Cultivation begins in Qingfeng Market.

The Giant Ape of the Tide was entangled with the Vermilion Bird of the Heavenly Gang and had no time to react.

The dark golden sword energy had already penetrated its head, tearing a huge gash in its skull.

The gash stretched from the top of his head to his chin, and dark golden sword energy still raged within the wound.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, the Heavenly Vermilion Bird pierced the giant ape's chest with both claws, and silver-white sword energy exploded from within.

The giant ape of the ocean waves could no longer hold on and knelt on one knee on the waves. The waves supported its knee and prevented it from sinking.

It was panting with its head down, each breath bringing a cloud of blood and bone fragments from its wound, and the eerie blue light in its single eye was slowly dimming.

But it did not fall completely and is a formidable opponent.

Lin Zhao looked at the giant ape of the sea tide dozens of miles away.

However, humans and demons cannot coexist. Every time this giant sea ape appears, it is a natural disaster, flooding countless islands and killing countless cultivators and mortals.

Lin Zhao represents humanity, while the giant ape represents natural disasters.

The battle between the two sides needs no other reason.

Human beings must confront natural disasters if they want to survive and live better.

There is no right or wrong, only perspectives.

Lin Zhao withdrew all his sword energy. A cyan sword light enveloped his entire body, and he and his sword became one, transforming into a cyan sword light hundreds of feet long.

The sword light swept across the sea, cleaving the water in two and creating a wave hundreds of feet deep.

The giant ape roared and rose to its feet. With its last strength, it leaped from the waves, its right fist, imbued with the final power of wind and thunder, smashing towards the sword light.

The sword light shattered the fist, pierced through the arm, and emerged from the back of the giant ape's neck.

The giant ape's head was severed by the sword light and fell into the sea from a height of hundreds of feet, creating a towering column of water.

Lin Zhao landed on the sea, panting heavily.

He looked down at his hands.

He arrived at the Endless Demon Sea, and this was the first peak third-tier demon beast he had independently killed.

Giant Ape of the Tide.

He remembered it.

Lin Zhao collected the corpse of the giant sea ape.

He could only keep the essence blood, demon core, and main bones separately, and put the rest directly into the Blood Essence Bone Fiend Palace.

A month later.

After the Blood Essence Bone Fiend Palace devoured all the flesh and bones of the Tide Giant Ape, the palace trembled violently.

The crimson light on the bone wall surged, and hundreds of blood-red eyes opened simultaneously, each pupil now containing a vertical golden line.

The Blood Essence Bone Fiend Palace's body is also heavier, thicker, and larger than before.

A top-grade, third-tier magic weapon.

Lin Zhao stood beneath the Blood Essence Bone Fiend Palace, gazing at the magical palace that had shielded him from a Nascent Soul cultivator's attack and accompanied him through the beast tide. He reached out and patted the cold wall.

The goals set in recent years have finally been achieved.

Its defenses include the third-tier top-grade magic weapon, the Blood Essence Bone Demon Palace; its spiritual energy recovery is achieved with the third-tier top-grade magic weapon, the Nine Luminaries Thunder Pool; its attacks include the Three Demon Sword Techniques, the Five Elements Returning to Origin Sword Formation, and the Four Symbols Heavenly Gang Sword Formation; and its trump card is the Divine Demon Sword Qi.

At this moment, he truly stood at the peak of the Core Formation stage.

Normally, Lin Zhao should return to the Wanfa Alliance defense line to rest for a while.

After fighting continuously for several years, although my spiritual power can hold up, I am not made of iron and need to rest for a while.

But Lin Zhao didn't plan to rest; he decided to go somewhere—the Black Sea camp.

Most of the monsters in the Endless Demon Sea emerge from the depths of the Black Sea.

In order to anticipate the movements of the beast tide, humans built dozens of camps deep in the Black Sea.

Every year, camps are destroyed, and every year, camps are rebuilt.

