64: Deep-sea battle royale! Two bosses chasing a rock!

Guixu Dead Sea, depth thirty thousand meters.

The world here has completely bid farewell to light, with only the occasional flicker of bioluminescence from strange creatures appearing exceptionally eerie in this endless darkness.

The pressure of the seawater has reached an unimaginable level. Ordinary steel would be instantly crushed into a thin sheet of paper here, and even the protective spiritual light of a Golden Core Stage Cultivator would be as fragile as an eggshell.

Mysterious Spirit Master's face was pale, the light from the Water-Repelling Pearl in his hand flickering dim and bright, emitting an overburdened "crack-crack" sound. He had to swallow a precious "Qi-Replenishing Pill" every fifteen minutes to sustain the frantic consumption of Dharmic power within his body.

"Damn it! Just how deep is it down here?!"

As a dignified Nascent Soul Middle Stage great Cultivator, he actually felt a suffocating fear. The yin-chilling Qi of this Guixu Dead Sea was seeping through the gaps in his Magic Treasure, bit by bit, invading his marrow and making him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

On the other side, the Sea-Overturning Flood Dragon wasn't faring any better.

Although it was an overlord of the sea, in this extreme deep sea, even its hard dragon scales creaked under the pressure, as if they might shatter at any moment. It had to shrink its body to reduce its surface area.

"Human! Spit out the treasure! This King shall spare your life!"

It roared at the golden man still falling at a constant speed below, but the sound was distorted into a strange hum by the immense water pressure as soon as it left its mouth.

And a hundred meters below them.

Gu Yang still maintained that comical posture with his mouth wide open and eyes bulging, falling straight down like a lifeless, stubborn rock.

But his feeling at this moment was not as bad as it looked.

[External Pressure Detected: Extreme. Assisting Primordial Indestructible Golden Body compression and reorganization...]

[Pressure Body Tempering in progress... Five Elements Fusion progress: 1%... 1.5%...]

The terrifying pressure of the deep sea, enough to crush everything, had actually become the best "forging hammer" for Gu Yang's internal state, which was currently as chaotic as a hodgepodge stew.

External pressure squeezing, Internal Energy erupting.

The two forces clashed and fought within every inch of his skin and every bone, finally reaching a delicate balance, forcibly hammering those rampaging taiyi essence gold Qi bit by bit into the depths of his flesh and blood.

"I can't move, but this massage intensity... is actually quite invigorating."

Gu Yang thought, finding humor in his hardship.

"This kid... why is he still sinking? Just how heavy is he?!"

Mysterious Spirit Master ground his teeth; he felt he was nearing his limit. If he dove any deeper, even as a Nascent Soul Cultivator, he risked his Physical Body collapsing.

"No! I can't let him escape my control!"

A look of ruthlessness flashed in his eyes as he summoned a top-tier Magic Treasure called the "Immortal-Binding Rope." This rope was shimmering with golden light, crafted from the tendons of a flood dragon mixed with Mithril, making it incredibly tough.

"Go!"

The Immortal-Binding Rope turned into a streak of golden light, instantly wrapping around Gu Yang's ankle.

"Rise for this old man!!!"

Mysterious Spirit Master circulated his entire Dharmic power and yanked upward violently.

*Twang!*

The rope instantly pulled taut.

However, Gu Yang's body remained motionless, and his falling speed didn't even slow down in the slightest.

Instead, because of this massive counter-force, Mysterious Spirit Master himself suddenly sank downward, almost pulled off balance and nearly plunging headfirst.

"What?!"

Mysterious Spirit Master was pale with shock, feeling as if he had hooked a sinking continent.

"Just how many good things did this thief eat? Why is he so heavy?! Does he have an Immemorial Divine Mountain in his stomach?"

He gripped the rope tightly, his face turning red from the strain, but his body was uncontrollably dragged toward the abyss by Gu Yang.

"Roar!"

The Sea-Overturning Flood Dragon was not to be outdone. It stretched out its dragon claw, wanting to grab Gu Yang's other foot.

But as soon as it touched him, it retracted its claw as if it had been burned.

Heavy! Too heavy!

That sense of weight made it feel that with just a little more force, its dragon claw would snap.

Just as this man and dragon were caught in a dilemma—neither wanting to give up nor willing to be buried with him.

In the endless darkness below, a sudden disturbance occurred.

There was no world-shaking sound, only a hair-raising sense of dead silence that instantly enveloped this sea area.

Two ghostly blue fires slowly lit up in the abyss directly beneath Gu Yang.

Each ghostly fire was as large as a palace, flickering in the darkness and emitting a soul-stirring chill.

[Warning! Warning! Detected Soul Transformation Stage (Pseudo) sea beast fluctuations!]

[Abyssal Lord — Nine Netherworld Whale!]

As the ghostly fires lit up, the "seabed" below suddenly split open.

That wasn't the seabed at all, but a giant abyssal mouth slowly opening, as if connected to the Nine Netherworld Hell!

That mouth was large enough to swallow an island—pitch-black, profound, and carrying a terrifying suction force capable of devouring everything.

Gu Yang was like an insignificant speck of golden dust, falling right toward the center of that giant mouth.

"That... that is..."

The moment Mysterious Spirit Master saw those two ghostly fires, his scalp felt like it was going to explode.

As an old monster who had been in the Chaotic Star Sea for hundreds of years, how could he not recognize this legendary abyssal overlord?

"Nine Netherworld Whale?! It actually woke up?!"

At this moment, taiyi essence gold, Five Elements divine wood—everything was thrown to the back of his mind.

Before a Soul Transformation Stage Yao Beast, the Nascent Soul Stage was nothing more than a slightly larger snack!

"Run!!!"

Mysterious Spirit Master cut the Immortal-Binding Rope without hesitation, burned his Essence Blood, and turned into a streak of bloody light, frantically surfacing, wishing his parents had given him two more legs.

The Sea-Overturning Flood Dragon was so scared its dragon soul was about to scatter. As a sea beast, it felt the Bloodline suppression of such a superior being even more clearly.

"Aowuu—"

It let out a mournful cry and scrambled toward the surface, its speed more than twice as fast as when it came.

The two great Nascent Soul powerhouses disappeared without a trace in an instant.

Only Gu Yang remained.

He couldn't move, and he couldn't even turn his head.

He could only watch helplessly as that giant mouth grew larger in his field of vision and those two ghostly fires, like the gates of the underworld, drew closer.

A strong, corrosive stench wafted toward him.

"It's over."

One last thought flashed through Gu Yang's mind.

"This time... I've really become a buffet."

"I hope this big guy doesn't chew and just swallows; my body should be quite tough on the teeth."

Gulp!

With a dull swallowing sound.

The giant mouth closed.

The last sliver of light vanished.

The world fell into absolute darkness and dead silence.