It seemed to be the only exit.
But it was also a fatal trap that contained infinite killing intent.
Li Yao pondered for a moment, but he did not have a choice. He could only go to the mountain even though he knew that it was dangerous.
The golden flames of war exploded at the bottom of the dark and boundless ocean. 'Solar Catastrophe' turned into a streak of brilliance and crawled into the swirl. While waving the four stabilizing fins agilely to figure out the direction and intensity of every turbulence in the swirl, it sprinted upward with the force of the swirl toward the ocean that was getting brighter and brighter.
Inside the swirl, many ferocious beasts and war machines were scattered just like in the Thunder Valley, except that the aggressiveness and the combat ability that they unleashed were much tougher.
It was obvious that those who were qualified to come here after the screening in the Thunder Valley were the elites of both the attackers and the defenders.
Even the elites of the primeval era could not stop Li Yao, who had the Supreme Emperor's heritage and was manipulating 'Solar Catastrophe'. He moved and moved in the swirl unstoppably, killing countless ferocious beasts and destroying countless war machines. He swam upward for at least ten thousand meters without stopping. Despite his apocalyptic body that had been tempered into steel, he still felt that his lungs were aching, as if his entire chest was about to explode.
But the pressure around him had been greatly reduced. The ocean above his head gradually turned from dark blue to light blue. The swirl was spinning faster and faster, too. He was almost thrown out of the swirl.
"I'm out!"
Li Yao roared and jumped out of the ocean.
But everything in front of his eyes made him even more dumbfounded.
He had thought that he would be able to find the exit after he jumped out of the ocean, or at least some traces of it.
At the very least, he would see a boundless, boundless ocean, which would not be as depressing as when he was in the deep ocean just now.
But what appeared in front of his eyes was nothing but the ocean. There was no concept of 'horizon' or 'sky' at all.
In his vision, the ocean extended all the way to the distance and then slightly curved upward, like an arc-shaped wave that affected the entire ocean. It rose all the way to where the sky should be and then rolled back from another direction, blocking all the directions.
To put it more bluntly, it was like a gigantic water ball, the size of a planet. In the center of the water ball, there was a huge bubble floating.
Li Yao had only drilled all the way from the inside of the water ball to the bubble at the core. If he continued to fly straight up, he would only pass through the center and fall into the sea on the other side, which was meaningless.
"Is there a mistake?"
Li Yao was completely confused. Could it be that there was no exit?
Impossible, the exit must be hidden somewhere, somewhere that defies common sense and intuition …
Li Yao held his breath and observed the sea that was rolling inward.
He found that in addition to the huge whirlpool under his feet, there were more than a dozen whirlpools of the same size above his head and on his left and right sides. Countless ferocious beasts were swept up by the whirlpools and flew to the surface of the sea dizzily, which was the center of the Large Water Ball.
The war machines that belonged to the defenders, on the other hand, were rarer. It also confirmed Li Yao's speculation that the defenders had cracked the secrets of the world fragment and knew where the correct exit was.
"Assuming that this world fragment is really a gigantic water ball, a tiny bubble is floating at the center of the water ball, and I am an insignificant microorganism living inside the water ball, how can I leave the water ball?"
Li Yao thought hard. Suddenly, his eyes glittered. "Right, if I follow the whirlpool and march to the center of the water ball, it is impossible to leave the water ball in any case. I can only reach another ocean and another whirlpool.
"Down. I should go down!
"The ocean is not the key, and neither is the whirlpool. The direction is the key. I should go against the whirlpool and reach the deepest part of the ocean, the end of the whirlpool!"
Li Yao lowered his head and looked at the whirlpool that looked like a bloody mouth below his feet.
It was easier said than done, but it was certainly not an easy task to make up his mind to explore the end of the whirlpool.
Deep inside the whirlpool, in the dark ocean tens of thousands of meters deep, there might be even more immeasurable undersea rifts, which could easily crush the Colossus, the Crystal Suit, and even the user into smithereens and mud.
Although the road ahead was full of unknown risks, Li Yao still decided to believe in his own judgment, just like a moment ago!
Before countless ferocious beasts lunged at him, Li Yao turned around and jumped into the whirlpool with Sun Apocalypse and went back the same way he came.
Facing the attacks of countless ferocious beasts against the direction of the whirlpool was ten times more difficult than before.
Despite the sturdiness and toughness of Sun Apocalypse, it was still heavily wounded by the ferocious beasts and the war machines when it returned to the bottom of the ocean. Its plate armor was twisted, and it was riddled with wounds. It did not escape the fate that any Crystal Suit or Colossus would be wasted in less than half a month if they fell into Li Yao's hands.
