Cultivation begins in the endless sea.

The sea monster's physical body was destroyed, and it suddenly transformed into clusters of black lotus flowers, spinning and dancing wildly. Then it transformed into countless black carp swimming around, and finally disappeared without a trace...

When the school of black carp appeared, a black ray of light suddenly shot out, trying to escape to its companions.

Su Qing smiled calmly, rolled up his pale yellow robe, and put the primordial spirit into his pouch.

"ah-"

"You old man Su, you'll die a horrible death..."

Looking at the remaining sea monsters, Su Qing slowly said, "Now do you think I can learn the secret of the Battle of Wanfu Market?"

The remaining siren's ugly face changed drastically, but due to the shock brought by "shrinking the earth to an inch", he dared not make any rash moves at this moment.

"You...you really became a Golden Core cultivator?"

Upon hearing this, Su Qing frowned slightly:

"Golden Core... Golden Core... It's not that easy..."

Clearly, the supernatural power Su Qing had just displayed was merely a one-time technique that he forcibly used with the help of a certain rare treasure.

Even so, the sea monster at the early stage of the third rank looked extremely pale when facing Su Qing, who was at the late stage of the Purple Mansion realm, all by himself.

……

It wasn't that Lin Qing was acting impulsively or being overly generous in dividing up the storage shells. Rather, with the sea monster tide approaching its onset, he would definitely be fighting alongside everyone again.

At this moment, using a spirit shell to form a good connection is a worthwhile investment no matter how you look at it.

"not to mention…"

Before Lin Qing distributed the rewards, he scanned the spirit shells with his divine sense, which far surpassed that of others of the same level, and found that most of them were similar resources.

Only one of the shells contained a pale blue, head-sized animal egg…

Lin Qing flipped his hand, revealing one of the two seashells he had seemingly picked up casually earlier.

"If it really is a sea monster egg..."

Thinking of the many wonders of the "Mysterious Spirit Suppressing Beast Codex", he couldn't help but feel a surge of excitement.

"Splash!"

Before long, Lin Qing, wielding the Meteor Blade, surged out of the sea with an overwhelming momentum...

"Sizzle—"

The sword flashed, leaving a trail of blood in its wake, and several low-level sea monsters died instantly.

Lin Qing looked around and saw that the number of second-tier sea monsters on the sea had decreased by more than half. Although the low-tier sea monsters were still densely packed, they were showing signs of decline.

"Qing'er, did you have a safe journey?"

Suddenly, the concerned voice of the ancestor Lin Canglan reached his ears.

Lin Qing felt a warmth in his heart. He saw his ancestor Lin Canglan fighting a bloody battle in the distance and quickly activated his magic weapon to rush closer.

"Rest assured, Ancestor. Although the journey was fraught with danger, we were fortunate to be unharmed and the mission was completed by a stroke of luck."

Before Lin Qing even got close, the Meteor Blade had already transformed into a streak of light, assisting the ancestor in knocking away a second-tier sea monster.

Lin Canglan looked Lin Qing over carefully and saw that although he was a little weak, he was generally fine. His heart was immediately relieved.

Just then, another strange thing happened on the sea.

The towering waves suddenly stopped moving, and the low-level sea monsters that had been baring their fangs and claws also became motionless. A few second-level sea monsters also moved slowly, and the entire battlefield fell into an eerie silence.

"It's the Ancestor who's back."

Su Mangxia's eyes lit up, and she instructed Su Shuangjiang beside her, "Shuangjiang, quickly arrange a large-scale attack formation for the spirit boat."

"yes!"

Su Shuangjiang also breathed a sigh of relief; the Su family had suffered considerable losses in this battle.

One Foundation Establishment cultivator died and another was seriously injured; more than ten Qi Refining cultivators died or were injured.

War is always a matter of life and death.

As the demon race remained in a strange stalemate, the human cultivators naturally seized the opportunity to attack cities and plunder territories.

A few breaths later, the silence returned to chaos, and the low-level sea monsters that had been locked in a stalemate seemed to have come back to life, all of them pouncing on each other and tearing at one another.

But it was all too late.

The human cultivators almost instantly reaped most of the sea monsters, and the remaining few second-tier sea monsters were no match for them.

Only one of the monsters—a black, scaled serpent with three eyes, wielding a trident in both hands, and a serpent's tail extending from its lower body—remained majestic and fought fiercely against the rest of the group…

He was still locked in a fierce battle with two Foundation Establishment cultivators, one of whom, a cultivator from the Su family, had died at his hands!

Although his third eye was still unopened, the supernatural powers it contained were extraordinary.

"For example, avoiding certain spiritual talismans in advance... accurately analyzing the opponent's spiritual attributes."

Upon thinking of this, Lin Qing couldn't help but ponder it for a moment.

"Fellow Daoist, stop him!"

Suddenly, the three-eyed snake demon transformed into a streak of gray light and shot into the sky, seemingly about to escape in the direction of Lin Qing and Lin Canglan…

Lin Canglan, who had been vigilant about his surroundings, saw this and quickly rolled up his small green flag, which then carried immense wood spiritual power to protect the two of them.

Without hesitation, Lin Qing suddenly launched the Beast Taming Ring, which was still being nurtured. As it spun, ripples spread out, suppressing the sea demon's malevolent aura. The three-eyed sea demon's speed immediately slowed down, revealing a look of surprise and uncertainty.

The siren dared not delay. She immediately touched her forehead, and a gray light shot out from her tightly closed third eye, heading straight for Lin Qing.

Lin Qing dared not be negligent, after all, judging from cultivation level alone, this demon was already equivalent to the late Foundation Establishment stage!

Lin Canglan snorted coldly, thickening the wood spirit energy shield even further, while simultaneously forming hand seals to control a long spear magic weapon to thrust directly at his opponent.

The sea monster watched as the gray light was kept outside the wooden spirit energy shield. Although the shield flickered with spiritual light, it was clear that it could not hold for more than a few breaths. However, the group of cultivators chasing after him was getting closer and closer!

He gritted his teeth, steeled his resolve, and resolutely reached out his large hand to grab his forehead, actually gouging out his tightly closed third eye!

"Ugh!"

In the instant of excruciating pain, he tossed his third eye upwards, and the fleshy ball instantly transformed into a gray-glowing full moon, bursting forth with dazzling gray light!

Not only their gaze, but even their divine sense was pierced, and they instantly lost their lock on the sea monster!

Seeing that his desperate attack had worked, the sea monster glared venomously at Lin Qing before leaping into the deep sea…

"Want to leave? Not so easy!"

Just as his body was about to touch the sea, a purple-gold staff shadow swept in from afar...

"puff-"

The sea monster spat out another mouthful of blood essence, which wrapped around its entire body, and its figure disappeared into the sea even faster than before…

"Boom—"

The Purple Gold Spirit-Stabilizing Cudgel followed closely behind; it was unclear whether it would be effective with a single blow.

Only then did the pursuers regain their senses from the gray light.

The floating fleshy ball seemed to have lost its origin, suddenly falling from the sky, but was instantly swept away by a beam of cyan light and disappeared.

Seeing Lin Qing wave his hand and directly accept the incredibly mysterious Eye of the Sea Demon, the Su clan members who had led the chase immediately turned grim.

Conventionally, on the battlefield, "the treasure belongs to the virtuous."

But the Su clan was the first to target this sea monster, and they even lost a Foundation Establishment member!

Just as this member of the Su clan was about to speak, he suddenly heard the voice of their ancestor, Su Qing.

"Fellow Daoists, return to the spirit boat immediately. The rest is now in the hands of the Su family!"