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Chapter 605 Glass Body

In the endless darkness, fragments of golden runes slowly began to glow, connecting with each other like stars in the tides of a black sea, resembling a constellation of stars.

Strands of golden light floated and intertwined like golden fibers, slowly weaving into the shape of a golden steel saw.

Lin Yi was overjoyed. Young Master Tian was right. This thing was indeed a powerful weapon. The reason he couldn't use it was simply because he was too incompetent.

He then used his will to guide the secret-patterned steel saw, like a file, to slowly polish the nearest bone fragments.

He naturally wouldn't use the serrated part; instead, he used the side to grind away the flocculent material on the bone fragments.

"Gah...ga...ga..."

With each file of the hacksaw, the fibrous material was actually gradually removed.

As the flocculent material disappeared, other luster appeared on the bone fragments that had previously resembled cast gold...

Those iridescent colors even have a gemstone-like texture.

When the flocculent material was completely scraped away, the original bone fragments turned into a crystal-like substance, with a luster that resembled glass shards.

At that moment, Lin Yi seemed to realize something, but he didn't react immediately.

He was like a pure modeler, completely absorbed in the assembly process, his mind solely focused on etching, brushing, covering, painting, and assembling...

He first guided the reconstruction of his left arm bones, and after the hand bones were also reconstructed, he directly grasped the secret-patterned steel saw and began to more efficiently "fish out" his other bone fragments. After polishing them, he began to assemble them bit by bit...

He repeated this incredibly tedious and boring process until, after an unknown amount of time, he finally reconstructed his skeletal golden body.

"All done, all done..." Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead...

But his hand bones touched his skull, making a crisp snapping sound. There was no sweat for him to wipe.
Only then did he suddenly realize—something's not right!
His skeletal golden body... how did it change?

His skeleton is no longer made of gold; it has clearly transformed into a crystal skeleton shimmering with dazzling colors!
This crystal skeleton looked remarkably like the "mourner" he had seen in the decaying ship's cabin, yet it was also somewhat different...

"That's right! Not 'Mourners,' but... 'Primordial Ash Apostle'?!"

Even Lin Yi himself was shocked when he realized this.

At this moment, his skeleton is like that of the "original Ash Apostle," as if it were made up of countless shards of glass!

However, the "original Ash Apostle" has a humanoid outline, while he is a humanoid skeleton!
He can no longer be described as having a "golden body"; it should be described in a different way...

Vitreous body with skeletal structure?
It sounds like some kind of cheap toy...

A body made of crystal?
hiss--

That sounds much more domineering!

A body made of crystal?
Since it looks so much like the "original type Ash Apostle", why not call it the "original type Glass Body"?
Forget it, that's too embarrassing... Let's just go with the glass body, a simple way to differentiate it from the previous skeletal golden body.

"However... why am I becoming more and more like a 'Primordial Ash Apostle'? Could it be due to the influence of 'Ash,' or...?"

Or perhaps, as he adapts, he is experiencing some kind of... "atavism," with his physical characteristics resembling those of some other being.

A sense of fear suddenly arose in Lin Yi's heart. He was afraid that he would become something he didn't know, or something he had always been afraid of becoming...

Just then, as his glass body was being reshaped, he discovered that his senses seemed to have been enhanced in a terrifying way. He seemed to be able to see things in the tides of the black sea that he couldn't see before.

Or rather, to perceive.

It was a huge network with a green glow, each grid was enormous, like a fishing net from a ship sunk to the bottom of the sea, spread out by the seawater and swaying with the waves.

The jellyfish-like nocturnal creatures that had supposedly disappeared had always existed, but now, in this depth, they had concealed themselves like chameleons, blending into the undercurrents of the black sea and merging with the invisible and illusory mysterious network.

As Lin Yi sensed and sensed, he suddenly realized that there was another reason why he was able to perceive the existence of that mysterious network—the jellyfish-like nocturnal creatures that had devoured his flesh and blood were now attached to that network, and he had glimpsed the existence of this network precisely when he sensed his flesh and blood.

"My flesh and blood... I can still sense it even after it's been eaten?" Lin Yi was somewhat surprised, but there was still a part of his flesh and blood that he truly couldn't sense anymore.

That part of the flesh and blood appears to have been completely digested.

But he began to feel nauseous at the sight of the flesh and blood that had been devoured. Surely he couldn't possibly take his own parts out of the stomachs of those jellyfish-like nocturnal creatures and combine them together?

This is absolutely disgusting...

Lin Yi wouldn't do such a thing.

"Wait a minute..." Lin Yi slapped his forehead, the bone of his hand making a crisp sound as it hit his skull, clearly indicating a sharp mind. "I almost forgot, as long as the skeleton is there, I can take care of the rest myself..."

He then silently began to observe the enormous network. After all, his boss had told him that he could observe and sense it freely, and that she would come to his rescue if he was in danger.

But then again, even when his skeletal golden body shattered into countless fragments, the boss didn't appear. What kind of danger could possibly qualify as the standard by which the boss saved him?

It's really strange...

As he pondered and observed the vast network, he discovered that as the flesh and blood he had shared were continuously digested, his perception of the network became increasingly blurred.

We haven't even seen a hint of it yet, and it's already almost out of sight?
"What to do... Ah, I've got it!" A brilliant idea struck him, and he quickly devised a way to guide the pollution in the black sea toward his crystal body, then continuously reshape his flesh and blood...

Pollution of various colors appeared, and even ash was slowly extracted from the seawater and absorbed by his glassy body like crystals.

The next moment, a nanoscale regeneration and repair process appeared on the surface of his glassy body again. As the "flesh and blood" regenerated, the jellyfish-like nocturnal creatures attached to the mysterious network seemed to have caught some kind of signal and swarmed out of their nests, gathering towards Lin Yi like a school of fish.

