This Sword Cultivator is Somewhat Dependable-Chapter 1589 - 48: Interception and Counterattack

Day by day passed, high above the sea ten thousand miles outside Heavenly River City, everyone was waiting for a guest destined to "return home" from afar, but they still hadn't arrived.

The calm sea shimmered, with waves three feet high even without wind.

"Could he have guessed the Taoism's plan, and chose to lay low for the time being, not planning to return to Heavenly River City yet?" Qian Venerable looked down from above, his divine sense sweeping through the space up and down without finding anything unusual.

Apart from the occasional sea demon passing through, there was nothing else in the surrounding space.

Constantly scanning with divine sense was tiring, but everyone had to do it; being a bit tired was better than failing at the last moment, right?

However, as time passed, Qian Venerable began to gradually lose patience and became agitated.

Having waited so long without seeing Lu Qingshan, he instinctively suspected that Lu Qingshan might have chosen to hide.

The islands over Heavenly River Sea were countless. If Lu Qingshan was determined to hide for ten years or so, waiting for things to cool down before emerging, they really couldn't do anything about it—they didn't dare to lurk so long near Heavenly River City.

Qian Venerable didn't know that Lu Qingshan still bore the trust of the Whale God, making a return to Heavenly River City imperative, and it wouldn't be long, otherwise there would be no worry at present.

Qian Venerable also didn't know that the small black dot he dismissed as a sea demon had, in fact, stop strangely after skimming past his line of sight, beyond his view.

The world is three-dimensional.

Qian Venerable and Dao Wuya both believed they had considered every strategy and blocked Lu Qingshan's road back to Heavenly River City, yet they overlooked one possibility:

Aside from coming from the left or the right, Lu Qingshan could possibly come from...

The bottom.

Cultivators of the Taoism and Demonic Race chose to hide and scout within the clouds miles high, to have an unimpeded view and conceal their own presence.

This left a great distance between them and the sea surface.

From this height, even though cultivators' vision surpasses ordinary people's by far, akin to divine eye, the creatures below the sea surface appeared as mere sesame-sized black dots to them.

This isn't to say that the Demon and Taoism were careless and couldn't conceive of Lu Qingshan using a sea-bottom route for stealth.

This oversight was more the result of common sense and inertia thinking.

Because, Heavenly River Sea is distinctly different from other vast oceans.

It once was an impassable ocean, with Ruishui River's force preventing even birds from crossing.

Even now, although the obliterating force of suppression over Heavenly River Sea has dissipated, allowing creatures to fly freely over the sea, the weak water force in the sea continues to exist.

Below the surface, other than the native sea demons of Heavenly River Sea, it remains a forbidden zone for all other creatures.

Although cultivators can temporarily withstand the obliterating force of weak water with their immense cultivation, the mana consumption is huge and unsustainable for long.

Moreover, when cultivators resist the weak water's force with their cultivation, it's akin to fighting against the Heavenly River Sea, and would certainly generate intense spiritual energy fluctuations.

In the context of demon cultivators releasing their divine sense to detect any abnormalities in a three-dimensional area, such spiritual fluctuations cannot be concealed.

Therefore, even if Lu Qingshan had conceived of using the Water Escape Technique, evading their detection and escaping from their net would be nearly impossible.

Thus, with these two factors combined, neither the Taoism nor the Demons considered the possibility of Lu Qingshan coming from below the sea.

.....

Deep within the seabed a thousand miles away.

The seawater around Lu Qingshan was oddly repelled away.

It appeared as if he was using a Water-Repelling Pearl artifact in an ordinary water area. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Heavenly River Sea's water is extraordinary and exceedingly dangerous, rendering a Water-Repelling Pearl useless.

But Lu Qingshan had Oblivion.

The Sea-Calming Divine Skill of Oblivion bestowed sea-calming power.

With the sea-calming power of Oblivion, Lu Qingshan could easily repel the seawater surrounding him, creating a vacuum area.

Since the seawater was kept away and didn't touch him, the weak water force would not interfere with him.

Furthermore, because Lu Qingshan wasn't resisting weak water by any means, naturally, no spiritual energy fluctuations would be generated or transmitted.

Lu Qingshan controlled his stealth depth to be around a thousand meters from the sea surface.

This is a sufficiently safe position and also the most suitable depth.

At this depth, looking from the sky, at most one could see a black dot moving, it wouldn't occur to them that the black dot wasn't a sea demon but a cultivator.

More importantly, Heavenly River Sea water is weak water, making it difficult for divine sense to move within it. Even if Lu Qingshan's Primordial Spirit Realm had reached the Tribulation Realm, only at this depth could he comfortably observe the activity above the sea.

He moved through the seabed like a sea demon, freely advancing while also having the bandwidth to silently monitor the movements above the sea.

Finally, as he got closer and closer to Heavenly River City and was about to reach it, several black dots appeared in his divine sense, exactly as he anticipated, cruising above in the high skies.

Subsequently, tracing these black dots, he quickly discovered more.

...

When escaping Tianya Island with Zang Xiaojian and the Cloud-patterned Primordial Stone, he had anticipated the possibility of the Taoism intercepting them.

Because of this, after detouring to Qingcang Island, Lu Qingshan chose to settle Zang Xiaojian on Qingcang Island, then temporarily "part ways" with her, returning to Heavenly River City alone.