Chapter 1496 - 1069: Divine Oracle
"Anyway, with the map and precise coordinates, let’s just tear through space. It’s a good opportunity to gain skill experience!" Jiang Yuan sent a message to Yun Shu, and acquiring a sea mount could be handled simultaneously.
Then, he clicked on the space technique and randomly chose a space gap to enter.
While he was traversing space heading to the Sea Sun Tomb, a thunderous boom echoed from Xiyue City in the undersea world—the Sea God was about to send a message!
"The Sea God hasn’t summoned a divine messenger for a long time. Suddenly sending a message with no warning—could there be a major event happening?" Xiyue City was the gathering place for the Ripple Shell Turtles, and City Lord Turtle Essence had already lived for thirty thousand years.
Even when transforming into human form, a part of his turtle shell remained on his back. He strolled slowly with his hands behind his back, his expression solemn.
Ripple Shell Turtles are naturally long-lived; other long-lived demon races are born with, at most, a few thousand years of lifespan. Even the most ordinary Ripple Shell Turtle, unable to cultivate, is born with a lifespan of tens of thousands of years.
As an outstanding demon cultivator within his race, Turtle Essence remained young at thirty thousand years old. Calculating meticulously, he still had hundreds of thousands of years of lifespan to squander. If he could advance another realm within those hundreds of thousands of years, he could add tens of thousands of years to his lifespan.
Living long naturally grants vast knowledge, and Turtle Essence sensed that the Sea Demon Race was on the brink of a major turning point.
In recent years, although the Sea Moon and Sea Sun still hung high in the sky, careful comparison reveals that their radiance is gradually dimming.
The spiritual energy throughout the undersea world is also becoming increasingly thin.
"The Sea God’s power is growing weaker, could it be that..." He pondered for a moment, and an ominous premonition flashed through his mind.
Once the Sea God falls, the vast undersea world will eventually be overrun by the wilderness demon race!
The long-lived races have a rich history, clearly documenting how the despicable demon race, in front a set of faces, behind another, tried to seize resources and enslave sea demons with their honey-tongued and sword-like tactics. Without the Sea God’s protection and the barrier, they would surely return!
Turtle Essence sighed heavily, took out three incense sticks, and reverently offered incense to the Sea God, "O Sea God above, you have protected the Sea Demon Race for so long. Unfortunately, too many sea demons receive your gracious protection yet do not respect or believe in you, hence the devout faith’s wish power fails to gather divine power for you. Though I lack the face, I still humbly plead for the Sea God’s protection over devout believers."
Consulting ancestral records, it was noted that the Sea God always responded to prayers.
Even when facing catastrophic disasters, like the sky collapsing and the earth shattering, through the united and devout prayers of the Sea Demon Race, the Sea God still protected the countless living beings of the undersea world.
He carried fragments of the world across the void and merged them into the wilderness, enduring immense hardships without allowing the sea demons to suffer for a single day. Even during invasions and turmoil caused by the wilderness demon race, the Sea God manifested to punish the wicked and set seals for protection.
Despite this, as time passed, many sea demons only spoke of the Sea God becoming the sun and moon, benefiting from His protection, yet internally neither respected nor believed in the God.
A God’s power derives from faith.
It is through receiving energy that He can continuously respond and protect believers. However, as each generation of believers becomes fewer, the God’s power grows more scarce, spending most of the time in a powerless slumber, naturally unable to respond, forming a vicious cycle.
In former times, upon learning of the Sea God’s severe injury and slumber, every race left ancestral instructions, asking descendants to offer devout faith and wish power to restore the Sea God to his former state.
"Even with divine messengers witnessing the God’s presence firsthand, they still cannot curb the restless hearts of the new generation. Even the divine messengers have shifted from pure faith to become items of greedy disputes; the Sea Demon Race is in peril!" Turtle Essence watched the incense smoke curl upward, brushed off the floating dust on himself, and slowly walked out of the Sea God’s temple with his hands behind his back.
Upon hearing the Sea God’s summoning of the divine messengers and the impending divine decree, the cultivators gathered in front of the Sea God’s temple, each with faces full of excitement and joy.
"Lord City Lord, don’t dawdle!"
"Yes, open the teleportation array quickly!"
"I heard the other divine messengers have already arrived at the God’s temple, just awaiting the Sea God’s audience! Don’t miss the hour!"
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Seeing him emerge, the impatient sea demons chattered eagerly.
Each time a divine decree descends, the Sea God also grants the divine messengers generous rewards to compensate for the damage of gazing upon the divine. Long ago, during that simple era, divine messengers were sacred and noble beings.
With divine messengers receiving rewards, enhancing their family’s status and strength significantly, what was originally a sacred position became a prized opportunity fought over by major families and sects.
As for whether the chosen divine messenger had enough fortune? No one cared, not even the messenger themselves.
The benevolent Sea God would do whatever possible to protect the divine messengers from significant harm. Even if gazing upon the divine reduced lifespan, the rewards would be provided by the supporting forces behind them, making it possible to compensate.
"Lord City Lord, hurry up! I cannot wait to face the Sea God!" This time, the chosen divine messenger was a branch of the largest family in the city—Hai Xunche.
He was eager, anticipating receiving the divine decree and the reward to make monumental achievements for his family, ascending from a branch to a direct heir, never worrying about cultivation resources again!
Turtles are known for doing things slowly with no urgency, yet Hai Xunche was so anxious he was hopping, fearing being late and missing out.
"The Sea God’s condition is worsening," Turtle Essence did not acknowledge him, turning his gaze to the patriarch and elders of the Hai Family, hinting, "If He can’t control His power, He might be unable to protect the divine messengers. Are you sure the chosen one is blessed with enough fortune, able to gaze upon the divine as a cultivator?"