CHAPTER 759: CHAPTER 470: DEFEAT THE ENEMY IN ONE STRIKE

(The content about Alien Coexistence in the previous Chapter has been modified; I wrote it in haste and didn’t think it through.)

Sitting on the back of the Annihilation Dragon, Ji Xinghuo opened the interface of the Wanxiang Star Pupil.

At the edge of his field of vision, there was an arrow.

The direction the arrow pointed was the flight direction he had guided Doomsday towards.

Since setting out to sea this time, the arrow had grown slightly larger.

Since the territory of the Cloud Sea Dragon was not in the direction of the arrow, even though they had already ventured 180,000 kilometers into the Sea Abyss, Ji Xinghuo estimated that he was still nearly 300,000 kilometers away from the location indicated by the arrow!

They would need to fly northeast from here.

Ji Xinghuo took out the Sea Abyss Map given to him by Cang Ya and scrutinized it once more, confirming that he was approaching the map’s border.

The information about that sea area was scarce, almost blank.

Ji Xinghuo was well aware that the journey was bound to be filled with unknown dangers, but he had to go.

The Wanxiang Star Pupil was his biggest secret and the primary aid that enabled him to reach where he was today. The chance to gain a fragment of the Wanxiang Star Pupil was not to be missed, even if it was just to scope out the situation upon arrival.

Whooosh...

Doomsday maintained an altitude of about one thousand meters above the sea surface, and strong winds rushed against them, but amid the vast expanse of sky and sea, it seemed as if they were motionless.

Ji Xinghuo constantly kept his Electromagnetic Induction active.

Just after flying over three hundred kilometers, he detected a group of creatures beneath the sea surface ahead to the left.

A large group, at that.

"Longsword fish!"

Ji Xinghuo’s spirits lifted, and he was immediately intrigued.

In the Sea Abyss, there are three types of common schooling monsters: the Cicada Wing Fish, Longsword Fish, and Dark Tide Shark. They dominate the waters with their sheer numbers, making other fish and ordinary monsters dare not provoke them and becoming their prey.

Of these schooling monsters, the Longsword Fish had the highest numbers, easily counting thirty to forty thousand in a group; numbers exceeding one hundred thousand were quite normal.

However, their average strength was the weakest.

About one-third were ordinary monsters, a few hundred were Elite monsters, and the rest were fish.

The weaker the monster’s strength, the less Spiritual Origin Ability it has.

Still, even if a single Longsword Fish’s Spiritual Origin Ability was meager, the vast numbers more than made up for it.

And hunting them posed no danger whatsoever.

Previously, when Ji Xinghuo had gone out to sea with Cang Ya, they encountered many schools of Longsword Fish upon entering the Sea Abyss. Ji Xinghuo had wanted to take action then, but Mutants, aside from occasionally killing a few Longsword Fish for a taste, generally did not hunt them; Alien Species were not considered valuable.

At the time, Ji Xinghuo could not think of a reason to hunt them, so he refrained. Now that he was alone, he had no such reservations.

"A bit to the left."

Ji Xinghuo had Doomsday correct their course slightly.

Soon, the entire school of Longsword Fish entered the range of his Electromagnetic Induction, and they rapidly approached until the densely packed school stretched for several kilometers like a giant creature in the sea.

The Longsword Fish resembled earth’s swordfish, with extremely fast swimming speeds. Their snouts extended forward, forming a flat blade like a longsword.

They were bigger and longer than swordfish and also more ferocious.

Longsword Fish were predators.

Whenever they found a target, they would initiate a group sprint, and the longswords on their heads could launch Water Blades to slice their prey.

The group of Longsword Fish was currently hunting a school of gray fin whales, a rather formidable type of monster that could grow to be more than thirty meters long, yet they were only prey when faced with a school of Longsword Fish.

When Ji Xinghuo approached the group of Longsword Fish, two gray fin whales had already been seriously injured by the Water Blades, slowing their movements.

But the fish school did not immediately feast.

Under the leadership of a twenty-plus meter long Flood Level Longsword Fish, the entire school continued to attack the other gray fin whales.

