"Researcher Wei, do you still believe that the Sea God they mentioned actually exists?"
"That altar exploded once it left a certain range, and the pure energy it released is very similar to the records of a divine sacrificial vessel."
"A divine sacrificial vessel?"
"Yes, a type of container used to collect faith. It can also carry some basic divine arts. They usually carry the symbols of their god, such as their appearance, authority, or deeds.
Furthermore, this Sea God might not be a deity from Blue Star, but rather a Sea God from the nagas' own world."
Hearing Wei Qian's serious tone, Chen Xu felt a chill run down his spine and secretly signaled Sindragosa to fly toward the coast.
"Researcher Wei, how accurate is your guess? If you are sure, report it to the higher-ups quickly. I cannot handle a god on my own."
If it were any other deity, like a beast god, dragon god, or wood god, Chen Xu felt he might have the strength to challenge them. Even if he could not win, his army of hundreds of millions of undead could surely stall for a long time.
But regarding a Sea God, Chen Xu felt uncertain. His undead army usually won through sheer numbers, but no matter how many there were, they could not outnumber the ocean itself.
"Don't worry, I have already reported it. Besides, a deity from another world should be subject to restrictions. It won't be that easy for it to enter Blue Star.
I suspect that divine sacrificial vessel is meant to terraform Blue Star's waters into an earthly divine kingdom. Once that is done, the deity will be able to descend."
"Alright."
As the two communicated, Kunpeng arrived at Target Location 2.
This was also a small naga outpost.
Upon seeing Kunpeng's arrival, the nagas at Target Location 2 made the same preparations.
They sent a squad swimming toward Kunpeng.
However, this time, Kunpeng did not stay in place to wait for the nagas to attack first.
Instead, it opened its massive mouth and actively swam toward the naga outpost.
Like a high-powered vacuum cleaner, it sucked the nagas, seabed debris, and other creatures along its path into its maw.
"Run!"
The nagas in the outpost were terrified and immediately tried to flee into the deep sea.
Kunpeng simply increased its suction and accelerated toward them. As the nagas slowed down and Kunpeng sped up, the nagas were effectively pinned in place.
The abyss-like mouth descended, and none of the nagas at Target Location 2 escaped. All were killed.
After dealing with the nagas, Kunpeng charged back into the outpost. With a powerful tail flick, it churned the seawater and knocked down the naga dwellings.
An altar was revealed, identical to the one at the first outpost.
Kunpeng was delighted and quickly swam over to hold it in its mouth.
"Kunpeng, don't swallow it yet."
Sensing Kunpeng's intentions, Chen Xu immediately issued an order.
To prevent the altar at Target Location 2 from exploding, Yuan Chuanxin had already set out with instruments and was heading toward Kunpeng's location.
Although it was not yet certain if the explosion was caused by movement, they had to let the researchers take the risk for safety's sake.
Kunpeng did not mind. Since Chen Xu told it to hide, it dove to the seabed and lay there quietly.
Having the experience from the first time, Kunpeng knew the altar in its mouth was delicious. While Chen Xu said it could not swallow it, he never said it could not suck on it.
Thus, Kunpeng secretly released that strange suction, continuously draining pure water-attribute energy from the altar.
By the time Yuan Chuanxin arrived at the location in a helicopter, half the energy had already been drained.
Yuan Chuanxin dropped a spherical instrument from the helicopter and remotely piloted it to Kunpeng's position.
Chen Xu gave the order for Kunpeng to open its mouth and reveal the altar.
Kunpeng, which was thoroughly enjoying its meal, had no choice but to stop its suction and open its mouth to show the altar.
After finishing his operations, Yuan Chuanxin immediately retrieved the instrument and signaled Chen Xu that the mission was over and he could leave.
Chen Xu nodded. After letting Kunpeng swallow the altar in one gulp, he withdrew it into the Necrotic Kingdom and flew away quickly on Sindragosa.
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Linghai Academy.
Everyone gathered here once again.
The data collected by the instruments had been uploaded to the Fuxi system and was being analyzed.
"Tell me, if this thing really is a divine sacrificial vessel and a Sea God exists, how should Daxia respond?"
While waiting for the analysis results, Chen Xu posed this question.
"I don't know. Daxia has no experience dealing with deities."
Wei Qian pulled up the historical records, sorted in reverse chronological order. At the top was the Mohai Dragonslayer Incident.
"The most recent record is the Dragonslayer Project you participated in."
"But that was a mythic-tier creature. While a god is theoretically mythic-tier as well, the unique nature of a deity makes them much harder to deal with than a mythic creature."
Faced with Chen Xu's words, Wei Qian showed a confused expression.
Consequently, Chen Xu explained the records concerning deities from his inherited knowledge.
In the inherited knowledge of the Lord of the Undead, the classification for deities was marked as a "special mythic-tier."
The biggest difference between a god and other mythic-tier beings was the power of faith.
Faith, this unique spiritual substance, was both the source of a god's power and the foundation of their divine energy.
Whether a god was strong or not could be determined by the amount of faith they possessed.
As long as faith remained, the god would not perish. Even if only a tiny sliver of believers remained to provide faith, the god could be reborn. This trait gave deities a vitality far exceeding that of ordinary mythic-tier beings.
Therefore, in the myriad worlds, if one wished to kill a god, they usually used another god to do so.
The god's physical body had to be destroyed, and their believers had to be eliminated as well.
Destroying the physical body was easy, but few powerful beings were willing to cast aside their dignity to physically eliminate a massive population of believers unless they were naturally malevolent.
Thus, using another god to launch a faith-based offensive was the best solution.
"I see."
After listening to Chen Xu's explanation, everyone present realized the truth.
"I didn't expect you to have so much knowledge in your head. Why don't you upload some of it to Fuxi when you have time?"
To a researcher like Wei Qian, knowledge was the sweetest honey and the finest wine.
Seeing her eyes look as if they were about to shoot lasers, Chen Xu's scalp felt numb, and he could only nod repeatedly.
Sharing some general knowledge about realms and the state of the myriad worlds with Daxia would not affect Chen Xu anyway, as long as he omitted the parts regarding the Lord of the Undead.
"Beep! Beep! Beep! Fuxi analysis complete."
Hearing Fuxi's completion notification, everyone's attention turned to the analysis report issued by the system.
"Analysis results: 95% probability of it being a divine sacrificial vessel, 5% probability of it being a water-attribute purification facility."
"95%. We can confirm it is a divine sacrificial vessel."
"Why is there a 5% probability of it being some purification facility?"
"The reason given by Fuxi is that the energy in the altar showed signs of prolonged leakage, which does not quite match the typical case of a deity extracting from a sacrificial vessel. Thus, it gave a 5% probability."
"It is likely because Fuxi's database has limited information on deities, leading to a misjudgment."
The researchers present voiced their opinions on the report. Finally, Wei Qian made the final decision.
"According to protocol, anything exceeding 90% can be treated as an established fact. Therefore, I will report this situation in the name of the Linghai Academy. Do you have any objections?"
"Agreed."
"No objections."
Soon, a message regarding the existence of a deity among the sea race was sent from the Linghai Academy to Daxia Academy, and then from Daxia Academy to the various high-level officials of Daxia.
"Hmm? Why did I receive the message too?"
Chen Xu pulled out his Soul-Inducing Token and checked the message he had just received. It was indeed the notification about the deity in the sea race, with a location and time at the end.
The location was the Daxia Military Academy Dungeon Preparation Base.
The time was 10:00 PM tonight.
Chen Xu understood that another emergency meeting was about to take place.
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