Volume 1: The Decline of the Yue Family Chapter 74: Deep Sea One More Update Today, with an extra update
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It wasn't until half a day later that Yue Cheng returned, and he finally had some understanding of the deep sea. After returning to his room, Yue Cheng's mind was already turning over ideas.
According to Yue Cheng's understanding, the deep sea is a vast ocean area on the left side of Zuoxing Island. The size of this ocean area is still unknown, and no one has ever reached its end. Even the master of Zuoxing Island, Lingjing Sect, does not dare to enter the deepest part of the deep sea. It is said that the magical beasts in the deepest part of the deep sea are terrifying beyond compare. Twenty years ago, a senior elder of the Lingjing Sect, Yixing Douhuang, entered the deepest part of the deep sea and never came out again.
In the boundless ocean of the deep sea, there are countless islands, and on these islands, there are spiritual medicines that are rarely seen in the outside world. As for the treasures in the deep sea, everyone has only heard about them, but as to whether anyone has ever obtained them, no one knows. After all, even if someone really did obtain the treasure, they wouldn't go around proclaiming it everywhere.
Many people have obtained the spiritual medicine in the deep sea, except for alchemists, mages and warriors also enter the deep sea. The magical beasts in the deep sea are much higher than those on the periphery. The periphery is all two-stage and three-stage magical beasts. Although the inner core of a three-stage magical beast can be sold at a price of 300 gold coins, there are not many three-stage magical beasts on the periphery. In contrast, three-stage magical beasts are everywhere in the deep sea, and four-stage magical beasts are not uncommon either. A single inner core of a four-stage magical beast is worth a sky-high price.
No matter whether it's for alchemists or mages and warriors, the monster inner pellet is a fatal temptation. Alchemists can directly use it to refine high-quality pills, while mages and warriors can exchange it for enough gold to buy what they need.
The deep sea is more dangerous than the periphery, everyone knows that. The idea of seeking wealth and glory in danger also attracts many adventurous people to enter it. Generally speaking, those who enter the deep sea will form a team of several people, with three professions: magicians, warriors, and alchemists.
Mages are responsible for ranged attacks, and in the deep sea, water-based mages are undoubtedly the most popular. Fighters are responsible for close combat, while alchemists search for spiritual medicine on one hand and refine pills for fighters and mages on the other. In battles against magical beasts, getting injured is inevitable, so at this time, the pills refined by alchemists are needed to heal wounds. Therefore, a high-ranking alchemist is often an object of desire for every team to recruit.
Every deep-sea journey, many people will die in the deep sea and become food for monsters, but at the same time, many people have spent half a year coming out of the deep sea to become rich. The weakness of human nature is that it will always forget those who failed and only look at those who succeeded.
Seven days later is the day when the deep sea opens, so many people have already started forming their own teams. A person in the deep sea is not safe at all, even if the monster doesn't attack, those with stronger powers will still kill you after seeing you, and no one knows in the endless deep sea, of course, your valuable items will also be taken away by the other party. Murder and robbery are too common in every deep-sea expedition, it's just that everyone tacitly agrees not to mention it.
After Yue Cheng had a preliminary understanding of the deep sea, he also began to calculate how to enter the deep sea. With the experience of thousands of years in his previous life, Yue Cheng was not worried about the tricks and struggles in the deep sea. The spiritual medicine and the fourth-order demon beast's inner dan in the deep sea were Yue Cheng's goals for going to the deep sea from now on.
The fifth-order demon beast's internal elixir, Yue Cheng, didn't plan to use it for the time being. With his current cultivation and strength, even if he used all his trump cards, he could at most kill a fourth-order demon beast. A fifth-order demon beast would easily cost him his life.
In the secret room of the Sima family, Yue Cheng sat cross-legged, surrounded by a thick aura of cyan mist. The Wan Shou furnace in front of him hummed with a low buzz, and inside, a red glow was visible, as various strange objects were being refined within the furnace.
To prepare for the deep sea, Yue Cheng has been refining a lot of elixirs in recent days to be prepared for any unexpected situation. At the same time, Yue Cheng also entrusted Sima Yanran to find some items and add them to the Illusory Formation, which increased its power. Originally, the Illusory Formation only had an illusory effect, but now it has gained some attacking power. Even if 8-star or 9-star Douling are trapped in the formation, Yue Cheng is confident that he can trap them and not be killed by them.
Illusory arrays can also deal with demon beasts, the intelligence of fourth-order demon beasts is slightly inferior to that of humans, making them easier to deal with. If you lure the demon beast into the illusory array before striking and killing it, it will be much simpler.
At the same time, Yue Cheng also hopes that in the six months at sea, he can break through to the fetal breath period. At that time, his cultivation will not surge greatly, but he will be able to refine some magical instruments and talismans. With magical instruments and talismans by his side, his actual strength will also increase substantially.
Seven days later, on the day when the deep sea opens once every ten years, Yue Cheng arrived at his destination in the company of Sima Changping and Sima Yanran, riding a flying demon beast of the Sima family.
