Pretending To Be A Boss

Only in the absolute darkness of the deep sea can one witness those truly massive beings.

Tang Xian thought of how the great Tengu was eaten, and that probably led to the Dragon Horned Shark descending deeper into the water.

Then, without realizing, the Shark was swallowed whole by an even larger Ghost King Fish.

Especially this 'swallowed whole' part, Tang Xian was most certain of.

Because previously inside the body of the Dragon Horned Shark, there was hardly any vibration, mysteriously, it was pierced by stomach acid.

But inside the Ghost King Fish, Tang Xian felt a strong sense of shaking.

After the Dragon Horned Shark was eaten by the Ghost King Fish, it likely disturbed some other monstrous creature of the seabed.

Two creatures were battling it out.

Tang Xian let the gastric juice fall on him as he anxiously looked up.

"I hope it isn't something smaller than you, ideally something that could swallow you in one bite."

If the Ghost King Fish were to be eaten bit by bit, Tang Xian would once again be filled with water to the point of suffocation.

The feeling was too uncomfortable.

He could only pray that the Ghost King Fish was dodging an attack from some super-sized fish.

The great Tengu was finally digested completely, leaving only a white skeletal corpse.

Soon, even the Dragon Horned Shark was mostly dissolved by the gastric fluid.

The gastric juice was like acid rain falling from the sky.

Using the remainder of the great Tengu, Tang Xian slowly built up resistance to the Dragon Horned Shark.

The secretion of gastric acid in seabed creatures is too fierce; if he were directly eaten by these fish, he wouldn't have a chance to grow gradually and would instantly melt away.

This time, using the body of the Dragon Horned Shark, Tang Xian began to build up resistance to the Ghost King Fish.

Suddenly, when the Ghost King Fish came to an abrupt stop, Tang Xian felt like an unbuckled female driver smashing into a telephone pole at 200 kilometers per hour, his whole body slamming against the bones of the Dragon Horned Shark.

He looked up, and a voice came from within his sea of consciousness.

"Spare me!"

"That probably isn't meant for me."

He remembered that the gastric acid damage from the Ghost King Fish indicated it was a calamity-level boss unit.

He could actually converse with it.

But given the current situation, the Ghost King Fish was probably close to its end.

Tang Xian stared upward, as the massive body of the Ghost King Fish was finally melted by the gastric juice,

In one bite.

Although he hoped the Ghost King Fish would die by being swallowed in one gulp,

when that scenario actually occurred, Tang Xian was once again astounded.

How many giant monsters could there be in the depths of this ocean?

The size of the Dragon Horned Shark was already close to the 600-meter-tall Zudun Giant.

600 meters! That is the height of fifteen Ultramen stacked in a human pyramid!

Tang Xian really couldn't imagine just how enormous the Ghost King Fish was. At least for now the Ghost King Fish hadn't digested the colossal Dragon Horned Shark completely, so Tang Xian couldn't see its vast stomach.

But now, the Ghost King Fish, capable of swallowing a 600-meter behemoth in one bite, was devoured by another unknown fish.

The magnitude was changing again. Tang Xian was even thinking, this must be the largest creature in the sea, right?

But he clearly underestimated the frenzied evolution of those creatures in the deepest parts of the sea.

Sea Demons use the ocean as a swimming pool, their sizes reign supreme among sea beasts.

In the deep sea, aside from an extremely small number of creatures whose power doesn't correlate with their size, 95% of them grow stronger as they increase in size.

Only when new damage and resistance alerts appeared in his sea of consciousness did Tang Xian know, such deep-sea creatures are called Mountain Movers.

Catastrophic-level creatures, where the gastric acid damage could inflict up to 18% of his maximum health. Had the Ghost King Fish not blocked most of the surging acid, Tang Xian would have melted completely.

He didn't stay inside the Mountain Mover for long.

Until Tang Xian fully adapted to the surging stomach acid of the Mountain Mover,

the unimaginably large Ghost King Fish was also digested almost completely.

At that time, it was the Mountain Mover's turn to be swallowed.

"How many more times do I have to go through this?"

When he saw the innards of the Mountain Mover perforated by gastric acid, Tang Xian witnessed for the first time the power of a catastrophic-level boss creature.

The terrifying gastric fluid was almost no different from magma.

Tang Xian couldn't help thinking, if one day he was swallowed by Qing JiuYu—

No matter how high his health points were or how fast his regenerative abilities, would he liquefy instantly before regenerating?

Tang Xian chuckled bitterly. The damage prompts in his sea of consciousness had reached 25%.

Fortunately, the Mountain Mover was truly gigantic; there were still many places for Tang Xian to take shelter and slowly build up resistance to the sea creatures. The stomach of such fish was actually quite small relative to their body.

It's like the sperm whale that seems huge, but its esophagus can't even fit an adult human. It has to rely on consuming small fish and shrimp to survive.

But even so, Tang Xian felt as though he was walking inside an enormously vast castle.

When the Mountain Mover was halfway dissolved, Tang Xian finally maxed out his resistance to the creature known as the Sea God Beast.

He had no sense of achievement whatsoever.

These deep-sea creatures matched the calamity level beings on land, yet they were confined to the ocean depths.

Hiding in the remnants of the Mountain Mover, Tang Xian wryly said,
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"The greatest wish of my life is about to be fulfilled inadvertently."

Tang Xian's wish was to have a taste of catastrophic-level creature's meat in his lifetime.

Now he had the resistance against a catastrophic-level boss creature but had no appetite whatsoever for this Sea God Beast.

The larger the creature, the more gastric juice it secreted.

And higher-level species could almost instantly bring their prey to death.

Tang Xian had found the limits of this "resistance-building by being eaten" method.