Chapter 1166

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Protagonist:

Xu Zhangqing

On the floating island, there is one more person.

Baili Hong.

Beside him stands a tiger-head war saber over a zhang long.

The demonic patterns on the saber blade inhale and exhale the surrounding spiritual light, and several newly added cracks on the saber spine are slowly healing under the nourishment of the spiritual light.

Hearing the movement, Baili Hong lifted his eyelids, and upon seeing Xu Zhangqing walk out from the crack, a faint smile appeared on his face:

"Ninth Junior Brother, you've finally come out."

He sized him up from head to toe, a trace of hard-to-perceive surprise flashing in his eyes, then his smile deepened a few degrees: "You stayed in there for over a hundred days; if you'd come out a few days later, the cosmic tide would probably have passed."

Over a hundred days have passed outside?

Xu Zhangqing heard this, and his heart stirred slightly.

He had spent one thousand three hundred years in the passage, while over a hundred days passed in the outside world.

No wonder the others came out long ago.

The backgrounds they chose had time flows far less extreme than his own.

Inside, at most a few decades to one or two hundred years, then they left after finishing cultivation.

Xu Zhangqing quickly approached: "Fourth Senior Brother has been waiting outside for me all this time?"

Baili Hong waved his hand: "Eldest Senior Brother instructed before leaving to guard until you came out.

You are the Ninth Direct Disciple under the Great Dao Venerable Seat, the latest to enter the sect.

Among the senior brothers and sisters, aside from the missing Third and Fifth Senior Brothers, your cultivation is the lowest.

With a thing like a time gap, no one can say what variables might arise inside; having someone guard outside is always more reassuring."

Xu Zhangqing hurriedly bowed with clasped hands: "Thank you, Eldest Senior Brother, Fourth Senior Brother!"

Baili Hong glanced at the sky-covering spiritual light and escape lights in the distance, and sighed: "During the time you were inside, the outside situation has completely changed.

Look at the current scene — human cultivators, the insect swarms of the Vacuum Homeland, Chaos Unique Species, and those calamity cultivators and evil cultivators fishing in troubled waters — all have killed until their eyes are red.

Every few breaths, a treasure light spurts from the sea, and behind each treasure light follow dozens or hundreds of people scrambling for it.

Just in these days I've sat here waiting for you to come out, I've seen no fewer than ten melees at the Spirit Transformation level.

Once the fighting even reached the edge of the floating island, and I cleaved it with one saber strike!"

Finished speaking, he pointed at those several newly added cracks on the war saber.

The battle on the Chaos Sea surface has reached a white-hot intensity.

The treasure light of human cultivators intertwines with the baleful qi of the insect swarms; Chaos Unique Species dart and flip through the spiritual light, and every so often one or two streaks of blood light shoot skyward.

Worse still, several groups of calamity cultivators simply abandoned contending for treasures and turned to ambushing those injured cultivators who had just gone through a great battle and were depleted of mana; killing and looting was faster than snatching treasures.

But for the current Xu Zhangqing, none of these amount to much.

The Yuan Dao comprehended over one thousand three hundred years has already brought his strength to another height.

A Spirit Transformation Peak cultivation realm paired with the Yuan Dao Cycle, plus the five great methods of Return to Origin, Yuan Fire, Five-Color Yuan Light, Return to Void Finger, and Planting Cause, are sufficient for self-protection in the Chaos Sea.

Especially these melee cultivators and insect swarms before him pose even less of a threat to himself.

"Fourth Senior Brother."

Xu Zhangqing withdrew his gaze: "Before Eldest Senior Brother left, did he have any instructions?"

Baili Hong's expression turned a few degrees more serious; he propped the tiger-head war saber upright against his shoulder: "Yes. Eldest Senior Brother said, after you come out, go with me to the center of the Chaos Sea.

That place is not only the deepest part, but also where supreme treasures appear with the highest frequency.

