High Martial Arts: Slay enemies to become stronger, forge invincibility from billions of corpses.

Song Chen sat on the rocks for a while, going through the information Lan had given him from beginning to end.

This information is useful, but not enough; Blue knows too little.

To find out what's really going on outside, we need to find someone with better information.

He immediately thought of the messenger beast.

Lan said that the messenger beast is the central hub of the alien beast intelligence network, transmitting messages station by station, and can quickly spread information throughout the entire sea area.

If you can catch a messenger beast and pry something out of its mouth, it will be more useful than asking ten jellyfish.

Song Chen stood up, stretched his wrists, and said it was time to go hunting.

He jumped into the sea.

This time, we didn't linger in the shallow waters but headed straight for the deep sea.

The seabed topography of the Shattered Star Sea is complex, and the concentration of spiritual energy is much higher than that of ordinary sea areas. High-level alien beasts like to build nests in such places, and the messenger beasts are no exception.

Lan once said that the most common messenger beast was the Ghost-Faced Fish Demon.

He had killed two of those creatures during his breakout and knew their distinctive scent characteristics.

The fourth-tier Ghost-Faced Fish Demon's mental power is significantly stronger than other sea beasts of the same tier. Its mental power fluctuations in the water resemble a vertical thorn, making it easily identifiable.

Song Chen swam on the seabed for about two hours and then sensed the presence of life.

The spiritual energy fluctuations of the three fourth-tier ghost-faced fish demons came simultaneously from the southeast direction.

They were very close together, and their mental energy fluctuations almost overlapped, suggesting it was a small communication node.

Song Chen concealed his aura and crept towards that direction.

The depth increased, from one hundred meters to two hundred meters, and then to three hundred meters.

The water pressure was high enough to deform ordinary steel, but for Song Chen's body, it only caused his skin to tighten slightly.

The psionic particles were more concentrated in the deep sea, and the eerie blue light illuminated the seabed like a strange starry sky.

He saw the communication node.

Three demonic fish with ghostly faces were entrenched at the entrance of an underwater cave.

They were slightly smaller than the one they encountered during the breakout, about twenty-five meters long, with silvery-white scales that gleamed coldly in the psionic light.

Three faces resembling human old women were huddled together, communicating with each other using their mental powers. Their shrill voices reverberated in the water, like three rusty saws rubbing against each other.

There were also sea creatures around them.

Dozens of second-tier armored sharks swam around the perimeter of the cave, acting as guards.

Several third-tier iron-spined sea serpents were hidden in the crevices of the rocks on both sides of the cave entrance, their vertical pupils gleaming with an amber light in the darkness.

It should be a small outpost.

Song Chen didn't rush to make a move. He pressed himself against a rock, and the golden light of his Illusionary Eyes receded to the deepest part of his pupils, observing for a full ten minutes.

The three demonic fish with ghostly faces communicated frequently, and their spiritual energy fluctuations spread outwards in waves.

The largest of them, nearly thirty meters long, had the strongest mental energy fluctuations and was likely the leader of this node.

The other two were slightly smaller, with mental energy fluctuations swirling around the larger one, as if reporting something.

Song Chen narrowed his eyes slightly, and then he moved.

Wings of Gale unfurled in the water, and the Grandmaster-level movement technique, powered by 900 points of Qi and Blood, instantly pushed his speed to its limit, leaving a white cavity in the water, and his whole body shot towards the cave entrance like a torpedo.

The first to spot him was a second-tier armored shark on the periphery.

Its eyes caught a blurry shadow rushing out from behind the rocks, but before it could react, the shadow had already swept past it.

The blade flashed.

The head of the armored shark was separated from its body, and its dark green blood exploded into a cloud of mist in the seawater.

[A Tier 2 alien beast has been killed, gaining 51 kill points.]

Song Chen didn't stop. His figure moved through the group of armored sharks, and he slashed with the Heavenly Blade on both sides, splitting the two armored sharks that were trying to pounce in the middle in half.

At the same time, he reached out with his left hand, his five fingers gripping the upper jaw of an armored shark, lifting it up from the water, and swinging it around to smash it against the other shark.

