Chapter 28: The Onslaught of Giant Waves

Demon!

A naturally born spiritual species of the highest rank.

It can easily give birth to powerful beings at the lord level.

If someone dares to capture demons and extract their souls to construct their own secondary soul,

then what awaits them is the demon's soul devouring their soul in turn and taking over their body.

For Gune, relying solely on his own soul, he couldn't contend with a demon either; he would still die.

But borrowing the reincarnation function, it was entirely different.

Gune first sealed the demon's broken and incomplete soul to construct a secondary soul, waiting until the demon's soul had not yet recovered on its own.

Then Gune performed a reincarnation.

In this way, the system's peculiar power would completely obliterate the demon's will within that soul's power. The demon's soul would perfectly become Gune's own secondary soul, without carrying any demonic will.

At that time, Gune's secondary soul would truly become a powerful demon, a demon lord-level existence capable of easily devouring any soul.

When that time came, with the main soul and secondary soul as one dual soul, Gune could completely transfer all the pressure on his main soul to the secondary soul.

It must be known that a demon's soul's ability to resist soul attacks was quite formidable.

Once Gune's soul was strong enough to allow complementarity between the main soul and secondary soul,

even if Gune's main soul suffered great trauma or even shattered, the secondary soul could quickly nourish the main soul back, allowing Gune's main soul to reconstitute.

And at that point, Gune would be able to do many things.

Utilizing the power of the demon secondary soul, Gune's main soul should be able to perform soul projection, making Gune himself a domain caster.

And the demon secondary soul could easily leave the body, freely flying over the sea, though it couldn't be too far from the body.

Moreover, using the demon's devouring and soul-probing abilities, Gune could devour the souls of slain enemies and then obtain important information from the residual spiritual fragments of their souls.

At the same time, Gune would also possess some of the demon's soul attack methods.

Of course, all of this could only be executed after encountering and capturing a powerful demon lord.

And hunting a powerful demon lord was obviously not easy.

Fortunately, Gune was well prepared.

This time at sea, Gune had many things to do.

Search for treasure, enhance strength, condense a secondary soul, inherit the demonic runes, and even track the traces of those heretical cults, among other things.

And Gune was not in a hurry; he would develop steadily, improving his strength without arrogance or impatience, perfectly.

He gathered all the props for the Netherblood Ritual Incantation.

Waving his hand to withdraw the numerous puppet threads, Gune pushed open the window.

The sea breeze poured in, quickly dispersing the smell of burning candles and the bloody scent of burnt blood in the room.

Feeling the sea breeze, looking at the ocean shrouded in the night,

Gune completely merged into the dark oceanic night.

…

The next few days of sailing were very calm.

After all, it was a coastal area, free from pirate rampages and harassment from deep-sea alien races.

In his spare time, Gune could fish on the boat, drink coffee, and the like.

Unconsciously, the Demon Whale had neared the deep sea.

One day.

Standing at the bow of the Demon Whale, Gune looked at the coastline ahead, his eyes slightly narrowed.

At this moment, the sea demon ship was at the boundary between shallow and deep sea.

And in the deep-sea area of the "Mist Sea" ahead, a dark, oppressive fog stretched from the sea surface to the sky.

The thick fog blotted out the sun.

And for the Mist Sea, this was completely normal.

"The good days are coming to an end," Gune thought to himself as he looked at the thick fog.

The deep-sea mist area was not as quiet and comfortable as the coastal area.

The sea breeze began to blow at some point, growing stronger and stronger.

Waves of two or three meters began to surge under the howling wind.

The sea demon ship on the surface began to rock continuously with the surging waves.

At the same time, as a wooden sailing ship, its characteristic creaking sounds rang out continuously with the ship's rocking, but these sounds were easily drowned out by the roaring waves.

Footsteps sounded behind Gune.

Standing steadily on the deck, Gune turned around to see his three deputies.

"Captain, there will be more violent winds and waves soon, possibly waves over ten meters high."

