Chapter 231: The Abyss of the Sea, the Suanni Royal Family
Master Miaohe's words made Ye Changsheng look thoughtful. He remembered that in the original book, there was indeed a riot of monsters in the abyss.
Soon the riot evolved into a war between the alien sea monsters and the human race.
Since the Inner Star Sea itself was already in chaos, these forces in the Outer Star Sea had no support at all.
So in the end, all the human strongholds in the entire alien sea were destroyed, the teleportation array was destroyed, and almost all the monks and mortals were killed.
The cause of the whole incident seemed to be that a human Jindan cultivator killed a level five Suanni and obtained the demon clan's sacred object, the Brahma Copper Plate, from it.
Because his tribesmen were killed and the sacred objects were lost, the tenth-level old Suanni of the Suanni tribe did not hesitate to consume his own blood and essence, and launched the Ten Thousand Demons Order, calling on the alien sea monsters to flatten all the islands occupied by the human race.
"It seems that we are now in the early stages of the monster rebellion, and the Brahma copper piece of the Suanni tribe has been lost!"
"In a few decades, there will be basically no place for humans to gain a foothold in this alien ocean!" Ye Changsheng thought to himself.
Looking at Miaohe Zhenren who was giving him earnest advice, Ye Changsheng bowed and said:
"Thank you for telling me this news, but I still have to go to the lair of this level 8 monster!"
When Master Miaohe heard this, his face was shocked. He didn't expect that after he said so much, Ye Changsheng still wanted to go.
Now that the abyss is so dangerous, even he doesn't dare to go down easily. This fellow who has just advanced to the Nascent Soul stage is really a newborn calf that is not afraid of a tiger.
However, thinking of this, a smile appeared on Miaohe Zhenren's face.
Ye Changsheng wanted to go to the abyss, which just happened to suit his wishes.
He laughed and said, "Brother Ye is determined. I really admire you. But since you insist on going, I have another suggestion. Brother Ye might as well listen to it!"
“Oh, please tell me!”
"Brother Ye, do you still remember the agreement we made?" Master Miaohe said with a smile on his face.
"Of course I remember this. You from the Biyun Sect helped me find the nest of the eighth-level monster, so I'll do you a favor, right?" Ye Changsheng said as he picked up the teacup and took a sip.
"That's right. If Brother Ye wants to explore the nest of the eighth-level monster, then he can just fulfill the agreement with Qi!" said Master Miaohe.
"What does the master mean?" Ye Changsheng asked.
Miao He Zhenren's expression became solemn, and he said slowly: "This monster riot has seriously affected the interests of all the major forces on our Qiyuan Island!"
"Brother Ye also knows that our sects chose to establish a presence on Qiyuan Island because there are a large number of monsters here!"
"But now that the monsters are rioting, it has become extremely difficult to hunt them and obtain the elixir. The revenue of Qiyuan Island has dropped sharply in the past two years. We can't just sit back and watch this situation!"
"So, a year ago, our five major forces discussed going to the Ten Thousand Feet Abyss to see what was going on and find out the root cause of the monster riot!"
"If Brother Ye wants to explore the lair of the eighth-level monster, then why not come with us!"
"With Brother Ye's joining, our strength will be stronger. After we explore the root cause of the monster riot, Brother Ye will fulfill the agreement between us. How about that?" asked Master Miaohe.
"Explore the abyss? You, Master, have really given me a difficult question! I just want to find the nest of an eighth-level monster, not to die in the abyss!" Ye Changsheng's face turned ugly.
"There are definitely a lot of level eight monsters in that ten thousand zhang abyss. You should know this better than me. For cultivators like us who are in the early stage of Nascent Soul, we will definitely take great risks if we go in. It is not impossible that we will lose our lives if we are not careful!"
"Although I promised you to do something for you, the level of this matter is completely different from what you Biyun Sect did for me!"
"Don't you think it's too much for Master to make such a request?" Ye Changsheng's face turned ugly, as if he was going to reject Master Biyun's proposal immediately.
