Entering the Island

"Master, be careful!" Morosa's voice rang out in Luo Feng's mind.

The Sea Marten he had dragged out suddenly grew several more tentacles and clawed fiercely at Luo Feng. Each tentacle moved at several hundred times the speed of light.

"What?" Luo Feng suddenly sensed the tentacles sweeping toward him, and his expression changed.

Even the Sea Marten fighting him at that moment erupted with greater power, disrupting Luo Feng's predictions.

It was already too late for Luo Feng to evade the Saint Realm tentacles.

Luo Feng instantly drew his blade, using the quick-draw technique from the Shadow Blade Hundred Thousand Forms designed to deal with sudden attacks and ambushes.

This slash was incomparably fast and strange. It collided head-on with several incoming tentacles almost instantly. Yet there were simply too many tentacles. Although he blocked one or two of them, the rest seized the opening and frantically coiled around Luo Feng's body, instantly binding him as they tried to drag him into the sea.

"Not good!" Luo Feng could clearly feel the terrifying strength of this Saint Realm Sea Marten. He tried to break free, only to find that he could not.

At the same time, the Eternal True God peak Sea Marten also took the opportunity to wildly wrap its hundreds of tentacles around Luo Feng, dragging him toward the sea.

"Chaos Sea!"

The Chaos Domain erupted.

"Eternal Light!"

This was Luo Feng's most concentrated strike and also his strongest slash at present. Boosted by the Blood Shadow Blade, its power was absolutely no weaker than that of a high-level First-Origin Saint Realm expert. With one slash, the smaller Sea Marten's tentacles were severed one after another. Yet the five thickest tentacles remained completely unscathed. His blade could leave only a few marks on them.

"Divine Eye!"

Luo Feng stared at the rapidly writhing shadow beneath the sea. His fierce willpower formed sharp arrows that ignored the seawater's obstruction and shot directly into the enormous shadow below.

"Hmph. My Sea Marten race is born with powerful willpower. How could you possibly shake me?" A shrill yet deep voice entered Luo Feng's mind. The soul attack contained within its sound waves also sought to shake Luo Feng.

"Morosa, deal with him!" Luo Feng was utterly unaffected by the soul attack, but his body was still being dragged downward by overwhelming force.

Hearing Luo Feng's command, Morosa did not dare delay.

"Die!" Morosa's power exploded. In an instant, a colossal creature was directly hauled out of the sea by him.

It was a gigantic black octopus-like tentacled creature more than fifty million kilometers in size. The tentacles extending from its body looked far longer than its main body.

Boom!

Another arm suddenly grew from Morosa's body. At the instant the Sea Marten was dragged from the sea, a fist filled with endless destructive power smashed directly into its head.

A blow stronger than an ordinary Four-Origin Saint Realm expert struck the head of a Sea Marten with strength only around the Two-Origin Saint Realm. It was an absolutely devastating attack. A section of the Sea Marten's entire head was caved in by the punch, and black blood immediately gushed out.

"Aoo!" A piercing shriek echoed through the surroundings.

The tentacles on its body danced madly. That punch had clearly dealt it a severe blow.

"Run! Run!" It frantically sent orders to its other companions. "Despicable outsiders! He was hiding his strength just now! Run!"

At the same time, tentacles fell from its body one after another while it took the chance to rush toward the sea.

"Run!" The other Sea Martens that had yet to be pulled out were all terrified. They voluntarily severed their tentacles and fled madly toward the depths of the seabed.

"Hmph! Trying to run?" Morosa transformed into a streak of light and chased after it. Several arms simultaneously grew from his body and frantically wrapped around the Saint Realm Sea Marten. How could the Sea Marten possibly be faster than Morosa?!

The Sea Marten's enormous body was completely bound by the arms.

"No! I don't want to die! I refuse! I refuse!" The Sea Marten realized that it could not break free from these arms at all and fell into despair.

The destructive power from Morosa's body continuously poured through his arms into the Sea Marten. Within a few breaths, the Sea Marten, which had been wildly struggling and twitching, was completely subdued. It could not even self-destruct.

On Luo Feng's side, the Eternal True God peak Sea Marten fled directly toward the deep sea after severing its tentacles.

Only Tie Nanhe had caught one; the others had all escaped.

Of the eight Sea Martens, they had caught only two, one of which possessed Saint Realm strength.

"These Sea Martens really can't be killed in the sea without absolute strength suppression. No wonder a single Sea Marten Stone is enough to complete a dangerous-level mission." Luo Feng looked at the large Sea Marten tightly sealed by Morosa and sighed. If one were alone, hunting Sea Martens would be extremely difficult unless one was lucky enough to encounter a weak one that took the initiative to provoke them.

Luo Feng admitted that within the sea, he could probably only fight an Eternal True God peak Sea Marten to a draw. If he were alone and wanted to kill one at the Eternal True God peak, he would have to use the Divine Eye Secret Technique at close range in conjunction with his blade techniques or the Lie Yuan Technique. Otherwise, it would be difficult for him as well.

