Legend of Zixia

Chapter 293 Wheel and Sea
Boom!

When those ten kinds of supreme ancient blood, exuding terrifying pressure, were sprinkled onto the weathered ancient altar, the entire mythical altar seemed to come alive instantly!
The once lifeless corpses on the ancient map seemed to come alive under the stimulation of the ancient blood. The gods roared mournfully, and the terrifying scene of the sun and stars being destroyed was projected directly into the void. Blood rain poured down, the wind howled, and all kinds of ghostly wails and divine cries came from the depths of the altar, as if a real kingdom of gods and demons had descended upon the world.

The altar greedily absorbed more than a dozen of the strongest ancient bloodlines, and the mythical figures engraved on the stone wall became extremely fervent, rumbling and shaking, as if they would break free from the stone wall at any moment.

Just as this extraordinary phenomenon of divine light as vast as the sea and lightning and thunder reached its peak, the void suddenly collapsed.

Zixia and Daoyi felt an irresistible tearing force, and their figures instantly disappeared from their original positions.

……

After an unknown amount of time, the raging spatial turbulence finally subsided.

When Zixia regained her footing, she found herself deep within a deathly ancient realm. It was so quiet here that even time seemed to stand still! The entire starry sky was devoid of any signs of life, as if she had stumbled into a forbidden zone of life that had long since withered away over countless eons.

The universe was vast and boundless, yet utterly dark and cold. There was no starlight, no starlight, only pitch blackness, so dark that one could not see their own hand in front of their face. In this absolute silence, Zixia could even clearly hear the roar of the holy blood rushing through her blood vessels, and the echoes of her internal organs reverberating like the beating of war drums.

The eyes are completely useless here; only the spirit and intuition can serve as a vessel.

"This is the oldest and most dangerous mythical path." Dao Yi's voice echoed in the void, calm and undisturbed. In his hand, he held an ancient compass covered in patina. The pointer on the compass did not turn as usual, but floated in a faint golden halo, pointing straight to a law trajectory winding in the void.

"Let's wait here for a while, someone will meet us!"

Three days later, an old man in gray robes, exuding an aura of decay but with eyes as bright as stars, found the two.

Young Master

"Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Mo. This is Jiang Zixia!"

Mo Lao's cloudy gaze lingered on Zixia for a moment. When he sensed the restrained yet subtly powerful Dao aura that could rival his own, he nodded slightly: "The younger generation is truly formidable. Young Master, after years of sitting here in solitude, I have finally found the Sea of ​​Bitterness with the help of the supreme imperial weapon."

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boom!
The dark universe crumbled like a fragile painting, and the starlight exploded suddenly. The Great Sage Protector, clad in immortal robes shimmering with supreme radiance, tore a massive rift in the void with his overwhelming power.

Rumble-

Almost the instant the crack formed, a deafening roar of waves swept across the sky like a thousand troops, as if the people were facing not a star field, but an endless ocean overturned at the end of the universe.

"This is the sea of ​​suffering; cross it, and you will reach the other shore!"

Zixia stood in the void, her purple pupils slightly contracted. The scene before her was completely beyond her comprehension. Beyond the rift lay a vast, boundless, pitch-black ocean. This was no ordinary sea, but a vast celestial realm hidden deep within the void! It was so expansive, comparable to an entire star field, that one could even clearly see enormous stars rising and falling in the blackened waters. Occasionally, a stray star would fall into the sea, instantly creating terrifying waves tens of thousands of miles high, resembling a mythical scene from before the creation of the world.

"This seawater is black, containing extremely rich Yin essence and unfathomable mysterious laws." The Great Sage recounted the information he had gathered, his expression extremely solemn. "If one accidentally falls into the water, or attempts to fly over the sea for an extended period of time, a cultivator's divine power will rapidly dry up. Even a Great Sage will be stripped of his laws and reduced to a mortal, drowning in this black water."

"Only by riding the ancient ship left behind by the gods can we cross it."

Without hesitation, the three transformed into streaks of light and plunged into this awe-inspiring sea of ​​heaven and earth through the rift. After a careful search, they indeed found a magnificent ancient ship, as large as a small mountain, breaking through the waves beside a huge vortex of star debris.

Boarding the ship, setting sail.

Even the well-traveled Dao Yi was slightly overwhelmed by the vastness of this sea after a half-month voyage. As the ancient ship ventured deeper, a supremely powerful and sacred essence suddenly erupted from the previously lifeless Black Sea ahead, like celestial radiance rising, bringing a sense of comfort even from a great distance.

"That's... a spring?" Dao Yi's golden hair flew as he stood at the bow of the ship, gazing into the distance.

"To be precise, that is the Heavenly Venerable's life spring." The Great Sage took a deep breath, his voice filled with undisguised awe. "Young Master, the vast ocean beneath our feet is very likely the transformation of the Heavenly Venerable Lingbao's Sea of ​​Wheels from the mythological era. That spring is the source of his physical essence."

Zixia gazed at the distant immortal spring. Above the dazzling divine liquid, capable of reviving the dead and healing even the most skeletal remains, lay a mutilated corpse with purple eyes and ancient attire resembling that of a primordial god or demon. Even after countless years of death, it still exuded a terrifying pressure that would suffocate even a Great Sage.

“The life springs are all guarded by ancient corpses…” Zixia murmured, her eyes flashing as she keenly sensed something. “These places most likely nurture ancient weapons at the Heavenly Venerable level, which are being nurtured in the divine springs of the Bitter Sea!”

Upon hearing this, Dao Yi merely smiled nonchalantly, his golden eyes revealing absolute rationality: "The fairy is indeed interested. However, I don't believe that such a thing is something we can handle right now. To put it another way, if we could obtain it so easily, such a peerless celestial treasure would not have survived to this day."

The ancient ship bypassed the ancient corpse and continued to cut through the waves.

However, after traveling hundreds of thousands of miles, the group was once again stunned by the sight before them. Ahead, the sea was billowing with smoke that rose straight to the heavens! Endless vital energy was erupting there, the terrifying fluctuations even shaking some stars from the sky!

This was simply unbelievable. Another life-giving spring appeared, like an enlarged version of a giant spring, surging forth with boundless vitality, ravaging the world.

"Wait a minute, how come there's another spring?!" The Great Sage frowned, his face full of doubt.

“This Bitter Sea is so vast, boundless and limitless, comparable to an ancient star field. And although the Spring of Life is large, it is still too insignificant compared to this size.” Dao Yi looked around and had already made a deduction in his mind. “The real, boundless Central Spring of Life is probably about to dry up. What we see is just a few wisps of immortal essence overflowing. If they were connected at their peak, they would be countless times more vast than this.”

The ancient ship passed one life spring after another until the largest and most central ninth life spring appeared in the center of the sea.

There, celestial energy swirled, illuminating the once pitch-black Sea of ​​Bitterness like a divine realm. But in its deepest depths, four celestial swords, gleaming with dark red killing intent, floated silently, each unintentional wisp of sword energy cleaving the surrounding void into absolute nothingness.

(End of this chapter)