"Swish, swish... swish, swish..."

The jellyfish-like nocturnal creature began to entangle Lin Yi once again, then opened its mouthparts and began to tear at him, immediately devouring all the flesh and blood that had just regenerated on his body.

"As expected..." Lin Yi opened his arms, letting the jellyfish-like nocturnal creatures devour his flesh and blood, his mind calm. "These jellyfish-like nocturnal creatures only eat flesh and blood... and then those flocculent pollutants decompose my bones..."

"Like a whale fall..."

"Once flesh regenerates on my body, it will repeat this process... until it has completely devoured my flesh." "But... what's the logic behind this?"

Lin Yi felt the whole process was very similar to a whale fall, but to him, it also seemed like he had fallen into a biochemical decomposition pool...

Could the danger the boss was talking about be being broken down?

But he can regenerate... and after being eaten, the flesh and blood that he regenerated seemed to become more resilient. I wonder if this is related to the primal pollution he absorbed from the Black Sea.

All of this is nothing more than physical decomposition and recombination.

Could it be that... the real crisis lies at the level of my spirit and will?
He doesn’t know…

He had absolutely no idea...

Forget it, whether it's whale fall, shark drop, or turtle throw, let's just leave it at that...

Let's just mess around with it until the boss comes to the rescue.

He then continuously regenerated flesh and blood, and then let the jellyfish-like nocturnal creatures devour his flesh and blood and spread it to the mysterious network, thereby allowing his own will to indirectly infiltrate that network in an attempt to glimpse its entirety.

Unfortunately, the network was far too vast, and he could sense that his will had negligible penetration into it.

As he began to perceive this network, a corner of the sea slowly unfolded. He saw countless mottled marks within the grid, like volcanic rock covered with seaweed, deep black, blending into the dark color of the sea.

"Beneath this grid... isn't it emptiness?!"

Lin Yi was shocked and tried to paddle a few more times, but his glassy body remained motionless.

He thought for a moment, then focused the regeneration of flesh and blood on his feet, causing the jellyfish-like nocturnal creatures to tilt towards his feet. Then he kicked his feet, and the jellyfish-like nocturnal creatures on the frontier used them as flippers, propelling him slowly closer to the grid.

"Gurgle...gurgle..."

As the water continued to flow, Lin Yi's glass-like body slowly arrived at the center of the grid, which seemed to be larger than a football field.

He slowly paddled through the water until he landed completely on the volcanic rock in the middle of the grid.

Just as he approached the net, the jellyfish-like nocturnal creatures seemed to sense something, peeling off their bodies one by one, then waving their countless fleshy limbs that were indistinguishable as snake heads or tentacles, sliding onto the net ropes and merging into them.

"Are they scared?" Lin Yi was somewhat surprised and quickly became extremely alert. Anything that could instill fear in jellyfish-like nocturnal creatures couldn't be something simple...

"puff……"

He gently placed his fingertips on the rock, then slowly squatted down, spread his five fingers, and gently touched the dark black volcanic rock.

He focused all his energy and then slowly channeled his will into the interior of the black rock.

As his will permeated the air, he suddenly had a strange feeling, as if this dark black volcanic rock was just an ordinary, hard substance.

But as his will continued to penetrate, a profound shock suddenly arose within him—

"This...?! This isn't volcanic rock at all, but... some kind of aggregated, high-purity 'ash crystals'?!"

It is the ultimate form of the ash crystal that fanatics strive with all their might to condense!
"This...this piece is so big?!"

"How many fanatics' lives would it take to condense this? No, perhaps it doesn't require the lives of fanatics..." Lin Yi thought. What the fanatics did was condense ashes, but what if this place itself was made of high-purity ashes?

He continued to sense, and gradually, his perception was about to penetrate the lower layers of that giant ash crystal!

But just as his senses were about to break through the crystal and enter the lower layer, a faint current suddenly flowed through his entire body!
"...?!?!"

Lin Yi didn't have a heart at this moment, but he felt as if his heart had been violently squeezed!

That wisp of electricity was a pure warning, a notification of danger, his subconscious's premonition of impending death!

"Buzz——"

The entire black sea seemed to experience a violent fluctuation at this moment, and that feeling was especially clear and profound when it was transmitted to Lin Yi's body through the ash crystals!
Beneath the ash crystals, something seemed to... awaken!

"not good!"

An unprecedentedly terrifying aura instantly enveloped Lin Yi!

Beneath the boundless void of the black sea, it seemed as if a pair of blazing golden eyes were slowly opening!

What a look that was!
Just by opening my eyes, it was as if light appeared in the infinite black world!
But that light brought with it terrifying death!

"Click..."

The ash crystals suddenly softened and began to spread and wriggle upwards along Lin Yi's glass body like well-mixed cement, as if they wanted to directly cast his glass body!
He wanted to withdraw, but the awakening will seemed to be a powerful and majestic force that overwhelmed his spirit and will, making it impossible for him to do anything unnecessary!

I...saw...you...

In the boundless void, a low and eerie, joyful laugh seemed to echo!

Like a child playing hide-and-seek, I excitedly found the one who was hiding!

However, Lin Yi felt a chill run through his body, and his soul seemed to fly away!
Death's scythe was placed so casually at his neck!
One after another...

One after another...

His eyes slowly opened, slowly widened, slowly... filled with hideous bloodshot veins!
"null--!!"

In that instant, everything around him seemed to freeze, and a new memory suddenly appeared in Lin Yi's mind!
That period, erased by time, is his memory of facing the "angel" in the clock tower!
Two pairs of eyes, exactly the same!!

The eyes of an angel!

To be precise, it was one of the "angel's" eyes!
(End of this chapter)