The Path to Immortality: Starting with an Analysis of Basic Concepts

Chapter 458 Overwhelming Force and Making a Fortune in the Black Sea (Please Subscribe)

"They came so fast..."

Zhu Yu's eyes showed surprise.

This place is only a thousand miles away from "Huaiyu Town". He was prepared that activating the "Fire Palace Flower Lord" supernatural talisman would be discovered by the "Lord of a Thousand Eyes", but he did not expect it to come so quickly.

Gazing at the churning crimson clouds in the distance, and the ever-increasing pressure of the surrounding space.

Without further hesitation, Zhu Yu took out the "Siren Uglyweed" fruit from his sleeve, which contained the divine power of the "Siren Uglyweed Lord." He channeled his divine sense into it, probing the grand will remaining at the core of the divine power, and respectfully said, "I humbly request the 'Siren Uglyweed Lord' to make her move."

Awakening its will, the "Siren Ulva" fruit emitted a faint purple light, condensing in mid-air into a phantom image of a "Great-nosed Weasel Beetle" as large as a mountain. Its gentle, watery eyes merely glanced around, revealing a human-like disgust and dislike.

"What an ugly, filthy world..."

Ignoring Zhu Yu, who stood respectfully behind her, the "Sea Serpent Queen" looked up at the churning crimson clouds in the sky, as if she could see the "Lord of a Thousand Eyes" approaching through the thick clouds, her tone revealing no disdain or disgust.

"Dirty, disgusting bugs..."

As they spoke, the "Siren Ugly Duckling" fruit shattered and merged into the body of the "Siren Ugly Duckling Lord," whose will manifested. Her body became visibly solid, and then a heavy pressure, even more terrifying than that of the "Lord of a Thousand Eyes," spread out.

The figure of "Sea Serpent Queen Ulva Lord" slowly faded into the background.

next moment.

Boom... Roar... Hiss...

Accompanied by a roar like a mountain collapsing, and a howl.

The clouds seemed to be struck by some invisible force and shattered. Then, the "Sea Witch Queen Tanuki Lord," whose entire body was covered in solid golden light, rode a "Thousand-Eyed Ghost Spider" as large as a mountain and covered with densely packed eerie green pupils.

Its long nose swung with what seemed like immense force, and the "Lord of a Thousand Eyes" was as hard as paper in its thick armor. Blood splattered everywhere, blinding countless eyes. With a single step, a large crater appeared.

The "Lord of a Thousand Eyes" was not going to stand idly by and take the beating. His thousand eyes shot out terrifying beams of light that were enough to destroy mountains and shatter peaks. However, when they landed on the "Sea Serpent Queen, the Lord of the Sea," they only caused the golden light on her body to ripple slightly and dim a little.

At first glance, it's a complete one-sided crushing defeat.

"hiss..."

Zhu Yu gasped, shocked. "The 'Sea Serpent Queen' is this strong?"

He originally thought that the "Sea Witch Utau Lord" and the "Fire Palace Flower Lord" were about the same strength.

After all, the Zerg warriors of the "Zerg Realm," though called warriors, are actually just farmers, so it's normal that they're not good at fighting.

To his surprise, the "Sea Serpent Queen Ulva Lord" was far stronger than he expected, far surpassing the "Fire Palace Flower Lord" by a significant margin; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say they were on completely different levels.

Furthermore, the "Siren Lady Tanuki Lord" was somewhat too fierce, directly stepping on the "Lord of a Thousand Eyes" to fight.

What surprised him the most was...

The magical talisman of "Sea Serpent Queen Tanuki Lord" is clearly of the illusion attribute.

But... is this an illusory divine power?

Which sect's illusionary supernatural powers involve stepping on someone's head and beating them down?!

Coming to his senses, Zhu Yu roared incessantly at the sky, a truly pitiful "Lord of a Thousand Eyes," and fell into deep thought.

Do we still need to run?

At this time.

A gentle voice, full of disdain, rang in his ears.

