Chapter 78: Forbidden Sea Long Jing (4,000 words oh)

Moonlight spilled onto the sea surface, landing on the magic boat whose defensive formation had collapsed, and also landing on Xu Qing. He listened to the respectful voices of the Seventh Peak disciples outside, his expression somewhat dazed.

Although this breakthrough was within expectations, the danger of the process made him feel very fearful, especially thinking of the feeling of his whole body wanting to shatter when the Sea-Mountain Technique broke through, Xu Qing couldn't help but suck in a breath.

If it weren't for the purple crystal's recovery, I'm afraid that before the Ba Shadow had time to appear, he would have already collapsed and died in pieces. But the improvement exchanged for such danger was also quite astonishing.

Especially the terrifying power emerging from the Ba Shadow slowly dissipating above his head now made Xu Qing reveal a trace of anticipation in his eyes.

After a while, Xu Qing walked out of the cabin. Under the moonlight, with a head of black hair and a gray robe, he stood tall like a pine, his handsome face pale and cold, as if carved, faintly revealing a charm after the Sea-Mountain Technique had just broken through.

"Thank you, fellow disciples." Standing in the cabin, Xu Qing bowed calmly toward the congratulating disciples all around.

Instantly, the disciples of the magic boats all around returned the salute, seeming to see that the cultivation fluctuations on Xu Qing hadn't dissipated, so most guessed that this breakthrough wasn't the end of tonight's cultivation.

Thus, after returning the salute, amidst the shock in their hearts again, everyone sensibly returned to their cabins, not disturbing him.

This scene was unthinkable a few months ago when Xu Qing first arrived at the Seven Blood Eyes, but now it had appeared.

Xu Qing withdrew his gaze, returned to the cabin, and sat cross-legged. He looked at the discarded spirit stones filled with cracks in the spirit-gathering formation, and then looked at the broken cabin, his brows furrowing slightly.

He knew the collapse of the barrier was because the fluctuations erupted in an instant were too large, and as the core, the spirit stones couldn't bear it, so they shattered.

"I don't know if the next breakthrough of the Sea-Mountain Technique will still be like this..."

Xu Qing muttered, the feeling of fear still existed, and there was even more heartache. After all... repairing the magic boat cost money.

But thinking of the harvest from killing the Mermaid youth, Xu Qing felt a little better in his heart.

But this wasn't the time to care about these things. Xu Qing calmed the fear in his heart caused by the Sea-Mountain Technique breakthrough. He could feel his Sea-Containing Scripture rolling and tumbling in his body, as if it were also about to break through.

Thus, he took a deep breath, replaced the discarded spirit stones in the spirit-gathering formation with new ones.

The next instant, the barrier on the magic boat opened again.

Looking at the moonlight spilling from the broken cabin, Xu Qing pondered, simply put in another spirit stone, formed a seal, and the magic boat rumbled. Under the core of two spirit stones, the barrier stimulated was even thicker, faintly covering most of the moonlight.

After doing these, Xu Qing sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and felt the majestic power that was several times more than usual bursting out in his body at this moment.

One had to know that Xu Qing's previous strength was already at the level of the Great Circle of the Sea-Mountain Technique. The breakthrough now broke the shackles, allowing his physical body strength to reach a higher level.

This power was so strong that Xu Qing had a strong feeling that he didn't need to use the Sea-Containing Scripture's techniques; just a full-force punch of the Sea-Mountain Technique would probably make the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor feel fearful.

After all, he was the first person in history to cultivate the Sea-Mountain Technique to such a degree.

Before him, the Kui Shadow was the extreme, and now the Kui Shadow had transformed into the unprecedented Ba. What was contained within it was not only the aura of mountains and seas, but even more endless scorching fire.

That madness of wanting to dry up everything and burn the world still remained in Xu Qing's perception.

And this was only the eighth layer, the Ba Shadow was just born and hadn't reached the complete form. Xu Qing couldn't imagine what the appearance after the ninth layer would be, and even more so, when it reached the tenth layer Great Circle, whether the Ba Shadow... would still change.

The path of the Sea-Mountain Technique no longer had anyone who could point the way for him; the person who created this technique couldn't do it either.

Xu Qing was silent. After a while, a sharp glint flashed in his eyes, he closed them again, and began to operate the Sea-Containing Scripture.

Time passed slowly. An hour later, the Seventy-Ninth Harbor in the deep night raised a wind...

This wind blew over the sea surface, gathered on Xu Qing's magic boat, formed a vortex, formed a suction, as if turned into a black hole, amidst rumbling sounds, rolling in the spiritual energy from all directions.

