Vanguards of the War of Resistance! Let's travel back in time together, classmates!

302 Eastward Journey, Part 8

There was no blue sky, no white clouds, only a dim and hazy sunlight.

The black seawater crashed against the shore, creating surging waves, while the biting sea breeze carried a strong, fishy smell.

Occasionally, unidentified fish would leap out of the sea and let out strange roars at the origami cranes in the sky, sending chills down one's spine.

"Is this still Earth? It feels like World of Warcraft to me..." Shangguan Yun shrank his neck and broke out in a cold sweat.

"We've probably entered some kind of formation..." Hong Ling no longer dared to show her face, hiding in the system space and looking at the outside world.

Shangguan Yun's face was gloomy. He nodded and said, "It seems we underestimated this place. We actually entered a formation without realizing it. However, it doesn't look like an offensive formation; it seems more like an illusion formation..."

With the integration of the cultivation system and his contact with the Azure Dragon Venerable, Shangguan Yun learned more and more about the cultivation world. In his opinion, the power of the formation here seemed to surpass that of the Azure Dragon Formation in Five Dragon Ridge.

However, now that they had come this far, they couldn't give up halfway. Shangguan Yun gritted his teeth, mounted his paper crane, and sped off towards the location shown on the radar.

As dusk fell, Shangguan Yun's face grew even more somber as he sped along, for although he had been flying for several hours, the scenery before him remained unchanged, exactly the same as what he had just seen.

Although there were no landmarks on the vast sea, the sinister smiles of the strange fish that occasionally leaped out of the water sent a chill down his spine.

If it weren't for the system radar showing that he was flying eastward, he would have even wondered if he was trapped in a maze, just going around in circles.

At this moment, beneath a certain sea on Earth, in a vast palace, a middle-aged man dressed in a black Taoist robe, his long hair covering his face, was sitting cross-legged in a huge Bagua diagram. Around him were countless stars, which upon closer inspection turned out to be countless blue oil lamps, their light flickering, forming an unknown array that seemed to never run out.

"what……"

The Taoist suddenly raised his head and uttered a sound, which might be the only sound he had made in thousands of years.

"It's his aura; he's still in this realm..."

The Taoist murmured something, then looked up at the sky, which was shimmering with seven colors...

At this moment, Shangguan Yun's face had turned completely dark, because he simply could not bear the torment of this unknown and uncontrollable crisis.

Moreover, he had clearly felt a tremor from his soul just now, and the Kusanagi sword suppressed in the system was emitting a strange excitement and began to become somewhat restless.

"Hongling, we can't go any further. Something's strange here... Let's communicate with the system and see how far we are from the teleportation array. I have a bad feeling..." Shangguan Yun muttered to himself.

"Okay... Master, ding-dong..."

A minute later, Hongling cried out, "Master, this is bad... We can't communicate with the teleportation array anymore, and we can't determine our current location either..."

"What...how is this possible..."

Shangguan Yun's expression changed drastically. The teleportation array was his last resort; he planned to make a quick getaway should anything change.

Now they're telling him they're out of contact? What does that mean? The Heaven-Defying System was already incredibly powerful, and the teleportation array belongs to the realm of cultivation, constructed in connection with the laws of heaven and earth. Could it be that the energy here can shield us from the laws of heaven and earth?

In an instant, Shangguan Yun's mood plummeted to freezing point. Hong Ling was frantically trying to contact the teleportation array using various means, hoping to find a way out of their current predicament.

Sensing something was wrong, Shangguan Yun wasn't going to sit idly by. He desperately tried to communicate with the system while simultaneously turning around and speeding off in the opposite direction.

An hour later, Shangguan Yun stopped walking, not because he didn't want to, but because he couldn't walk anymore.

Originally, the speed of the origami crane was about 1,000 kilometers per hour, but ever since the system started communicating with the teleportation array, perhaps due to a large amount of energy fluctuations, the originally unchanging sea surface began to change.

The primordial energy of heaven and earth trembled, dark clouds pressed down, growing ever more oppressive, and the surrounding air became increasingly viscous. The speed of the paper cranes decreased drastically, and Shangguan Yun had no doubt that if things continued like this, it wouldn't be long before he would be unable to move an inch.

Subconsciously activating the energy shield, Shangguan Yun coldly surveyed the surrounding space.

Suddenly, a strong wind arose, and a pungent, fishy smell mixed with a gust of wind came from behind. Shangguan Yun was shocked and quickly turned around. With a flick of his wrist, he took out the Golden Spirit Sword, swung it behind him, and then increased his magic power. The Thousand Paper Cranes let out a loud cry and retreated backward.

In the blink of an eye, when Shangguan Yun saw the strange fish behind him clearly, his eyes widened in surprise. It turned out to be a huge fish, and to call it huge was not an exaggeration; it was even larger than the legendary blue whale.

Not only that, the giant fish also has several long tentacles around its mouth, like steel whips, which dance in the air.

Just now, one of the tentacles attacked him from behind. Shangguan Yun was furious. He thought to himself, "I am a Foundation Establishment cultivator, while you are just a big fish that hasn't even transformed into human form. At most, you are only at the Golden Core stage." However, he did not think that this fish actually had any cultivation. It was just that it was bigger.

With a cold snort, Shangguan Yun put his right index finger together and pointed at the golden spirit sword floating in front of him. Since he had already learned how to control flying swords, even if they were not of the same attribute as his spiritual root, he could still use them flexibly under the powerful control of the system.

A wisp of spiritual power was infused into the Golden Spirit Sword, and a golden light flashed, greatly enhancing its spirituality. With a clear cry, it rushed straight towards the giant fish.