The Sima family's flying beast was a snow-white white eagle, much stronger than the flying hawk that Yue Cheng had ridden on with a gold coin when he came to Zuoxing Island. After taking off from the Sima house and flying over a vast expanse of sea, Yue Cheng arrived at an island that wasn't small in size.
The island was lush and green with some unknown plants growing on it. A gentle sea breeze blew in, making Yue Cheng feel indescribably comfortable.
"Yue Cheng, are you really not going to join the Sima family's team?" Sima Changping asked with some concern. The Sima family would also send several teams into the deep sea every time, and each time they would gain a lot. Sima Changping couldn't understand why Yue Cheng wanted to go alone.
"Yue Cheng, it's better for you to leave with the Sima family team." Sima Yanran said to Yue Cheng, as entering the deep sea alone can be very dangerous.
Yue Cheng also knew that Sima Changping and Sima Yanran were worried about their own safety, but Yue Cheng had his own plan in mind, saying: "Don't worry, I won't be in trouble."
Seeing Yue Cheng's repeated persistence, Sima Changping and Sima Yanran could only helplessly agree. All those who entered the deep sea formed teams of several people; a single person entering the deep sea would be killed by others, even if they didn't encounter any powerful magical beasts.
In an instant, the entire island was packed with people, and Yue Cheng's gaze swept across, although some of them were here to see off the disciples who came, they wouldn't be entering the deep sea. However, there were tens of thousands of people on the island now, and at least over ten thousand of them were waiting to enter the deep sea.
A decade-long opening of the deep sea, apart from hoping to gain some valuable demon beast inner dan and spiritual medicine, many sects and families also regard this deep-sea journey as an excellent opportunity to hone their disciples.
Every time the deep sea is open, Lingjing Sect will also send many disciples to enter. The Alchemy Master Competition has never seen anyone from Lingjing Sect participate, but every time the deep sea opens, Lingjing Sect is always present, which is enough to show that the deep sea has an extraordinary place.
The island under Yue Cheng's feet is now the intersection of the deep sea and the outer area. Once you pass this island, it will be considered a deep-sea area. As soon as you enter the deep-sea area, three-stage and four-stage water monsters will appear at any time. Of course, there are also land monsters on the island.
The island has an invisible barrier in front of it, and Yue Cheng also heard Sima Changping say that this invisible barrier was laid down by a powerful ancestor of the Lingjing Sect a long time ago. If someone outside the Lingjing Sect doesn't open the barrier, even if they ride a flying demon beast, they can't fly over; otherwise, those fierce demon beasts in the deep sea would have swum over long ago.
Yue Cheng could also feel the presence of the barrier, and he was very interested in that intangible barrier, which seemed to be similar to the seals he had set up. However, this barrier should not be as powerful as the seals he could set up. Once his cultivation broke through to the fetal breath period, apart from setting up ordinary seals, he would also be able to set up a boundary. For someone with lower strength than him to enter the boundary was simply impossible.
Everyone was waiting for the last Lingjing Sect, and Yue Cheng also took this opportunity to observe the cultivation strength of the people on the island who were about to enter the deep sea. Not far from Yue Cheng's side were the people from the five major forces on Zuo Xing Island. Each sect sent disciples with similar strength and numbers, all over a hundred people, including mages, Dou Shi, and alchemists, forming more than a dozen small teams. Their cultivation strengths were also around 4-5 star Dou Ling.
Others' cultivation bases are not much different, overall they are all one-star or two-star Dou Ling cultivators, and there are also many Da Dou Shi cultivators and third-level mages. The overall situation of alchemists is slightly worse, basically all three-grade alchemists, and second-grade alchemists are also present.
Among them, Yue Cheng also saw people from the Liang family. What surprised Yue Cheng was that Liang Yu of the Liang family seemed to be preparing to enter the deep sea as well. When Liang Yu saw Yue Cheng, there was a hint of coolness and jealousy in his eyes. However, he couldn't do anything to Yue Cheng now. As the guest elder of the Lingjing Sect, the entire Liang family didn't dare to offend Yue Cheng. The power of the Lingjing Sect was not something that a small family like the Liangs could provoke.
As the last group of Lingjing Sect cultivators riding gray-feathered flying demonic beasts arrived, several people who looked like Lingjing Sect elders walked to the front of the invisible barrier. Among these elders, Yue Cheng also saw Yuan He Fei, with whom he had a nodding acquaintance last time.
After watching the group of people from Lingjing Sect, Yue Cheng looked around and a familiar figure appeared in front of him. It was indeed Ouyang Pianqing, whom he had met at the Alchemist Conference. Later, Yue Cheng only heard from Sima Changping that Ouyang Pianqing was actually the daughter of the sect master of Lingjing Sect.
Today, Ouyang Pian wore a green qipao that wrapped around her body, revealing a seductive curve. Especially those long and slender legs and that plump and raised buttocks made Yue Cheng swallow a mouthful of saliva.
Many others also cast their eyes on Ouyang Feiyan, mainly because she was originally a stunning beauty, and with her fiery figure in her tight-fitting armor, it immediately sparked flames. Such a stunning beauty is probably only one of the three, including Zuo Xing Island's Sima Yanran and Du Mi'er.