His Perception Tentacles probed the mud layer, allowing him to clearly identify the location of the Sands of Time. This gave him a target, making the excavation faster and more convenient.
Suddenly, Su Ze paused. His Perception Tentacles had discovered something special in the mud layer below!
It was a somewhat irregularly shaped spherical object, wrapped in a thick layer of the Sands of Time and situated right in the center of all the sand below.
Su Ze had always been suspicious about the origin of the Sands of Time. He had consulted Liou Wenxin and Chen Suifeng in the past, but nowhere else on Blue Star had anyone ever discovered—or even heard of—the Sands of Time.
So, there had to be a reason for the Sands of Time to appear on the seabed. Now, it seemed that this spherical object was very likely the cause.
The two of them collected one piece of the Sands of Time after another. Finally, Su Ze swung his pickaxe and dug out a large, head-sized chunk of the Sands of Time.
In reality, only the outer layer was Sands of Time; the inside was the spherical object it encased.
Su Ze didn’t waste time studying it. He stored it directly into his storage item and continued digging up the remaining Sands of Time.
A moment later, Su Ze dug out the last piece of the Sands of Time. After his Perception Tentacles scanned the area to confirm nothing was missed, the two of them returned to the Magic Cube spaceship.
The spaceship shot into the sky, entered its invisible state, and vanished in the blink of an eye, leaving behind only the impotently furious hermit crab.
...
"Jackpot!"
Gazing at the "little golden mountain" piled half a meter high before him, Su Ze couldn’t keep the grin off his face.
He casually grabbed two pieces of the Sands of Time and tossed them to Mr. Ya. "Absorb these. Hurry up and digest that Tier Five Extract in your body, and prepare for your fifth evolution."
Mr. Ya hadn’t yet experienced the wonders of the Sands of Time, but since Su Ze said so, he naturally didn’t doubt it. He quickly took the two large pieces of the Sands of Time, found a room, and went into seclusion to absorb them.
As for Su Ze himself, he still hadn’t digested the Tier Six S-rank Mirage King Extract in his body. However, since he hadn’t yet found his next suitable extract, he wasn’t in a hurry to use the Sands of Time.
Under Su Ze’s control, the Magic Cube flew back to the vicinity of the battlefield where the Nian Race experts and the Beast King Sponge were fighting.
As soon as he arrived, he witnessed a shocking scene. The thousand-meter-diameter area defined by the Land Lock was in complete ruins. All the seawater within this range had been completely evaporated, but the surrounding ocean water was blocked by the Land Lock’s energy and couldn’t flow in.
This resulted in a giant, thousand-meter-diameter pit in the middle of the ocean, stretching from the surface straight to the seabed.
The seabed itself was scorched black, littered with the corpses of fish and shrimp, as well as various marine plants and corals that had been pulverized into dust...
And above this area, thick, dark clouds had gathered, unleashing a torrential downpour.
At this moment, four Legendary-rank experts were taking turns attacking the Sponge Beast.
They were like a well-coordinated team raiding a boss in a game. Each person had their own role, following a fixed rhythm to constantly chip away at the boss’s health.
Jiang Pingle held the Storm Horn and Marina gripped the Soul-Piercing Blowgun. One on the left and one on the right, they attacked the Beast King Sponge with their Divine Artifacts.
Every time Jiang Pingle blew the horn, he would summon a terrifying storm that swept toward the giant yellow sponge in the air.
The giant yellow sponge, dozens of meters tall, had a body that could absorb energy, just like a sponge absorbing water. It could take all kinds of energy into itself.
But just as a sponge has a limit to how much water it can absorb, once it became saturated, it would also take damage.
Therefore, Jiang Pingle tirelessly blew the Storm Horn. Of course, frequently using a Tier Seven artifact consumed a great deal of energy. Whenever he was exhausted, Deng Sui would take over, swapping places with him.
Jiang Pingle would use this opportunity to retreat outside the circle to recover his evolutionary power, while Deng Sui continued to attack with the Storm Horn.
Whenever the Beast King Sponge launched a counterattack, Marina would blow into her Soul-Piercing Blowgun. It was a mental-attack artifact. A Tier Seven mental attack like this would damage the soul of the Tier Seven Sponge Beast, often interrupting its skills or causing its movements to become sluggish. This gave the Nian Race Legendary-rank experts ample time to dodge.
Their most effective method for dodging and escaping the Beast King Sponge’s attacks was to run outside the circle created by the Land Lock.
As long as they stood outside the circle, the Beast King Sponge was helpless against them; none of its various attack skills could reach them.
For this reason, the black Sovereign, Zhan Meisen, did nothing but focus solely on controlling the Land Lock.
Whenever his companions needed to escape outside the circle or re-enter it, he was responsible for opening and closing the "gate."
The Land Lock wasn’t just a Divine Artifact for trapping enemies; when used well, it was also a supreme defensive treasure.
It was not hard to see that the Beast King Sponge was already at a disadvantage against the combined might of the three Tier Seven artifacts.
The four Nian Race experts’ only weakness was their lack of killing power against the Beast King Sponge. They struggled to inflict damage on it themselves, relying mainly on the Storm Horn and the Soul-Piercing Blowgun for their damage output.
However, a mental-attack artifact like the Soul-Piercing Blowgun could rarely kill an enemy of the same tier directly; its main purpose was for influence and interference.
The Storm Horn, on the other hand, was somewhat countered by the Beast King Sponge, a result of the beast’s own unique characteristics.
If it had been any other Tier Seven beast, one without a Talent Skill for absorbing energy, it would have likely been torn to shreds by the Storm Horn long ago.
The moments when the Beast King Sponge’s body became saturated with energy were the moments the Storm Horn could damage it. At such times, the beast had to release the energy within its body as quickly as possible.
And Marina would never let such a good opportunity slip by. Whenever the Beast King Sponge tried to release its energy, she would interrupt it with the Soul-Piercing Blowgun.