Chapter 1695: Chapter 909: The Surge of Gravitational Tides, Meteorite Swarm’s Sudden Appearance (Part 2)

Lu Haichao sighed repeatedly, "What a pity! If that Heavenly Intent Workshop Master were truly a Demi Immortal at the Returning to Void Realm, his aid could at least save a million lives. Alas, he remains indifferent, and this old man feels deep regret!

It’s better not to mention it. By the way, did the Spirit Clan agree?"

Gu Hong said, "The Spirit Clan allows at most a population of one hundred thousand to hide in the Spiritual Abyss, not one more. Additionally, our palace just received information that the Great Sacrificial Leader of the Spirit Clan has already begun gathering the entire clan, possibly preparing to awaken the Sea God."

Lu Haichao’s face changed slightly, "Terrible! If that’s truly the case, our plans must be greatly accelerated. This old man has matters to attend to, so I’ll take my leave first."

As soon as he finished speaking, he abruptly transformed into a streak of tunneling light, speeding towards the horizon and disappearing in an instant at the edge of the sky.

Gu Hong retracted his gaze and observed the sea waves for a while longer before his figure flashed, vanishing without a trace.

...

Like flowers blooming, two different stories unfold.

At the edge of the star system, billions of miles away from the Great Sun, a massive cluster of meteorites is speeding towards the inner regions of the star system.

In just half a month, the meteorite cluster has already flown beyond the outermost meteorite belt.

After passing through the meteorite belt, the cluster of meteorites collectively grew larger, with many new large pits appearing on their surfaces.

Zhao Sheng followed quietly behind the cluster, silently observing these "living" meteorites.

No, rather, it should be said, these Mount-bearing Dragon Turtles.

After half a month of continuous observation, Zhao Sheng astonishingly discovered that the meteorites were merely an outer shell, and the true Mount-bearing Dragon Turtle was hidden deep within the meteorites.

Because the Mount-bearing Dragon Turtles have an enormous body size, they generally possess a gravitational field similar to that of a planet.

During the long journey across the Star River, meteorites are continuously captured by their gravitational field and eventually fall to the surface, becoming part of the Dragon Turtle’s body.

The long journey is fraught with dangers, as the outer shell of the meteorites is constantly lost and new celestial meteorites are continuously captured.

As such, a massive accumulation of meteorites forms a thick shell that not only protects the Dragon Turtle’s body but also serves as a perfect disguise.

After understanding this truth, Zhao Sheng couldn’t help but admire the "wisdom" of the Mount-bearing Dragon Turtle clan.

These super beings have traveled the universe for countless years not only because of their inherently massive size.

Days later, as the meteorite cluster rapidly swept past the outermost planet, Zhao subtly reached the space above the largest meteorite and fell quietly like a tiny, common meteorite.

In one breath, he successfully penetrated the thick and dazzling life force field and, under the influence of gravity, easily landed on the pocked surface.

Zhao Sheng soared into the sky, soon arriving above a ring-shaped basin.

This basin had been created only recently, with dust still lingering in the valley, and enormous cracks split the surface outside the basin, some so deep that their depths could not be seen.

Zhao Sheng glanced around, his Divine Thought suddenly expanding in all directions, quickly enveloping a thousand li (miles) of the surface.

In one breath, a slight smile emerged on his face as he murmured to himself, "...found it!"

Before the words had fallen, Zhao Sheng instantly relocated to a deep crack six hundred li away, then moved like a ghost underground.

Soon after, he appeared in a vast and immense underground cavern.

The cavern’s diameter was nearly eight thousand li, with a dome standing over ten thousand zhang above the ground, where towering stone pillars, each hundreds or thousands of zhang thick, rose from various spots, appearing grand and magnificent from afar.

The stone pillars connected the dome above and the ground below, with smooth, delicate outer walls filled with countless densely packed caves.

The closer to the crown of the dome, the larger and more magnificent the caves; conversely, the lower they were, the denser and narrower they became.

Above the dome, seven "Artificial Suns" were suspended, casting bright and gentle sunlight into the cavern, making it as bright as daylight.

A complete and unique natural environment had already formed within the cavern, with numerous Human Clan settlements established around the stone pillars.

Cities rose from the ground below the stone pillars, with dense clusters of Wu Castles and forts surrounding them.

After exploring three settlements, Zhao Sheng found the living conditions there to be extremely harsh, strictly adhering to the concept of "survival of the fittest, the weak are prey."

