The Truly Troublesome Ones

Three more days passed before Lin Jun finally saw an enormous dark shape.

Unless he was mistaken, that had to be land.

Truthfully, Lin Jun had never grown used to being at sea all the time. Now that land had suddenly appeared, he felt an unexpected warmth toward it.

Nothing beat having solid ground beneath his feet.

"Brother, we're almost there. But this isn't the Main Camp. That's farther inland. The Sea Demons have already ravaged this place."

Sure enough, as Lin Jun flew over the land, he saw black liquid smeared across the earth. Without a doubt, it was Sea Demon Blood left behind when the Sea Demons died.

The blood had dried, giving off an unbearable stench.

The moment Lin Jun smelled it, even he felt his energy slow. Clearly, the Sea Demons had changed again.

Before, Lin Jun had needed to inject Sea Demon Blood into someone's body to produce this effect. But nearly three thousand years had passed, and now the slightest contact with it seemed enough to impede a person's energy.

Lin Jun's cultivation was powerful, so he was still all right. Some of the weaker martial artists, however, were already swaying, their faces deathly pale.

"Turn! Get away from here!"

Jin Yuan called out urgently. At her command, everyone changed course and went around.

Only after they had left that blood-red land behind did their complexions improve.

Lin Jun looked back at the earth contaminated by Sea Demon Blood. Without a doubt, this place was finished. No one with cultivation could survive here.

Yet he saw many small animals on the bloodstained ground. He even spotted an ordinary person with no cultivation hunting them.

Clearly, Sea Demon Blood had no effect on beings without cultivation.

Was this what it meant to reset the board?