Chapter 165: Overseas Scenery

On the boundless vast ocean, amidst the endless dismal clouds and miserable mists that one couldn’t see the end of at a glance, a brilliantly golden large ship was seen flattening the waves and shuttling through them recklessly.

No matter how thunderbolts from the sky and waves from the sea struck, they couldn’t shake the large ship in the slightest.

Mid-grade Spirit Treasure [Void Crossing Golden Boat]!

This Spirit Treasure bestowed by Perfected One Chong Guang, used in the harsh spiritual qi environment overseas, could be said to be perfect. Cleaving through waves, it was almost unstoppable.

At the bow of the ship, Lu Yang stood with hands behind his back, gazing into the distance.

“What violent spiritual qi…”

With his cultivation, he could naturally see that these vast and boundless dismal clouds and miserable mists, and even the waves and thunderbolts born from them, were all manifestations of spiritual qi.

“Unlike the continent within the seas, the spiritual qi overseas is extremely chaotic and violent. Ordinary cultivators cannot even accommodate it. And these violent spiritual qis catalyze even more violent celestial phenomena. Plus the natural environment of the ocean, finally forming this insurmountable boundary line…”

Overseas was not a place anyone could go.

Just the thunder clouds extending for ten thousand li generated by this violent spiritual qi had power sufficient to compare with his [Twelve Celestial Fiend Secret Demon Tribulation Light], and they never ceased.

Being in the midst of it, even Great Perfection of Qi Refining would have a ninety percent chance of death.

Fortunately, these thunder clouds only had power but no stature of golden core, so Foundation Establishment cultivators could still cross over. Otherwise, probably even Foundation Establishment cultivators would find it hard to withstand.

“My opportunity…”

Lu Yang calculated with his fingers while operating the [Investigating Heaven Sphere]. Opening the Heavenly Eye at the center of his brow, he let down a brilliant golden precious light, which soon illuminated the direction for him.

And at the end of the precious light, he saw a ship much smaller compared to the [Void Crossing Golden Boat].

“…Overseas cultivators.”

Seeing this, Lu Yang’s gaze lit up abruptly.

Rumble.

In the sky were thousands of golden snakes and thunderbolt lights. In the water were rolling undercurrents and monstrous giant waves. A three-masted large ship was struggling under this mighty force of heaven and earth.

“Hold on! Hold on for me!”

At this moment, Chen Xinghai, the helmsman of the Green Quill Dragon Ship, was standing at the stern, his hands gripping the rudder tightly, looking at the surrounding whistling wind and waves with desperate eyes.

He never expected that what was originally a perfectly normal border shipwreck salvage job would encounter the legendary “Ghost Cloud” when about to return. The dragon ship couldn’t avoid it in time and crashed straight into it. Since then, no matter how hard he tried, he could no longer find a way out.

Thinking of this, Chen Xinghai couldn’t help looking at the sky.

As a helmsman living off the sea, he once heard his father say that on the other side of the “Ghost Cloud” lay the Heavenly Kingdom Paradise paved with gold.

Although in his view at that time, this was just his father talking nonsense.

Because not a single person who entered the “Ghost Cloud” came back alive. Wasn’t that just going to the “Heavenly Kingdom Paradise”? It was all nonsense used to deceive children.

However, at this moment, Chen Xinghai sincerely hoped his father’s words were true.

Persist, just persist until crossing the “Ghost Cloud”, and I can survive… As for whether the other side is the Heavenly Kingdom Paradise, I don’t care anymore.

Crack—!

Just then, a disturbing shattering sound reached Chen Xinghai’s ears. Looking back, he saw a boat master looking at him with a face like mourning.

“Boss, afraid it’s finished…”

“Shut up!”

Chen Xinghai also felt a bone-piercing chill, because at the stern, the [Sea Patrolling Immortal Talisman] personally drawn by the Immortal Masters of the Immortal Alliance just showed some cracks. Along with it, the precious light that originally firmly protected the entire dragon ship began to dim and was about to shatter.

And being in the midst of the “Ghost Cloud,” once the talisman shattered, the consequences would be unimaginable.

“Let the Guest Elder repair it!”

