Witch, I'm really not an ancient god of the deep sea!

Chapter 355 A-Rank Rift, World Catastrophe, Coffin of the Ocean!
"Everyone, survive!"

Palu raised his right arm to shield himself from the wind and shouted loudly.

This is the first time their Ice Demon Pirate Crew has successfully cleared an A-rank rift! And they're attempting to delve deeper into the rift to meet the Ice Witch!

The Ice Demon Pirate Crew's ten years of glory and victory all came down in this rift journey!

Boom! The icy, bone-chilling seawater covered their bodies.

Above this vast, boundless, and turbulent sea, the sky is a somber, leaden gray, with thick, low-hanging clouds that seem almost within reach. They roll and roar, foreshadowing the overlap and fusion of two worlds!
And they are already at the boundary of the rift!

Amidst the boundless howling, a bright red notification appeared indifferently before Chen Qi's eyes!

Rift Name: Coffin of the Sea

Grade: A
Description: In a past world, a princess from a fallen kingdom traveled to the edge of the world in exchange for power, praying to a prophet for boundless strength.

The prophet was moved by the princess's tragic life story and gave her a small blade.

The princess used this blade to cut a tiny crack in the world.

The slight power emanating from this tiny crack granted her the ability to freeze others. With this power, she, a third-tier warrior, defeated a fourth-tier chieftain!

However, she was powerless against the fifth-rank general who ruled the kingdom's army and wantonly insulted her mother.

So she took the blade again and cut open the crack. This time, her body burst into blue flames, and she gained the power to slow down time.

Using the power to slow down time, she defeated the general of a fifth-tier war lord with her legendary physique!
However, soon, the imperial army invaded, and the demigods unleashed a decree of destruction...

The power the princess sought grew ever greater, and she repeatedly opened the cracks, which eventually grew larger and larger.

In pursuit of even greater power, she began forging more blades, attempting to enable the warriors of the entire kingdom to cleave the rift and seize control of the power to freeze time!

Ultimately, with the rise of an empire, the death of a demigod, and the arrival of an emperor, she cleaved the entire sky and tore open a rift in the world!
On that day, the floods of the edge world submerged everything, the world was divided into countless islands, cold ruled the entire world, and the whole world became a sea of ​​glaciers!

The world was destroyed overnight.

Food has become mutated, humans have gone mad, the dazzling light in the sky contains deadly poison, and the sea and cold corrode everything.

Hunger, war, death!
Whether it was a steam-powered kingdom built in the sky, an empire that pursued war, or a forest kingdom with walls made of giant trees thousands of meters tall, all of them have become a desolate corner of the sea.

In the boundless cold, people killed and cannibalized each other in order to have a day.

In this world, the only food for humans is the sea creatures that live on the seabed, and the worms that lurk in the darkness and have rotten pustules.

Whether they are proud demigods sitting on their thrones and ruling the order, saints ruling over several tribes, fourth-order transcendents indulging in pleasure, or mortals with nothing, they will all be buried in the boundless sea, dying of cold and hunger.

Within a month, the human population dropped by 99%, and the entire world instantly became a coffin in the ocean.

Rift level restriction: None (Anyone, from the destitute to a saint fleeing death, can enter this rift.)
Rift player limit: None

An A-rank rift with no limit on the number of participants and no rank... Amidst the storm, a hint of excitement flashed in Chen Qi's eyes.

From his time on the Black Whale Pirates' ship until now, he has finally reached the A-rank rift!
If it's an E-order rift, it's a small space; a little exploration will lead you to the boundary.

A-rank rift is a collapsed continent, a collapsed world.

At the same time, the extraordinary resources of the A-level rift far exceed the imagination of ordinary people.

If one can successfully contain an A-rank rift, it would be enough to establish a large family within the kingdom!

The Magic Bullet family of Moonstone City became the chief family of Moonstone City precisely because of a broken A-rank rift.

Of course, as an unlimited rift, the Coffin of the Sea is almost impossible to contain.

Chen Qi rubbed his hands together, took a deep breath, and felt the cold wind.

Saints, angels, demigods...

These are ranks that ordinary extraordinary beings cannot reach, ranks that have been hidden throughout history. Only by contacting A-rank or higher rifts can one possibly reach them.

Therefore, A Rift is also known by many new players as the place where the game begins.

However, despite the enormous rewards, the difficulty of an A-rank rift far exceeds everyone's imagination, especially an A-rank rift with a distortion rate higher than 50%.

Among the many A-rank rifts, the Coffin of the Sea is already a relatively easy rift.

Like the A-rank rift magic network that An connects to, if one's spiritual power is insufficient, simply walking inside will result in being crushed to death by the powerful spiritual pressure.

However, even though the difficulty level is relatively low, the Coffin in the Ocean is still extremely dangerous.

I look out into the distance as I wake up at dawn.

The storm gradually subsided, and their ships were now in a completely new territory.

