Super Gene Ⅱ: Evolution

Wei Wufu wanted to give the purple-red whip back to Lin Shen, who discovered it, but Lin Shen didn\'t take it; he had too much stuff in his pack already. Find your next read on m_v l|e-NovelBin.net

The several Spirit Bases given by Tian Xun, along with the Wolf Fang Club and the Archangel\'s Sword, made Lin Shen very cautious when flying, fearing that they might collide with one another.

Fortunately, he had taken pre-measures, wrapping them in materials that wouldn\'t cause an explosion upon collision. As long as the external wrapping remained intact, there would be no problem.

"How about trying to dig open the Coral Turtle to see if there\'s a Spirit Base inside?" Lin Shen suggested, examining the Coral Turtle underfoot.

The plants resembling coral themselves wouldn\'t explode, but the turtle carapace underneath could, and digging it up would probably cause an explosion that might draw Flarela and others over.

"Digging from above will definitely lead to a big explosion, and with such a huge corpse, digging quickly could result in a violent blast, but going slowly could take years. We can only dig from underwater, where we can excavate quickly without risking explosion," proposed Ouyang Yudu.

"Then let\'s start digging from underwater. But, both Wei and I aren\'t great swimmers, so we\'ll have to trouble you to find a good spot to start," Lin Shen said helplessly.

"Alright, hold onto this for me," Ouyang Yudu handed the Jade Bone Demon Umbrella to Lin Shen, ready to dive, but Lin Shen stopped him.

"Take this, just in case you encounter something underwater; then you\'ll have a weapon to use," Lin Shen said, passing the Archangel\'s Sword to Ouyang Yudu.

Ouyang Yudu didn\'t refuse. Among the three of them, only Lin Shen had various Spirit Bases. Ouyang Yudu and Wei were quite poor.

Clamping the Archangel\'s Sword between his teeth, Ouyang Yudu plunged into the water. After a while, he was out of sight without a trace or a sound.

Lin Shen and Wei Wufu watched from above, frustrated by their inability to communicate with Ouyang Yudu underwater and feeling helpless.

Ouyang Yudu was a decent swimmer, unlike Lin Shen and Wei Wufu, who were really not up to par.

They wouldn\'t drown if they went into the water, but trying to do any technical work underwater was beyond them.

A while later, Ouyang Yudu, who had the Archangel\'s Sword in his mouth, emerged from the depths.

"How did it go?" Lin Shen promptly asked.

"It\'s unlikely there\'s a Spirit Base left. There\'s a big hole rotted through the belly of the turtle; it\'s almost hollow inside," said Ouyang Yudu, shaking off the Flame Liquid from his body and removing the Archangel\'s Sword from his mouth.

I\'m disappointed that we didn\'t find any Spirit Base, yet it\'s odd," Lin Shen mused. Logically, if someone had already hollowed out the Coral Turtle previously, how could they have missed the purple-red whip and the skeleton?

"My guess," Ouyang Yudu ventured, "is that the person who emptied the corpse of the Coral Turtle might be the same one who died on its back."

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"That can\'t be likely, right? If he did hollow out the body of the Coral Turtle, then how did he end up dead on its back? And who killed him?" Lin Shen found Ouyang Yudu\'s speculation somewhat illogical.

"That I don\'t know, but what I discovered down there was that the Coral Turtle\'s body was chained, and these chains stretched all the way down into the depths of the sea. I dived nearly a kilometer down and couldn\'t find the end of the chains, so I came back up," said Ouyang Yudu.

"I suspect that the Nirvana Being didn\'t die from a battle with the Coral Turtle at all, there might be something problematic down below."

"There\'s actually such a thing?" Lin Shen and Wei Wufu were both very curious.

Unfortunately, Wei Wufu\'s swimming skills were too weak. Though he could hold his breath, no matter how long he could do so, it was limited and not like Lin Shen, who could go without breathing indefinitely.

In the end, they decided that Wei Wufu would wait above while Lin Shen and Ouyang Yudu dove down to see what it was that had ensnared the Coral Turtle.

After diving in, Lin Shen found that the water was clearer than it appeared from above. The murkiness on the water\'s surface was most likely due to the reddish-brown soil from the Fierce Fire Star, which, after falling into the Sea of Flames, was unable to settle and dissolved near the surface.

Lin Shen took out the Nightglow Flower and lit up the underwater scene. The colorful light immediately revealed that beneath the belly of the Coral Turtle, several massive chains pierced through its carapace, all heading towards the depths of the sea, with no bottom in sight.

The light from the Nightglow Flower had its limits, and with the hindrance of the Flame Liquid, it could only illuminate a distance of about ten meters or so.

Clinging to a chain, Lin Shen began to climb down, while Ouyang Yudu followed by his side, diving with the Archangel\'s Sword clenched in his mouth.

Although Lin Shen\'s swimming skills weren\'t great, his strength was sufficient. He rapidly alternated hands on the chain as he descended at a quick pace.

The deeper he climbed down, the clearer Lin Shen noticed the Flame Liquid became, and the light from the Nightglow Flower illuminated farther and farther.

After descending three or four thousand meters, the chain still hadn\'t reached an end.

However, by then, the Sea of Flames had become so clear that it was almost invisible to the naked eye, and they could see a very long distance through the liquid.

Under the illumination of the Nightglow Flower, Lin Shen and Ouyang Yudu saw a shocking sight.

Deeper in the sea, there was actually an ancient city. The chains locking the Coral Turtle stretched all the way into that city.

The scale of the ancient city wasn\'t large, it was squarely shaped, with sides about two or three thousand meters long. However, the city contained all sorts of pavilions and buildings, seemingly once a bustling metropolis.

But the current ancient city was covered entirely with a gray substance, appearing dull and as though covered in volcanic ash or overgrown with deep gray moss.

The ancient city lay at the bottom of the sea, but right beside it was an even deeper trench. To say the city was at the seabed wouldn\'t be quite accurate, rather it was on a cliff of the seabed, with an unknown depth below.

Lin Shen and Ouyang Yudu exchanged glances. Ouyang Yudu nodded, took the Archangel\'s Sword that was in his mouth into his hand, activated it, and sent it flying towards the ancient city nearly a kilometer below.

The Archangel\'s Sword flew close to the ancient city, circling it several times overhead. Finding no anomalies, the two continued their journey towards the clifftop ancient city at the bottom of the sea.

As they approached the city, the light from the Nightglow Flower revealed the city with greater clarity. They could see that the chains from the body of the Coral Turtle were connected to eight corners of the city. Atop the walls at each corner stood an Ancient Beast Statue, and the other ends of the chains were tied around the necks of these statues.

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