Starting as a Grandmaster, all of my cultivation techniques are at max level.

Xia Jin stood on the shore, gazing at the sea in front of her, completely baffled.

He pondered for a good half hour, and in the end, he could only shake his head helplessly, summarizing Ye Sanshu's experience of drifting on this boundless sea into four words—

He was just incredibly lucky to be alive!

"Forget it, with my luck, I shouldn't be any worse than that old man Ye."

"Besides, that old man Ye hadn't even reached the Saint Realm back then, and his strength was far inferior to mine. If he could return safely, then so can I!"

Xia Jin comforted herself and stopped thinking about it.

The power of the Saint Realm within his body surged forth instantly, completely enveloping his entire body.

"It's time to set off! I want to see just how dangerous the Boundless Sea really is, given that everyone says it's dangerous."

Xia Jin's figure soared into the air and sped towards the depths of the Boundless Sea.

But shortly after entering the airspace above the Boundless Sea, Xia Jin sensed something was amiss.

Beneath the thick fog-shrouded sea, it seemed as if several gazes were watching him from different directions, and even with his current Saint Realm strength, he felt a slight unease.

"It seems that many powerful beings are hidden beneath this Boundless Sea. No wonder there are rumors among the various races..." Xia Jin thought to herself. "To venture into this Boundless Sea without the strength of a Saint Realm expert is practically a death sentence."

"However, I must find the legendary Nine-Life Primordial Vine as quickly as possible. Even if it disturbs these creatures, I will not hesitate!!"

With a thought, Xia Jin unleashed his powerful divine sense, which spread outwards in all directions from him.

He then continued heading in the direction of the coordinates Ye Sanshu had left him. Although he only had a general direction, it was still much better than blindly groping around.

Enveloped in the power of the Holy Realm, Xia Jin stood out conspicuously in the boundless sea shrouded in gray-white mist.

One day passed.

Xia Jin hovered in mid-air, her face somewhat gloomy.

He had been flying along the coordinates for a whole day, but as far as the eye could see, there was nothing but gray fog and gray sea.

None of the special reference points marked by Ye Sanshu, such as Dragon Bone Reef, Moonlit Bay, and Three Thousand Volcanic Islands, actually appeared.

"Just how big is this Boundless Sea? We've been walking for a whole day and night and haven't encountered anything. Could we have been fooled by that old man Ye again?" Xia Jin couldn't help but sigh.

With his speed of flight in the Holy Realm, he could traverse tens of thousands of miles of mountains and rivers in a single day, but in front of this Boundless Sea, it was as if he were standing still.

What worries him even more is that, in order to prevent the erosion of these mists, just one day of high-intensity flight has already consumed a full one-tenth of the Saint Realm power in his body.

He silently estimated that, including the cost of the return journey, he could only continue searching for a maximum of four more days.

If he cannot find that isolated island within four days, he must return immediately; otherwise, with his holy power depleted, the Boundless Sea will truly become his burial ground.

"Old man Ye, old man Ye, don't you dare lead me down a dead end..."

Xia Jin gritted her teeth, urged her body forward again, and transformed into a golden stream of light, disappearing into the sea of ​​mist ahead.

Until the third day.

In the gray-white sea of ​​mist in front of Xia Jin, a dark red light finally began to emerge faintly.

Xia Jin immediately felt a surge of energy and quickened her pace to get closer.

As the distance decreased, the scene before us gradually became clearer.

Hundreds and thousands of volcanoes connected together!

Some were still slowly emitting thick smoke, and at some mountain passes, one could even see dark red lava slowly writhing, turning half the sky a dim red.

It was Ye San Shuyu who gave Xia Jin the first coordinates: Three Thousand Volcano Island.

"Finally found it!" Xia Jin's face lit up with joy, and the fatigue on her face seemed to be washed away at this moment.

He flew toward the island, but when he was less than a hundred meters from the shore, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes.

The gray-white mist that was omnipresent and all-consuming on the boundless sea seemed to be blocked by an invisible wall here.

No matter what they did, they couldn't penetrate within ten feet of the island's surface, as if they were afraid of something.

Xia Jin felt a slight unease, but did not delve into it. She lowered her body and landed steadily on the scorching ground of the volcanic island.

