Starting to Gain Experience from Push-Ups Chapter 1473 - 710_2

In just a few breaths, Fang Cheng had already traversed the vibrant water layer.

Ahead, the seabed began to slope downwards, revealing large swathes of gray-white volcanic rock.

He didn’t linger here at all, pushing off fiercely with his feet on the cliff rocks.

Instantly, fine cracks appeared on the hard volcanic rock.

Using this counterforce, his body once again accelerated downward, diving headfirst into the darkness below.

After passing two hundred meters, Fang Cheng felt as if he had crashed into an invisible wall of water.

This was the "thermocline," a distinctly tactile layer in the deep sea.

Here, due to the lack of sunlight, the salinity and density of the water suddenly changed, and the temperature plunged from twenty degrees to around four degrees over just a few dozen meters of depth.

The bone-chilling cold drilled into his flesh through every pore; an average person would lose consciousness within minutes from a sudden drop in core body temperature if exposed naked to these conditions.

But the Qi and blood within Fang Cheng had long since circulated spontaneously, the scorching Inner Breath flowing through his meridians like a tireless furnace, blocking all the cold outside his skin.

In fact, due to the stark contrast between his body temperature and the cold water, a faint steam composed of tiny bubbles formed by his side.

As he continued to dive deeper, the light began to diminish at an exponential rate.

At around three hundred meters, the sights of fish and reefs had completely vanished from view.

Even Fang Cheng’s eyes, capable of seeing as clearly at night as during the day, finally lost their usefulness here.

The water’s light penetration limit was at this point, beyond which not even a sliver of photon could reach the eternal night environment.

This was a pure darkness capable of driving people mad, with no frame of reference in any direction, and the senses of space and time began to warp at this moment.

The entire body felt as if it was buried in a deathly silent grave, inciting fear from the depths of the heart.

Yet Fang Cheng’s mind was unusually calm, as he slowly closed his eyes.

Although his vision had failed, his mental perception spread outwards like a tide.

In his perceptual world, the surrounding scenery transformed into a three-dimensional model composed of water flow fluctuations, temperature changes, and gravitational pull.

He could clearly "see" that the jagged cliffs on either side were interspersed like the fangs of a beast, the dark brown rock surface covered with strange patterns.

At around five hundred meters of depth, sporadic eerie light began to appear around him.

These were deep-sea predatory fish that had evolved bioluminescent organs, their faint green or ghastly white glow silently waiting for prey in the darkness.

When Fang Cheng’s body, carrying scalding Qi and blood, swept past them, these creatures accustomed to lifeless silence seemed to sense the presence of a higher predator, extinguishing their lights and desperately burrowing deep into rock crevices.

The descent continued, six hundred meters, seven hundred meters, eight hundred meters...

Until one thousand meters.

This was a milestone achievement!

In modern civilization, this was already the maximum depth that standard combat submarines could reach.

The several centimeters thick steel hull of a submarine would emit tooth-gritting creaks from the pressure of the sea at this depth.

Here, the pressure reached one hundred standard atmospheres.

This meant that every square centimeter of Fang Cheng’s skin was weighed down by a hundred kilograms.

"Hoo..."

Fang Cheng exhaled lightly, the movement of his internal organs vividly perceptible within his mental awareness.

It was only at this depth that he truly felt a hint of pressure.

The immense compressive force from all directions felt like a tightly fitted iron mold trying to press his muscles into his bones.

His chest cavity slightly retracted, every muscle fiber was tensed rigidly, and the skin on his body took on a strange bluish tint from the high pressure.

But that was all.

His Constitution of 95 points made every cell in his body resilient like high molecular polymers.

This natural prowess, capable of instantly crushing an ordinary person into pulp, was no more than walking under the weight of a small mountain on land, in his eyes.

What really concerned him was the distortion of sound and the surge of dark currents.

In the deep sea, sound traveled nearly twenty percent faster than at the surface, making the surrounding noises sound incredibly odd.

