MF-novel Chapter 1634 - 829: Legends of the Immortal Mountain (Part 2)
Chapter 1634 - 829: Legends of the Immortal Mountain (Part 2)
His gaze swept across the dark trench walls like a hawk’s.
If it couldn’t be found here, then this treasure was simply impossible to salvage.
Just as he felt his lungs about to burst and his Mysterious Water Escape was on the verge of collapse, a massive shadowy outline loomed into view along the trench wall ahead!
It wasn’t a mere rock face, but a large, protruding, dark platform.
The edge of the platform was jagged and strange, like an ancient boulder jutting from the abyss, eroded by time and seawater for millennia.
On this platform, the remnants of a colossal object were wedged!
The wooden structure, long blackened and decayed by sea water, was covered with thick coral, barnacles, and unknown deep-sea algae, yet the distinctive contour of a Great Xuan Royal Navy’s main battleship was still recognizable—the tall mast was broken, yet still pointed slantingly skyward.
The wide deck was severely damaged, and the statue of the Suanni, a symbol of royal power, at the bow of the ship, was left with only half a blurred head.
The massive ship hull was pierced through by several intersecting, robust bone spikes as thick as palace pillars, nailing it firmly on this abrupt, suspended platform, like a sacrificial offering to the abyss.
It was that sunken flagship carrying the "Sea Stabilizing Night Light"!
What shocked Li Yan even more was the shape of the platform itself... those jagged edges, the slightly raised curvature, the huge, ancient groove-like lines covering it... remarkably resembled a gigantic, unimaginable beast’s head!
The bone spikes that penetrated the warship seemed like the grotesque horns on this head!
However, there was no time to ponder over this deadly crisis.
Behind him, the seawater roared violently as the giant sucker-covered tentacles of the "Vortex" tore through the watery veil, surging towards him like several raging deep-sea drakes once again!
The target was not only Li Yan but also the shipwreck stuck on the monster’s "head"!
In a life-and-death moment, a fierce look flashed in Li Yan’s eyes.
He forced out one last breath of Gang Qi, pushed the North Emperor Divine Step to its limit, transforming his whole being into a blurry water shadow. Instead of trying to avoid the tentacles, he charged faster toward a gigantic crack on the shipwreck’s damaged flank and dove right in!
"Boom——!!!"
Almost at the moment Li Yan dashed into the ship’s hull, a thick, purple-black tentacle struck down with the force of ten thousand weights, slamming into the central part of the shipwreck!
A deafening muffled explosion echoed throughout the deep sea.
The already decayed and fragile royal flagship, under this unstoppable brute force, snapped in half like a toy made of paper!
Splintered timber, shattered keel, tangled seaweed, parasitic coral reefs...
Countless fragments mixed with the stirred-up deep-sea silt, shooting and whirling outward like an explosion.
A terrifying shockwave followed right behind.
Even though Li Yan had rushed into the cabin, he was still shaken, blood surging wildly, and spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, which was then diluted by the seawater.
He clung tightly to a pillar of the cabin wall that hadn’t entirely broken, preventing him from being swept away.
But this was just the beginning!
The "Vortex" having struck, its ferocity only grew more intense.
Another, even thicker tentacle, like a siege hammer, struck with even more terrifying power at the base of the platform wedged against the shipwreck—the bedrock that was shaped like a giant beast’s head!
"Dong——!!!"
This strike was akin to the ringing of a bell.
The fossil stratum at the platform’s base, which appeared impregnable, under the brute force of "Vortex" capable of breaking mountains and splitting rocks, collapsed with a roar!
Numerous fossil fragments covered with coral and moss, along with the more shattered shipwreck remnants, collapsed and slid downward like an avalanche.
A deep, dark, giant hole suddenly appeared where the platform had been.
An irresistible, terrifying suction instantly erupted from the hole!
Li Yan only felt his body lighten, as if grabbed by an invisible giant hand and violently pulled down!
He desperately channeled the Mysterious Water Escape in an attempt to stabilize himself, but amidst the violent suction and the swirling fragments of stone, wood, and silt surrounding him, all struggles seemed futile.
The shattered ship cabin scenery spun and blurred before his eyes.
