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

Chapter 308 Perfect Refinement of Spirit, The True and False Great Tomb

A few days later,
Under the leadership and operation of Lingji Island, the Mei family of Lingjiao Island, as supporters of Lingji Island, successfully transferred into Yunyan Immortal City.
Similarly, under the operation of the Qi family in Guanlan Immortal City, Master Bibo also successfully entered Yunyan Immortal City. From then on, Yunyan Immortal City entered a situation where three families jointly governed one city.

This also means that the power configuration of Yunshang Secret Island is basically at full capacity. It is foreseeable that Yunshang Secret Island will gradually prosper and restore a trace of its former glory in the near future.

Before and after this incident, the Lin family did not make any statement and did not interfere with the new distribution of benefits in Yunyan Immortal City. Only Lingji Island knew that the Lin family had secretly obtained a breakthrough pill.

However, after the Mei family moved away, the Lin family used its influence to affect the selection of new residents for Lingjiao Island, choosing the Ming family, a small Golden Core faction with a good relationship with the Lin family.

The Ming family is a newly established family power that has risen to prominence in recent decades. Compared to the Mei family, they have a closer relationship with the Lin family, frequently traveling to the Yulong Islands to purchase supplies and cultivate relationships.
Considering that Lingjiao Island was better than their previous territory, the Lin family took the initiative to invite them to move there and become neighbors.

The Ming family was also quick to follow suit. They immediately imitated Zhang Chaoyang's actions, taking the initiative to visit the Yulong Islands to pay their respects and choose to submit to the Lin family, thus establishing a more solid alliance and sharing some information and resources.

Considering that the Ming family's main force has limited manpower, while Lingjiao Island governs numerous fortresses and islands, especially their developed fishing and aquaculture industries, which are labor-intensive industries,

With two changes of ownership and a shortage of manpower over the years, the Yulong Islands have been generous in providing them with a lot of talent to help with the business and get them to live a better life as soon as possible.

"With another port of export added, the archipelago will not face serious internal problems for the next few decades!"

Today, the Yulong Islands are a well-known livable immortal city in the surrounding waters, with a good environment and good public security. Not only is there a large number of newborns, but every year a large number of cultivators from other places come here to make a living.

Although these foreign cultivators varied in quality, the Fish-Dragon Islands were very tolerant. As long as they were not heinous criminals or fugitives, they were generally welcomed and would not be easily turned away.

However, although the islands have welcomed a large number of people, they are only temporary residents and it is difficult for them to obtain formal local resident status unless they have outstanding abilities. Otherwise, they cannot enjoy the full benefits of formal residents of the islands.

It is important to know that the welfare benefits of formal residents are very high. They not only open up many career paths for them, but also provide the best conditions for raising their offspring, giving them hope for the future. Therefore, most of the outside cultivators are eager to stay.

After a period of time, these people will be classified by the island authorities based on their performance. Only a small number of outstanding individuals will be granted formal resident status and allowed to settle down in the Fish and Dragon Islands, while the majority of those who are not outstanding will be forced to go to the Jade Islands to work in low-end industries.

Then, based on their performance in the Jade Islands, they will be further classified into multiple levels to arrange appropriate places for them. The ultimate goal is to make money for the Lin family, not in a one-time way, but in a long-term and sustainable way.

Therefore, whether it's interfering with the interests of Yunshang Secret Island through Jin Yang Immortal City, or establishing diplomatic relations and providing assistance to Lingjiao Island, the aim is to better improve this operating system and make it more harmonious and stable.

……

Two years later, in a desolate area of ​​the northern sea region outside the Thousand Stars Sea.

The disguised Lord of Lingji Island, along with several members of Lingji Island headquarters and a few allies, a total of ten Golden Core cultivators, secretly searched for this place.

"Following the clues, this is the Tomb of the True Lord!"

After obtaining the Blood Puppet Compass and the Blood Puppet from the Ma family patriarch, the Lord of Lingji Island has been investigating the Blood Puppet True Monarch's tomb based on clues, and now the day of its opening has finally arrived.

