Sea Cultivation: Giant Ships and Heavy Artillery Knock on the Door to All Races

Chapter 223: Imitation of Lingbao Sitian Ancient Mirror, the Fleet Collapses
The victims were the two Snake Kings of the Mysterious Green Water Snake Clan, the two Eagle Kings of the Flying Eagle Ridge, and the one Dragon King of the Ten Thousand Dragon Nest.
As for the Ancient Savage Emperor, he escaped with the help of his ancestors' ancient treasures despite being seriously injured. The Spirit-Driver Emperor and the Sky-Flipping Whale also fled.

The harvest was great, but four of the demon cultivators' Nascent Souls were killed by the fierce resistance of the enemy/the intentional killing of teammates. However, the dead were not from the orthodox five demon sects, so their foundation was not damaged.
Obviously, the mastermind behind all this is the Demonic Corner Domain. Not only did they gain a lot of benefits, they even took the opportunity to eliminate dissidents.

At this point, the Thousand Star City chose to follow the trend and focus on taking care of the second and third level individuals of the Mysterious Water Snake Clan who had lost the protection of the Fourth Level Snake King, as well as other demon clan forces under the Mysterious Water Snake Clan.

Make sure to weaken their manpower to the greatest extent possible so that the Green Water Black Snake Clan cannot occupy their current sphere of influence. It would be best to guide them to be liquidated and eliminated by other demon clans to reduce the pressure.

As for Feiying Ridge, only one of the three Eagle Kings escaped this time and has long been missing. They suffered heavy losses.

Flying Eagle Ridge is under the command of the Supreme Nest, and it is not even ruled out that they belong to the bloodline of the Lord of Storms. It would be easy to strangle them, and there will be others to take the blame anyway.

It’s a pity that the Green Dragon King of the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest also died, otherwise the Supreme Nest would definitely intervene in this matter and make it difficult for the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest.

"Is there any news about Fellow Daoist Zilong and Fellow Daoist Xuanwu?"

"I haven't heard from them since the last time we contacted them. Not only have they not contacted anyone else, they haven't even contacted me. I sent them messages but they didn't respond. They're being very cautious.
But through soul observation, they are no longer in danger of death, their injuries have stabilized, and they are gradually recovering. In order to clear suspicion, they should be back soon, just waiting for the beast tide to end."

Yuanying cultivators are difficult to kill unless they are crushed or captured. They can easily absorb a large range of spiritual energy from heaven and earth to replenish themselves. Not to mention recovering to their peak, it is not difficult for them to survive.

"How long will it take for True Lord Tianjian to return?"

"Master Tianjian didn't go directly through the Immortal City teleportation array. He must have guessed that the beast tide wouldn't dare cross the border, so he traveled all the way. According to his latest whereabouts, he should be returning to Thousand Star City soon!"

True Lord Tianjian is the number one cultivator in Thousand Star City. He is a great cultivator at the peak of the ninth level of the Nascent Soul Realm and has extraordinary combat power. He is only a thousand years old now.

But there is no chance of becoming a god in the Thousand Star City, and even in the entire Storm Foreigner Territory, it is almost impossible to find a chance of becoming a god.
Therefore, True Lord Tianjian is not in the Thousand Star City all year round, and is not even in the Storm Ocean all year round. Even when the great beast tide that occurs once every thousand years lasted for ten years, he did not return to the Thousand Star City.

If he were here, how could Lord Tianhui Dragon dare to be so presumptuous?
A sword cultivator at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage who has already embarked on the path of the Divine Transformation could at least chase Tian Hui, even if he couldn't kill her with one sword.

Unless the Black Flood Dragon Emperor is resurrected or the current Great Dragon King of the Ten Thousand Dragons Nest comes to the city of Thousand Stars in person, how could the dignified Cardinal Immortal City be suppressed by a small army of the demon clan and dare not go out?

"Have those three made any unusual moves?"

"No abnormalities have been found yet!"

"What about the rest?"

“There’s nothing unusual!”

"Who do you think is most likely to be the traitor?"

"Those three newly promoted Nascent Souls who emerged from the Yunjin Forest are highly suspicious. There are blank periods in their whereabouts, and their ties to the interests of the Immortal City are not deep enough. As for the others, they are fine. They don't have sufficient motive to commit the crime. They have long been inseparable from the interests of the Immortal City. There is no reason for them to commit the crime."

"Where's Wu Daoyi? He's also a newcomer who was just promoted."

"When he reached the Nascent Soul stage, the Beast Tide hadn't even begun. He hasn't set foot outside the Thousand Star Inner Sea in the past hundred years. The trajectory of his and the Wu family's development is clear and traceable, and their foundation is in the Inner Sea. The Wu family's eight thousand years of development history shows that they are all locals with good roots. His current focus is on managing Wangtian Pavilion, trying to use the existing rules to maintain his Nascent Soul status. He has no motive for committing this crime."

