316: The largest treasure trove

This deep seafloor was pitch black.

It was so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.

For an ordinary Martial Demon, arriving here would mean relying solely on Soul Consciousness to probe the surroundings.

But under the suppression of the sea.

Even for a Martial Demon Realm Expert, the entire Soul Consciousness's diffusion range would be significantly affected.

At the same time, the diffusion of this Soul Consciousness could easily be detected by the sea beasts on the seafloor.

However, these issues would not significantly affect Xiao Shi.

Firstly, the pitch blackness of the seafloor would not obstruct his vision at all; he could still see the underwater scenery clearly.

Secondly, with the stealth of his Soul Consciousness, even if he spread it out, he wouldn't have to worry about it being detected by sea beasts.

The only thing that affected him was that every drop of seawater here seemed to weigh a thousand jin.

This subjected him to immense gravitational pressure.

However, with the strength of his physical body.

He could withstand such gravitational pressure.

Especially after he entered the Martial Demon Realm, his Kuihu Vajra Bloodline received a significant boost.

Before this.

To unleash the power of the Kuihu Vajra Bloodline, he needed to enter three different forms.

The East Kui Form primarily provided an increase in strength and destructive power.

The Crimson Tiger Form was an increase in speed.

The Jingang Form was an increase in defense.

But after he reached the Martial Demon Grade, these three forms merged into one.

This meant that even without entering these three forms, he now possessed the enhancements of all three.

In other words.

Under normal circumstances, he could now integrate strength, speed, and defense into one.

Coupled with the fusion of soul power and physical body… in this state, Xiao Shi could be said to have no weaknesses!

In fact, besides the Demonic Body Clone, the most important aspect of the Martial Demon Realm was the integration of various powers.

Integrating all the diverse powers one possessed previously.

Of course.

The Martial Demon Realm's power system was also very important.

It just required a lot of time and effort.

Xiao Shi currently did not have enough time and energy to form his own power system.

At this moment, after entering this deep, dark seafloor.

Xiao Shi discovered.

The weakest creatures existing on this seafloor were sea beasts with strength comparable to the Martial Soul Realm.

At the same time, these sea beasts also had some differences from those Xiao Shi had seen before.

These sea beasts all had more or less some black runes on their bodies.

For example, a bizarre fish covered in tentacles that Xiao Shi saw at this moment had a black rune in its pupil.

When it saw Xiao Shi.

The rune in its pupil immediately glowed brightly.

This instantly gave the bizarre fish a huge power boost.

It transformed into a black streak of light.

With a bang.

It crashed into Xiao Shi's body.

Although the bizarre fish's body exploded and shattered upon impact, judging by the overall force of the collision, the power boost it received was roughly three to four times its original strength.

At the same time, when the bizarre fish's body exploded.

The black rune in the fish's pupil seemed to have a life of its own, automatically drilling towards Xiao Shi's body.

Attempting to burrow into Xiao Shi's body.

However, the moment it touched Xiao Shi's body.

The entire black rune instantly collapsed and dissipated.

Clearly, with Xiao Shi's current cultivation, this black rune could not attach itself to him as it did to other sea beasts.

But through contact with the black rune, a light flashed in Xiao Shi's eyes.

“This is… the power of the Martial Demon Realm!”

From this black rune.

He clearly sensed that this black rune belonged to the power of the Martial Demon Realm.

This made him realize… there was a high probability that a Martial Demon Realm sea beast existed in this black sea region!

Thinking of this.

Xiao Shi immediately accelerated his killing of these Martial Soul Realm sea beasts.

He simply spread his Soul Consciousness to its maximum extent, and within his entire Soul Consciousness, there was a huge Crimson Tiger roar.

This caused all sea beasts swept by his Soul Consciousness.

To tremble all over.

Their entire souls instantly vanished under the sweep of his Soul Consciousness.

They simply could not withstand Xiao Shi's current Soul Consciousness sweep.

At the same time, due to the stealth of Xiao Shi's Soul Consciousness, none of them could detect it beforehand; they were all annihilated by Xiao Shi's Soul Consciousness without a sound.

Numerous tentacles and vines continuously extended from Xiao Shi's body, wrapping around the items dropped after the kills.

Collecting all items.

Leaving nothing behind.

Just like that.

