The Confucian and Taoist Sages of Mortal Cultivation

Chapter 103 Chaotic Star Sea

After a moment of dizziness, Yang Qingyuan and Han Li slowly came to their senses.

What came into view was a dark, damp, and narrow stone chamber.

"My head is spinning." Han Li clutched his head, looking pained, and it took him a while to come to his senses.

Yang Qingyuan flicked his finger at the teleportation array beneath his feet, casting the spell "Flick of Thunder," unleashing a lightning-attribute sword aura from his fingertip.

The lightning sword energy struck a corner of the teleportation array, leaving a crack in the array and rendering it ineffective.

Seeing this, Han Li smiled wryly and said, "It seems that the six sects of the Demonic Path will definitely deploy heavy troops to guard the other end of the teleportation array."

"I'm afraid we can no longer return to Yue through this teleportation array."

Yang Qingyuan, however, did not take it seriously and said, "After we break through to the Nascent Soul stage, we will repair this teleportation array. At that time, even if the six demonic sects guard the other end of the array, they will not be able to stop us."

Upon hearing this, Han Li forced a smile and said, "Breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage is no easy feat."

"Han wouldn't even dare to think about it."

"But speaking of which, Senior Brother Yang, do you know where you are?"

Upon hearing this, Yang Qingyuan explained, "This place is called the Sea of ​​Chaotic Stars."

"I'm not entirely clear on the specifics either."

"Let's go out and find a guide first."

After saying this, he took the lead and walked towards the stone gate, then pushed it open and went out.

Behind the stone gate is a tunnel paved with bluestone.

Yang Qingyuan, Han Li, and Qu Hun climbed the steps and walked out along the tunnel.

But at the end of the tunnel, a huge round boulder blocked the way.

Yang Qingyuan slowly stepped forward, stretched out his hands to brace against the rolling stones, and with a sudden burst of strength, easily pushed the boulder aside.

Han Li, who was standing nearby, was surprised to see Yang Qingyuan push aside a boulder weighing tens of thousands of pounds with his bare hands without using any magic.

He knew very well that even Qu Hun, who had cultivated the Elephant Armor Technique, did not have such a powerful physical body.

At the same time, as the boulder was pushed aside, a beam of dazzling sunlight shone through the crack.

Han Li's nose twitched slightly as he smelled a faint fishy odor in the air.

Yang Qingyuan was the first to walk out of the tunnel, stand outside, and look around at the surroundings.

The tunnel exit was located on a rather high cliff.

At first glance, the island is surrounded by azure waters on all sides, with no end in sight.

Huge waves crashed relentlessly against the rocks on the shore of the isolated island.

The sun was high in the sky, and the humid air was filled with the smell of the sea.

"This is the legendary—ocean?!"

Han Li emerged from the tunnel and was stunned to see the boundless sea.

"I'm sorry to have troubled you, Senior Brother Yang. This is the first time I've ever seen the ocean." Han Li said with a smile, coming back to his senses. "The largest waterway I've ever seen before was just one within Lanzhou."

Yang Qingyuan smiled slightly and replied, "It's alright. Anyone would be mesmerized by such a vast ocean."

"Let's take a walk around the neighborhood first and see if we can find a local guide."

After saying this, Yang Qingyuan took off the spirit pet pouch from his waist and released the black dragon.

As soon as the black dragon appeared, it sensed the unusually abundant moisture in the air and became extremely excited, circling continuously in the air.

"A level four dragon-like monster!"

Han Li was also surprised to see that Mo Jiao's strength had improved again.

This black dragon alone is not something an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator can handle.

Yang Qingyuan, Han Li, and Qu Hun successively leaped onto the head of the black dragon and circled the island, but they did not see any ships nearby.

Han Li also noticed that the island where the teleportation array was located had very little spiritual energy, making it impossible to grow spiritual herbs and unsuitable for opening a cave dwelling.

Fortunately, the black dragon was extremely fast, and even if it exhausted its demonic power and could not fly on the clouds, it could still dive into the water and use its body to speed across the sea, and its speed was not slow either.

Half a day later, as dusk fell, a huge wooden ship finally appeared on the horizon ahead.

The ship was about ten feet long, but it had no mast or sail. Instead, it was pulled forward by a dozen or so huge white fish.

The white fish showed no signs of demonic energy, so it was clearly not a demonic beast.

"What a peculiar wooden boat!" Han Li stood atop the black dragon's head, releasing his divine sense to scan the boat from afar, and exclaimed in surprise, "This boat is in bad shape."

"There is a monster with many legs following behind the wooden boat at the bottom of the sea. Judging from the demonic aura on this monster, it should be a level one monster without a doubt."

"It seems that this monster has its eyes on the strange fish pulling the boat and the mortals on the boat."

"There are no cultivators on this wooden boat, so it will most likely end up with the boat being destroyed and everyone on board dying."

"I didn't expect to encounter a monster so soon after arriving in this sea area. The number of monsters here must far exceed that of the country."

Yang Qingyuan's divine sense was stronger than Han Li's, and he had already grasped the situation in the vicinity.

It turns out that there was a level one monster in the shape of an octopus in the sea, preparing to hunt the wooden boat.

"We've been flying at sea for half a day now, and it's getting quite boring," Han Li urged. "Why don't we hop closer and take a look?"

"It would be best to get a map of the area."

Yang Qingyuan nodded slightly, and with a thought, the black dragon beneath him immediately changed direction and swam straight towards the giant ship.

At this moment, the sea octopus monster had already extended its huge purple tentacles, reached out of the water, grabbed the strange fish pulling the boat, strangled it to death, dragged it underwater, put it into its mouth, and kept tearing at it.

The strange fish was also wrapped in chains that were pulling the giant ship, causing the ship to shake violently as it was pulled by the octopus monster, threatening to capsize at any moment.

There were over a hundred strong men on the deck, holding crossbows and continuously firing arrows into the water.

But mortal weapons are ultimately limited in power. Even if they hit the purple tentacles of the monster exposed on the sea surface, they only left a white mark.

After the octopus monster finished eating the strange fish that was pulling the ship, it stretched out its tentacles, climbed onto the giant ship, and tried to drag the entire ship into the sea.

The giant ship creaked and groaned, already overburdened.

The ordinary people on the ship were also in a chaotic mess, shouting and yelling.

However, the language they used was clearly not the language of the Yue Kingdom.

Yang Qingyuan and Han Li couldn't understand it at all.

Just then, several mortals on the bow of the ship also saw Yang Qingyuan, Han Li, and Qu Hun riding a dragon, speeding towards them.

Upon seeing this, the mortals knew that Yang Qingyuan and Han Li must be cultivators, so they waved their arms and shouted loudly, trying to attract the attention of the three.

Yang Qingyuan released his divine sense, locking onto the octopus monster in the seabed. He then extended his right hand, forming a delicate orchid-shaped hand seal, with silver-white lightning crackling at his fingertips.

"A thunderclap in the blink of an eye!"

Yang Qingyuan flicked his finger, and a lightning sword light over ten feet long burst forth from his fingertip.

The sword light plunged into the sea, immediately producing a deafening roar.

The sea surface was blasted into dozens of high columns of water by lightning.

The next moment, the carcass of a giant octopus surfaced.

A large hole was torn open in the octopus corpse, and blood gushed out from the wound, staining the nearby sea red.

The mortals on the deck escaped to safety and cheered loudly. They then kowtowed repeatedly to Yang Qingyuan and Han Li.

Meanwhile, the black dragon carried Yang Qingyuan and Han Li into the air, leaping onto the giant ship—