There is definitely a traitor, there is no doubt about that, but the Thousand Star City cannot directly torture everyone. It does not have enough power, nor can it torture other people's Nascent Soul without harm, so it can only look for the traitor itself.

"Do you have any strategy to successfully find the traitor?"

"Three strategies have been drawn up!"

"Let's discuss all three plans. We'd better find the traitor before True Lord Tianjian returns to Thousand Star City, otherwise neither you nor I will escape punishment."

"The best strategy is to lure the snake out of its hole. Let's assume the traitor is among the three newcomers..."

After receiving the advice, Lord Bai Ye left the Cardinal Pavilion with satisfaction. The person he had just talked to was not a human, but a fake spirit.

An artificial spirit artifact copied from the fifth-level spiritual treasure Si Tian Gu Jian in Storm City. It possesses some of the wisdom of Si Tian Gu Jian, and only the one who controls Thousand Star City can call upon its wisdom independently.

It can monitor, collect, summarize, analyze, process and store all kinds of information without sleep. Some of its abilities are no weaker than those of Nascent Soul cultivators, and it is absolutely loyal to the Thousand Star City.

In the realm of the fallen corpse,
Lin Qianfan and his companion, who had completed their mission and obtained the spiritual object, evacuated back to the fleet first. At this moment, the fleet was being besieged by a large number of secret creatures. The battle was fierce, but the defense was tight and had not been completely broken. Only a few medium-sized monster-hunting ships were in critical condition.

These monsters that were supposed to be recalled to defend the crystal tower did not follow the human script. It was obvious that the female ghost cultivator was very confident in her abilities and ignored the number of foundation-building cultivators.

Back on the monster hunting ship, the two regained control.

"Fellow Daoist Lin, why did you two come back first?"

Although the person asking the questions did not point it out, they all guessed that the two Lin family members must be deserters, but there was no panic on their faces, so they could not guess the true situation of the battle.

"There's a strange guy inside, whose soul strength has reached the quasi-third level, and he can even use the human eye pearl formation to exert some third-level power. He's quite difficult to deal with, and I can't help him in the middle stage of foundation building.

Seeing no creatures from the secret realm returning to support us, we realized the fleet would be under fierce siege, so we immediately decided to return to the fleet to help, lest we lose this last retreat."

Lin Qianfan didn't waste any words and immediately piloted the Blue Dragon Fish to deliver an extremely powerful attack, resolving a wave of attacks nearby and helping to relieve the pressure on several medium-sized ships around.

This kind of influence on the local situation is definitely far greater than staying on the battlefield. It is very convincing and no one doubts it anymore.

"Thank you, Fellow Daoist Lin, for your help! I wonder how the battle was going when you left? Was everything going well?"

Hearing that the other party was a quasi-third-level creature, the others were not surprised. All the ships came from the Jindan forces. Logically, everyone had a talisman, totaling twenty or thirty talismans. Not to mention defeating a Jindan cultivator, but it should not be difficult to kill a quasi-third-level creature, right?
"It's hard to say. She is a ghost cultivator and doesn't fight head-on. The battle is tense. We don't know what happens next. Let's wait." Lin Qianfan retreated too quickly and really didn't know what happened next. He only knew that the female ghost cultivator was most likely a noble lady from the royal family of Jiayu Sea, who possessed some incredible racial abilities. It was best to avoid her.

The return of the two Lin family members not only improved the local combat power, but also increased the output of the two Lin family ships. The two original temporary captains also turned around and joined the other two medium-sized ships, which also improved their capabilities and reduced the pressure on the fleet.

However, the offensive of the creatures from the secret realm was still very strong, especially the three corpse whales that had the aura of a peak second-level creature but were close in size to third-level creatures. They were constantly breaking through the underwater land and getting closer to the fleet.

If they wait until they reach the fleet's location, the fleet's coordinated defense capability will most likely be directly destroyed. At that time, they will really have no choice but to scatter, abandon the fleet formation and go their separate ways.

Although the two ships of the Lin family had powerful firepower, they did not rashly use the spiritual power in their bodies. Instead, they used all the medium-grade spirit stones to drive the formation and weapons. Anyway, Lin Qianfan had a large reserve of medium-grade spirit stones, so fighting a few more battles would not be a problem, so he gave priority to conserving spiritual power.

"Look, someone's back!"

At this time, three people flew back from the horizon. They were the three people who had blocked Lin Qianfan at the bottom of the crystal tower before. However, their faces were not good-looking and they were full of worry.

"Fellow Taoist, what's going on?"

Lin Qianfan spoke first, and of course he didn't ask how much Xuanqiong Jade Dew he had obtained, but the battle situation on the front battlefield.

"It's not optimistic. Several fellow Taoists disappeared when we slipped away. The domain ability of that female ghost cultivator is too abnormal. Ordinary attacks can't touch her, but if she touches you, you will die!"

The escape route of the three people was far less safe than the one chosen by Lin Qianfan. After observing the battlefield closely, they knew that if the female ghost cultivator's domain was not the large-scale domain of the Jindan cultivator, they would not have been able to escape.

