AWB Chapter 336 - 329: Detailed Information on the Abyss Lord
Chapter 336 - 329: Detailed Information on the Abyss Lord
PING!
The bait Shi Ming had cast seemed to twitch. A ripple spread out from where the fishing line entered the water.
The concentric circles were clear and distinct, spreading neither too fast nor too slow.
’A fish is on the hook?’
The small piece of an evil tentacle he was using as bait suddenly melted in the scalding seawater, transforming into tiny eyes. They spread out with the ripples, turning the water viscous, as if it had suffered the most extreme form of pollution.
Shi Ming felt a weight on his line.
Like any ordinary angler, he yanked the rod.
Hm?
’He actually reeled something in!’
At the end of the line hung a large eye, over a meter long. It was flung into the air, spinning. As it flew, writhing tentacles sprouted and coiled around it, layer upon layer, exuding a sinister aura.
It was like a miniature Abyss Lord!
It stared at Shi Ming.
As if to say: Found you!
’Interesting!’
Shi Ming drew the Blade of Chaos with a flick of his wrist. With a casual slash, a flash of light bordering on absolute zero shot toward the evil eye. BANG! The eye froze solid and exploded, but instead of shattering, it transformed into a viscous, oil-colored substance. It spread rapidly across the sea’s surface, forming a 300-meter-wide patch of pollution in the blink of an eye.
Light and shadow swirled within the polluted area, making it look just like an eyeball.
Then, countless evil tentacles sprouted and intertwined, so densely packed that the sea’s surface resembled a thorny, overgrown jungle.
[You are fishing. It is fishing. All living beings are fishing! You see all beings as fish, and they see you the same way.]
[Skill: Ten Thousand Hooks Tentacles]
[As the saying goes, the willing take the bait. In order to capture you as quickly as possible, the Abyss Lord has long since filled the Sea of Boiling with its Ten Thousand Hooks Tentacles. These tentacles are intimately connected to its main body. Now, in just 15 seconds, it can descend upon this 300-meter patch of pollution!]
[Prepare to face its wrath!]
[Or... will you show it your true power?]
In an instant, the polluted surface teeming with evil tentacles began to swell.
A 300-meter-long eye emerged from the black sea. Accompanied by a sinister aura, its 300-meter frame instantly expanded to over a thousand meters. Atop the chaotic mass of evil tentacles were countless inlaid miniature pupils that looked like collapsed, solidified nebulas.
The oppressive presence was overwhelming.
The Abyss Lord had descended once more!
The seawater erupted in black flames—a physical manifestation of the Abyss Lord’s rage! At the same time, Shi Ming felt countless tentacles trying to burrow into his body through every single pore.
Some people might enjoy the feeling of being enveloped by tentacles.
But Shi Ming just twirled the Blade of Chaos in his hand. A powerful chill radiated from within him, dissipating all the evil tentacles and pollution clinging to his body. A thin layer of ice crystals even formed on his skin, making him look like a translucent creature carved from ice.
This time, in their very first exchange, the Abyss Lord immediately used its signature skill.
Extremely Evil Sanctuary!
The ultimate Earth Spike Array impaled the entire area, from the seabed to the surface, and from the surface to the sky, with a dense forest of spikes. An unavoidable corruption began to infect him, from the depths of his soul to the surface of his flesh, seducing every cell and dragging it into the abyss.
This was the skill that even the 2D Girl, relying on her mirror double, couldn’t evade!
Shi Ming used "Fallen Sanctuary!"
Holy Hall versus Holy Hall!
Shi Ming also activated the Black Tortoise Shield! It was his first S-rank skill, and it had given him a solid sense of security from the very beginning.
"Eye of the World, gather intelligence!"
During the window of invincibility, the Eye of the World activated at the perfect moment.
On the previous two occasions, the situation had been too critical for him to use the Eye of the World on the Holy Hall-level Sea Beast’s main body. This time, he was going to see its weaknesses with perfect clarity!
Hunting any Holy Hall-level Sea Beast required sufficient preparation. Acquiring each Holy Hall Level Skill had its own set of prerequisites. If he truly wanted to kill a beast that had lived for tens of thousands of years and obtain its skill, intelligence was essential.
A lack of intel could very well mean all his efforts would be for nothing!
This was the main purpose of his fishing trip.
[BEEP... BEEP...]
[Compiling intelligence...]
[Searching. Confirming detailed coordinates... Search successful. Summarizing intelligence... Intelligence report generated:]
[Abyss Lord.]
[Master of the Abyss, the personification of sin, the source of all pollution in the world. Its true form is a spherical, distorted eye, an ancient beast that has survived for 74,000 years, formed from the fusion of materialized pollution and sin.]
[...]
[As one of the oldest beings on this planet, the Abyss Lord also commands a ’privilege of its era’!]
[That’s right, it understands some of the "Civilization Origin Stele Characters." But it is very clever and rarely reveals this skill to other creatures, except when it is enraged.]
[And in recent months, it has been enraged quite often...]
[Skill: Extremely Evil Sanctuary]
[...]
[...]
[Method of Killing: Sever 1,069 of the Abyss Lord’s evil tentacles within ten seconds and destroy its eyeball before the tentacles can regenerate.]
[Skill Acquisition Prerequisite:]
[Spiritual Power ≥ 500]
[After killing it, bathing in its blood will grant the skill "Extremely Evil Sanctuary." However, the bather’s Spiritual Power must be 500 or higher. Only those with an unyielding will and a clear mind can resist the corruption from the abyss and avoid being assimilated as its vassal.]
[Warning!]
[Due to the diffusive nature of "Pollution," the Holy Hall Origin will spread uncontrollably upon the Abyss Lord’s death, making it difficult to gather. Therefore, it must be completely absorbed within 60 minutes or completely sealed. Otherwise, the dissipation of the Origin will greatly diminish the awakening’s effect.]
Shi Ming finished reading it all in an instant.
’This is doable!’
’Definitely doable!’
The method of killing was a bit complex, but it wasn’t too difficult when faced with the river of light from the "Blade of Chaos" and the destructive power of the "Nine-Headed Sanctuary."
Shi Ming had already met the 500 Spiritual Power prerequisite.
Unyielding will, clear mind—he was quite confident about that as well.
The only difficult part would be absorbing the Holy Hall Origin in 60 minutes. The last time, absorbing the Great Black Heaven Dragon’s origin had taken him a full three days, even with the help of the Right Arm Red Pattern!
Anyone else would have likely taken ten times as long!
’Control the dissipation... seal it?’
’Doesn’t Black Gold have a "Sealed Prison"?’
’Maybe I can borrow it.’
Besides, Ah Jian escaped long ago, and Black Gold is still in the dark. It’s about time I told them, so they can stop wasting energy suppressing an empty prison.
The invincibility period from one use of the Black Tortoise Shield was over.
But the Extremely Evil Sanctuary was far from over. The jungle of evil tentacles grew ever more lush, and the malice and pollution from the abyss were causing the seawater to solidify. The Chaotic Divine Country, where the Other Shore Flowers bloomed, was locked in a head-on confrontation with it.
’This pollution needs to be contained and sealed.’
’Today is not the day it dies.’
But as they say, a beast leaves its hide, and a goose leaves its feathers.
An angler never goes home empty-handed.
"Ah Jian, go!"