Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension
Chapter 1686 - 906: Red Sea Realm, Sea God, Mount-bearing Dragon Turtle Clan
The sun rises and sets, stars shift and change, and time flows away like water.
Twelve years passed in the Taiyi Spirit Realm, yet only eight hundred and thirty-two Ruins days passed in the Burial Immortal Ruins.
During these eight hundred and thirty-two Ruins days, Zhao Sheng’s two avatars traveled to many "Immortal Ruins Markets."
Divine Sound Valley, Bone Accumulation Cliff, Evil Moon Cave, Residual Image Mountain, Tidal Forest, Pure Heaven... each bizarre and unique place of the Immortal Ruins opened Zhao Sheng’s eyes, allowing him to truly witness countless strange beings and peculiar existences.
The Human Clan is truly the dominant race of this era, as they can be seen in nearly every Immortal Ruins market, along with the Sub-human Clan.
Aside from the orthodox Human Clan, the Sub-human Clan is incredibly diverse, among which the Giants, Sea Spirits, and Ancient Witches are the most powerful three sub-families.
Just like how the Giant Clan is divided into many branches such as multi-arm, single-eye, and nine-head clans, the Sea Spirits and Ancient Witches also have numerous sub-branches.
To Zhao Sheng’s surprise, the Sea Spirit Clan’s appearance and body type are remarkably similar to the Blue-eyed Spirit Clan under the Shattered Star Sea of the Tianzhu Realm.
Perhaps we should say that the Blue-eyed Spirit Clan is very likely a major branch of the Sea Spirit Clan.
To this day, Zhao Sheng is still deeply impressed by the Blue-eyed Spirit Clan, as his second life once had Spiritual Clan Bloodline flowing through it.
Perhaps out of curiosity.
When he ascended randomly to the "Tidal Forest," he quickly chose a Red-eyed Spirit Clan member as his target.
Then, as it returned to the Lower Realm, Zhao Sheng promptly followed along the invisible silk strings.
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The sky exuded an ominous bloody color, and the atmosphere felt heavy and solid, like an expansive, undulating cloud continent, covering the endless below, with the sea showing a faint red color in this ocean world.
This was an awe-inspiring, unimaginably vast ocean planet, with seas covering over ninety percent of the star’s surface area.
Tens of thousands of islands were scattered across various regions, with the largest island being just over three million miles in size, far less than a tenth of the vast domain of the Divine Continent.
The planet’s atmosphere was amazingly thick, with a calm thickness exceeding three hundred thousand miles, possessing a very complete and independent ecological environment, entirely regarded as a special "independent world."
The blood-red Great Sun gradually sank into the Cloud Sea, only to see a colossal entity suddenly break through the bloody clouds, swiftly flying towards the horizon.
This colossal entity was wholly black like iron, with a diameter of ten thousand feet. At a glance, it seemed to be a huge black turtle with a humpback like a mountain, with four blue wings nearly a thousand feet long emerging from below, stirring the cloud mist with each movement.
With a casual stir, it could often disturb the clouds within a hundred miles, flying forward several hundred miles in the blink of an eye.
And on the shiny black turtle’s back, there were seven or eight grand and luxurious crystal palaces formed of jade and gems, dazzling under the sun, displaying extreme splendor.
At this time, atop the hill-like giant turtle’s head, there stood more than thirty beautiful and strange, elegantly dressed Spirit Clan cultivators.
These Spirit Clan cultivators’ features were even more exquisite than those of the orthodox Human Clan, their temperament more ethereal. However, their pupils radiated an eerie red light, like two clear, crimson pieces of amber.
Among the crowd, a middle-aged Spirit Clan member with a physique a bit stouter and an appearance relatively ordinary was intently gazing at the sky.
This person was none other than Zhao Sheng, who had secretly infiltrated the Red Sea Realm.
This realm was named the Red Sea mainly because the oceans here commonly grew a type of red seaweed.
This particular red seaweed covered the global sea areas, tinting the sea a faint red color.
Only on the day of the annual new moon tide would all seaweeds change from red to pale green. This is considered a great wonder of the Red Sea Realm.
Before long, the giant sun, taking up half of the Heavenly Vault, was finally completely obscured by the clouds.
Zhao Sheng slowly withdrew his gaze, his eyes once again falling on the front of the group.
At this moment, a Spirit Clan female cultivator of extraordinary beauty and unparalleled aura stood at the forefront, surrounded and embraced by the others, as if she were the moon surrounded by stars.
Her name was Guerhai Mingzhu, with a distinguished background, she was the Third Princess of the Xuanyu Sea Clan, her strength nearly comparable to a Nascent Soul Cultivator of the Human Clan.
Most importantly, her true identity was that of an extremely rare Immortal Ruins Guest, one in a billion.
Previously, Zhao Sheng had followed her into this realm and mixed in with the envoy group heading towards Fuping Continent.
Fuping Continent is the largest island in the Red Sea Realm, home to nearly eight hundred million Human Clan and Spirit Clan hybrids, with three major Human Clan nations: Lan, Lang, and Miao atop.
Fuping Continent lies in a remote corner, with cultivation forces neither strong nor weak, far from being a match for the Sea Spirit Clan.
However, in the past fifty thousand years, the Sea Spirit Clan initiated three across-ocean battles, trying to extinguish the Human Clan forces on Fuping Continent.
Yet, in all three battles, they ultimately ended with disastrous defeats.
In the past twenty thousand years, the Sea Spirit Clan has been restless but dared not easily launch another cross-ocean battle.
This time, upon arriving in the new world, for certain reasons, Zhao Sheng chose to travel with Guerhai Mingzhu on this Humpbacked Mountain Turtle to familiarise himself with the new environment.
"Moo..."
As night passed, accompanied by the long cry of the Humpbacked Mountain Turtle, a brilliant red light suddenly illuminated the horizon.
The red light painted the sky with clouds, dyeing the limitless sea surface, quickly making the sea water even redder and more vibrant.
Moments later, a gigantic scarlet Sun rose abruptly at the edge of the western horizon.
The Great Sun occupied almost half of the sky, emanating scorching red light, seemingly ready to crash into this world at any moment.