Full health is the kill threshold, no matter if you're a god or a demon!

The BOSS seemed to realize the extraordinary power of this move. This time, instead of diving into the water, it poked the skeleton whale at its feet with its staff. The huge skeleton whale, with incredible agility, swung its body and leaped out of the water!

boom!!!

Liu Nian crashed into the lake, the immense force like a cannonball blasting the water upwards, creating continuous ripples.

Under normal circumstances, Liu Nian should have sunk directly into the lake, but whether the lake itself was strange or the BOSS had done something to it, he was slowly sinking as if he had stepped into a lump of mud... no, it should be called "being swallowed up." At the same time, it seemed as if countless hands in the dark lake water were grabbing his legs and feet and pulling him down with all their might.

As the BOSS leaped high out of the water, a ruthless glint flashed in Liu Nian's eyes.

You like running around, right?

I froze the lake solid!

【Dragon Seals the Myriad Realms】!

As Liu Nian pointed his finger, the void in front of him suddenly burst open! A colossal frost dragon swept across the sky, unleashing its frigid breath in an instant!

Click! Click! Click! Click! ...

Amidst the continuous, rapid freezing sounds, the entire lake surface was frozen solid in the blink of an eye!

When Kalon saw Liu Nian use this move, he prepared to let the Skull Whale dive into the water, but the freezing speed was too fast, and he needed to dodge the skill. In addition, Liu Nian deliberately aimed at his position, so the huge Skull Whale only had time to turn around and submerge its upper body in the water before its lower body was frozen!

On the frozen lake, most of the skeleton whale's body was imprisoned by solid ice. It struggled, and the friction between its bones and the ice produced a teeth-grinding crunching sound.

Without the slightest hesitation, before the residual power of the Frost Dragon's breath had completely dissipated and before the Skeleton Whale could break free of its restraints, Liu Nian shot out like an arrow, punching open a huge gap in the Skeleton Whale's rotting body that was stuck in the ice and exposed, and then leaped inside!

Upon entering the whale's body, the scene was even more bizarre and nauseating than expected.

This is not entirely a hollow skeleton. Necromancers have completely transformed this massive body, creating a complex network of chambers and passages between the bones and the remaining rotten muscle and whale fat.

The walls were made of half-rotten dark red tissue, proliferating pale bones, and writhing, eerie, dark green necromantic energy veins. They were soft, slippery, and elastic to the touch, yet carried the aura of death.

The air was filled with a strong stench of decay and fish.

Inside the cavity of this living fortress, there was a large number of undead creatures!

They do not enter from the outside, but rather appear to be guardians that "grow" or "summon" from inside the whale's body.

Bone-like parasitic crabs crawled rapidly along the cavity walls, spewing corrosive mucus; vengeful algae, like living tentacles, drooped down from the top, attempting to entangle and bind; bone marrow crawlers—faceless worm-like monsters born from a mixture of whale bone marrow and death energy—emerged from holes on all sides…

Liu Nian felt as if he had stumbled into a self-contained hive of the dead, built inside the carcass of a giant whale!

"Get out of my way!" Liu Nian shouted, his aura surging, and the shield provided by his steel cells flowed across his body, resisting the omnipresent attacks.

He swung his fists, and the wind from his punches tore and pulverized the undead guards as if they were made of paper!

The Silver Moonlight Arc of 【Vast Mind】is even more powerful in a relatively narrow space, and each swing can clear a large area.

Liu Nian's goal was clear: kill his way towards the skull of the skull whale!

Kalon was already standing on top of the skull!

He swept through everything in his path, unstoppable.

Although the number of undead guards was large, they could only slightly slow down his progress in the face of an absolute power difference.

Like a violent demolition crew, Liu Nian blasted a passage through the whale's body, with broken tissues, bones, and remains of the dead falling behind him.

After blasting through countless layers of tough, corrupted diaphragms and shattering countless waves of guards, a different scene finally appeared ahead.

A relatively spacious chamber located beneath the whale's skull.

This place seems to be some kind of control center or energy convergence point.

In the center of the chamber, there is a dark green energy core, woven from countless tiny bones and veins of necromantic energy, pulsating slowly like a heart, connected to the surrounding chamber walls through countless blood vessel-like energy threads.

The cold, deathly energy emanating from its core sustains the entire skeleton whale's "activity" and internal ecosystem.

Around the energy core, several exceptionally powerful guardians—ghost warriors—are stationed.

They were tall and composed entirely of highly condensed, dark blue energy, vaguely retaining a human form, wielding swords made of condensed energy, with two swirling pale flames in their eye sockets.

Their aura far surpassed that of the previous minions; they were elite-level monsters.

Liu Nian didn't have time to get entangled with them. He locked onto the energy core and immediately activated [Unstoppable Force]!

Ignoring the energy blade slashed by the ghost warrior, Liu Nian transformed into a streak of light and crashed fiercely into the pulsating dark green core!

"boom!!!"

- 2696 million!

The core trembled violently, and countless cracks appeared on the surface! The connecting energy "blood vessels" broke one after another!

The entire chamber, and even the entire massive body of the skeleton whale, shuddered violently! The frozen lake surface outside cracked and split open with even more fissures.

Several Netherworld Warriors were also shaken by the shockwave, causing their energy to dissipate.

Liu Nian pressed his advantage relentlessly, followed by a Soul-Draining Strike that slammed heavily into the damaged core!

The core could no longer withstand the pressure and exploded with a bang!

The dark green necromantic energy surged forth like a burst dam, instantly filling the entire chamber and rushing along the passage towards the whale's entire body!

Without its core power source, the undead energy channels within the whale's body rapidly dimmed and withered, and many of the undead guardians that were being generated instantly froze and dissipated.

The entire "Undead Hive" system began to collapse.

Without pausing, Liu Nian leaped upwards, clenched his fists, and unleashed a full-force attack on the thick bone above that was clearly the inside of his skull!

"Open it for me!"

"Crack—Boom!!"

A hole several meters in diameter was blasted open in the hard skull! The pale light from the frozen lake surface and the dark green water rushed in instantly.

Liu Nian swam out of the hole and arrived at the top of the giant skull of the skull whale—the same area where Kalon had stood before, the throne of bones.

Here stands a throne, deeply embedded in the head of a whale. The throne remains, but it is now empty.

Only scattered, broken pieces of coral bone and lingering chilling aura of death indicate that the undead lord had briefly stayed.

Caron did indeed slip away.

During the time Liu Nian was bombarding the inner core, causing immense chaos and damage, he had already broken free of the skeleton whale mount and vanished without a trace, likely returning to his lair.

"They ran away again?!" Liu Nian muttered, frustrated. "Are all the bosses on the third level of the Dark Region this afraid of death?"

After all that effort—freezing the lake, crawling into the bellies of fish, and killing countless undead—the main culprit still couldn't be caught.

Although I killed a lot of undead and got a lot of souls, there was still a frustrating feeling of punching cotton.

He kicked the remains of the throne beside him with some frustration.

The throne flew off the whale's head like a giant cone under his immense force.

Just as Liu Nian was considering whether to completely dismantle the whale bone to vent his anger—

A faint, painful yet exceptionally clear "fluctuation" suddenly emanated from deep within the massive skeleton whale remains beneath their feet.