The Fish-Men of the Dry Sea?

Chapter 43 The Fish-Men of the Dry Sea?

There wasn't much to be gained in the mid-waters so far, so we turned our attention to the other side.

In the lower sea area.

It was a deep and dark place, with icy cold seawater that made it hard to breathe.

As soon as they stepped into this place, Bai Zhou and Qian Yu were attacked by a domain lord-level sea beast.

It was an octopus with sixteen tentacles. Upon closer inspection, it resembled the Desert Octopus in appearance, seemingly an ancestor of the Desert Octopus. Its posture was quite wild and full of aggression.

"Whoosh!"

Six beams of light appeared behind Qianyu, forming a giant sword under her control, instantly severing one of the domain lord octopus's tentacles.

Two short swords appeared in Bai Zhou's hands, dancing wildly like a hurricane, unleashing hundreds of attacks in a second, leaving scratches on the Domain Lord Octopus's body, but failing to penetrate its defenses.

"snort."

Bai Zhou took a step back, adjusted his position in the water, and snorted coldly.

This lord-level octopus had extremely strong defenses. Qianyu, wielding a fifth-tier psychic weapon and stacking secret techniques, managed to barely sever one of its tentacles with her full power.

The two short swords in Bai Zhou's hands were merely third-tier Force weapons, clearly insufficient to break through his defenses.

"Bai Zhou," Qian Yu called out worriedly.

"It's alright." Bai Zhou took a deep breath, and then an absurdly large giant sword appeared in his hand.

A giant sword, over ten meters long and nearly one meter wide!

Compared to Bai Zhou's height of less than two meters, the difference is obviously quite large.

"I spent most of my assets, plus my teacher's personal intervention and a favor, to obtain this weapon that surpasses the fifth rank. I wonder if you could sharpen it?" Bai Zhou muttered to himself, his hands loosely gripping the hilt of the sword.

"Wind Slash!"

Bai Zhou roared, gripped the greatsword with both hands, and slashed at the domain lord octopus.

This secret technique was tailor-made for him by his teacher, and it is enough to give him the strength to kill a domain lord at the cosmic level!

"Whoosh!"

This sword strike seemed to erase time itself.

Bai Zhou's body conjured dozens of illusory forms, which were time illusory forms, representing his extremely high level of understanding of the fundamental laws of time, even higher than Gu Ce's understanding of the fundamental laws of space.

As the sword fell, the first-tier Domain Lord octopus was severely injured, and its life core was exposed.

"Whoosh!"

Qianyu delivered the finishing blow in time, while simultaneously catching the panting Bai Zhou.

"How are you?" Bai Zhou asked weakly.

"Completely dead," Qianyu replied.

Bai Zhou smiled slightly, about to say something, but suddenly his eyes widened as he looked at several figures that appeared not far away.

Humans from a divine realm?!

The first people who came here didn't mention anything like this!

……

"Humans?"

Mijiti's expression was grave; he had never expected to encounter such a situation here.

At this moment, the three were surrounded by a group of humans who wielded long forks, whose bodies were covered in fish scales and had no hair.

What is that? A fish-man?

Gu Ce was somewhat puzzled.

"This does indeed seem to be a branch of the Fish-Men," Rimuru said after examining it carefully.

The leader of these merfolk is a third-tier Domain Lord.

"Outsiders, hand over our clan's Sea-Suppressing Pearl!" the leader shouted.

"The Sea-Suppressing Pearl?" Miji frowned. Could he be referring to that iron ball?

"Why should I return my spoils to you?"

Despite this, Mijiti still refused to back down, completely disregarding the fact that he was already surrounded.

Gu Ce silently shielded the two people in front of him, observing the positions of the fishmen and planning an escape route in advance.

He didn't think he could stand up to the domain lord.

"How dare you!"

As expected, one of the men beside the lord fishman angrily shouted, gripping his long fork as he prepared to step forward.

Not to be outdone, Mijiti gripped his spear tightly, wanting to clash with him.

