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As Lin Huang was running on the surface of the frozen water, the ocean beneath was filled with all sorts of sea monster carcasses . All of them had died from the continuous bashing into the ice .
"Are these sea monsters on Ecstasy? Why are they so crazy?" Lin Huang looked puzzled as he watched the sea monsters under the ice that were killing themselves over him .
He could clearly sense with his Divine Telekinesis that those sea monsters under the ice seemed to have lost their mind when they bashed into the ice . They ignored the ice blocking their way as well as their friends that were dead .
"I think the system set the monsters in this stage to go into a frenzy," said Bloody that was in his sleeve through voice transmission, "Maybe they only have one order in their head when they sense players, which is to attack them . They seemed to be hypnotized .
"Although they have imperial-level combat strength, monsters on this stage aren't gifted with normal intelligence . They're even dumber than the bugs that we encountered in some of the checkpoints . I suspect it's the Stairway Tree's system that set it that way on purpose to lower the difficulty . "
"Why do I feel it's actually increasing the difficulty?" Lin Huang could not help but voice his opinion . "They go into a frenzy as soon as they sense the players and attack the players as if they've lost their minds . Moreover, during the frenzy, their speed and attack strength experience an obvious boost . They even gave up on attacking sea monsters of other tribes that were in their territory, whereby the players became their sole target . Isn't that more difficult?"
"It's more difficult on the surface, but in reality, the difficulty level is lower," Bloody shared a different opinion . "Look at these sea monsters . Under such a frenzy, their attack mode is the same . They know they can't break the ice wall, but they don't even try to figure another way around it . This stage is purely to test one's ability to break through it head-on . If these sea monsters have ordinary intelligence, they would've had more advanced techniques when going after the players compared to what they're doing now .
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"Let's use the simplest strategy as an example . They don't even need to attack the players strenuously now . All they have to do is to find a key location where the player will definitely pass by and gather everyone there . The player will then fall into the trap automatically . "
Lin Huang just realized that he did not think it through earlier after hearing what Bloody said .
As they chatted, a gigantic black silhouette was approaching rapidly beneath the ocean .
Terrifying waves rumbled on both sides of the ice just when Lin Huang sensed that something was wrong . The waves were up to 10,000 meter high now .
The Enchanted Fairy merely waved her sleeves, and the insane waves turned into two massive icebergs .
Meanwhile, the giant beast beneath the ocean had its mouth wide open as soon as the waves came . It was going to swallow Lin Huang together with the icy path beneath his feet .
However, the massive waves on both sides of the ice path turned into gigantic icebergs just when it opened its mouth, and it happened to bite into them .
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Lin Huang heard cracks before gory blood gushed out of the sea king monster's mouth like a waterfall . Even a few of its teeth cracked and fell, creating turbulent waves on the sea .
What made Lin Huang not sure whether to laugh or cry was that this sea king monster's mouth was then filled with the two icebergs . Its upper and lower jaws were opened to the widest . Since the bottom of the icebergs were much bigger than the top, it could not even spit them out now .
At the moment, the gigantic sea king monster seemed to have two giant weights shoved into its mouth . It fell into an awkward situation whereby it could not bite into it, close its mouth and neither could it not swallow the icebergs .
Since the ice path beneath Lin Huang's feet was connected to the two icebergs, the sea king monster's entire head was stuck . It could not move despite attempting a few times by whipping its body about, but its effort was to no avail .
The sea king monster's eight big, googly eyes were staring at Lin Huang . It looked like it was going to cry . Nobody knew whether it felt wronged or if it was hurting .
Lin Huang even sensed that it was revealing a human expression of awkwardness and embarrassment . He was not sure if that was an illusion .
After chuckling at it without showing any sympathy, Lin Huang thought he should snap a photo of such a scene that was hard to come by for memory's sake .
He activated the camera on his Emperor's Heart Ring and took more than ten high-resolution digital photos of this sea king monster that looked like a crocodile . He even posed in many selfies with it as the background .
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After taking the photos, Lin Huang left the sea king monster behind and ran towards the 73rd checkpoint behind the Enchanted Fairy .
He decided not to kill the sea king monster mainly because the funny incident would make him laugh for the entire day . It gave color to his rather boring checkpoint breakthrough .
Naturally, he would not let it go . It was fortunate that the Enchanted Fairy did not turn it into an ice sculpture .
Such a monster would not die even if it did not eat or drink while being stuck where it was . As for regaining its freedom, it depended on when the ice path beneath Lin Huang's feet melted . Eating normally again would depend on when it could spit out or swallow the icebergs in its mouth when they melted .
The monsters Lin Huang encountered since the imperial-level purple gold-rank sea king monster were getting more and more powerful .
It proved that the closer one was towards the 73rd checkpoint, the more powerful the monsters became .
After he broke through half the checkpoint, almost all of the sea monsters he encountered were above imperial-level yellow gold-rank .
Especially when he was left with a tenth of his journey, almost all of the sea monsters that attacked him were on imperial-level purple gold-rank .
However, these sea monsters were not as fortunate as the sea king monster . The Enchanted Fairy turned them into ice sculptures immediately as soon as they approached the ice path .
Lin Huang spent over two hours to finally complete the ice path that was 10,000 kilometers long to him since he could not fly and his body had shrunk .
As he stepped out of the ice path and entered the 73rd checkpoint of the Stairway Tree, Lin Huang turned back to his original body size in the blink of an eye .
He stood on a field and turned around to look at the 72nd checkpoint that he had just passed .
He saw a white icy line that was only as thick as his finger . There were ice sculptures of all sizes and forms on the both sides of the icy line, seeming like exquisite art pieces .
Lin Huang tried his very best to see through the clouds above the ocean, peering at the sea king monster, whose mouth was still stuck, far away . It was still there and it had gave up struggling completely . Just like that, it was hanging on the white icy line like a salted fish an aunty was drying on a clothesline .
Lin Huang chuckled and turned around to enter the dense jungle on the 73rd checkpoint .