"Field? What field?"

"That female ghost cultivator was most likely a third-level being when she was alive. Of course, we can't rule out the possibility that she was truly gifted. She was already at the peak of the second level, but she could already cast a miniature version of her domain. That's quite impressive."

With the return of the three people, the fleet's strength increased again, and the defense was finally stabilized. Although the creatures from the secret realm were still attacking, they could no longer effectively break the fleet's defensive formation. Only the three corpse whales were still approaching from three paths. The chains they were waving were quite intimidating, and their deterrent power far exceeded that of the demon-hunting harpoon.

If they were really hit by such a big guy, the defensive formation of the medium-sized ship would be directly broken, and it is hard to say about the large ship. Therefore, many ships in good condition have already prepared for evacuation, but they are embarrassed to take the lead in evacuation. Naturally, the two ships of the Lin family are among them.

After a while, another person flew over from the horizon. This person had a pale face and a weak breath, as if he had been drained of all his energy. But upon closer inspection, his condition seemed more like his life force had been violently extracted.

"Everyone, hurry up and start the boat! That female ghost cultivator is coming after us!"

Before he entered the fleet, several ships in the fleet that were ready to go rushed out as soon as they heard the words. If the power provided by the power core had not supported the flight, they would have almost flown away.

The two ships of the Lin family were naturally included in this list. There was nothing to worry about anyway. It was others who shouted to run away. Anyway, the two ships of the Lin family were not the first to raise their heads, so they were not afraid of criticism.

"Fellow Daoist, what's going on? Aren't there three of you?"

Not every ship chose to run away immediately. Their important personnel had not yet come out, and if they ran away first, they would easily be targeted by the corpse whales.

"When the three of us came out, we happened to encounter a female ghost going crazy. Thousands of mournful evil spirits attacked indiscriminately on a large scale. Once surrounded by them, your life force would be devoured. She captured you alive and sealed you away. My two brothers were unfortunately caught in the trap..."

It turned out that this person also chose to explore the interior of the crystal tower like Lin Qianfan and the others, but they also visited places like the medicine garden on the way, which led to them walking to the back and being affected by the female ghost cultivator's soul-slaying field, so only one of them escaped.

"Where are the others? Aren't they divided into four battle formations? Aren't their talismans working?"

"Ordinary talismans are no match for this female ghost cultivator. They are also gradually retreating, and they have suffered varying degrees of losses. I estimate that if the female ghost cultivator hadn't wanted to capture them all alive, they would have been completely defeated long ago."

"Ah? How could it be so? Even the Nascent Soul seeds of the Nascent Soul forces shouldn't be this strong, right? This is the second level?"

"It's hard to say, hurry up and start the boat! Let's evacuate at full speed!"

With the influence of this person's arrival, the fleet completely dispersed.

Some of the ships that had all their crew members present were evacuating the Filthy Star Pool area at full speed, heading for the more open and safer front half of the gray water area. The area there was large enough for them to hide, and they were all praying that the female ghost cultivator would be eliminated or that someone outside would come to their rescue as soon as possible.

The ship, whose captain has not appeared yet, can only control its position and run while ensuring that it is not targeted by the creatures in the secret realm. Everyone is anxiously waiting for the captain to come back as soon as possible.

Boom boom boom~
The two Lin family ships always took the safest route, blasting away all enemies that blocked their way. Even if a corpse whale tried to block them, it was evaded by the agile route of the Blue Dragon Fish.

The other ships were not so lucky. Among the first two ships that escaped, two of them were targeted by the other two corpse whales and they had to pay a price to escape.
Fortunately, the corpse whales were just modified creatures, and their movements were too clumsy, and the water was shallow and difficult to move around, so they were able to escape.

The three corpse whales failed to stop their prey and roared angrily, but they did not choose to turn around and chase. Instead, they continued to block the subsequent monster-hunting ships. After all, those who dared to run first were confident in themselves, while those who shrank behind and were timid were more likely to succeed.

Just like that, the large fleet that had originally joined forces to defend was scattered and completely entered into their own escape phase.

"Where are we going now?"

Lin Qianfan has been very good at paying attention to details during this period. He is calm and reliable, so Jiu Ye unconsciously prioritizes his opinions.

"Just go swim in the grey water and avoid her. Even if you have to get caught, you'll be the last one to get caught. There's no other way."

Lin Qianfan tried to use Qi Haiyin to find a way out, but the direction he was guided to was to find the female ghost cultivator. Obviously, the only way to get out was to kill or subdue her, but he obviously did not have the strength to do so, so he could only hide.

Because they could mark the location of the female ghost cultivator, the two ships could try their best to hide away from her, but the Falling Star Secret Realm was only this big, so they could only pray that the person who broke through would come out quickly.

It would be best if a Jindan cultivator noticed the abnormality, intervened forcefully, and finally split up the benefits gained from the Falling Star Secret Realm, even if it would inevitably destroy the secret realm.

(End of this chapter)