Cave Refuge

However, Dong Tianyu had forgotten one thing: since ancient times, turning dark increases strength tenfold, while whitening weakens it by a third. When the core in the nest was found by Dong Tianyu, it meant that the item was already whitened, and its effectiveness naturally decreased significantly.

Watching the Fierce Ghost shuttle back and forth in the underwater ruins but never finding the core of the watery nest, Dong Tianyu, who initially stayed on shore unwilling to enter the water, had no choice but to dive in himself to search.

After submerging to the depths, Dong Tianyu first used his Divine Sense to explore, but even after a long search, he didn't find such a core, nor any item containing energy.

So Dong Tianyu simply decided to take a drastic measure, directly absorbing the ruins of the watery nest into the Storage space.

After the seabed had been cleaned by Dong Tianyu, he returned ashore and then simply organized the construction debris collected into the Storage space.

Using this method, Dong Tianyu eventually found an ordinary-looking bead among the building debris, but this ordinary-looking bead was beyond the lock of his Divine Sense.

It was like an unactivated strange object, visible to the naked eye, but in Dong Tianyu's Divine Sense, the space where the bead was located appeared empty.

With experience in searching for strange objects, Dong Tianyu quickly noticed the anomaly of the bead, and he could naturally conclude smoothly that this thing was likely the core of the watery nest.

If, after clearing out the building debris collected in the Storage space, Dong Tianyu hadn't found any other special items, then he could be certain that this thing was indeed the core of the underwater nest.

Eventually, as Dong Tianyu had guessed, after clearing the building debris in the Storage space, no other special items were found, so Dong Tianyu directly determined that this thing was indeed the core of the underwater nest.

Yet, according to logic, since the Fishman Priest on the altar had been killed by Dong Tianyu, and the flag in his hand had been collected into the Cave, and the underwater nest had also been destroyed by Dong Tianyu, and the supposed core of the nest was also held by Dong Tianyu.

All valuable items on this Mysterious Ship had been gathered by Dong Tianyu, so at this point, the ship should have begun to collapse automatically, just like those that Dong Tianyu had destroyed before.

Yet looking around, nothing had changed just like before, Dong Tianyu suddenly felt that something was wrong unless this place wasn't the core area of the Giant Ghost Ship, otherwise, such a situation should not have occurred.

The fact was just as Dong Tianyu had guessed, despite his great effort in breaking through this area, it was only a more important node within the Giant Ghost Ship. In gaming terms, this wasn't the main base but just a sub-base.

It didn't take long for Dong Tianyu to come to terms with this, and although he felt somewhat disappointed, he could only accept this reality with a wry smile.

Having had a previous method of dealing with the enemy, the entrance to the connecting channel was just nearby. Although Dong Tianyu didn't have many Thermobaric Bombs in stock, detonating them in other places didn't put as much pressure on him.

Having already cleared up this area, Dong Tianyu began to observe his surroundings. It didn't take long for him to notice that the Eerie Fog towards the North was denser than in other directions.

Knowing that the Thermobaric Bomb that had exploded earlier had made the air here fresh, but seeing that dense Eerie Fog coming from a distance, Dong Tianyu thought that aside from the flag in the hands of the Fishman Priest, there must be something else nearby capable of creating the Eerie Fog.

With this thought, Dong Tianyu flew towards the direction with denser Eerie Fog using Sword Control.

Just as Dong Tianyu had speculated, as he continued forward, the Eerie Fog in the air here became denser.

When the Eerie Fog became dense enough that Dong Tianyu couldn't see three meters ahead under normal circumstances, he discovered through his Divine Sense that the situation was similar to the previous location.

However, it was uncertain whether it was because Dong Tianyu had previously used the Three Flags to dissipate the Eerie Fog at the entrance channel or because this place was originally stronger than that one. In any case, the density of the Eerie Fog here was much thicker than when he first reached Lake Heart Island.

While Dong Tianyu was hesitating whether to go directly there, through his Divine Sense, he saw some Fishmen Spawn crawling onto the shore, just like the previous ones in the lake.

As soon as they climbed ashore, their bodies couldn't help but absorb the Eerie Fog in the air, and their bodies began to grow rapidly; in the blink of an eye, the Fishmen Spawn that had just emerged from the water grew into adult Fishmen.

Looking at their hunched bodies, Dong Tianyu wondered if the spines they had brought up from the lake bottom were due to their youth.

For a while, Dong Tianyu felt that these Fishmen seemed somewhat stiff-witted, even though as they absorbed more Eerie Fog, their eyes gradually showed signs of agility.

Yet Dong Tianyu always felt these Fishmen looked familiar, and after a long while, he realized these were the kind of Fishmen that had tried to sneak into the connecting channel during the chaos to enter into his Companion Spiritual Treasure.