He retracted the Saintly power that covered his entire body back into his body. Instantly, an astonishing heat wave rushed towards him, and even with his Saintly physique, he couldn't help but frown slightly.

"Hmm? This is actually a good place to restore the power of the Saint Realm. In that case, there's no rush to return."

"However, in a place like this, there probably wouldn't be any living thing that could survive."

Xia Jin looked around and thought to herself.

As far as the eye can see, apart from the volcanic craters emitting heat and thick smoke, there is only a bare, rocky ground, devoid of any vegetation.

"I wonder if this place might be hiding some rare and precious natural treasures!? While there's still time, I might as well explore around." Before restoring her depleted Saint Realm power, a thought suddenly flashed through Xia Jin's mind.

He thought about it and realized that although the place looked extremely desolate, the more treacherous the environment, the more likely it is to produce rare and precious materials.

Perhaps deep within the magma of some volcano lies a rare and precious fruit with fire properties.

However, half an hour later, Xia Jin had to admit that she had been overthinking things.

This island is nothing but rocks; there are no treasures to be found, not even a single piece of ore of slightly better quality.

"What bad luck!! I've wasted half an hour of my time, and not a single thing..."

Xia Jin chuckled and cursed in an annoyed tone, then picked a rock and sat down cross-legged.

He closed his eyes, circulated his cultivation technique, and began to recover the Saint Realm power he had consumed over the past three days.

An hour later, Xia Jin opened her eyes, a glint of light flashing in them.

"It's time to leave. We need to find the Nine-Life Primordial Vine as soon as possible!"

As he rose higher and higher into the air, the three thousand volcanic islands beneath his feet became smaller and smaller in his field of vision.

However, just as he was about to turn around and fly towards the next coordinate, Xia Jin's gaze inadvertently swept downwards.

But that casual glance left him feeling a sense of disbelief.

Looking down from the air, the outline of the three thousand volcanic islands, which are connected in one piece, has an inexplicable regularity.

It is wide from east to west and narrow from north to south, slightly pointed at the front and rounded at the back.

Even more bizarrely, beneath the grayish-white fog layer in the shallow sea surrounding the island, four extremely thick pillar-like objects could be faintly seen, symmetrically distributed, each hundreds of feet long, with claw-like shapes even faintly visible at the ends!

Beneath the largest main peak at the very tip of the island, below sea level, an even larger shadow looms indistinctly, its outline barely visible.

It looks like a head lying prone underwater!

"This..." Xia Jin's eyes twitched involuntarily.

A thought even involuntarily flashed through my mind.

Could the so-called Three Thousand Volcanic Islands actually be the back of a giant tortoise?

But soon, as soon as the thought popped into her head, Xia Jin herself felt it was absurd.

He had stayed on the island for more than an hour, and his divine sense had repeatedly explored every inch of the island. If it were a living creature, no matter how skillful its concealment was, it would be impossible for it to be completely undetectable under his divine sense.

Moreover, if the creature beneath his feet was indeed a giant tortoise that had lived for countless years, its aura would be so vast that he could not possibly have been unaware of it.

"Perhaps it's just that they look somewhat similar."

Xia Jin shook her head, temporarily suppressing that absurd thought.

But for some reason, as he flew away from the Three Thousand Volcanic Islands, he seemed to hear the sound of his heart suddenly pounding. However, he did not pay any further attention to it.

Everything else is insignificant compared to the Nine-Generation Primordial Vine.

With the Three Thousand Volcano Island as the first confirmed reference point, the rest of the journey went much more smoothly.

There are seven coordinate points marked on Ye Sanshu's jade slip. Each time a coordinate point is found, it can provide a more accurate orientation correction for the next location.

Xia Jin found the second coordinate at noon on the fourth day after entering the Boundless Sea;

On the morning of the fifth day, he identified a third coordinate point deep in the fog;

Then came the fourth, the fifth...

By dusk on the seventh day, just when Xia Jin was about to doubt whether he had gone the wrong way, his divine sense finally caught a familiar aura ahead.

That was the scent of primordial chaos.

Xia Jin paused, hovering in mid-air, gazing at the isolated island several miles away that occasionally lit up with various colored lights.

"This is it, this is it!!"

Xia Jin's breathing became noticeably more rapid.

"I cannot mistake the scent of this primordial energy."