Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension-Chapter 577 - 366 Spirit Sea Earth Crystal_2
Chapter 577 -366 Spirit Sea Earth Crystal_2
However, the next second, more Thousand Clawed Ghost Octopuses fearlessly charged in, engaging in a fierce battle with Zhai Kong and the others inside.
A moment later, the stone walls in front vibrated faintly, and more and more dismembered corpses of the Ghost Octopuses floated out of the cave. The seawater, filled with the stench of blood, became thick and foul-smelling but was swiftly cleansed by the currents.
Just then, a figure suddenly emerged behind the octopus swarm.
Hum!
The Geng Gold Sword Pill streaked through the void like a meteor, vanishing in a flash.
In an instant, five Ghost Octopuses had their heads pierced with finger-sized holes, their brains and Demon Souls already churned into a paste by the Sword Qi.
Although the Ghost Octopuses’ brains were dead, their tenacious Life Force still caused their bodies to thrash and flail as if alive, with teeth bared and claws waving.
“Thirty-five!”
Zhao Sheng silently counted the number, his figure flickering as he suddenly vanished from sight.
The next second, he reappeared amidst another group of Ghost Octopuses. With a move, five sword rainbows swept across a hundred yards, the bodies of the Ghost Octopuses struck by the Sword Qi riddled with horrific wounds, and countless tentacles were cleanly severed into two.
Boom!
A massive black tentacle, thick enough for two people to wrap their arms around, lashed out from nowhere, bringing with it an overwhelming force that instantly blasted a ten-yard radius. Countless swift currents, sharp as knives, unfurled rapidly in all directions.
However, before that, Zhao Sheng had already preemptively dissipated into nothingness.
In the next second, Zhao Sheng reappeared a hundred yards away, mercilessly continuing his slaughter.
Zhao Sheng moved ethereally and struck swiftly, never lingering in one place, unscathed regardless of how the dozen or so High-level Ghost Octopuses pursued and surrounded him from all sides.
Eh?
A moment later, Zhao Sheng’s gaze suddenly sharpened, and he uttered a quiet exclamation of surprise. He saw a palm-sized blue-white Jade Token falling out from the inside of a Ghost Octopus.
“The Qiu Ling Plate!”
Zhao Sheng was about to step forward to pick it up when unexpectedly three massive black tentacles suddenly lashed towards him.
Seeing this, Zhao Sheng’s mind raced, and his Chongliu Armor immediately burst into a brilliant green light, creating an extremely Condensed Light Shield.
With a wave of his hand, eight Second-Order Ice Talismans flew out, instantly forming solid ice walls out of thin air, blocking the tentacles.
Bang bang!
The ice walls shattered simultaneously under the strikes, and the giant tentacles, still with force to spare, swept towards the green light barrier.
The Light Shield flickered for half a breath before exploding into countless Light Points.
After being intercepted twice in succession, the giant tentacle finally slowed down significantly.
Seizing this opportunity, Zhao Sheng rushed over, scooped up the Qiu Ling Plate, and tucked it into his pouch.
The following instant, he cracked a slight smile, his figure abruptly dissolving into nothingness.
This great battle between humans and Ghost Octopuses lasted for three hours. Later, as the flesh and blood in the water spread out quickly with the whirlpool, it soon attracted one Golden Core Main Priest after another who were hunting octopuses.
With these reinforcements joining one after another, the situation on the battlefield gradually started to tip in favor of the Human Clan.
…
Half a day later, in a clean cave mansion, Zhai Kong, Hong Qingqiu, Tu Xinjing, and Zhao Sheng sat cross-legged on cushions.
Apart from Zhao Sheng and Zhai Kong, whose breaths seemed somewhat normal, Hong Qingqiu looked pale, apparently greatly damaged in his Primordial Qi.
And Tu Xinjing’s chest caved in significantly, his right half-shoulder gone, his face pockmarked as if corroded by alien power, exposing grim white bones.
“Heh! Exchanging grave injuries for a Qiu Ling Plate isn’t a loss, right, Junior Brother Tu?”
“Hmph, why don’t you try it?!” On hearing this, Tu Xinjing immediately replied sarcastically.
“I will take your place, but you’ll have to give me the Qiu Ling Plate then!”
On this octopus hunting mission, everyone else had snagged a plate, while Hong Qingqiu was left empty-handed, which inevitably left him discontented.
At this point, Zhao Sheng suddenly spoke up, “I have one extra plate here. Would Mr. Hong like to have it?”
“Really? I would love to have it!” Upon hearing this, Hong Qingqiu eagerly exclaimed.
Zhao Sheng flicked his right hand, and a glowing white Jade Token landed in the palm of his hand.
Hong Qingqiu’s eyes sparkled with excitement as he exclaimed, “Brother Zhao, fortune truly favors you! This tablet is now mine. Just say what you want to trade for it, as long as I have it, you may ask for anything.”
