Sea Ghosts March by Day

As one of the most outstanding research achievements of Heavenly Gate in recent years, the effect of Clear Qi is astonishing.

As if encountering a natural enemy, the Turbid Qi began to surge violently the moment it was touched by this artificial Immortal Qi, emitting a sharp hissing sound; the resentment, Sha Qi, and death energy absorbed in the Turbid Qi melted away rapidly under the impact of the Clear Qi, like ice and snow meeting the scorching sun.

The sea areas purified by the Clear Qi became clear and transparent, even cleaner than before the Dragon Blood Tide erupted, as if returning to the pristine ocean untouched in ancient times.

This is just a regular-level Clear Qi Bomb. The legendary high-yield Clear Bomb can reshape the terrain and realize the natural evolution of the world, where Clear Qi rises and Turbid Qi descends, on a certain continent.

As the artificial Immortal Qi washed away the Turbid Qi on the seabed like boiling water splashing on snow, the enormous outline of the deep sea finally began to appear.

It was a massive, murky Turbid Dragon.

The portion that is above sea level already stretches for hundreds of miles, like a mountain range that has just risen from the depths of the earth's crust.

Its back rises more than a hundred feet above the seabed, and its sides slowly sink into the deeper darkness, with no end in sight, as if the entire seabed of the East Sea were its body.

The scales covering its body are each as large as a palace, grayish-black in color, and covered with cracks and traces of volcanic ash deposits, as if they have been repeatedly crushed by geological movements over thousands of years.

From the gaps in its scales, scalding, turbid Turbid Qi constantly spews out, carrying large amounts of volcanic ash and fine rock particles, forming murky undercurrents in the seawater, like the breath it exhales when it breathes.

Compared to it, even the Sea-Pacifying Divine Warship is just a junior among juniors.

It's not even as big as a section of the dragon's body.

As the true form of the Turbid Dragon was revealed, an invisible pressure spread out from its body like a tide, sweeping across the surroundings.

Wherever that oppressive force passed, the turbid Turbid Qi churning on the sea surface seemed to be smoothed out by an invisible hand, and temporarily quieted down; the seawater that had been purified by the Clear Qi Bomb and returned to its clear state became turbid again, as if even the Clear Qi could not completely resist the power originating from the depths of the earth.

This is the power of the Dragon Vein, reshaping the world in unparalleled glory!

The protective shield on the Sea-Pacifying Divine Warship automatically activated. Compared to the protective shields of ordinary ocean-going freighters that could block Nascent Soul, the shield on this warship was much stronger.

It can block Spirit Transformation!

But at this moment, facing the pressure of the Dragon Vein, even this Spirit Transformation level formation was on the verge of collapse. The formation's light screen flickered violently under the impact of the pressure, like a candle flickering in the wind. Fine ripples appeared on the surface of the light screen, as if it might shatter at any moment. Inside the ship, alarms sounded one after another, and red warning lights flashed wildly in the command cabin, making the atmosphere on the entire warship tense and oppressive.

Inside the warship, the array cultivators all wore serious expressions as they continuously modified the array's parameters, attempting to reinforce the military formation.

They themselves knew that the most crucial moment had arrived.

This is the wave that will determine whether it works or not.

While the power of Dragon Vein is indeed formidable, it is not invincible.

Over the years, the Dragon-Slaying Department Division has developed a mature process for slaying dragons.

Tame dragons, intercept dragons, slay dragons!

What's being tested now is how much of the Dragon-Slaying Department -Flood Dragon Hunting Squad has to offer.

After about half an incense stick's time, the Turbid Dragon's body suddenly trembled.

The tremor from the depths of the seabed caused the entire area of ocean to shake violently; then, a low, mournful sound, as if coming from the depths of the earth's crust, a sound filled with pain and resentment, yet also with helplessness, arose.

The array cultivators inside the ship relaxed one by one.

"Flood Dragon Hunting Squad No. 03 has succeeded! 5.3% of the Dragon Vein's consciousness has been successfully controlled." The frontline observer's report came through the communication channel, his tone filled with barely concealed excitement.

"Squad 3 has made a good start. With the Dragon Vein's consciousness loosening, things will be much easier from here on out." A response came from the command ship, the voice steady and calm, but a slight hint of relaxation could be detected if one listened carefully.

"I remember Team 3 had an outside helper, right? Ao Tianhai, isn't he?"

"Oh, so that's the Dragon Vein's offspring that Lord Lin nurtured with his own bloodline?"

"Tsk~"

There was a brief silence on the communication channel, but those few meaningful "tsk tsk" sounds left those who heard them speculating.

Gene editing and artificial babies are illegal in Heavenly Gate, serious crimes written into the "Cultivation Ethics Law." Once verified, those involved will be stripped of their cultivation qualifications and imprisoned for life.

But this is overseas, Heavenly Gate's laws don't apply to the Thirty-Six Islands of the Eastern Sea, nor to Lord Lin's laboratory.

Moreover, artificial babies are illegal, but artificial Dragon Vein and artificial dragons are a different story.

If testing the Dragon Vein is illegal, all members of the Dragon-Slaying Department will be struck by flying swords.

Following the success of Team 3, two more Flood Dragon Hunting Squad achieved results.

With the Dragon Vein controlled at a rate exceeding 15%, according to the standards of the Dragon-Slaying Department, it is already time to intercept the dragon.

Because the Dragon Vein's consciousness is too powerful, slaying the dragon in one go would cause a violent resistance from the Dragon Vein's consciousness.

