Chapter 1 Anomaly Under the Sea

Beneath the dark sea, above the abyssal depths, a bizarre event was unfolding.

A worm-like beast king, not particularly large, was frantically tearing into a beast king several times its size. Blood flowed freely, and a shrill cry of agony echoed through the seabed.

The massive beast king didn't resist. Chunks of flesh were ripped from its body, and although it was in excruciating pain, it remained motionless.

Behind the giant beast king, several other beast kings were lined up, waiting to be devoured by the worm-like beast king.

This strange scene didn't resemble a hunt, but rather a… offering!

Soon, the massive beast king was gnawed down to the bone. The worm-like beast king finally released it and pounced on the next beast king in line.

A similar scene unfolded again.

Buzz!

As the worm-like beast king continued to devour, a strange brainwave fluctuation filled the sea. Clearly, this worm-like beast king was an intelligent zhi nao type evolved beast, and its frenzied consumption of its own kind wasn't due to hunger, but to increase its own power by devouring the flesh of its own kind!

The flesh of evolved beings was a rare delicacy for their own kind. Frantically devouring the flesh of their own kind allowed the evolved beings to rapidly increase their abilities.

Unlike Li Tianran, beast kings had difficulty obtaining large quantities of evolved human flesh, nor did they have access to lv4 fruit. They could only use this extremely cruel method to strengthen themselves.

Why was this method considered cruel?

Because evolved beings had flaws in their life force, and the evolved beings themselves didn't know where that flaw was!

Often, some beast kings had their life force flaws crushed by their companions during the "offering" process and died.

Unlike human evolved beings, beast kings, although their intelligence had increased, their most bloodthirsty instincts as beasts had not diminished. Many powerful beast kings, when "offering" by devouring their companions' bodies, found it difficult to suppress their desires, gnawing their companions alive until only skeletons remained…

Even the siren, who proposed the "offering" method, couldn't find absolutely safe measures for this.

She could only allow the relatively "useful" divine descent type and zhi nao type beast kings to be the beneficiaries of the "offering" ritual, while the relatively "less useful" ancestral type beast kings were the ones to be devoured. This way, even if the sacrificed died in the ritual, the losses could be minimized.

Under this extremely cruel method, the evolutionary abilities of the beast kings grew crazily, and they became increasingly powerful.

Through several wars, the zhi nao type beast kings demonstrated their astonishing effectiveness.

This method of electromagnetic attack was devastating to the weapon control systems currently used by humans. Unless the most primitive mechanical cannons were used, any weapon, no matter how accurate, would lose control once it got close enough…

In the war with humans, the beast kings realized their shortcomings and began to maximize their abilities, surpassing humans in unexpected ways.

Humans had more advanced weapons than the beast kings, but the beast kings were more ruthless and willing to risk their lives!

Finally, the worm-like beast king's stomach could no longer hold any more food. Its originally long, narrow body had become round. It had devoured nearly three tons of flesh from seven beast kings, and two beast kings had died in the process. The surrounding beast kings rushed forward madly, quickly devouring the corpses.

The siren watched this scene, her mirror-like, calm eyes without any fluctuation.

"They have not disappeared, but have transformed into another kind of power to accompany us."

The siren raised her arms and broadcast a message in a strange tone.

Soon, the abyss boiled. Countless huge figures writhed and roared, mourning the deaths of their companions and cheering for the stronger clan.

If a detector from the human world could descend here and photograph the true face of the underwater world, that photo would surely terrify all humans.

If there was a god who could see through all darkness, and he opened his eyes to look here, he would surely be shocked by the scene before him.

Since the Second World Anomaly, when the beast king clans were born in the ocean, humans had never known the approximate number of sea beast kings.

Some guessed it might be tens of thousands, others guessed hundreds of thousands, or even millions!

But they were all wrong.

The sea, which occupies seventy-two percent of the Blue Star's surface area and nurtures trillions of creatures, had given birth to… eight million beast kings after the mutation!

Eight million evolved beings.

A number comparable to a small human country!

Many people may find this number too terrifying, but in fact, if you compare it with the total number of creatures in the sea, you will find that this number is not high, but rather pitifully low.

Out of trillions of creatures, only eight million evolved beings were born, a probability of less than one in a million!

At this time, one hundred thousand powerful beast kings were gathered above the abyss, gathered beside the siren.

And below the abyss, it was no longer just rocks and silt!

But the wreckage of tanks, chariots, fighter planes, and large machinery!

These were their spoils of war.

In the seabed, they may not be able to manufacture these weapons, but they can deepen their understanding of them.

"In war, we lag behind humans in weapons, but in the path of evolution, we have left humans far behind..." The siren calmly broadcast a message: "Perhaps we don't need to copy human weapons at all. With our abilities, the weapons that humans rely on for their confidence will become sharp blades to destroy themselves."

The beast king group boiled again.

Just then, a green turtle slowly swam over and landed on the siren's shoulder.

It transmitted some information to the siren.

"There is some new information from the human world. I have found news of the human you have been looking for. He is being sought by a powerful country, the 'Yanhuang Federation,' at a high price, no, to be precise... wanted." The green turtle slowly transmitted this information directly into the siren's brain: "That powerful country seems to want to destroy this person."

A look of confusion gradually appeared on the siren's face.

"This person once deceived me, he made us cower under the mud… but why do humans hate him so much? Shouldn't he be a human… hero?" The siren used the human words she had learned to accurately describe Li Tianran.

"Who knows?" The green turtle slowly closed its eyes, and then, as if it had remembered something, slowly transmitted another message to the siren.

"A hegemon in the southern sea and its clan have all lost contact. It is unknown whether they were hunted by humans or devoured by some crazy members of their own kind..."

"There is an island near that place, named... Mad Breath Island."