Chapter 653: Water God’s Palace, Statues of Gods
Among the many world BOSSes Lin Moyu had killed, the Deep Sea Giant Octopus probably died the most miserably.
Due to its death substitution trait, it couldn’t be instantly killed.
It was literally dismembered sword by sword, without any ability to resist from start to finish.
Using the Focus skill, it only took about ten seconds to reap a wave of experience.
[Killed Deep Sea Giant Octopus, Experience +**]
[Obtained Deep Sea Longsword]
[Obtained Deep Sea Ring]
[Obtained Water Crystal]
[Obtained Water God Stone]
[Deep Sea Longsword: Quasi-legendary weapon, All attributes +90000, Knight class skill amplification +160%. Attached skill: Water Entanglement.]
[Water Entanglement: Slows target’s movement speed, duration 30 seconds, cooldown 5 minutes.]
[Deep Sea Ring: Quasi-legendary accessory, All attributes +%.]
[Water Crystal: Legendary material, crystal filled with water element, can be used to forge legendary equipment.]
[Water God Stone: Permanently increases water element immunity to 80%, chance to obtain a water element skill.]
Looking at the rewards, Lin Moyu’s eyes showed slight delight.
It had been a long time since he obtained an item that could increase elemental immunity.
Now his poison, light and electric elements were already completely immune.
Among common elements, only water, fire and wind elements hadn’t caught up, only immune to 50%.
Increasing elemental immunity wasn’t an easy thing.
This time water element immunity was finally raised to 80%, which was the immunity cap in the conventional sense.
Without special opportunities, immunity would stop here, difficult to improve further.
Lin Moyu put away the Focus skill and returned to the seabed, coming to the god core’s side.
The god core was only fist-sized, with laws entwined around it.
The laws had offensive power. Not everyone was qualified to touch a high-level god’s god core.
Lin Moyu didn’t want to confront the laws. He took out the Sound Bell and said softly, "Put away the laws, I’ll take you back to Kunlun."
The Sound Bell rang with a hum, and the Sound God’s god core also hummed at the same time.
Then the laws disappeared.
"It seems the Sound God should still have a remnant soul left."
From the reactions of the Sound Bell and god core, Lin Moyu guessed that although the Sound God had fallen, she hadn’t completely fallen.
Perhaps she had used some method to preserve a bit of remnant soul.
Otherwise it wouldn’t be possible to understand what he said.
He picked up the god core and put it together with the Sound Bell, then put them away.
The deal with the Kunlun Great God was mostly completed. Now he just had to go back.
Lin Moyu slowly rose, about to leave.
Suddenly he stopped again.
"The ocean currents... have changed!"
Lin Moyu keenly sensed that the ocean currents at the bottom of the sea had changed.
Soul perception was much more sensitive than eyesight, clearly sensing these subtle changes.
The Deep Sea Giant Octopus’s corpse fell to the bottom of the sea trench, a large amount of ink flowing out from inside.
A large area of the seabed was dyed black, so thick it couldn’t dissolve.
It faintly emitted a green light, and one could sense the intense poison contained within.
The ink didn’t mix with water, and initially gathered in a clump, forming an irregular area.
According to the previous currents, it should have been buried in the sea trench.
But now the currents changed, carrying it upwards.
The change in currents was tiny, but why did it change now, not earlier or later?
From where the god core fell, Lin Moyu judged that the currents shouldn’t have changed for hundreds or thousands of years.
Now that it changed, it must be abnormal.
The currents left the sea trench and headed towards the Wild Continent.
Below the Wild Continent was a hundreds of meters thick ice layer, separating the Azure Dragon Sea from the Wild Continent.
Now the currents were surging towards the ice layer.
Lin Moyu saw along the currents that a hole had been broken under the ice layer.
A large amount of seawater was pouring in.
Seawater backflow?
Lin Moyu looked for a while and found it wasn’t so.
It seemed some force was drawing in a large amount of seawater.
Lin Moyu thought for a moment and decided to go in and take a look.
At the same time, to be safe, he still held Antares’ dragon scale in his hand.
The undead army had been put away. Here was already not far from the sea surface, only about a thousand meters deep. That little pressure wasn’t enough to harm Lin Moyu.
Following the backflowing seawater, Lin Moyu quickly moved forward in the ice layer.
Soon, Lin Moyu sensed the aura of a god.