Chen Xinghai made a final effort. His ship still had an Immortal Master invited from the Immortal Alliance at a huge cost to hold the line. Perhaps he could repair the talisman…

However, when that Guest Elder appeared in front of him, Chen Xinghai’s already meager hope was completely extinguished. Because at this moment, that Immortal Master’s face actually wore an incomparably relaxed smile. His eyes were spiritless, as if his soul had flown beyond the heavens, having no reaction to anything in the outside world.

“Possessed by evil!”

Seeing this scene, Chen Xinghai’s heart sank abruptly. This was the most terrifying aspect of the “Ghost Cloud,” and also the origin of this name.

Legend had it that it was a peerless great war.

Mighty cultivators of the entire cultivation world joined forces to fight against the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons that suddenly appeared on the sea. Their battlefield’s sky color turned scarlet, and waves turned into a sea of blood.

Finally, the cultivators of the cultivation world won victory, but also paid the price. The place shrouded by the “Ghost Cloud” was their former battlefield. Dead souls shuttled through the dark clouds, transforming into golden snake-like thunderbolts. Their obsessions stirred the sea, turning into ceaseless giant waves.

The higher the cultivation, the easier it was to be affected by these dead souls.

Once the influence received deepened, one would fall into the memories of these dead souls, finding it hard to extricate oneself. People on the sea called this “being possessed by evil.”

At the same time, although the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons were defeated, they were not extinct.

Therefore, the surviving cultivators, in order to fight against the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demons at all times, chose to discard past grievances and stand together, finally forming today’s unified Immortal Alliance.

“Boss! What do we do!?”

A voice came from beside his ear again, interrupting Chen Xinghai’s evasive thinking, pulling him back to reality, forcing him to face the desperate situation before him.

But what could he do?

He was just a sea citizen under the Immortal Alliance. If not for the dragon ship, placing him alone in the “Ghost Cloud,” he would have long turned into flying ash.

Thinking of this, Chen Xinghai couldn’t help smiling bitterly, collapsing to the ground: “No hope, wait for death.”

“Anyway, there’s nothing to be afraid of anymore.”

After all, having reached this step, was there anything more terrifying than death?

Then he saw the “Ghost Cloud” before his eyes, which should never have dispersed, suddenly roll, and then infinite golden light tore it apart forcefully.

Within the golden light, a large ship was seen crossing the void and breaking through the air. The ship was thirty-six stories high, each story more magnificent and impressive than the last, resembling the thirty-six layers of Tiangang clouds. Inside this “Ghost Cloud,” it was simply like a towering divine mountain. Wherever it passed, waves calmed down, and thousands of thunderbolts could hardly shake it.

Chen Xinghai blinked.

He was wrong; something fiercer came from the other side of the “Ghost Cloud”!

In the next second, he who was paralyzed on the ground just now jumped into the air incredibly vigorously, shouting towards the sky: “High Immortal! High Immortal, save my life, High Immortal!”

His shout received a response.

In a flash, Chen Xinghai felt the sky spin and earth rotate. When he looked back again, the “Ghost Cloud” had become a background board far on the horizon.

Around were calm waves and a clear sky for ten thousand li.

And that towering mountain-like golden large ship vanished out of thin air.

Did he escape?

For a time, he even suspected he just had a somewhat terrifying dream, until he saw an extra handsome and spirited figure on the ship.

“Lowly citizen Chen Xinghai greets the High Master!”

Without the slightest hesitation, Chen Xinghai trotted all the way to Lu Yang without hesitation, bowing and worshipping: “Many thanks to High Master for the grace of saving from danger and rescuing from difficulty!”

As soon as these words came out, Lu Yang raised his eyebrows.

He saved Chen Xinghai mainly to inquire about the other party’s origin, so as to have some understanding of overseas, avoiding crashing headfirst into some troublesome matter.

However, as soon as Chen Xinghai opened his mouth, he discovered something wrong.

Language is the same?

Different places have different languages and even accents; this is perfectly normal. As far as he knew, the huge Jiangbei alone had dozens of accents.

But the language spoken from Chen Xinghai’s mouth at this moment was the very standard “True Speech,” unanimously recognized by the four parties of the Saint Sect, Sword Pavilion, Pure Land, and Dao Court. This was obviously not something a normal overseas cultivator could possess. Either he had a relationship with the inland.

Or the overseas force behind him had a relationship with the inland!

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