After the fairy disappeared

Chapter 2539 The True Face of the Hidden God!
Using the cloud platform, He Lingchuan finally entered the Crystal Sea he had longed for!

With Duan Heyun leading the way, the crossing went very smoothly, and Yuntai did not refuse him.

As soon as He Lingchuan entered the Crystal Sea World, the salty sea breeze hit him, and he couldn't help but take a deep breath.

It was a familiar scent, something he hadn't felt in a long time. Having been the lord of Yangshan Island for several years, he was all too familiar with it.

Ahead lies the sea, an endless expanse of ocean.

He appeared not on a snow-white beach, but on a jagged cliff that jutted out more than ten feet into the sea, like the jaw of a crocodile.

The waves crashed against the black reefs, churning up thousands of piles of snow.

He Lingchuan followed Duan Heyun to the edge of the cliff, looked down, and was shocked.

Even though they were mentally prepared, everyone still found it unbelievable when they actually saw the Crystal Sea.

Ling Jinbao's tone rose three octaves: "This is the Hidden God Lord?"

Everyone said that the Hidden God Lord had a massive body, and he had originally imagined that this one would resemble a giant whale. But looking down at the sea, what he saw was—

An endless seaweed forest!

Giant seaweed takes root in the sandy bottom of shallow seas, while its leaves float on the surface of the sea, swaying gently with the current.

Without going into the water, it's impossible to accurately estimate the depth, but it's at least two or three zhang (approximately 6.6-9 meters) long. In other words, these giant seaweeds are at least three zhang (approximately 10 meters) long.

Looking down from the cliff, the clear seawater reveals a dark green underwater forest. Shells cling to the seaweed, and countless fish and shrimp swim and dart about, enjoying themselves.

And from the moment he saw this underwater forest, the divine bone necklace hidden in his bosom began to burn.

It seemed quite excited too:
Good stuff, I want to eat it, I love to eat it!
This is not only the body of a true immortal, but also the one and only hidden god in the world! Even if the Great Square Pot has a picky appetite, it has nothing to complain about at this time.

Duan Heyun turned his head and saw the surprise on his face: "Is this your first time coming in?"

"Yes, yes. It's truly eye-opening!"

If it were Xiao Ping, the manager, she probably wouldn't have brought Hu Guandai in so easily. There's a reason why very few people from the Lingyun Palace have ever visited the Liuli Sea Small World.

But Duan Heyun clearly didn't consider all that.

After several failed attempts, He Lingchuan decisively grasped his personality traits and finally succeeded in sneaking into the Liuli Sea.

Only after entering this place, seeing the actual environment, and seeing the Hidden God in person can he continue to revise the next stage of his actions.

Dong Rui immediately said, "I'm afraid that's it. I've read information about the Hidden God before, which said that it has 'no fixed form and forms its own world' in the deep ocean. You see, isn't it also forming its own world when it transforms into an underwater forest?"

It turns out that the Hidden God Lord can support an entire ecosystem on his own.

"Moreover, it has another major characteristic: 'unpredictable form.' This giant seaweed forest might just be one of the forms that the Heavenly Demon made it into at will, for the convenience of sampling and cutting." If the Hidden God Lord didn't have this characteristic, how could the Heavenly Demon use it to mass-produce divine bodies? "But I believe that its roots are all connected, with a single source. Just like a large tree on land, no matter how many branches and leaves it has, it all returns to one root."

They studied these things to analyze data for their next phase of action.

As the people in the Cardamom Garden were talking, He Lingchuan, with his sharp eyes, noticed countless dark figures moving back and forth in the giant seaweed forest.

This is a strange-looking fish, some as long as an arm, others as short as a dagger, with a streamlined body, but it looks like it has a serrated grinding wheel on its mouth, and it's even vertically mounted.

Swirlmouth shark?
He Lingchuan knew its name, but still pointed to the underwater area with a look of surprise:
"Then, what is that?"

“This is a whirlpool shark,” Duan Heyun explained casually. “The body of the Hidden God is so hard that ordinary swords and blades cannot break it, but the whirlpool shark can slowly cut it apart. We have tried hundreds of sea monsters, and only the whirlpool shark has this ability.”

These tiny sharks burrowed in and out of the seaweed, indeed using their spiral teeth to cut the seaweed.

The spiral teeth rotated incredibly fast, but cut the seaweed incredibly slowly. According to He Lingchuan's observation, a seaweed stalk the width of a hand was already cut in half, while it took the spiral shark more than two quarters of an hour to cut off the remaining half.

After being cut, they carry the seaweed to the shore and then go back to work.

Although the efficiency was not high, the number of whirlpool sharks was enormous. After working like this for 15 minutes, the seawater near the shore was also coated with a layer of green, which was all the seaweed debris floating on the surface.

At that moment, two humanoid mechanical puppets on the shore began to pull in the net—

They lay nets underwater, and pull them up once the net is full.

At this point, the seaweed was still in individual pieces, only slowly sticking together after it was brought ashore. The mechanical puppets' job was to scoop the seaweed into specially designed carriages on the side before it stuck together.

The size of this carriage is similar to the large carts used to transport Xuanjing in Yujing City, and the actual container is much larger than its appearance.

This truck was filled with more than half a truckload of seawater.

The difference is that the large carts in Yujing City still need to be pulled by strong oxen, but the dozen or so large carts in front of He Lingchuan do not need to be driven by manpower, as they are suspended two feet above the ground.

Therefore, they do not have wheels.

Dong Rui learned from Hu Xin in Doukou Garden that this kind of car is called a "cloud car". It is driven purely by Xuanjing and runs very smoothly. Even the water inside the car doesn't shake much.

He Lingchuan looked down and immediately understood why cloud carts were used to transport goods in the Crystal Sea:
From the cliff where they stood, down to the jagged coastline below, there was only one carved stone path.

Ordinary vehicles cannot travel on the stone steps.

The cloud chariot, however, could float up the stone steps on its own.

In the cardamom garden, Aunt Zhu asked Dong Rui, "How many divine bodies do you estimate this vast seaweed forest can create?"

This was an endless expanse! He Lingchuan had just stood on the precipice, gazing into the distance, his eyes reaching the horizon, yet he couldn't see the end of this underwater forest. He estimated that the Hidden God Monarch's size was probably no smaller than that of the Thousand Illusions True Monarch.

The vast seashell world of the Thousand Illusions True Lord was an unforgettable experience for those who witnessed it firsthand. For these great demons who had achieved physical sainthood, one of the important sources of their power was their astonishingly large size.

It is unknown how the Heavenly Palace managed to fit the body of the Hidden God into this small world back then.

Dong Rui's expression was also not good. After a moment of silence, he said, "The body of the Hidden God Monarch grows much faster than that of the Thousand Illusions True Monarch."

If you ask whether seashells or seaweed can grow, then seaweed is definitely far superior.

“If it’s for creating bodies for gods like Xi Yu and Wu Yao—” he said solemnly, “I think there are several thousand or even tens of thousands. Thirteen thousand would be a conservative estimate.”

Everyone was speechless. Immortal Mingke exclaimed in shock, "What? Saint Venerable Lingxu wasn't lying before?"

(End of this chapter)