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Chapter 601: Chapter 607: Impatience
"Jiu, are you still worried about Xiaoqing’s situation?" Da Qing approached Li Zhirui, who sat silently at the ship’s helm, and asked.
Li Zhirui let out a worried sigh, "Yes, why has his temperament become increasingly worse?"
Over the years, because Da Qing and Xiaoqing had not made breakthroughs in their cultivation, their strength could not keep up with Li Zhirui. Hence, for their safety, Li Zhirui did not take them with him when he needed to go out and handle affairs.
Add to that his own busyness and lack of time to pay attention to them, the changes in them seemed abrupt and puzzling to him.
"It might be that the lack of progress for too long has made Xiaoqing’s temperament more anxious and unstable. Things should get better once we find some spiritual objects," Da Qing speculated.
Although Da Qing had also been focusing on his own cultivation and that of his offspring over the years, he understood Xiaoqing better than Li Zhirui did.
"Let’s hope so."
Li Zhirui sighed. If Xiaoqing continued like this, even if they found some miraculous natural treasures, he wouldn’t dare to let Xiaoqing use them.
Because if the breakthrough failed, the consequences were unimaginable!
And with his current temperament, the possibility of failure was extremely high!
"Don’t worry, it’ll be fine."
Li Zhirui rubbed his temples and said, "Go check on Xiaoqing’s condition. We’re about to enter the Outer Sea soon, and we need to conceal our presence."
Stimulating one’s own spiritual energy in the Inner Sea could deter the lower-order water devils, but doing the same in the Outer Sea would be no different from seeking death!
It is known that the strength of the water devils varies greatly between the two seas. In the Inner Sea, even third-order water devils are rare, but the Outer Sea is teeming with fourth-order and even fifth-order water devils! It’s not a place where they could act recklessly.
After Da Qing left, Li Zhirui immediately blended the spirit boat into the clouds and cast spells to conceal their aura, making them undetectable from the outside world.
However, this had a downside, which was that the spirit boat’s flying speed could not be too fast, or else it would give away their position.
The Boundless Sea was worthy of its name, vast and endless, with no end in sight!
Moreover, Li Zhirui did not dare to venture too deep into it because the further from the mainland, the stronger the water devils became, increasing the likelihood of encountering high-order water devils.
The trio wandered aimlessly over the sea for several days. At first, they were amazed by the scenery of the Boundless Sea, but as time passed, they only felt bored and annoyed.
"It seems that the Outer Sea is not as the rumors say, teeming with spiritual objects everywhere!" Xiaoqing pouted, his face showing disappointment and impatience.
Boom—
Unexpectedly, just as he finished speaking, a rumbling noise came from the distance.
"Jiu, hurry! Let’s go check it out!" Xiaoqing’s expression suddenly became excited, and he urged repeatedly.
"Alright." Li Zhirui also wanted to see what was happening; there might be an opportunity to profit from the situation.
A cloud drifted leisurely toward the source of the battle. After about half an hour, they finally arrived at the battlefield.
They saw two gigantic water devils fiercely fighting on the surface of the sea. With each swing of the giant octopus’s tentacles, it caused huge and powerful waves.
Its opponent, a huge whale with a sharp horn, had Spirit Light surging around its horn, spreading coldness, freezing the surrounding sea area, and directly nullifying the octopus’s attacks.
"What could have caused these two sea behemoths to fight?" Li Zhirui muttered to himself, his eyes gleaming with Spirit Light as he searched for clues nearby.
Although Water Devils might silently commence battle without warning, two fourth-order Water Devils would definitely not make such a move.
Without sufficient interest, unless it was a deadly enemy or they had offended one another, they would not act.
After all, the Outer Sea was fraught with dangers. If they did such a thing, they would weaken their own strength, and if targeted by other Water Devils, they would be putting themselves in jeopardy.
"It seems that the spiritual object they’re fighting over has already been taken by one of them." Li Zhirui searched for a while but found no clues of the spiritual object.
"Hand over the Deep Sea Mysterious Ice! I’ll let you leave. Otherwise, once my kin arrive, you won’t be able to escape!" the Monohorn Behemoth tried to threaten.
Unlike the giant octopus, the Monohorn Behemoth was a gregarious Devil Beast.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, Water Devils rarely provoked the Monohorn Behemoth.
"Wishful thinking!" The giant octopus was aware of this but still refused to give up because the Deep Sea Mysterious Ice could enhance its strength, bringing it closer to fifth-order.
A disagreement couldn’t be more evident!
The two giant beasts resumed their fierce battle.
"Deep Sea Mysterious Ice?" Li Zhirui and the other two heard their conversation from above and started to get tempted.
Deep Sea Mysterious Ice, a fourth-order spiritual object, was rumored to be formed from a mass of extremely cold Spiritual Energy that absorbed a huge amount of Water Spiritual Energy; thus, it wasn’t a material for Artifact Refining but a mass of pure and copious Ice Spiritual Energy!
Although Da Qing and Xiaoqing weren’t ice attribute Spirit Beasts and couldn’t use this spiritual object, its value was not trivial—if sold to a cultivator with an Ice Spirit Root, its price wouldn’t be less than five hundred thousand Spirit Stones.
"Wait a bit longer. Now is not the best time to make a move!" Li Zhirui calmed Da Qing and Xiaoqing, telling them to conceal their own aura and avoid exposure.
Observing the auras of the two Water Devils, it was clear they still had plenty of Mana. If they moved now, they would definitely be jointly attacked by them.
"But if we wait any longer, the group of Monohorn Behemoths will arrive," Xiaoqing urged anxiously.
Li Zhirui shook his head and mysteriously said, "Don’t rush! That giant octopus still has tricks up its sleeve, we just need to keep an eye on it."
Time ticked by, and the aura of the giant octopus grew weaker and weaker.
Especially when it sensed several massive auras rushing over from afar, the octopus panicked and suddenly revealed a vulnerability, and was struck by the Behemoth!
No longer able to restrain himself upon seeing this, Xiaoqing immediately disregarded Li Zhirui’s previous instructions and urgently intervened to stop the Behemoth from continuing its attack.
The moment Xiaoqing made a move, all the measures previously set up by Li Zhirui were broken, exposing them directly in front of the two Water Devils.
"Human race cultivator!" The Behemoth looked at the scene before it in shock, failing to understand why a human cultivator had suddenly appeared.
"Hahahaha! Thanks to you, bird-brain, for intervening. I’ll be taking my leave first!" The giant octopus, which had planned to use a Secret Technique to save its life, burst into laughter. 𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑝𝘶𝘣.𝑐𝘰𝘮
After that, the world became pitch black, and Li Zhirui and his companions could not see an inch in front of them.
"Sigh," Li Zhirui sighed helplessly and instructed Da Qing to pilot the Spirit Boat towards the north.
He then cast a spell once again to conceal the Spirit Boat.
A moment later, the Spirit Boat flew out of the darkness and merged into a gigantic cloud.
