Chapter 1143

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

Xu Zhangqing didn't explain much, leading the group out of the Qingmu Spirit Grotto.

The market was already bustling; sunlight pierced through the canopy and fell on the plank roads, and the Wood Spiritual Energy in the air became even richer.

The new buds spawned when the Azure Dragon awakened yesterday had already grown into seedlings overnight.

From this it could be seen that the vitality of Qinglong Donglu was astonishingly vigorous.

Next, they strolled around once more.

Ruo Qunshuang bought a few cultivation pills, Zhang Zaizhi picked up two rubbing copies of Qinglong Donglu Wood-element cultivation methods, and Linglong gave Chi Ye an extra bag of Wood Spirit Crystal Sand.

At dusk, everyone returned to the Star Spirit Grass's star boat.

Before the hatch closed, Xu Zhangqing looked back at Qinglong Donglu one more time.

This azure planet was perpetually shrouded in dense Wood-element laws.

Forests like seas, Spiritual Energy like mist.

This trip's harvest far exceeded his expectations.

But at the same time, it also made him even more certain of one thing.

The road ahead would absolutely not be easy!

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The next day, the star boat set sail.

The hull slowly rose; the furnace emitted a low, steady hum, and the array patterns on the hull lit up in sequence.

Qinglong Donglu shrank gradually in the porthole, eventually turning into an azure light spot, once again merging into the depths of the Star Sea.

Lu Yan stood inside the star boat's cabin, unfurling a star map, and said in a steady tone: "Next, we will leave the Four Directions Star Domain, pass through the Endless Star Domain, and head straight for the Chaos Sea.

This leg of the journey is long; along the way we may encounter star boats and cultivators from various factions.

The Chaos Sea is the eruption vent of the universe's tides; everyone wanting a share in the tides is rushing in the same direction."

He put away the star map and scanned the surroundings: "The Star Spirit Grass's star boat is a logistics supply line and won't actively participate in contention, but all of you must also make thorough preparations."

Xu Zhangqing nodded, then turned to look out the porthole at the Star Sea.

The Four Directions Star Domain's radiance gradually receded behind them; the star domains ahead grew darker and darker, and the distance between stars became increasingly vast.

The star boat sailed steadily through the void; along the way one could occasionally see other factions' star boats.

Some were pitch-black throughout like shuttles, sprayed with unknown sects' markings.

Some were massive as mountains, their hulls hung with defensive arrays.

Some were dilapidated, seemingly jury-rigged modified star boats cobbled together by Loose Cultivators.

However, all star boats had only one direction.

The Chaos Sea!

As the star boat continued forward, the universe tide's fluctuations grew stronger and stronger.

At first merely faint tremors, as if someone were beating a drum in the extreme distance.

Later they turned into a continuous hum; the protective arrays on the hull flickered uncertainly under the tide's impact.

By the end, with each wave's arrival, the entire star boat would shake along with it.

Linglong lay at the window, pointing at the distant starry sky, and shouted: "Daddy, look!"

Xu Zhangqing heard the voice and looked over.

Only to see, in the depths of the Star Sea, a silver light belt surging from the direction of the Chaos Sea, as if a rift had torn open in the universe's depths.

Immediately after, tens of thousands of silver-white meteors gushed out from the rift.

Those meteors streaked across the void, dragging long light tails, flying in all directions.

One streak of light happened to brush past the Star Spirit Grass's star boat, and Xu Zhangqing saw it clearly through the porthole.

It was a fist-sized silver-white ore, its surface flowing with Chaos-colored patterns, emitting a Spiritual Power fluctuation even purer than Top-Grade Spirit Stones.

And there were already star boats going to chase that ore.

Several black shadows flew out from a star boat, fighting fiercely over that ore.

Zhang Zaizhi stood at Xu Zhangqing's side, glanced once, then withdrew his gaze: "Don't covet them; the Chaos Sea's tide has only just begun erupting; what's flying out now are all the outermost things.

However dazzling they look, they're just edge scraps washed down.

The real good things won't appear until the great tide arrives."

At this, Xu Zhangqing nodded in deep agreement.

Not to mention, this is his first time witnessing it.

The key point is, he truly has no interest in a mere few pieces of ore.

Just like that, another stretch of time passed.

The star boat finally arrived at the Chaos Sea's border.

The scene outside the porthole left everyone speechless.

That was a true Chaos.

Not the Star Sea, not the Void, but a boundless gray-white mist sea, spreading from underfoot to the gaze's end, and from the gaze's end extending to the universe's deepest place.

The gray-white Chaos Qi resembled a boiling porridge pot, ceaselessly churning, surging, tearing and healing.

Every surge blasts out tens of thousands of law fragments—Five Elements, Yin-Yang, time-space, cause-and-effect—scattered haphazardly in the chaos qi, drifting with the waves.

At the edge of this Hunbian Wu Hai, the universe tide is visibly erupting outward.

Chaos qi gathers into a towering wave connecting heaven and earth, its crest unseen, its body hung with things dragged up from the depths of chaos.

Ores, remnant soldiers, spirit plants, unknown bone remains, and even half a stone tablet radiating divine light.

Each time the great wave crashes down, these things are flung in all directions, then scatter as a vast sky of flowing light.

Between the rifts of chaos qi and tide waves, large numbers of chaos variants are wandering.

Their forms are strange beyond count.

Some are like a skinless long snake, muscles exposed, with over a dozen asymmetrical eyes on its head, each looking in a different direction.

Some are like an Aoxie magnified millions of times, its shell gray-white, its two pincers covered in damaged law patterns, each closing able to crush the edge of space.

Others are a mass of flesh with no fixed shape, bubbles constantly rising on its surface, and each burst bubble spawns a small variant, crawling densely on the surface of the chaos fog.

A whale-shaped chaos variant a thousand zhang long flips out of the fog sea, its body without skin, only a layer of translucent membrane.

Through the membrane, countless miniature whale-shaped variants can be seen moving within its body.

It opens its giant mouth and swallows several dozen small variants beside it, then rolls over and dives back into the depths of chaos, driving a whole expanse of chaos fog into ceaseless surging.

In the deeper reaches of the distant Hunbian Wu Hai, faintly visible are several beast shadows of inconceivable size moving slowly.

Their contours are blurred; only shadows larger than stars can be seen sinking and floating in the gray-white chaos qi.

Each rise and fall triggers violent shaking of the Chaos Sea, and nearby chaos variants scatter and flee in all directions.

The Star Spirit Grass's star boat has stopped at the edge of the Chaos Sea.

Lu Yan stood by the porthole, his expression solemn as he said: "The Star Spirit Grass's logistics are stationed here; we will not advance further.

Beyond this lies the Battle Front."

Xu Zhangqing gazed at the ceaselessly surging Chaos Sea outside the porthole; the Seven-Colored Lotus, Heaven and Earth Furnace, and Primordial Star Core within him all simultaneously emitted a low rumble.

They... really like this place!