At a glance, the Eastern blue Ocean looked like an ordinary sea.

It had bluish-looking water and it swayed with the world’s gentle breeze.

However, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan knew that it was more than it appeared.

"We are finally here after laying low for one year." Shen Xu said, looking at the ocean.

"Let’s go." Zhen Yuan said and lowered their level nine ship onto the water.

Excluding the Mayfly, Shen Xu and Zhen Yuan originally didn’t have a level nine ship.

However, while waiting for Zhen Yuan to come out of seclusion, Shen Xu used some of the loot they had scraped together to refine a level nine flying ship.

Although the ship was inferior to the Mayfly, it was powerful and most importantly, it was unknown which allowed them to keep a low profile.

At this time, Shen Xu, Zhen Yuan, Yang Shi, Yin Shi, Feng Xue, and Li Wenqiang sat at the deck, watching as the ship sailed away from the shore.

"The Eastern Blue Ocean is known for aquatic spirit grasses. Can we find other treasures?" Yin Shi asked with a doubtful expression.

"The ocean has many spirit grasses but there are also many other treasures." Zhen Yuan said and Feng Xue nodded.

"It’s rumoured that there are hidden spaces in the Eastern Blue Ocean that connect to the immortal realm." She said and Yin Shi couldn’t help but be surprised.

"Is it true? Can we go to the immortal realm from here?" She asked and Feng Xue nodded.

"It’s possible but it’s best to ascend normally." The phoenix said and Yin Shi raised an eyebrow.

"Why?" She asked.

"First, cultivators in the cultivation world cultivate spiritual qi while immortals cultivate immortal qi. It will be difficult to transform spiritual qi to immortal qi if we don’t ascend normally."

"What do you mean?"

"We will arrive at an ascension pool when we ascend." Feng Xue started and quickly continued.

"Ascension pools have enough power to transform the spiritual qi in our body to immortal qi. Additionally, we will receive new identities at the ascension pools."

"If we don’t ascend normally, we won’t have proper identities and entering an ascension pool will be almost impossible unless we spend a lot immortal stones."

"I see." Yin Shi nodded.

"Illegal immigrants are usually sent to mines or battlefields in the immortal realm. It’s best to avoid such trouble." Li Wenqiang said and everyone nodded.

The ship sailed smoothly and before they knew it, they had been on the sea for five months.

During that time, they found many aquatic spirit grasses and sea beasts. However, all were ordinary and none were level nine.

On this day, the group was sitting on the deck as usual when Zhen Yuan suddenly raised an eyebrow.

"What’s wrong?" Shen Xu asked.

"There is something odd about the sea area three kilometres to the west." Zhen Yuan said and Shen Xu immediately became excited.

’Are we finally going to find a treasure?’ He wondered and messaged a puppet to change the ship direction.

Soon after, the ship changed direction and headed west.

A short while later, everyone stood and looked over the railing.

"Is it me or is the ship moving a little slow?" LI Wenqiang asked.

Like the Southern Blue Ocean, ships couldn’t fly above the Eastern Blue Ocean.

At this time, everyone sensed that the ship was moving slower, as if it had encountered some kind of invisible drag.

"Is something hindering the ship?" Yin Shi asked with a confused face.

"I don’t see or sense anything." Yang Shi said, also looking confused.

"It’s the water." Zhen Yuan said and quickly continued.

"The water in this area is denser than at other places." He said and the others couldn’t help but be surprised.

"Do you know why?" Shen Xu asked but Zhen Yuan shook his head.

"Not yet." He said.

After that, Shen Xu asked the puppets to stop the ship and everyone prepared to examine the water.

"I will scoop some." Yang Shi said and flew out of the ship.

A moment later, he returned with a full basin of ocean water and everyone gathered to examine it.

"Let’s me give it a try." Shen Xu said and removed a chopstick from his storage ring.

Soon after, he dipped the chopstick in the basin and stirred it but soon after, he frowned before stirring it again.

"How?" Feng Xue asked but Shen Xu didn’t answer.

Instead, he pushed the chopstick towards Feng Xue and asked her to stir.

Seeing this, Feng Xue took the chopstick, stirred but also frowned.

"It doesn’t feel denser than ordinary water." She said and Shen Xu nodded.

"I think so too." He said.

"It’s ordinary ocean water." Zhen Yuan said, looking at the ocean.

"I don’t think it’s the water that’s dense. I think that something is affecting the water density." He said.

In fact, Zhen Yuan had already seen the law pillar.

However, he didn’t want to be too obvious and allowed his people to logically deduce the truth.

"What can affect water density?" Yin Shi asked and Shen Xu sighed.

"There are too many things." He said.

"Let’s go underwater." Yang Shi suggested with an excited expression.

"I already refined an underwater boat." Shen Xu said.

After refining the flying ship, Shen Xu used the leftover material to refine a ’submarine’. Unexpectedly, the underwater boat came to use sooner than he expected.

Soon after, Shen Xu collected the flying ship, and took out the underwater boat.

"Let’s go." He said and everyone entered the boat.

Thirty breaths later, the boat began sinking and the scenery changed from unobstructed sun to flowing water and refracted light.

"Beautiful." Shen Xu said, admiring the scenery.

"I have just seen a jade-eyes yellow croaker." Feng Xue excitedly said. 𝕗𝗿𝕖𝐞𝐰𝗲𝕓𝐧𝕠𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝐨𝚖

The jade-eyes yellow croaker was a rare and precious fish that was almost extinct in the cultivation world.

Seeing one, Shen Xu immediately peppered up and messaged Xiaoren.

[Xiaoren, help me dig a fish pond and fill it with spiritual water.] He transmitted, already looking forward to when he could eat some jade-eyes yellow croaker.