Cultivation begins in the endless sea.

At the same time, Qian Xiaoyi's face had turned extremely pale.

During the last Nine Clans Alliance, he was in seclusion cultivating some kind of secret technique and therefore did not have the opportunity to participate.

After the meeting, he heard that his cousin, Qian Xiaobao, had actually been defeated by a newly promoted Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Lin family…

He had always wanted to test Lin Qing's abilities... but unfortunately, Lin Qing had been holed up on Wanling Island and refused to come out.

He happened to meet him today, so he deliberately sent a disciple of his clan to test him. Unexpectedly, his personality was not as gentle as rumored, but rather somewhat arrogant.

He actually sensed it from afar when the meteor blade lightly touched his toes; the movement was fluid and graceful, revealing the depth of the user's skill...

This can be considered the end of a minor but significant conflict.

……

The deep-sea pythons thrived in the water, leaping and tumbling joyfully in the shellfish enclosure.

The shell farm is a giant tower-shaped structure made of layers of spirit shells. They are interconnected and stacked one on top of the other. The spirit shells open and close, absorbing the spiritual energy of the earth's veins.

From here on, the sea level begins to gradually decrease...

At the base of the tower, there is another passageway. When you reach this point, the seawater is only up to your calves.

The passageway was slippery and narrow, with the stone walls on both sides covered with an unusually viscous, milky-white liquid.

"Is this the Dew of the Shell?"

Lin Qing pinched the spirit dew, seemingly lost in thought.

The ghostly scale beside him darted into the stone wall with a "whoosh" and disappeared. A moment later, it poked its head out again, hissing triumphantly...

……

"Gurgle gurgle..."

"Brother Ji, do you think that human guy won't go back on his word?"

In a secluded corner of the ocean floor, three sea monsters were sneaking together.

One of them, completely black with silver fins on its back, was clearly a mid-level second-tier sea monster.

His face contorted with rage, and he sneered, "He'll definitely go back on his word."

"However..." the siren continued smugly, "I deliberately took an extra precaution and hid some spiritual dew..."

"That guy thought it would take him another six months or so to save up enough."

"quack…"

"The strategist is truly brilliant!"

"That's really high..."

These idiots must have learned something from somewhere; a few sea monsters swore brotherhood and called their leader, who had the highest cultivation level, "Batou."

The sea monster surnamed Ji continued smugly, "This cave is covered by my shed demon skin, making it impossible for anyone to see...that fellow..."

"Chief Ji, what's this...?"

Just then, a small, green python suddenly slithered in, its vertical pupils blinking…

"Uh...it must have been an accidental intrusion..."

"My skin took eighty-one days to shed; it's the essence of my being... Ordinary swords and blades can't even scratch it..."

"Sizzle—"

Before the words were finished, the sound of a sword slicing through leather came to an abrupt halt.

The sea monster surnamed Ji's face turned bright red, and he was about to burst into curses when his expression suddenly changed.

"Oh no, get out of here!"

A terrifying pressure emanated from the cave entrance, and the other two first-tier sea monsters besides the Ji-surnamed sea monster were directly suppressed on the spot and unable to move!

How could the sea monster surnamed Ji not be horrified!

He disregarded everything else and immediately his dorsal fin flashed with silver light, transforming him into a silver shuttle that tore open the cave's outer cover, attempting to escape from the place first.

Unexpectedly, alarm bells rang in his mind, and he instinctively dodged several feet to the side.

"what?"

A slightly deep voice suddenly sounded in my ear.

The sea monster surnamed Ji felt a chill in his heart, knowing that a powerful enemy had arrived. He immediately cast aside all distractions, focusing his demonic power. His arms swelled rapidly, and his fists, the size of sandbags, slammed into the azure figure with a sudden twist of his body, accompanied by a blast of poisonous mist from his mouth!

The figure in cyan was naturally Lin Qing.

Just now, when he and Youlin were exploring the spirit dew together, they unknowingly arrived at the core area of ​​the shell farm, the shell mother spirit pool.

