Chapter 147 Sea Island World

Under Ye Chuxiao's threat, the remaining Intent Realm cultivator from the Bai family left Xuanhai City to reclaim the shared spiritual roots of the forty-nine important towns for him.

Ye Chuxiao, along with Wei Zhou, simply settled down in the Bai family's residence. The Bai family could only serve and entertain them with the highest courtesy, daring not express any dissatisfaction with their demands.

Inside the luxurious villa of the Bai family, built on a seaside cliff, Ye Chuxiao and Wei Zhou were soaking in the infinity pool.

Due to the optical illusion, the pool seemed to connect with the distant sea, appearing particularly expansive.

Around the pool were placed all kinds of fruits cultivated as spiritual fruits. The bottom of the pool was supported by magic with a transparent one-way mirror.

Looking down from above, the scenery of the lower level was completely visible.

Various beauties, wearing various swimsuits, played like mermaids in the lower-level pool.

As long as Ye Chuxiao had any impure thoughts, these beauties would immediately appear before him, ready to be at his disposal.

The Bai family's 'sincerity', of course, wasn't limited to this.

Anything Ye Chuxiao wanted, the Bai family would do everything possible to accomplish.

Whether to eliminate Ye Chuxiao's hostility or to numb his mind,

the Bai family would do it.

Wei Zhou, wearing a snow-white string swimsuit, yet half-covered by a light yellow sunscreen, clearly had some wicked thoughts, but couldn't quite make up her mind, lacking the guts of a thief.

"Aren't you worried that he might be trying to find a way to deal with you?"

"Like going back to that Da Huan to get reinforcements, or colluding with other forces to set a trap for you," Wei Zhou said worriedly.

She was really feeling a bit involved.

Especially Ye Chuxiao's trampling on the Bai family made her feel incredibly comfortable. From her perspective, Ye Chuxiao was clearly sticking up for her.

Of course, she was also well aware that Ye Chuxiao's actions were clearly for his own purposes.

However, when encountering a ray of light after a long absence, some things would be subconsciously and deliberately ignored.

"Da Huan didn't directly send heavy troops into this world to flatten it, either because the conditions don't allow it, or because they don't value the resources of this world enough. But regardless of the reason, the Bai family won't easily ask Da Huan for help unless they are truly desperate."

"Like your subordinates, if someone doesn't handle things well but always asks you for help over trivial matters, would you still value and reuse that subordinate?"

"From the perspective of a subordinate, solving problems for the boss as much as possible and causing less trouble is common sense," Ye Chuxiao said, splashing water.

Wei Zhou swayed the sparkling water, slowly swimming over, 'accidentally' getting slapped on the chest by Ye Chuxiao, instantly blushing and letting out a delicate exclamation.

Ye Chuxiao was not polite, directly pressing down violently, and then mercilessly used the martial arts ultimate technique, the Heart-Piercing Dragon Claw Hand.

This move caught the opponent off guard.

Wei Zhou was planning to slip away with the Blue Butterfly Drifting Step, but was hit by Ye Chuxiao's Finger of Heart Piercing, half of her body slightly numb, losing the ability to escape.

"Alright! Stop pretending!"

"Where's that ruthlessness you had when you chased me around? Has it all been worn down in just a few years? I'll give you two minutes to recover," Ye Chuxiao quietly changed the Dragon Claw Hand to the Flicking Finger.

"Then you still haven't said, what if he colludes with other forces in this world? What will you do then?" Wei Zhou leaned against Ye Chuxiao, but smoothed the water droplets from her hair, sweeping the half-length hair back, looking exceptionally heroic above the water.

"Still looking at the problem from your perspective, if you were the head of a force, facing the notorious outsider who proposes cooperation, would you choose to believe or not believe?" Ye Chuxiao successively used several different martial arts ultimate techniques, but after all, they were all underwater moves, so it wasn't suitable to bring them to the surface to continue talking about.

Wei Zhou gently bit her lip, the stubbornness in her eyes making her never open her mouth to yield.

Biting her lip hard, she steeled her heart and said, "Of course I wouldn't easily believe it, because I would worry that they were digging a pit to trap me."

"Besides, the prerequisite for cooperation is having common interests or enemies."

"You've only targeted the Bai family from the start. To others, you're not an enemy at all."

"And the Bai family can't offer enough benefits to make everyone crazy enough to risk it. As long as he starts taking out the shared spiritual roots of one city for you, he'll only be able to go down that path from then on."