After confirming that there was no one else around, the Lord of Lingji Island was overjoyed. This meant that the matter had not been leaked and that Lingji Island had obtained first-hand information, which was crucial.

Injecting a drop of essence blood, the Blood Puppet Compass spun rapidly, its movements mirroring the grand scheme of heaven, earth, mountains, and rivers. It pointed out a hidden passage in the sea, ultimately leading to a special floating island.

"We've finally found it! Let's go!"

The group saw the gradually emerging Floating Island as if they had seen a treasure. Led by the late-stage Golden Core cultivator, the island lord of Lingji Island successfully entered the great tomb that only appears once every sixty years.

What they didn't know was that after they discreetly entered Floating Island, the island itself appeared in the world, and the news quickly spread throughout the Northern Region.

……

Ichthyosaur Islands

Call ~
Inside the training room, Lin Qianfan finished his practice and exhaled a breath of stale air.

"The Great Sun Visualization Method has reached a point where it is almost impossible to progress further; one can only rely on gradual progress over time."

Lin Qianfan's life these past few years has been relatively comfortable. He hasn't faced any dangers or challenges, and he's had plenty of time to spend with family and friends. Meanwhile, his cultivation level hasn't slackened or fallen behind.
On the contrary, through long-term, calm and focused practice, he was the first to reach the second-stage perfection realm in the art of spiritual refinement.

It's not that growth stops completely at this point, but due to physical limitations, further growth will be several times more difficult, requiring either gradual effort or a great stroke of luck.

"My body refinement is progressing quickly; I've reached the eighth level of Foundation Establishment... or perhaps I can break through to Core Formation within twenty years. It would be best if my parents could see it..."

Lin's parents are getting old now, and it would be a great blessing for them to see Lin Qianfan achieve the Core Formation and get married before they die.
They might never have dared to dream of this before, but now that Lin Qianfan's cultivation has rapidly advanced to the eighth level of Foundation Establishment, everything seems so within reach.

唳～
After feeding the Golden-Winged Eagle, which was cultivating in the Spirit Beast Chamber, a piece of Snowflake Crab Demon King meat as usual, Lin Qianfan flew towards the Fish-Dragon Islands.

To avoid arousing suspicion from the Qingzhu Qi family, the matter of the Golden-Winged Eagle was kept a secret. It was only taken out during the annual storm season when no one was at sea to train in combat and master-servant cooperation in the storm. At other times, it was kept on the spiritual vein of the Dragon Raising Bay headquarters.

Although its cultivation level was stuck at the peak of the second tier and could not advance any further, its foundation could still grow. Lin Qianfan formulated three training plans for it, which were carried out simultaneously.

The most important thing is to gradually eliminate the impurities in its demon core, and instead focus solely on the purest form of the Golden-Winged Eagle, retaining only the two core powers of metal and wind.
As a descendant of the Lord of Storms, the Golden-Winged Eagle has a relatively complete evolutionary path, naturally moving closer to the Lord of Storms.

It used to be a wild demon. Wild demons naturally accept all kinds of power and means in order to survive better. Therefore, its demon core is now full of impurities and needs to be patiently removed.

The process of elimination is not only painful, but may even lead to a decline in cultivation. It requires the continuous input of precious resources and spiritual objects to replenish it. Fortunately, Lin Qianfan has considerable wealth, so it is not a big problem.

Secondly, it is necessary to further hone the physical body. As a large bird of prey, the golden-winged eagle's physical body is an outstanding strength, which alone can overwhelm most birds and beasts. This advantage needs to be strengthened.

The greatest shortcut for demonic beasts to temper their physical bodies is through direct food supplementation. The Lin family has a lot of demon king flesh and blood stored up, most of which were accumulated over ten years of beast tides. After learning that Lin Qianfan had obtained a golden-winged eagle with cultivation value, they exchanged it for Lin Qianfan at a low price.