"You little devil, why aren't you running? Are you waiting for this stupid bug to exhaust my divine power before I eat you?"

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Upon hearing this...

"Thank you, senior."

Zhu Yu was startled for a moment, bowed respectfully, rose up, and transformed into a wisp of black smoke, disappearing in the opposite direction.

And not far away.

"Quack?... "

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Qingxuanzi's frog eyes widened as he looked at the underground lava lake and then at the two giant beasts fighting in the sky. Without thinking, he turned around, kicked off with his legs, and transformed into a streak of blood as he fled.

Half of them escaped.

Suddenly, he turned around and chased after Zhu Yu in the direction she had left.

He fled for three days without sleep or rest.

Only after confirming that he had left the Blackwater Mountains did Zhu Yu take a temporary rest in a desolate mountain village where the "Yang Flame" had been destroyed. He raised his hand and erected the "Ten Thousand Soul Banner" beside him, summoned the water ape and the ghost infant to guard him, closed his eyes and concentrated, absorbing the ghost energy to restore his ghost power.

a long time.

"call--"

Zhu Yu breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, reached out and pulled up the "Ten Thousand Souls Banner". With a gentle shake, the water apes and the ghost infant guarding the door transformed into streams of light and entered the banner.

He stepped out the door, then suddenly looked at a corner of the street and said softly with a smile, "Come out—"

After a few moments of silence, half a frog's head suddenly peeked out from the street corner. Its blood-red pupils stared at Zhu Yu for a few moments before it crept out, opened its mouth, and a human face on its tongue chuckled, "Fellow Daoist Qing Xuanzi—"

Zhu Yu looked it over with interest until it shifted uncomfortably, then suddenly laughed and said, "I'm heading to 'Shangyang' to make a living. Fellow Daoist Qing Xuanzi has been following me. Is there something you need?"

Shangyang is located thousands of miles away from the Blackwater Mountains. It is one of the important cities of the Fire Worship Dynasty and its area is equivalent to that of a prefecture.

"Shangyang City, that's the heartland of human power—"

Qing Xuanzi clearly recognized Shangyang City. He subconsciously shrank back, hesitated for a moment, and then cautiously asked, "Fellow Daoist Qingyang, could you sell me some of your alchemy inheritance?"

Instead of answering, Zhu Yu asked, "What will you offer in exchange?"

Qing Xuanzi's face lit up with joy, and streams of light flew from his mouth, manifesting in mid-air as various strange objects: knife-shaped weapons, black crystals, spiritual materials, and some unknown ores—

Each of these items exudes an aura no lower than that of the second tier.

"Tsk, what a cunning big spender—"

Zhu Yu glanced at it a few times, secretly marveling at it.

If he hadn't had to use "supernatural talismans" to deal with Qing Xuanzi, he would have definitely robbed him.

After a moment's thought, he took out a black crystal, imprinted a portion of the second-tier alchemy inheritance passed down from his "original body" into it, and waved it to Qing Xuanzi.

Name your price.

Qing Xuanzi eagerly probed the black crystal with his soul sense. Upon understanding the information, the tongue-shaped face revealed an uncontrollable joy. Coming to his senses, he presented all the spiritual items in front of him to Zhu Yu, asking worriedly, "Is this enough?"

Zhu Yu wanted to squeeze more out of it, but after glancing at it, he shook his head and said, "Spiritual objects are easy to obtain, but inheritances are hard to find—"

"Yes, such a legacy is hard to come by—"

Qing Xuanzi nodded in agreement, his expression shifting as he gritted his teeth. Wisps of white light rose from the frog-like creature's body, coalescing in mid-air into a stern-faced middle-aged figure. He pointed at the frog-like creature and said, "How about adding this skin as well?"

"Dan Gui—"

Zhu Yu stared at him in astonishment. In his perception, Qing Xuanzi, who had shed the Blood Arrow Frog's monstrous skin, was experiencing a surge in aura, seemingly surpassing the "Blood" realm.