Even the slightest disturbance was amplified countless times in his ears.

It was as if some hidden monster in the darkness let out a low growl, disturbing his mind.

The thunderous roar of blood rushing through his veins also became unusually loud.

Each heartbeat felt like someone was beating a drum with a leather-covered heavy hammer.

Thump, thump, thump...

And amid this dull drumbeat, the pull from the trench’s deepest point finally began to show its fangs.

Starting from a depth of one thousand five hundred meters, the ocean currents were no longer erratically sweeping sideways but converging into a massive directional descending vortex.

The trench’s special horn-shaped geological formation created a terrifying natural gravitational field that relentlessly drew the upper ocean waters into the bottomless Abyss.

Within this, Fang Cheng felt as if he had fallen into a gigantic funnel.

The dark currents around him were like countless thick iron chains, forcefully pulling and yanking his limbs, trying to slam him into the jagged rocky cliffs on either side.

Fang Cheng didn’t attempt to resist the downward vortex; instead, he adapted to the water’s force.

His extraordinary Agility Attribute reached its peak at this moment.

His limbs and waist moved in a peculiar rhythm unattainable by ordinary people, precisely shedding the impact of the fierce dark currents.

At the same time, his body traced out nearly eerie zigzags in the rapids, effortlessly weaving through the crevices in the cliffs mere tens of meters apart.

The speed of descent surged once more under the force of gravity.

Two thousand meters, three thousand meters, four thousand meters...

Upon crossing the invisible boundary of four thousand meters, the surrounding environment had completely transformed into a void devoid of life.

Four hundred standard atmospheres, equivalent to four hundred kilograms of pressure per square centimeter.

This was no longer a simple concept of "burden."

This world seemed to have turned into a colossal hydraulic press, where each drop of seawater felt as heavy as mercury.

The capillaries on Fang Cheng’s skin began to falter under this inhumane pressure, emitting a series of fine cracking sounds, indicating the rupture of some micro blood vessels under high pressure.

Then his bones began to issue a muffled protest.

Especially his spine, enduring unimaginable deformation under the horrific pressure.

Even with a Constitution rating as high as 95, and a body defense so abnormal as to elicit shock, Fang Cheng’s physique had finally reached the brink of its limit without any superpower boost.

"Domain Unfold!"

At this moment, Fang Cheng suddenly opened his eyes, a flicker of flame faintly visible in them.

Boom—

An unseeable intense golden light erupted instantaneously from the center of his brow, surging in the Abyss at four thousand meters deep.

The "Mixed Element True Domain" fully unleashed at its maximum power!

In an instant, the dense Pure Yang True Qi transformed into golden flames of tangible essence, blazing furiously on his skin’s surface.

The terrifying temperature capable of scorching mountains and boiling seas demonstrated an awe-inspiring might.

The seawater within half a meter of him was instantaneously vaporized without resistance.

Gurgle gurgle!

The extreme heat collided with the extreme cold in the deep sea, erupting in the most violent confrontation.

Countless massive white bubbles, carrying scalding steam, churned upward, and the surrounding seawater seemed thoroughly brought to a boil.

In this eternal dark Abyss, Fang Cheng became a dazzling sun immersed in the sea, exuding an unparalleled light and heat.

The power of the Domain manifested as an indomitable golden air shield, forcibly pushing a half-meter-wide absolute vacuum out of the four hundred atmospheres of water pressure enclosing it.

In an instant, the terrible compressive force exerted on him dissipated by more than half.

Fang Cheng took a deep breath, his oppressed internal organs realigning themselves.

His muscular, bare upper body, with the golden flames trailing a several-meter-long tail in the darkness.

Like a golden meteor, with unstoppable might, he continued to plummet into the endless void below.

Four thousand meters, five thousand meters, six thousand meters...

After surpassing six thousand meters, he finally entered what the scientific community defines as the "Super Abyssal Zone."