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Amidst the surging and churning water, a behemoth far larger than the previous fish monster suddenly rose from the mud beneath Li Hai's feet.

Carrying immense force of unknown millions of pounds and a thick, salty, fishy stench, it swiftly and thunderously propelled him upwards from the bottom of the lake like a bolt of lightning.

Instantly, tens of thousands of tons of lake water and muddy sediment were stirred by this suddenly appearing giant, churning into a rolling mudflow that engulfed all directions, turning this area of the lake bottom into utter chaos.

Even in the short time this chaos erupted, the behemoth had already surged upwards hundreds of feet with Li Hai on top.

As Li Hai was forcefully pushed upwards, parting the heavy lake water along the way, he finally truly saw the full appearance of this behemoth.

It was… a massive warship, entirely painted black and covered in iron armor, ten zhang wide and several tens of zhang long, with its surface covered in countless dense, large and small eyeballs and arms, like the back of a Surinam toad.

At this moment, Li Hai was being forcefully pushed upwards by the bow of this black warship, cleaving through the lake and cutting through the waves, rushing towards the surface of the lake at breakneck speed.

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“Hahaha, I never would have imagined…”

Amidst the violent bombardment of thousands of torrents, Li Hai looked at the black ship so close at hand and laughed loudly, “You, the Salt God, are actually a ship.”

That's right, relying on his wild intuition and various clues, he instantly recognized the identity of this ship.

It was the Salt God of Li Lake.

Character Name: Salt God

Level: Sprite → Green Tier

Skills: 《Abnormal Monster Source》 《Copper Head Iron Arms》 《Salt Blast Cannon》

Entry Attributes: 【Invigorated Soul Level 3】 【Superhuman Strength Level 3】 【Iron Body Level 3】 【Self-Healing Level 1】

Strongest Fragments: None

“A sprite… and the so-called Green Tier.”

Li Hai sneered, “Who could have imagined that the Salt God would actually be a ship that has become a monster.”

While sneering, he learned all of the ship sprite's skills.

However, he did not upgrade any of them, but kept them all at level zero.

The reason for this was that Li Hai didn't want to become a broken ship yet, unless it was the Liaoning or a Type 055 destroyer.

Getting off track, just as the Salt God was rushing rapidly upwards, pushing Li Hai towards the surface of Li Lake, Li Hai's figure suddenly blurred, and he abruptly transformed into an eerie ghost of ethereal substance.

In an instant, the ship sprite passed right through Li Hai's illusory ghost body, speeding alone towards the surface.

At this moment, Li Hai turned back into human form, and with a flick of the twin whips in his hand, he shot towards the Li Lake Salt God speeding upwards.

Whirr — —

With a long string of rolling bubbles, Li Hai stepped on the lake water and leaped dozens or hundreds of zhang in a second, grabbing the sharp stern of the Salt God ship sprite.

Then, using the steel whip as a pickaxe, braving the torrents from above that were strong enough to collapse steel plates and hardwood, he hammered and chiseled his way from the stern to the middle of the ship.

Once he reached this point, Li Hai, becoming interested, simply put away one of the steel whips, grabbed the deck with his left hand to steady himself, and continued to wield the other whip with surging power in his right hand, fiercely lashing out at all the ship's hull around him that he could see.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Muffled sounds echoed continuously, and fleeting lights flashed.

Each time Li Hai lashed out, while creating clusters of deep-water bubbles and fleeting bright lights, he would smash a part of the Salt God's body structure, sending arms and eyeballs flying, and spewing out large amounts of black liquid with a foul and salty stench.

Then, the cannonballs that came crashing down collided head-on with these whip shadows and blood lights.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Instantly, a large area of the underwater lake was blasted into a chaotic mess by the Salt God, with raging currents surging, and all the passing small fish and shrimp suffered a great disaster, with none surviving intact.

But Li Hai, who faced this repeated bombardment, was unscathed.

“Noisy and useless.”

Amidst the chaotic currents, he sneered and suddenly transformed from human to ghost, exploding into thousands of twisted fingers that shot towards the cannon array on the bow of the ship, while also separating more fingers along the cracks and crevices below, quickly drilling into the ship's hull.

As a result, very quickly, the Salt God, as if possessed by a ghost, no longer swam wildly, but trembled and rolled violently in place.

This was a normal phenomenon caused by Li Hai drilling around inside its body and destroying it. It would return to calm after being tortured to death.

Sure enough, only a dozen seconds later, the Salt God, which had been struggling violently, suddenly stiffened and stopped moving.

Salt God, dead.

At the same instant that the ship sprite died, a Strongest Fragment appeared on Li Hai's personal interface.

At the same time, the Salt God's huge metal body slowly disintegrated, exposing Li Hai, who had returned to human form, as well as various sundries and a large number of corpses.

Looking closely at these gray and shriveled corpses, they were actually children who had been thoroughly pickled with salt, numbering as many as forty or fifty.

Obviously, these child corpses were the sacrifices offered by Yu Family Village over the years.

“Forty-eight child corpses, exactly six years' worth, but why didn't the Salt God eat the child corpses, but pickled and preserved them? Also…”

Li Hai looked at these child corpses, his face full of doubt, “If the Salt God doesn't eat the sacrifices but only collects them, then where did those child corpses from six years ago go? What is it collecting these for?”

Many questions arose.

Then he looked at the surrounding sundries that were slowly sinking, including money, silver, swords, hats, shoes, crossbows, iron boxes, bronze mirrors… all kinds of things.

“Hmm? A strange aura.”

Suddenly, Li Hai's eyes flashed, and he turned his gaze to the crossbow, iron box, and bronze mirror among these sundries.

From the bow and mirror, his level 3 Inspiration could clearly sense an extremely mysterious magical aura.

So these two must be arcane artifacts.

As for the square iron box, although Li Hai didn't sense any magical traces, he felt an extremely heavy ancient charm.

He had only discovered this kind of ancient charm on the ancient stele in the underground cave of Fish Platter Mountain.