Zhao Sheng didn’t answer straight away but turned his head towards Zhai Kong and asked, “Brother, what do you think?”
Zhai Kong understood the implied message and immediately responded with a smile, “Mr. Hong…”
A moment later, Hong Qingqiu gleefully took the Qiu Ling Plate while handing out a Space Storage Seal.
Zhao Sheng accepted it, exchanged a smile with Zhai Kong, and all three parties were greatly pleased.
“Brother Zhai Kong, Taoist Zhao, Brother Hong and I plan to find two more cave mansions to heal our injuries in seclusion. What are your plans?”
“I need to hurry back to Heavenly Mansion.”
Despite having drawn Hong Qingqiu and Tu Xinjing to his side, to ensure that the Deputy Mansion did not fall into the hands of others, Zhai Kong needed to win over a few more fellow daoists.
Therefore, as soon as this matter was settled, he was ready to return to the Floating Island.
“And what about you, little brother?” “Brother Zhai Kong, I too wish to find a place to cultivate in secret; I will not accompany you back.”
“Very well! The Mystic Nether domain is dangerous, so be extra cautious,” Zhai Kong cautioned with a slight furrow of his brows.
Zhao Sheng gave a slight nod, signaling he understood.
…
An hour later,
Zhao Sheng, enveloped in black light with Sword Pills orbiting around him, swam silently into the pitch-dark unknown abyss like a fish.
At this moment, he was thirty miles underwater, where the pressure was so immense that it could easily flatten a head-sized chunk of fine iron and a random undercurrent could sever a top-grade magical tool, its lethality comparable to a Second Order Water Blade.
The closer one got to the Earth’s Core, the greater the concentration of Mystic Yellow Earth Qi and Spiritual Energy, to the point where even Zhao Sheng was astonished by its density.
In his memory, only the interior of the cross-border Transmission Array’s star in his previous life was significantly more intense than this place.
Below the sea was deadly silence and darkness, with almost no life left, save for the countless vortices churning and rushing along with the Sea Eye’s currents.
In the pitch-black depths, there were patches of dazzling spirit light gathering and surging everywhere. The initially hazy Mystic Yellow Qi had become so dense that it was nearly condensed, forming mountain-like massive cloud peaks that hovered in the water, firm and unyielding, immovable as mountains.
Zhao Sheng carefully avoided these clusters of Earth Qi.
They were composed entirely of highly pure Earth Qi and concealed Earth Magnetic Divine Light within.
The excessive purity of the Earth Qi also gave it a powerful corrosive and assimilation ability; once inadvertently entering these clusters, one might easily get caught by the Earth Magnetic Divine Light, become lost, and then have their flesh invaded by Earth Qi, corroding their flesh and bones, and assimilating their True Essence Power.
After a short while, Zhao Sheng swam up to a Crystal Wall that was smooth as a mirror. Pressing his hands on the stone, the Sword Light he emitted devoured the rock, turning it silently into powder, which was then washed away by the currents.
Even though the rocks here had been eroded countless times and were as hard as Mystic Iron, they were no different than tofu before a Golden Core Master.
In an instant, a deep pit the size of a table had formed, into which Zhao Sheng burrowed, ejecting a large amount of stone powder from within.
After the time it takes to drink two cups of tea, Zhao Sheng had carved a tunnel over a hundred meters deep, and at the end of the tunnel, a stone room about two meters in length and width was rapidly excavated.
Half an hour later, the hundred-meter tunnel was refilled with stone.
As the Spirit Gathering Array inside the stone room began to operate, a vast amount of nature’s spiritual energy entered through the cracks, forming clusters of shimmering spirit light.
However, Zhao Sheng had no intention of cultivating in seclusion at this place.
He continued to dive deeper into the ocean.
About four hours later, Zhao Sheng had plunged into the deep sea, a hundred miles down, where the water pressure was so immense that even a Foundation Establishment Cultivator could not survive for more than ten breaths.
By now, the Spiritual Energy had liquefied and Earth Qi condensed into bright yellow crystal grains, like diamonds, floating gently in the sea of Spiritual Energy, occasionally colliding with one another.
Each collision would unleash powerful Earth Magnetic Divine Light, sweeping across the vicinity in an instant, and any life form below the Nascent Soul level that came into contact with it would surely be injured or killed!
Zhao Sheng hovered at the edge of the Spiritual Energy Sea, his mind moved slightly, and in an instant, a large amount of pure Spiritual Energy from all around rushed into his body.
The surrounding concentration of nature’s Spiritual Energy was so intense that even a dog would turn into a Great Demon if it stayed here long enough.
Of course, that assumed the dog could survive in this environment.
The Chongliu Armor on Zhao Sheng’s body shone with a water-like green light, resisting the tremendous pressure around him.
His Divine Sense swept around him bit by bit, and soon he chose a section of the Crystal Wall to slowly swim towards.
Four hours later, a rudimentary cave mansion was carved out behind the hundred-meter-thick stone layer.
