146: Guixu Sea Eye! You call this a "natural wonder"?

The heavenly phoenix flying boat cut through the sky; the closer it got to the depths of the Endless Sea, the more eerie the surroundings became.

The originally bright sky quickly darkened, and a layer of oppressive lead-gray clouds stacked thickly over the sea level. The Spiritual Qi here was no longer peaceful like that in the Central Continent, but was filled with violence, decay, and chaos.

Gu Yang stood at the very front of the deck, motionless. His deep purple pupils constricted slightly as he gazed ahead.

At the end of his vision, a massive pitch-black whirlpool with a diameter of ten thousand miles appeared. Seawater was forcibly pulled vertically into the abyss by an invisible force, creating a roar that sounded like tens of thousands of ancient Dragons wailing simultaneously.

"That is... the Guixu Sea Eye."

Saintess Feng Ni's voice trembled slightly; she had to push the skyship's defensive Formation to its limit. Even so, the immense pulling force still caused the skyship's keel to let out an unsettling groan.

"The gravity there has already distorted space." Feng Ni pointed to the edge of the whirlpool, "All compasses and Divine Sense will fail there. Once you fall in, there's no turning back."

...Gu Yang did not speak.

He felt the howling wind blowing against him, which contained an ancient and extremely heavy physical mass.

"The suction of this place... is quite interesting."

Gu Yang slowly crouched down and pressed his hands onto the deck of the skyship.

Buzz—!

An extremely subtle yet star-heavy gravitational wave spread from his palms, instantly covering the entire thousand-foot-long skyship. The skyship, which had been teetering in the gale and was almost sucked into the whirlpool, miraculously stabilized at this moment.

"Fellow Daoist Gu? What did you do?" Feng Ni was pale with shock. She felt as if the skyship beneath her feet had suddenly increased in weight by ten million times, actually managing to withstand that spatial pulling force.

"My old man said, if your footing isn't steady, it's easy to trip."

Gu Yang's honest voice was clearly audible amidst the storm.

"I added a 'steelyard weight' to this ship."

After his Breakthrough to the Third Turn, Gu Yang had gained basic mastery over mass and gravity. Now, even without wearing armor, the physical force field he naturally emitted could form its own domain... "Look! It's the Abyss Scavengers!"

Feng Ni suddenly pointed to a patch of Void Realm at the edge of the Sea Eye.

Several tattered, pitch-black, and strange ships covered in coral-like spikes were seen cruising along the edge of the whirlpool, resisting the terrifying suction.

A group of bizarre-looking beings stood on those ships. Most of them wore animal skins, their skin a sickly iron-blue, and their expressions were ferocious. These were extremely vicious criminals who had committed heinous crimes in the Three Thousand Dao Provinces and were exiled here, or the descendants of certain races forgotten in the ancient wars.

They survived on the edge of this abyss by scavenging wreckage and Law fragments sucked into it, and were known as "Abyss Scavengers."

"Fat sheep! A top-tier skyship from a Holy Land actually dares to barge into the Guixu Sea Eye!"

A one-eyed scavenger leader shrieked, his voice piercing through the storm with a sense of crazed greed.

"Brothers! Prepare the grappling hooks! If we seize this ship, we'll be able to trade for tickets to the second level!"

...Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Hundreds of grappling hooks made of Deep Sea Profound Iron and soaked in sea demon venom were fired from the tattered ships with ear-piercing whistles, sinking deep into the flanks of the heavenly phoenix flying boat.

These hooks were inscribed with forbidden runes capable of locking down Spiritual Qi; once hooked, ordinary skyship Formations would be paralyzed instantly.

"Fellow Daoist Gu! These scavengers are fearless, and the 'will fragments' they hold can interfere with the Primordial Spirit!" Feng Ni urgently summoned the Heavenly Phoenix Feather, prepared to fight to the death.

However.

Gu Yang didn't even turn his head, merely reaching out casually.

He precisely caught one of the black iron chains, which was as thick as an infant's arm.

"I just took a nap on the skyship, and I'm feeling a bit thirsty."

Gu Yang turned his head and gave the laughing scavengers a "kindly" and honest smile.

"You cart-pullers... don't seem to have enough strength."

...The scavenger leader was stunned. He saw that the burly man hadn't cut the grappling hook, but instead grabbed the chain with one hand as if playing tug-of-war.

"Pull! Pull him down to feed the sea monsters!" the leader roared.

Dozens of Soul Transformation Stage scavengers pulled back together with all their might.

However, in the next second, their expressions changed from madness to extreme terror.

No matter how hard they pulled, the burly man was like an ancient divine mountain rooted in the center of the world, motionless. Instead, it was their black ships that were pulled in reverse by that single thin grappling hook, dragging them across the sea to crash directly into the heavenly phoenix flying boat!

"Come... over here!"

Gu Yang gave a sudden, violent pull.

A pure physical monstrous force capable of collapsing space erupted along the grappling hook.

Rumble—!!!

The three scavenger warships were actually pulled right out of the sea by Gu Yang's tug, and then, in an extreme physical collision, they smashed into each other like three fragile porcelain bowls, exploding into a cloud of wood chips and metal debris... "Ah!!!"