However, intercepting the dragon is different; it's equivalent to reshaping the Dragon Vein consciousness within the Dragon Vein consciousness itself.

This new Dragon Vein consciousness is their goal: an artificial Sea Dragon Vein.

The Dragon Blood Tide began to erupt again, with Turbid Qi and Spiritual Qi energy surging out from the seabed simultaneously. The dim yellow Turbid Qi and the light blue Spiritual Qi, like two intertwined dragons, surged and collided on the seabed, forming a spectacular scene of "two dragons playing with a pearl".

Lin Zhiying also let out a long breath, feeling that her palms, which were gripping the railing, were wet.

She couldn't stay in the cabin any longer, so she went up to the deck to get some fresh air.

If she hadn't gone to search for that demonic cultivator yesterday, she would probably be on a mission underwater right now.

But now, all she can do is endure and wait.

At that moment, Lin Zhiying was leaning against the railing, gazing absently at the surging sea in the distance, when suddenly her eyes caught something unusual.

On the edge of that sea area where Turbid Qi and Spiritual Qi intertwined to form a pattern of two dragons playing with a pearl, a huge black silhouette was slowly rising from the seabed.

At first, she thought that part of the Turbid Dragon's body had emerged from the sea, but she soon realized that something was wrong.

The shape of that silhouette wasn't like a winding mountain range typical of Dragon Vein; it was a ship!

A huge, ancient ship, its hull covered in a layer of grayish-white mycelium and barnacles, its mast broken and its sides damaged, but at the bow stood a figure.

The figure was dressed in a dark red captain's uniform, wearing a Sea Yaksha mask and a black eyepatch over his right eye. He was holding the helm, standing at the bow, and turning the ship toward the Sea-Pacifying Divine Warship.

Ghost ship!

Lin Zhiying's pupils suddenly contracted.

Almost simultaneously, anxious shouts came through the earpiece.

"Special Dragon Vein fluctuations detected, heading this way!"

"What's going on? Why didn't the detection radar detect it?"

"Is this the Turbid Dragon's counterattack?"

Lin Zhiying took a deep breath and said in a deep voice:

"No need to investigate further; it's a Ghost Dragon Vein. Among all types of Dragon Vein, Ghost Dragon Vein are the most difficult to detect."

"Moreover, this shouldn't be a counterattack from the Dragon Vein itself, but rather manipulation by the overseas demonic forces; the one controlling this Ghost Dragon Vein is a dangerous demonic cultivator!"

"No. 7 Flood Dragon Hunting Squad, requesting deployment!"

As the ghost ship parted the sea and emerged from the water, a series of bizarre changes began to occur on the surface of the sea.

The sea beasts, disoriented by the shock of the Turbid Qi and Spiritual Qi, the giant squid, sharks, sea snakes, turtles and tortoises struggling to survive in the Dragon Blood Tide, began to have their bodies twisted and mutated.

Grayish-white patches appeared on their skin, a white film covered their eyes, their muscles began to swell and deform, their bones made cracking sounds, and a dense Ghost Qi began to rise from their bodies.

They've been Ghost Transformation!

Various types of Ghost Transformation sea monsters began to serve as the vanguard of the ship.

At the same time, billowing Yin Qi surged out from the cracks in the seabed.

The Yin Qi aura carried a decaying scent, and wherever it passed, the temperature of the seawater plummeted, and a thin layer of grayish-white frost began to condense on the surface.

A cold wind howled, scattering the broken ship planks and remains of corpses across the sea, and filling the air with a fine, grayish-white powder.

This is ashes, the powder of bones lifted, ground, and scattered into the air by Yin Qi yin energy from corpses buried at the bottom of the sea for countless years, like a pale snowfall.

Then, tens of thousands of water ghosts emerged from the seabed.

They emerged from the mud and sand, crawled out of the wreckage of shipwrecks, and burst forth from the bodies of those Ghost Transformation sea beasts, densely packed and layered upon layer.

They used their pale, deformed arms to support the bottom of the ghost ship, their shoulders to brace against the keel, and their backs to propel the gunwale, lifting the entire enormous ghost ship off the sea and allowing it to move on water!

The water ghosts' feet trod on the sea surface, each step leaving a grayish-white ripple, as if they were walking on solid land, supporting the ghost ship and propelling it steadily forward on the sea.

"No. 7 Flood Dragon Hunting Squad, requests to go into battle!" Lin Zhiying said urgently.

However, the first thing to emerge from this Ghost Dragon Vein was the "Demon-Suppressing Pagoda" Sea-Pacifying Divine Warship.

In addition to releasing the "Demon-Suppressing Pagoda," the sea-suppressing runes on the ship's hull also began to light up, and forbidden-level fluctuations emanated from the bottom of the ship.

Wherever it passed, the surging Turbid Qi and Yin Qi seemed to be suppressed by an invisible hand, temporarily ceasing its churning.

Then, the Sea-Pacifying Forbidden Technique clashed with the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons!

Wherever the light of the Sea-Pacifying Forbidden Technique passed, tens of thousands of Ghost Transformation sea creatures instantly disintegrated.

Under the suppression of the demon-suppressing power, the water ghosts' steps became slower, and their movements of lifting the ghost ship began to stagnate, causing the entire ghost ship to move forward at a significantly slower speed.

At the same time, a reply finally sounded on Lin Zhiying's earphones.

"Permission granted to deploy and execute a decapitation strike."