The Brook Water Earl Seal and the Karma Behind It

At the bottom of the Three-Bath River, the ink-black water churned under the strange dark mist like boiling lead.

Chu Bai was wrapped in five-colored light. Five-Element Spiritual Power surged from the acupoints across his body and drove his Origin Guard Shield, forming an exceptionally tough, transparent barrier.

The mist attacked like countless tiny venomous snakes, biting furiously at the barrier with a sizzling hiss. But against Chu Bai's ceaseless Five-Element Cycle, it could not advance an inch.

He descended to the deepest part of the Divine Ship's wreckage. The collapsed cabin had become a forbidden ground of death.

"Found it."

"Could this be the Brook Water Earl Seal?"

Chu Bai's gaze sharpened, and he reached for the glimmer of gold.

The instant his fingertips touched the seal, a vast, solemn force erupted and hurled him back!

Even a damaged divine seal bore a god's majesty. No mere mortal body could touch it lightly.

Chu Bai felt both arms sink. The skin between his thumb and forefinger split, and it was as though a mountain had struck him squarely in the chest.

With a low shout, he drove the Iron-Bone Body-Tempering Method to its limit. Dark-gold light raced beneath his skin as he endured, through sheer physical strength, divine power enough to grind an ordinary cultivator to dust.

"Come!"

His fingers hooked around the bronze seal. He forced his way through the divine light's resistance and tucked the still-warm, trembling seal, crisscrossed with spiderweb cracks, into his robes.

Splash!

A towering spray burst from the calm waters of First-Line Gorge.

Chu Bai broke the surface like a Flood Dragon and landed steadily on the rocky bank.

A pulse of Spell Power turned the remaining mist and river water on his body to white vapor. Grave-faced, he pressed a hand against