Reborn as the Strongest Immortal Cultivator in Modern Times

Once everything was settled, Ye Yu set off for Shanna Island.

Upon arriving at Shanna Island, she didn't linger. She went directly to the former location of the Tiger Tail Sect, chose a room by the sea, and began her secluded cultivation.

This seclusion lasted for half a month. During this half month, Ye Yu never stepped out of her room. Even her meals were delivered to her door by Zhao's subordinates, who would then carry them in herself.

That day, the weather was unusually gloomy. Since Huwei Gate was built on a cliff on Shanna Island, the wind howled and the waves were rolled up dozens of meters high, constantly crashing against the rocks on the shore with a deafening sound.

The sea wind grew fiercer, howling and howling like ghosts, sending chills down one's spine. Large raindrops pelted down, pounding against the windows.

With a loud 'boom,' countless thick streaks of lightning flashed across the sea, illuminating the entire room.

Ye Yu was sitting cross-legged on the bed, cultivating with her eyes closed, when a series of thunderclaps pulled her out of her meditation.

She got up and walked to the window, watching the rain outside getting heavier and heavier, the world pitch black, so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.

Just then, Ye Yu saw a thick bolt of lightning strike a small island in the distance, and the island began to emit a soft, shimmering light, mysterious and alluring.

Ye Yu walked out of the room, found one of his subordinates who had been stationed there for many years, pointed to the island and asked, "Have you ever seen this situation when you were here?"

After carefully observing the island for a while, the subordinate said, "That's an uninhabited island, and navigation will malfunction if you get too close. Most ships avoid it. The glowing things are probably jellyfish; the tide is probably rising here, and they've all surfaced."

Ye Yu squinted, stared at the island for a moment, and asked, "How far is it from here?"

"It's far away. Don't be fooled by how close it looks. Even if we took a speedboat without stopping, it would still take eight or nine hours to get there," the subordinate replied.

As the two were talking, the light on the island intensified, and the subordinate wondered, "But to emit such a bright light, it must be all the jellyfish in this area gathered there, right?"

Ye Yu felt that the small island possessed a mysterious allure. After a moment's thought, she decided to brave the heavy rain and go check it out.

Ye Yu instructed her men to prepare a speedboat; she was going to the island to investigate.

When her subordinates heard that she was going, they quickly tried to stop her: "Miss Ye, it's stormy outside right now, with thunder and lightning. It would be very dangerous to go out to sea rashly!"

"I know what I'm doing. Just do as I say." Ye Yu's tone was firm and left no room for argument. Knowing they couldn't change her mind, her subordinates had no choice but to reluctantly go and prepare the speedboat.

Wearing a raincoat, Ye Yu had her subordinates teach her how to operate the speedboat before she steered it towards the mysterious island.

In the raging wind and rain, Ye Yu's raincoat fluttered wildly, and large raindrops lashed her face, making it almost impossible for her to open her eyes.

With a wave of her right hand, a pale blue light shone in front of her, blocking out the gale and torrential rain. Ye Yu then pushed the speedboat to its limit and rushed towards the island.

As they drew closer, the island's light grew stronger, and Ye Yu's curiosity intensified.

In the cultivation world, such strange phenomena generally have only two possibilities: either someone is undergoing tribulation, or rare treasures have appeared in the world.

But just as Ye Yu got closer and closer to the island, the sky suddenly cleared, the surging sea returned to calm, and the light emitted by the island abruptly disappeared.

Ye Yu looked serious. She didn't know what had caused the weather to suddenly return to normal, so she had no choice but to continue heading towards the island.

When she was about fifty meters away from the island, Ye Yu released her divine sense to try to detect the situation on the island, but she found that her divine sense was useless here.

Left with no other option, she had to dock the speedboat at the shore and go down to investigate.

The island wasn't large, only about 700 or 800 square meters in area, and Ye Yu quickly arrived at the center.

In the center was a small pool, and around it lay many dead alligator gars, indicating that someone had already gotten there first.

Ye Yu was somewhat disappointed. She frowned and carefully observed her surroundings, but found nothing.

After walking around the pool, I kicked away an alligator gar whose head was submerged in the water, and saw that the alligator gar was holding a small piece of something in its mouth.

Ye Yu used a dagger to pry out the thing from its mouth, and after examining it carefully, a look of surprise appeared on her face: "This is... a lotus leaf of the Black Jade Lotus!"

The Black Jade Lotus is born alongside the tides and only blooms after being struck by lightning countless times. After consuming it, it can not only enhance a person's spiritual power, but also allow Ye Yu to break through to the seventh level of Qi Refining in one fell swoop.

Ye Yu stared at the pool for a while, then suddenly leaped in.

Along with the blooming of the Black Jade Lotus, there was also a lotus seedpod, but the seedpod did not emerge; it only grew at the base of the Black Jade Lotus. Ye Yu jumped into the pond to see if the seedpod was still there.

The pool looked small, but it was quite deep. Sure enough, when Ye Yu saw the roots floating in the water, she knew she had made the right bet.

As she descended deeper into the pool, the pressure increased, but this wasn't a major problem for her. With her current cultivation level, she could easily dive to depths of four or five thousand meters.

The pool was connected to the seabed. When Ye Yu swam to about 1,500 meters, he saw a black lotus seedpod floating quietly in the water. Ye Yu was delighted and immediately picked the lotus seedpod.

The lotus pod contains nine lotus seeds, each resembling a smooth, round black pearl. While its effects are not as potent as the Black Jade Lotus, they are no less potent than the Rejuvenation Pill.

Ye Yu put the lotus seedpod back into her storage ring and began to swim upstream.

But when it swam to the surface, it found that the island was gone, and only the banyan tree was floating on the water.

"Could it be that the tide is rising?" Ye Yu muttered to himself. "No! This island is sinking!"

She realized that the island hadn't disappeared; it had begun to sink. Looking again at the speedboat she had driven there, she had no idea where it had drifted off to.

He guessed that after he harvested the lotus pods, the island would no longer need to support the Black Jade Lotus, and thus it would sink back to the seabed.

Ye Yu was a little worried. It had taken her eight or nine hours to get here by speedboat, and she still couldn't fly on her sword. How was she supposed to get back to Shanna Island? Should she swim back?

Swimming back was impossible, so she cut down a few banyan trees, whittled them into planks, tied them together, made a simple little boat, and stood on it.

Then they made two simple oars and slowly rowed out.

She could actually use her spiritual power to push the boat, but that would consume too much of her spiritual power.

There are many ferocious animals in the ocean. If I run out of spiritual power and encounter them again, wouldn't I be doomed?

As if on cue, Ye Yu was just thinking that when she saw two large sharks rushing towards her in the distance.