When I woke up, I wanted to go home.

Shenxu Lake is 100,000 li wide. If Shenxu Lake were stretched out, its length would be over a million li. I have not measured this. There are more than 10,000 lakes of various sizes in total!

Shenxu Lake is often shrouded in rain, and there are small amounts of land between the lakes. Shenxu Lake is mainly inhabited by aquatic monsters, and we are going to deal with a multi-legged monster fish in a little while!

This fish has a large, round head in the middle, with eight tentacles around its head. Each tentacle is nearly a thousand feet long. The tentacles are soft yet tough, and they are covered with countless suckers. Once caught by its tentacles, it is very difficult to escape!

I don't know much about aquatic monsters. I have no idea what kind of race this monster is or what its special abilities are!

Years ago, I was passing through this fish's territory when I got hungry and decided to go into the water to catch a few fish to eat. Unexpectedly, its tentacles suddenly extended from underwater and pulled me into the water. My natural abilities were greatly diminished in the water.

Fortunately, I roared and managed to control it for two seconds. Then I suddenly shrank and escaped from its grasp. Otherwise, I probably would have turned into a pile of poop and come out of its body by now!

Zhu Chongjiu stood on a small piece of land deep in Shenxu Lake, listening to Xiao Hei tell its story!

Zhu Chongjiu looked around and saw a vast expanse of water. Wasn't that the octopus Xiao Hei was talking about?

But aren't octopuses supposed to live in the sea? How did they end up in a lake? Is this not a lake, but part of the sea?

Zhu Chongjiu asked, "Little Black, after you were pulled into the lake, what did the lake water taste like? Was it salty?"

Xiao Hei replied suspiciously: "What's so salty about the lake water? Can you even drink salty lake water?" "Ninth Brother, you're talking nonsense!"

Zhu Chongjiu was also wondering: Hmm? Could it be that I guessed wrong, or has the organism mutated?

It could also be due to different living environments. Although both humans and animals in this world are very similar to Earth, there are still some differences. As the old saying goes, "One's environment shapes one's character."

Seeing Zhu Chongjiu standing motionless, lost in thought, Xiao Hei thought to himself, "Usually, as soon as I finish talking about our enemies, Ninth Brother immediately rushes out, as if he's the one who's been bullied, not because he's avenging me. Why isn't he moving this time? Could it be that Ninth Brother is scared after hearing my story?"

Xiao Hei spoke up: "Ninth Brother, if you're not a good swimmer, I think we should just give up. After all, we're land creatures, so it's normal that we can't beat those who swim in the water!"

Zhu Chongjiu then came to his senses and said, "What are you saying, Xiao Heizi? When has your Ninth Brother ever been afraid? He's not even a good swimmer. Do you know that your Ninth Brother has another identity?"

A high-ranking Emperor-level water magician, isn't that awesome? You thought your Ninth Brother only knew how to wield spears and sticks? We'll show you something more elegant in a bit!

Ninth Brother will be right back, haha. I'll take you to try something different later, seafood, no, lake delicacies!

When Zhu Chongjiu finished speaking his last words, he had already disappeared!

More than half an hour later, Zhu Chongjiu flew to the octopus's territory according to the location given by Xiao Hei. He hovered in mid-air and muttered to himself, "If only I had Sun Wukong's Ruyi Jingu Bang, I could learn from the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and plunge it into its lake to stir up the world!"

But we don't have any. What should we do? Let's shout a bit and see if we can get the octopus to come out. If we can, it'll save it from diving back into the water!

After saying that, Zhu Chongjiu channeled his inner strength into his mouth and shouted: Octopus, come out quickly! Your Ninth Brother has come to avenge my little brother!

The sound waves created huge waves on the water's surface. After shouting, Zhu Chongjiu waited for about five minutes, but the octopus didn't come out. He then shouted four or five more times every five minutes, but it still didn't appear.

Zhu Chongjiu said, "What does this mean? Are you trying to force me to go down in the water? I won't go down. If you can't use words, then I'll have to use force!"

The Pantheon Fist, one after another, enormous fist imprints, smashed towards the lake surface, each fist imprint creating waves dozens of feet high upon impact!

