Chapter 693 - 374: Three Years! Karmic Cycle
Now, the entire East Origin Sea Region has turned into a powder keg gathering place. Besides the local cultivation forces, even the Overseas Immortal Island frequently appear, and several other Spirit Realms, even the Central Cultivation Dynasty have sent people over to participate in the contest for the Ancient True Dragon Hall.
Naturally, other forces and strong individuals are not weak, and the struggle with the Flood Dragon Demon Court has undoubtedly become even more intense.
After all, this Ancestral Dragon Qi holds considerable terrifying effects for any strong individual, rapidly accumulating and causing cultivation to soar in the shortest time.
It can even inherit a portion of the True Dragon’s origin abilities.
Given this, it has already become a grand event in the entire Profound Celestial Cultivation Realm, something no one can afford to abandon.
Old monsters at the Divinity Transformation Level frequently show up.
Therefore, under the omens of the Ancient True Dragon Hall gradually emerging into the world, various tribes and the Flood Dragon Demon Court engaged in more brutal strangulation battles, with considerable losses on both sides.
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On the other hand, everyone believed that Zheng Yi, who had returned to the East Origin Sea Region, would directly take revenge on the Flood Dragon Demon Court.
Similarly, the Flood Dragon Imperial Court wouldn’t allow Azure Waves Island, a tumor, to grow and would initiate a terrifying siege against it.
However, the two sides seem to have reached some kind of tacit understanding.
On the surface, everything is incredibly calm, with no signs of action.
Other individuals or forces couldn’t comprehend it.
After reconstructing Azure Waves Island, Zheng Yi unexpectedly went into seclusion on the island to cultivate, as if what happened outside had nothing to do with him.
The tumultuous Ancient True Dragon Hall seemed non-existent.
Back then, Zheng Yi was hunted by the Flood Dragon Imperial Court across heaven and earth.
Now with his greatly increased strength and return to the East Origin Sea Region, Zheng Yi took no action, seemingly having given up on revenge.
But no one would believe that.
The serene surface is the most terrifying activity.
The surface is only the tip of the iceberg; hidden beneath the sea’s surface is the real turmoil.
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Time swiftly passed by three years.
In just three short years, the existence of the Great Celestial Stars Tribulation Thunder Array had already altered the weather within a few hundred kilometers of its surroundings. With the constant replenishment of Thunder Essence Qi, the entire Azure Waves Island was enveloped all day in a sky-full of thunderous dark clouds.
Thunder fluctuations surged out from the black mist, exuding a terrifying aura, seemingly ready to devour the heavens and earth.
The surrounding sea area was in turmoil, and even the powerful sea creatures dared not venture into this region, as countless predecessors had warned them with their disappearing remains; once stepping into that terrifying forbidden territory, what greets them is irreversible, strong damage.
Moreover, Zheng Yi employed some unknown means, directly using secret techniques to supplement the array, seizing the Heaven and Earth’s Primordial Spirit from a three hundred kilometer radius to supply the Great Celestial Stars Tribulation Thunder Array, so that when the Array Map operated, it could instantly unleash terrifying power.
Consequently, all Spiritual Qi origins around the Floating Island Azure Waves Island disappeared, utterly turning into a Spiritual Qi-desolate forbidden territory.
Any outsiders fighting around without the Island Lord Zheng Yi’s permission, without the permissions granted by Azure Waves Island, will have the power of the Spiritual Qi they use drastically reduced.
After spending three entire years draining all the Spiritual Power within a range of three hundred kilometers, the Great Celestial Stars Tribulation Thunder Array finally settled down stably, as if tangible, shrouding around Azure Waves Island.
In the area within view, patches of white mist surged forth, completely enveloping the hundred-kilometer space around Azure Waves Island.
From afar, it appeared as a stretch of whitish space, obscuring what the inside held.
High above Azure Waves Island, amidst a layer of heavy clouds, thunder and lightning continuously surged, each beam of dazzling blade light and sword Qi, as substantial as real blades, instantaneously tore through the heavens, cleaving into the depths of the clouds, revealing a momentarily bright sky.
Beneath the thunderous lightning were towering thunder cities, gleaming lightning weaved hefty city walls, exuding an ancient sharpness from the walls, with a multitude of orderly buildings within the city, even beacon towers, watchtowers, and arrow slits, presenting as true garrisoned war cities.
One by one, figures constructed by thunder stood on the city walls and at various checkpoints, seemingly the city’s guards, defending against any enemy that might come from outside.
Above the thunder city hung nine star-like imprints, these imprints of some empty-origin shone with distinct bright luster.
These were the imprints of the nine Nascent Soul cultivators that Zheng Yi annihilated with the Immortal Slaying Sword during his Nascent Soul Thunder Tribulation. In the battle with Zheng Yi, they were completely shattered, wiping out their original origins, leaving only the empty imprints quietly floating above.
Of course, the vacancy in the imprints now can still be supplemented.
That means using the lives of other Nascent Soul cultivators to fill it; they can be directly refined and devoured, and then can be converted into Origin Divine Soul, becoming one of the Nascent Soul Marks, thereby becoming a War General stationed at this Thunder City.
