Chapter 2604: The Strongest Life

Wang Maoshi did not enter, only telling Yuntai: "Revoke everyone's passage permits for Yuntai except mine; immediately shut the Cloud Gate leading to the Glazed Sea, until I order it opened!"

Within the thick cloud banks, lightning flashed, followed by a muffled thunderclap.

Yuntai received his new command.

In principle, revoking passage permits would suffice. But this actually only nullified the efficacy of the talisman seals in everyone's hands; it still could not constrain the seals already stamped on in advance. Wang Maoshi knew this person had already mastered the bug of pre-stamping, so they could still use "round-trip seals" to leave the Glazed Sea.

So the surest method was to directly close the connecting passage between Yuntai and the Glazed Sea, shutting the door to beat the wolf.

With so many immortals and demons entering together, manpower was more than enough; they didn't lack him in the slightest, plus the Glazed Sea's original...

Mm, foolproof.

Once the dust settled, he would open Yuntai again and collect the spoils of war.

He Lingchuan sailed in the sea for another small half-ke, his gaze suddenly sharpening:

From his left eye's field of view, a streak of blood-red abruptly appeared in the sea ahead!

Right now the "Yangguan Path" marked life by the strength of life energy; those small individuals on the seabed were no longer marked by it, because He Lingchuan's requirement was to search only for extremely powerful lifeforms.

As long as he grasped the right usage method, this divine artifact

was truly becoming more and more useful.

Even though He Lingchuan looked at Fu Yu, this great sea monster only displayed as bright red on the "Yangguan Path," nowhere near comparable to this blood-red.

That was truly red turning purple.

Apart from the main root of the seaweed forest, He Lingchuan could not think of a second lifeform that could possess such powerful energy.

And this was precisely the target he had been tirelessly seeking!

He Lingchuan and his partners and subordinates had deduced various plans to take away the Hidden God Lord, even considering stripping away the Glazed Sea minor world and letting it scatter into the long river of spacetime.

But the difficulty of doing so was too high; Yuntai was a divine artifact, far more stable than ordinary magic treasures, and the Lingyun Palace would protect it with all their might.

So He Lingchuan ultimately decided to employ the Great Square Pot!

The Hidden God Lord's body was vast beyond measure; almost no mobile space capable of storing living things could contain it—

except the Great Square Pot.

Strictly speaking, the Great Square Pot could not be counted as a storage space, but it did indeed possess the function of devouring divine objects.

After He Lingchuan's initiated Dragon God War ended in victory, the Great Square Pot itself had also made great progress; He Lingchuan could fully feel it growing stronger and more complete every day.

After the Battle of the Inverted Sea concluded, it did not swallow True Person Qianhuan's body, possibly because it couldn't swallow it at the time, or possibly because it only sought the Great Expansion Heavenly Pearl — after all, all of True Person Qianhuan's cultivation, attainments, and understanding of the Dao's origin were inside that pearl.

But He Lingchuan had confidence in the Great Square Pot; after so many years, taking in the Hidden God Lord's remnant body should be no problem.

Why didn't he act immediately to collect it after entering the sea?

The reason was simple: he couldn't collect it.

All the seaweed were merely small fragments of the Hidden God Lord.

Wanting to uproot a great tree isn't done by reaching out and pulling branches.

Pull branches, and you'll only tear off a few leaves.

Only by finding the main trunk and main root is it possible to uproot it entirely.

He Lingchuan steeled himself to board the ship and enter the sea, spending so much time sailing beside Fu Yu, precisely to search for the seaweed forest's main root.

Only by seizing the main root could he take the entire seaweed forest into the Great Square Pot!

But just as he was eagerly swimming closer, the "Yangguan Path" actually showed another patch of rich blood-red in the northwest direction!

Not far from him, only five li.

In this Glazed Sea, there were actually two incomparably powerful individuals?

He Lingchuan's scalp suddenly went numb.

One of them was the Hidden God Lord; then, what about the other?

The other one was even more powerful than Fu Yu!

"Search lifeforms!" he immediately issued a new command to the "Yangguan Path," "Let me see the morphological characteristics of these two powerful lives!"

The flashing red light displayed by the "Yangguan Path" immediately began to transform.

The nearby blood-red light ultimately morphed into a root-system shape.

While the distant patch of blood-red was very small in volume, resembling a rock?

Which one was the Hidden God Lord's main root, needless to say, right?

Zhu Xiuer interrogated Hu Xin several times; this person confessed his eighteen generations of ancestors crying several times over, yet never mentioned a single word about there being such a great terror in the Glazed Sea.

It shouldn't be deliberate concealment; rather, he simply didn't know!

What on earth was it? He glanced at Fu Yu swimming rapidly ahead; obviously this fellow was in the know.

The Soul-Capturing Mirror in his embrace even spoke up to warn him:

"All along this way, Spinning-Mouth Sharks have been getting fewer and fewer. The waters we're passing through now, we haven't seen a single fish or a single shrimp!"

Its observation was meticulous, often providing useful intelligence.

He Lingchuan's heart stirred upon hearing this, and he subconsciously observed the water surface.

Over so many years, the seaweed forest had long since formed its own ecology. Besides Spinning-Mouth Sharks, He Lingchuan had previously seen dozens of fish species, as well as shrimp, crabs, cuttlefish, shellfish, and so on — not much different from a normal ocean.

But with the Soul-Capturing Mirror's reminder, he suddenly discovered that the waters the ship passed through were actually empty and desolate underwater!

Apart from seaweed drifting with the waves, there was nothing here!

No living beings at all.

What did this indicate? Ahead was a forbidden zone of life.

Like land creatures, the sea's small beings' perception of the powerful and dangerous stemmed from instinct.

Oh wait, just now on the seaweed blades passed, a touch of pink appeared.

Those are the eggs of the needle crab.

Only the needle crab, a demonic puppet formed unnaturally, would ignore the powerful pressure coming from ahead and continue advancing toward the ocean.

He Lingchuan had kicked them into the sea from the shore earlier, and had previously given orders for them to breed while seeking the individual with the strongest energy in this sea area.

In his view, the individual with the strongest energy in Liuli Sea, aside from the Hidden God Lord, could be no one else.

He never expected there to be two!

A hidden worry suddenly surfaced in his heart:

When Alian interrogated Duan He Yun, she had once asked who owned the last passage talisman.

But Duan He Yun didn't know either—perhaps because he only handled research at the Lingyun Palace, or perhaps because his superiors deemed his character somewhat unreliable; in any case, they never told him.

Could it be...

He Lingchuan's only thought now is the word "fast."

If that thing remains still, it is likely dormant. The timeless monotony of Liuli Sea is so dull that even a great cultivator would choose to retreat into seclusion when there's nothing to do.

If luck is on his side, he might reach the main root of the seaweed forest undetected before alerting the other party.

Then everything would be easy to discuss.

But he must not be too hasty, lest he draw the attention of the stubborn forces nearby.

The sea stretches endlessly, calm as a mirror, and on the display of "Yangguan Dao," the blood-red root system marking the vital point of the seaweed forest grows ever closer and ever larger.

Four li...

Three li...