After swimming more than 200 nautical miles in one go, Zhao Sheng felt a little less threatened.
But once he stopped, as time passed, the nameless sense of crisis in his heart quickly intensified.
Zhao Sheng had no choice but to leave again and continue his escape.
This chase and escape continued for three whole days.
Over three days, Zhao Sheng searched his body inside and out, and finally discovered a new soul imprint on his twelfth vertebra.
Having been a Foundation Establishment cultivator in his previous life, Zhao Sheng was very familiar with soul imprints and knew that they were extremely hidden and difficult to remove.
If it were any other Qi Refining Realm cultivator, they wouldn't be able to detect it, and even if they did, they would be helpless against it.
However, for Zhao Sheng, the soul imprint is not insurmountable; it just requires a lot of time to erase it.
The means to obliterate it is the God-Slaying Sword Intent.
At this moment, Zhao Sheng once again sincerely thanked the extraordinary Master Yue.
No, now we should call him Ancestor Yue.
According to Zhao Dingtian's memories, Yue Qinghan had successfully advanced to the Nascent Soul realm more than 120 years ago and became the new generation of the sect's patriarch.
Because of her decisiveness in killing and her superb swordsmanship, she was also known as the "Female Sword Immortal".
And so, Zhao Sheng continued to flee while bombarding the soul imprint with the intent of the God-Slaying Sword.
Two months later, in an unnamed underwater cave, Zhao Sheng was pale, dressed in rags, and had dark circles under his eyes, looking extremely tired and disheveled.
However, he didn't care about any of that at the moment.
After two months of wear and tear, the soul imprint had dimmed to an extreme degree and could be destroyed at any moment.
The most crucial moment has arrived!
Zhao Sheng focused all his attention on the soul imprint. Suddenly, a sword light appeared deep within his Purple Mansion Soul Sea. The sword light flashed and leaped out of the Purple Mansion, slashing fiercely at the soul imprint in the next instant.
Click!
Zhao Sheng seemed to hear an invisible cracking sound. He saw the mark flash, shatter into countless points of light, and then vanish in the blink of an eye.
call!
Zhao Sheng finally breathed a sigh of relief, his worries vanished, and he felt incredibly relaxed.
I opened my eyes, turned my head and gazed into the distance, my gaze passing through the cave and the thick seawater.
He could almost picture the furious, madman-like Dong Gong.
"I, Zhao, will remember this two-month chase! I will surely avenge it in the future!"
After muttering to himself, Zhao Sheng's tense body relaxed, and a strong sense of exhaustion suddenly surged into his heart.
A moment later, strings of bubbles quickly rose to the surface of the cave.
He was so tired!
...
Three days later, on a remote, deserted island, Zhao Sheng stood on the highest sea cliff of the island, looking up at the rising sun on the horizon.
As time passed, the sun slowly rose to its zenith.
After Zhao Sheng had observed them for a while, he took out the three nautical gold plates and began to examine them carefully.
After much effort, combining information such as ocean currents, sea breezes, marine life populations, and the sun's position, he finally determined his approximate location.
He had by then crossed the second island chain and was roughly located in the middle of the outer sea.
There are many small and medium-sized islands within a radius of 5,000 nautical miles, and there are probably five or six Ling Island.
After a short while, Zhao Sheng thoughtfully put away the nautical gold tablets.
Looking around at the sea and the bright sun in the sky, Zhao Sheng narrowed his eyes, adjusted his direction, and jumped into the sea, quickly disappearing into the deep water.
On the way, Zhao Sheng casually grabbed a first-tier spotted seahorse as a means of transportation.
They would avoid ships and go ashore to cook fish and fill their stomachs, while also restoring their spiritual energy.
...
Half a month later, Zhao Sheng's figure appeared on the sea near a remote island.
This island is not as prosperous as Zhi'ao Island. It has a small population and low spiritual energy concentration, but it can still be considered a small spiritual island, far superior to most deserted islands.
This is the destination Zhao Sheng chose: "Beloo Island".
Aside from a few thousand mortals, the island is home to only a few cultivators who live in seclusion there. There is no such thing as an island owner; it is a completely free island.
The island is called Bell Island because a very peculiar type of large clam is found in the nearby waters.
This giant clam looks exactly like an ordinary giant clam, except that it is more than ten times larger, with an average diameter of over a foot.
Its clam meat, after being simmered for a long time, can eventually produce a unique dew.
Regular consumption of this jade dew has a mild effect on prolonging life.
Therefore, some elderly and frail cultivators simply settled on this island. In addition to buying live "big sea clams" at low prices year after year and boiling them into clam syrup for their own consumption, they sold the surplus to visiting merchant ships.
As a result, the island naturally attracted some low-level cultivators.
Although the concentration of spiritual energy on Bellu Island is not high, its influence is large enough to cover the entire island and even extend into the nearby sea.
Because the spiritual energy is too thin and there are only a few local specialties, very few Foundation Establishment cultivators stay here; most are just passersby.
This is the perfect hiding place for Zhao Sheng!
...
Two days later, Zhao Sheng stood at the foot of a sea cliff on the edge of the island, looking at the temporary cave he had just created, feeling extremely satisfied.
In addition to essential rooms such as cultivation rooms, talisman rooms, and warehouses, the new cave dwelling also has an escape passage connecting to the seabed beneath each room.
In addition, he deliberately placed the entrance to the cave below the sea surface, and above it was a naturally protruding boulder.
As long as the visitors don't search too thoroughly, Zhao Sheng is confident that they won't notice anything unusual.
Thinking this, Zhao Sheng entered the cultivation room, sat cross-legged, and took out two water-element spirit stones, holding them in his hands. He activated the Profound Origin Heavy Water Technique, and the spiritual energy within the spirit stones was gradually absorbed and refined into his dantian vortex.
As his cultivation progressed, the passage of time in the outside world became meaningless to Zhao Sheng.
Spring goes and winter comes, time flies!
Two years later, in July, Bellu Island became unusually lively.
This is because this month is the season when giant clams mature and reproduce. Many Qi Refining cultivators are rushing in and out of the island, taking boats to the sea to catch the giant clams that usually lurk on the seabed and rarely reveal their true form.
But around noon, a sudden gale arose, accompanied by lightning and thunder, three hundred nautical miles from Bellu Island.
The once cloudless blue sky suddenly changed color.
A vast expanse of dark clouds had appeared over the sea, and silver lightning and deafening thunder danced wildly like mad snakes.
At the same time, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth within a radius of six hundred miles was rapidly drawn towards that sea area, forming a huge spiritual energy vortex over a hundred feet wide and two hundred feet high on the sea surface.
Such a massive vortex of spiritual energy could be clearly sensed even from Bellu Island, hundreds of miles away.
The cultivators on the island were extremely astonished and all looked towards the sea area where the wind and clouds were changing color.
Faced with this extraordinary natural phenomenon, everyone's expression flashed between envy and fear.
Spiritual energy swirled, the world changed color, and a tribulation of lightning was imminent!
This is clearly a phenomenon indicating the formation of the elixir.
It's just unknown who this tribulation is aimed at.
If a human were to achieve the Core Formation stage, then there would be neither joy nor sorrow.
However, if a demon beast condenses its core, it means that a third-tier sea beast is about to be born.
Bellu Island is not far from here. Once this beast successfully advances, the humans on the island may suffer.
Even if this beast fails to advance, its corpse alone can make cultivators a fortune.
Thinking of this, some greedy and reckless cultivators hurriedly boarded boats and headed towards that sea area.