Finally, there's the development of intelligence. The higher the intelligence of a demon beast, the more difficult it is to deal with. This is no longer limited to soft power, but rather hard power.
Spirit beasts that live with humans are naturally different from wild demon beasts. Developing their intelligence is easier for them. In their spare time, the Golden-Winged Eagle also systematically learns human knowledge and civilization, and even uses human thinking to think about problems in order to discard some of its inferior bestial nature.

Fish and Dragon Immortal City

As usual, Lin Qianfan reviewed the various intelligence reports collected and compiled by the Lin family's intelligence system, filtered out and streamlined some junk information, and handled some related matters to help Lin Qianxue reduce her administrative burden.

Compared to Lin Qianfan, who is proficient in multiple immortal arts, Lin Qianxue specializes only in formations, so she has a lot of free time and has now become the de facto comprehensive manager of the Fish-Dragon Islands. Taking the position is easy, but doing it well and winning over everyone is difficult and stressful. Lin Qianfan comes to help when he has time, relieving some of the pressure.

"...The Liu family's Golden Core seed failed to form a true core, resulting in a false core. The Liu family will have no say in the next hundred years."

"...The Iron Sword Sect has just accepted a disciple with the Thunder Spirit Root, and he was immediately taken in as the Iron Sword True Person's last disciple. Tsk tsk tsk, what good luck."

"... "

With economic support and a large population, the Lin family's intelligence system has also developed significantly in recent years.

The Lin family has intelligence agents operating in the territory of every Golden Core cultivator in the Western Regions, relaying information back through various levels. They also have spies distributed throughout the key immortal cities of the other three regions of the Inner Sea.
They even set up checkpoints at key locations in the City of a Thousand Stars and the outer sea of ​​a Thousand Stars, to ensure that they could be informed immediately if something major happened, rather than just believing whatever others said.

"...A hidden floating island suddenly appeared on the desolate sea of ​​the Northern Region, with blood-red anomalies and numerous blood shadows, suggesting the emergence of a great tomb or a great treasure... Hiss~ Could this be the Spirit Trace Island operation?"

Lin Qianfan noticed one of the messages from overseas. The message was classified as low-level, and its source was obviously not very accurate. The people who were doing the next level of sorting also thought it was not very valuable.

But Lin Qianfan immediately thought of Lingji Island. They had received information that they hadn't made any moves in the past two years, so this commotion in the outer sea might have been caused by them.

The outer sea is far away, and the Lin family doesn't have much of a stake there, so the intelligence system there is relatively weak. They mainly collect and summarize some of the more publicly available information in the area.

However, Lin Qianfan knew the inside story. The Lin family had ulterior motives for selling the information about the Blood Puppet True Monarch's tomb to Lingji Island back then. As soon as this news came out, Lin Qianfan began to pay special attention to it.

He instructed those operating near Lingji Island to pay close attention to their reactions, thereby indirectly judging their gains.

as predicted,

Several days later, a shocking piece of news arrived:

The tomb of the Blood Puppet True Monarch, who dominated the outer seas six hundred years ago, has been unearthed! It's located on that floating island in the desolate northern sea!
According to reliable sources, some people have already entered the tomb and successfully opened it, revealing it to the world. Several other groups of Golden Core cultivators from the Northern Region followed suit. Currently, no specific information about the tomb's interior has been released.

However, people kept calling on their friends and gathering Golden Core teams to rush towards the Blood Puppet True Monarch's tomb to seize the opportunity. After all, such Nascent Soul cultivator tombs are very rare, because Nascent Soul cultivators with lineages in Thousand Star City generally do not have such wild tombs.

Six hundred years is not a long time. If there are any good things or treasures left behind by the Blood Puppet True Monarch, they are likely still usable now. That would be a genuine fourth-tier opportunity!
"It all depends on fate on Spirit Trace Island!"

