Cave Refuge

Subsequently, recalling the purpose of this visit, Zachary prepared to target a few more bases. Although Zachary had no idea how much Plane Origin was contained within the treasure he had acquired, he knew that the batch he'd gotten his hands on certainly contained an enormous amount of Plane Origin.

Just as Zachary was about to take out more offerings from the Cave to sacrifice, he suddenly noticed a slight vibration in the ground. The frequency of the tremors was high, yet almost imperceptible to the ordinary person.

The reason why Zachary could detect such subtle vibrations was that ever since he had entered this plane, he had been constantly using his Divine Sense to scan his surroundings.

As a result of the energy consumed, Zachary had maintained a detailed scan within a hundred meters, which naturally enabled him to detect the ground vibrations immediately.

As the amplitude of the ground vibrations grew, even though he didn't know what was causing the disturbance, Zachary knew that if he took to the air, any trouble on the ground wouldn't pose any threat to him.

Perhaps because he had already risen into the air with Sword Control, when Zachary saw the now visible tremors on the ground, he did nothing superfluous and just silently waited in the aerial position.

At the moment, Zachary was located amidst a cluster of buildings resembling ruins, so it seemed unlikely that other humans were settled in the vicinity.

Since there were no humans around, Zachary didn't need to restrain himself or worry about others during the impending battle.

Although in a real life-or-death fight, Zachary wouldn't be foolish enough to sacrifice himself for righteousness, he had always maintained a high moral standard when it didn't concern his own safety.

With the vibrations growing stronger, Zachary was completely focused and alert, expecting something to burst from the ground and attack him.

The intense vibrations of the quake suddenly stopped, leaving not a single tremor to be felt.

Zachary was somewhat puzzled; one second the earth was shaking violently, the next it was as if it had never happened.

As two hypotheses intertwined in Zachary's mind, with neither gaining the upper hand, dozens of exceedingly transparent tentacles, virtually invisible, quietly emerged from the ground, stretching upwards, intending to bind the somewhat distracted Zachary on the spot.

As those invisible tentacles grew incessantly, Zachary seemed oblivious to them, remaining rooted to his spot in midair without moving an inch.

When the tentacles came close to Zachary, they did not act immediately. Instead, they formed a giant Cage with more and more transparent tentacles emerging, encompassing both Zachary and the Flying Swords below him.

Once the Cage of tentacles had fully restrained Zachary, the gigantic creature that had been hidden underground emerged without a sound.

At the moment of the giant creature's appearance, Zachary felt a sense of astonishment. With half of its body now surfacing above ground, the creature seemed as if it swam in a pool.

In front of this monster, the solid earth flowed as easily as liquid, allowing free passage in and out.

After observing the creature's true form, Zachary intended to capture and closely examine it when he suddenly noticed that the Cage trapping him was shrinking.

Watching the tentacles about to touch his body, although their appearance was now clean and transparent, who could know whether they had touched anything unsavory.

So, in order to spare himself any disgust, dozens of Flying Swords suddenly appeared around Zachary. Then, just like before, swords circled around him, and with another unified assault, they shredded the enveloping tentacles into pieces.

Observing the fragments scattered everywhere, Zachary couldn't believe how weak the creature's defensive power was; it turned out that a mere routine attack from the Flying Swords could slash the tentacles, which had formed a Cage, into pieces.

When Zachary saw the tentacle Cage that had enclosed him so effortlessly destroyed by the Flying Swords, he was taken aback and stood as if still fighting the air, frozen on the spot.

It was only when Zachary used his Divine Sense to trace the origin of the tentacles, did he see the massive creature that had been hidden underground, now slowly sinking back down.

However, since he had already noticed that guy, Dong Tianyu naturally took the opportunity to engrave a Divine Sense mark on the other party. In this way, as long as the other party reappeared within the coverage range of Dong Tianyu's Divine Sense, they would inevitably be discovered by Dong Tianyu instantaneously.

Of course, engraving the Divine Sense mark immediately was not intended to let the opponent escape, but to pre-emptively mark the target for tracking and prevent them from fleeing.

After the mark was engraved, dozens of Flying Swords, like cutting grass, swiftly chopped the surrounding tentacles into pieces, much like reaping wheat.

Noticing that Dong Tianyu was quickly slaying those tentacles, the huge creature that had been slowly sinking started to accelerate its descent.

However, facing this situation, Dong Tianyu didn't have any effective methods of interception at hand. Just as he was at a loss on how to stop the creature from leaving, he suddenly recalled a scene from the Galaxy Warriors.

When facing an underwater monster with extremely strong armor, Dong Tianyu suddenly remembered the fighting method used by the protagonist in the movie against such a creature.

Pierce a point to create a breach.

With a gesture from Dong Tianyu, the Flying Swords that had been circling around him transformed in the blink of an eye into a gigantic sword, and then it stabbed down instantly at the back shell of the creature that was sinking below.

Logically, whether it be this creature or others, their back shells are almost always the sturdiest part of their bodies and are unlikely to be damaged under normal circumstances.

After all, creatures capable of breaking through the shell would, upon confrontation, find the outcome the same, with or without the shell.

Those unable to penetrate the shell would find it nearly impossible to kill such creatures.

The giant Flying Sword pierced through the guy's back shell, and although it only created a small crack, that was for a creature of immense size.

But if measured against Dong Tianyu's size, the Flying Sword had broken an opening about a meter long in the monster's back shell.

An over one-meter-long and less-than-half-a-meter-wide wound was ample for Dong Tianyu's next move.

Perhaps it was because he had watched that movie since childhood, so in previous battles, Dong Tianyu had frequently used this combat method, which had proven to be quite effective.

The creature was already diving rapidly, followed by the severing of tentacles that formed a Cage, and then came the giant Flying Sword that punctured a hole in its strongest spot, the back shell.

Each event accelerated the creature's continuous descent into the depths.

Just as the guy was about to completely sink into the ground, Dong Tianyu rushed above the cracked wound with extreme speed, then inserted the C4 Explosives, shaped like a Long Stick, one after another, through the fractured opening and into the body of the creature.

When facing an enemy with such strong outer defenses, it's not always necessary to find their weak spots. If one has sufficient strength, like what Dong Tianyu was doing, one can find a way to break a small hole in the strongest defensive position and then stuff the previously prepared Explosives in through the wound.

One can indeed discover by observing outdoor insects that the more solid the shell of shelled insects, the flesh protected by the solid shell tends to be more tender and smooth.

With dozens of sticks of C4 Explosives being inserted into the creature by Dong Tianyu, the gigantic monster was rapidly tunneling underground.

In just the blink of an eye, the creature was nearly out of the controlling range of the detonator in hand.

Perceiving this, Dong Tianyu immediately pressed the button in his hand, and the C4 Explosives that had been inserted into the monster's body detonated instantaneously.