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Chapter 302 Unexpected Changes on the Island
Paradise Island actually involves a celestial abode!
When Chen Ming left Du Caiyue's place, he felt that the matter had become somewhat tricky.

The Immortal Abode is likely the highest-level instance, possessing the most powerful forces in this world. For a Divine Treasury Realm expert to forge a Harmonious Palace and then form a Primordial Embryo, they must obtain the exquisite nectar and liquid within the Immortal Abode.

This shows how high the level of this instance is.

This is not something he can interfere with right now.

"The Immortal Abode will reopen in one month."

No wonder Du Caiyue made a six-month agreement with him. When the Immortal Abode reopens, there will definitely be many powerful experts above the Divine Treasure Realm gathered, making it almost impossible to save people.

do you want to go?

Chen Ming began to seriously consider this question.

……

The next morning.

Chen Ming disguised himself as an inconspicuous middle-aged man and boarded an ordinary merchant ship. There were many such merchant ships in the port, belonging to a medium-sized maritime merchant company that had been operating for many years.

Although it's not the best season to go out to sea now, it's not the worst either. Going out to sea at this time won't attract much attention.

This was Chen Ming's first time on a boat in both his lives. Given his physical condition, he naturally wouldn't experience seasickness or similar symptoms, demonstrating his strong adaptability.

He still decided to go. With his current strength and the Great Completion level of "Phoenix Dance in the Nine Heavens", even if he encountered a Divine Treasure Realm cultivator, he could escape even if he couldn't defeat them.

Go and check the situation first. If things are hopeless, then it's not too late to leave.

After sailing on the sea for two days, the merchant ship had already left the mainland, and no matter which direction you looked, all you could see was the boundless sea.

That night, the merchant ship arrived at a deserted island, dropped off Chen Ming and a few others, and then left.

Then, they waited on the island for half a day. At daybreak, another large ship sailed out in the thick fog and docked on the island.

This is a pirate ship, flying a red flag, signifying that the ship belongs to the current master of the East Sea, Lord Red Sea!
This ship was specifically sent to pick them up.

The pirates on the ship were all fierce-looking, and the captain, who was the leader, had a cultivation level of the fourth rank.

Such strength was naturally insufficient in front of Chen Ming. However, among pirates, it was already considered that of a master.

Among pirates, there aren't many experts; even the famous Pirate King Red Sea Lord is only a second-rank pirate.

However, in this boundless sea, let alone a first-grade expert, even a Divine Treasure Realm expert would find it difficult to locate the Red Sea Lord.

What makes the Pirate Kings so troublesome is never their strength, but their unpredictable appearances and disappearances.

People like Zhenhai Wang, who are willing to spend more than ten years and a lot of time and effort to build warships, recruit subordinates, familiarize themselves with the waterways, and possess first-class strength, are ultimately a minority.

Those with such skill wouldn't want to waste their energy and time on this. For them, advancing further in martial arts is the most important thing.

Those maritime merchants, firstly, lacked the organizational capacity, and secondly, could not bear such enormous costs.

When Chen Ming boarded the pirate ship, he curiously looked it over.

The people on the ship were all strong and muscular martial artists, even the lowest-ranking sailors were of the ninth or eighth rank. Their skin was tanned dark, and they all looked fierce and menacing, practically wearing "I'm not someone to mess with" written all over their faces.

After verifying their tokens and passwords and confirming their identities, the pirates stuffed them into a small cabin and warned them not to leave without permission.

Seeing that the other three had no objections, Chen Ming naturally wouldn't cause any further trouble.

Of the three, one was a fourth-rank official and two were fifth-rank officials. They endured this treatment, which shows it was the rule among pirates.

……

Ten days later.

We've arrived at Paradise Island.

Chen Ming was very surprised that the legendary Paradise Island was so close to Qingfeng City.
When he followed the other three onto the deck, he found that the surroundings were filled with thick fog.

He tried it and found that his divine sense was blocked by the thick fog and could not extend out.

"Just as Du Caiyue said, there is a thick fog around Paradise Island. If you don't know how to get to the island and try to force your way in, you will get lost in the fog and never find Paradise Island."

The captain carried a lamp in his hand, the flame of which was pale blue. The blue light seemed to reflect off the fog, scattering a brilliant blue glow.

This should be a signal light; once the people on the island see it, they will send someone out to meet them.