The mass of Longsword Fish moved in groups, taking turns to charge at the gray fin whales, accelerating and then firing Water Blades. The skin and flesh of gray fin whales were thick, and a few dozen Water Blades couldn’t harm them.

But with each assault, hundreds to thousands, or even two to three thousand Water Blades, would simultaneously slice through their bodies.

The gray fin whales fought back desperately, killing some Longsword Fish.

However, those were just a drop in the bucket against the vast number of enemies.

The waves churned as the Longsword Fish incessantly pursued the gray fin whales, shooting Water Blades in unison to slice, turning the sea red with blood. One after another, the gray fin whales were gravely injured and immobilized.

Ji Xinghuo commanded Doomsday to fly high in the sky, patiently waiting and watching the brutal survival of the fittest scene of the Sea Abyss.

After about fifteen minutes.

Finally, the last Superior Level gray fin whale was also besieged, struck by countless Water Blades and left in a dying state.

The school of Longsword Fish settled down as well, seemingly waiting for an order.

A sharp sound wave emitted from the Flood Level Longsword Fish, which Ji Xinghuo couldn’t quite discern; it must have been a sort of ultra-low-frequency sound.

Boom!

The nearby sea surface boiled over as seventy to eighty thousand Longsword Fish raced each other to the dozens of gray fin whale carcasses, frenziedly biting and tearing into their flesh and causing countless waves to splash.

Ji Xinghuo was reminded of earth’s piranhas, but the scene was much more brutal and terrifying.

Because they were flying so high, the Longsword Fish couldn’t detect the enemy above them.

"Time to draw the net."

While the Longsword Fish were feeding, it was also the moment they were most clustered together. Ji Xinghuo lifted his right hand, condensing a sphere of spherical lightning in his palm. Surge after surge of electromagnetic power flowed from his arm into the lightning orb in his palm.

The Electromagnetic Oscillation was fully activated, with millions of electromagnetic field lines appearing within a kilometer radius.

The air was pierced as if even space itself was distorted.

Thunder rumbled faintly in the sky.

Ji Xinghuo brewed the power for about fifteen seconds, pouring more than 15,000 points of Star Power into the spherical lightning in his palm. Its color went from light blue to dark blue, then from dark blue to purplish-black, expanding and then Shrinking through several cycles until it became a pitch-black light ball.

The powerful electromagnetic field interfered with the environment, causing clouds to gather above, and the sky suddenly darkened.

The schools of flesh-and-blood swordfish that had been fighting over their prey finally noticed something was off and slowed down their feeding frenzy.

The Flood-Level swordfish lifted its head and let out a sharp cry.

But it was already too late.

Doomsday dove down from the high skies toward the sea surface, and in a blink of an eye, it reached the sea, as Ji Xinghuo, riding on the dragon’s back, threw with all his might.

The spherical lightning shot into the sea.

The Annihilation Dragon skimmed over the sea from a hundred meters up, then immediately ascended, drawing a reverse parabolic trajectory with its Flash Sky Wings, and in the blink of an eye, it was back in the sky.

Ji Xinghuo looked back down only to see a huge wave suddenly rise from the sea surface, over two hundred meters in diameter, forming a violent tide that surged in all directions, accompanied by countless currents and flashes of light, sweeping everything away.

Boom...

The sound of the explosion was delayed in reaching them, with water splashing high into the air.

[Spiritual Origin Ability +2]

[Spiritual Origin Ability +1]

[Spiritual Origin Ability +3+2+4+1+2...]

The information alerts in Ji Xinghuo’s vision scrolled crazily, he couldn’t even see how many there were, but his Spiritual Origin Ability value, which had been just under twenty thousand, skyrocketed to over fifty thousand and was still soaring.

The waves kicked up by the explosion of the spherical lightning continued to spread outward, triggering a small-scale tsunami.

The Spiritual Origin Ability continued to rise, sixty thousand, seventy thousand...

However, the pace of increase began to slow.

It lasted for about a dozen seconds.

The aftermath of the explosion was still ongoing, the tide had surged out a kilometer away, but the sea surface at the center of the explosion had mostly calmed down.

