"What...what is it doing?" The burly man stared at the scene of it frantically absorbing seawater, his face full of confusion.

The cold-looking young man frowned, analyzing in confusion, "A devouring skill? But there's nothing around here except seawater. We've already wiped out all the marine beasts in the ruins. Even if it wanted to use a devouring skill to heal, absorbing those mangled corpses wouldn't have any actual healing effect, right?"

The alluring woman forced herself to stand up, her face pale, and replied, "Could it be that it's just simply venting?"

"wrong!"

At first, Mo Lao also frowned and remained silent, but his gaze was fixed on the deformed space above the giant beast's maw.

"Look at the spatial barrier over there!" Old Mo suddenly pointed to the sky, his voice filled with shock.

Everyone looked up.

Under the behemoth's bottomless, black hole-like violent suction, the once indestructible entrance passage between the Castlandis ruins and the Atlantic Ocean began to tremble and deform violently!

"Click...click!"

With a piercing sound of space shattering, the seal on the ruins' entrance reacted strongly to the surging suction. Huge spatial rifts spread out like a spiderweb, forcibly connecting the interior and exterior of the ruins!

"Moo—!"

"Hiss—!"

The next moment, a terrified roar came from the other end of the torn spatial passage.

Under this suction force powerful enough to alter dimensional coordinates, those top-tier marine beasts, originally inhabiting the deep seas of the present world and reaching levels of seventy or eighty, were forcibly pulled into the Atlantic Ocean outside the ruins from the real world by this force!

A mutated megalodon hundreds of meters long, a high-level deep-sea squid with highly venomous tentacles, and a hellish sea dragon that usually dominates its territory...

Hundreds of enormous marine creatures poured down from the spatial rift. They struggled frantically in mid-air, unleashing various advanced water and ice skills in an attempt to escape the deadly gravity.

However, all the struggles were in vain.

Faced with the sea god's high-dimensional devouring law, these top-tier alien beasts of the present world were swept into a toilet bowl, unable to even pause for a second, before being sucked into the sea god's giant mouth!

"Pfft! Pfft!"

The sickening sounds of flesh being chewed and bones cracking came from deep within the beast's throat, accompanied by copious amounts of purplish-black blood overflowing from its mouth.

As these hundreds of advanced marine beasts were forcibly devoured, the giant beast's aura, which had been somewhat weakened by Zhou Huai's severe injury, suddenly surged! The cracked black scales on its body also began to regrow and heal at a visible speed under the nourishment of the rich blood energy.

Upon seeing this, Elder Mo was visibly shaken, his eyes widening in shock.

"I see! I understand now!"

Old Mo gritted his teeth, his withered hands squeezing the control panel until it creaked.

"This guy is trying to forcibly absorb creatures from outside the ruins to restore himself!"

After hearing Elder Mo's analysis, everyone's faces turned pale.

"It...it's devouring the strange beasts of the present world to restore its original form?" The alluring woman hugged her shoulders, her voice trembling. "Then all our previous plans have been ruined?"

Hundreds and thousands of high-level marine beasts were being swallowed up by the abyss's gaping maw without any resistance, turning into a rain of blood.

"Where is that young man? Where did he go?" The burly man's eyes were bloodshot as he searched for Zhou Huai.

However, on the dark sea surface, there were only raging waterspouts and an atmosphere of death.

There wasn't a trace of dark golden light. The young man was completely swallowed up by the monster.

After waiting for a long time, Zhou Huai did not appear.

"Stop looking." Old Mo closed his eyes, [N O V E L I G H T] sighed deeply, and said in an aged voice, "That young man is probably really dead."

"There's no hope." The gloomy young man slumped down on the deck in despair.

Hearing the howling wind and the deafening roar of the sea god, Old Mo suddenly opened his eyes, a fierce and resolute look flashing in them.

"Since he failed, we can only use the last resort." Old Mo gritted his teeth, his withered hands clenched into fists.

"Destroy the entrance to the ruins!"

"Destroy the entrance?" The burly man was taken aback.

"Yes! Detonate the spatial coordinates here completely, and trap this beast in this Castrandis ruin forever!"

The burly man stood up straight without hesitation, grabbed the steel harpoon from the ground, and said, "Old Master Mo, just give the order. As long as it makes Duan Laogou unhappy, we'll do whatever you say!"

"Let's go! We'll head to the entrance of the ruins first!"

Master Mo steered the small boat, braving the raging winds and waves, and sped toward the shattered spatial rift in the sky.

...

at the same time.

dark.

An endless expanse of darkness.

There was no oppressive feeling of deep-sea pressure, no strangulation from higher-dimensional laws, and no pain whatsoever.

There was only a light, weightless feeling, as if the soul were falling into an abyss.

"call--!"

Zhou Huai opened his eyes, sprang up from the bed, his chest heaving as he gasped for breath.

His entire body was already soaked in cold sweat.

He turned his head blankly, looking at his surroundings.

A spacious European-style bed, an exquisite crystal chandelier, and valuable oil paintings hanging on the wall.

This is... the Zhou family mansion? His bedroom?

"How is this possible?"

Zhou Huai muttered to himself, subconsciously looking down.

He lacked the dark gold Abyss Blood Armor and the overwhelming, world-destroying, near-transcendent magical power that filled his entire body. He was only wearing a thin cotton nightgown.

"Squeak—"

The bedroom door was gently pushed open from the outside.

An elderly man with a hunched back and a kind face walked in carrying a basin of hot water.

Upon seeing Zhou Huai sitting on the bed, the old man was taken aback at first, then laughed.

"Young Master, you're awake?"

Uncle Fu walked quickly to the bedside, put down the basin of water, and while wringing out a hot towel, looked at Zhou Huai with concern.

"Oh dear, young master, what's wrong? Why are you sweating so much? Did you not cover yourself properly last night and catch a cold?" Uncle Fu held a warm towel, wanting to wipe the cold sweat from Zhou Huai's forehead.

Zhou Huai subconsciously turned his head away, avoiding Uncle Fu's hand.

He stared at the real old man's face in front of him, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes clearly visible.

Zhou Huai spoke up: "Uncle Fu?"

"It's me, young master. Are you still half asleep?" Uncle Fu withdrew his hand with concern. "Should I go find a healer specializing in light magic to take a look?"

"No need." Zhou Huai shook his head, forcibly suppressing the fear in his heart. "I'm fine, it's just... I had a dream."

"dream?"

“Hmm.” Zhou Huai stared at his hands. “I don’t remember the specifics of the dream very clearly. But it was very long. In the dream, I possessed great power, killed many terrifying monsters, and met many people...”

After hearing this, Uncle Fu couldn't help but laugh, and the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes smoothed out.

"Young master, this isn't a dream; it's just that you've been thinking about it all day and are dreaming about it at night."

"What do you mean?" Zhou Huai frowned.

Uncle Fu put the towel back in the basin, turned around, pushed the metal wheelchair over, and stopped it beside the bed.

"Have you forgotten? Today is the day you awaken as a professional!" Uncle Fu reminded you with a smile. "Master and Madam, as well as Young Master Lu Qi, are all waiting for you in the restaurant downstairs."

"An Awakened Professional?"