Three years later, in a dark and deep section of the seabed, the desolate ocean floor is twisted and wrinkled, as if torn by some immense force into long and narrow rift valleys.

Deep within the rift, faint flames can be seen emanating. Looking toward the bottom of the valley, a dark red magma river flows through, with the sea surface continuously emitting billowing black smoke.

Following the rift valleys into the distance, vast flames illuminate the dark seabed, with light originating from an endless, scorching magma lake.

In the center of the magma lake stands an enormous, peerless giant egg.

The surface of the giant egg is smooth as a mirror but is growing clusters of "patterns."

As the "patterns" gradually cover the eggshell, nature’s spiritual energy surges from all directions, and the spiritual energy vortex expands day by day.

Initially, the spiritual energy vortex had a diameter of only ten thousand feet, but it quickly broke through to the sea surface, reaching into the heavenly vault.

In just three years, the spiritual energy vortex has already connected the sky and the sea, affecting a hundred thousand miles of sea area around it.

Looking from outside the Red Sea Realm, it turns out that there are not just one, but more than sixty such giant spiritual energy vortices.

More than sixty spiritual energy vortices are scattered across the Red Sea Realm, like over sixty spiritual energy black holes, completely altering the realm’s spiritual energy flow.

Starting from the third year, the countless lives in the Red Sea Realm not only noticed the rapid decline in spiritual energy concentration, but also terrifyingly perceived the presence of one spiritual energy black hole after another.

During the frenzy when countless sea beasts and demons fled from the spiritual energy vortex, some of the massive meteorites that had fallen to the seabed suddenly developed countless cracks.

...

No one knew that at the top of a giant egg ten thousand feet high, there sat a seemingly insignificant person.

Zhao Sheng opened up his spirit, and his divine thought transformed into countless waves, quietly merging into the giant egg beneath him.

Over three years, he constantly sensed every subtle change in the giant egg, from the initial emergence of life waves, to the gathering of water and fire law power that arose within the egg, then "watched" as the small life inside the egg quickly grew, with its life waves growing stronger by the day.

Starting from the third year, all the life within a hundred thousand miles radius withered away as their life force was forcibly extracted by the giant egg.

Through long-term sensing, Zhao Sheng had already gleaned a considerable understanding of the great truths of the Dao from the giant egg and self-taught a divine communication technique to extract the life force of ten thousand spirits.

The Mount-bearing Dragon Turtle is naturally born with a water and fire Dao body,

constantly absorbing the power of water and fire laws from the start of its gestation, and its spiritual embryo is continuously refining the water and fire Dao body.

After three years of observation and insight, Zhao Sheng had already "learned" a sophisticated magic skill to alter the water and fire Dao body.

If given a few experimental opportunities, he was confident he could transform a yet-to-be-born water and fire Spirit Root embryo into a water and fire Daoist embryo.

As time passed, the life inside the giant egg grew stronger and more mature by the day.

The expansion rate of the spiritual energy vortex gradually slowed, and the life black hole ceased to expand after reaching a hundred thousand miles, giving the surviving life in the realm a glimmer of hope for survival.

However, what was surprising was that within the "life forbidden zone" centered on the giant egg, countless types of algae were proliferating abnormally, seemingly unafraid of the giant egg’s life extraction.

This unusual scene quickly disturbed Zhao Sheng, who was in the midst of contemplation.

He diverted nearly twenty percent of his divine thought to continuously monitor the growth and proliferation of the surrounding algae, quickly sensing a vast and boundless grand fluctuation filling the heavens and earth.

Because of his past experiences dealing with the Star God, Zhao Sheng immediately recognized that this grand fluctuation, resembling the Heavenly Dao, emanated from the omnipresent algae in the seawater.

He instantly gained an understanding: the Sea God had not only awakened, but was also constantly watching over the Dragon Turtle’s giant egg... and him.

For reasons unknown, the Sea God merely cast a "glance" at him, without actively reaching out.

...

Undersea silence prevailed in a desolate, lifeless seabed where a strange scene unfolded.

Numerous stones suddenly fell from a cracked massive meteorite, and soon a large hole nearly a hundred feet in diameter appeared on the meteorite’s surface.

Before long, a dark, shiny metal sphere floated out of the hole, eerily drifting toward the nearest giant egg.

There were actually more than just one such massive meteorite, as numerous meteorites also fell to the seabed across the Red Sea Realm.

Some of these meteorites simply fell from the Dragon Turtle, but others were meticulously disguised.

In the ninth year after the Dragon Turtle laid eggs, meteorites continuously shattered, releasing spaceships of various shapes from within.

Curiously, these spaceships independently flew toward each Dragon Turtle giant egg, but ultimately stopped at a rift valley a thousand miles away, without anyone disembarking from the ships.

On this day, a platinum-colored, water-drop-shaped spaceship with a diameter of a hundred feet glided quietly along the uneven seabed from afar.

The moment the spaceship approached the hundred thousand mile range, Zhao Sheng immediately sensed its presence.

"Hmm, someone has arrived," Zhao Sheng was quite surprised and couldn’t help but release a wisp of divine thought, quietly intruding into the interior of the spaceship.