"Haha, Brother Ye, don't get angry first, listen to me carefully!"
"We have made full preparations for this trip to the Ten Thousand Feet Abyss. All five major forces on Qiyuan Island will be dispatched, a total of five Yuanying Zhenren, plus Brother Ye, there will be six of us. I think with such a force, even if we encounter multiple transformed monsters, we don't have to be afraid, right?"
"You should know that those transformed monsters usually practice alone and rarely gather together, so Brother Ye doesn't need to worry too much!"
"If we really encounter some particularly powerful transformed monster, with our strength, even if we are defeated, we can still escape!"
Master Miaohe had a warm smile on his face and gave Ye Changsheng some advice.
There was no sign of him warning Ye Changsheng at the beginning to be careful when going to the abyss.
He said before that the sea abyss was full of dangers, but now he says it is not that dangerous. Miao He Zhenren must have a purpose for saying these things.
The reason why Ye Changsheng was persuaded to retreat was to test his determination. If Ye Changsheng heard that the sea abyss was dangerous and did not dare to go down, then Master Miaohe knew that there would be no need to make the subsequent proposal.
No matter how he advised, this Brother Ye in front of him would never agree to go to the sea abyss with them.
And when he saw that Ye Changsheng was determined to explore the lair of the eighth-level monster, Master Miaohe had a rough idea in his mind.
This person can definitely be won over and allowed to join the team that goes to the abyss to investigate the situation.
Now, his sullen look was nothing more than one sentence:
You have to pay more!
Master Miao He laughed a few times, rolled his eyes, and said, "But Brother Ye is right. It is indeed a bit too much to ask Brother Ye to risk his life and go to the abyss with us based on the information of the eighth-level monster's lair!"
"Well, I, the old Taoist priest, will make the decision. I can agree to one of Brother Ye's requests on behalf of Qiyuan Island. What do you think, Brother Ye?" said Miaohe Zhenren.
"A request? Since Brother Qi said so, then I will have to think about it again!" Ye Changsheng's expression softened.
"I am not an unkind person. Brother Qi's Biyun Sect helped me find the nest of the eighth-level monster, so I naturally want to repay you. So, if you can help me find one more thing, I will agree to go to the abyss with you fellow Taoists!" Ye Changsheng said slowly.
"Oh, Brother Ye, please speak!" Master Miaohe's expression became serious.
"If you can provide me with some recipes that can help Nascent Soul cultivators improve their magic power, I would be willing to follow you fellow Taoists to the sea abyss!" Ye Changsheng said.
"A pill recipe for the Nascent Soul stage?"
Upon hearing this, Miaohe Zhenren's face suddenly showed astonishment. Why would someone want such a thing?
Do you think that if you find a recipe for pills that can be used in the Nascent Soul stage, you can refine pills for the Nascent Soul stage?
How is this possible?
The main ingredients of the Nascent Soul stage pill recipe are the demon pills of transformed monster beasts. There are not many of these demon pills in the entire Chaos Star Sea. How is it possible to refine a pill?
For a moment, Master Miaohe felt that Brother Ye in front of him was a little too whimsical.
After hearing his request, Miaohe Zhenren couldn't help but wonder, was he looking for the nest of the eighth-level monster? Was he really trying to hunt the eighth-level monster?
If that was the case, then he would have to re-evaluate whether it was worth bringing this person in.
If Ye Changsheng wants to hunt level eight monsters after going down into the abyss, it will undoubtedly bring them great danger.
"Brother Ye, I'm not being nosy. This Nascent Soul stage pill recipe is completely useless to us Nascent Soul cultivators!"
"Could it be that Brother Ye really wants to use this to refine pills?" Master Miaohe said, shaking his head.
"Haha, you don't have to worry about this. As long as you help me find the recipe for this pill, I will join you right away!" Ye Changsheng said with a laugh.
