A bright moon hung high over the sea, mist rising like a hazy immortal realm.
Ye Zhen, dressed in a long blue robe with his hair tied high, floated within that hazy immortal realm. His eyes were slightly closed, and a faint layer of black Spiritual Light shrouded his body. The Cloud Winged Tiger King Xiao Mao crouched on Ye Zhen's shoulder like a statue, making Ye Zhen appear tranquil and mysterious.
Yet, if anyone had observed closely, they would have discovered that the dense water mist in the sky seemed to slowly pulse along with Ye Zhen's faint breathing and the rise and fall of his chest.
Ye Zhen's Spiritual Sense followed those pulses, carried by the dense mist as it spread fan-shaped into the distance before him.
Originally, the ability to control Earth Spirit Energy that Ye Zhen had obtained from the Golden Back Stone Beast King, even with his Soul Power having advanced by leaps and bounds, could at most allow his Spiritual Sense to explore a hundred miles away while attached to Earth Spirit Energy. Moreover, such a state could not be sustained at all.
However, the ability to control Water Spiritual Power granted to Ye Zhen by the Black Dragon Martial Vein was different. More importantly, after carefully comprehending the Water Dao Pattern evolved by the Great Sage of the Sea, Ye Zhen's understanding of the Dao of Water had reached an unprecedented height.
Upon the spiritual pillar formed by the Black Dragon Martial Vein in Ye Zhen's soul sea, a faint trace of a pattern had already emerged. Ye Zhen understood that it was the embryonic form of his own Water Dao Pattern.
However, it was only an embryonic form. To condense it into a true Dao Pattern, he still had a long road