Cave Refuge

Just as Dong Tianyu was waiting for the right moment to take action, suddenly the originally blue seawater gradually became covered by green.

At this moment, Dong Tianyu, who was standing in the air waiting for the opportunity, noticed this anomaly first, while the martial artists rushing towards the monster from the water surface also gradually became aware of the situation.

However, at this point they had already begun to pick up speed, and as the saying goes, once the arrow is shot there's no turning back; by this time, they had lost the option to retreat. So even upon noticing the abnormality, they could only grit their teeth and continue their charge forward.

Dong Tianyu, observing from above, although not the first to notice the anomaly, deduced from the expanding green area in the water that there were two vastly different choices at the bottom of his heart.

The reason why those areas of water gradually turned green could either be because the monster noticed the large number of martial artists launching an organized attack from the surface, so to quickly eliminate these martial artists it released a wide-range attack—this greening of the water might be a precursor to it deploying a skill.

Compared to the previous rather pessimistic thought, if one were to think more positively, perhaps someone was attacking it from underwater, not only succeeding in injuring the opponent, but judging from the situation, it might very likely have caused heavy damage to the monster.

Extending the boldness a bit further, perhaps the recent incident of the monster crouching could be reinterpreted not as preparing for a better counter-attack but rather as crouching down due to sustaining severe injuries for recovery, rather than continuing to move forward.

Before the martial artists rushing from the water surface could reach the monster, its two huge arms had already dived into the depths, doing something unknown. However, the remaining six arms still on the surface began to swing incessantly, attempting to prevent the martial artists rushing towards it.

At this time, those few arms attacked the martial artists not by using the mouth in their palms to spit acid but with pure physical moves, stirring the water while ostensibly attacking but actually driving away those martial artists trying to approach.

The opportunity Dong Tianyu was waiting for in the sky was exactly this; only when all the arms of the monster were in motion could he find the right moment to attack.

The more critical the moment, the more one needs to stay calm.

At this moment, Dong Tianyu's body began to involuntarily conceal the life force he usually emitted unconsciously. As his life force continued to diminish, Dong Tianyu seemed as if he had merged into nature.

While this sounds impressive, the actual effect is quite different from the fantasy.

This state of merging into nature is not like merging with the Heavenly Dao, where one becomes one with it and finally achieves the notion of "I am the Heavenly Dao."

Instead, it makes oneself become something that can be universally seen and easily dismissed, simply put, making most people subconsciously overlook his existence.

To put it simply, Dong Tianyu entering this state is like a drop of colored water merging into the sea.

Since the sea is composed of countless drops of water, merging this drop into it makes it very difficult to locate directly. However, because this drop of colored water is different from the rest of the sea, if one concentrates their efforts, it is still possible to find that unique drop in the vast ocean.

Dong Tianyu was in this state right now. Although it was very easy for others to overlook him, if someone deliberately searched, they could still spot him.

Perhaps because Dong Tianyu hid his presence in this state, the monster felt that Dong Tianyu had left, causing the arms that were originally prepared to defend at any time to attack more recklessly and indiscriminately.

With the obstruction of those six arms on the surface, many of the martial artists who launched charges from the sea were either directly slapped into the depths by the huge arms or were sent flying.

Remember, they are at sea right now, so the two abilities that would normally be fatal on land are much weakened in the water.

After all, if it were on land, being hit by that giant hand would definitely result in being crushed into mush with no chance of recovery.

However, at sea, even if hit head-on by the giant hand's slap, at most they would be driven into the deep water. With a bit of luck, they might suffer some cuts and bruises, and once the giant hand moved away, there might not even be any broken bones.

Being flung away didn't differ much from being plunged into the water since there was seawater below, meaning it was highly unlikely to sustain secondary injuries while falling, so the chances of survival were very high.

These martial artists, realizing they were not in grave danger, became even more courageous and fierce in their charge.

Seeing that the six hands were fully restrained by the martial artists, Zachary seized the moment and channeled his Spirit Power directly into the Flying Swords in his hand.

As more Spirit Power was infused by Zachary, a Sword Light suddenly appeared around the edge of the Longsword in his hand.

The moment was ripe,

The Longsword awaited,

In the blink of an eye, Zachary appeared behind the monster's nape, like teleporting, and once again drove his Longsword into the nape.

Even though the creature had tough skin defense, the Longsword, enveloped in Spiritual Sword Energy, still easily pierced into its nape.

As Zachary forcefully channeled more Spirit Power, the Sword Light that initially covered less than half a meter around the blade suddenly extended outward for more than ten meters.

Then, the Sword Light pierced through the monster's nape, drilling out from the front of its throat.

Yet even with such damage inflicted, Zachary did not cease infusing Spirit Power into the Longsword but instead increased the intensity of his Power infusion.

At that moment, Zachary could faintly hear the Longsword's wail, and with gritted teeth, he charged, making the initially thrust Longsword circle around the neck of the creature.

Unfortunately, halfway through his run, the Longsword couldn't hold on any longer. With the blade shattering, the Sword Light that had pierced through the monster's neck vanished along with the splintered blade.

Although Zachary's attack did not decapitate the creature, it severed the spinal column in its neck, the front of the throat, and about a third of the area cut by the Sword Light.

In the pre-Natural Disaster era, if a regular person were to sustain such severe injuries, not to mention this level of trauma, just a fractured neck nerve and a shattered throat would be fatal.

However, that monster was not human. Even with about a third of its neck cut off, particularly that crucial third containing the esophagus, blood vessels, and nerves, it did not die immediately.

What's more, the wound area previously split by the Sword Light now rapidly sprouted new flesh buds, which started to heal the bifurcated area at an incredibly fast rate after their emergence.

Witnessing this, Zachary, who had decided not to use explosives, directly took out all the so-called strongest explosives, CL-20, without hesitation and decisively stuffed them into the unhealed flesh buds.

Since the explosives had been individually packaged at one kilogram each at the time of purchase, Zachary didn't bother unwrapping them and stuffed the boxes directly into the wound.

After all the explosives were packed into the wound, Zachary didn't forget to insert the already activated timer Detonator close to the CL-20.

Watching the wound on its neck gradually healing, Zachary swiftly distanced himself with Sword Control.

If the CL-20's potency was indeed as Thomas Jefferson had claimed, being stronger than C4 Explosives, then the blast damage, even if it wouldn't kill the creature, should be enough to severely injure the behemoth.