"Also, please rest assured, I went to the eighth-level monster's nest not for the eighth-level monster's demon pill!" Ye Changsheng said again.
Hearing this, Master Miao He's expression softened and he said, "In that case, I am relieved. Brother Ye has made such a request, so I naturally have no reason to refuse. Brother Ye, please wait for two days. I will go and ask my old friends to see who has such a recipe!"
"Okay, then I'll trouble you, sir!" Ye Changsheng said with a smile on his face.
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Ten days later, Master Miaohe brought four other Nascent Soul cultivators to find Ye Changsheng.
"Brother Ye, after asking several old friends, I finally found the recipe for the Nascent Soul Pill you wanted!" Miao He Zhenren said as soon as they met.
Beside him, the other four Nascent Soul cultivators all looked at Ye Changsheng with curiosity.
They were quite surprised when they saw Ye Changsheng's youthful appearance.
Generally speaking, male cultivators rarely practice anti-aging techniques. This Nascent Soul cultivator named Ye looked too young, which made them full of speculations.
Ye Changsheng's eyes were also looking at these four people.
One was a Taoist priest wearing a golden Bagua Taoist robe, with a knife on his back and a whisk in his hand.
One was an old man wearing a white robe, tall in stature, with white hair and beard, and a sage-like demeanor, with the air of a sage.
The other person next to him looked completely the opposite. He was a dwarf with an extremely ugly appearance, and his pair of small eyes were staring at Ye Changsheng.
The last person was an old woman with dry yellow hair, a cold expression and an unapproachable look.
Seeing Ye Changsheng sizing up the four, Miaohe Zhenren laughed and said, "Brother Ye, let me introduce them to you!"
"This is Fellow Daoist Jinxia, this is Master Sifa, this is Fellow Daoist Rongyuan, and the last one is Grandmother Feng, Fellow Daoist Feng. The five of us are the supreme elders of the five major forces on Qiyuan Island!"
Master Miao He introduced the Taoist priest in the golden Bagua robe, the old man with an immortal look, the dwarf and the old woman in order.
"I've heard a lot about you all!" Ye Changsheng said with a bow.
"Brother Ye looks really unfamiliar. I wonder which island you practiced on before?" The dwarf named Rong Yuan asked after rolling his eyes.
"Ye used to be a casual cultivator in the Inner Star Sea. It's normal that you don't know me!" Ye Changsheng said with a faint smile.
"Oh, could it be that Brother Ye is the kind of hermit who never comes out into the world?" asked the immortal-looking Master Sifa.
"Haha, I guess so. It's true that Ye rarely appeared in the world before!" Ye Changsheng said with a laugh.
"So that's how it is. I was saying that I have basically heard of all those false infant cultivators in the Chaos Star Sea. How could I have missed a genius like Brother Ye? It turns out that Brother Ye has been practicing in seclusion all along!" said the dwarf with a laugh.
Miao He Zhenren watched coldly for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Fellow Daoists, don't worry about Brother Ye's background. No matter what, Brother Ye is a cultivator of the human race and is on the same front as us!"
Then, Master Miao He said to Ye Changsheng: "The recipe for the elixir that Brother Ye needs is in the hands of Daoist Fellow Rong Yuan!"
The dwarf reached out and took out a jade slip from his storage bag, handed it to Ye Changsheng, and said, "This is a pill recipe I got by chance before. Although I can't use it, it is a pill recipe for the Nascent Soul stage after all, so I kept it!"
"I didn't expect Brother Ye needed this kind of thing. Today, this useless pill recipe can be exchanged for Brother Ye's action. It can be considered a great bargain for us!" said the dwarf.
Ye Changsheng smiled, took the recipe and took a look at it.
It is indeed a recipe for an elixir that can be used in the Nascent Soul stage. Using the demon elixir of an eighth-level demon beast as the main ingredient and combining it with several kinds of spiritual medicines, it can be refined into this elixir that can improve the magic power of Nascent Soul cultivators.
