Chapter 263: Deserted Sea Region
Chapter 263: Deserted Sea Region
Considering the mindless sea beasts around the island and the location of Northfrost Isle, Xiao Shou directly used a Tier 5 instant teleportation talisman and instantly moved one hundred thousand miles north.
That distance sounded far, but in the vast ocean it was actually very short.
Xiao Shou only felt a flicker before his vision turned blurred.
After a wave of strange spatial fluctuations, he then appeared above the sea.
He quickly multitasked, controlling his artifact to fly while also spreading out his perception to scanning for islands or cultivators nearby.
"Wow! I’m suffocating!" At that moment, the completely forgotten Yao Heng suddenly flashed with light and transformed into a tiny spirit form.
It then climbed up Xiao Shou’s hair and complained pitifully. "Master, why do you always go to places without spiritual energy, or places so dangerous that a fragile little me could die at any moment? And that place just now was so scary! I didn’t even dare to breathe. You stayed there for an entire night! That is too much!"
"Oh! Yaoyao, you woke up! It’s seems the Nullspace Gems has been fully absorbed."
Xiao Shou whose had completely forgotten about this little thing quickly covered his guilt with an overly enthusiastic smile.
After saying it, he felt relieved that he still remembered why the little one had fallen asleep.
Yao Heng hugged Xiao Shou’s hair happily and said, "Mm mm! It’s all absorbed! I can grow lots and lots of tasty things in the future! I won’t go hungry anymore! Master, Master, let me tell you, I was supposed to sleep a little longer, but when I was absorbing the Nullspace Gems yesterday, a huge wave of spiritual energy came over and helped me digest it all! But at that time, there were two super scary auras around you, so I didn’t dare speak."
Looking at Yao Heng’s sparkling, expectant eyes, he sighed helplessly.
"Alright, Yaoyao."
"Huh? Master, something feels strange around here. The spiritual energy seems to have something mixed inside it. I don’t like this kind of spiritual energy."
While acting spoiled, Yao Heng suddenly blinked its bright eyes and spoke while holding onto Xiao Shou’s hair.
Hearing this, Xiao Shou paused and carefully sensed the surroundings.
Sure enough, he discovered tiny foreign particles mixed within the spiritual energy.
However, he could not feel any aura from these particles at all, nor did he feel any sense of attraction or repulsion.
Is the ocean spiritual energy like this?
The previous island only had death energy, not spiritual energy. And he had already gotten used to not absorbing external spiritual energy after spending time in the Sunfall Domain.
While relying entirely on his own vast internal spiritual reserves, he had continued the same habit on the island.
He simply had not adjusted yet.
However, since the little one disliked it, then this spiritual energy was probably of lower quality than that of the mainland.
He should avoid absorbing this impure energy.
After all, his stock of spirit stones and spirit jades was more than enough to last until ascension to the Spirit Realm.
Xiao Shou felt quite satisfied with his wealth.
But then he frowned. "Yaoyao, I have noticed something. It is not just the spiritual energy. Within a range of one hundred thousand miles, I cannot sense any life aura at all. Not humans, not sea beasts, nothing. Yesterday there were still life forms near that island, but now after only a hundred thousand miles, everything has disappeared."
"Master, relying only on divine sense is not enough to judge properly. And the fact that there is no life in the seawater itself is already abnormal. I told you, Master, you have been standing here for so long and still no sea beasts attacked."
Yao Heng patted its small chest and said, "You have been traveling north the entire time. Why not continue heading north? Maybe you will find the answer there."
Xiao Shou nodded and said, "What you say makes sense. Then I will continue the operation, but we both need to be prepared for battle. You must be careful. If something goes wrong and I do not react in time, do not wait for my order before you act."
"Yaoyao understands, Master."
Seeing that its master was still so worried, Yao Heng qoreplied and then playfully grabbed Xiao Shou’s hair, swinging on it like a swing, looking completely carefree.
Seeing this, Xiao Shou, although still unsure whether something abnormal had happened in this sea region or whether it was only this area that was strange, still felt slightly more relaxed. He patted the little creature.
"Alright, let us begin."
"Mm!"
One person and one spirit flew north for more than an hour.
The sun had already crossed the sea horizon and hung in midair when they finally found an island.
However, what disappointed them was that although this island had houses and buildings, they were all badly damaged, covered in bloodstains, and completely empty.
There were no people at all.
Not even animals.
The surrounding sea was the same.
However, judging from the color of the wooden structures, pots, and clothing, it seemed that the disaster had occurred very recently.
Seeing such an island, Xiao Shou even suspected that some ghost cultivators or demonic cultivators had passed through this area.
It was very possible that one or more cultivators had slaughtered many islands and sea regions.
The reason his original island and nearby areas had not turned into this state might have been because of the Death Abyss Eye or the seal on that island.
Of course, this was only his speculation.
The truth still needed further investigation.
Fortunately, there were already signs of inhabited islands or settlements.
If he kept looking, he would eventually find more.
With this thought, Xiao Shou expanded his divine sense.
This time, instead of focusing only on heading north, he scanned the surrounding islands.
Wherever he found another island, he would go there.
As soon as his divine sense spread out, he immediately sensed another island in the northeast direction.