He took a deep look at Qing Xuanzi, then took out another black crystal, entered the remaining information about the alchemy inheritance into it, and tossed it to Qing Xuanzi.

Qing Xuanzi accepted it with delight and couldn't wait to start reading.

Zhu Yu glanced at it, then gently shook the "Ten Thousand Souls Banner," enveloping the "Blood Arrow Frog Monster" for several breaths before finally capturing it into the banner.

The banner surface quickly revealed its patterns and pushed the water monkey out of the center, taking the first position.

at the same time.

The information came to mind.

Just as he had seen with the "eye of true vision".

The Blood Arrow Frog's cultivation level is as high as the peak of the "Blood Fiend" realm. Its ghost domain "Blood Domain" is derived from the ghost technique "Blood Arrow". Its application is versatile and somewhat similar to the "Blood Slave" supernatural power "Blood Spring". It has strong corrosive properties.

Although it is not a special mechanism-based ghost domain, it is a very practical numerical ghost domain. The more blood it absorbs and transforms, the stronger the ghost domain becomes.

"good--"

Zhu Yu nodded in satisfaction. With this monster at the peak of the "Blood Realm" suppressing the "Ten Thousand Soul Banner," his safety should be assured during his trip to the Black Sea, as long as he didn't directly provoke "Nether Rank" monsters.

He glanced at Qing Xuanzi again, then stepped into the air and disappeared into the sky as a wisp of black smoke.

Not long after he left.

Qing Xuanzi snapped out of his daze from the information contained in the black crystal, his face beaming with joy. He barely managed to suppress his excitement, glanced at the direction where Zhu Yu had disappeared, hesitated for a moment, and then his eyes showed determination.

"To transform into the Netherworld Rank, a large amount of Ghost Crystals and Blood Money are needed. The Inland Ghost Domains have all been divided up and occupied to support themselves, and they will not allow the monsters to break through."

"Only the Black Sea—the Black Sea—"

After pausing for a few moments, he turned and left in another direction.

Black Sea.

The seawater was as dark as ink, and even just its outer perimeter contained a far more eerie aura than some sacred places inland like "Black Wind Mountain".

Such an astonishingly eerie atmosphere makes it a veritable breeding ground for the bizarre.

After waiting for the "blood moon" to subside, Zhu Yu, who had been traveling non-stop for three months, finally arrived at the Black Sea coast.

Gazing at the pitch-black, churning sea, and the countless eerie creatures beneath its surface, like scattered stars, he took a deep breath, a slow smile spreading across his face as he murmured, "Truly a treasure trove—"

Faced with such a grand feast, how could he, who had been running around for three months, resist? He stepped into the Black Sea, held the long banner, and slammed it down. Rolling black gas gushed out like a waterfall, enveloping the strange sea below.

These ordinary monsters, which are only at the Black level or even below, are no match for the "Ten Thousand Souls Banner."

In just a few breaths.

There are significantly fewer strange creatures within a kilometer radius.

The number of monsters that flooded into the "Ten Thousand Souls Banner" reached several thousand.

With a slight thought, Zhu Yu caused thousands of monsters within the banner to perish simultaneously, filling the "Ten Thousand Souls Banner" with eerie energy and enhancing its quality.

One by one, countless black crystals appeared, densely packed, numbering no less than a thousand.

"hiss--"

Zhu Yu gasped, a blush rising to her pale face. Looking up at the boundless sea, she exclaimed excitedly, "What a blessed land!"

With just one strike, he reaped more than all the black crystals he had plundered in the "Blackwater Mountains" in total. How could he not be excited?

Coming to his senses, without the slightest hesitation, he once again commanded the "Ten Thousand Souls Banner" to plunder as much as possible.

Thousands upon thousands of monsters poured into the banner, and the quality of the "Ten Thousand Souls Banner" visibly improved, with large amounts of black crystals manifesting.

I don't know how long they fished for it.

