Chapter 504 Complex Situation
Tens of thousands of miles east of Liehai City, there is a huge blue light curtain that stretches for hundreds of thousands of miles like a blue dragon. This light curtain is several miles thick, like a blue giant sword, cutting the entire huge sea area in two.
This huge blue light curtain is the dividing line between the inner sea and the outer sea. To the west of this sea boundary is the Xumi Sea, and to the east is the most chaotic Demon Sea, which is a million miles deep. Further east of the Demon Sea is the mysterious Abyss Sea occupied by the Sea Clan.
The Abyss Black Island where the beast tide broke out is located at the junction of the Demon Sea and the Abyss Sea. It has been more than half a year since the beast tide broke out. The first few batches of sea beasts that rushed into the Demon Sea have basically eaten up everything they can eat in the Demon Sea. Now, under the deliberate guidance and expulsion of the sea clan, they are swarming towards the sea boundary.
At this time, four extremely huge sea-hunting divine ships were moored thousands of feet above the Cuizhu Island, the largest island in the sea boundary. This island is thousands of miles in radius, and has extremely magnificent city walls. The dark red mottled walls show that this city has been attacked by countless sea beasts, but it still stands here sadly.
The largest and most eye-catching building on the island is a thousand-foot-tall green giant tower in the center of the city. This tower is the gathering spirit tower that provides spiritual power for the sea boundary. It can be said that the Cuizhu City of the entire Cuizhu Island was built based on this tower. The densely packed houses and city walls form the best protection for this tower.
The four sea-hunting divine ships were moored above this tower. The reason why the divine ship had to be moored here was that all the order masters had to accept the last procedure of participating in the sea-hunting war here.
The order masters of each team must absorb a sea-hunting spiritual breath and refine it with the sea-hunting order in a special forbidden formation building above this tower. Only after absorbing this hunting sea spirit breath, the hunting sea order can be considered to have completed the last step of activation.
This hunting sea spirit breath is said to be jointly sacrificed by the top cultivators in Xumi Sea, and has a special spiritual power that can sense the breath of all sea creatures and sea beasts within a radius of 3,000 miles.
Of course, it is not only that. After being refined, this hunting sea spirit breath can automatically count the ranks and numbers of sea creatures and sea beasts killed by the master holding the hunting sea order, and convert them into corresponding hunting sea merit points, which are stored in the hunting sea order.
After the hunting sea war is over, as long as this hunting sea spirit breath is used, the hunting sea merit points obtained can be verified, and the points ranking can be calculated based on this, and the order can be evaluated to determine rewards and punishments.
Of course, as long as the sea creatures and sea beasts are killed within the range of their respective hunting sea spirits, whether they are killed by the master himself, or by his team's followers, or by the master's spirit beasts, spirit insects, or even by any other means, they will be counted under the name of this master.
Once this hunting sea spirit is refined by the hunting sea master, it will carry the unique breath of this master, and there will never be a chaotic situation where several teams appear in the same area and in the melee, the sea creatures or sea beasts died in the hands of which team. This hunting sea spirit is refined by a cultivator at the level of the immortal ancestor, so naturally there will be no such low-end mistakes.
On the four divine ships, there are 40 mid-level teams and 30 low-level teams that will go to the Demon Sea to participate in the hunting sea war.
The master and the followers of each team lined up in an orderly manner to receive the hunting sea spirits on this gathering spirit tower, marked their unique breaths, and then returned to the divine ship in an orderly manner, waiting to go out to sea to fight.
At this time, within dozens of miles below the Gathering Spirit Tower, there stood a large number of low-level cultivators who looked quite miserable.
Most of these cultivators were in the Qi Refining Stage, and were coolies and cannon fodder. They were all dressed in tattered clothes, dirty, expressionless, and dull. If it weren't for the slight life in their eyes, they would easily be mistaken for living dead.
How could these cultivators be revered as immortal masters by ordinary people in the mortal world? They were clearly just cultivator spirit slaves.
Looking at these extremely miserable cultivator spirit slaves below, Xing Xiao and others from the Reporting Team were filled with emotion. If they hadn't met Wu Yan at the beginning, their fate would not be much better than these people.
The Ding brothers took them to Jieli Island, and although they were allowed to mine spirit mines, once the spirit mines were mined, they would be sold to islands like Cuizhu Island on the sea boundary as slaves, squeezing out the last bit of value from them.
Everyone cherished everything they had now, and their gratitude to Wu Yan became more sincere. In fact, they had already regarded Wu Yan as the master they would follow for the rest of their lives, but after seeing this poor cultivator, they felt a lot of emotion.
The beast tide, the sea tribe, and the sea hunting war, until it was completely over, such a sad and pitiful situation would never be eliminated.
This is the current trend of the entire Xumi Sea cultivation world, and it is not something that can be solved by personal ability. Although Wu Yan also had thousands of emotions about this situation, he was powerless.
It has been more than half a month since the end of the sea hunting training assessment. The cultivators from all parties gathered in the sea hunting city have left the sea hunting city one after another and rushed to the various islands on the sea boundary line to garrison.
These teams that participated in the war were carried by the Sea Hunting Divine Ship and set out from the Sea Hunting City and rushed to Cuizhu Island, the largest island on the sea boundary. As soon as they all received the Sea Hunting Spirit Breath, they would rush to the open sea to face the ferocious sea tribes and sea beasts. Without strong strength as a backing, their future fate might not be much better than those living dead monks and spirit slaves below.