Those elixirs were not hard to find; the only hard-to-get one was the demon pill from an eighth-level demon beast.
"Okay, since Brother Ye has already obtained the recipe, let's discuss the route of this operation!" Miaohe Zhenren said with a smile.
So, with the addition of Ye Changsheng, the six Nascent Soul cultivators gathered here to discuss for a moment and determined the departure route.
"Let's first follow Brother Ye to the lair of the eighth-level monster. The lair is eight thousand feet under the sea. After Brother Ye finishes his business, we will reunite and continue diving!"
"This time, we are going all the way to the abyss at the bottom of the sea. Fellow Taoists, please be prepared!" Miaohe Zhenren said solemnly.
The sea abyss is thousands of feet deep. The deeper you go, the more dangerous it is. Even a Nascent Soul cultivator is at risk of falling, so this group of people are quite cautious.
Three days after Ye Changsheng obtained the recipe for the elixir, he received a notice from Miaohe Zhenren, and six people arrived outside Qiyuen Island.
The abyss is not only daunting in depth, but also extremely large in area.
This abyss covers a vast area of sea, stretching tens of millions of miles in length and breadth.
It is undoubtedly extremely difficult to find the root cause of the monster riot in such a vast sea area.
But seeing the confident looks on the faces of the Nascent Soul cultivators from the major forces on Qiyuen Island, Ye Changsheng knew that they must have grasped some information.
The group of six flew over the sea for several days before stopping near a remote island.
"If we sneak along this small island, we can find the blood-marked shark's nest. Brother Ye, let's go!" Miaohe Zhenren said, pointing to the deserted island.
Ye Changsheng nodded, and Grandma Feng beside him suddenly took out a water-blue pearl.
"This Water Spirit Pearl is a rare treasure I got when I was young. It can emit a water spirit shield that can not only hide our breath from being discovered by those monsters, but also resist the pressure of the sea water!"
"Next, fellow Taoists, please stay within three meters of me , lest you are out of the protection of the Water Spirit Shield!" Grandma Feng said in her hoarse voice.
"Haha, with this rare treasure from Fellow Daoist Feng, we don't have to waste our magic power to resist the water pressure!" said the dwarf with a smile.
"Let's go. We must be careful from now on and not get discovered by high-level monsters!"
As they spoke, the group of six dived into the sea under the cover of Grandma Feng's Water Spirit Cover.
As soon as the water spirit cover entered the sea water, it immediately merged with it, concealing the aura of the six people in the cover.
One after another, sea monsters swam past the six people , but they were not aware of their presence at all.
As they dived deeper, even the level six and level seven monsters were completely unaware of their passing.
I just don't know if this water spirit cover can block the perception of the transformed monster.
Ye Changsheng looked around constantly and saw that there were quite a lot of monsters in the surrounding sea.
During their dive, they encountered seven or eight high-level monsters that were rarely seen in normal times.
It seems that it is indeed as Master Miaohe said, the monsters under the sea have rioted, and from the current situation, they are gathering.
Generally speaking, these high-level monsters often stay in deeper seas. If you want to encounter monsters above level five in the abyss, you usually have to dive to a distance of three thousand feet.
But now, after diving less than a thousand feet, they encountered so many high-level monsters.
It seemed that they all emerged from the deep sea and were rushing out.
The purpose of this trip by Miaohe Zhenren and others is to investigate why these monsters in the deep sea have come up one after another.
"Look at the direction these monsters are swimming, they are all heading towards Qiyuan Island!" Master Sifa couldn't help but sigh, with worry in his eyes.
"Not only did these monsters emerge from the sea abyss, they also gathered in the direction of Qiyuen Island. I'm afraid they have ill intentions!" Miaohe Zhenren said with a gloomy expression.
"What happened at the bottom of the sea that caused all these monsters to rush upwards?" the dwarf murmured.
No one answered him. Everyone looked at the dark world around them in silence.
After diving down to three thousand feet, the group encountered more and more high-level monsters.
