Chapter 1952: Chapter 719
The geography of the Flying Swallow Islands is extremely remote!
Luo Chen knew this from the beginning, but as he traveled around half of the North Sea Cultivation World, his impression deepened.
There are basically no large maritime areas nearby, and even powerful cultivators are few and far between.
Outsiders are also rarely seen.
If it weren’t for forming a caravan under Luo Chen’s name back then, regularly visiting other prosperous places, communication might have been extremely blocked.
Yan Nantian was able to hide and cultivate on the Flying Swallow Islands to escape the pursuit of the Mo Luo Sect also benefited from this aspect.
The cause of this situation, besides the sparse spirit veins, is also related to the ocean cloaked in dense fog all year round behind them.
It’s called the South Ocean, bordering both the South Border and the Eastern Wasteland.
No one knows if those dense fogs are the Gu poison fog from the South Border or the Netherworld Ghost Fog from the Eastern Wasteland’s Dark Abyss, but few dare to cross the South Ocean.
On this day.
At the horizon where the South Ocean meets the North Sea, a figure slowly appears.
Clad in a white robe with a red belt, long hair tied back, his black eyes seemed like the Cold Pool Abyss, calm yet harboring boundless flames.
This person is Luo Chen.
He gazed at the faintly floating black fog, as if standing on the boundary line between life and death.
Taking a deep breath, Luo Chen waved his hand to disperse the black fog and stepped into it.
The sea breeze blew, black fog gathering from all directions, gradually permeating the emptied space.
...
In the time it takes to burn an incense stick, there seemed to be something boiling within the South Ocean.
Soon, a figure engulfed in blazing light flew out from it.
Luo Chen looked back at the ocean shrouded in this fog and clouds all year round, his face neither happy nor sad.
Closing his eyes, he performed an inner view of his body, noticing some tiny insect eggs, invisible to the naked eye, crouching within his meridians and blood vessels.
"Are these the Gu eggs?"
With a thought, Luo Chen set the Prosperity and Decline True Fire ablaze throughout his body.
In an instant, those insect eggs were silently burned away, transforming into pure energy that nourished Luo Chen’s physical body in return.
"It’s said that Southern Border practitioners excel at using Gu insects, most of which originate from the mysterious South Ocean. Seeing it now, it’s undoubtedly true!" Luo Chen muttered to himself.
Just a brief moment ago, as he flew within, he inhaled some unknown insect eggs through normal breathing.
The dangers within are evident!
And this is merely the edge of the South Ocean.
If one were to delve deeper, more formidable eggs might be encountered, possibly Ascendant Grade Gu insects.
Luo Chen was proficient in the Breath Concealment Technique, confident that with his current realm, he could hold his breath for several months, forming an internal circulation, and even with open breathing, True Fire protected him. Yet still, he couldn’t prevent the ubiquitous Gu insect invasion.
He wondered what kind of divine creation of the world could nurture such an eerie place in the Mountain Sea Realm.
Luo Chen shook his head, turned around, and flew toward the Flying Swallow Islands.
The plan to land in the South Border from the South Ocean was dead before it even started!
Luo Chen was not disappointed; it was merely an attempt.
The mysteries of the South Ocean are well known to all.
With the richness of North Sea’s resources, traded across the Five Continents, reaching the South Ocean directly is impossible; one has to pass through the central hub of Zhongzhou.
With an established path, smuggling to the South Ocean was unnecessary.
Thinking of this, Luo Chen became increasingly curious about the world’s structure.
With his current Nascent Soul Realm, he could momentarily achieve Divine Fusion with the World, glimpsing the real face of the Mountain Sea Realm.
This realm is not the imagined round heavens and square earth!
It more closely resembles the "planet" Luo Chen knew!
However, the conquest and development of it by Immortal Cultivators have only spanned ten thousand years; the world remains very primitive.
Beyond the Eastern Wasteland, Southern Border, West Desert, North Sea, and even Zhongzhou, there are large unexplored areas.
Such as the boundless Million Mountains enveloping the Eastern Wasteland Holy Land Dark Abyss Sect.
Or the Endless Demon Sea of the North Sea.
The South Ocean, relied on by the Southern Border, remains incredibly mysterious to this day.
The reverse side of the Mountain Sea Realm is roughly constructed this way: Dark Abyss, Gu Ocean, Demon Sea, Mountain Group, filled with endless ghostly fog and yin energy, and possibly even inhabited by roaming savage beasts!
The so-called ancient, distant ancient, and other chronological methods used by the Human Clan for this world’s history probably span only a mere instant!
"The Nascent Soul Realm still falls short; if I could reach the Divine Transformation Realm, perhaps I could fully explore this world."
Luo Chen thought as he landed on a high cliff.
The Sea-viewing Cliff!
Upon arrival, someone was already waiting above.
Looking at the mature and graceful tall lady, with curvaceous waist and hips, even bending respectfully, her long legs remained eye-catching, Luo Chen glanced over and smiled.
"Haixin, you’ve made quite some progress over the years!"
With Luo Chen’s words addressed to her, Cheng Haixin, who had been cautiously tensed, finally breathed a sigh of relief and lifted her delicate head.
At just one glance, her expression froze.
The True Master’s visage remained as youthful as before, yet his complexion grew ever more fair.
Not only that, standing there with hands behind his back, even doing nothing, he seemed like a mass of fire, so dazzling one dared not look directly.
She took a breath and said softly, "Your compliments are too generous, True Master. Haixin’s talent is dull, and a hundred years have passed without forming a core, disappointing you, True Master."
In those hundred years, Luo Chen had already reached Nascent Soul Formation, while Cheng Haixin was still at the Ninth Level Foundation Establishment, not even achieving Finalization, making the comparison stark.
Yet, considering her age, being around one hundred and forty, having this realm already marks her as a genius in the Immortal Cultivation World!
It shows that the resources of elixirs and the abundant spirit veins of Yao Yue Island left behind by Luo Chen before he departed greatly benefited this woman.