In a panic, Fang Weishan tried his best to dodge and evade, while using the Hundred Spirits Fan to protect his body. However, he suddenly froze and fell from the sky with a look of extreme fear on his face.
At the same time, Zhao Sheng's eyes flashed with divine light, and the invisible blood light reappeared in his vision, already within three zhang of him, and was rapidly shooting towards his chest.
In this strange state, Zhao Sheng moved his body little by little, avoiding vital points, while the Sea Abyss Shield was slowly thrown out by him, "slowly" blocking the bloody light.
After a long period of time, Zhao Sheng clearly saw the blood-red light collide with the Sea Abyss Shield, and the Sea Abyss Shield was corroded little by little until a hole was corroded in the middle.
The blood-red light, now shrunk to almost half its original size, pierced through the hole and continued to shoot towards him.
Zhao Sheng's brows twitched slightly, and in a flash of thought, he activated the defensive true talisman, Hundred-Layer Ice Wall, hidden in his robes.
Before him, transparent ice walls gradually condensed and took shape out of thin air, but compared to the blood-red light, it was much slower.
Zhao Sheng's heart skipped a beat when he saw this. He realized it was too late to hide, and in his desperation, he suddenly remembered something.
After a flash of golden light, a golden tablet about a foot long and a palm wide appeared on Zhao Sheng's chest, which collided with the bloody light.
Bang!
The blood-red light was scattered by the blow, and Zhao Sheng's hands trembled violently. A great force surged from the tablet, and his body was involuntarily pushed three or four zhang away, breaking free from the bullet time.
With his heart pounding, he instinctively looked down and saw that the surface of the tablet in his hand was smooth and shiny, without a single mark.
ah!
At that moment, a short scream came from not far away. Zhao Sheng looked up and was shocked to see Ge Chen's face was extremely pale as he viciously chopped off his entire right arm.
At this moment, his right elbow had disappeared, and a bloody light was rapidly eroding upwards from the elbow. If Ge Chen hadn't reacted in time, he probably would have followed in the footsteps of Meng Quyi and Fang Weishan, and died without a complete corpse.
Zhao Sheng was terrified upon seeing this. The Poisonous Dragon Python's killing move had reached the Golden Core level, which ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators could not dodge or withstand.
With a mournful cry, the venomous python suddenly shrank by more than half, the blood-red light on its body dissipated, and the dragon horns on its head turned grayish-white, leaving only a section less than two feet long and as thick as a wrist.
At this moment, the fierce flames in its eyes were gone, and it no longer possessed the imposing aura it had just displayed. Moreover, its aura had weakened considerably, and its body trembled slightly, almost falling into the sea. It appeared to be on the verge of collapse.
Clearly, the previous killing move had exceeded its limits, and the venomous python was severely weakened as a result.
Ge Chen's expression changed drastically. Suddenly, he flicked his sleeve, and a golden talisman flew out, instantly bursting out with a burst of golden light that enveloped him. Then, in a flash, it transformed into a golden ray of light and disappeared into the air.
After a few flashes, the golden light disappeared into the vast night.
"You bastard!"
Zhao Sheng happened to witness this scene. Even though he was mild-mannered, he was so angry when he saw Ge Chen flee without saying goodbye that he cursed loudly.
Just then, the four second-tier black venomous pythons merged together, carrying billowing poisonous mist, and rushed menacingly towards Zhao Sheng.
Zhao Sheng snorted coldly, and the Golden Essence Flying Sword suddenly flew back to his side, transforming into a sword rainbow to protect his entire body.
Immediately afterwards, he suddenly flicked his wrist, and a large stack of twenty ice sword talismans flew out like a celestial maiden scattering flowers.
Suddenly, the sky darkened, and countless three-foot-long ice swords emerged, filling a hundred-foot radius of the void. It was as if an ice sword forest had suddenly sprung up in the sky, emitting a chilling and bone-chilling killing intent under the moonlight.
The next instant, countless ice swords rained down like a storm, wave after wave, giving the demonic python no chance to catch its breath.
Zhao Sheng might not boast about anything else, but when it comes to first-tier talismans, he always counts them by the bagful.
The "plop plop" sound suddenly became incessant.
The four seemingly menacing black venomous pythons immediately wilted. Snakes are instinctively afraid of the cold, and even as second-tier demonic pythons, they were not immune to its effects.
They could temporarily block the rain of swords, but little did they know that as the waves of ice swords shattered, a chilling aura spread out at an alarming speed.
In an instant, Zhao Sheng's eyes flashed with killing intent, and with a flick of his right hand, the Golden Essence Flying Sword shot out.
A second-tier black venomous python was coiled up, enduring the icy sword. The extreme cold that penetrated its body had already made it stiff and sluggish.
Just then, it felt a sharp pain in its head, and a sudden, intense pain spread from its head throughout its entire body. Immediately afterward, it lost consciousness and fell into eternal darkness.
