Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension-Chapter 245 - 212 Spirit Palace

Chapter 245: Chapter 212 Spirit Palace

The sightline passed over the flock of birds and gradually, Zhao Sheng’s expression grew grim.

From a distance, he looked down to see, as the sun set in the west, a vast island that stretched beyond the horizon suddenly came into his view.

Several black smoke columns could be seen rising from the island, with the smoke spreading across the sky. Fields and forests inland looked desolate and pitch-black, while most of the buildings in the coastal workshop had collapsed into ruins, and the docks were covered with charred debris, the remnants after the fires.

On the sea surface nearby, countless broken ships were half-sunk, capsized, and flipped over, yet, strikingly, not a single corpse was to be found. However, the sea fish and sea beasts in the vicinity had recently eaten so much that their bellies were round, making them appear unusually large.

At this moment, in the shattered workshop, groups of dispirited people in tattered clothes, like walking corpses, were crawling over the rubble, moving in and out, incessantly searching for anything useful.

On the dilapidated streets, occasionally, one could see rotting remains being dragged out of the ruins and then piled up at the corner of the street, waiting for others to carry them away to feed the fish.

Around the streets of the workshop, individuals clad in Green Armor, expressionless and imposing, patrolled back and forth, watching over the slavish crowds within the workshop with murderous intent.

By their sides followed huge mutated sea lizards, all with green scales and purple eyes, six limbs on their bellies, exhaling purple toxic smoke from their mouths – they were the Shattered Star Sea’s notoriously dangerous poison lizards.

Only by witnessing this scene of utter human misery did Zhao Sheng fully realize that it was a catastrophe, a massacre of the Human Clan of the Shattered Star Sea.

The islands of the Shattered Star Sea were numerous; it was possible that tens of millions of the Human Clan had died at the jaws of countless fierce beasts.

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If Dragon Head Island could be so tragic, one could imagine how appalling the fate of the other overrun islands must be!

After circling over Dragon Head Island for half a round, the Hu Xiao suddenly zeroed in on an area of the sea a hundred miles southwest of the island and dived down.

At that moment, Master Jiu Chi saw Zhao Sheng’s face darken and seemed to read his thoughts, then he spoke calmly, “You seem angry, are you indignant about the deaths of the Human Clan? But do you know how many innocent lives, intelligent races, die under the blades of the Human Clan every year, every month, every day, even every moment?”

“Is the life of the Human Clan the only life that matters, and the lives of the billions of the Shattered Star Sea not lives at all?

That’s the way of the world, the law of the jungle. The Heavenly Dao of karma, the retribution is infallible!”

Zhao Sheng, looking down at the rapidly approaching sea surface, gazed at the vast shadows roaming below, and then turned to face Master Jiu Chi head-on, saying expressionlessly, “If the Dao is different, do not plan on it!”

“Humph, don’t forget, you carry the True Blood of the Spirit Clan. You have never belonged to the Human Clan. What do you think would happen to you if I reveal your identity to those stubborn old men of the Human Clan? Heh heh!”

Zhao Sheng turned his head away, no longer arguing with Jiu Chi. There was no point in discussing issues of race with a die-hard devotee of the Spirit Clan. Whether one belongs to the Human Clan or not isn’t determined by blood, but by agreement with thoughts and ideals, or perhaps by the sense of belonging of the spirit consciousness.

Bang!

The Hu Xiao folded its wings and suddenly plunged undersea.

In an instant, a faint white Light Shield suddenly rose around the body of the Hu Xiao, isolating the seawater outside.

As it rapidly descended into the deep sea, the light grew dimmer below, but the surrounding sea beasts became denser, with one larger sea creature after another, such as the Spirit Whale, Giant Claw Crab, Thousand Mountain Snail, Sea Covering Ray, and others, appeared within the range of Zhao Sheng’s Divine Sense.

Within a few breaths, the Hu Xiao had dived hundreds of fathoms deep; by this point, one would expect complete darkness, unable to see even their fingers.

However, against the pitch-black background, what Zhao Sheng saw instead was a kaleidoscope of brilliant colors. Groups of magnificent Sea Spirits, shining with neon spirit lights of various colors, were leisurely floating and drifting around. Among them, the most conspicuous were the Phantom Light Jellyfish, emitting dazzling light and being extremely large, often reaching tens or hundreds of fathoms and illuminating thousands of fathoms of the surrounding waters with a single one.

Passing through a beautifully enchanting glowing zone, Zhao Sheng suddenly sensed the concentration of Spiritual Energy around him rapidly increase.

The Hu Xiao descended swiftly, passing swiftly through hundred fathoms.

At that moment, Zhao Sheng suddenly narrowed his eyes as a massive Humpbacked Mountain Turtle with a shell as large as an island unexpectedly appeared in his line of sight.

Atop the turtle, incredibly, stood a majestic and towering Crystal Palace, shimmering with piercing white light.

The Crystal Walls surrounding the palace displayed thousands of lively sea beast illusions. These illusions were lifelike, bustling about fighting, hunting, and frolicking.

This scene was so vivid and real it was hard to believe that they were mere illusions, as if there was an actual world hidden inside the Crystal Walls.

Zhao Sheng was astonished at this sight.

When the Hu Xiao landed on the plaza in front of the palace, they passed through an invisible Barrier.

The palace and its plaza were clear and dry, with the surrounding seawater all being isolated by the invisible barrier above.

At that moment, Zhao Sheng’s expression changed slightly, and he was secretly shocked because he sensed that those sea beast illusions were actually the spirits of sea beasts, refined into the Crystal Walls by someone of Great Ability.

At the same time, he also faintly sensed an extremely subtle yet immense otherworldly pressure emanating from within the palace. It originated from the depths of the illusionary environment on the walls, from the thick Crystal Stone columns embracing the palace, from each clear and reflective Crystal Stone brick on the floor, even from the Crystal tiles on the ceiling of the palace.