The enormous mother-of-pearl was crystal clear and radiated a shimmering, precious light.

Having been tamed for so long, it didn't even bother to glance at the newcomers, the human and the demon...

"Tsk tsk..."

Lin Qing looked at the fritillary dew slowly condensing in the spirit pool and couldn't help but admire it.

"Although this spiritual dew is only enough for one person, breaking through to the mid-stage shouldn't be too difficult, right?"

Unfortunately, these spiritual dews were all recorded and collected regularly by designated personnel, and distributed to each family according to the ranking ratio set by the Nine Clans Alliance.

Just as Lin Qing was observing the situation, Youlin suddenly stood up, blinked its vertical pupils, and darted around a few times, sometimes sticking close to the stone wall, sometimes lying on the ground, and finally turned its head to look at Lin Qing, as if telling him something.

Lin Qing's heart stirred.

"Could it be that Youlin has made some discovery?"

Seeing Lin Qing follow, Youlin leaped up and instantly darted behind Beimu.

"Hum hum——"

The fritillary lazily shifted its enormous body, glanced at the dark scales with its round little eyes, and then slowly drifted back to sleep.

Lin Qing followed closely behind.

Behind the fritillaria bulb is a thick layer of translucent gelatinous substance.

With a flash of emerald green in its vertical pupils, Youlin's entire demonic body suddenly straightened, piercing into the thick, gelatinous wall.

Lin Qing hesitated slightly, then followed closely behind using the Five Elements Water Escape technique…

And that's how the scene from before came about.

However, he hadn't expected that the silver-finned sea monster in front of him could actually dodge his sneak attack using the Five Elements Water Escape technique...

"Buzz—"

The small black shield erected a protective layer, forcefully blocking the sea monster's fist attack. At the same time, Lin Qing grabbed with his large hand, and the Heavy Wave Palm condensed out of thin air, smashing away the poisonous mist. Then, the vortex in his palm spun, and the sea monster surnamed Ji immediately felt his demonic power in his body slightly disordered.

"not good."

The sea monster surnamed Ji was also a veteran of many battles. He remained calm in the face of danger, and with a flash of his silver fins, his entire body moved several feet away.

"It's actually a rare innate ability for escape techniques."

Lin Qing narrowed his eyes slightly, patted his storage bag, and a black beast-taming ring slowly flew out.

The sea monster surnamed Ji had already taken out a heavy hammer, and when the two hammers clashed together, a cold smile appeared on his lips.

With a flash of silver fins, he descended from the sky, dragging a heavy hammer, and smashed it down hard on Lin Qing.

"Buzz!"

The small black shield struggled to block one of the hammer blows, but the sea monster surnamed Ji chuckled evilly and swung his other hammer down again!

At this moment, the Beast Taming Ring spun rapidly, positioned behind Lin Qing's head, and waves of suppressing demonic energy surged out continuously...

"Click—"

Despite the blessing of the Beast Taming Ring, the spiritual light barrier of the dark shield had already cracked due to the haste, and it was clear that it could not hold out for more than a few breaths.

Lin Qing remained expressionless. He flicked his fingers, and the small black shield flew horizontally with a hum.

Taking advantage of this opening, he opened his mouth and spat out three drops of Profound True Water. The sea monster surnamed Ji raised his twin hammers, attempting to block the strange water droplets…

"Boom—"

The first-tier, high-grade double hammers were struck violently, immediately producing a cracking sound, clearly unable to withstand the force...

Lin Qing instantly activated the Beast Taming Ring, and the dark magic weapon spun wildly, forcefully suppressing the demonic power that the Ji-surnamed sea monster had just raised.

In that instant, Lin Qing raised his hand, and a silver and black streak of light shot out from his sleeve, moving at great speed straight toward the face of the man surnamed Ji!

"Ugh..."

In a moment of desperation, the sea monster surnamed Ji flashed its silver fins and managed to shift two steps to the side, thus dodging the fatal blow!