Chapter 1503: Chapter 1503
Chapter 1503: Chapter 655: Ji Xiuning Arrives! Sea of Misfortune! (Part 2)
Lanling and Gou Li kept diving, diving, diving!
Thirty meters, fifty meters, one hundred meters, three hundred meters, five hundred meters, eight hundred meters, a thousand meters…
The Sea of Misfortune was surprisingly deep. The two had already dived over a thousand meters and still couldn’t see the bottom.
Diving two thousand meters!
Fortunately, both he and Gou Li had immortal bodies, otherwise they would have suffocated and died long before reaching two thousand meters, and the deeper they dived, the more terrifying the water pressure became.
The water pressure at two thousand meters was already astronomical.
Gou Li had begun to transform, her body turning into a crystalline form, and her limbs couldn’t move anymore, relying on gravity to continue sinking.
Lanling clearly felt power continuously releasing from deep within his veins, balancing the outside pressure, so he didn’t feel uncomfortable.
The two continued diving.
Three thousand meters, four thousand meters, five thousand meters!
At five thousand meters, still no bottom in sight.
At this depth of five thousand meters, the water pressure on every square centimeter exceeded a ton.
In other words, Lanling’s entire body was under the pressure of over ten million pounds.
At this moment, Lanling felt discomfort, like he was going to explode.
This was already the limit. His blood couldn’t provide stronger energy to balance the external water pressure anymore.
“Master, my crystal body is about to explode too,” said Gou Li, “We can’t go any further. I feel you’ve reached your limit.”
Of course, Lanling and Gou Li were both immortal, but after being completely shattered, it would take a lot of energy to reconstruct their bodies. Follow current ɴᴏᴠᴇʟs on novel·fire.net
Moreover, this depth of five thousand meters seemed far from the end. How deep this Sea of Misfortune truly was remained entirely unknown.
“Master, use your spiritual power to sense,” Gou Li suggested.
Lanling nodded, then used the Psychic Husk Escape Skill, releasing his soul perception and continued diving, diving, diving.
The Sea of Misfortune was unbelievably deep, and Lanling felt there might be surprises in the depths of the sea.
Six thousand meters, seven thousand meters, ten thousand meters…
Their spiritual senses had dived to ten thousand meters.
Lanling’s perception could detach from his body over several thousand meters due to his defiant spiritual power and talent.
While Gou Li, technically someone who had died once, could let her soul leave her body freely.
However, neither could compare with the Ghost King, whose soul perception could explore the universe and stars some tens of thousands of miles away from his body.
Lanling’s exploration depth was fast approaching the limit of his soul’s detachment.
He worried that the seabed’s depth might be boundless, far exceeding his limits, rendering perception impossible.
Finally, at thirteen thousand meters, they reached the seabed.
At this moment, Lanling and Gou Li’s spiritual power was rapidly depleting, and they hurriedly explored this underwater world.
At thirteen thousand meters underwater, there was no way the outside light could penetrate.
The entire seabed was pitch black, and Lanling and Gou Li’s spiritual vision couldn’t see anything.
The underwater world lit up.
Lanling clearly saw a few glowing jellyfish swimming over.
At a depth of thirteen thousand meters, were there jellyfish? How could such fragile creatures withstand the terrifying pressure?
Upon closer inspection, Lanling was astonished to discover they were purely energy-based and didn’t have actual bodies, no wonder they could live at thirteen thousand meters deep.
Using the light from these energy jellyfish, Lanling explored everything underwater.
But he was disappointed!
This underwater world was just a normal seabed.
Aside from oddly shaped rocks, there was nothing else.
No ruins, no relics, no writings. In short, no traces of civilization.
For days and nights, Lanling used spiritual power to explore over a thousand miles of seabed, still finding nothing.
It was just normal seabed rocks, with no discovery of any Ruins of Doom Magic Capital, no writings, no relics of civilization.
The entire underwater world had nothing except these energy jellyfish!