Sure enough, after a short while, the sound of oars could be heard.

Whose ship is it?

"It is I, Zhang Laosan," the captain said respectfully. "Today I am bringing four distinguished guests to the island. Please have the messenger verify their identities."

A voice from behind the thick fog said, "Those who wish to land on the island, please take out your tokens."

Then, the four people, including Chen Ming, each took out their own tokens.

Suddenly, the tokens in the hands of the four people lit up, and the thick fog dissipated where the light shone, making the visibility within a ten-meter radius in front of them clear.

“That’s right, these are all tokens issued personally by the island lord.”

The oarsman said that a small sampan emerged from the thick fog and came to the side of the large ship, where a burly man in a straw raincoat was in charge of rowing.

Third grade!

Chen Ming scanned the man with his divine sense and immediately discerned his true cultivation level.

No wonder the captain was so respectful.

One of the people responsible for bringing people to the island was actually a third-grade cultivator, which shows how mysterious this Paradise Island is.

The burly man in the straw raincoat said, "Get on the boat."

So Chen Ming and the other three jumped off the boat and landed on the sampan.

"Sit tight."

The burly man rowed the small boat, heading into the depths of the thick fog.

In a short while, the pirate ship behind them had disappeared from sight.

Chen Ming was quite curious. In this thick fog, where even divine sense couldn't penetrate, how did this big man rowing the boat determine the direction?
After a moment, the boat suddenly stopped.

One of them asked, "Why has the envoy stopped his ship?"

The burly man said, "You've all heard about the situation on the island. To prevent outsiders from sneaking onto the island, I need to check your tokens. Give them to me."

The person who had spoken earlier hesitated and said, "There wasn't such a rule before."

The burly man said coldly, "The past is the past, and the present is the present. If you don't pay up, don't even think about getting onto the island. You can jump ship and swim back."

While the other three were still hesitating, Chen Ming took the initiative to hand over the token in his hand, saying, "I'll hand it over."

The burly man was quite pleased with his sensible attitude and said to the other three, "What, you don't want to hand it over?"

Now that things had come to this, the other three had no choice but to hand over the token, no matter how unwilling they were.

Jumping off the boat here and swimming back is no different from suicide.

Let alone whether they can swim out of this foggy area, even if they could, in the vast ocean, how could they possibly swim back to the mainland?

The burly man put away the four tokens, then started rowing and continued onward.

Chen Ming stood beside the big man, looking uneasy.

That night, Du Caiyue had warned him that on Paradise Island, this token was the key to entry and he absolutely mustn't lose it. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to move an inch. But under these circumstances, he had no choice but to hand it over. This was called being skilled and daring; at this distance, taking back the token would be a piece of cake.

Let's get to the island first.

……

After a short while, the small boat finally reached the shore.

Once ashore, the thick fog around us miraculously disappeared, and our vision suddenly became clear, revealing a vibrant island.

Looking up, it was as if a white dome was covering the area above, and the white area above the dome was the thick fog outside the island.

The island is so large that you can't see the end of it.

Chen Ming could vaguely see a pillar in the far distance, stretching straight to the sky and extending all the way to the dome.

At the same time, he could feel a very uncomfortable feeling, as if the island was rejecting him, and even the internal energy and divine sense within his body were suppressed.

It seems that, because it lacks a token, the island considers itself an intruder.

"Envoy, what does this mean?"

Suddenly, the voice of the fourth-rank official, filled with shock and anger, rang out.

Chen Ming withdrew his gaze and looked at the few people who came to "greet" him. They were fully armed and holding shackles.

The burly man said coldly, "Martial law is currently in effect on the island. The three elders have ordered that all people who come to the island during this period be temporarily detained and carefully interrogated to see if there are any spies from the Great Jin Dynasty among them."

"No, I am Lord Haijun's man, you have no right to arrest me..."

"Does the island owner know what you're doing?"

"Damn it, you people of Paradise Island are treacherous..."

The three of them roared in anger.

The burly man said indifferently, "Cuff them. Without their tokens, their strength is severely limited—"

boom--

Before he could finish speaking, he was sent flying, collapsing to the ground coughing up blood. He died on the spot without uttering a sound.

The henchmen who were holding shackles also died on the spot.

The three men were taken aback by this turn of events and stared in shock at Chen Ming beside them.

