

"Roar—uh!!"

The lightning entered the water and instantly followed its soft tail scales, slamming into its internal organs without any blind spots!

The water beast let out an extremely shrill, even off-key, scream. Its tough Physical Body, which was originally capable of resisting top-grade Magical Artifacts, instantly stiffened under the extreme paralysis of the lightning. Its massive body, like a piece of wood, slammed heavily back into the water, kicking up a sky full of splashes.

"Die!"

Gu Shen did not give it the slightest chance to catch its breath. He exerted force with his legs, stepping on the iron plate at the edge of the water, and leaped high.

The long blade was pulled out of the water, bringing up a dazzling curtain of lightning and water.

Gu Shen, in mid-air, exerted force from his waist and abdomen, holding the blade with both hands, and thrust it fiercely into the water beast's fragile eye socket, which was defenseless due to the stiffness!

Puchi!

More than half of the blade pierced directly into its brain center. The lightning exploded again along the blade edge inside the skull, completely churning the brain matter of this Rank 2 water demon into a ball of charred carbon.

One hit, one kill.

Gu Shen pulled out the long blade and landed lightly back on the shore. He panted heavily a few times to calm the churning mana in his body.

No Spell bombardment, no earth-shattering melee combat. Merely by borrowing force to strike force, he had trapped and killed a Rank 2 Aberration that was extremely difficult to deal with in the water.

He placed one hand on the water beast's massive carcass with extreme proficiency.

[Heaven and Earth Furnace] virtual fire swept through.

[Refining complete. Obtained: essence white dew (inferior) three drops. mutated heavy water bead one. Current inferior essence white dew: twenty-four drops.]

Gu Shen flipped his wrist, and a thumb-sized, pitch-black bead emitting an extremely cold and poisonous aura appeared in his palm.

"What a sinister water-element essence."

This mutated heavy water bead was not only incredibly heavy but also contained concentrated radioactive poisonous water from the 5th level. If used to refine water-element hidden weapons, it would surely be able to harm people invisibly.

Gu Shen satisfiedly put it into his Storage Ring.

"My Lord, awesome!"

The mechanical spider on his shoulder emitted Crab's extremely excited voice, "Using the water body to conduct electricity and instantly paralyzing a heavy-armored target. This tactic is practically textbook material!"

"Noisy. Scout the path." Gu Shen replied coldly.

The water beast was slain, and this stretch of water temporarily fell into dead silence.

The mechanical spider immediately leaped off his shoulder, jumping rapidly across the floating water storage tank lids and equipment wreckage ahead, its detection head's red light constantly scanning in the darkness.

Gu Shen raised his Qi to lighten his body, his toes tapping continuously on those rusty iron plates, following closely behind.

The three-hundred-zhang water path, with the cooperation of the man and the machine, was traversed with thrills but no danger.

Half an incense stick later.

Gu Shen landed steadily on an extremely wide refined steel platform that had not been flooded.

Behind the platform stood four huge pipes, each thick enough for three people to embrace. The pipes extended upwards, thrusting straight into the ceiling; downwards, they submerged deep into the dark abyss.

In the center of the pipes was a tightly closed, heavy sluice gate.

"My Lord, this is the main sewage pumping station. Behind that door is the staircase leading to the 6th Underground Level." Crab's voice came through the terminal.

Gu Shen walked forward, about to push the door open.

"Wait! My Lord, something is wrong!"

Crab's voice suddenly became extremely sharp. The mechanical spider's eight legs were gripping a huge pipe tightly, and the red light on its detection head was flashing crazily.

"What is it?" Gu Shen stopped, his right hand gripping the hilt of his blade.

"This... this doesn't make sense!"

Crab's voice carried an undisguisable horror, "I just used the microwave detector to scan these four main pipes. These pipes were used back then to drain sewage from the upper levels to the underground for filtration."

"But now, the flow direction of the liquid in these pipes is reversed!"

Gu Shen frowned slightly: "Explain clearly."

"My Lord, it means that the nuclear waste poisonous water from the Thirteenth Underground Level did not leak up naturally due to crustal movement!"

Crab's voice was trembling: "Someone, or something, modified the bottom-layer control program of the pumping station! It turned on the super water pumps and is extremely deliberately and continuously pumping the most lethal, high-concentration radioactive water from the Thirteenth Underground Level from the bottom up, irrigating every level of this underground palace!"

Boom!

In Gu Shen's mind, it was as if a bolt of lightning had struck.

Where is this some accidentally destroyed ruined Shelter!

"This is an extremely massive, man-made Gu-raising array!"

Gu Shen gasped in his heart.

Understanding it with the perception of an indigenous cultivator, this is equivalent to an extremely terrifying existence lurking in the thunder pool on the Thirteenth Underground Level. It deliberately broke the Seal and used water pumps to forcibly pump poisonous water to the entire tower!

The goal is to use this world-extinguishing poisonous light to ripen those Aberrations and mutated Spirit Medicines!

The entire thirteen-level underground Shelter has long since become a huge petri dish for that unknown existence!

"Able to tamper with the array hub, it is definitely not an irrational, mutated dead thing."

Gu Shen stared fixedly at the iron door leading to the Sixth Level, his eyes profound to the extreme.

In the abyss of the Thirteenth Underground Level, there is definitely still some terrifying existence with extremely high intelligence alive. It could be an ancient powerful being who suffered Qi Deviation, or it could be some mutated demon king that has developed intelligence.

"My Lord, are we... still going down?" Crab's voice carried a hint of fear.

"Go."

If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get the tiger cub? Since that existence lurking in the shadows wants to raise Gu, then he, Gu Shen, will come to be this largest Gu King!

He strode forward and placed both hands on the rusty sluice gate.

Exerting force violently.

Rumbling.

The door leading to the 6th Underground Level was slowly pushed open.