Cave Refuge

If this situation continues, there are two possible outcomes: either the monster's body will feed all the fish gathered nearby until they are full and stop eating, and if there is still enough blood, the monster could eventually revive.

Or the speed of the blood's repair is not fast enough to keep up with the speed of the surrounding fish gnawing, and ultimately the body will be completely devoured by the fish in the water.

Zachary feels the second scenario is more likely, as based on his past experience with fishkeeping, most fish basically do not have a sense of fullness like mammals do, and if fed enough food, those fish would eat until they burst without stopping.

Moreover, because they are drawn by the blood, more and more fish continue to gather here.

Of course, Dong Tianyu did not have the luxury of waiting here for the result to unfold. But just as Dong Tianyu was about to use Universe in the Palm to grab the monster and send it into the Cave for disassembly, the fish that had been gathering around the body to eat it suddenly started dying in large numbers.

Looking at the fish bellies floating up on the water surface, Dong Tianyu instantly associated that with toxic monster flesh.

Indeed, it made sense, as the blood which sprayed out from the corpse, even when mixed into the seawater, could still dissolve the fallen bodies into bloody water.

This bloody water, absorbed by the monster's corpse, would then act as flesh and tissue filling the injured parts of the monster's body. Following this reasoning, it wouldn't be surprising for the monster's body to be toxic.

And as Dong Tianyu watched those dead fish floating on the water surface dissolve into bloody water after not too long, it indirectly confirmed his previous speculation.

After witnessing this, in order to prevent other accidents, Dong Tianyu no longer cared about the fish that were gnawing at the monster's body, intending to directly use Universe in the Palm to capture the monster's body, and then immediately send it into the Cave, decided to break it down to prevent future troubles.

However, when Dong Tianyu tried to capture the monster's body with Universe in the Palm, he found that this technique was completely unable to take the monster's corpse into his palm.

If the monster were in an active and lively state, Universe in the Palm might not work on it. After all, this spell is just a simplified and basic version of Palm Buddha Country. It's not just about controlling creatures stronger than Dong Tianyu, even creatures weaker than him could escape the grasp of Universe in the Palm if they struggled vigorously.

Dong Tianyu was well aware of this situation when he first learned this technique; after all, you get what you pay for. When he was searching for techniques in the Scripture Hall, he found many with similar effects. Depending on the Survival Points required, the final effects of the techniques varied greatly.

For example, Palm Buddha Country and Universe in the Palm - though the latter has a very imposing name, learning the former would grant one a Different Dimension of their own.

After sending people into this Different Dimension, the user can destroy the connection with it and directly banish the enemy sent into this Different Dimension from their own Plane.

Unless the banished person knows the Plane Coordinates of their own Plane, has the ability to locate those Plane Coordinates, and the ability to freely travel through Planes, once banished, they would never be able to return to their original Plane.

Apart from this banishment method, Palm Buddha Country also allows for the connected Different Dimension to be used as a small Spirit Realm, where one can plant or breed their own belongings as long as they don't break the connection with this Different Dimension.

Compared to Palm Buddha Country, the Universe in the Palm learned by Dong Tianyu, although it also involves sending the target into a special space, continually consumes the user's energy for maintaining this space.

If using Palm Buddha Country only requires a lot of energy to create a Different Dimension each time, and later on hardly any energy if not changing Different Dimensions, then the Universe in the Palm is different, as it constantly uses up the energy inside the user's body. If there is insufficient energy to sustain the consumption, the spell would naturally fail.

Furthermore, when using the Universe in the Palm, it doesn't suppress the Divine Skills and abilities of those captured like the Universe in the Sleeve does; once captured by Universe in the Palm, anyone with a bit of strength could escape its control.

Yet, despite its various shortcomings, Dong Tianyu still chose to learn Universe in the Palm without any hesitation.

The reason was quite simple: it was cheap.

After all, at that time, Dong Tianyu just needed to send the felled tree into the Cave, because he originally needed to learn a technique that could send large objects into the Cave. He also didn't consider too many things, so he didn't choose an overly expensive technique and settled for a more affordable one.

It's like buying drones.

With a drone that costs 100,000, I could point out all sorts of flaws.

With a drone that costs 10,000, I could find many areas for optimization.

With one that costs 1,000, I could find various advantages.

And for a drone that costs 100, even if it explodes the moment it takes off, I'd still praise how good the collapse sounded.