It had been less than half a day.
Lei Zhan stood amid the clouds, his feet planted on a black sailboat magic treasure. Gazing into the distance across the North Dark Sea, he spotted a small black dot far away.
"I flew for another whole day before I spotted this island." Lei Zhan spoke softly, a hint of a smile appearing on his handsome face.
How keen was a cultivator's eyesight? And Lei Zhan's soul was powerful enough that he could see every fine detail of a mosquito twenty li away.
Though the island was extremely far off, Lei Zhan could still make out the figures of some human beings on it.
"Even flying slowly, I covered at least seventy or eighty thousand li in a day." Lei Zhan studied the tiny black dot in the distance. "I've finally found a place. I wonder what level the cultivators on this island are."
"But with my strength and my divine ability, Star-Plucking Hand, I needn't fear even a Myriad Phenomena True Person. Besides, I only want to find a temporary place to stay on the island and get something to eat and drink."
As Lei Zhan considered it, he came to a decision.
As for the possibility that he might have terrible luck and run into a Primordial Spirit Daoist here... Primordial Spirit Daoists were powerful experts, and most of them were cultivating in seclusion within their cave abodes. They naturally wouldn't take an interest in an ordinary island.
The island Lei Zhan had spotted was an unremarkable little island. Islands like it were as plentiful as oxen's hair across the North Dark Sea, and generally only small tribes with one or two Purple Mansion cultivators lived on them.
"I'll go there first. If anything seems off, I'll simply steer clear from afar."
"Whoosh!" With a thought, the black sailboat beneath his feet turned into a streak of light and sped toward the island in the distance.
"Hm?" In less than the time it took to drink a cup of tea, Lei Zhan had reached the island.
The sailboat magic treasure came to an abrupt halt, hidden amid layers of clouds and mist. Lei Zhan looked down.
"There are energy fluctuations on the island."
Lei Zhan surveyed the island below. Judging by the strength and general direction of the fluctuations, he immediately raised his eyes and looked over.
"Purple Mansion cultivators must be fighting." Lei Zhan made his assessment, and his Divine Sense instantly spread out like a rising tide, enveloping the entire island.
Ever since Lei Zhan had received Immortal Juhua's soul-visualization method, Inner Contemplation of Sun and Moon Bright Buddha, he had practiced it every day for six years without missing a single day. With a single thought, his Divine Sense could cover a full eighty li.
He was no more than fifty li from the island, so his Divine Sense could investigate it with ease.
On the island.
"Sea Dragon Demon King, are you planning to go to war with Black Water Island?"
A burly, dark-faced man shouted furiously. Beside him stood a pretty young woman with a delicate face. The two of them were doing all they could to withstand the attacks.
Their attacker was a man in green with triangular eyes.
The man in green also emanated the fluctuations of a Purple Mansion cultivator, yet he was fighting the two of them alone and pressing them with a frenzied barrage of attacks.
All around them, countless little demons with fish heads or shrimp heads, and crab shells on their backs, were fighting with some Xiantian Beings.
"Go to war?" The green-clad man with triangular eyes sneered. "When have I, the Sea Dragon Demon King, ever feared your Black Water Island?"
As the great demon ruling an eight-hundred-li stretch of territory, Sea Dragon was a late-stage Purple Mansion cultivator of the Fiendgod Body-Refining Path. He commanded more than ten thousand shrimp soldiers and crab generals, so naturally he wasn't afraid of a small tribe like the Black Water Clan, which had only two Purple Mansion cultivators of the Qi Refining Path.
"But..." The green-clad man with triangular eyes glanced at the delicate young woman struggling to withstand his attacks. "Black Water, you ugly old bastard. Your daughter, though, is not only gifted, but rather pretty as well. If you're willing to marry her to me as my seventeenth concubine, and hand over that magic treasure you obtained some time ago, then I, the Demon King..."
"Dream on!" The delicate young woman turned livid with rage. She had grown up on Black Water Island, and within an eight-hundred-li radius, the only great demon was the Sea Dragon Great Demon before her, who had lived for nearly a thousand years.
Over the course of a thousand years, the Sea Dragon Great Demon had abducted countless human women. Most of them, after being toyed with, were turned into food for the demons, skinned and dismembered before being devoured.
"You damn sea eel, you're asking for death!" The dark-faced man was even more furious. His daughter was the greatest genius of the entire Black Water Clan. She was not yet fifty, yet through the clan's Qi Refining methods, she had already reached the early stage of the Purple Mansion.
Nor could he hand over the precious magic treasure he had found on the seabed some time ago. It was the hope of the Black Water Clan's future prosperity. If they used it as a stepping stone to send his daughter to a major sect in North Sea Commandery City, the clan might one day produce a Myriad Phenomena True Person. He couldn't give it away so easily.