In the corner of the lavish cabin, the "Sea Stabilizing Night Light" pearl, fixed on its base and glowing a soft blue-white light the size of a fist, was only a fleeting glimpse before being completely swallowed by the tumbling debris.
"Damn it!" was the only thought that flashed in Li Yan’s mind before he and countless surrounding fragments were utterly engulfed by the bottomless black hole!
Immeasurable darkness instantly enveloped everything.
His body uncontrollably whirled and collided amidst the violent currents.
The hard rock fragments and ship debris constantly struck against his Protective Gang Qi, producing a muffled puffing sound.
In his ears were only the frenzied roar of water currents and the clang of objects colliding.
Li Yan’s heart finally succumbed to panic.
This was truly an endless abyss!
If trapped here and died, not to mention three lives, even three hundred wouldn’t be enough!
However, just as he felt his Protective Water Qi was about to completely collapse, and his consciousness began to blur from lack of oxygen and immense pressure—
"Splash!"
A strange sensation came over him.
It was not the hard, cold impact of rocks, nor the drifting sensation of floating with the waves.
The terrifying deep-sea pressure that surrounded him vanished in an instant!
Li Yan suddenly opened his stinging eyes and instinctively paddled upwards with all his might.
With just a few strokes, his head broke through a layer of thick but exceptionally thin "water film"!
"Cough! Cough cough cough!"
He coughed violently and breathed in greedily and heavily.
Air!
It was... air?!
A thick, seemingly millennia-old dampness, with a hint of decayed organic matter.
But it was indeed breathable air!
Li Yan quickly wiped the water from his face, enduring the burning pain in his lungs and the dizziness in his head, cautiously surveying his surroundings.
The scene before him took his breath away in an instant.
He was in a not-so-large pool of water.
The water in the pool was a dead, silent dark green, emitting a faint glow, right from where he had just emerged.
And beyond the pool...
was a dome space vast beyond imagination!
The dome was extremely high, at least several dozen feet, presenting a smooth, rounded arc that was solid and unyielding.
Above the arc, not stone, but filled with huge, complex, crisscrossed... bone patterns!
Those bone patterns were thick as coiling dragons, and where fine, like the patterns on a turtle’s back, each line deeply carved, shimmering with a luster as warm as jade yet carrying a metallic coldness, casting the entire space into a hazy mystery.
The enormous, soft white glowing moss and various oddly-shaped luminescent fungi adorned the grooves between the bone patterns like stars, serving as the primary light source.
The ground of the space was relatively flat, with some large, peculiarly shaped stones also covered with glowing moss and stalactites hanging down with a faint phosphorescence.
In the distance, there seemed to be traces of human construction.
Li Yan’s gaze was locked onto the huge, rounded dome with all the mysterious bone patterns above him.
This curvature... these patterns... this naturally formed space structure...
He suddenly looked down at the pool beneath him, then back up at the encompassing dome, and an absurd yet the only plausible thought struck his mind like lightning, filling him with an indescribable shock.
He was not in some rock cave!
At this moment, he was within the confines of a massive, unimaginable ancient giant turtle... inside the empty shell, lined only with bones!
The platform that looked like a giant beast’s head, wedged in with a sunken ship, was merely the fossilized skull of this giant turtle jutting out from the sea trench wall!
The colossal squid had shattered the fossil connection between the skull and the main shell, sending him, along with countless fragments, crashing into the already hollow interior of the Turtle Shell.
The giant turtle, when alive, was likely as large as an actual sea Immortal Mountain!
And the scene of the self-contained space within this Turtle Shell was something unheard of!
Could it be, this was the very giant turtle from Ancient Times that towed overseas Immortal Mountains?
Curiosity, shock, excitement...
Various emotions surged within him.
Li Yan swallowed, looking around.
A spot of light appeared before him.
He quickly moved forward, clearing away the rubble and decaying ship wood remnants, revealing a huge Luminous Pearl before his eyes.
The Sea Stabilizing Night Light, got it!
Splash~
At this moment, a giant tentacle reached out from the pool behind.
Li Yan’s heart skipped a beat, quickly storing the Sea Stabilizing Night Light and heading deeper into the Turtle Shell...