Ye Chuxiao laughed heartily, and the strength in his hand accidentally increased a little.

Wei Zhou lost her balance and fell into the water.

But after this fall, she didn't come out for a long time.

Immediately afterward, Ye Chuxiao gasped, his gaze moving down, his eyes fixed.

"To put it simply, the real deal is having strong enough hard power, not fearing his tricks."

"Whether he goes to get reinforcements or unites more people, it makes no difference to me."

"Unless he can find an Immeasurable cultivator."

"But even if he finds an Immeasurable Realm cultivator to 'take charge,' it's the same good thing for me."

"Regarding the problem of the Immeasurable Realm, the best answer comes from personally fighting against someone in the Immeasurable Realm, right?" Ye Chuxiao looked at the distant sea, his heart filled with lofty sentiments.

The waves rose higher and higher, layer upon layer, surging endlessly.

The foam of the waves beat against the snow-white beach, crashing against the reefs, making a crisp and magnificent sound.

The reefs trembled under the sea's fury, likely to be torn apart by the roaring sea at any time.

But it stood so firmly in the sea, stubbornly and persistently enduring the sea's lash.

The sky and the sea were exchanging colors at the end of the horizon.

The sunlight scattered, blending into the sky and the sea, sometimes splitting into independent existences, sometimes completely overlapping, indistinguishable from each other.

In the patches of twilight, the sea, agitated for a day, finally began to slowly return to calm.

In the hazy night, only the whistling sea breeze and the even rise and fall of the waves still narrated that agitation.

Facts proved that the only remaining Intent Realm cultivator of the Bai family was very 'rational.'

He understood what it meant to pick on the soft persimmons.

With the Water Dividing Thorn divine artifact, his strength in the Sea Island World was naturally higher than other Intent Realm cultivators. As long as he didn't encounter a bug-level existence like Ye Chuxiao, he could come and go freely.

In half a month, he retrieved seven shared spiritual roots for Ye Chuxiao.

However, the seven cities that lost their shared spiritual roots all unanimously concealed the news of the theft.

In their respective spiritual root plazas, it was shown that the shared spiritual roots had never been lost.

A large number of people still paid quite high fees to enter the spiritual root plaza and interact with the shared spiritual roots, hoping to be favored and obtain more excellent spiritual roots.

This was, of course, 'fake.'

But it wasn't really that fake.

Several years was enough time for the cultivators of this world to figure out how to create shared spiritual roots.

Perhaps the most core abilities hadn't been mastered yet, but the relatively basic parts had long been deciphered.

If the shared spiritual root wasn't lost, then these things standing in the spiritual root plaza could continuously create profits from any angle, and attract wave after wave of leeks for them to harvest.

Perhaps for many of the cities' rulers, what mattered wasn't the true function of the shared spiritual root, but whether it was still standing there, forming a continuous stream of profits.

Compared to the profits that would be lost in the future, the lost shared spiritual root was just a negligible fraction.

Of course, these forces wouldn't let go of the 'thief' either. They had secretly contacted each other and begun to pursue the whereabouts of the Bai family's Intent Realm cultivator.

The other major sea cities had also raised their defenses and vigilance.

Because of these obstacles, the Bai family's Intent Realm cultivator's results were discounted.

In the following three months, he only brought ten shared spiritual roots for Ye Chuxiao.

Absorbing all the information from these seventeen shared spiritual roots, Ye Chuxiao's virtual spiritual root gained further growth.

Under Ye Chuxiao's spiritual awareness, his spiritual root had completely broken through the limitations within the world, and was grabbing and shaking the power from chaos from the infinite void.

Generally speaking, spiritual energy blockades and restrictions could no longer form any obstacles to Ye Chuxiao.

Not only that, but the power of the spiritual root was also feeding back and strengthening Ye Chuxiao's innate talent on various cultivation paths.

And those that Ye Chuxiao excelled at even touched a more mysterious and profound realm.

In the dark, although chaotic, very unique fragments of information were also acquired by the Divine Tree Spiritual Root, and used as nutrients to be transported to Ye Chuxiao, allowing him to grasp knowledge that he would not have known otherwise, without contacting the outside world.

After another three months, the Bai family's Intent Realm cultivator returned seriously injured, bringing back nine shared spiritual roots for Ye Chuxiao, and 'accidentally' bringing back the enemies he had provoked as well.

That night, Ye Chuxiao displayed great power, fighting alone against the nine major Intent Realm experts of the Sea Island World.

