Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

When a whale falls, all things are born.

There has always been such a saying at sea.

The same applies to the Treasure Ship, Heaven's Wrath.

A fourth-tier sea vessel, carrying countless spiritual resources and various array formations and restrictions, would be at risk if it crashed.

The various spiritual objects on the ship leaked out their spiritual energy, which mixed with the seabed veins.

They will alter the terrain, create spiritual veins, and ultimately reshape the ecology of the entire sea area.

You could call it a Taoist temple, or you could call it a secret realm.

In short, the sunken treasure ship affected the seabed for hundreds of miles around.

This is a special environment that is separate from normal sea areas.

The problem is that this environment is not very friendly to cultivators.

The water pressure at the bottom of the sea is already high, and the power of the Dao field adds another layer. Under this double pressure, the Core Formation cultivator's domain cannot be fully expanded.

His divine sense was also severely suppressed. His divine sense cultivation was already at the late stage of Core Formation, and he could only probe out a range of ten miles here.

Moreover, the seabed topography is extremely complex, with huge fissures, coral caves, and deep craters created by shipwreck debris everywhere.

There are also countless shipwreck restrictions from the past three thousand years, intertwined with the spiritual veins of the seabed, forming entirely new array restrictions.

Lin Zhao flew slowly close to the seabed, trying to avoid areas with dense restrictions.

During this time, I saw several traces of battle, all of which were freshly left, with traces of spiritual energy that had not completely dissipated.

Occasionally, one could see the figure of a cultivator flash by in the distance.

In such an environment, only Core Formation cultivators can move freely; Foundation Establishment cultivators generally travel in teams.

There are more alien races than humans here. Most of the alien races live in the water and are less affected than humans.

Lin Zhao was passing by a coral cave when the entrance suddenly exploded, and a dark figure rushed out of the cave.

He was a member of the Rift Whale Clan, a race in the early stage of Core Formation. He had three gill slits on his neck, and blood was gushing from half of his body. He had clearly just finished a magical battle and suffered a loss.

He saw Lin Zhao, paused for a moment, and then, without saying a word, hurled countless water arrows at him.

Lin Zhao didn't stop walking.

A ghostly claw flew from his hand—the Profound Yin Ghost Hand, a high-grade third-tier weapon; when the claw opened, it was as black as ink.

Countless streams of yin energy instantly condensed into a gray-white ghost claw several meters in size between his fingers, which then surged upwards into the water.

Countless water arrows struck the ghost claw and shattered into bubbles. The ghost claw continued its momentum and grabbed the alien's Core Formation cultivator.

The Xuan Yin Ghost Hand tightened, and the protective aura on the other side rapidly thinned and became brittle under the erosion of Yin energy, finally shattering with a snap.

With a single squeeze of the ghostly claw, the alien race vanished instantly.

"Just an ordinary Core Formation cultivator, without even a single defensive magic weapon, dares to cause me trouble?"

Who gave it the courage?

Lin Zhao withdrew his ghostly claw and continued walking forward.

Ahead lay a vast, bottomless crevice.

The stone walls on both sides of the crevice are covered with caves of varying sizes, some large enough to fit a palace, others so small that only one person can pass through sideways.

Lin Zhao chose a cave to enter.

The cave is much larger inside than it appears from the outside, spanning more than ten miles in size.

It was filled with countless demonic beasts in groups; he could sense several third-tier demonic beasts just by scanning it with his divine sense.

The density of these monsters is extremely abnormal.

There is only one explanation: the spiritual objects scattered by the Heavenly Wrath nourished this great rift, attracting all the demonic beasts here.

Three thousand years have passed, and it's unknown how much of the treasure ship is still intact.

The Blood Yuan Bone Demon Palace flew out of Lin Zhao's hand. The palace spun in his palm and suddenly expanded to a hundred feet, hanging in the center of the cave.

The palace walls had turned bone-colored, and their surface was inlaid with fist-sized blood-red pupils.

The blood-red pupils on the palace opened one by one, then two, then ten, then a hundred.