Screams echoed through the Sea Eye.

Those once-arrogant villains, under that impact force capable of Shattered Void, couldn't even have their Divine Soul escape before being turned into blood mist and swallowed by the Guixu Sea Eye.

Gu Yang casually brushed the rust off his hands.

"Sister Feng Ni, the local specialties here... don't seem very sturdy."

Saintess Feng Ni stood frozen in place, the feather Magic Treasure in her hand nearly dropping onto the deck in shock.

Those were three specially-made warships capable of resisting the Guixu gravity! Each one was protected by a Soul Transformation Peak Formation, yet they were pulled to pieces by him like he was tugging on toys?

Just then.

An unprecedentedly terrifying aura rose from the bottomless black Sea Eye... "Roar—!!!"

Accompanied by a roar that shook the Primordial Spirit, a massive black shadow ten thousand feet long suddenly leaped out from the center of the Sea Eye!

It was the guardian beast of Guixu—the "Mutated Juvenile" (Mutated Juvenile).

Although it was only a juvenile, because it had devoured Law dregs under the abyss for years, its size was like a moving island. Its back was covered in dark purple bone spikes, and every flap of its giant wings could kick up a spatial storm hundreds of feet high on the sea surface.

"It's the Mutated Juvenile! The overlord of this place!" Feng Ni's face was deathly pale, "It's over... this kind of Vicious Beast ignores Laws and only cultivates Physical Body mass; it's the nightmare of all skyships!"

Gu Yang looked up at the colossal creature that blotted out the sun.

Under that terrifying pressure, the Five Elements Great Millstone within him actually hummed with excitement.

[System Prompt: Detected extremely high-quality "Guixu Origin" flesh!] [Suggestion: Capture this creature alive. Its inner core can serve as a "ballast stone" to stabilize the abyss gravity.]

..."Ballast stone?"

Gu Yang licked his lips, his eyes burning with a greedy deep purple light.

"Sister Feng Ni, help me keep an eye on these Source Stones; I'll be right back."

"Fellow Daoist Gu! What are you going to do?! That's the Mutated Juvenile; its skin is as hard as..."

Before Feng Ni could finish her sentence, Gu Yang had already vanished from the spot.

Rumble!!

A pair of deep footprints were left on the deck.

Gu Yang himself turned into a black stream of light, moving against ten thousand times the spatial gravity like a reverse meteor, crashing head-on into the massive abyss overlord.

"Third Turn—Shattered Void!"

Gu Yang suddenly twisted his waist and back in mid-air, and the space around his right fist completely vanished at that moment, replaced by an absolute void black hole.

This punch had no sonic boom, because the sound was also swallowed by the vacuum.

This punch was nothing but the ultimate collision of matter... Bang—!!!

Amidst the roar that was loud enough to tear apart a continent, the ten-thousand-foot-long Mutated Juvenile let out the most terrified wail of its life.

Its head, which was said to be able to smash asteroids, instantly collapsed into a blood-filled crater a hundred meters deep upon contact with Gu Yang's fist, unable to withstand such terrifying mass pressure!

The giant Kun's massive body tumbled on the sea surface, kicking up giant waves that almost filled the Guixu Sea Eye.

Gu Yang stood on the giant Kun's forehead, one hand hooked into the gaps of the other's hard bone spikes, his eyes like lightning.

"I, Tie Niu, have never ridden such a big car in my life."

"Er Gou, wake up! It's time to eat!"

...Er Gou, who had been sleeping in Gu Yang's arms, suddenly snapped its eyes open as it caught the scent of extremely high-Rank flesh.

Its silver scales had now completely turned into dark gold; as it had reached a critical moment in its evolution, its emerald-green eyes vaguely revealed the pressure of a Primordial Divine Beast.

"Awoo!!"

Er Gou leaped forward excitedly and bit into the Origin flesh at the giant Kun's wound.

Under the violent treatment of the man and dog, this abyss overlord, which would give even Void Refining Perfection old monsters a headache, was like a salted fish pressed on a cutting board, completely powerless to fight back... Half an hour later.

The heavenly phoenix flying boat restarted.

Only this time, the skyship was no longer traveling alone but was tethered together by several extremely thick Profound Iron chains.

And at the other end of the chains... was that ten-thousand-foot Mutated Juvenile, which had already been beaten black and blue and was obediently acting as a ship-pulling laborer!

Gu Yang sat on the giant Kun's back, weighing a deep-sea inner core that emitted a dark-blue light and weighed ten thousand catties.

"This thing is indeed heavy; if I put it in the cabin, we shouldn't have to worry about the wind anymore."

Gu Yang casually tossed the inner core to Saintess Feng Ni, who was completely petrified on the deck.

"Sister Feng Ni, have we reached the first level of the abyss? I've noticed the air down here is getting more and more 'chewy'."

The skyship passed through a thick layer of black mist.

Below, a bizarre land composed of countless sunken ancient civilization ruins loomed in the gravity of the underground abyss.

That place was the true land of lawlessness.