144: Chapter 144 Slaying the Poison: Obtaining Another Demon Core, Exploring the Abyss and Encountering Ruins

That Deep Sea Poison Octopus was clearly completely enraged by the palm strike Ye Qing had just delivered.

Its massive body, like a moving mountain range, rose completely from the seabed, blocking out the sky and sun, making the already dim light above even more obscured.

Eight tentacles, like giant black pythons, danced crazily, bringing with them a piercing sound of tearing through the air as they swept toward Ye Qing from different directions!

On each tentacle, the dense array of suckers opened to their maximum, revealing circles of sharp, inward-curving teeth inside, shimmering with a ghostly green cold light and emitting a nauseating, fishy stench.

This strike was already its all-out effort in its fury; the momentum was astonishing!

"Bring it on!"

A sharp light flashed in Ye Qing's eyes, and instead of retreating, he advanced.

He held the hunyuan ruler, the dark silver light flowing along the ruler's body, and his whole person transformed into a streak of light, actively meeting those tentacles dancing across the sky!

He did not use any fancy Divine Ability or Spell, simply waving the hunyuan ruler, either hacking, slashing, lifting, or stabbing.

But every strike contained his profound understanding of the Chaos Law, as well as that vast, sea-like Chaos Infant Essence.

With a soft shing sound.

A thick tentacle, the moment it made contact with the hunyuan ruler, was easily severed like tofu! Dark green blood sprayed out wildly from the severed end like a fountain!

Hiss—!!!

The Deep Sea Poison Octopus let out a painful hiss, but its ferocity was instead stimulated; the remaining seven tentacles danced even more wildly, pouring down toward Ye Qing like a violent storm!

Ye Qing's expression remained unchanged, his figure weaving flexibly between the tentacles. In his hand, the hunyuan ruler was like a living thing, transforming into streaks of dark silver lightning; every time it flashed, a tentacle was severed!

In less than ten breaths, the eight tentacles of the Deep Sea Poison Octopus were all severed by Ye Qing! Only a bare, giant body, like a ball of flesh, remained floating on the sea surface, twitching constantly and emitting desperate, powerless hisses.

"I will send you on your way."

Ye Qing's tone was indifferent. His figure flickered, and he instantly appeared above the head of the Deep Sea Poison Octopus. He raised the hunyuan ruler high, the dark silver light on the ruler's body becoming brilliant to the extreme, as if a dark silver sun were rising in his hand!

Then, he slashed down fiercely toward the head of the Deep Sea Poison Octopus!

Puchi! A muffled sound!

The hunyuan ruler sliced into the Deep Sea Poison Octopus's head without any obstruction, cleaving it—along with the fist-sized, dark green demon core inside that emitted rich fluctuations of the Poison Law—into two halves!

The Mid-Nascent Soul Stage Deep Sea Poison Octopus was dead!

Ye Qing withdrew the hunyuan ruler and did not even glance at the giant corpse. He raised his hand and waved it, storing the two halves of the demon core, as well as the most valuable poison sac from the poison octopus and that circle of sharp sucker teeth, all into his Cave Heaven World.

"Although the demon core of the Mid-Nascent Soul Stage was cut into two halves, its quality is still quite good. It can be used to refine poison pills, or it can be absorbed by the ten thousand poison soul-eating wood."

He nodded in satisfaction and was about to leave this area to continue exploring the Dragon Bone Abyss, when his Divine Sense suddenly captured a trace of extremely faint, unusual energy fluctuations in the seawater below, which had been blackened by the poison octopus's blood.

Those energy fluctuations did not come from a Yao Beast, nor were they the aura of a Spirit Stone vein, but rather... they carried a unique aura of ancient, weathered architecture or Restriction that seemed to come from a distant era!

"Eh? Could there be some ancient ruins on this seabed?"

Ye Qing's heart stirred, and he immediately became interested.

He did not hesitate, put away the hunyuan ruler, and dove headfirst into the icy, bone-chilling seawater, which had been polluted by the poison octopus's blood, stealthily heading toward the source of the energy fluctuations.

The deeper he dove, the dimmer the light became, and the water pressure grew increasingly greater.

But Ye Qing's protective light halo was enough to easily withstand this pressure.

Like a flexible swimming fish, he dove rapidly in the deep sea, and soon he had descended several thousand zhang, arriving at the seabed.

The seabed here was not the flat sandy ground he had imagined, but was covered with huge, jagged black reefs, arranged in a staggered manner like a forest on the seabed.

The source of the energy fluctuations was deep within this seabed reef forest.

Ye Qing restrained his aura and, like a ghost, wove through the reef forest, quickly finding the source of the energy fluctuations.

It was a huge, circular archway, half-buried in the seabed silt and reefs, cast from some kind of dark silver metal.

The archway was ten zhang high and about five zhang wide. The door frame was carved with countless complex runes, resembling the orbital paths of stars, as well as reliefs of some strange creatures that had long been extinct and that Ye Qing had never seen before.

In the center of the archway was a light screen that rippled like water, emitting a faint silver light, as if connecting to another space.

"This is... a teleportation portal? And it's an ancient teleportation portal that is relatively well-preserved?"

A look of surprise flashed in Ye Qing's eyes.

He carefully observed the runes and reliefs on the archway and found that their style was somewhat similar to what he had seen before at the ruins of the ancient teleportation array, but they seemed even more ancient and primitive.

"Could it be... that this teleportation portal was left behind by that fallen Heavenly Dragon? Or is it a ruin left by some civilization from an even earlier era?"

His heart was filled with curiosity. He slowly approached the archway, extended his finger, and gently touched the layer of rippling silver light screen.

Hum—!!!

The moment his fingertip touched the layer of silver light screen, the entire archway shook violently!

Those ancient runes on the door frame seemed to be activated, starting to light up one by one, emitting a soft silver light!

That layer of rippling silver light screen also became brighter and more stable, as if it could be passed through at any moment!

"It can actually... still be used?"

Ye Qing was startled and hurriedly withdrew his finger.

He could clearly sense that after the teleportation portal absorbed that wisp of his Chaos Infant Essence, it seemed to have been injected with new vitality, and the energy circulation inside became smoother.

"Where does this teleportation portal lead? And what is hidden on the other side of the door?"

He stood before the teleportation portal, lost in thought.

He had an intuition that this teleportation portal was very likely closely related to the secret of the Dragon Bone Abyss.

It might even be the key to the true burial place of that fallen Heavenly Dragon, or its left-behind Treasure Trove!

"Should I... go in and take a look?"

He hesitated slightly in his heart.

The Dragon Bone Abyss was already fraught with danger, and this teleportation portal, which led to an unknown destination, was filled with even more unknown risks.

But on the other hand, Opportunity often coexists with risk. If he missed this chance, he might regret it for the rest of his life.

In the end, curiosity and confidence in his own strength gained the upper hand.

"Fortune is sought in danger. Since I have encountered it, there is no reason to pass by the door without entering."

He took a deep breath, hesitated no longer, stepped forward, and his figure submerged into the layer of rippling silver light screen.