“Master, could it be that this isn’t the ruins of Doom Magic Capital at all?” Gou Li asked.
Lanling closed his eyes, beginning to think carefully.
The Ghost King’s tomb was here, that seemed certain. Because through the vision of the Eye of the Ghost King, the Ghost King’s last appearance was indeed at the Sea of Misfortune.
On the other hand, the presence of Doom Magic Capital in the Sea of Misfortune had always been a legend, never proven.
So is it possible to break free from conventional thinking and envision a bolder hypothesis?
For example, what if there’s no such thing as the ruins of Doom Magic Capital? Even if there were, what if they aren’t in this Sea of Misfortune, given that it was named by later generations?
The Ghost King might have died here to preserve certain secrets, not wanting to be destroyed completely.
However, no matter where he died, he couldn’t escape the mysterious forces searching from the moon. Perhaps there was one exception, which was… the forbidden place within the Dragon Temple?
The forbidden place of the Dragon Temple was the Heaven Tomb!
To preserve secrets, many ancient priests of the Dragon Temple would be sealed in the Heaven Tomb before dying, so they would never die, nor truly live.
Because time was forbidden within the Heaven Tomb.
Lanling had once entered the Heaven Tomb before, and inside it seemed an eternity had passed, but when he left and returned to the sea surface, not even ten minutes had passed.
Could it be possible that the Ghost King had buried himself within the Dragon Temple’s Heaven Tomb?
Such a possibility existed, as no one from the Dragon Temple would dare open the Heaven Tomb, because it was forbidden.
But… countless years later, when necessary, wouldn’t the Dragon Temple still open it, thus exposing the Ghost King?
So is there another more frightening possibility?
“Master, shall we ascend?” Gou Li proposed.
They couldn’t force the search for the Ghost King’s tomb, or it would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
The two ascended continuously.
After some time, they broke through the water surface again.
Before dying, the Ghost King gazed at the starry sky, leaving behind a special image.
At this moment, the entire visual footage from the Eye of the Ghost King was stored within Lanling’s mind.
The Mirror Demon King had previously warned that unless absolutely necessary, do not recreate the visual imagery of the Eye of the Ghost King, as it would attract danger.
But now, Lanling was in a moment of desperation, needing to use the Eye of the Ghost King’s last visual image to locate the Ghost King’s exact final position.
Only then could he accurately find the Ghost King’s tomb.
Lanling took a deep breath, looked up at the sky, and spiritually entered the visual world of the Eye of the Ghost King right before death.
A breathtakingly beautiful scene imprinted into Lanling’s vision.
Familiar stars, familiar sky, familiar moon, almost indistinguishable from any other night’s sky.
Lanling noticed, in the Ghost King’s Eye’s final visual image, that there was a star that was so unique, flickering blood-red once in every hundred flashes.
Previously, he never noticed, as its position was too obscure, and the overwhelming majority of its blinks were normal light, with only one instance of blood-red glow every hundred.
Lanling knew of this star, famous both in the Demon Territory and the Human Kingdom, called the Blood Star.
It appeared once every hundred years, each time accompanied by a dreadful blood disaster, with untold numbers dying.
At that moment, in the real starry sky viewed by Lanling’s naked eyes, the Blood Star began appearing.
A full hundred years, and now the Blood Star emerges again?
The world was about to enter yet another terrifying blood disaster?
The Northern Pole of the Human Kingdom, Aurora Gate.
A powerful member of the Dragon Temple holding an energy book suddenly shimmered intensely.
“Someone has recreated the visual of the Eye of the Ghost King, at the Sea of Misfortune, proceed immediately to capture and eliminate!”
Suddenly, Holy Maiden Ji Xiuning led hundreds of Dragon Temple elites, riding flying mounts, passing through the Aurora Gate, entering the Southern Barbaric Lands’ Extreme South Desert, then flying toward the Sea of Misfortune!
Note: The first update is out. This chapter was tough to write, took a lot of planning before starting, so apologies for the late release!