However, the overall strength of the team that went out to sea to participate in the Sea Hunting War has to be said to be the strongest in history.
In this Sea Hunting War, there are five Nascent Soul-level Order Masters participating in the war, and there are also more than a dozen Order Masters in the late Jindan stage or even the Great Perfection stage. The lowest of the rest is the middle Jindan stage. It can be said that this Order Master with the lowest cultivation level can be regarded as the top in previous Sea Hunting Wars.
With so many powerful Order Masters participating in the war, there will definitely be a situation of too many monks and too little porridge, which makes the competition for this Sea Hunting War likely to become the most intense battle in history. But the actual situation is not the case.
Just a few days ago, one of the powerful monks who secretly went out to the sea to seal the alien beast tide channel on the abyss island made a special trip from the Demon Sea to the Sea Hunting City and brought a very bad news.
After this news came out, the atmosphere of the entire Xumi Sea became unprecedentedly tense and depressing, and all the Order Masters participating in the Sea Hunting War felt as if a huge stone was pressed down on their hearts, and they felt extremely heavy.
The powerful monks who went to the Abyss Black Island to seal the entrance to the alien world had not yet sealed the entrance to the passage where the beast tide broke out, and an unprecedented fierce battle broke out with the alien races that sneaked in from that entrance.
No one expected that the passage to the alien world had been completely opened, so that the alien races from the alien world could finally rush into this world through that passage.
The powerful monks of the four major sects and the powerful monks of the Hunting Sea Alliance joined forces to barely block those alien races in the beast tide passage of the Abyss Black Island, blocking their way into the world. However, they failed to stop the continuous beast tide.
Now, most of the powerful monks in the entire Xumi Sea are stationed in the Abyss Black Island, closely monitoring the beast tide passage, and strictly preventing the alien races from rushing into the Demon Sea from it. As soon as the beast tide outbreak ends, they plan to explore the beast tide passage again and make other arrangements.
On the other hand, the four major sects also sent people to contact the powerful monks of the sea clan, hoping to see if they could suspend their attacks on each other through negotiations, so as to free up their hands and jointly fight against the alien races from other worlds.
The monks in charge of contact have not yet received any news, and their lives are uncertain.
Another group of Xumi Sea monks who rushed to the ruins of the Abyss Dragon Palace to attract high-level monks of the sea clan have also not received any news so far, and it is unknown whether they are alive or dead.
Wu Yan and other leaders of the Sea Hunting Team, in such a complicated and unclear situation, boarded the Sea Hunting Divine Boat and were about to go to the Demon Sea to participate in the Sea Hunting War. You can imagine how everyone feels.
In any case, the Sea Hunting War has begun, and everyone has no way back, so they can only choose to go to the outer sea for a battle. Life or death, whether to get a great opportunity and rise to the top from now on, or to encounter a great disaster and fall in the Demon Sea, depends on each person's character.
After receiving the Sea Hunting Spirit, many team leaders sent their team's escorts to Cuizhu Island below to handle some private matters. Most of these private matters were related to spirit slaves.
Although Wu Yan only brought 30 escorts this time, he also temporarily recruited nearly 100 spirit slaves who sold themselves in Sea Hunting City. These spirit slaves were only at the Qi Refining Stage, and were allowed to be brought in for the Sea Hunting War Assessment. They naturally could not help the team participate in the war, but were just coolies. Their main tasks were to help clean up the islands, build fortifications, mine spirit mines on the islands, and other hard labor and miscellaneous tasks.
The spirit slaves naturally could not go to the open sea with the Sea Hunting Divine Ship. They would be transported to the designated target islands in the open sea by the leaders who recruited them, hired slave caravans specializing in slave transportation, and dispatched slave ships with strong defense capabilities, all the way from Sea Hunting City.
Wu Yan didn't spend much spirit stones to recruit these more than a hundred coolie monks, but the number of spirit stones spent on hiring this kind of slave transport ship was more than ten times that of these spirit slaves.
Fortunately, he had made the most comprehensive preparations for participating in the Sea Hunting War this time. Not only did he bring the Ji family's grandparents and grandchildren with him, but he also took away the eight array master disciples of Xuan Yazi.
With the eight disciples of Xuan Ya Taoist, Wu Yan no longer had to worry about the deployment of the entire Wuji Locking Yuan Array.
After the Sea Hunting Divine Boat stayed on Cuizhu Island for half a day, all the order masters received the Sea Hunting Spiritual Breath and finished their own private affairs. It immediately carried all the teams going out to sea, passed through the extremely powerful forbidden array light curtain of the sea boundary, and appeared on the Demon Sea.
After traveling hundreds of miles in the Demon Sea east of the sea boundary, the four Sea Hunting Divine Boats finally parted ways and sailed in four different directions, disappearing without a trace in a moment.
The Sea Hunting Divine Ship that Wu Yan was riding on was controlled by Taoist Xuan Ya, so he was leading his own team and escorts to avoid the cabin below and stay with Taoist Xuan Ya.
After Taoist Xuan Ya entrusted the trivial matters of controlling this Divine Ship to his disciples, he and Wu Yan went into the secret room to discuss some secret matters.