Chapter 159. Jurassic (13) Entering the Sea

     The end of the continent is the ocean.

     At first glance, the ancient oceans and the oceans of the modern world don’t seem that different. Both are a beautiful azure blue, stretching to the horizon. The sea breeze carries the salty scent of the sea, and the coastal areas feature natural beaches of a striking orange-red hue due to their iron content. These beaches are scattered with oddly shaped rocks and seashells washed up by the waves.

     The difference lies in the species that inhabit these coastal areas.

     In the Jurassic period, the creatures living along the ocean’s edge were primarily dinosaurs, including both herbivorous and carnivorous types. The herbivorous dinosaurs fed on unique plants that grew on the rocky shores, while the carnivorous ones, often winged, preyed on animals living in the shallow waters.

     There were also a very small number of omnivorous dinosaurs without wings. Because some marine creatures had a habit of occasionally coming ashore, these animals often became the prey of omnivorous dinosaurs.

     Secondly, there were giant lizard-like creatures, some with teeth as sharp as sharks, and limbs that had not yet lost their agility. Ye Mo also saw a herd of prehistoric elephants.

     The dinosaurs and other animals living in this area could basically drink the salty and bitter seawater to quench their thirst or extract certain information from it, because they had specialized organs or cells in their bodies to excrete excess salt, acting like filters.

     Ye Mo did not leave the mainland and go to the sea immediately, but lived by the sea for several days and did some experiments.

     For example, Tyrannosaurus Rex could eat most dinosaurs in the ocean, as well as a very small number of plants, but could not drink seawater to quench its thirst, as it lacked the organs to process seawater. Therefore, it was necessary to prepare resources such as fresh water, aquatic dinosaurs, aquatic plants, and aquatic spirit stones.

     And there are fire, wood, and lightning resources that are either absent, relatively scarce, or rarely encountered in the ocean. These might have unexpected and wonderful uses for future survival.

     The forest behind her was her excellent hunting ground. Here, she could basically find a lot of food, dinosaurs in herds, numerous rock-type treasures, and some wild fruits.

     Needless to say, in this process, the importance of Hawk eye was self-evident, greatly satisfying her inexplicably growing collecting hobby.

     During the resource gathering process, Ye Mo and Eagle Eye inadvertently discovered an underground mine resembling modern coal. This was irrelevant to her. What truly caught her attention was the presence of a dozen or so wood-type spirit jades scattered among the coal, all of them legendary petrified trees.

     The best quality wood-type spirit jade was already comparable to the system rewards given in the real-world Liúshuǐ copy.

     An unexpected surprise.

     The most pleasant surprise was discovering the environment where these wood-type spirit jades formed.

     In addition to gathering supplies, Ye Mo also witnessed multiple intense battles at the seaside or in shallow waters, including land-sea-air battles, land-sea battles, sea-air battles, intra-oceanic wars, and she joining in several times.

     The hunting information and techniques she learned on land had less than 5% applicability in the ocean, and the techniques had less than 30% applicability. How to hunt had to be relearned step by step.

     When she was reasonably sure that she wouldn’t starve or die of thirst even if she spent all her remaining time in the ocean, Ye Mo had grown to 14.7 meters. She fixed the Suihou Pearl inside her storage belt, wrapped the golden storage belt around her neck, and set off into the sea.

      As long as the artifact Suihou Pearl directly touches a certain part of the body of a creature, it will naturally form an invisible and intangible barrier, similar to a film, wrapping the host’s entire body.

     This film not only renders deep-sea pressure as nothing, but the Suihou Pearl also actively absorbs surrounding moisture, converting it into oxygen that the host can absorb, preventing suffocation.

     Moreover, it has a very high stealth and shielding function, which even Eagle Eye cannot penetrate. However, this shielding is limited to vision, and hearing, smell, and touch cannot be shielded.

     This is already very impressive.

     Ye Mo has thoroughly explored the Suihou Pearl’s capabilities, gained insights into how to reduce water pressure and generate oxygen, and even prepared design plans. However, she cannot achieve such a perfect combination, nor can she find the legendary materials to create such a Suihou Pearl.

     Even a 1% functional replica of the combination cannot be produced with current technology.

     Even with a treasure like the Suihou Pearl, Ye Mo’s movement in the seawater was not easy. Not being able to run with her feet firmly on the ground, like a true marine creature, made her Tyrannosaurus Rex body very uncomfortable.

     The longer she swam, the more pronounced this feeling became.

     Moreover, in the Jurassic world, Tyrannosaurus Rex was a purely terrestrial creature. Ye Mo could intimidate other dinosaurs on land, but in the ocean, she faced various difficulties. Her mental power could not replicate the intimidation methods of certain marine dinosaurs, so the effectiveness of her mental disruption technique was reduced.

     No matter what marine dinosaur she turn into, she can’t fool marine dinosaurs within 500 meters, especially carnivorous dinosaurs.

     There is less and less sunlight in the ocean. Most marine creatures basically do not rely on vision. There are also various means of detecting the environment. The concealment performance of Suihouzhu is also full of limitations here.

     It is a matter of time to attract hunters in the ocean, but this challenge comes too fast.

