Smooth Sailing All the Way, the Silent Sea!
A single word uttered carries divine power!
In an instant, it blocked the dragon's view, preventing it from seeing anything at all!
"Interesting..."
"This aura... Nascent Soul Early Stage?"
"No... that doesn't seem like it. Could it be that he has already advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage?"
"Emperor Nether... truly another prodigy. It's better to avoid trouble. It's a trivial matter, so let's just turn a blind eye..."
"Being a coward is good; you live longer if you're a coward."
The pale dragon even had the composure to mock himself, showing none of the demeanor of the strongest Demon Emperor of the Northern Nether Sea, and he was precisely one of the potential threats Qin Lu regarded as...
The overlord of the Northern Nether Sea, the king of the White Dragon Clan, Nascent Soul Late Stage transformed demon: the White Dragon Emperor!
But it's thousands of miles away.
Qin Lu slightly opened his eyes, gazing into the distance, as if he could see through Fourth Heaven and traverse thousands of miles to reach the vast Northern Nether Sea...
"That old dragon really knows how to keep his composure."
"Such provocation, yet they don't make a sound; it seems they have absolutely no intention of interfering in the outside world..."
Qin Lu thought to himself, "This can be considered as testing the attitude of the Old Dragon of the Northern Nether Sea. Since the other party is keeping quiet..."
He was determined not to get involved in outside affairs.
Qin Lu was naturally relieved. Only after figuring out the North's attitude could he focus his attention on the South and continue to consolidate his own power base...
Everything went smoothly from then on!
The Fourth Fleet advanced with unstoppable momentum, encountering no more Demon King- level beings, and even Third-Tier Great Demons became scarce...
It was as if all the Demon Race in the entire Northern Nether Sea were avoiding them!
Along the way, the gains were neither too much nor too little.
Collecting some Ice and Snow Dao spiritual materials, or finding some ten-thousand-year-old or thousand-year-old cold marrow, are all treasures that can increase the vitality of the Water Dao...
But to say there were significant gains, it wasn't actually that great.
For the Fourth Fleet, the gains were quite good...
However, looking at the entire Great Qin or the Qin Clan, these resources were merely a drop in the ocean and could not be considered to have much effect.
A few months later--
The Fourth Fleet traversed Northern Continent northern continental shelf, eventually crossing the entire Northern Nether Sea, without encountering even major storms along the way...
What I thought would be the most difficult and dangerous leg of the voyage turned out to be completed smoothly.
The calm was chilling!
There were no storms, no heavy snow, no beast tides, and no glaciers blocking the sea; the cold wind blew, and everything seemed perfectly calm...
For months, we haven't even encountered a large wave!
"It's too peaceful..."
"Could this be a scheme by the Demon Race?"
Upon hearing this—
Qin Minghan glanced at Li Shan. If the other party didn't know why, how could he not?
This certainly involves a deeper exchange of interests, but rather than an exchange, in Qin Minghan's view...
This is the Northern Nether Sea Demon Race; they've submitted!
I don't want to be enemies with the Qin Clan or the Great Qin, and I certainly don't want to disrupt the current balance...
Don't overthink it, Li Shan.
"This route should be carefully recorded and saved later, as it will be the designated route in the future. Compared to traveling from the western Northern Continent to the eastern seas by land..."
"The route from the Silent Sea to the Northern Nether Sea, and then to the Seven Lights Sea and the Eight Immortals Sea, has the lowest energy consumption..."
"Until this trip is over."
"I will apply to the Lineage to have the Great Qin Fourth Fleet serve as the escort fleet for the Northern Nether Sea route. If you are interested..."
"From now on, this shipping route can be entrusted to your Li Clan."
"However, the entire process must be overseen by members of the Qin Clan family, and is directly controlled by the Great Qin and the Qin Clan. Is there a problem with that?"
Li Shan was overjoyed and naturally agreed with great delight.
This is practically a lucrative position. As long as things are done well and the Northern Nether Sea route is controlled, then the Li Clan...
As long as the Great Qin survives, who can stop the rise of the Li Clan?!
"Thank you for your help, Brother!"
"I will dedicate myself to the Qin Clan until my dying breath!"
Hearing these empty words, Qin Minghan waved his hand, then looked into the distance and said:
"If you should thank someone, you should thank Mingxi. She risked her life for you to be where you are today. If you still have any gratitude in your heart..."
"Then teach Li Ping'an properly."
"He carries the blood of the Qin Clan, and his aptitude is quite good. He has the potential to reach the Golden Core stage and even the Nascent Soul in the future. We must not disappoint Mingxi's last wish..."
"Yes."
"Li Shan will remember his elder brother's words."
Li Shan adopted a very humble attitude. To put it bluntly, his achievements today were all because of his dao companion, Qin Mingxi!
Li Shan was a Rogue Cultivator, living a life of simple pleasures.
He knew all too well that Qin Mingxi had shown him a life-saving grace...
A few days later--
The Fourth Fleet has officially sailed out of the Northern Nether Sea area and entered the Frost Cloud Realm, the largest sea area among the Seven Domains and Six Seas...
The Silent Sea, an extremely barren and spiritless sea...
As the fleet entered, the power supply arrays of all the warships were partially paralyzed, unable to draw Spiritual Qi from the world...
The engines of these warships were thus largely rendered useless!
Faced with this situation, the Great Qin already had a strategy in place...
On the Fourth-Tier mothership, dozens of Jade Stone beads stood erect, each one a magnified version of Spirit Beast Jade...
The jade pillar was carved with landscapes, birds, and animals, and suddenly a flash of inspiration struck me!
One after another, Azure Black Dragon Fish appeared in the sea, numbering over a thousand, including only Third-Tier Azure Profound Dragonfish...
They all have nine heads!
As a group of dragon beasts that the Qin Clan has been cultivating in the Dragon Dragon-Nurturing Sea, their combat strength is low, but their reproductive ability is extremely strong!
And these Azure Black Dragon Fish are the perfect spirit beasts for pulling boats!
No Spiritual Qi is needed; a hundred-kilometer journey requires only a bite of meat. Besides, this is the ocean, albeit the most barren and Silent Sea...
But as for seafood, there's naturally an abundance of options!
No extra expenses are required; if you get hungry, you can simply go hunting...
Soon, thousands of Azure Black Dragon Fish were chained to the ship and put to serve as chariots in the sea. It must be said...
This dragon blood is truly incredibly powerful!
Even a fish, once stained with dragon blood, possesses top-tier endurance, size, and potential among fish-like Demon Beast...
The Third-Tier Azure Black Dragon Fish, with a body a hundred feet long and nine heads, pulled the Third-Tier -foot-long giant ship with remarkable ease...
that's all--
The Fourth Fleet sailed south, penetrating deeper into the Silent Sea in a southwesterly direction...
Based on the clues from the tokens and the records in the books, we can roughly pinpoint the area of Immortal-Seeking Island. It seems that all it takes is a few months of patient searching...
We will surely find that Immortal-Seeking Island!
However, this search lasted for a full six months...
Let alone islands, in the past six months, we haven't even found a single rocky islet above sea level. Looking around...
The entire sea was calm and still!
It was as peaceful as a world isolated from the rest of the world...
The ocean is a vast expanse of blue, like a giant, boundless mirror. My search over the past six months has felt like I've been going in circles...
It only makes one feel that it's meaningless!