On the other side, Zhao Sheng tapped his right hand repeatedly, and a golden light, like a star, leaped and flashed, easily piercing the skulls of four second-tier black venomous pythons.
Buzz!
A sword's cry resounded throughout the heavens and earth!
The golden sword suddenly transformed into a dazzling sword rainbow, slashing through the sky and instantly striking the poisonous dragon python fleeing towards the sea.
With just one sword strike, a hole the size of a bowl appeared in its body, and a large amount of python blood gushed out from the hole like a fountain.
Zhao Sheng knew the principle of striking while the iron is hot, and with the Poisonous Dragon Python weakened, he absolutely could not allow it to rejoin the Black Poisonous Python horde.
The venomous python cried out incessantly, its body erupting with a layer of bloody light, instantly increasing its escape speed by more than 30%.
At this moment, the group of black venomous pythons in the sea sensed the danger to the king and immediately spewed out a large cloud of black poisonous mist.
While fleeing, the venomous python suddenly took a long, deep breath, inhaling a wisp of poisonous mist about an acre in size into its mouth.
In an instant, the venomous python regained its spirits, and the bloody hole healed rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Seeing this, Zhao Sheng's eyes turned cold. Without saying a word, he activated his sword technique. The golden essence flying sword that had just pierced through him spun around and transformed into a sword rainbow, slashing in with extreme force.
With a "poof" sound!
The venomous python was indeed severely injured, and even its physical defense was greatly reduced. It was unable to withstand the stabbing of the flying sword, and another bloody hole was drilled next to its reverse scale.
Seeing that he had missed the vital point, Zhao Sheng snorted coldly. His eyes flashed with divine light, and his magical flying sword instantly transformed into a point of golden light, shooting into the poisonous dragon python's reverse scale with incredible speed.
In just a few breaths, he activated Bullet Time three times in a row, depleting at least one-third of his mental energy.
After a flash of golden light, a hole was immediately pierced through the Reverse Scale, from which spurted out crystal-clear, blood-jade-like poisonous dragon blood.
Buzz!
The golden flying sword pierced through the scales of the venomous dragon python from the other side of its neck and flew out rapidly.
With a buzzing sound, the light on the two blades of the flying sword quickly dimmed, and a layer of bloody light covered the surface, writhing like a living thing.
Zhao Sheng couldn't help but let out a muffled groan. His expression changed as he realized he had lost control of the flying sword.
The golden sword, having lost much of its spiritual power, suddenly wobbled for a while before seemingly losing all momentum and plummeting straight down.
Zhao Sheng was startled upon seeing this. Without thinking, he suddenly grabbed at the air with one hand, while his other sleeve flicked out.
With a "whoosh",
As the flying sword was pulled back by an invisible force, a bright blue lightning ball suddenly appeared at the seven-inch hole in the venomous dragon python and burrowed into it.
boom!
A deafening roar suddenly resounded throughout the heavens and earth, and blood and flesh scattered everywhere, splashing into the sea.
First, it was struck at its vital point by a sword, and then it was blasted to pieces by a water mine. Even a serpent known for its vitality could not withstand such an attack.
Although the venomous python did not die on the spot, its massive body continued to roll in the sea, stirring up waves.
However, Zhao Sheng knew that the Poisonous Dragon Python had already died, and at this moment, he was only acting on his body's instincts.
This can be seen from the sudden disintegration of the venomous python swarm, which scattered in panic and fled in all directions.
Zhao Sheng dodged the venomous python's final struggle and released the light and agile flying boat.
After boarding the flying boat, he used his divine sense to control the boat to descend to the sea surface, retrieved the remains of the four second-tier demonic pythons, and put them into the empty storage bag.
Then, he dived down to the seabed and searched around.
In one hour, he killed dozens of black venomous pythons and finally dug out the corpses of Meng Quyi and Fang Weishan from their bellies.
At this moment, the venomous python's tumbling remains had gradually lost their vitality and began to slow down.
Zhao Sheng waited patiently for another hour until the venomous python completely stopped before he stepped forward and successfully put its corpse into a special storage bag.
Only then did Zhao Sheng completely relax, feeling both joy and sorrow.
In the past two years, he has lived a secluded life in the Spring and Autumn Alliance, focusing on ascetic cultivation and alchemy, and has not made many friends. Meng Quyi can be considered one of his few friends.
Now, he has been careless for a moment and died in this unknown sea area. His hundred years of hard work have been in vain. What a pity!
Thinking of this, Zhao Sheng recalled Ge Chen, who had fled without saying goodbye, and a nameless anger rose in his heart.
Even though he knew that Ge Chen's actions were very common in the cultivation world, Zhao Sheng still despised his behavior.
Who is this guy?! Brother Meng and Fang Weishan were both invited by him to kill the python together.
Putting aside the fact that the two died because of this, when you, Ge Chen, were escaping, couldn't you have sent a telepathic message first?
This is clearly an attempt to use him as a scapegoat!