     Within the third hour of entering the sea, Ye Mo was surrounded and besieged by a group of ice-type carnivorous ichthyosaurs, each averaging over 10 meters in length. Although they were larger than most terrestrial carnivorous dinosaurs, in the ocean, they were only considered medium-sized, social dinosaurs.

     Seawater was the natural battleground for ice-type dinosaurs.

     Ye Mo, whose combat power was significantly reduced in the seawater, was nearly frozen by the combined attack of these medium-sized marine dinosaurs and might have been pierced through the heart by ice swords. She only managed to survive by consuming a large amount of fire and wood resources from her space.

     The crimson blood had already dyed the surrounding seawater red.

     Not daring to delay for a second, Ye Mo quickly put forty or fifty ichthyosaurs into the space, took out the compass to correct her direction, and hurriedly left the scene.

     Her body recovery ability is very strong, but even if it is strong, it will take some time for the wound to heal.

     In this short period of time, Ye Mo encountered several more waves of dinosaur attacks, each one adding to her injuries. The new wounds attracted further attacks from other carnivorous marine dinosaurs or groups of dinosaurs.

     She was truly in constant danger.

     This was the longest and most grueling challenge Ye Mo had faced in all her time, constantly fighting or fleeing. Even replenishing food was done during battles or escapes, and closing her eyes to rest was absolutely impossible.

     Because she was too unfamiliar with the ocean.

     As a result, not to mention traveling, Ye Mo found it difficult to even survive, and had little time to think. She could only grit her teeth and, amidst the chase and slaughter, try to find a place to rest and recover as soon as possible, otherwise she would have to return.

     This search took quite a long time.

     Ye Mo had battled pterosaurs in the sea surface area within 50 meters, and had been chased by tens of thousands of gregarious ichthyosaurs in the near-sea area within 600 meters. Even herbivorous dinosaurs would drive away or even hunt down this strange-looking creature they had never seen before.

     In the mid-sea area between 500 and 1000 meters, she fought against groups of pliosaurs and metriorhynchuses. At 2000 meters, she unfortunately encountered a pliosaurus weighing 800 tons, and engaged in a life-or-death struggle with it.

     This pliosaurus was several times larger and heavier than a typical adult pliosaurus. Its most terrifying ability was its high-level water magic, which could easily evaporate other dinosaurs into jerky in an instant.

     If Ye Mo hadn’t had the Suihou Pearl to protect her, she might have been killed the moment she encountered the Pliosaurus. Even so, when she tore it apart with her claws, which were even sharper than the Pliosaurus’s, she was seriously injured.

     She had to immediately bite and swallow the Pliosaurus’s heart and other organs. Only then did her body, which had lost a third of its blood and was almost steamed flat, begin to recover slightly.

     This magic was incredible!

     Fortunately, in the deep-sea area beyond 2000 meters, even deep-sea dinosaurs couldn’t completely ignore the deep-sea pressure, and the number of carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaurs was gradually decreasing.

     Ye Mo could finally catch her breath, but this didn’t mean the deep-sea area was safe.

     Because in the deep-sea area, there are many marine overlords, and they are all very difficult to deal with, like the Pliosaurus that Ye Mo just killed. The area where she is resting is the Pliosaurus’s territory, and it is precisely because of the Pliosaurus’s occupation that it is so ‘safe’.

     Even if the surrounding dinosaurs smell the blood, they temporarily dare not enter here due to the residual power of this Pliosaurus.

     In the Pliosaurus’s territory, Ye Mo consumed an entire Pliosaurus, as well as other dinosaurs, until her body and spirit had recovered almost completely. Then she took out the compass, adjusted the direction, and continued forward.

     She has now finally found a survival rule applicable in the ocean: operate in the deep-sea space beyond 2000 meters, enter the territory of marine overlords, fight them, and seize territory to become king.

     With the thrilling escape experience of the past two days, Ye Mo’s survival skills and knowledge in the seabed have been improved. With Hawk eye selecting enemies for her, she basically did not encounter any major problems.

     2000 meters, 3000 meters, 5000 meters… 8000 meters, and even tens of thousands of meters.

     While moving forward, Ye Mo continued to challenge the depth limits in the ocean. Besides the reason of constantly challenging herself, she gradually discovered that the treasures in the ocean were no less than those in the forests of the previous continent, mainly water and earth spirit stone resources.

     They were especially abundant in the deep sea below 8000 meters.

     These were not the water spirit stones that were losing their spiritual energy, like the ones she encountered when she first arrived in the Jurassic world, but resources comparable to the water and earth spirit jades obtained from the real-world Liúshuǐ copy.

     Wood, earth, water… Ye Mo’s list of five-element spirit jades now lacked only gold and fire. Her physique was a balanced five-element spiritual root physique, and if she could collect them all, the benefits for cultivation would be self-evident.

     She hadn’t planned this before because obtaining them was very difficult, and this cultivation was not a matter of one or two spirit jades. Now, in the primitive Jurassic dungeon, she finally developed ambition.

     Before obtaining the earth spirit jade mine in the deep sea, the most important problem at hand was how to kill the two plesiosaurs, over 70 meters long, ahead of her.