Zheng Yi named it ’Thunder Division’.
Of course, in Zheng Yi’s view, these Nascent Soul Divine Souls, who lost their freedom and were devoured by Thunder City, naturally became Divine Slaves under Thunder City, a method of ancient Heavenly Dao control of puppets.
Dong Dong!
The sound of war drums resonated like the throbbing of a heart, surging above the city, and the unsettling sound propelled the thunder in the sky, releasing a terrifying aura, constantly impacting various parts of Thunder City.
The source of this sound was hidden deep within Thunder City, where a pulsating Thunder Dao Embryo lies.
This item is a result of plundering Heaven and Earth’s Primordial Spirit, gathered together, and the surging Thunder Power continuously extracted from the sky is flowing into the heart-like pulsating embryo. The power contained within it releases an ancient primitive wilderness aura, continuously spreading outward.
But this Thunder Dao Embryo is still in a damaged state, not truly complete. Even though Zheng Yi relies on the All Celestial Stars Tribulation Thunder Array to continuously absorb strong electrical light from the sky, it can only supplement some of the power but cannot restore its origin completely.
It can only be temporarily maintained; only by absorbing another Origin Power can its missing origin be completely replenished, achieving the true complete form.
However, whether it can succeed, Zheng Yi has no confidence, only silently waiting for the opportunity.
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Just when news about the Ancient True Dragon Hall became more frequent and spread faster, Azure Waves Island stabilized completely after three years.
Even if Zheng Yi himself wasn’t there, relying on the powerful All Celestial Stars Tribulation Thunder Array Map, even if several Nascent Souls arrived, they couldn’t shake this steel fortress.
This is the ultimate in defense as well as offense.
At this moment, Zheng Yi quietly left Azure Waves Island, heading directly toward the depths of the sea regions.
Because a spy reported the presence of Sea-covering Demon Monarch near a secretive deep-sea bay far away from near-sea land.
After returning for three years, Zheng Yi and Deep Sea Flood Dragon Imperial Court maintained balance, but beneath it all, there were undercurrents.
In those three years, the spies of Flood Dragon Imperial Court near Azure Waves Island were the most numerous, including the Demon Race, Deep Sea Race, and even human spies, but all died at the hands of Zheng Yi’s subordinates.
At the same time, Zheng Yi’s Celestial Demon Army wasn’t idle, establishing a large-scale information network continuously observing the movements of Flood Dragon Imperial Court.
Most notably focusing on Sea-covering Demon Monarch.
This old fellow initially relied on his Nascent Soul Stage power, chasing Zheng Yi relentlessly over ten thousand miles, driving him to the ends of the earth.
This piece of karma, Zheng Yi will resolve no matter what.
However, as the highest level of Demon Dragon Demon Court, Sea-covering Demon Monarch’s whereabouts remained elusive. Since Zheng Yi returned, he had been keeping hidden; not even people within Flood Dragon Imperial Court could easily trace where he was.
Moreover, Sea-covering Demon Monarch, as a core force of Flood Dragon Demon Court, was part of its foundation, so his safety was more important than an average Nascent Soul, which is why Zheng Yi couldn’t track his information.
Yet this time, discovering the whereabouts of Sea-covering Demon Monarch seemed to have artificial traces, strikingly apparent.
But Zheng Yi didn’t mind; instead, he quietly left Azure Waves Island, heading to where Sea-covering Demon Monarch might appear.
This time, discovering Sea-covering Demon Monarch’s whereabouts felt like someone intentionally left clues for pursuit.
Such clumsy means were easily noticed by Zheng Yi, but he didn’t care about this seemingly hidden conspiracy.
In the face of overwhelming strength, all plots are empty.
Primarily because Zheng Yi had clear awareness of his own strength. Although Sea-covering Demon Monarch was powerful in the past, striking from hundreds of miles away almost fatally injured him.
But that was many years ago; the present Zheng Yi has long since transformed, no longer the easily injured Core Formation cultivator. As a figure at the Nascent Soul Level, with Taiyue Divine Venerable backing the Incense Three Realms, even if the ancient ancestors of Flood Dragon Imperial Court took action, Zheng Yi felt no fear.
Zheng Yi followed all the way, patrolling over the vast sea surface, finally finding the bay where Sea-covering Demon Monarch last appeared.
This place was extremely secretive, far from the near-sea mainland, on a vast sea surface, a cluster of islands formed by cliffs rising from the seabed, shaping into a discreet harbor.
In the void, Zheng Yi’s figure was hidden atop a mass of white clouds, his enormous Divine Soul Power flowed like a gentle breeze, seemingly light but truly omnipresent, surging toward the depths of the bay.
With Zheng Yi’s current strength, the Divine Soul Power he possessed was terrifyingly immense, covering a range exceeding tens of thousands of meters.
As the Divine Soul probed into the bay, the islands seemed exceptionally tranquil, sweeping in a circle, feeling no anomalies, as if there wasn’t even a breath.