Within a radius of ten miles, the number of strange creatures in the shallow sea area is almost entirely reduced.

If it weren't for the "Ten Thousand Souls Banner" transmitting the intent of saturation and transformation, Zhu Yu would not have stopped.

He quickly took stock of everything.

In just half a day, they acquired more than 30,000 black-grade black crystals.

It's a monster, if you ask.

He used the "Ten Thousand Souls Banner" to kill nearly two hundred thousand of them.

It was indeed a bumper harvest.

"What a treasure trove!"

Zhu Yu sighed again from the bottom of his heart, thought for a moment, and instead of returning to land, turned around and headed into the depths of the Black Sea.

Deep into the waters stretching for hundreds of miles.

He had just dived into the seabed, but perhaps because the eerie energy was too dense, with his current cultivation level, he could only sense and see clearly up to a hundred feet away; anything beyond that became blurry.

As he dived deeper into the sea, he suddenly sensed something was wrong.

Compared to the shore, the monsters here are hundreds or even thousands of times less numerous, and most importantly, the monsters are not much stronger.

"Could the monsters there be artificially bred?"

As the thought crossed his mind, Zhu Yu felt that this was very likely the case. However, he did not panic. Regardless of whether they could find him, raising some ordinary monsters would at most give them the cultivation level of the "Blood" realm.

If it dares to come knocking, just take it away.

"However, raising monsters seems like a good idea—"

Without much thought, Zhu Yu sank a thousand meters into the sea and found a trench. He quickly carved out a cave in the cliff face and used "blood money" to set up a simple spirit-concealing and hiding formation.

They then released the water ape, blood arrow frog, and ghost infant to guard the area.

They immediately began refining the "blood money" they had obtained on the way here and building a teleportation "altar".

And while he was busy.

Sea boundary.

A mottled boat sailed into the sea. A person dressed in black, soaking wet, with long hair covering his face, stood at the bow, occasionally pulling out a handful of blood-red granules from a cloth bag at the bow and throwing them into the shallow sea.

As it continued feeding, it suddenly sensed something was wrong. In the past, when it fed "blood food," the low-level monsters it kept would rise to the surface and fight over it.

But seeing the scattered strange creatures on the water's surface, it suddenly had a bad feeling and jumped into the sea.

a long time.

A grotesque creature with disheveled hair burst forth from the seabed, its body emanating billowing black mist, and a shrill scream echoed throughout the surrounding seas.

"Damn it!"

"Which shameless bastard stole my magic potion?!"

"Those were the monsters I had painstakingly fed day and night for a year! And you stole them from me! There were two hundred thousand of them!"

Ah—I'm going to kill you! Kill you! —”

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A series of piercing screams and deafening roars echoed throughout the room.

Not long after.

Several streaks of light arrived at the edge of the sea, manifesting as human figures. However, these eerie human figures, shrouded in a strange aura, muttered to themselves.

"Why is Bai Jingjing acting so crazy? It's just a little theft, what's wrong with everyone? It's like everyone's been robbed before—"

And then they heard it cry out that 200,000 had been stolen.

The strange creatures present fell silent for a moment, exchanging bewildered glances.

"Really?"

"Two hundred thousand? How long would it take to rake in that much?"

"Hiss, Bai Jingjing is in big trouble. The blood tax is due in three days. If she can't pay it, she'll probably be sent to the 'Sun Flame' by the 'Sea Dragon Gang' and burned to as eerie firewood—"

"Damn blood tax, damn the 'Sea Dragon Gang'—"

Watching the water monsters wreaking havoc on the sea, the other monsters, while gloating, couldn't help but feel a sense of shared misfortune, cursing under their breath.

One of the monsters, with an indigo-blue face and a skeletal frame, threw his straw hat to the ground and roared, "When I was human, I collected life tax from you; now that I'm a monster, you're collecting blood tax from me! I—"

He only said half of what he meant.

A teasing voice came from the side.

"What do you want to do?"