The sea surface fluttered, all the boats were shaking, and the Seventh Peak disciples within them all looked at the source of all this, as if to witness Xu Qing's rise.

Majestic spiritual energy, at this moment, surged into Xu Qing's boat and into his body from all directions, and the spiritual sea formed by the Sea-Containing Scripture in his body expanded in full range.

The improvement of each layer of the Sea-Containing Scripture seemed to be only ten zhang more, but in reality, this improvement was all-around. Whether it was vertical or depth, looking from a plane, it was like the difference between a small circle and a large circle.

And the depth was even more so. At this moment, under the condition that Xu Qing already possessed the foundation for a breakthrough, following the arrival of spiritual energy containing the aura of the sea ban, his body rumbled, and arrays of cracking sounds echoed in his mind, causing Xu Qing's internal spiritual sea to expand abruptly.

It broke through the limit of the last zhang directly, reaching the level of eighty zhang.

And at the moment it reached it, his body shook wildly, and the infinite spiritual energy filled the extra zhang rapidly, and it didn't end, still expanding.

Eighty-two zhang, eighty-three zhang, eighty-four zhang...

Until it reached eighty-seven zhang, the spiritual sea in Xu Qing's body transmitted a sense of saturation. As Xu Qing opened his eyes, purple light dazzling, an increasingly obvious sense of detachment also appeared on him.

"Long Jing." Xu Qing took a deep breath, muttered in a low voice, and raised his right hand to wave. Instantly, a dragon roar echoed in his body, and a huge head, resembling both a dragon and a whale, drilled out directly from Xu Qing's chest.

Pitch black all over, while deep to the extreme, it also had an aura that made people tremble, emitting from its body.

At this moment, following the roar, this sea whale rushed out directly from Xu Qing's body, getting larger and larger, breaking through the barrier, rushing toward the sky, roaring toward the sky, revealing its full body!

The huge body, a full eighty zhang long, emitted a heart-shaking momentum, and the dancing tentacles, each one revealing blue fluorescence.

At this moment, following its appearance, the sea surface rumbled instantly, as if attracted by it to form huge waves, and this Long Jing, even if it just slapped down, was enough to shake mountains and earth.

The disciples in the magic boats all around were horrified.

"Forbidden Sea Long Jing!"

"This is a specific technique of the eighth layer of the Sea-Containing Scripture, but not everyone can form a Long Jing at the eighth layer. This requires extreme control!"

"The physical body strength Xu Qing emitted just now was already heart-shaking, and at this moment, the technique has actually reached the eighth layer..."

"Such combat strength..."

The crowd sucked in breaths one by one.

Only Xu Qing, sitting cross-legged in the magic boat at this moment, looked up at the Long Jing dancing in the sky, intense light appearing in his eyes. He had been waiting for this day.

The Sea-Containing Scripture recorded that when cultivated to the eighth layer, one could manifest a Forbidden Sea Long Jing with an eighty-zhang spiritual sea. This Long Jing was formed by techniques and would always exist.

It would wander in the deep sea, accompanying the Seventh Peak disciples' boats, moving forward together.

This allowed Seventh Peak disciples to gain greater assistance when going out to sea.

It was just that wanting to form a Forbidden Sea Long Jing required extreme control by the cultivator, so not all eighth-layer disciples could do it.

"Finally reached this level." Xu Qing muttered, and with a thought, the roaring Long Jing in mid-air swayed abruptly, falling into the sea surface, emitting a huge rumbling sound, lifting a large amount of seawater, and its figure also merged into the sea, disappearing without a trace.

Only Xu Qing could, with a single thought, condense its figure within the seawater.

And the existence of the Forbidden Sea Long Jing was, in reality... for Seventh Peak disciples, also a watershed!

"The current me, if I encounter the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor on the sea, I can kill him with high probability!" A cold glint flashed in Xu Qing's eyes.

"If it's not on the sea, if I go all out without sparing any cost, I also have a certain probability of heavily injuring the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor!"

"Then now, I must first go out to sea, on one hand to temper my cultivation, on the other hand to obtain resources. After returning... I must find a way to kill the Jin Gang Sect Ancestor as soon as possible!"

"When the sky brightens, I will go to upgrade the magic boat's level. If there's time, I will set off tomorrow; if not, I will start going out to sea early the day after tomorrow!" Xu Qing took a deep breath. He could feel that his shadow, following the dual breakthrough of cultivation and physical body, was even more flexible to control.

This gave him even more confidence.

At the same time, following the appearance of Xu Qing's eighth-layer Forbidden Sea Long Jing of the Sea-Containing Scripture, its roar spread throughout the harbor, causing disciples in other harbors to hear it as well.