Rows of swordfish floated on the sea surface, and except for those near the center of the explosion that had been blown to pieces, most carcasses had no visible wounds, but their life essence had been completely extinguished.

They had been electrocuted.

The size of this swordfish school was around sixty thousand, and in the blink of an eye, they were completely annihilated, including the Flood-Level swordfish leader.

Ji Xinghuo had made it a point to throw the spherical lightning closer to it.

It reacted quickly, frantically trying to escape, but still was shocked to death by the explosive shock wave, its body mutilated.

The Spiritual Origin Ability value displayed on the Wanxiang Star Pupil interface had reached more than eighty thousand points.

This single strike was equivalent to hunting for several days on Black Ring Star.

"Awesome!"

Ji Xinghuo felt exhilaration in his heart.

He silently estimated that about one third of these sixty thousand swordfish had awakened and evolved into monsters, which was to say, twenty thousand of them providing him with more than sixty thousand points of Spiritual Origin Ability. On average, he could gain 3 points of Spiritual Origin Ability per monster swordfish.

Compared to the thirty points of Spiritual Origin Ability per Cicada Wing Fish, the swordfish only had one-tenth.

However, swordfish were much more common than Cicada Wing Fish, their schools and numbers were more than ten times larger!

And hunting swordfish was easy.

A single spherical lightning could instantly wipe out an entire school.

Compared to that, Ji Xinghuo would still prefer hunting swordfish. He rubbed his hands together excitedly, muttering, "Earth doesn’t allow explosive fishing, but there’s no such rule in the Star Realm Abyss, kill as many as you want!"

He glanced at the body of the Flood-Level swordfish.

"Down."

Doomsday flew down to sea level, and Ji Xinghuo landed on the twenty-some-meter-long Flood-Level swordfish, its white skin was very smooth to the touch, and as he reached out, Alien Species information popped up in front of him.

After reading it, he shook his head.

No wonder no one hunted swordfish, their Alien Species had practically no value.

Ji Xinghuo didn’t even bother to collect it and looked towards Doomsday, asking, "Do you want to try the swordfish meat? They say it tastes good."

Doomsday lowered its head to sniff and showed a look of distaste.

Qing Hong was not interested either.

"Then let’s go, keep flying." Ji Xinghuo got back on Doomsday’s back, with the Annihilation Dragon’s wings flaring, it roared skywards and vanished beyond the clouds, leaving only the tens of thousands of swordfish carcasses scattered across the sea.

In the Sea Abyss, the flesh would quickly attract other predators and fish to consume, and anything not eaten within a few days would rot.

So there was no need to deal with it.

They flew swiftly.

For conserving Doomsday’s strength, Ji Xinghuo did not make it fly at full speed, instead maintaining a more appropriate speed.

Sometimes he even let Doomsday merge into his skin and flew on his own.

Even so, on the very first day, Ji Xinghuo traveled more than ten thousand kilometers, and this was with him not going straight but often detouring upon encountering monsters, to harvest Spiritual Origin Ability, even backtracking occasionally.

In the following days, Ji Xinghuo hunted several groups of swordfish, encountered a group of over a thousand Dark Tide Sharks, and eradicated them after some effort. He also killed over a dozen Catastrophe-Level monsters and sea beasts, all dying to his lightning, garnering several valuable Alien Species.

His Spiritual Origin Ability rose day by day, surpassing 600,000!

The arrow on the Wanxiang Star Pupil interface grew increasingly larger as he neared his destination, and the sensation became more and more distinct.

However, Ji Xinghuo felt that the Sea Abyss was becoming increasingly dangerous.

On the fifteenth day.

Ji Xinghuo had delved 280,000 kilometers deep into the Sea Abyss, the sea was calm, the sky was a dark brown as if a film negative, as if covered by dark clouds, constantly with void rifts appearing and disappearing in a flash, creating a perpetual sense of oppression and unease.

On the back of Doomsday, he took out a map to check.

His current position was close to one of the highest-level restricted areas marked with very prominent warnings on the map, an area frequented by Slaughter Star-Level monsters.

"Slaughter Star-Level!"

Ji Xinghuo’s expression turned solemn, not daring to let his guard down.