The sound of bones cracking echoed muffledly under the water pressure.

In three seconds, five armored sharks were killed.

The remaining armored sharks scattered and fled. The killing intent emanating from this human was too intense, as thick as ink dripping into clear water, instantly staining the surrounding seawater with the aura of death.

The iron-backed sea serpents burst out from the crevices of the reef. Three third-tier sea serpents simultaneously attacked Song Chen from three directions, their densely packed, barbed teeth gleaming coldly in their gaping maws.

Song Chen's figure tumbled among the sea pythons, the knife moving with him.

The first cut pierced the upper jaw of the sea python on the left side, penetrating its entire skull, and when it was pulled out, it brought out a clump of dark green brain matter.

The second horizontal slash cut open the throat of the middle sea serpent, severing its blood vessels and trachea. The gushing blood stained the seawater a dark green.

The third vertical cleavage split the serpent's face in two, from the top of its head to its jaw.

[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 587 kill points.]

[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 402 kill points.]

[A Tier 3 alien beast has been killed, gaining 476 kill points.]

Three slashes, three third-tier sea pythons.

From taking action to clearing the surrounding area, it takes no more than ten seconds.

At the entrance to the cave, the three masked fish demons finally realized what was happening.

Their communication ceased the moment Song Chen made his move.

Three old women-like faces turned towards Song Chen simultaneously, their vertical pupils flashing with astonishment and anger, followed by a sharp, penetrating killing intent.

"Humans!"

The largest of the demonic fish-faced creatures let out a shriek.

Its mouth opened to an incredible angle, and the sound waves formed a visible shockwave in the water, blasting towards Song Chen.

Song Chen had seen this move many times before. The mental barrier was constructed in his consciousness, and the sound wave impact hit the barrier like waves crashing against rocks, shattering it with a loud bang.

Immediately afterwards, a figure burst out from the shattered sound waves, heading straight for the largest ghost-faced fish demon.

The other two ghost-faced fish demons moved simultaneously, sending out dozens of bone spikes from their sides, blocking Song Chen's path from both sides.

Song Chen's figure weaved through the bone spurs.

The first bone spur grazed his left shoulder, the second flew over his head, the third, the fourth, the fifth...

His body made tiny adjustments in the water, each adjustment just barely grazing the bone spurs, the closest one missing his skin by less than a centimeter.

One centimeter is all it takes to miss.

The Grandmaster-level Gale Wings, with its absolute control over fluid forces, allows him to move with incredible agility in the water.

Song Chen walked through the bone-spiky rain.

His figure appeared directly above the largest demon-faced fish, holding the Heavenly Blade upside down with the tip pointing downwards, and stabbed it into its back.

He deliberately controlled his strength, and the tip of the knife pierced half a foot, just enough to get stuck between his spine and muscles.

Purple lightning seeped in from the tip of the blade, spreading along the spine and paralyzing the entire nerve center of the demon-faced fish.

The demonic fish let out a shrill scream, its body convulsing violently as its thirty-meter-long form writhed wildly in the water, trying to throw Song Chen off.

But Song Chen's hand holding the knife hilt remained motionless, the power of nine hundred points of Qi and blood pinning it firmly to the spot.

Upon seeing this, the other two ghost-faced fish demons screamed and pounced.

Their mouths opened simultaneously, this time not with sound waves, but with two globs of dark green venom.

The venom diffused into a mist in the water, enveloping Song Chen.

With a wave of his left hand, Song Chen activated the Nine Heavens Thunderclap.

Purple lightning exploded from his palm, forming an electric net in the water.

The moment the poisonous fog touched the electric grid, it was evaporated into nothingness by the high temperature of the lightning. The electric grid continued its momentum and directly enveloped the two ghost-faced fish demons.

Lightning exploded on their bodies, charring and curling their silvery-white scales to reveal the charred flesh beneath.

The two demonic fish-faced creatures screamed simultaneously, their bodies convulsing in the lightning.

Song Chen did not kill them; he controlled the power of the lightning to just enough to incapacitate them.

The two demonic fish lay limp on the seabed, their bodies still twitching slightly, but they could no longer shoot out even a single bone spike.