The outer wall made merely of Star Iron and a few crude defensive arrays can hardly withstand the invasion of an Integration Realm Great Power.

Divine Thought easily penetrated the ship’s wall, entering the interior of the spaceship.

As the fluctuation of Divine Thought enveloped the entire spaceship, all three hundred seventy-eight people aboard fell into Zhao Sheng’s "sight."

What piqued his interest was that these people generally had high cultivation levels, with the weakest being above the Golden Core.

There were as many as four Divinity Transformation Realm Practitioners.

Judging by their attire and aura, these people were clearly not from the Red Sea Realm, but instead, the Star Sky Human Clan.

At this moment, in a certain cabin on the ship, a young cultivator with small braids and narrow eyes looked towards a sneaky middle-aged man, asking in confusion, "Father, why did our ancestor bring us to settle in this Red Sea Realm?"

The sneaky middle-aged man, with a hint of cunning in his eyes, lowered his voice and asked, "Zhi’er, do you think this decision was wrong?"

Ximen Zhi trembled inwardly, quickly declaring, "The ancestor’s decision is naturally correct. I just don’t understand why our ancestor would leave behind our great legacy to come to this spiritually poor Red Sea Realm.

You must know that there is a mature Sea God here. It was easy to break through on the Outer Star Land, but what about in the Red Sea Realm?

Father, you are about to reach Nascent Soul Perfection. Advancing to Divinity Transformation in the Red Sea Realm might be as difficult as ascending to the heavens!

Our ancestor’s actions undoubtedly cut off your path. Aren’t you angry?"

Ximen Xianfang sternly looked at his son and suddenly said in a solemn voice, "Why should I be angry! You are too young to see the foresight of the ancestor."

Seeing Ximen Zhi somewhat unconvinced, Ximen Xianfang immediately explained, "You think the family has come to the Red Sea Realm to suffer, but without the ancestor, we wouldn’t be able to seize this once-in-ten-thousand-years great opportunity."

"Where is the opportunity?" Ximen Zhi instinctively asked.

After speaking, he suddenly understood, looking towards the bow of the ship and secretly pointed outside.

Ximen Xianfang laughed, "You’re a quick thinker! The ancestor has been planning this for nearly a thousand years. The Ximen Family must succeed this time, and it is our only chance to defy the heavens and change fate."

Upon hearing this, Ximen Zhi’s eyes filled with utter shock at the ancestor’s astonishing plan.

"Father, the Turtle God is watching from above. Will it just sit by and watch its offspring—"

Ximen Xianfang waved his hand and said, "It doesn’t matter! We won’t take action until the Dragon Turtle hatches. The ancestor will join forces with other Divinity Transformation True Monarchs once the Turtle Gods leave."

"Even so, the chances of success should still be very slim! After all, even a newly hatched Dragon Turtle is much stronger than a Divinity Transformation True Monarch. Moreover, with the Sea God present, will it just watch as the ancestor and the others kill a Dragon Turtle?"

Ximen Xianfang decisively said, "The Sea God will definitely not intervene, but the native creatures here might. After killing the Dragon Turtle, the ancestor will not only have to contend with other True Monarchs but also guard against interference by the natives. At that time, the entire clan will act.

Zhi’er, no matter what, you must bravely forge ahead and try to defeat the enemies... The ancestor is watching you from above?"

Ximen Zhi’s eyes sparkled, and he couldn’t help but tentatively ask, "Father, are you saying I... also have the chance to bathe in Dragon Blood?"

After speaking, he suddenly remembered the ancient books that mentioned those who soared to the skies after bathing in Dragon Blood, becoming big shots in the Returning to Void Realm.

Thinking of the possibility of acquiring the Mount-bearing Dragon Turtle’s bloodline, Ximen Zhi’s heart surged, feeling as if he had reached the climax.

"It’s too early to talk about this! But as long as there is a glimmer of hope, you and I, father and son, must give it our all."

Ximen Xianfang’s words, though interrupting Ximen Zhi’s beautiful fantasy, also made him highly motivated.

"Rest assured, father! I certainly won’t lose to any of my peers," Ximen Zhi confidently asserted.

Ximen Xianfang nodded slightly, saying no more, evidently having great confidence in his son.

...

After a long time, Zhao Sheng frowned slightly and slowly retracted his Divine Thought.

He hadn’t expected so many forces to entertain thoughts about the Dragon Turtle egg.

Shortly after the Platinum Spaceship hid deep within the rift valley, the Sea Spirit Clan cultivators quietly infiltrated this Life Forbidden Zone on a Tenth Rank Camel Mountain Turtle.

Further out in the sea, massive and dominant sea beasts, some of which were powerful demon kings that had long since transformed, secretly observed this area.

...

Time flew by, and a hundred years passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, a colossal spiritual energy vortex standing between the Heavenly Sea suddenly collapsed.

Vast amounts of nature’s spiritual energy swept in all directions, instantly stirring up surging waves.

As the colossal waves crashed towards the distance, the gigantic egg that had been incubating for over a hundred years finally started to crack with lines.

Accompanied by one dull crack after another, the surface of the immense eggshell became increasingly riddled with cracks, with strands of red light bursting out from the fissures.