"Hm?" A bloodthirsty killing intent flashed through the Sea Dragon Demon King's inverted triangular eyes. "Sea eel? Today, that treasure is mine, and the beauty... is mine too! Men, kill them! Once you've slaughtered the entire Black Water Clan, you can eat your fill of human flesh when we get back!"
"Yes!"
"Human flesh! Human flesh!"
"Brothers, charge! Wipe out the Black Water Clan!"
The little demons all around, their heads those of various monsters and weapons of every kind in their hands, redoubled their efforts and surged like a tide against the humans.
In an instant, the pressure on the entire Black Water Clan doubled.
"Little brother..." The delicate young woman, struggling to hold off the Sea Dragon Great Demon, suddenly froze. Among the countless Black Water Clan members, a young Xiantian Being had just been sheared in half at the waist by a crab demon's massive pincer.
"Hmph, little beauty, you dare get distracted while fighting me?" The Sea Dragon Great Demon's eyes lit up. The barbed whip in his hand lashed toward her.
"Pfft." A flying sword after another rose to block the incoming whip, but the tremendous force still blasted the delicate young woman backward, and her aura instantly weakened.
"Damn it! Damn it!" The dark-faced man flew into a rage. He gritted his teeth, his face flushing crimson, and the aura of his Purple Mansion cultivation suddenly surged.
"Die! Die! Die! Die!" The dark-faced man roared. The Nine Black Stone Orbs circling before him sped up, howling toward the Sea Dragon Great Demon.
"A forbidden art! Father..." The delicate young woman's expression changed. Gritting her teeth, she controlled her flying swords and continued attacking the Sea Dragon Great Demon. Her father was a late-stage Purple Mansion cultivator, and even he had been forced to use a forbidden art. If they couldn't keep the Sea Dragon Great Demon here today, the entire Black Water Clan would be finished.
"Hm? A forbidden art?" The Sea Dragon Demon King sneered. He actually thought a forbidden art could kill a Purple Mansion great demon of the Fiendgod Body-Refining Path? What a foolish fantasy!
"You're decisive, I'll give you that. Too bad. Use a forbidden art, and you'll still die!"
Rumble~~~
Suddenly, a massive phantom Water-Fire Grinding Disc appeared above Black Water Island, enveloping the Sea Dragon Great Demon and all the little demons within a thousand-zhang radius.
The grinding disc turned slowly, roaring like thunder. Endless surging blue seawater and blazing flames twisted together.
"Ah! Help!"
"Great King, save us!"
The Water-Fire Grinding Disc appeared for only an instant, yet those demons at the Xiantian level were immediately ground to pieces by its terrifying power.
"This is... the might of the Dao!" The Sea Dragon Great Demon stared in horror. His body shifted, and his true form appeared. In an instant, a thousand-zhang Single-Horned Flood Dragon Snake emerged on the island.
Its densely packed scales were each the size of a palm, gleaming with a faint blue light as it struggled and writhed beneath the Water-Fire Grinding Disc.
"Sea Dragon Demon King? You're merely a Purple Mansion great demon. Even calling a Myriad Phenomena demon a Demon King is pushing it. Calling yourself the Sea Dragon Demon King is just asking to be laughed at."
An almost inaudible chuckle sounded in the air. "I thought you'd be some kind of divine beast or rare species. Turns out you're just a sea snake with a horn."
As the words fell,
"Rumble!" The thousand-zhang Water-Fire Grinding Disc suddenly expanded, completely enveloping the Sea Dragon Great Demon in his true form.
In an instant, the endless grinding force of water and fire tore into him. Even though the Sea Dragon Great Demon was a demon of the Fiendgod Body-Refining Path, he was ground to pieces in the blink of an eye.
"Die! Die!" The dark-faced man was still doing everything he could to control the Nine Black Stone Orbs, but suddenly he stared around in bewilderment. "This... they're all dead?"
The Water-Fire Grinding Disc had appeared without warning, grinding down a vast number of demons in an instant, then vanished just as suddenly. It was as though nothing had happened.
Whoosh~~~
A handsome young man in black robes appeared out of thin air. With a wave of his hand, he collected the magic treasures left behind by the Sea Dragon Great Demon.
Though Lei Zhan could grind a great demon of the Fiendgod Body-Refining Path to dust, it would be difficult to destroy human-grade magic treasures with a Water-Fire Grinding Disc at the Domain Realm of the Dao.
Those undestroyed magic treasures were all his spoils of war—and all worth Essence Liquid. Naturally, he couldn't leave them behind.
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