Chapter 2563: The True Face of the Hidden God Lord!

Passing through the Cloud Terrace, He Lingchuan finally entered the longed-for Glazed Sea!

Thanks to Duan He Yun leading the way, this crossing went very smoothly, and the Cloud Terrace did not reject him.

Upon entering the Glazed Sea small world, the salty sea breeze rushed toward him, and He Lingchuan couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Truly a long-missed scent—he had been the master of Yangshan Island for several years, and he was all too familiar with it.

Ahead lay the sea, an endless expanse of ocean.

His position of appearance was not a snowy white beach, but a jagged cliff jutting out over ten zhang above the sea surface, like the lower jaw of a long-snouted crocodile.

The waves crashed against the black reefs, throwing up piles of spray like snow.

He Lingchuan followed Duan He Yun to the cliff's edge, lowered his head to look down, and was startled.

Even though they had mentally prepared, upon truly seeing the Glazed Sea, everyone still felt it was beyond belief.

Ling Jinbao's tone rose by three degrees: "Is this the Hidden God Lord?"

Everyone said the Hidden God Lord's body was enormous; he had thought this one would be like a giant whale, but now, looking down upon the sea surface, what he saw was—

An endless seaweed forest!

Giant seaweed took root in the sandy seabed of the shallow sea, while its fronds floated on the surface, swaying gently with the current.

Without diving, one cannot accurately gauge the water depth, but it is at least two or three zhang deep—meaning these giant seaweeds are at least three zhang long.

Looking down from the cliff, the transparent seawater revealed a dark green underwater forest. Shells clung to the seaweed, and countless fish and shrimp darted through, enjoying themselves.

And from the moment he saw this underwater forest, the divine bone necklace hidden in his chest began to burn him.

It seemed equally excited:

Good stuff, want to eat, love to eat!

This is not only the body of a True Immortal, but also the one and only Hidden God Lord in the world! Even if the Great Square Pot's appetite were picky, there would be nothing to choose from now.

Duan He Yun turned and saw the surprise on his face: "Is this your first time coming in?"

"Yes, yes. My eyes are opened wide!"

If it were Xiao Ping, the manager, he would hardly so easily bring Hu Guan in. Few from the Lingyun Palace have ever come to the Glazed Sea small world, and there is a reason for that.

But Duan He Yun clearly isn't considering all that.

After several failed attempts, He Lingchuan seized upon his personality traits and finally managed to sneak into the Glazed Sea.

Only by coming here to see the actual environment and personally witnessing the Hidden God Lord can he continue to correct the next phase of his actions.

Dong Rui immediately said: "I fear this is it. Before, I had seen materials on the Hidden God Lord, saying it 'has no fixed form, self-contained as a realm' in the deep ocean. Look, becoming an underwater forest is also self-contained as a realm."

It turns out the Hidden God Lord itself can sustain an ecosystem.

"Moreover, it has a major trait: 'no fixed form.' This giant seaweed forest might merely be one form the Heavenly Demon arbitrarily manifested for convenience in sampling and cutting. If the Hidden God Lord lacked such a trait, how could the Heavenly Demon use it to mass-produce divine descent bodies? But I believe its root system is connected, with a single source—just like trees on land: no matter how thousands of branches and myriad leaves the crown may have, they all return to one body."

They examined these points to analyze materials for their side's next phase of action.

As the Douke Garden crowd spoke, He Lingchuan's sharp eyes spotted countless black shadows darting back and forth in the giant seaweed forest.

This is a strange-looking fish, long as an arm, short as a dagger, with a streamlined body, but its mouth seems to have been fitted with a serrated grinding wheel, still mounted upright.

Spiral-toothed shark?

He Lingchuan knew its name, but still pointed underwater, face full of surprise:

"What, what is that?"

"This is the spiral-toothed shark." Duan He Yun casually explained, "The Hidden God Lord's body is hard; ordinary blades cannot cut it, but the spiral-toothed shark can slowly slice it. We've tried hundreds of sea monsters, and only the spiral-toothed shark has this ability."

These mini sharks dart in and out of the seaweed, indeed using their spiral teeth to cut the seaweed.

The rotational speed of the spiral teeth is incredibly fast, yet the speed at which they cut seaweed is incredibly slow. By He Lingchuan's observation, a palm-width seaweed stalk had already been severed halfway, yet the spiral-toothed shark took over two ke to cut through the remaining half.

After cutting, they carry the seaweed and spit it onto the shore, then turn back to continue working.

Though inefficient, the number of spiral-toothed sharks is enormous; after an hour of such labor, the seawater along the shore was coated with a green layer—those are floating seaweed fragments on the surface.

At this moment, two humanoid mechanical puppets began hauling in the nets—

Laying nets underwater, when a net is full, they pull it up.

At this time, the seaweed is still in separate pieces; only after landing does it begin to slowly stick together. The mechanical puppets' task is, before it sticks, to gather all the seaweed into the specially made carriages beside them.

The size of these carriages is comparable to the former jade-crystal transport wagons of Yujing City, and like them, their actual capacity far exceeds their appearance.

Inside, they are loaded with more than half a carriage of seawater.

The difference is that Yujing City's wagons still need oxen to pull them, but the dozen or so wagons before He Lingchuan's eyes require no human power—they themselves hover two chi above the ground.

Therefore, they have no wheels.

Dong Rui asked Hu Xin from the Douke Garden and learned these wagons are called "cloud wagons," driven purely by jade crystals, running very smoothly, with hardly any swaying of the water surface inside.

He Lingchuan looked down and understood why cloud wagons are used for transport in the Glazed Sea:

From the cliff where they stand, down to the jagged rocky coast below, there is only a stone path carved out.

Ordinary vehicles cannot traverse the stone steps.

Cloud wagons, however, can float along the stone steps, drifting up and down on their own.

In the Douke Garden, Zhu Xiuer also asked Dong Rui: "You estimate, how many divine descent bodies can this vast seaweed forest produce?"

This is boundless—He Lingchuan had just stood on the perilous cliff gazing into the distance, his sight reaching to the horizon, yet he saw no end to this underwater forest. He estimated the Hidden God Lord's volume is likely no less than that of the Qianhuan True Lord.

The Qianhuan True Lord's vast shell world left an unforgettable impression on those who experienced it then. For these great demons who achieved holiness through flesh, one major source of their power is their astonishingly huge size.

No one knows how the Heavenly Palace back then managed to stuff the Hidden God Lord's body into this small world.

Dong Rui's expression also darkened; after a moment of silence, he said: "The growth rate of the Hidden God Lord's body is far greater than that of the Qianhuan True Lord."

Ask whether shells can grow or seaweed can grow—of course, seaweed grows much better by several degrees.

"If it is for producing bodies for deities like Xi Yu and Wu Yao—" he said with a heavy and solemn tone, "I see, several thousand or even ten thousand are possible. Thirteen thousand is already a conservative estimate."

Everyone fell silent; Ling Ke Xianren exclaimed in shock: "What, did the Lingxu Shengzun previously not lie?"

(End of chapter)