The Water Ghost's Evolution Journal

Wu Xian, who had died suddenly while studying for an exam, opened his eyes again to find himself floating in the sea among a group of zombies.

On the ocean floor stood modern high-rises and the wrecks of cars. Dark seagrass covered the asphalt roads. Fish larger than people darted past coral growing on white bones, and a huge eyeball glanced at him.

Just as Wu Xian prepared to become a zombie's next meal, he realized he could breathe freely underwater.

The swollen, blue-green zombies seemed not to notice him either. They brushed past him and headed straight for a nearby high-rise where a commotion had erupted.

Feeling the gill slits beneath his chin and the unusually sharp nails that had grown there, a thought welled up in Wu Xian's mind:

Am I not human anymore?

As he slowly came to terms with this, Wu Xian gradually realized that not only was he no longer human, he also had a pair of strange eyes.

What others saw: zombies, octopus monsters, sawtooth two-headed sharks...

What he saw:

[Water Corpse: Low-tier aquatic demon, lacking intelligence] [Weaknesses: light, fire]

[Blackhead Brute: Mid-tier aquatic demon, with eight venomous tentacles capable of snapping trees, intelligent] [Weakness: neurotoxins]

[Terror Tyrant Shark: High-tier aquatic demon, lord-class creature, able to unleash sonic shockwaves from its two heads, intelligent] [Weakness: unknown]

So he tore the heads off his unsuspecting fellow zombies, devoured the spirit crystals they yielded, ventured to the ocean floor in search of fully matured transcendent fruits, and ambushed demons competing with him for spirit-energy treasures, embarking on an unprecedented path of evolution.