High Martial Arts: Slay enemies to become stronger, forge invincibility from billions of corpses.

Song Chen made a decision immediately.

We must leave now.

We must leave the Shattered Star Sea immediately.

Staying here for even a second longer is extremely dangerous; once exposed, the sixth-tier attackers will arrive.

Moreover, once the Ghost-Faced Fish Demon's branch disappears, other nodes will send people to check, and then the entire sea area will know that he is in the Shattered Star Sea.

Song Chen sheathed the Heavenly Blade, pushed off with his feet, and rose towards the sea.

He quickly found the blue.

The timid jellyfish was hiding in a patch of seaweed, its tentacles curled up in a ball, and its blue bioluminescence flickered faintly.

Sensing Song Chen's presence, its umbrella-like body immediately unfolded, like a transparent umbrella being opened.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, you've returned."

Song Chen ignored its eagerness.

"Blue, do you have any nautical charts for the area?"

The blue tentacles stretched out and began to draw on the sand.

Its tentacles have very fine tips, which can leave clear marks on the sand.

Soon, a simple but complete map appeared on the sand.

East of the Shattered Star Sea, a dozen islands are distributed in a chain, each one larger than the last.

The nearest one is 300 li away, and the farthest one is 1,800 li away.

Further east, the nautical chart ends; Lan had never been that far before.

"Where will we go if we keep going east?"

The blue tentacle twitched slightly.

"I don't know, I've never been that far. I only know that beyond the island chain lies a much larger sea, where the concentration of spiritual energy is higher and the sea beasts are stronger."

"Some sea creatures say there are cities with strange beasts over there, but I've never seen them, and I've never even left the island chain."

A city of strange beasts?

Song Chen was startled and immediately took out three fourth-order crystal cores from the system storage space.

These were the fourth-tier sea beasts he killed during his breakout. He didn't have time to collect their corpses, but he took their crystal cores.

There are a lot of them in the system space.

Upon seeing this, Blue's neural nucleus lit up intensely.

"Your Majesty, this is...?"

"This is for you, consider it a reward."

Song Chen tossed the three crystal cores toward Lan.

The blue tentacles hurriedly caught them, carefully rolled the three crystal nuclei into the center of the umbrella-shaped body, and attached them to the side of the nerve nucleus.

The spiritual energy and life essence contained in the fourth-tier crystal cores are a great tonic for beasts of the same tier. Three of them are enough to greatly increase Lan's health and vitality.

After doing all this, Song Chen spread his Gale Wings and left the sea alone.

He ran on the sea for a day and a night, finally escaping the Shattered Star Sea. He stopped to rest on an unnamed reef.

The words the demon-faced fish said before it died were like a thorn stuck in his brain: the two royal families were having a meeting to discuss how to kill him.

Even if he was a third-tier martial artist with high blood and strong swordsmanship, he was still just a bite away from a sixth-tier royal.

Although he could kill fourth-tier enemies like cutting vegetables, he could only rely on his agility to fight fifth-tier enemies. Even losing an eye would cost him his life.

Against a level six opponent, there's no way to escape. So you have to be careful.

He was running on the sea while pondering a question.

Where to run?

To the east lies the depths of the Pacific Ocean.

The largest ocean on Earth, the lair of alien beasts, and also the site where that meteorite crashed.

The giant whales and sea dragons of the three royal families are all in the Pacific Ocean, and the sixteen royal families are mostly distributed in the deep-sea trenches and island groups of the Pacific Ocean.

Going east is tantamount to sending yourself into the mouth of a strange beast.

But going east has one advantage: the beasts would never expect him to head towards their lair.

The darkness is under the lamp. They set up three blockade lines in the waters near the Great Xia, with a sixth-tier beast king personally guarding them, betting that he would find a way to return home.

Instead of going back, he went inside their bellies, so they couldn't catch him.

To the west lies the Indian Ocean.

Heading west from the Shattered Star Sea, passing through the ruins of the Strait of Malacca, the old strait was largely submerged by rising sea levels after the arrival of psionic energy, and is now a complex archipelago of waters.

Further west lies the Indian Ocean.

There are also strange creatures in the Indian Ocean, but their density and intensity are much lower than those in the Pacific Ocean.

The royal family had no roots in the Indian Ocean, and only two or three of the sixteen royal families had branches there.

More importantly, there is land along the Indian Ocean coast.

The African continent, the Arabian Peninsula, and the South Asian subcontinent are all landmasses.

Although those human base cities were not as powerful as those in Great Xia, at least they were on land and at least had humans.

He could find a place to disembark and then return to Bactria by land.

Summer.

Song Chen silently repeated those two words in his mind.

He didn't have a deep feeling about Daxia when he was in Anning City.

It was just a place name, a place where he was born and grew up, but had never truly understood.

But it's different now.

After drifting at sea for days, being hunted by strange beasts, and barely escaping with his life, he learned that the entire ocean was hunting him. For the first time, he truly understood what it meant to have "a home he could never return to."

The feeling was strange, like a young animal driven from its nest, standing in a strange wilderness, surrounded by the eyes of predators, and all it wanted to do was return to the walled place.

The Great Xia Dynasty has walls, military fortresses, sixth-tier grandmasters, psionic fortresses, and city-destroying weapons.

The Great Xia gives him a sense of security, a sense of security he never cared about before, but now he's desperately wanting it.

Song Chen exhaled a breath of stale air and made a decision.

Let's head west.

Head west from the Shattered Star Sea, cross the island chain, enter the Indian Ocean, find land, go ashore, and then find a way to return to Great Xia by land.

This route is much longer than heading directly east to the Pacific Ocean; it's a long detour, but it's safer.

What he needs most right now is not speed, but stability.

After making his decision, he headed southwest.

Ten days have passed in the blink of an eye.

In ten days, Song Chen ran nearly 5,000 kilometers on the sea.

He dared not approach the continental coastline at all, and only dared to run in the deep ocean.

This speed is ridiculously slow for a third-tier martial artist. With his Grandmaster-level Gale Wings powered by 900 points of Qi and Blood, he could travel more than 1,000 kilometers in a day and a night if he went all out.

In ten days, he can run tens of thousands of kilometers.

But he dared not go fast.

The communication network of the strange beasts covers the entire sea area.

The Ghost-Faced Fish Demon, the Sea Demon Conch, and the branches of the Sea Dragon Clan, with their layered communication nodes, transmitted information much faster than his footsteps.

He had to avoid all areas that could be detected, detour around seas with high concentrations of spiritual energy, dive into the deep sea if he sensed an aura of the fourth rank or higher, and remain still and wait for the messenger to leave if he detected the spiritual energy fluctuations of the messenger beast.

On two occasions, he sensed the mental energy scan of a fifth-tier beast king, and immediately sank to the bottom of the sea, lying motionless in the mud and sand for four or five hours until the mental energy completely disappeared before daring to continue.

Five thousand kilometers is the limit he can travel.

It's a bit slow, but we're alive.

On the evening of the tenth day, Song Chen squatted on a rock protruding from the sea, gnawing on a piece of raw fish he had caught from the sea.

The fish meat is from a second-tier swordfish beast, sliced ​​thinly, without salt or seasoning.

It tasted very fishy, ​​but he still chewed it up and swallowed it bite by bite.

Martial artists who rely heavily on their Qi and Blood consume a lot of energy and cannot sustain themselves without eating.