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Chapter 622: Side Story: Great Wilderness Heavenly Sea - Part 2

Chapter 622: Side Story: Great Wilderness Heavenly Sea - Part 2

This is actually quite similar to the communication among the major continents in the Huai Xu Sky Sea.

The Heavenly Sea is both a Spirit Sea and a Sea of Void.

The Huai Xu Sky Sea is the same, with most Demon Spirits in the sea possessing the power of the Great Void, making them extremely powerful, able to establish royal courts and hinder traffic.

Therefore, if the continents want to communicate, they either need a Manifest Saint True Monarch to bring people using their Inner Array Realm, or use the Great Void Heavenly Ship, or construct a teleportation from the summit of the Great Void Altar.

The ten continents of Huai Xu are vast, and while this realm only has a single continent, it is far larger than a single continent in Huai Xu. Counting the islands and Cave Heavens within these Heavenly Seas, it’s even more boundless.

"Hmm..."

At this moment, Mingguang Dust suddenly felt a sharp pain in his Divine Sea, but he was not surprised.

It was the Soul and Spirit of the ’Shangxuan Sect Swordsman’ he suppressed.

In the chaotic currents of the Great Void, Mingguang Dust had suppressed the Swordsman’s Protective Body talismans and a Divine Soul Weapon, thus he had fainted from exhaustion in the end.

And this sharp pain was proof of the Swordsman’s attempt to rebel.

[Still not giving up?] Mingguang Dust urged his Divine Skill, the sunset rose and fell within the Divine Sea, the vast cloud seas nearly ignited, intending to wear down that trapped Sword Light crackling like thunder.

[Hmph]

Rainbow-colored membranes resonated from within the Sword Light, exceptionally sturdy, so much that even the ’Sunset’ light, comprehended after Mingguang Dust’s Manifestation of Holiness, failed to erode them.

This power made Mingguang Dust slightly lower his gaze.

Now, he is at the first level of the ’Body Firm and Eternal’ stage of the Four Extremes Holy Trace from the Divine Altar’s Manifestation of Holiness; his body, Divine Skill, Art of Magic as well as Spiritual Fiend are all truly substantial, meant to exist eternally between heaven and earth. His Art of Magic could leave traces that last for hundreds to thousands of years; even casually using a ’Cooling Skill’ would create a Formation capable of maintaining temperate climate in a region for centuries.

The rainbow-colored membrane displayed by the Shangxuan Sect Swordsman exceeds the Manifested Saint Realm, and is likely the defense Art of Magic of at least a Daoist Palace Pure Yang level expert; although it can only protect the soul, it allows the Swordsman’s soul to be fearless against any attack below Pure Yang.

[Even if you Manifested Holy, you can’t kill me, and besides, even if I die, the mission is complete. You can’t return to Huai Xu, so I win either way.]

With such a defense, the Swordsman’s will was so resolute that Mingguang Dust felt puzzled: [What grudge do I really hold against the Shangxuan Sect? Though of humble beginnings, a Human Clan tool from the True Demon Sect, I have done no evil deeds in my Cultivation. Isn’t the Shangxuan Sect a legitimate sect of the Dao Sect, so why resort to such despicable tactics?]

This sincere confusion caused the Swordsman to be silent for a while, then he slowly said: [It has nothing to do with your personal conduct...True Lord of the Mysterious Mirror, in a way, it is because you’re too excellent, too flawless, surpassing what the Bright Mirror Sect should possess, that’s why you’re being targeted.]

[I am too excellent? I’m just at the level of a regular Upper Sect True Transmission, how is it the Bright Mirror Sect shouldn’t have me?]

Mingguang Dust pressed on, but the Swordsman’s Soul and Spirit did not respond anymore, hiding within the rainbow membrane and falling silent.

"..."

Upon opening his eyes again, Mingguang Dust’s brows were slightly furrowed.

Although he didn’t expect to get any valuable information from the adversary, the Swordsman’s last response was sincere.

He was indeed a Swordsman, and not inferior to those of the Sky Sun Sword Court from the Bai Ji Jingzhou of the Heavenly Ancestor; he may keep silent, but would never lie.

"So, the Shangxuan Sect really intends to deal with me. I truly can’t return to Huai Xu now."