The forces from different settlements often waged wars against each other, simultaneously seizing populations and resources.

War and conflict were the main themes here, with the vast majority of people being unable to escape the shadows of death and hunger throughout their lives.

Zhao Sheng quickly found out that most of the cultivators here practiced Demon Techniques and Evil Skills, with the Blood Demon Path and Corpse Ghost Dao being particularly popular.

Combined with the thin nature’s spiritual energy in this place, he quickly understood the reasons behind this.

After all, a Mount-bearing Dragon Turtle is not a real planet; it lacks the natural environment necessary for nurturing Spirit Veins and Cultivation Resources.

Apart from the slight cultivation resources brought by the meteorite belt, this underground world barely produced any cultivation resources.

In contrast, humans are undoubtedly an inexhaustible top-grade spirit material.

From this, it can be deduced that the situation in other underground worlds is likely the same.

In such a resource-constrained, brutal environment, human society naturally evolves into an extremely merciless operating system.

It is evident that the Star Sky Human Clan here is inherently pugnacious, highly likely to be resource and population plundering Star Sky bandits.

Zhao Sheng spent another two months traveling through twenty-three cavern worlds one after another.

As he had predicted, most of the cultivation forces controlling the caverns resembled Evil Demons like the Blood God Sect, Ten Thousand Corpses Sect, and Yin Soul Sect.

It is worth mentioning that the number of Divinity Transformation Realm Demon Cultivators here is surprisingly high, but their strength is generally subpar, and their magical treasures are pitifully few.

Besides, Zhao Sheng astonishingly discovered traces of Returning Void Realm Demon Cultivators.

He spent a few days and successfully identified two Returning Void Demon Cultivators.

Knowing that merely this meteorite exists with two Returning Void Demon Cultivators, what about other meteorites?

It can be foreseen that more Returning Void Demon Cultivators certainly exist.

Zhao Sheng did not continue his investigation and left quietly.

...

As time passed, the Red Sea Realm welcomed an unprecedented astronomical tide, causing the sea to rise with monstrous waves.

The majority of islands found themselves flooded with seawater surging inland, and some islands were completely submerged, leaving nearly all life on them extinct.

Simultaneously, the atmosphere enveloping the planet began to experience frequent thunderstorms, with Dragon Tornado hurricanes repeatedly arriving, casting the whole world into a scene akin to a doomed apocalypse.

As thunderstorms and hurricanes erupted more frequently, unprecedented torrential rains began to pour over the Red Sea Realm.

The downpours accompanied by increasingly intense thunderstorm and windstorms roared endlessly, seemingly unable to cease.

At the same time, the sea level climbed rapidly, with one island after another being submerged, resulting in billions of lives sinking beneath the sea.

As time progressed, the Thunderstorm Jellyfish and the colossal Great Roc, previously dwelling at the top of the atmosphere, began to frequently reveal themselves.

This implies that the environment in the outer layer of the atmosphere has grown even more hostile.

The Sea God has not yet fully awakened, nor have the Mount-bearing Dragon Turtles returned to the Red Sea Realm.

Yet... the population has already decreased by nearly forty percent, with at least half the islands submerged by seawater.

Early on, when thunderstorm hurricanes emerged, cultivation sects, led by the World Crossing Sect, Four Seas Palace, and Sun Worship Sect, promptly executed their hidden cards, attempting various methods to navigate through this doomsday catastrophe.

Rumble...

Half a year later, after the meteorite cluster swept past six planets sequentially, it finally reached the center of the star system, hovering above the Great Sun.

This enormous sun, "its light like blood," provides the ideal environment for the Mount-bearing Dragon Turtle tribe to reside.

As the meteorite cluster rapidly glided over the surface of the Great Sun, it instantly stirred innumerable blazing tongues of fire, causing the solar prominence to churn violently, erupting with dazzling radiance.

After circling more than half the Great Sun, the meteorite cluster finally halted.

Soon thereafter, individual meteorites began sinking into the Fire Sea of the Great Sun, then "grew" heads and limbs.

From afar, a group of colossal turtles of unimaginable size are frolicking and swimming in the Fire Sea, occasionally emitting high-pitched, joyful mooing sounds.

At this time, looking from the Red Sea Realm towards the Sun, one can see that the Great Sun suddenly has several black sunspots.

The sunspots slowly move, as though possessing some form of life.

With the arrival of the Mount-bearing Dragon Turtles, the Black Sun Halo Phenomenon finally erupted.

This also signifies the official arrival of the apocalypse!