Ye Changsheng's spiritual awareness was the most powerful. In this three thousand feet wide sea area, he discovered more than a dozen monsters above level five.
Monsters of this level are often not encountered on the sea surface for several years, but in the sea at this depth, there are so many of them.
Without exception, these high-level monsters all swam towards Qiyuan Island.
This made Miao He Zhenren and others look even more solemn.
Although they encountered these monsters, no one intended to kill them and take the elixir, because doing so might disturb the higher-level monsters in the sea.
The purpose of their trip was to find the source of the monster riot, not to attack the abyss.
Ye Changsheng knew exactly why these monsters were rioting. They were all driven up by the old Suanni from the bottom of the sea.
However, he had no intention of telling these people. In fact, even if he told them, it would not change the situation.
Without the support of the Inner Star Sea, these people would not be able to fight against the alien sea monster royal family.
Unless they directly give up all their interests in the outer star sea and teleport to the inner star sea, it is only a matter of time before Qiyuan Island is attacked.
However, the foundations of these major forces are in the outer sea. They started out by relying on this monster abyss. How could they give up easily?
Therefore, most likely we still have to resist!
Just like in the original novel, this group of Nascent Soul cultivators ran down to explore, but were beaten and fled.
But after escaping back, he had no intention of running away, but continued to guard Qiyuan Island.
As a result, after the island was conquered, several Yuanying died.
However, what surprised Ye Changsheng was that these major forces had been based on Qiyuen Island for so many years, but they had never known that this thousand-foot-deep sea abyss was the territory of the Suanni royal family.
"Maybe it's because these major forces have never gone deep into the seabed? Otherwise they should have some understanding of it!" Ye Changsheng thought to himself.
"The Ten Thousand Feet Sea Abyss is the territory of the Suanni royal family. It is well known among the transformed monsters, but among these human Yuanying, no one knows it!"
"It can be seen that the information between the human race and the demon race in the Chaos Star Sea is completely blocked, and there is no communication at all!"
"However, Xinggong should be well aware of the details of Wanzhang Haiyuan, so even though the benefits of Qiyuan Island are so lucrative, Xinggong has never interfered!"
Thoughts flashed through Ye Changsheng's mind, and he followed the five Nascent Souls from Qiyuen Island and dived to a distance of six thousand feet.
"Hmm? An eighth-level demon beast?" Ye Changsheng's eyes flickered, and he released his spiritual sense, discovering a giant turtle over a thousand feet long, swimming quickly in the sea water eight thousand feet deep.
This giant turtle swam directly in the sea with its own body, and a majestic demonic aura emanated from its huge body.
After thinking for a while, Ye Changsheng reminded them: "My fellow Taoists, there seems to be a powerful demonic aura right below us. It might be an eighth-level demonic beast!"
"What?" Ye Changsheng's words immediately made Miaohe Zhenren and others change their expressions.
"Brother Ye, are you sure you're not mistaken?" the dwarf asked, seeming a little unconvinced.
They didn't notice anything, after all, their spiritual sense could not explore the distance of two thousand feet under their feet.
Ye Changsheng smiled slightly and said, "The technique I practiced naturally gives me a very strong induction ability, so it shouldn't be wrong!"
Upon hearing this, Miao He Zhenren and others looked solemn.
"No matter whether Brother Ye sensed it wrong or not, we should still be careful. The blood-marked shark's nest is still some distance away from here, so let's go around it!" Master Miaohe said cautiously.
"Okay, let's go around to the blood shark's lair first!"
The other Nascent Soul cultivators immediately agreed to Master Miaohe's proposal.
Ye Changsheng noticed that the way these people looked at him was different from before, with a hint of strangeness in their eyes.
Regardless of whether what he said was true or not, his ability to sense things was enough to make people look at him differently.
Being able to sense danger and evil spirits in advance, wouldn't you be like a fish in water in this alien sea?
If you go hunting monsters, you will definitely gain a lot!