The entire palace seemed to have transformed into a terrifying monster covered in eyes.

Countless beams of blood-red light shot out from the blood-red pupils.

Dark red beams of light traced straight lines in the water, and the seawater inside the cave was illuminated by the blood-red light.

Wherever the blood-red light swept, first- and second-tier demonic beasts were instantly blasted into blood mist. Lin Zhao began to sweep through the entire cave.

Before long, a third-tier demonic beast rushed out from the depths of the cave; it was a three-headed, enormous demonic crab.

With a thought, Lin Zhao caused the blood-red patterns on the outer wall of the Blood Essence Bone Fiend Hall to explode, transforming into countless blood-red bone chains that wrapped around it like living things.

The three-headed crab was bound by bone chains, unable to move. Its pincers were locked in front of its body, and its legs were firmly nailed to the cave wall.

Then all the blood-red eyes on the head of the three-headed demon crab turned to the three-headed demon crab at the same time. The pupils contracted, and the blood-red light that shot out gathered in the air, turning into three blood-red eye phantoms.

Supernatural Power - Blood Essence Eye.

Three beams of blood shot out from the three blood-red pupils, piercing through the demonic crab's shell. The blood entered from the front and exited from the back, causing the demonic crab to explode instantly, forming three clouds of blood mist.

The three-headed Core Formation demon beast was completely wiped out in one blow.

Before the blood mist could dissipate, the Blood Essence Bone Fiend Palace trembled slightly, and all the blood pupils lit up at the same time, absorbing all the blood energy and spiritual power in the water into the palace.

The blood-red pupils on the palace became even brighter, and the blood-red patterns on the bone walls deepened.

Lin Zhao put away the magic weapon and glanced at the luster on the palace.

If this magic weapon continues to absorb more, it can advance to a third-tier top-grade magic weapon.

Unfortunately, its foundation has already gone astray, following the path of demonic devouring, making it several times more difficult to advance to the fourth-tier magic weapon than a normal magic weapon.

This is a common characteristic of the demonic path—it's easy to improve, but difficult to advance.

Lin Zhao retrieved the Blood Essence Bone Fiend Palace and entered the depths of the cave.

Having found several tier-three spiritual plants, including several completely transparent Ice Crystal Grasses, he put them into his storage bag and turned to leave.

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For the next two weeks, Lin Zhao scoured the rifts and caves, hunting demonic beasts and collecting spiritual items.

They also obtained a fist-sized deep blue water spirit bead and a piece of black, ink-like sunken wood, both of which were third-tier spiritual items.

While collecting spiritual objects, he secretly did something else—drawing a diagram of the spiritual energy of the dojo.

This is his old method, which he used before in the Crimson Nether Mountains.

In each area he visited, he used his divine sense to record the flow of spiritual energy, the distribution of the remnants of the restrictions, and the changes in the strength of the Daoist field, and then pieced together a complete map in his sea of ​​consciousness.

With this map, and by using the Heavenly Heart Dharma Wheel to deduce the direction of the spiritual energy environment, the location where the treasures are most concentrated can be accurately pinpointed.

There are countless arrays and restrictions on the seabed; if you try to probe them on your own, it will take forever.

After half a month, a small portion of the spiritual energy diagram was completed.

But underwater battles are becoming more and more frequent.

Cultivators fight cultivators, cultivators fight demonic beasts, alien races fight alien races, and sometimes there are three-way battles. Spiritual light constantly explodes between the deep sea rifts, only to be swallowed up by the seawater.

Lin Zhao tried his best to avoid fighting, but he couldn't escape it all; trouble still came knocking.

Once, in a narrow underwater canyon, he was surrounded by three human Core Formation cultivators: two in the mid-stage and one in the late-stage.

Seeing that Lin Zhao was alone, they didn't say any nonsense about handing over the treasure, and acted swiftly and decisively.

The man in the late stage of Core Formation used a lightning hammer, with electric currents crackling around its head.

In the mid-game, one uses a flying sword, and the other uses a bronze bell.