With a heavy slash of his blade, the sea was cut open, and the separated seawater and the cracked seabed, under the effects of powerful Intent Realm and divine artifact characteristics, did not close for a long time, gradually becoming a 'check-in' holy site for many later cultivators.

Countless cultivators who learned the sword would travel thousands of miles to get there, just to observe the traces of this slash, in order to comprehend one or two things from it.

And it must be said, those with outstanding talent did indeed gain a lot from it, finding their own path of the sword.

And after the battle, Ye Chuxiao, after settling Wei Zhou, teaching her some ultimate techniques, and leaving her with the capital to save her life, left the Sea Island World.

Next time they wanted to meet again, he didn't know what the situation would be.

After all, the six years that Ye Chuxiao had purchased were coming to an end, and he would be sent back to the timeline six years ago by the Ship of Fortune.

The Ye Chuxiao who was sent back could take away his grown cultivation, and he could also take away the magical treasures and divine artifacts he had obtained, but he couldn't bring living people through time.

"The Divine Tree Spiritual Root's absorption of spiritual root information has reached its limit."

"All the spiritual root information that can be obtained within the Sea Island World has been completely mastered by me."

"If I want to have another breakthrough, I have to plant spiritual roots in more worlds!"

"Of course, there's no need for that now. For me, the current Divine Tree Spiritual Root already has extremely outstanding effects," Ye Chuxiao thought, putting down two shared spiritual roots that no longer needed to be absorbed.

Then he took out a masterless Dao Rhythm and absorbed it directly.

Just recently, he had completely digested the previous Dao Rhythm.

Absorbing the masterless Dao Rhythm again, he gained the new talent 'Multitasking.'

This talent allowed Ye Chuxiao to appear very focused on each task when doing several things at the same time.

This also meant that Ye Chuxiao could fully use different methods for combination and matching at the same time, without having to force a distinction between primary and secondary.

So, Dao Rhythm was a key.

The treasure it opened originally belonged to you, but because of the guidance of Dao Rhythm, this talent was summarized and guided out.

If there was no accumulation, no foundation, then even if you merged with Dao Rhythm, the resulting talent would be useless and have no effect.

Sitting on the deck of the Ship of Fortune, Ye Chuxiao constantly sorted out his gains over the past six years, and also made plans and deductions one last time.

He tried to make the plans, backup plans, the backup plans' backup plans, and the application plans for adapting to changing circumstances as complete as possible, and also fully planned the connection points between them.

As the last bit of time burned out, Ye Chuxiao only felt a rope binding him, forcibly pulling him in a certain direction.

His mind, inspiration, Divine Tree Spiritual Root, and everything that could pry outward were all tightly locked in his body.

Ye Chuxiao could only use his eyes to see and perceive.

But what he saw was still only a blurry scene of colorful light.

It was as if he had been thrown into a rotating kaleidoscope.

When the picture disappeared, Ye Chuxiao returned to the Ship of Fortune again.

Ye Chuxiao tried to input the coordinates of the Wasteland Fighting World, the Sea Island World, and the Academy World to the Ship of Fortune, but received no response.

These worlds that he had visited in six years had now closed themselves off to him.

Perhaps in the six years that were not open to him, 'another' Ye Chuxiao was doing everything that he had done in these six years.

"It's a pity that there's not only one Ship of Fortune."

"Every time you get on board, it's a random landing."

"Otherwise, I could try to leave a message for 'myself,' and try other possibilities," Ye Chuxiao thought.

He had certainly gained a lot in these six years, but in his opinion, it still wasn't perfect.

If he had more preparation, a better method, he could have done better, gained more, and grown faster and higher.

While he couldn't lock on to the Wasteland Fighting World, the Sea Island World, and the Academy World, the world where Da Heng was located, which had originally been locked to Ye Chuxiao, was also opened to him.

When Ye Chuxiao returned and descended, the Cloud Dream Great Cauldron, which had seemed to be filled with death to Ye Chuxiao, now seemed 'ordinary'.

There was no more rising death aura around.

Ying Shu's 'call request' was also completely blocked outside of his mind. Without Ye Chuxiao's subjective permission, even if they were in the same world, she could not see a bit of Ye Chuxiao.

According to the plan, Ye Chuxiao passed Ying Shu's 'application', and let her have the illusion...thinking that she still had the privilege of sharing or even slightly dominating Ye Chuxiao's five senses.