They never imagined that this unassuming middle-aged man, with whom they had lived and eaten for the past ten days, was actually a great master who killed a third-rank expert on the spot with a casual strike.

Chen Ming ignored them, retrieved his token, and left, quickly disappearing from sight.

The other three then snapped out of their daze, quickly retrieved their tokens, and threw the corpses on the ground into the sea. They also left the area.

……

After Chen Ming retrieved the token, he immediately felt the rejection disappear.

"It seems that this Paradise Island is indeed a place similar to a secret realm, with its own unique laws."

In that situation, he couldn't just surrender, so he had no choice but to kill.

It can only be said that the campaign got off to a bad start.

Since that's the case, he doesn't plan to go any further into Paradise Island, as the situation on the island is probably already very dire.

According to Du Caiyue, these were the original inhabitants of the island, led by those three families. They wanted to exterminate the outsiders on the island.

The island's owner, Paradise Island, is very ambitious and constantly recruits outsiders, including pirates, martial artists who can't make it on the mainland, and forces from various countries in the South China Sea.

The island lord not only took them in, but also generously taught them martial arts. Over the decades, quite a few masters emerged, including two at the Divine Realm.

After years of operation, Paradise Island has been growing stronger.

However, this naturally made the island's original inhabitants feel a huge crisis. If things continued like this, their living space would be constantly encroached upon by outsiders.

However, the island lord was too powerful and had too much prestige, so they could not resist him. They could only take advantage of the island lord's seclusion to launch a sudden attack and kill all the outsiders.

Even if the island lord comes out of seclusion, there will be nothing he can do. In the end, he will still have to rely on these natives.

Chen Ming wasn't interested in this kind of internal strife. He was now planning to capture a few people on the island, ask them about the situation there, and then find a way to locate the island's guardian beast.

If there are no leads within ten days, just run away.

……

Two days passed quickly.

Chen Ming arrested a few people and got a general understanding of the current situation on the island.

This paradise island is divided into a south city and a north city. The south city is inhabited by natives, while the north city is inhabited by outsiders.

That day, the three families suddenly launched an attack, severely injuring one of the outsiders at the Divine Treasure Realm, but failing to kill him. Then, another Divine Treasure Realm expert suddenly appeared from the outsiders' side.

With three against three, the two sides entered a stalemate.

The people below were fighting fiercely, and many died, but the six Divine Realm experts did not make another move.

There is another force on the island: an envoy from the Moon Goddess Cult. This envoy has maintained neutrality, and it is precisely because of his presence that both sides are wary of each other.

If the Moon Goddess Cult leans to one side, the other side will definitely lose.

However, if the Moon Goddess Cult remains neutral, both sides will worry that if the fight ends in mutual destruction, the Moon Goddess Cult might gain an advantage.

The Moon Goddess Cult practices the Blood Demon Technique, and this is no joke.

However, Chen Ming also failed to find out "Sister Hong's" whereabouts. With the two sides locked in fierce combat on the island, news was slow, and people were being killed every day.

In this situation, it's difficult to know any specific information about a particular person.

Similarly, he couldn't find any trace of the guardian beast of the island. According to Du Caiyue, the beast rarely revealed its true form in front of people, and encountering it required a bit of luck.

It was the fifth day.

Chen Ming was washing his face by a stream when he suddenly changed his expression and turned to look east.

From ten miles away, several figures could be seen approaching. They were too far away to make out who they were.

Their strength is not weak; one of them is even a first-rank official.

That first-rank expert, along with three third-rank experts, is chasing a second-rank expert.

"what?"

Chen Ming originally wanted to find a place to hide first, but suddenly he noticed something and stared at the woman being chased in front. She was wearing white clothes and her body was stained with blood.

He was very familiar with the energy emanating from this woman; it was none other than the "Mysterious Water True Skill"!
Moreover, her Xuan Shui Gang Yuan was extremely pure. Occasionally, she would turn around and counterattack, and the pursuing Rank One fighter would not dare to meet her attack, only dodging as if he had suffered a loss before.

"With a cultivation level of only second rank, her internal energy possesses such power. How did she cultivate it?"

A sense of curiosity arose in Chen Ming's heart.

As they closed in, the first-rank expert in pursuit said, "Holy Maiden, you can't escape. Hand over the item. Is it worth losing your life for something like that?"

The woman in white remained silent, only continuing to flee forward.

(End of this chapter)