Under Xiao Shi's ultra-high-speed movement, all sea beasts in his path died, none spared.

All sea beasts had their souls shattered directly by the Crimson Tiger roar within Xiao Shi's Soul Consciousness during its sweep.

Finally.

After a period of advancement.

Gurgle!

The entire seawater vibrated.

A powerful sense of oppression came from directly in front of Xiao Shi.

Xiao Shi's eyes narrowed slightly.

Through his expanded Soul Consciousness, he had already detected in advance that a colossal creature was rapidly approaching him at an astonishing speed, not far ahead.

This was an incredibly large blue jellyfish.

Numerous black runes of various sizes covered the head of this jellyfish.

These black runes were clearly identical to the runes on the sea beasts in this seafloor area.

However, there were more of them.

And they were also more powerful.

“Finally, I’ve encountered one…”

A strong fighting intent surged in Xiao Shi's eyes.

He was greatly looking forward to fighting a Martial Demon Realm sea beast.

Whoosh!

His figure flashed.

Now, without entering the Crimson Tiger Form, he could still maintain ultra-high speed.

Of course, compared to his speed on land, it was definitely slightly inferior.

But among Martial Demons, such speed was already incredibly astonishing.

Boom!

In an instant.

Xiao Shi, charging forward, collided fiercely with the massive jellyfish.

The surrounding seawater boiled and exploded!

...East Dipper City.

Xiang Zizhen's brows were tightly furrowed.

Out of trust in Xiao Shi, he no longer worried about how to win over people's hearts and gain the support of the East Island martial artists.

He fully immersed himself in refining East Island's earth pulse.

Earth pulse refinement was also an extremely important step in becoming a Saint.

However, different regions had different methods of earth pulse refinement.

Now, after some research.

Xiang Zizhen had already sensed that refining East Island's earth pulse was far more difficult than he had initially imagined.

The most troublesome aspect for him.

Was the statue Rong Sufei had erected on East Island.

This statue completely suppressed East Island's earth pulse.

Making it impossible for Xiang Zizhen to begin.

Clearly.

One of Rong Sufei's purposes in erecting this statue was to prevent Xiang Zizhen from refining the earth pulse.

He didn't want to give Xiang Zizhen any chance at all!

To refine East Island's earth pulse.

This statue must be destroyed.

But given the current situation on East Island, if he dared to touch this statue, all the martial artists on East Island would immediately riot.

Based on Xiang Zizhen's understanding over the past few days.

He already knew.

The existence of this statue, besides being a symbol of Rong Sufei's status, also provided a cultivation boost to all East Island martial artists who worshipped it.

And this boost was not small.

This made the statue a sacred object on East Island.

If Xiang Zizhen dared to touch this statue.

He would inevitably be opposed by all the martial artists of East Island.

This made him very anxious.

Given the importance of this statue to all East Island martial artists, even if Xiao Shi could truly give every East Island martial artist a treasure equivalent to their own realm as a welcome gift, this statue… would still be unshakeable!

A mere welcome gift could not convince these martial artists to agree to destroy the statue.

If the statue could not be destroyed.

Then Xiang Zizhen would never be able to refine the earth pulse.

If this continued.

He would still lose!

Xiang Zizhen was extremely worried about this.

He couldn't think of any solution.

Unless his master personally intervened, otherwise… the current situation was a dead end for him!

Even if Xiao Shi could change his image and status in the hearts of these East Island martial artists later.

But as long as the statue couldn't be destroyed, everything would be in vain.

Of course, Xiang Zizhen also knew.

The simplest way to destroy the statue was to build a new one, a statue of his own.

But there were some intractable problems within this.

Firstly, the construction of such a statue, not to mention the enormous resources required, would take an incredibly long time just to build.

And such statues could usually only exist one per area.

In other words.

Xiang Zizhen would first have to destroy this statue before he could build a new one.

This would certainly require the agreement of many East Island martial artists.

Not to mention getting everyone's agreement.

At least most people's agreement would be needed.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to implement.

Xiang Zizhen sighed.

Now he could only hope that Xiao Shi could, five days later, give every East Island martial artist a welcome gift to build some goodwill first, and then see how many East Island martial artists would change their stance… Poof!

Xiao Shi, who had transformed into a black streak of light.