The cosmic tide has churned up the treasures from the very bottom layer of the Chaos Sea; the closer to the center, the higher the quality of the treasures.

The North Dipper Xianfu doesn't have many people there; every additional person counts.

However, one thing you must remember: once in the central region, try not to act if you can avoid it.

An existence at Eldest Senior Brother's level exposed too many law fluctuations in battle with the Chaos Royal Clan; the Xianxu Lord, though dormant, has already turned over due to the deaths of the Chaos Royal Clan.

If another strong-expert-level battle erupts in the center, it might well awaken Him."

"Xianxu Lord?"

Xu Zhangqing's brows lifted slightly.

He had heard Zhen Yuanzi mention this name — the sovereign of all unique species in the entire Chaos Sea, the supreme existence above the Chaos Monarchs.

Baili Hong nodded, his face rarely solemn: "It normally slumbers in the Chaos Origin at the deepest part of the Chaos Sea.

A disturbance on the scale of the cosmic tide is a heaven-shaking event for Chaos Unique Species, but for the Xianxu Lord it is merely a ripple stirred by turning over in sleep."

He extended two fingers, making a gesture: "The North Dipper Xianfu's bottom line: one, must not awaken it; two, after reaching the central region, try not to cause law fluctuations.

If you can use divine abilities, use divine abilities; if you can use the flesh body, use the flesh body."

Xu Zhangqing nodded: "Junior Brother understands."

Among his current methods, Return to Origin and Five-Color Yuan Light are both Yuan Dao-level powers; strictly speaking, they do not fall under the category of "law fluctuations."

Return to Void Finger, meanwhile, restores laws back to origin.

That is to say, his combat style happens to avoid the Xianxu Lord's alarm line.

"There's one more matter."

Xu Zhangqing recalled something, then looked at Baili Hong and asked: "Has there been any news of Third Senior Brother's whereabouts?"

"None."

Baili Hong's smile faded, and he shook his head: "Eldest Senior Brother used Time Retrospection, turning the Chaos Sea upside down over a million li, trying every method, yet still couldn't find Third Senior Brother's trace."

Clearly he was still alive, but no matter what means were used to locate him, it was like fishing for a needle in the Chaos Sea.

No, harder than that.

His location seemed to be obscured by some power."

Xu Changqing heard this and looked thoughtful: "Obscured?"

Baili Hong followed closely with a stern expression: "The cosmic tide is about to pass, and the environment of the Chaos Sea will become even more unstable; by then searching will be even harder."

Xu Changqing fell silent for a moment and said nothing more.

Not to mention, he and Jun Wu Huo had never met.

The critical point was that even if he wanted to find him, he was willing but unable.

After all, even Eldest Senior Brother couldn't find him now.

Baili Hong called out: "Let's go."

The two rose into the air, one riding Golden Clouds, the other stepping on Green Escape Light, flying side by side toward the center of the Chaos Sea.

And the closer they flew to the center, the more shocking the surrounding scenery became.

The color of the Chaos Fog was no longer an unchanging gray-white, but began to show a strange sense of layering.

The fog at the uppermost layer was light gray, as if forcibly diluted by some power, thin enough to be almost transparent.

The fog at the middle layer was dark gray, thick as mud, and Divine Sense probing into it would get stuck, requiring several times the mana to penetrate.

And the fog at the lowest layer was a pure black.

This was the truth of the Chaos Sea.

The closer to the center, the closer to the source of Chaos.

All other laws would be re-dissolved by Chaos.

Only Chaos Laws, with a concentration reaching an extremely terrifying degree.

Xu Changqing could clearly feel that the speed of mana circulation within his body was at least three tenths slower than elsewhere.

It was not that mana was suppressed, but that the Law Power contained within the mana was constantly being neutralized and weakened under the interference of Chaos Laws.

Xiuxian Zhe below Nascent Soul who came here would probably not even be able to cast spells!