Lin Qianfan showed neither joy nor sorrow. When the Lin family decided to give up this opportunity, they were prepared not to be envious even if others obtained the treasure.

Several days later, a shocking message arrived:

Most of the Golden Core cultivators who entered the Blood Puppet True Monarch's tomb died! Only those with exceptional strength or good luck survived, and those who survived were not in good condition, as if they were cursed!

As for opportunities, where do opportunities come from?

That's a scam!

After investigation, it was found that the True Lord's Tomb on Floating Island was not the tomb of the Blood Puppet True Lord, but a fake tomb trap he left behind. Instead of providing any opportunities, those who entered it were cursed with blood.

Those who could withstand the blood curse escaped after sacrificing some of their lifespan, while those who could not were completely trapped inside.

Just as everyone was unanimously cursing that the reincarnation of the Blood Puppet True Monarch would inevitably be reborn into a wild dog, the City of a Thousand Stars stepped in.

The City of a Thousand Stars confirmed that the tomb on Floating Island was indeed the tomb of the Blood Puppet True Monarch. However, the true tomb was located below the false tomb, and the trap was merely a cover. They also suspected that the fourth-tier Blood Puppet from back then was inside the true tomb.

There was an uproar; it turned out there really was a fourth-tier opportunity!

What is a fourth-tier blood puppet? It's someone with the combat power of a Nascent Soul stage cultivator!
Even though the Blood Puppet cannot compare to the agility of a true Nascent Soul cultivator, and cannot be truly compared to a Nascent Soul cultivator, it is still of infinite value. If one obtains it, it is not difficult to exchange it for a Nascent Soul Formation and Bond Formation set.

However, now that the City of a Thousand Stars has intervened, it won't be easy for ordinary people to obtain this opportunity.

Even if the Nascent Soul True Monarchs, out of consideration for their reputation, do not personally participate in the competition, their disciples are all quite powerful. Even if they do not restrict others from participating, it would be difficult for others to compete with them.

"Damn it! Why did I stumble upon a fake tomb?!"

The Spirit Island Master, who survived, was unwilling to accept defeat. He had come as a team of ten, but now only four of them, including himself, had come out. Moreover, all of them were injured to varying degrees. Apart from him, the other three could not form an effective fighting force and could not accompany him to go down to the True Tomb again. After all, who knew if there were other dangers in the True Tomb?
To go or not to go?
The Lord of Spirit Trace Island was torn and needed to make a decision as soon as possible!
"Island Master, we..."

Some of the surviving Golden Core cultivators on Lingji Island were afraid that the island lord would lose his temper and tried to dissuade him, but they were also somewhat afraid that they would suffer heavy losses. However, as long as the island lord, who was at the late Golden Core stage, was still there, he would not fall from his rank.

However, if he insists on going his own way and goes into the great tomb alone in his current state, he might make a mistake and Lingji Island, which has not been glorious for many years, will become an ordinary Golden Core force again. He might even be taken advantage of and suffer a miserable end.

"Forget it, let's go!"

Seeing the disciples of the powerful Nascent Soul cultivators forming strong expedition teams, even though he was unwilling, the Lord of Spirit Trace Island could only admit defeat; he had no chance of competing if he went down alone.

Although a huge sunk cost has been invested and heavy losses have been incurred, as an inner sea golden core, the word "stability" is still understood.

"That damned old devil Ma! That damned brat Mei! That damned slippery Lin!"

The Lord of Lingji Island cursed each of the three families in his heart.

The Blood Puppet Compass originated from the Ma family, and this was the trigger for everything.

The Mei family was the ones who pieced together the clues; it was he who sold the information.
The Lin family acted as matchmakers, and it was the Lin family that chose them.

However, this matter cannot be truly blamed on the three families, because all three families clearly recognized their own shortcomings and thus voluntarily gave up the opportunity, without even mentioning cooperation.

Instead, it was his own greed that led him to this.
"How dazzling! A wrong turn has been made..."

(End of this chapter)