Pierced directly through the body of the blue jellyfish.

Tearing the entire blue jellyfish's body apart.

After entering the Martial Demon Realm, his strength was far more formidable than he had previously imagined.

Even though he was fighting underwater, and his own abilities were affected and weakened to some extent.

He still appeared relaxed when facing this Martial Demon Realm sea beast.

He felt none of the pressure and difficulty he experienced when fighting a Martial Demon Realm opponent in the Martial Soul Realm.

Now, his physical body, soul power, etc., were all condensed into one.

Making his attacks incredibly powerful.

This Martial Demon Realm sea beast could not withstand his attacks at all.

Even though his speed was reduced in the water.

It was still astonishing.

Facing Xiao Shi, who had no weaknesses, this blue jellyfish was no match at all.

Or rather… it couldn't even fight back!

From the moment the two sides began to fight, it was a completely one-sided crushing.

As if the two were not on the same level at all.

Xiao Shi even felt that if he were on land, he would definitely be able to kill it even faster!

Xiao Shi looked at the jellyfish corpse before him.

Besides picking up the items that dropped after killing it, he also preserved the jellyfish's corpse.

He planned to thoroughly study the runes on this jellyfish later.

Perhaps it could provide some inspiration for the formation of his own power system in the future.

The Martial Demon Realm systems he had encountered so far.

Were basically composed of runes and demonic patterns.

However, Xiao Shi knew that the Martial Demon Realm's power system was far more than this.

There were still many directions he could choose.

He was not in a hurry.

After gaining a concrete understanding of his own strength.

Xiao Shi felt that as long as he didn't encounter a second-stage Martial Demon Realm sea beast here, he should be able to kill them easily.

One thing was certain… there were no Saint-level sea beasts above the Martial Demon Realm in this sea region!

As early as the establishment of the Great Wu Dynasty, the Martial Emperor had already swept across the entire Tianwu Continent, eliminating all non-human beings above the Saint level.

In other words.

From the establishment of the Great Wu Dynasty until now, the only beings above the Saint level were humans.

Even though the imperial power of the Great Wu Dynasty had collapsed, the entire Tianwu Continent still had not given birth to any Saints other than humans.

After all, the prerequisite for reaching Saint-level.

Was to refine a region.

Currently, all regions of the Tianwu Continent were controlled by humans.

Even some powerful fierce beasts could at most remain in the second stage of the Martial Demon Realm; without regional refinement, they would never be able to become Saints.

Although there were countless sea beasts in this sea region.

However, the probability of encountering a second-stage Martial Demon Realm sea beast was still very low.

After all, a second-stage Martial Demon Realm sea beast was already the king of this sea region.

They usually resided in the deepest parts of the sea region.

The place where Xiao Shi was currently located could only be considered the mid-section of the sea region, not yet having entered the core area of the sea.

Therefore, he didn't need to worry too much.

Just like that.

Xiao Shi began his rapid hunt!

This time, he not only wanted to obtain treasures that could be given to every East Island martial artist through killing.

At the same time, he also needed to prepare for the future recruitment of these East Island martial artists.

In other words… millions of treasures alone would certainly not be enough.

These welcome gifts could basically only change the East Island martial artists' perception of Xiang Zizhen.

Even if he could win over a portion of them and make them change their stance, it would certainly not be many.

To win over the East Island martial artists.

He must possess more treasures.

It just so happened that there were many sea beasts in this sea region.

Xiao Shi could hunt to his heart's content here.

For ordinary people.

This sea region was a place full of crisis and danger.

Usually, martial artists from the Nan Dou Region, whether from East Island or West Island, primarily used the sea region for training.

But in Xiao Shi's eyes.

This sea region was an incredibly vast treasure trove!

There were endless sea beasts to kill and endless treasures to acquire!

“I refuse to believe that with the treasures in this vast treasure trove, I still can’t win over the martial artists of a mere East Island.”

This was also Xiao Shi's greatest confidence after coming here.

Xiang Zizhen couldn't produce so many treasures.

The Four Symbols Divine Martial Sect couldn't produce so many treasures.

But Xiao Shi could!

At the same time, this was also the best place to hunt Martial Demons.

By hunting Martial Demon Realm sea beasts, the Martial Demon Grade items that dropped would allow his strength to receive an even greater boost!