"etc."

The lord, a fish-man, stopped his subordinate's actions and looked at Mijit with admiration.

"This woman is quite good; capture her and present her to the clan chief!"

"boom!"

Flames swept in, and the moment Mijiti heard those words, he attacked, thrusting his spear forward. The flames burned in the water, instantly incinerating some of the weaker fishmen into ashes.

The domain lord, a merman, remained unfazed, releasing his domain to suppress Migiti and grab him with one hand.

That's really brainless.

Gu Ce sighed inwardly.

Even if you can defeat that domain lord, so what?

Are all these people around here just watching a show?

Moreover, isn't it strange that a being within the Divine Realm could give birth to a Domain Lord, or even a World Lord, who might not even be as powerful as Huyanbo?

Humans from the divine realm have appeared; it seems these fish-men have formed a civilization.

There's a lot more to this than meets the eye.

With the intervention of the domain lord, the fishman, Mijiti was captured alive, and Gu Ce and the barbarian also gave up resistance.

The surrounding merfolk stepped forward and detained the two men.

After testing the waters and confirming that he could break free of the restraints in an instant, Gu Ce ignored them and decided to see what these fishmen were up to.

Although he knew he couldn't defeat this domain lord fishman, he was confident he wouldn't be instantly killed by it.

As long as he can't be killed instantly, he can hide inside the Ice Wasteland!

Even if the Lord of the Dry Sea were to be resurrected, there would be nothing he could do.

The Ice Wasteland is equipped with weapons such as the Star Destroyer Cannon and the E9-class Laser Cannon. No matter what your strength is, you will have to kneel down.

This is also the biggest source of Gu Ce's confidence to venture into the Immortal God Kingdom!

He is confident, but he never does anything he's not sure about.

"Take them back to the clan. The clan chief instructed that these outsiders must not be killed," the merman lord ordered.

……

The merfolk's stronghold is located in the middle layer of the sea.

They rode a cosmic-level sea beast, somewhat resembling the cloud shark from the Dry Sea Secret Realm. It was extremely fast in the water, and after traveling for a while, it brought Gu Ce and the other two to a massive city.

"Take them to the Sea Abyss first, then I'll go see the clan chief."

The merman, the domain lord, gave the order.

A team of well-equipped cosmic-level fishmen approached and escorted the three to a large prison.

The three of them had their smart computers and similar devices taken away by the fish-men, cutting off any possibility of contact with the outside world.

Gu Ce looked around and saw that the cells here were all made of D-grade metal, which seemed to be the same metal as the iron ball they had found earlier. Given the strength of the three of them, it would indeed be difficult for them to escape.

"The Gu brothers?"

Upon hearing the familiar voice, Gu Ce was taken aback.

Across from Gu Ce's cell, a familiar face was being held: Xie Peng.

"What are you doing here?" Gu Ce asked in a low voice.

"We encountered an underwater rift in the secret realm before, and all of us were swept into it and then trapped here," Xie Peng said helplessly.

It was only then that Gu Ce noticed that there were many people locked in the surrounding cages, who seemed to be the participants in the secret realm trial.

What do the merfolk want with these people?

Gu Ce was very puzzled.

"when!"

Di Man slammed his fist into the cage, slightly deforming the metal bars.

"Brother, don't try anymore." Xie Peng said dejectedly upon seeing this. "There's a Domain Lord guarding the outside of this cage, otherwise we would have escaped long ago."

Although their intelligent optical computers were confiscated, they still had some backup plans; the cage was not the real reason they were trapped.

It can only be said that the merfolk were lucky; they failed to capture the trial participant who was backed by an immortal being.

Otherwise, this place would have been gone before Marquis Cangyuan arrived.

Upon hearing this, Di Man stopped what he was doing and remained silent, seemingly lost in thought.

"Rimuru!" Gu Cemo called out.

You can take away the intelligent computer, but you can't take away the intelligent life form.

(End of this chapter)