This sound was very special. Outsiders might not be able to tell, but for Seventh Peak disciples, they were familiar with it.

"Someone reached the eighth layer again, and it's an eighth layer that formed a Long Jing. Looking at this momentum, it's not ordinary... a bit interesting."

In the Sea Defense Department, in the Thirty-Second Harbor, a huge department warship was slowly sailing out of the harbor. Unlike other disciples' magic boats, the Sea Defense Department's warship was specially made by the sect.

At this moment, a gray-robed youth stood on the warship. This youth emitted formidable fluctuations all over his body. Under a head of blue hair were golden eyes. He gazed into the distance, muttering in a low voice.

"Senior Brother Ding, do we need to go and inquire?" Seven or eight Sea Defense Department disciples followed behind him. At this moment, one of them spoke in a low voice.

Zhou Qingpeng was among them, in the last position, his expression carrying caution.

Clearly, he had finally done what he said during the gathering, being introduced to the Sea Defense Department's heaven-favored child. And that blue-haired youth was exactly Ding Xiaohai, who was hailed as the number one Qi Condensation person of the Seventh Peak, whom even some core disciples had to treat as a fellow Daoist.

"Wait until we return." Ding Xiaohai spoke indifferently, withdrawing his gaze.

At the same time, in the Homicide Department, the Sixth Team Captain was lying comfortably on a chair, holding a rare pentagonal fruit in his hand, happily eating a corner, seeming to have noticed something. He looked up toward the direction of the Seventy-Ninth Harbor, a smile appearing on his face.

"This is a clear mind, so he broke through, simple and direct. This kid... I like him. But he's still a bit weak. How can my team member be so weak? Should I find a few more people for him to kill?"

The Sixth Team Captain was worthy of being the pervert in Zhang San's mouth. At this moment, while muttering, he actually put down the fruit and was very seriously pondering this problem.

And this night, Xu Qing's Long Jing attracted the attention of quite a few people in the Seventh Peak, making some people's moods complicated—some expectant, some envious, some jealous.

But there were also people who were angry and sad to the extreme, but couldn't find an outlet.

That was... the Mermaid tribe cultivators.

At this moment, in the alley where the Mermaid youth died, there were several figures manifested in the pitch-black night. The two in the front, one tall and one short, were exactly the Mermaid youth's sisters, who were also the Third Highness's mistresses.

The elder sister seemed very calm, but the younger sister beside her was trembling, breathing rapidly in this alley, the parotid glands on her face also standing up, and murderous intent rising in her eyes.

Beside them was also an old man of the Mermaid tribe. He stood there bitterly and spoke in a low voice.

"The Highness's aura disappeared here, but this place has clearly been processed, and no traces can be seen. But with the Highness's strength and status, he should have a high probability of not dying, just missing. I don't know about the life slip in the tribe..."

"The Highness's life slip... shattered." Before the old man could finish speaking, the younger of the two Mermaid women gritted her teeth and spoke.

The old man was silent, his face gradually turning pale.

As a protector, he knew what his end would be, but this matter was requested by the Highness, and he strictly didn't allow him to follow, and he also roughly guessed the Highness's hobby.

But no matter what, he hadn't expected that this would happen...

"Could it be that the high-level of the Seven Blood Eyes took action?" The old man hesitated.

"If the high-level of the Seven Blood Eyes wanted to kill, would they need to cover it up?"

"Investigate, especially since there is a Wish Box in the Highness's storage bag. This item is of vital importance and cannot fall into the hands of others." Among the Mermaid women, the elder sister took a deep breath and spoke coldly.

"Sister, the Highness has fallen, we should be seeking revenge for the Highness, why are you still paying attention to the Wish Box!"

The younger sister glared over.

"You should know the importance of the Wish Box. That is a gift from the previous epoch."

"I only know the Highness has fallen, we must find the murderer!"

The two sisters, their gazes collided, and after a long while, the elder sister spoke indifferently.

"You seek revenge, I take the box. This matter can be done. The Highness is of the royal family and has a bloodline guide. We will have a sense of whoever killed him at close range."

"Now, search for everyone who had a conflict with the Highness during this period, including the families of those who were abused and killed by him. We must also search for them and investigate one by one. I really want to know, who is so bold as to dare to kill my tribe's young master!"

"After finding them, I must torture them, let this person, together with their whole family, seek death but not be able to, suffer and wail, their souls entering fish and shrimp, I will bite them to pieces one by one and swallow them alive!"

The younger sister beside her gritted her teeth, madness appearing in her eyes. ===== CHAPTER 79 =====