"It’s the Water God!"
Long ago, Lin Moyu had obtained two items from the water element dungeon - the Water God’s Flute and the Water God’s Key.
Through soul perception, he could sense the divine aura on these two items.
It was exactly the same as the aura he sensed now.
As Lin Moyu was thinking, the scene before him suddenly opened up.
He followed the water flow into a huge frozen space, hundreds of meters high and over a thousand meters deep.
In the center of the space stood a light blue palace.
The palace was made entirely of ice blocks, exuding an astonishing chill.
All the water flowing in here was instantly vaporized and disappeared.
It wasn’t vaporization caused by high temperature, but decomposition into pure water elements, then flying towards the ice palace.
"The Water God’s palace!" Lin Moyu quickly guessed the origin of this palace.
Inside the palace, the divine aura became more intense.
However, upon careful sensing, Lin Moyu found that these divine auras lacked vitality, not like they were controlled by someone.
"The Water God probably hasn’t awakened yet."
Lin Moyu quickly made a judgment.
He had already dealt with several gods and could fully distinguish the various states of gods.
Just from the aura emitted by the god, he could judge whether they were dead, awakened, or asleep.
Gods only had these three states.
Lin Moyu walked to the palace entrance and took out the Water God’s Key.
The Water God’s Key wasn’t shaped like a key, but a fist-sized ice block with a few drops of flowing liquid in the center.
As soon as the key was taken out, it actively flew towards the palace, merging into the palace gate.
Then the palace gate opened automatically, a chill rushing out from the palace, hitting him in the face.
The Bone Armor naturally activated, blocking the chill.
The palace hadn’t been opened for who knows how many years, accumulating a shocking amount of water elements inside.
This chill was the materialization of water elements.
Water has thousands of forms, heavy and light, ice and heat.
From the information obtained so far, the Water God was more skilled in wielding low-temperature water elements.
As the palace gate opened, Lin Moyu walked in.
He wasn’t afraid or worried about the Water God.
He didn’t sense the aura of laws. At most, the Water God would be a level 95 mid-tier god.
For such a god, Lin Moyu had a chance of slaying them if he went all out.
The Water God’s palace was entirely made of ice blocks, with fountains everywhere constantly spewing water elements and divine aura.
Hundreds of huge ice sculptures stood in the palace, very exquisite.
When he was in the Water God’s courtyard before, Lin Moyu had also seen various exquisite carvings, which he still vividly remembered.
The Water God’s understanding of beauty had reached a considerable height.
Water elements permeated the air, divine aura enveloped everything. Lin Moyu admired the sculptures one by one.
The sculptures were of various styles - sword-wielding warriors, axe-wielding giants, flame-holding gods. Each was exquisitely crafted, lifelike.
Each sculpture represented a god.
"There really were quite a few gods!"
Lin Moyu sighed softly as he looked at the sculptures.
He knew there were many gods in the world before, but didn’t expect there to be so many.
Just these sculptures alone represented hundreds of gods.
His soul power swept across, counting exactly 681 sculptures, representing 681 gods.
Perhaps there were even more gods that weren’t sculpted.
Gods were equivalent to human god-level career holders, Abyss demon kings, and dragon kings.
How many god-level career holders were there among humans? At most a few dozen, even at their peak no more than a hundred.
There were more demon kings and dragon kings. Demon kings were said to number 300, dragon kings at most over 100.
The three races combined didn’t have as many as the gods.
But for some reason, the gods all fell.
The gods still alive now had hidden themselves, rarely appearing in the world.
The only truly living god Lin Moyu had seen was killed by him.
"If the gods were still alive today, the three races probably wouldn’t matter much."
Passing through the sculptures, he came to the second courtyard of the palace.
There were also many sculptures here, but no longer of gods, but of huge monsters.
A huge monster sculpture was placed in the center. Lin Moyu looked over and was suddenly shocked.
"The Beast King!"
"No, not the Beast King!"
Lin Moyu immediately denied his own words.
He had seen the Beast King with his own eyes. It was seven or eight tenths similar to the sculpture before him, but not exactly the same.
His gaze searched among the sculptures and saw another sculpture not far away.
That was the Beast King. Compared to the one in the center, it was much smaller in both temperament and scale.
Lin Moyu instantly confirmed that the sculpture in the center was an existence even more powerful than the Beast King.