The navigator Old Chart said loudly, afraid the sea breeze would carry away his voice and Gune wouldn't hear.

"Time to submerge?" Gune asked.

"Yes," Old Chart nodded.

"Understood, Senior Yasen, please take charge of the submersion!" Gune said.

"No problem."

Yasen nodded.

Then Gune shouldered the Gale and walked toward his captain's cabin.

And Buster also used his deep voice to vibrate the source force.

"Submerge, submerge, everyone prepare to submerge."

The voice spread throughout the sea demon ship.

The many crew members, already prepared, immediately began to pack up their belongings.

The submersion of the sea demon ship was not like a submarine, where the interior remained watertight.

When the sea demon ship submerged, the deck would open gaps on its own, allowing seawater to flood all cabins.

Except for the sealed compartment storing food, the entire sea demon ship would be completely soaked in seawater.

At this time, bedding, clothes, and other small items had to be packed and stored in storage equipment.

They might be washed away by the seawater, or even if not, prolonged soaking would damage them.

Back in the captain's cabin, Gune manipulated the puppet threads to quickly pack away everything that needed to be stored.

After that, Gune took out two pieces of extraordinary equipment: "Deep Sea Gills" and "Deep Sea Fins."

Gune had powerful source-force breathing ability, and his strong extraordinary body allowed him to stay submerged for long periods.

But the high pressure of the deep sea would subject Gune to immense pressure; constantly bearing such pressure made resting underwater impossible.

However, extraordinary equipment like the "Deep Sea Gills" could perfectly solve the problem of internal and external pressure.

This mithril-grade and perfectly nurtured "Mithril Dragon Gills" allowed Gune to easily adapt to a deep-sea environment of three thousand meters; with slow descent and gradual adaptation, five thousand meters was also possible.

The mithril-grade "Dolphin Fins" allowed Gune to swim swiftly in water like a fish, rather than moving slowly with his dog paddle.

When encountering battle, this mithril-grade "Dolphin Fins" could provide Gune with good mobility.

Taking out a pair of deep blue, half-palm-sized deep-sea gills, Gune pressed them against the area just below his ears. As source force surged in,

the Mithril Dragon Gills immediately came to life, quickly integrating into the area behind Gune's ears.

The slightly opening and closing Mithril Dragon Gills revealed blue gills inside.

But as Gune's blood entered the blue gills, the blue quickly turned into blood mixed with a little dark gold.

After this period of time, Gune's blood pool continuously refined the blood of the Death Beast, and Gune himself could produce blood.

The Death Beast's blood in his body had gradually begun to transform toward a dark gold color.

Through a few memories of the Death Beast, Gune knew

that when the Death Beast's blood fully transformed into dark gold blood, it would evolve into a "Time Beast Lord."

The Death Beast's original name was "Time Beast," a peculiar creature capable of controlling time.

But it seemed Gune had not acquired this talent for time manipulation.

Fortunately, Gune had fully inherited the bloodline power of the Death Beast, and had even nurtured quite a bit of "Annihilation Energy."

Through the blood pool's cultivation of blood, he could transform himself into a "Death Beast Lord."

When Gune realized this, he was also very shocked at first.

The inheritance information of the Blood Curse Master only mentioned blood exchange, that devouring the flesh and blood of powerful creatures could enhance oneself, even becoming an existence of the same level as that type of powerful creature.

But regarding the information that after devouring and transforming, one could still cultivate the blood of such extraordinary creatures to raise one's rank, it had never mentioned a single word.

However, Gune speculated that the devouring ability of the blood pool itself could not cultivate or improve.

But after his reincarnation, the things devoured and absorbed were completely transformed into his own.

Thus, a state of cultivable growth appeared.

Naturally, Gune was very satisfied with this situation.

Who would want to risk provoking a terrifying creature like a dragon lord when they could steadily cultivate and evolve into a lord?

After equipping the "Mithril Dragon Gills," it was time to put on the mithril-grade "Dolphin Fins."