After the fairy disappeared

Chapter 2578 Acting with Great Seriousness
The last time he came in, he noticed several small boats on the shore. It must be that Duan Heyun and others sometimes went out to sea to check the seaweed forest in the distance.

The boat is made of special wood and reinforced with array formations. It is also quite advanced in operation, requiring no manual rowing. By simply controlling the "Rapid Forward" array engraved on the stern, the small boat can ride the wind and waves on its own.

The magic array was very simple, and He Lingchuan got the hang of it after just a couple of tries.

Unexpectedly, the ship traveled at a speed comparable to a swordfish, and darted into the deep sea.

From the moment he entered Yanxia Bay, his mission required him to race against time, leaving no room for waste.

He Lingchuan's daring infiltration of the Crystal Sea had only one objective:
They stole the body of the Hidden God!

The first thing he did after setting sail was to take out a single-lens reflex lens and hang it on his eye.

The oval-shaped monocle is fixed with a gold wire frame, so once it's on, he doesn't need to keep reaching out to hold it.

As soon as the monocle was hung up, the scene He Lingchuan saw with his left eye immediately changed:

The lush seaweed forest immediately blurred, and the long and huge seaweed became thin and weak lines in his vision, while the whirlpool sharks and other small fish swimming in the seaweed forest were simplified into dim and almost invisible specks of light.

This lens is naturally the magical artifact "Yangguan Road".

He Lingchuan changed its mode, this time making it search for the keyword not consciousness, but life strength!

Previously, Dong Rui had judged that even if the body of the Hidden God Lord was dispersed into seaweed forests occupying the entire water area, its root system would eventually "return to one," that is, the main root.

This is like a towering tree with lush branches and leaves, but it tends to narrow down as it goes down, eventually merging back into the trunk and roots.

Regardless of its appearance, it is ultimately a whole.

Therefore, the "total root" should have the strongest vitality in the entire seaweed forest.

It's difficult to distinguish these differences with the naked eye, since underwater seaweed floats and can be confusing, and seaweed can look quite similar to each other.

However, if we look at it from the perspective of the "sunny path," the strength and weakness between individual seaweeds become immediately apparent.

This is a powerful tool that gets straight to the heart of the matter; illusions are ineffective against it.

He Lingchuan honed his ship-handling skills in the Yangshan Islands, and now he sped off into the deep sea, almost without stopping.

The Blood Demon was also extremely anxious, saying every few dozen breaths:
"Haven't you found it yet?"

This seaweed forest is huge!

Thinking of the dangers of this journey, the Blood Demon felt impatient and its heart was racing—ah, if it had a heart.

"No, no!" The Soul-Capturing Mirror, unable to see the scene reflected in the single mirror, was equally agitated. "Don't disturb the master!"

He Lingchuan then adjusted the viewing distance of "Yangguan Road" to its maximum, which allowed him to see through the energy of life forms within a five-mile radius. Years ago, after the great war between immortals and demons, the First Shore Immortal used this ability to search for living beings in the vast ruins.

Just then, a blurry yet enormous shadow swept across the underwater surface beside the boat, followed by a strange voice in my mind:

"What are you looking for?"

He turned around and saw a python-like figure walking alongside him.

Immortal Lord Changlin arrived, but only his head came.

Duan Heyun and other demon puppeteers would occasionally sail to the deep sea, but Geng Yue Shen never left the shore.

It stayed at the bottom of the cliff for a while, but still felt it should come over and take a look.

With the war situation in the Lingyun Palace superimposed, Immortal Lord Changlin stopped dozing off, thinking that he should occasionally fulfill his responsibilities.

He Lingchuan continued to look around calmly, showing no sign of panic: "The Lingshan spy who infiltrated the Liuli Sea earlier threw something into the sea, which may have affected the Hidden God. After Helu Heavenly God learned of this, he sent me back to search for it."

His voice rang directly in Changlin Immortal Lord's mind, without him having to speak it aloud.

"what?"

“These creatures, which look like sand and gravel, can disguise themselves as small crabs and crawl rapidly across the seabed,” He Lingchuan said with great detail. “They reproduce extremely quickly and may seek out the weak points of seaweed forests to try and destroy them.”

He said this because last time he impersonated Hu Xin and kicked a few pebbles down the bank, which alerted Fu Yu below the cliff.

The sea monster must still remember this incident.

The devil is in the details.

To prove his point, he even pulled out a piece of seaweed from behind him and showed it to Fuyu:

“Look, these are their eggs, which I just found on the shore.”

Sure enough, a clump of pinkish-red round eggs was stuck to the back of the brownish-red seaweed, with a black dot in the center of each egg.

It sank to the surface, opened its mouth wide, and seemed to roar a few times.

He Lingchuan couldn't hear anything on the boat, but he could see the whirlpool sharks coming from all directions, circling the seaweed forest in unison.

Fuyu acts as their supervisor; at a single command, the spiral sharks begin searching for invasive species.

About ten breaths later, some whirlpool sharks began to swim close to the surface, bringing their spoils to Fu Yu and He Lingchuan.

This is a crab about the size of a thumbnail. Just as Geng Yue Shen said, it is grayish all over, with some white spots. When it lies in the sea mud, it looks like sand and gravel on the seabed, and is particularly inconspicuous.

But when it moves, its two front claws are ridiculously large and extremely sharp.

At this moment, several more whirlpool sharks surfaced in the sea, but they were belly up and had already died.

Upon closer inspection, this small crab has a needle-like protrusion on each of its two front claws. When it clamps its claws onto a live prey, the fine needle can pierce the enemy's skin.

It seems this thing is poisonous, highly poisonous.

Keep searching! It gave the order to the group of whirlpool sharks.

Just as He Lingchuan was sailing at high speed, the group of whirlpool sharks were also searching for the small crabs that had come from elsewhere.

In just fifteen minutes, they found dozens of crabs, and many seaweed swaying gently with the waves also had crab eggs attached to them, indicating that a new batch of hatching was about to begin.

"How could these damned things reproduce so quickly!" Fu Yu was annoyed, knowing that this was his own oversight.

Its duty is to monitor the entire kelp forest, but it has been silently invaded by this little creature.

But these small crabs are too small and move stealthily, hiding in the seaweed forest at will, so how could they be taken seriously by Fuyu?

Further into the deep sea, the number of small crabs collected by the vortex sharks decreased significantly.

They are clearly spreading into the deep sea, but it is not too late for Fuyu to try to control their numbers.

"What on earth are these things?" Even though Fuyu was a ruler of the sea, "I've never seen them before."

“These are needle crabs specially bred by the enemy,” He Lingchuan added. “They told us that our captured prisoners did this; otherwise, we wouldn’t have known that the kelp forest had been invaded. The juice from these crab eggs can hinder the deformation of kelp fragments.”

In fact, this needle crab is also a demonic puppet, and it was an accidental creation of Dong Rui. It is a small monster made by combining sandstone crab and conch shell.