However, Zhao Sheng couldn't do anything about Ge Chen for the time being. Ge Chen was a top disciple of Master Xu Chong and a second-level alchemist, and was highly valued by the Spring and Autumn Alliance.
He was merely a Foundation Establishment guest elder, utterly incomparable to Ge Chen.
Zhao Sheng knew that he and Ge Chen had now formed a grudge. Although it wasn't the right time, he would definitely settle the score with him later.
After all the corpses of the serpents floating on the sea surface were retrieved...
Zhao Sheng retrieved the flying boat, plunged into the sea, and quickly swam downstream.
A short while later, he easily reached the bottom of the sea.
After searching around for a while, Zhao Sheng found a sunken sea pit, and with a flick of his hand, a pure white seashell suddenly appeared in his palm.
The sea clam flew out, its size growing wildly to five or six zhang (approximately 10-13 meters), and landed in the sea pit.
Zhao Sheng cast two hand seals, and a layer of white light appeared on the Nahai Shell. The shell was suddenly pushed open by the rune-inscribed stone pillar, creating a crack. Zhao Sheng flashed inside.
Upon entering the Bei Mansion Cave, Zhao Sheng went straight to the quiet room in the courtyard. After entering the quiet room, he immediately sat cross-legged on the apricot-yellow futon and began to meditate and regulate his breathing to recover his depleted spiritual energy.
The seabed is pitch black, devoid of light and sound, with almost no concept of day or night.
After an unknown amount of time, Zhao Sheng suddenly opened his eyes, stood up with a radiant expression, and walked out of the quiet room.
A moment later, Zhao Sheng emerged from Nahaibei.
With a thought, he saw the Nahai Shell instantly shrink to the size of a palm, float up from the pit, fly back into Zhao Sheng's palm, and then be put into his bosom.
Zhao Sheng did not immediately return to Jiuzhen Island, but instead swam towards the underwater reef where the black venomous python had been hiding the previous night.
He still remembered that the spiritual energy there was abnormally high, and he was about to go and search it out.
Before long, the jumbled, uneven seabed reefs entered the range of his divine sense.
Zhao Sheng took out a sunstone, and the intense white light emitted from the stone dispelled the darkness within a radius of twenty feet.
Zhao Sheng, carrying the Sun Stone, sensed the level of spiritual energy in the vicinity and slowly swam towards the area with higher spiritual energy concentration.
This underwater reef is quite large, covering several hundred acres, and the further you swim towards the center, the taller the reef becomes.
In just a dozen breaths, Zhao Sheng swam to the center of the reef, where a coral pillar over twenty feet high and six or seven feet in diameter stood before him.
The place with the most abundant spiritual energy is this stone pillar.
Zhao Sheng suddenly remembered the enormous coral reef pillar that he had seen in the misty sea, almost jutting out of the water.
Although the two are vastly different in size, they both grow from rare coral spirit mothers, except that one is gray while the one in front of them is entirely green.
After a brief examination, Zhao Sheng sensed that the surrounding spiritual energy was primarily water-based.
If there is a spiritual vein, then this must be a water-based spiritual vein.
Due to its topography, most of the spiritual veins in the Shattered Star Sea are water and earth, followed by metal and wood, with fire being the rarest.
Zhao Sheng was 80% certain that beneath this coral pillar lay a water-based spiritual vein.
Thinking of this, Zhao Sheng immediately took out a high-grade magic weapon, the Wind and Mist Blade, and began digging from the base of the stone pillar.
The digging lasted for two whole days. Zhao Sheng worked without sleep and dug out a tunnel more than 30 feet long.
Bang!
Half a day later, after Zhao Sheng cleaved his sword into the stone wall, his hand suddenly felt empty, and a hole appeared in front of him, from which a faint light blue beam shot out.
Zhao Sheng was overjoyed at the sight and immediately began to dig with all his might.
In no time, he carved out a stone cave about half a person's height, and Zhao Sheng couldn't wait to crawl inside.
Behind the stone cave is a narrow, spherical grotto, only a little over ten feet high and no more than two feet long and wide.
The cave was empty, but in a small depression in the center, there was a pool of clear, light blue spiritual liquid.
The spiritual liquid emitted a faint, bright blue light, illuminating the entire cave and giving Zhao Sheng's face a bluish glow.
Upon seeing the spiritual liquid, Zhao Sheng immediately exclaimed with delight, "Jade Spirit Elixir!"
The legend was right!
Every spiritual vein, if it has never been discovered before, will inevitably contain a treasure for suppressing the spirit within its spiritual aperture.
The higher the level of the spiritual vein, the more precious and rare the accompanying treasures become.
Although the spiritual vein in front of Zhao Sheng was only a first-order spiritual vein, its quality was at least mid-order.
The Qiongling Jade Liquid it produces can be considered a kind of spiritual water from heaven and earth, with the effect of dispelling inner demons and cleansing the soul and gathering spirit.
If it could be refined into a second-grade top-quality Soul Cleansing Pill, even Golden Core cultivators would flock to it.