"Abyssal Blood Death Seal!"

Zhou Huai hovered in the dark, boundless abyss, the dark golden Abyss Blood Dragon Spear in his hand bursting with a terrifying red light. The spear tip whipped up violent physical damage and mana, transforming into a shooting star that pierced through the long night, and fiercely stabbed into the endless stomach wall in front of him.

A loud explosion occurred.

The shock traveled along the gun barrel, making Zhou Huai's hands go numb.

That strike, which was enough to easily kill a max-level high-ranking beast, landed on the stomach wall of the sea god and left only a shallow white mark.

Zhou Huai narrowed his eyes, staring at the barrier in front of him.

The stomach wall of this sea god was so hard that it completely defied the common sense of physics in the present world. Not only was it incredibly thick, but its surface was also covered with a layer of eerie, high-dimensional death energy. Under the illumination of the lightning surrounding Zhou Huai, this stomach wall refracted a crystal-like, dazzling yet deadly luster.

"The defense value is stacked this high?" Zhou Huai sneered.

Without hesitation, a purple-gold light shone in his eyes, and the unique power of words belonging to the Great Sage Li Er descended.

"Words become law."

"The spear in my hand is indestructible and possesses absolute armor-piercing properties!"

As the incantation descended, the Abyss Blood Dragon Spear in Zhou Huai's hand was infused with supreme laws, and the dark golden dragon patterns on the spear began to move.

"Break!"

Zhou Huai exerted force from his waist, unleashing the five-fold power boost from the Abyss Blood Battle Armor. Holding his spear, he transformed into a cannonball, slamming once again into the crystal-like stomach wall.

"Sizzle!"

This time, the teeth-grinding cracking sound finally rang out.

The dragon spear, imbued with a 100% armor-piercing ability, tore through the layer of high-dimensional death energy without any hindrance, forcefully creating a huge hole with a diameter of several meters in the crystal stomach wall.

A foul-smelling, black, viscous liquid gushed from the hole; it was the high-dimensional acidic fluid from the sea god's body that digested all things.

"Nothing special," Zhou Huai scoffed.

However, the scene before him froze his smile on his face.

"Gurgle—"

Accompanied by nauseating sounds of flesh writhing, countless dark red buds of flesh surged wildly around the gaping hole pierced by the dragon spear. These buds intertwined and stitched together at an incredibly fast pace.

In less than a second.

The hole, big enough for a truck to pass through, miraculously healed itself perfectly!

The newly healed area is no longer the dark red it once was, but has become completely crystalline, more translucent, and reflects a diamond-like luster.

Zhou Huai raised the dragon spear and slammed the butt of the spear hard against the newly healed crystal stomach wall.

"clang!"

Sparks flew everywhere.

A recoil force several times stronger than before swept in, forcing Zhou Huai back dozens of meters.

Zhou Huai hovered in mid-air, gritting his teeth.

"This self-healing mechanism can actually forcibly enhance local physical defense and magical resistance after being injured?" Zhou Huai stared at the smooth, brand-new stomach wall and said in a deep voice, "Not only that, even the high-dimensional life essence that Mr. Duan tampered with is continuously providing it with restorative power."

Time is of the essence. Eight days have already passed unnoticed by the outside world, leaving less than forty-eight hours.

Under normal circumstances, it would take Zhou Huai at least a week to completely wear through this stomach wall.

"It seems that relying solely on the defense-breaking judgment of 'Words Become Law' is not enough; it must inflict devastating damage exceeding its self-healing limit in one go."

Zhou Huai adjusted his breathing to calm the surging magical energy within his body.

"Since the quality is not good enough, we can only boost the panel attributes again."

Zhou Huai opened the system panel.

He currently has an incredibly high merit value reserve of over 300 million points.

“More than 300 million merit points...” Zhou Huai looked at the numbers on the panel and secretly calculated: “I wonder how many levels this resource can push the SSS-level professional avatar up.”

The higher the level of a profession, the more exponentially the experience and energy required for leveling up become. This is especially true for hidden clones like the Great Sage Li Er, who touch the edge of the rules; each level up is a test of the limits of the laws of the mortal world.

"You're the one."

Without hesitation, Zhou Huai directly targeted the Great Sage Li Er's clone within his body.

"Words become law!"

"Saint's Domain, open!"

Buzz—!

Following Zhou Huai's command, a purple-gold divine light erupted from his body. This light was holy and vast, carrying a high-dimensional pressure that looked down upon all living beings, pushing away the nauseating high-dimensional death energy around him.

With the blessing of the Saint's Domain, Zhou Huai directly skipped the conventional judgment logic of the Heavenly Dao System, forcibly compressing all consumption.

"System, raise Li Er's level to 70!"

Li Er's original level had already reached the level 50 mark. At this stage, each level increase was extremely difficult.

【Saintly Realm Status: The merit points required for this upgrade are reduced by 90%!】

【Forcibly upgrading the clone's level...】

A loud bang was heard.

A thick, powerful beam of white light shot straight up from the top of Zhou Huai's head! Within the dark stomach of the sea god, this beam of white light transformed into a rising, blazing sun! 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

【Ding! The clone of the Great Sage Li Er has reached level 55!】

【Ding! The clone of the Great Sage Li Er has reached level 60!】

...

The notification sounds rang out in rapid succession, and the white light on Zhou Huai's body grew increasingly intense. Wave after wave of violent attribute feedback washed over his body like a tsunami.

【Ding! The clone of the Great Sage Li Er has reached level 70!】

【Upgrade complete! Merit points deducted: 250 million!】

Zhou Huai looked at the dwindling merit points on the panel and couldn't help but twitch his eye.

"Two hundred and fifty million."

Zhou Huai snorted coldly.

This was even after activating the Saint's Domain and forcibly reducing the consumption by nine-tenths! Under normal circumstances, forcibly raising an SSS-level clone from level 50 to level 70 would require a terrifying 2.5 billion merit points! Even harvesting the faith of hundreds of millions of people in the entire Great Xia Kingdom might not be enough to gather that astronomical number.

"The upgrade barrier for SSS-level professions is indeed a wall of sighs." Zhou Huai felt the earth-shattering changes within his body: "Only a cheater like me who can exploit system bugs and forcibly infuse merit points can afford this kind of upgrade method."