At such a depth, it was impossible to see anything. The range of visibility and telepathic thoughts had been reduced to the minimum. Li Yao, the ferocious beasts, and the war machines on the defenders' side could barely find each other.
In this place, the greatest enemy was the seawater around, the infinite pressure, or rather, his own mind.
There was nothing but silence, as if it were a forsaken graveyard. Li Yao could only hear his own heartbeat and the squeaking sounds of the Colossus.
The originally indestructible Steel Godly Demon was now like a loose bamboo mat, causing people to be on tenterhooks.
The deeper he dived, the greater the pressure became. The spiritual shield, the defense structure, the metal hardness, the airtightness, and other performance parameters of "Solar Apocalypse" were all shaking on the verge of collapse, like candles in the wind that could die out at any moment.
At such a point, even though Li Yao's mind was as tough as iron, he could not help but sweat the size of beans leaking out of his forehead.
"Was my judgment correct?
Is the exit really not on the surface of the ocean but at the bottom of the ocean?
Is there an end to this ocean? Is it possible that I have missed the exit and fallen into an enormous undersea valley that leads to the deepest level of hell?
"Is it possible that the 'Solar Catastrophe' was too heavily damaged in the battle just now. Even though the exit is right below, the metal cannot support it anymore, and I will be squeezed into a meat pie when I approach the exit?"
Such thoughts leaked out of Li Yao's every pore like dark, sticky shadows and entangled him, whispering, moaning, and shrieking next to his ears nonstop.
Thankfully, the mental devil, a second personality that specialized in absorbing negative feelings, had been split into Li Yao's soul. It swallowed all the distracting thoughts that troubled his soul and corrupted his mind.
"Don't think about the messy stuff."
The mental devil shrieked, "With everything coming to this point, do you still want to go back the same way?"
Li Yao was greatly shocked, as if he had just woken up from a dream.
Ignoring the shrieks of the Colossus that were each louder than the last, he gritted his teeth and dived deeper.
He felt that he was climbing on a cliff in the deepest level of hell. One moment of carelessness, and he would fall into the abyss that he would never be able to recover from.
However, however fiercely the fire in the abyss was burning, it could not stop his determination to press forward.
Boom!
Dull explosions suddenly echoed below the feet of "Sun Apocalypse".
Li Yao's heart immediately jumped to his throat, fearing that the Colossus finally could not take the heavy pressure anymore and began to collapse from the feet that supported the whole body.
However, the perception that he was standing on solid ground right then told him that he had reached the bottom of the ocean safe and sound.
Not far away from him, right below the swirl, was an enormous, glittering teleportation array.
"This is the place!"
Overjoyed, Li Yao stepped on it without any hesitation. In a burst of glamorous brilliance, he was teleported to the third world fragment.
"What the hell is going on here?"
Li Yao was already mentally prepared. He knew that the 'tests' in the 'towers of empyreans' would be more difficult than the last.
However, the more difficult the tests were, the closer he was to the secrets of the primordial era. Li Yao was very confident about the challenges to come.
However, the world fragment this time did not seem to be as difficult as "Thunder Valley" and "Super Gravity Ocean" on the surface.
Li Yao appeared in a cave that was full of frost. Except for the extremely low temperature and the translucent icicles above his head, there was nothing wrong with it.
However, although it was a cave, there was no other entrance except for the teleportation array below his feet.
Naturally, he could not return to the "Super Gravity Ocean" through the teleportation array. He could only release his telepathic thoughts and explore the cave walls that were as smooth as mirrors.
Very soon, Li Yao found a clue.
The cave was surrounded by solid rock walls on three sides, and only one side was made of ice that had just been frozen.
It seemed that this was the exit.
While nobody was around to disturb him, Li Yao took out a bunch of Cosmos Rings and activated abundant backup components, ammunition, and fuel. Then, he performed an emergency repair on "Sun Apocalypse" with the technique of remote manipulation.
It was better to be safe than sorry. Even a 1% improvement in the performance of the Colossus could save his life at a critical moment.
After everything was done, he finally took out the electric axe and carefully melted and cut the ice wall that led to the outside world.
Hiu!
Hardly had he cut a gap on the ice wall when a cold wind mixed with vigor blew in. Li Yao had never experienced such a weird wind before. Despite the four layers of protection of the Colossus, Little Black, the Crystal Suit, and the mustard-seed combat suit, Li Yao still felt that the wind was directly condensing into scalpels on his bones and scratching his bones!
The surface of "Sun Apocalypse" was immediately covered in a thick shell of ice. Even the bright gold flames were half frozen.
The temperature in the cave immediately dropped to minus a hundred degrees. The combat performance of the Colossus was plummeting, too.
"This is an extremely cold world. Damn it!"
Li Yao was of a mind to spit, but his throat was somewhat frozen, too.
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