Chapter 423 - 219: Secret Sea Rising
"These things!"
Lu Luwei could clearly feel how extraordinary these items were.
Even though Lu Luwei was now using equipment crafted from Submerged Land Level Demons, she could still sense the superior quality of these items.
"You went ’borrowing’ again?" Lu Luwei asked in surprise.
Lu Cang shook his head firmly. "I just found them lying around outside."
’Found them lying around...’
’What are you talking about?’
’Are you sure these things, emanating a strong aura of light and dark, are something you can just find lying around?’
’This is obviously stolen property!’
"Please accept them, Lu Luwei. They’re a token of my appreciation."
Lu Luwei’s face turned a bit redder.
Before, she was blushing from embarrassment, but this time... Lu Luwei’s heart couldn’t help but beat faster.
’But he’s still just a child.’
’There’s an eleven-year age gap between us.’
’Though I have a long life ahead of me—I should be able to reliably reach Level 6, at least.’
’That gives me a lifespan of around three hundred years.’
’Lu Cang’s future accomplishments won’t be any less than mine. When you’re looking at a lifespan of over three hundred years, an eleven-year age gap is completely negligible.’
’But...’
’No, what on earth am I thinking?’
’At the end of the day, he’s still just a child right now.’
Lu Cang grinned. "If you take these, we’ll be partners in crime."
The moment he said this, Lu Luwei’s reverie was shattered.
’Who’s your partner in crime?’
’Sigh... But it’s hard to say no after taking something from someone.’
’Still, Lu Luwei couldn’t bear to give up this great equipment, to say nothing of the Bow Skills and Enhancement Techniques.’
In the end, after an internal struggle, she could only accept them.
Lu Luwei closed her eyes.
She took a deep breath and let it out in a long sigh. "All right... just say it. What else do you want me to do?"
Lu Cang: "Lu Luwei, I want..."
...
「The Secret Sea」
Lu Cang and Lu Luwei arrived on a beach by the Secret Sea.
The place was deserted. Besides Lu Luwei and Lu Cang, there was no one else around.
"So, what are we doing here, exactly?"
Lu Cang had said they were going to the beach.
’So I should change into a swimsuit, then,’ was what Lu Luwei had thought.
"Hmm..."
「Divine Level Future Projection」
Lu Cang began the Future Preview, starting from this very moment.
"Lu Luwei, can you help me see what exactly lies in the depths of the Secret Sea?"
Lu Cang’s own Perception Range was only 600 kilometers.
But Lu Luwei’s Perception Range...
Back when she first promoted to a Level 5 Observer, it was 30,000 kilometers.
A great deal of time had passed since then, and Lu Luwei had not been idle. Her Perception Range had now expanded to 50,000 kilometers.
Even at Lu Cang’s speed, it would take him around twenty seconds to move beyond her range of Perception.
Or, for that matter, to charge her from the very edge of it.
Twenty seconds. That was a long time.
"We’re just exploring the Secret Sea?"
Lu Luwei extended her Perception into the ocean, sharing it with Lu Cang...
WHOOSH—
Her Perception instantly penetrated layer after layer of the deep sea. The Secret Sea was indeed unique; its properties obstructed her Perception to some degree.
For Lu Luwei, however, the resistance wasn’t particularly strong.
Her Perception continued to probe downward, soon reaching a depth of roughly 45,000 kilometers.
Within this area of her Perception, she saw swarms of rampaging Sea Demons.
Sea Demons were a special case.
It was rare to see them in Dungeons, since the vast majority of Dungeons were land-based and had nothing to do with the ocean.
Therefore, they appeared almost exclusively in the sea.
The deeper the waters, the stronger the Sea Demons, but they generally capped out around Tier Five.
What was even more troublesome was that...
Being in the ocean, movement was somewhat restricted. The deeper you went, the more your Perception was limited. Furthermore, the seawater of the Secret Sea was also rather unusual.
At great depths, the water of the Secret Sea became extremely viscous.
In the regions where Tier Five Demons appeared, the seawater itself could pose a significant obstacle even to Level 5 Adventurers.
The power of all Magic and Combat Skills was greatly diminished in the ocean.
Assassins would also find it difficult to conceal themselves. The demons of the deep were extremely sensitive to the flow of water, and an Assassin’s every move would cause telltale currents.
It was difficult to fight to one’s full potential in the ocean.
Injuries were difficult to recover from; the seawater would cause them to worsen rapidly, making healing much harder.
The Sea Demons, on the other hand, were in their element—like fish in water. Their combat strength far exceeded that of land-based Demons on solid ground.
For all these reasons, no one was willing to dive into the deep sea and battle the Sea Demons.
Yet now, Lu Luwei’s Perception plunged into the deep sea, reaching the region of the Tier Five Demons in a single, sweeping probe.
"Lu Luwei, wait for me a second."
Lu Cang walked to the water’s edge.
He raised one hand, and streams of Soul Light surged into the great ocean!
HUMMM—
With the Soul Infusion, this stretch of sea gradually began to glow.
This time, Lu Cang didn’t infuse his entire soul at once.
The result of infusing his entire soul was too terrifying.
Lu Cang injected a mere 500,000 soul... and saw that while the surface remained unchanged, in the waters below, Tier Five Demons were already beginning to rise.
And below the region of Tier Five Demons, Tier Six Sea Demons also began to appear.
The feeling was as if an entire layer of the ocean was rising upward.