Zhu Chongjiu threw two punches here and three punches there, throwing punches as he flew. After flying nearly a hundred miles, Zhu Chongjiu counted: "Four hundred and eighty-one punch, boom~, four hundred and eighty-two punch, boom~!"

Along the way, no octopus was smashed out, but many fish of different shapes and sizes floated out from the places where they were smashed, including some fish-like monsters!

When Zhu Chongjiu counted to 523 punches, a huge vortex appeared 3,000 meters in front of him!

Zhu Chongjiu wiped away non-existent sweat from his forehead and thought to himself: It's really not easy. Although I have now advanced to the advanced level, I am still out of breath after punching the Myriad Gods Fist more than 500 times at full strength!

Zhu Chongjiu hovered in mid-air and saw that the octopus had emerged from the water, with eight huge tentacles, each nearly a thousand feet long, extending in all directions, and a huge head at the top of the tentacles!

After the octopus surfaced, it spoke: "Human, why did you disturb my cultivation for no reason and kill my subordinates?"

Zhu Chongjiu smiled and said, "Hey! You're wrong. I didn't do it without reason. I had a reason. I just wanted to find you. As for killing your men, that was your own fault. Why didn't you come out sooner? If you had come out earlier, would this have happened?"

As Zhu Chongjiu spoke, he pointed behind him to the various aquatic monster corpses floating on the lake!

The octopus retorted, "You human, sharp-eyed and quick-witted, you're all sophistry. I won't argue with you. Tell me, why did you come to see me?"

Zhu Chongjiu replied, "The reason? The reason is that I want to avenge my brother!"

The octopus asked in confusion, "Your brother? What brother? Over the years, there haven't been many humans who have died at my hands. Tell me, if it's true, I can give you some compensation."

Upon hearing the octopus's words, Zhu Chongjiu thought to himself: "You cowardly bully! If it weren't for my strength, you would have devoured me long ago. Why are you still here negotiating peacefully?"

It seems that an old gentleman was right: "Truth lies only within the range of cannons!"

Zhu Chongjiu replied: "Who is my brother? You'll know who he is once you die and enter his belly, 'Ten Thousand Miles of Frozen Land'!"

After Zhu Chongjiu finished speaking, he didn't give the octopus any time to react. He immediately activated his magic technique, freezing the octopus instantly!

The octopus reacted quickly. After being frozen by Zhu Chongjiu, it immediately counterattacked and forcibly shattered the magic technique released by Zhu Chongjiu. After shattering the magic technique, the octopus tried to sink into the water to fight Zhu Chongjiu!

But no matter how fast it was, it was still no faster than Zhu Chongjiu. The moment the octopus shattered the ice that had covered thousands of miles, Zhu Chongjiu had already reached the top of the octopus's head!

Zhu Chongjiu shouted, "Sky-Splitting Kick!"

Zhu Chongjiu raised his right leg above his head, aimed at the octopus's huge head, and slashed down hard. A giant leg phantom, tens of feet long, struck the top of the octopus's head!

The octopus's head split open, and jet-black ink gushed out like a waterfall, spraying towards Zhu Chongjiu above its head!

Upon seeing this, Zhu Chongjiu thought to himself: Damn, it didn't die after taking my full-force kick? And this is after I've already advanced to the high-level Emperor rank. If it were a little over a month ago, when I had just entered the Divine Void Realm, I might not have been able to defeat it without using my greatsword!

The deeper you go, the stronger the monsters become! Even monsters of the same level in the Divine Void are several times stronger than those on the Ice and Snow Continent!

Upon seeing the jet-black ink spraying towards him, Zhu Chongjiu immediately used the spell "Iceberg" to defend himself!

After the ink dried up, Zhu Chongjiu withdrew his Iceberg spell and looked around. The octopus was nowhere to be seen. However, that kick must have seriously injured the octopus, if not killed it!

Zhu Chongjiu sent a telepathic message to Xiao Hei, telling it to come here.

After Xiao Hei got to Zhu Chongjiu's side, he asked: "Brother Jiu, how do you eat octopus?"