"Kill them and take their Sea Marten Stones," Luo Feng ordered. With a wave of his hand, the Star Tower directly took in the two Sea Martens, Morosa, and Tie Nanhe.

The two Sea Martens were also decent nourishment for Morosa.

Several enormous tentacles grew from Morosa's body and stabbed directly into the two Sea Martens. A mad devouring force erupted, and the two Sea Martens visibly withered away.

"No!" The Saint Realm Sea Marten and the Eternal-level Sea Marten both despaired. "You damned outsiders! You will definitely die! The King will definitely kill all of you! Definitely!"

But no matter how they struggled, their bodies ultimately turned to dust. Apart from the two Sea Marten Stones, everything else was devoured by Morosa.

A Sea Marten Stone was a dark, regular oval crystal about the size of a small car. It was incomparably hard and gleamed with black-gold crystalline light. Even with Morosa's full-power strike, not even a trace was left on the Eternal-level one.

"This is somewhat similar to my Golden Horned Beast's Golden Horn World Stone." Luo Feng could not help thinking of his own Golden Horn World Stone. Both had absorbed the essence of endless ages to attain such hardness. They truly were excellent materials for forging weapons.

The Saint-level one was somewhat larger than the Eternal-level one, and its black-gold luster was even brighter. If one sensed it carefully, one could even detect faint fluctuations of the Law of Metal on it. This Saint-level Sea Marten must have comprehended the Metal Origin Profound Mystery, which was why its Sea Marten Stone displayed fluctuations of the Law of Metal.

"A Saint-level Sea Marten Stone won't be easy to obtain," Luo Feng remarked.

With two Sea Marten Stones, including one at the Saint level, they had effectively completed their mission upon their First Arrival in the Floating Sand Sea.

Luo Feng only needed to hand over one Eternal-level Sea Marten Stone to complete the mission. As for the Saint-level Sea Marten Stone, he felt that it could fetch a good price.

"Let's go. We'll continue on our way." The Saint-level mechanical spacecraft appeared, then turned into a streak of light and headed toward the nearest Floating Sand Island.

The rest of the journey was considerably calmer.

They continued flying for another two months. During that time, there was only one minor incident: they were attacked once by a sea beast. However, that sea beast was clearly much smarter. The moment it realized the situation was wrong, it fled immediately.

At last, they arrived at Floating Sand Island.

Floating Sand Island was an almost perfectly circular island with a diameter of eighty-one light-years.

The island was covered in all kinds of strange vegetation. The most extraordinary of them was the Floating Sand Tree, renowned throughout the Floating Sand Sea. The Floating Sand Tree could be considered a divine tree. Its trunk was incomparably thick, and the tree itself stood thirty-six light-years tall. Its crown consisted of densely packed lightning-like leaves that covered the entire island. From afar, it resembled a gigantic umbrella blotting out the heavens.

Strangely, the skies above the Floating Sand Sea were perfectly clear, completely devoid of lightning. Yet the lightning around the island transformed into electric serpents and darted into the Floating Sand Tree's canopy. Not only did the lightning fail to damage the tree, it seemed instead to nourish it.

At the very top of one branch, an enormous oily green fruit the size of a football field hung silently. The fruit seemed to possess immense vitality, its powerful life aura spreading in all directions. It was the Floating Sand Fruit that all arrivals longed for.

A mature Floating Sand Fruit was golden. This Floating Sand Fruit was clearly still a long way from ripening.

"Floating Sand Fruit." Luo Feng's spacecraft had already entered the canopy region. He looked from afar at the tiny fruit on the branch, his eyes burning with desire.

This was why he had come to Floating Sand Island!

"Master, there are quite a few Saint Realm auras here. In the area I can sense alone, there are six," Morosa reminded him. His perception was extremely sensitive, so he could naturally detect life auras with ease.

"Six Saint Realm experts." Luo Feng nodded and withdrew his gaze from the Floating Sand Fruit. He could also sense concealed auras in five locations, but he could not determine their exact strength. "But this probably isn't the busiest time yet. The closer the Floating Sand Fruit comes to ripening, the more experts will arrive at Floating Sand Island. We should be careful. Once we come to Floating Sand Island, we become enemies to one another. Some may not be able to resist making a move against us."

"Rest assured, Master. There is only one who poses a threat to us. The rest are basically at the Four-Origin Saint Realm level. If they dare set their sights on us, they'll only be delivering themselves to death," Morosa said confidently.

Luo Feng nodded with a smile. "Let's first find a place to settle down. If they don't come to us, we'll take the initiative to find them."

The spacecraft then rapidly descended toward the island's landmass.

At the same time, the six Saint Realm experts stationed nearby had naturally noticed the spacecraft entering the island long ago. They had an unspoken understanding and did not rush to be the first to attack.

Inside a cave, a Five-Origin High-Grade Saint Realm expert named Tablo had long been residing there. He was among the first batch of Saint Realm experts to arrive at Floating Sand Island and had been here for more than ten billion epochs.

"More newcomers. It seems the island will be lively again these next few days. I wonder whether they can remain here. Without sufficient strength, they have no right to stay and compete for the Floating Sand Fruit." Tablo smiled softly.