Chapter 580: Chapter 297: The Spirit Realm’s Great Final Battle (Extended Chapter)

After releasing the eerie energy around the bone mirror, Li An immediately released a creature from the immortal coffin. It was a giant octopus, each of its tentacles spanning dozens of meters.

Li An instructed the octopus to open its large mouth and swallow him whole—

Then he directed the octopus to dive into the sand at the seabed, merging his entire aura with the octopus to hide—

According to Li An’s estimate, if it really works, mysterious creatures will soon arrive here.

Li An’s first goal was to observe and identify the identities of these people.

The second goal was to find a way to make contact with them.

In the future, all powers of the Dao Sect are doomed, and only by taking refuge in the strange can one survive. If that’s the case, it’s safest to find a backing and join them beforehand.

Only by doing so can he inquire about the situation in the Exotic Realm and find the direct descendants of Lady Yi.

He hid in the gravel, the octopus quietly breathing, filtering seawater through its gills.

This octopus was very ordinary, carefully chosen by Li An. Aside from its large size, it had no other features and could not be considered a powerful Spirit Beast, making it the safest choice, unlikely to attract attention.

Seven or eight hours passed.

The oscillations from battles outside continuously reached them, even at the seabed tens of thousands of meters deep. The people from the Dao Sect and other forces should still be in a bloody fight.

"Hmm? They’re here—"

Finally, through the octopus’s perception, Li An sensed the approach of the mysterious creatures, a giant black sphere coming from several thousand meters underwater, seemingly emerging from the Mist Sea!

The sphere quickly reached the location of the bone mirror, and a door opened from which several mysterious creatures emerged.

These mysterious creatures looked almost human, with the only difference being their gray skin covered in numerous decaying-like spots. The leader, a middle-aged "Exotic Spirit," picked up the bone mirror and inspected it repeatedly. Then with a wave of his hand, seven or eight Exotic Spirits beside him swiftly dove into the surrounding sea.

They were searching for the source of the eerie energy.

Li An tensed, hiding all his aura tightly.

In the sea area, several powerful Spirit Beasts were directly captured by these Exotic Spirits, subjected to Soul Searching, and refined on the spot, their terrifying Divine Thoughts repeatedly sweeping over the octopus hiding Li An, rendering it rigid and unable to move.

Those Exotic Spirits sealed off the surrounding hundreds of thousands of miles of sea, searching inside and out several times!

"Capture all creatures and perform Soul Searching. We must figure out why this energy appeared here!"

The leading Exotic Spirit spoke in a deep voice!

After waiting for countless years, finally, there was a trace, an opportunity that must not be missed—

But, it was at that moment.

"Huh? Something’s wrong, there’s movement in another area too!"

At this moment, a young Exotic Spirit beside him suddenly took out a gray Jade Talisman, which emitted light and displayed a coordinate.

"Could it be that Lady Yi only passed through here, and now she’s already in another location?"

The young Exotic Spirit looked at the middle-aged Exotic Spirit.

The middle-aged Exotic Spirit glanced at the Jade Talisman, its gray pupils shrinking slightly, and said, "Shanqing, you stay here. Since Lady Yi appeared here once, she may appear a second time. I’ll take people to pursue her—"

A slightly backward young Exotic Spirit opened his mouth wide at these words and said, "Ah? Me, staying guard?"

His expression didn’t look too good. After all, if he found Lady Yi, it would be a great achievement, but staying here, he would miss out on this achievement!

This sea area doesn’t have any special features, why would Lady Yi keep appearing here? It’s simply impossible.

The middle-aged Exotic Spirit said indifferently, "Do you have any objections?"

The young Exotic Spirit’s face looked grim, but he eventually bowed his head and said, "Understood—"

The middle-aged Exotic Spirit then led the group into the sphere.

Before closing the hatch, a youth stuck his head out and looked at the youth staying guard, saying, "Haha, Gong Shanqing, be careful. Your cultivation is so weak, don’t let the ants of this world discover you, otherwise, if you die, no one will collect your corpse... Hahaha..."

The hatch closed, and the sphere swiftly moved away.

Gong Shanqing stayed in place, clenching his fists, his eyes full of hatred, shouting angrily, "This is too much. It’s just because my ancestry’s patriarch died in battle... Damn it, back when I was in glory, you were all merely dogs raised by the Gong Clan!"

"Someday, I’ll make you regret it!"

He turned around, fury unceasing, violently driving the eerie energy, striking the surrounding sea area. A large number of aquatic Spirit Beasts suffered disasters, dying on the spot, leaving no remains.

Even hiding at the seabed, Li An was frightened—damn, this guy’s a lunatic... randomly attacking and killing, hope he doesn’t turn on me.

However, fortunately, thanks to this guy’s reckless actions, the octopus quickly absorbed a trace of eerie energy from the seawater, which Li An used to contact the Jade Talisman given by Lady Yi, but there was no reaction.

Enemy!

Li An confirmed these people’s identities.

He quietly slipped away with the octopus, fearing being struck by an innocent calamity caused by this guy. Fortunately, this mysterious creature soon stopped.

Only then did Li An feel at ease.

"Hmm? When this person made a move just now, the eerie energy dissipated rapidly, and in the ocean, there seemed to be a mysterious force of Heaven and Earth manifesting, limiting his actions."

Through observation, Li An keenly sensed that it seemed the Spirit Realm’s environment was repelling the Exotic Spirits!

Indeed, above the Southern Sea, with fairy winds surging and storms arriving, the Heaven and Earth Dao is affected, unable to act. That’s why those Exotic Spirits appear. Usually, they hibernate in the deep sea, rarely surfacing.