In the sky, a dazzling white sun hangs high above.

As far as the eye could see, there was only desolation, with only huge glaciers and the sea in sight, and the temperature had reached an astonishing minus thirty degrees Celsius, which was no less than taking a bath naked in ice water.

On the boat, everyone lit a fire to keep warm.

"Ayawn!"

Fen sneezed loudly, looked ahead, and muttered:

"This is where the teacher sleeps."

"Your teacher really knows how to pick a place to sleep."

Chen Qi made a comment, and then continued to check the other hints for the A-rank Ocean Coffin.

[Sexual characteristics: ice, cup]
Passing condition: Survive for more than 15 days. For each additional day you survive, the reward doubles, up to a maximum of 1024 times.

After fifteen days, you can find the boundary point and leave the Coffin of the Sea.

Special completion condition: Reach the sanctuary built on the Coffin of the Sea, the Witch's Coffin, or other locations, and find the hidden exit.

Just as expected, this is a post-apocalyptic place for survival... Chen Qi thought to himself.

The longer you live, the greater the reward.

After fifteen days, the reward will double for each additional day you survive!
By the twentieth day, you will be able to obtain an A-level rating.

It sounds tempting, but in reality, it's a potential trap. Once you survive for fifteen days, you'll immediately receive a 'Attract Monsters' buff, meaning you'll be attacked by a multiplied number of monsters every day!
By the twentieth day, they would face more than a hundred legendary monsters every day, including various mechanic monsters and fifth-tier saint-level monsters.

Without the strength of a Saint, attempting to obtain an A-level rating from an A-level rift is tantamount to courting death.

"So hungry..."

At that moment, the mechanic, Brie, hugged himself tightly and took an apple out of his pocket.

Don't eat cold food!

Chen Qi sternly reminded him.

"Ugh?"

Bree lowered his head and looked at the apple in his hand.

Under the influence of the cold, the apple in Brie's hand quickly froze, turning into a cold ice sculpture.

His hand, which had touched the apple, was already showing signs of condensation.

If his hand hadn't been a mechanical arm, it would have been ruined.

Chen Qi reminded him:
"Any food that has been dead for an hour will kill you if you eat just one bite."

The Coffin of the Great Sea is one of the A-rank rifts that Chen Qi is most familiar with in the Witch Sea.

Chen Qi took out all the food from the backpack card and threw it away.

In the Coffin of the Sea, all edible food will become diseased at an extremely rapid rate and become inedible.

At the same time, the cold of this world will rapidly deplete a person's physical energy by a percentage.

Even a saint in the form of a cup, as long as he has a flesh and blood body, will inevitably feel hunger, an unbearable hunger.

Normal plants in this world have long been extinct.

Therefore, just as the background story of The Coffin of the Sea tells, in this world, only sea beasts and food with rotting pustules are available. Even with adequate preparation, one can easily starve to death.

This is also the key to the Coffin of the Sea, which is extremely difficult to solve compared to other rifts.

However, in this ocean, besides rare personal evil skills such as 'full-body mechanization', 'photosynthesis', 'asceticism', and 'eating stones', there are two other extremely useful skills.

First, the exchange skills of legendary merchants.

Exchange is a common skill that almost every fourth-tier shell-type profession possesses.

A fourth-tier merchant can open a shop and exchange soul currency for necessary food.

Unfortunately, most Tier 4 merchants cannot specify a store full of food, and they must also ensure that the food they exchange for is 'fresh'.

Like Jin Li, a mysterious merchant, her shop is filled with all sorts of strange and unusual items whose purpose is unknown.

If it's a group activity, the strongest support class in this Coffin of the Sea is the pet merchant from Beixinxiang. They can exchange piglets through the shop and make delicious roast suckling pigs in this Ice Age.

Of course, most animal trainers are pet owners who refuse to participate in this rift, and some have even established a special guild in the game to protect their pigs.

Secondly, there is a universal skill that everyone can learn—

fishing!

In this ocean world, besides those incredibly fierce monsters, fish and small insects are the easiest foods to obtain.

Therefore, fishing is an extremely useful skill.

Chen Qi continued to examine other information about the crack.

Crack distortion: 75% (High distortion rate; the danger of this crack is beyond your imagination!)
Current number of people: 641

Inspiration: You see the corpse of a girl with half-white and half-blue hair lying flat in a bottomless coffin. Suddenly, she opens her cold eyes, slowly opens her mouth, and licks her tongue.

You know, she's hungry.

Inspiration (Special): You see the sails of a jet-black whale floating on the sea.

Inspiration (Special, Light Image): You vaguely see yourself alone, being relentlessly chased by a monster engulfed in raging blue flames!

This……

Chen Qi frowned involuntarily.

These three inspirations were all somewhat unexpected to him.

The first source of inspiration was most likely the Ice Witch inside the Witch's Coffin, their main destination on this journey!

