Chapter 171
With a blink, Ye Bai saw the level number of Kraken jump again, from 98 to 99.
No wonder she was a nearly hundred-level Serpent Demon Lord; this was the first time Ye Bai had seen Kraken in a state other than hunger. It was quite a feat.
“Come on, digest it, Kraken!” Ye Bai exclaimed, her eyes widening as she instinctively cheered her on, “You can do it!”
Seeing that she was already at level 99, it would be a shame not to push for a divine level!
In that moment, Ye Bai began to understand the anxious feelings of the Serpent Demon Lord. No wonder she was willing to use two heads as bait; who could stand watching the progress bar stuck at 99%?
Ye Bai even thought that if it wasn’t enough, she would take her obedient girl to other hells to feast, perfectly completing the task of “exploring the hell to find something” for the paper doll.
Lost in thought, Ye Bai kept her gaze fixed on Kraken’s information. Suddenly, she saw the level number jump again.
Level 100?!
Ye Bai inhaled sharply, blinking to focus. But just then, she heard a rustling sound of tentacles moving, followed by Kraken’s massive form glowing with a brilliant emerald light. The status bar changed from “digesting” to “transforming.”
“...!”
Seeing this, Ye Bai quickly stepped back two paces, thinking Kraken was about to grow again.
What happened next, however, was beyond her expectations. Before long, the intense light gradually faded, and as it did, Ye Bai noticed that the familiar red octopus had not only failed to grow larger but had actually shrunk a bit.
Unlike before, Kraken’s tentacles and skin now appeared much more translucent, shimmering with a soft glow. Her entire body felt lighter.
Then Ye Bai realized it wasn’t just an illusion; Kraken was truly floating now. The red tentacles no longer touched the ground but instead surrounded her in a circle of ethereal waves, gently hovering above the land, just like she would in the sea.
It seemed that this transformation from demigod to god was following the route of “concentration is essence.”
At that moment, the information in Ye Bai’s view changed once more:
**[Kraken]**
Identity: Pet of Bai Ye
Attribute: Complete Form
Level: 100
Status: Normal
Complete Form?
Seeing this attribute, Ye Bai was taken aback, searching for the smaller Kraken’s head but finding nothing. The little girl who had just been in the fish basket was nowhere to be seen.
Only the large green eyes of the octopus gazed at Ye Bai with a familiar yet strange look.
Familiar, because the dependency in Kraken’s eyes hadn’t changed, but it lacked the previous innocence, as if she had suddenly matured a great deal.
Ye Bai opened her mouth, and after a moment, she spoke, her feelings complex as if witnessing a child grow up too fast: “Your spirit form has merged with your physical form?”
“Mm!” A familiar, crisp voice came from the large octopus.
Ye Bai froze again. Although she knew this was Kraken’s true form, how could such a cute girl turn into this?
Unable to help herself, she asked, “Can’t your spirit form come out anymore?”
“Of course it can!”
As she spoke, Ye Bai saw one of Kraken’s tentacles suddenly transform into the shape of a little girl.
Perhaps it was an inevitable trait of deep-sea creatures, but this girl only had an upper body, while her lower half was connected to an octopus tentacle.
This isn’t the obedient girl I wanted… Ye Bai’s eyes twitched several times as she tried to cope with this absurd yet Kraken-like scene.
Regaining her composure, Ye Bai asked, “Kraken, can you unleash the Tide of Heaven again? Um… just try to tone it down a bit, and aim over there.”
As she spoke, Ye Bai casually pointed in a nearby direction.
“Okay!”
Kraken never asked why, readily agreeing, and then pointed her tentacle, causing an illusory tide to gather in that direction.
“Whoosh…”
Even though this was a toned-down version, the illusory tide surged like a real tsunami, carrying immense force that sent ripples through the entire hellish space, causing the nearby hell creatures to hide and flee, too scared to come any closer.
Hell creatures were known for their madness and rage, but they weren’t fools.
Ye Bai quickly moved to the weakest point of the tide, releasing the high-level spell **Frost Chain** that she had saved from Kedar, and then, under Kraken’s curious gaze, she brushed against it.
‘-743’
Legendary spell **Tide of Heaven** acquired!
After finishing the skill, Kraken suddenly seemed to remember something. It—or rather, she—shifted her gaze slightly, and one tentacle reached out, bringing forth a bundle and presenting it to Ye Bai.
Compared to the earlier pillar-like tentacles, the red tentacle Kraken now unfurled was only about the size of a round table, revealing a fish basket and an oval red gem inside.
The fish basket was naturally the one Kraken had been sitting in, and the gem, which seemed to flow like lava… this item, clearly related to the hell, appeared to have come from the Serpent Demon Lord Kedar, and surprisingly, it hadn’t been digested by Kraken.
“This can’t be eaten,” Kraken immediately answered Ye Bai’s unspoken question.
Ye Bai took the two items, and the information about the extraordinary red gem appeared in her consciousness.
**[Kedar’s Hellmark Crystal]**
Level: Mythical
Attribute: Class Core
Usage Effect: Covers the original class template upon use, randomly awakening the Serpent Demon Lord Kedar’s innate abilities.
Usage Condition: Must possess hell bloodline.
Class Core?
Ye Bai saw an item she had never encountered before in the myriad worlds, and as the crystal fell into her hand, she felt it warm slightly. The next moment, the ground beneath the corresponding spot suddenly emitted light, forming a red spatial rift.
This spatial rift was different from the ones commonly seen in hell; it appeared extremely stable, and as Ye Bai focused on it, she immediately received relevant information.
**[Rift of the Ninth Layer of Hell]** Duration: -/-
Since it was a stable passage, there was no countdown timer.
Overwhelmed by a series of joyful discoveries, Ye Bai momentarily forgot that after defeating a hell lord, a stable spatial rift leading to the next layer would appear.
And without a doubt, the next layer after the eighth layer of hell was the core of hell itself, where the lord of the ninth layer, the hell demon Kedar, had always aspired to become, lay within this rift.
The paper doll had previously mentioned that the hell race had not been completely exterminated and was now in the process of revival. What the hell demon of the ninth layer was like was truly hard to say.
Considering the appearance of the passage, Ye Bai began to understand why Kraken had “extracted” the crystal and deemed it inedible.
Under normal circumstances, after players successfully defeated a hell lord, they could choose between two paths: one was the hero’s path, leaving hell with their spoils and prestige; the other was the transformation path, directly integrating into the hell faction, merging with the spatial rift, and becoming the new lord of that layer.
If a hell lord was killed by an NPC not belonging to hell, unrelated to the players, a new strongest being would normally emerge in that layer of hell, becoming the new lord.
The current situation was somewhere in between; the Serpent Demon Lord Kedar was not killed by Ye Bai as a player but was entirely devoured by Kraken, gaining all of his power. However, at the same time, Ye Bai had dealt damage to Kedar through Kraken with her fishing rod.
This contradiction led to the player’s route manifesting as the crystal being extracted, becoming something Kraken could not digest, which was somewhat akin to Kedar’s identification.
If Ye Bai could obtain a bit of hell bloodline, she could even choose to use it, but she simply stored it in her backpack.
If used, the Serpent’s class template would overwrite Ye Bai’s current class template. While the demigod Serpent was strong, the second and third-tier Serpent templates didn’t offer much advantage over Ye Bai’s own class; instead, they would reduce her flexibility, making it unsuitable for her.
Moreover, there was another crucial point: the current level cap in the myriad worlds.
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