These camps had only one mission—observation.

They observed the number and types of beast tides emerging from the Black Sea, recorded the migration routes of the massive beast herds, and then transmitted the information back to the Alliance of Ten Thousand Laws in the rear.

Based on this intelligence, the Alliance of All Laws mobilized resources, arranged manpower, and deployed defenses in advance.

The Black Sea Camp represents the front line that the courage and will of humanity can reach.

Only Core Formation cultivators are qualified to go, but not all Core Formation cultivators can go; only the best among them can reach it.

There's a saying circulating within the sect: "If you come to the Endless Demon Sea and don't make a trip to the Black Sea camp, this training trip is a waste."

Lin Zhao took a deep breath, and his escape light rose as he entered the Black Sea.

As if crossing an invisible boundary line, the seawater turned a deep inky black.

The number of monsters is self-evident. The density of monsters in the Black Sea is several times that of the Inland Sea.

The sea was teeming with demonic beasts, with large numbers of first and second-tier demonic beasts crammed together.

Every now and then, enormous third-tier demonic beasts would leap up from the deep sea, swallow these lower-tier beasts whole, and then sink back down.

The deeper you go, the larger the monsters become, and the higher their rank.

Fortunately, Lin Zhao had a spirit-sealing seal on her body, which could suppress her own spiritual light.

He kept his aura to a minimum, avoiding the areas where the monsters were most concentrated. In addition, given his strength, he didn't encounter too many unexpected problems along the way.

Fourth-tier demonic beasts are rare. If they could easily encounter a fourth-tier demonic beast comparable to a Nascent Soul cultivator, the Myriad Laws Alliance's defenses would have been flattened long ago.

What terrified him was the environment here; the seabed and the sea were teeming with monsters.

Countless herds of animals swam on the sea, turning the water completely black.

The monsters fought each other relentlessly, their fangs biting into their bone armor, their claws tearing through their scales, and their blood gushing out only to be covered by fresh blood.

When the stench of blood becomes strong enough, it will act like a magnet, attracting more monsters to join and forming massive sources of beast tides.

With more sea monsters, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is disrupted.

The powerful monsters of the sea are naturally able to manipulate the wind and rain; a fight between a few monsters is nothing unusual.

But when tens of thousands of demonic beasts fight together, the cumulative effect can create massive thunderstorms that cover hundreds or even thousands of miles.

Lin Zhao looked up at the sky. Lightning bolts darted wildly through the dark clouds, striking down one after another and illuminating the sea, where towering black waves surged everywhere.

The spiritual energy in the entire sea area is constantly in a state of turmoil, never quiet for a moment.

No wonder it's called the Black Sea; it truly lives up to its name.

Lin Zhao seemed to have arrived in the ancient and barbaric era—fighting against all kinds of heaven and earth power, billions of monsters, and the surge of spiritual power.

No wonder ordinary Core Formation cultivators can't reach the Black Sea camp; only the best can.

Over the course of more than half a year, Lin Zhao traveled 300,000 li deep into the Black Sea.

Even though he avoided a lot of trouble along the way, he was still forced to hunt down hundreds of third-tier demonic beasts.

Some of them deliberately ran into him, while others he had to kill to clear a path forward.

On his way forward, he encountered hundreds of beast tides of varying sizes. Lin Zhao had no choice but to use his sword formation to forcibly cleave the beast tides apart, enduring countless attacks from the monsters as he fought his way through.

Several times he simply had no other choice, as taking a longer route was too much.

So he directly joined the bloody battle between the monsters and forcefully extinguished the four so-called sources of the beast tide.

He rushed in, unleashing his sword formation. The Three Fiends Sword Qi swept across, slaying all the demonic beasts locked in a bloody battle at the core, and then drained the accumulated blood energy using the Blood Essence Bone Fiend Palace.

With the origin of the beast tide gone, the massive beast tide that had gathered nearby naturally dispersed.