The Ice Witch licked her tongue at me?
Could it be that the Ice Witch wants to eat me?

No way... Chen Qi thought about it carefully and concluded that it must be because the Ice Witch had been sleeping for too long and was too hungry.

With Fen around, the probability of him being hunted as food by the Ice Witch is very low.

Secondly, there's the hint from the black whale sail.

It seems that the Black Whale Gang has arrived at the Coffin of the Sea and begun their operation.

Within this rift are special clues that allow you to view the surviving 'humans' at any time.

The number 641 does not include the various strange things in this world, but refers only to the adventurers who recently entered the rift.

Therefore, the Black Whale Group participating in this crack should have numbered around 600 people.

Of these, about one hundred are capable of fighting, while the others are not only capable of fighting but are also very likely to be the pirates' reserve food.

Within this rift, there is also a heretical way of playing, where a large number of pets and humans are used as backup food.

In the Coffin of the Ocean, ordinary pets without intelligence are extremely prone to mutation at night!

Therefore, it is also impossible to bring a large number of animals to live in this world.

Pets with high intelligence, such as water spirits, have an extremely low probability of mutation. This is why Chen Qi did not bring the near-sea overlord, but only the water spirit.

Chen Qi's eyes suddenly lit up.

The number of people dropped rapidly from 641 to 611 before his eyes!
This means that the Black Whale Gang's warship most likely encountered a monster in the Coffin of the Sea, and thirty of them were wiped out in an instant!

An unimaginable rate of decline.

It seems that the Black Whales have encountered a major shipwreck.

"In the A-level rift, one must be careful at every turn..." Chen Qi shook his head.

The third inspiration, the monster burning with blue flames, should refer to the Azure Beast...

Will I be all alone, being chased by the Azure Beast?
Being chased by a level 5 monster?
Chen Qi imagined the scene and felt a chill run down his spine.

Under normal circumstances, with his experience, fishing skills, and deep-sea affinity, as long as he doesn't deliberately do anything reckless, surviving for fifteen days and clearing the rift wouldn't be difficult.

However, due to the severed flesh and broken bones, and the touch of the lingering fire, he had already been marked by the Azure Beast.

He had experience dealing with some sea monsters and snow beasts, but facing a fifth-tier ferocious beast with considerable intelligence would be much more troublesome.

In this mission, in addition to facing the cold, hunger, and indescribable blue beasts, they must also be constantly on guard against the Black Whale Gang.

An extremely difficult post-apocalyptic survival game... Chen Qi put aside his chaotic thoughts and looked at everyone.

"It's so cold..."

Fen hugged herself tightly and said, trembling.
Chen Qi turned his head and saw that Fen was looking at him with a hungry expression, her stomach making a rumbling sound.

Her eyes seemed to say, "My stomach is hungry."

Because of the attack by the Azure Beast, the Ice Demon Pirates have lost more than half of the lambs they had prepared in advance.

The food they have is not even enough to sustain them for a day.

In this world, everyone's physical strength is being rapidly depleted!
"I can't live off Chen Qi..." Fen shook her head, took out the witch's relic, and said:
"I can sense that the teacher's location is deep within this icy sea, requiring at least five days' journey."

Five days, plus ten days round trip!
Moreover, this is all contingent on the absence of any unexpected events, such as encountering the Black Whale Gang or the Azure Beast.

"I have ample experience in wilderness survival..." the little crow said, lighting a torch.

"Based on inspiration, the number of people in this crack has decreased by another ten."

Ten people… Buri, consumed by hunger and cold, uttered a disheartening remark:

"We'll probably starve to death before we reach the Witch's Coffin and confront the Black Whale Gang, won't we?"

Upon arriving at the A-level rift, the group did not experience the expected excitement. Instead, they were instantly chilled by the coldness of this world!

Coupled with the attack from the Azure Beast, everyone's morale plummeted to rock bottom.

Perhaps, it's time for me to make a move... Chen Qi looked at everyone's dejected expressions and rubbed his nose:
"I'll fish for everyone first, and prepare some spare food for our journey."

Fishing is the most useful skill for obtaining food in this world!
His fishing skills were personally taught by a deep-sea hunter!
Under the expectant gazes of everyone, Chen Qi disembarked from the boat, walked onto the glacier, picked up a fishing rod, and began fishing.

Soon, his fishing rod twitched slightly.

Hooked!
Fishing is indeed a great skill.

Chen Qi thought to himself, and gently pulled the fishing rod.

This is a lot of weight, and it's a big fish!
"So fast……"

The little crow swallowed a mouthful of water, its heart pounding.

Everyone who saw this scene trembled with excitement.

Take the bait!

Chen Qi pulled hard on the fishing rod.

The next second, as the fish took the bait, the entire glacier where he was standing trembled.

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P.S.: I'm having serious writer's block, it's getting late, I apologize or 2.
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