Zhu Chongjiu replied, "Eat my ass! If it gets away, can you find its lair? We'll raid its entire place!"

Xiao Hei replied with a bitter face: "Ninth Brother, I can't find it. I just said that I'm not familiar with or know anything about the monsters in the water!"

Zhu Chongjiu said, "Then what should we do? If we can't find it, we can't just work for nothing! We've put in so much effort!"

Seeing the monster corpses floating on the water, a result of the battle between Zhu Chongjiu and the octopus, Xiao Hei suddenly sighed and said, "Brother Jiu, just because we can't find them doesn't mean we can't find other monsters!" As he spoke, Xiao Hei pointed to the monster corpses!

Zhu Chongjiu slapped his forehead and exclaimed, "That's right! How could I not have thought of that? It has to be Xiao Hei. Go into the water and catch one to interrogate!"

Xiao Hei was basking in Zhu Chongjiu's praise with great pride when, unexpectedly, Zhu Chongjiu said this at the end!

Xiao Hei said, "Ninth Brother, you know I'm not good at swimming, unlike you, a high-level Emperor-level water magician. You can catch one with a flick of your finger, so why make me go?"

Xiao Hei, you're wrong to say that.

Think about it, in a battle between two armies, it's always soldiers against soldiers and generals against generals. There's no such thing as a general fighting against a lowly soldier. So, my role is to solve the big threats for you, and then you can deal with the scattered soldiers. Isn't that right, Xiao Hei?

Xiao Hei scratched his head and said, "Ninth Brother, don't be fooled by the fact that my head is over ten feet big. It's all empty. My brain is only the size of a walnut kernel. Although I know you're wrong, I can't find anything wrong with it."

So, I think I'll go!

After Xiao Hei finished speaking, he dove into the water. Ten minutes later, Xiao Hei flew out of the water with a 100-meter-long catfish in his mouth and threw it towards Zhu Chongjiu. After Zhu Chongjiu used his internal energy to control the catfish monster in mid-air, he asked, "Why did it take so long to catch a little monster?"

Xiao Hei replied angrily: "Ninth Brother, you have to know how difficult it is to catch fish in the water. This fish almost made me vomit blood. For a moment, I felt like it was walking me like a dog!"

Zhu Chongjiu said with a smile: "It was Ninth Brother who was being presumptuous. Comrade Xiao Hei, you've worked hard, you've worked hard. Take a rest. The rest of the work... um... I'll leave it to you!"

Because Ninth Brother doesn't communicate with low-level monsters!

After Zhu Chongjiu launched into another round of blatant flattery and brainwashing, Xiao Hei interrogated the catfish monster!

At first, the catfish demon didn't say anything, but after Xiao Hei's mental attack and Zhu Chongjiu's physical attack, the catfish demon confessed everything in less than ten seconds!

After confirming the evidence, Zhu Chongjiu threw the catfish spirit into his storage ring and muttered, "Catfish stewed with eggplant, enough to make the old man burst!"

When I get back, I'll cook a meal for Dean Wang and his mentor. I wonder if eggplant even exists as a vegetable in this world?

After another half-hour flight, the two, one in black and one in white, arrived at the lake the catfish spirit had mentioned. This was the octopus's lair!

Zhu Chongjiu rolled up his sleeves, spat into his hands, rubbed them together, and said to Xiao Hei, "Xiao Hei, I'll give you a big one. Watch closely, and when the time is right, yell at it to freeze it for two seconds, and then I'll kill it."

Xiao Hei nodded solemnly!

Zhu Chongjiu hovered in the air, arms outstretched, hands clasped together, and shouted: "Water Control Technique!"

Then you see Zhu slowly and laboriously opening his arms, and the water below opens along with them!

The entire water surface seemed to have been split open from the middle. As Zhu Chongjiu's veins bulged and he bared his teeth and opened his arms, the opening in the lake below rapidly grew larger and deeper until it split open to a width of nearly a thousand meters and a depth of ten thousand meters. Then, the figure of an octopus appeared in the water. Xiao Hei seized the opportunity and roared. The octopus's huge head exploded instantly and shattered into pieces!