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"With my current cultivation level, venturing deep into the outer sea should be relatively safe!"

Zhou Yuan was certain.

His feigned infant cultivation level gave him confidence.

Moreover, his powerful divine sense, comparable to that of a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator, allows him to provide early warnings.

Avoid many unnecessary troubles.

Even if he were to encounter a fully-formed demon, he would be able to escape with his current abilities.

A streak of light pierced the sky, and Zhou Yuan's figure quickly disappeared into the vast sea and sky.

……

One year... two years...

Zhou Yuan flew alone on the vast ocean.

Sun rises and moon sets, tides rise and fall.

Apart from the occasional enormous black shadow that swept across the sea and the monstrous birds circling in the air, it seemed as if he was the only person left in the world.

He was not impatient; he simply flew forward at a steady pace, following the predetermined direction.

Whenever his divine sense detected a powerful demonic beast aura ahead, he would detour in advance.

We will absolutely not create any unnecessary complications.

He showed no mercy to low-level demonic beasts that were oblivious to their own mortality and launched attacks.

A single "Golden Dragon Scissors Killing Technique" dismembered him;

Or he could unleash the Green Radiance Sword and pierce through with a single strike;

Or perhaps we could release the beast demon, letting this ferocious creature at the peak of level seven practice its skills.

The beast-like creature's strength is indeed astonishing.

Although it is only at the peak of level seven, its combat power is comparable to that of the early stage of the Nascent Soul stage.

In particular, its indestructible body can instantly recover from injuries, making it practically immortal. Coupled with the supernatural power of the Deathly Light, it can deal with ordinary monsters as easily as cutting melons and vegetables.

With it around, Zhou Yuan saved a lot of effort.

Hard work pays off.

Three years later.

As Zhou Yuan flew over a sea area that was shrouded in a thin gray fog year-round, the outline of a colossal creature gradually pierced through the fog and came into view on the horizon ahead.

Zhou Yuan's spirits lifted, and his escape speed increased slightly.

As the distance closed, the outline became clearer and clearer, eventually transforming into a majestic island standing tall in the endless blue sky!

It is called a "giant island" because its area is so vast that it is beyond imagination!

Zhou Yuan made a rough estimate.

Its diameter spans thousands of miles!

This size is almost the same as that of Tianxing City, where the headquarters of Tianxing Palace is located!

However, it was completely different from the bustling scene of Tianxing City, with its spiraling buildings, dense architecture, and soaring spiritual energy.

The giant island before us presents a primitive, desolate, and even somewhat eerie appearance.

The island has no densely packed pavilions and palaces, nor does it have a magnificent mountain like Tiansheng Mountain that soars into the clouds and serves as a hub of spiritual energy.

But on the island stand several equally tall stone peaks!

Each of these stone peaks is nearly ten thousand feet tall, truly towering pillars supporting the sky.

Even in the chaotic star sea, this is a rare sight.

What's even more peculiar is that these peaks are so steep they are almost vertical, and their surfaces are as smooth as a mirror.

It has a grayish-white color.

From a distance, not a blade of grass grows.

They resemble several stone pillars cleaved by a giant axe of heaven and earth, piercing straight into the sky.

Starting from the mountainside, the upper part disappears into the thick white clouds that never disperse in the sky, making it difficult to see the whole view.

The island is extremely monotonous in color; as far as the eye can see, it is all gray and white, with no green vegetation in sight.

The island's surface is rugged with jagged rocks and crisscrossed with ravines, yet strangely, there is no trace of any flowing water or lakes.

What struck Zhou Yuan even more was that, despite his powerful divine sense, he had not detected any spiritual veins on this giant island.

This island is like a "waste island" without any spiritual veins!

Generally speaking, spirit stone veins are often found alongside spirit veins.

In places with spiritual veins, it takes a long time for spirit stone mines to be formed.

Conversely, places with large, high-quality spirit stone mines almost always have powerful spiritual veins.

And this island has absolutely no spiritual vein fluctuations?

Zhou Yuan hovered above the edge of the giant island, gazing at the desolate, lifeless, and utterly devoid of any spiritual energy of the massive island before him, yet his eyes gleamed with an irrepressible excitement.

He understood.

It was precisely this extremely abnormal appearance that kept the earth-shattering secret buried here unknown for a long time, until it was accidentally discovered hundreds of years later!

Imagine, if such a huge island still had the fluctuations of top-grade spiritual veins, it would have been discovered and occupied by the Star Palace or those Nascent Soul old monsters and transformed great demons long ago. How could it be the turn of later generations hundreds of years later?

"It seems... this is the place."

Zhou Yuanqiang suppressed his excitement, concealed all his aura, and landed silently on the edge of the island like a ghost.

His divine sense spread out like mercury, carefully examining everything around him.

Sure enough, the island was not entirely devoid of life.

Many strange beasts live in some rock crevices and shady ravines.

However, their levels are generally not high, mostly being low to mid-level monsters ranging from level three to five.

The species appear to be mainly drought-resistant and adapted to barren environments, such as stone armored beasts, sand scorpions, and rock pythons.

The aura of level six or higher monsters is extremely rare.

Zhou Yuan did not disturb these "natives".

Because once action is taken, the stench of blood and the shockwaves of battle could very well attract even more powerful monsters that may exist deep within the island, or even alert other transformed beings who happen to pass by.

That would expose the anomaly of this place, attracting unnecessary trouble and covetousness.

He took out an earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of talisman) and affixed it to his body. His figure slowly sank into the hard, gray-white ground.

Traveling underground is more concealed than flying in the air.

He fled towards the highest stone peaks in the central area of ​​the island.

After traveling about three hundred miles, Zhou Yuan arrived at the foot of one of the tallest and steepest stone peaks.

Like a fish swimming silently, he blended into the thick mountain rocks, constantly moving upwards and diving deeper into the mountain's interior.

The deeper you go, the harder and denser the surrounding rocks seem to become.

It faintly emitted a special kind of fluctuation, yet it was firmly locked inside the rock.

The fluctuation was barely perceptible.

If Zhou Yuan hadn't possessed a powerful divine sense and been prepared beforehand, he would have been almost completely unaware.

Finally, he arrived at a naturally formed, not-too-large, rock cavity deep inside the mountain.

It was dark and the air was thin, with only a faint, cold light emanating from the rocks themselves.

Zhou Yuan held his breath and focused his mind, setting up a simple soundproofing and spiritual energy isolation barrier around him.

Then, he took out the sharp silver short sword, infused it with magic power, and the tip of the sword emitted a foot-long blue light.

He selected an area on the cave wall where a faint, subtle crystalline light was shimmering, and carefully slashed down with his sword!

"Clang!"

With a soft sound, a grayish-white rock the size of a washbasin was chopped off.

At the cross-section of the rock, the interior was revealed—no longer a monotonous gray-white, but interwoven with fine, crystalline green veins, like jade!

High-grade wood-attribute spirit stone!

Zhou Yuan reached out and gently stroked the smooth, jade-like surface, feeling the pure wood spirit contained within, and his heart was filled with joy.

He once spent a long time traveling to buy a high-grade spirit stone, spending 170,000 spirit stones at the Tianxing City auction before finally acquiring one.

Now, in the high-grade spirit stone mines of Biling Island, while they may not be everywhere, you can definitely find several hundred pieces!

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