I don't need to breathe!

"Jiang Han! Jiang Han, can you hear me?!"

Dr. William's voice blared through the headset again, filled with a hysterical anxiety.

"Your vital signs monitoring data is incorrect!"

"My heart rate is only 30 beats per minute! My blood oxygen saturation is dropping rapidly!"

"You've been underwater for over 8 minutes! Without an oxygen tank, your alveoli will burst under that high pressure! Get up! Hurry!"

Jiang Han frowned.

He reached out and pressed the earpiece, his tone somewhat impatient:

"It's noisy."

"What?" Dr. William was taken aback.

"I said, you guys are too noisy."

As Jiang Han spoke, he continued to approach the bronze hanging coffin.

As they get closer, the surrounding water temperature is dropping rapidly.

The water, which was originally only around zero degrees Celsius, has now begun to form visible ice crystals.

"But... oxygen..."

"Who told you I need oxygen?"

Jiang Han replied calmly.

Then, he silently recited in his mind:

"System, activate [Turtle Breathing Technique]."

[Ding! Turtle Breathing Technique activated!]

[Current Status: Internal respiratory circulation activated! Heart rate reduced to 5 beats per minute! Metabolic rate decreased by 90%!]

[Warning: High-energy corpse gas detected ahead! Host, please be careful!]

As the skill is unlocked.

Jiang Han's chest stopped heaving completely.

He seemed to instantly transform into a corpse, perfectly blending into the deathly silent underwater world.

On the large screen in the command center.

The green curve representing Jiang Han's heartbeat suddenly stretched into a straight line.

"drop--"

A piercing, long screech rang out.

"Dead...dead?!"

A young researcher covered his mouth in horror.

"Shut up!"

Li Zhenhua stared intently at another set of data on the screen—electroencephalogram (EEG).

"He's not dead! His brainwaves are even more active than usual!"

"This kid... is breathing in a way we can't understand!"

Dr. William slumped in his chair, his eyes glazed over.

"This is impossible... This violates the laws of biology... How can mammals possibly respire internally..."

Is it a fish? Or an amphibian?

No one answered him.

Because everyone's attention was drawn to the new image on the screen.

Jiang Han had already swum to the bronze hanging coffin.

Upon closer inspection, the coffin is astonishingly large.

It is about nine meters long and three meters wide.

The entire piece is cast from a single piece of bronze and is covered with dense cloud and thunder patterns and taotie patterns.

Nine iron chains, each as thick as a wrist, were deeply embedded in the four corners of the coffin, locking it firmly in the middle of the water.

And at that crack.

Strands of black hair were drifting slowly with the flow of water.

Jiang Han stopped five meters away from the coffin.

The black gold ancient sword was held horizontally in front of his chest.

"Come out."

"I know you're in there."

Jiang Han's voice echoed dully in the water through bone conduction.

Giggle...

A chilling laugh suddenly came from the crack in the coffin.

The sound didn't sound human; it sounded more like two bones rubbing together.

Followed by.

That strand of black hair suddenly grew longer!

Like a burst of black seaweed, it instantly wrapped around Jiang Han!

It appeared at the same time.

And countless pale little faces.

That is……

"White-haired monster!"

Dr. William exclaimed in shock, "That's the legendary corpse beetle variant that parasitizes ancient corpses! The White Fiend!"

Countless white shadows emerged from the cracks in the coffin.

Their upper bodies resemble deformed infants, while their lower bodies are swollen tumors.

Each one has sharp claws and a mouthful of sharp teeth.

The sheer number of corpses instantly formed a white wall of bodies, threatening to completely engulf Jiang Han!

"Nausea."

A hint of disgust flashed in Jiang Han's eyes.

Instead of retreating, he advanced.

He swung the black gold ancient sword in his hand.

"cut!"

A jet-black blade of light flashed in the water.

This strike was devoid of any fancy moves.

Only the ultimate speed and the ultimate power!

Puff puff puff puff—!

The dozens of white-haired beasts at the forefront were cut in half in an instant before they even had a chance to scream!

The murky black blood burst open in the water, like blooming ink plum blossoms.

But this is just the beginning.

More white-skinned thieves smelled the blood and became even more frenzied.

They pounced on it one after another, trying to tear this fresh, fleshy body apart.

"Want to eat me?"

Jiang Han gave a cold laugh.

His left hand shot out suddenly and grabbed the head of a white-faced monster that lunged at him.

Click!

That was the sound of a skull cracking.

Jiang Han didn't even look at it, and casually tossed the corpse toward the coffin.

"Since you all like this coffin so much, then get back here!"

next second.

Jiang Han's figure disappeared.

He left trails of afterimages in the water.

The Black Gold Ancient Blade transformed into a storm of death.

All the people in the command center could see on the screen was a black light flashing wildly.

Each flash was inevitably accompanied by large amounts of blood and severed limbs.

This was a one-sided massacre.

It was a violent art performance.

In just half a minute.

Those hundreds and thousands of fearsome white ferocious beasts were all killed, not a single one was left!

Broken body parts covered the bottom of the lake.

Black blood stained the entire body of water.

Jiang Han stood amidst mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

His combat uniform was completely wrinkle-free.

Only that black gold ancient sword was still slowly dripping black blood beads.

He raised his head.

His gaze pierced through the murky blood and fell once more upon the bronze hanging coffin, which had now fallen completely silent.

"The watchdogs are all killed."

"Now, isn't it the master's turn?"

Jiang Han slowly swam to the top of the coffin.

Reach out.

It held the heavy bronze coffin lid shut.

"Jiang Han! Don't move!"

Li Zhenhua's voice rang out in the earpiece, carrying an unprecedented solemnity.

"According to thermal imaging, the heat source inside the coffin... has disappeared!"

"What?" Jiang Han was taken aback.

"When those white monsters charged out just now, the huge heat source reaction... suddenly disappeared!"

"It's as if...it never existed!"

Jiang Han narrowed his eyes.

Disappeared?

How could something so big just disappear into thin air?

unless……

It wasn't even in the coffin!

Jiang Han exerted his strength suddenly.

Crunch-!

He single-handedly pried open a corner of the bronze coffin lid, which weighed several tons!

The beam of the searchlight instantly shone into the coffin.

Everyone held their breath.

however.

When the scene inside the coffin was clearly seen.

Jiang Han's pupils suddenly contracted to pinpoints.

empty.

The enormous coffin was completely empty.

There's only one...

A huge, translucent skin!

Was that a complete human skin?

No.

Look at the shape of that head, it clearly has two horns!

This is... a dragon skin!

A dragon skin that had just been shed and was still covered in mucus!

"This is……"

Jiang Han reached out and touched the skin.

It felt cold to the touch, yet had a strange elasticity.

[Ding! Congratulations, host, you have discovered a key item: the remains of the Black Water Corpse Dragon King (half-step Dragon Transformation level)!]

[System Warning: You seem to have made a mistake.]

The real danger is never something lying in a coffin.

[Instead... it's something that uses a coffin as a rice bowl.]

The system notification tone had just finished.

Jiang Han suddenly felt a chill on the soles of her feet.

An unprecedented chill shot straight up from my tailbone to the top of my head!

This hanging coffin...

It wasn't used to hold corpses.

It's used for... fishing!

That "bait" is this dragon skin!

And that "fisherman"...

Boom-!

A muffled heartbeat suddenly came from directly below Jiang Han.

It didn't come from a coffin.

Instead, it comes from...

That bottomless, pitch-black abyss!