He pondered: "Outside, they don’t plan to make a move, the only puzzle is what special trait of mine has caused the Shangxuan Sect to target me so... Could it be that I’m blocking someone’s path?"

Mingguang Dust, having weathered many storms, soon thought of a possibility, his brow furrowing slightly: "There are traitors within the sect, holding high positions; if I were to step into the realm of Manifested Saint, it would interfere with their plans?"

This was very likely. And it explained a lot.

If I could get in touch with my master, I really should remind him about this.

But for now, I need to understand the situation of the Cave Heaven I am in.

Thinking thus, Bright Mirror Sect’s Mingguang Dust looked towards the crashed ship not far away, planning to go check the situation. If he could meet some local intelligent beings, he would be able to learn a bit more.

As he walked over, Mingguang Dust planned to deploy his Inner Array Realm, aiming to generally understand the local situation through resonance.

However, what unexpectedly made Mingguang Dust halt and stand his ground was an extremely violent backlash that came his way, rendering him immobile for a moment and unable to deploy his Inner Array Realm.

Even worse, there was a fierce force wanting to push him away, into the Heavenly Sea, transforming him into an ’island Cave Heaven’—a feeling of rejection!

It felt as if the whole world, the entire Cave Heaven, was refusing, denying the existence of the Inner Array Realm!

"Could it really be so?"

But Mingguang Dust wasn’t particularly surprised; instead, he laughed: "Sure enough, our Embracing the Void’s Martial Arts are special. The Inner Array Realm, this sort of special Divine Power... relies on the support of nature; some worlds take it for granted, while others reject it."

This world didn’t particularly repel the Inner Array Realm; it’s just that if Mingguang Dust tried to deploy it, this vast world would classify it as ’Cave Heaven’, and Cave Heavens cannot overlap with one another. They can only enter the Heavenly Sea and become a singular Cave Heaven island.

It didn’t matter. Once Mingguang Dust figured this out, he didn’t pay it much mind. After all, calling upon Spirit Qi from the Inner Array Realm wasn’t repelled; he simply couldn’t use ’Divine Power Manifestation’, yet his other strengths still remained at a Manifested Saint level.

From this perspective, Martial Arts Cultivators are quite strong in resisting the world’s rejection.

But he had to be more careful. This world was quite strange; the Spirit Qi was incredibly abundant, yet manipulating nature’s spiritual energy would activate Demonic Qi, suggesting there would probably be quite a few Heavenly Demons around.

Soon after, Mingguang Dust who approached the vicinity of the shipwreck met some people.

Not Monsters/Demons or spirits and monsters of odd forms and strange shapes, but humans.

"Not bad."

Hiding his form, Mingguang Dust nodded slightly from within a nearby thicket: "This realm also has humans, much better than the last time I went on a mission to a small cave sky, barking back and forth with a group of intelligent wolves."

Then, as he listened carefully, he immediately caught the secret: "Wait..."

Mingguang Dust held his breath, concentrated, and then raised an eyebrow: "Is that actually the Dao Courtyard language?"

"Does this world also have a connection to the Dao Sect?"

...

"King Jing Chu wants us dead!"

On the sandy beach in front of the stranded shipwreck, dozens of people gathered, led by a few who seemed to be crew members and captains of the guard, indignant in their condemnation of King Jing Chu: "Said he would send us to pioneer new lands, yet he planted Dark Hands within the ship; isn’t this just sending us to our deaths?!"

"Right, what about the local camps we were promised? And the local island guards waiting to support us?" An old man surrounded by people, evidently respected and of a high status, frowned and asked: "Could it be that all of these only exist on paper?"

"This is bad." The captain of the guard muttered to himself, realizing the situation: "We’re not here to pioneer new lands; we’re here to balance the books..."

Everyone was cursing, cursing King Jing Chu, his prime minister, and the officials of the Jing Chu realm. They failed to notice that a person dressed exactly like them had quietly infiltrated their group, took someone away, and then returned after a while, chatting and laughing.

No one found it strange.

The power of the Manifest Saint True Monarch, when used on ordinary people, didn’t need any special Skills to make them spout all their information. In no time, Mingguang Dust had obtained the intelligence he wanted from this group of people.

This realm is named [Great Wilderness Heavenly Sea Realm], a world of Myriad Tribes vying for supremacy, wild and pristine.