Lady Houtu smiled and said: "Your Majesty, I still need to navigate the course. If any danger arises along the way, please do take action to resolve it."

Upon hearing this, Chen Shi had no time to react before a gigantic eye in the sea submerged. In the next moment, an enormous mouth, like an abyss in the sea, sought to swallow the small boat along with a vast area of surrounding seawater!

Chen Shi spread his five fingers and pressed down toward the sea surface, instantly activating the Lingfan Ten Absolute Formation.

This Immortal Technique is exceedingly complex. Even with the close cooperation of two hundred and fifty-six cultivators, they require years of cultivation and still need some time to perform it. But for him now, it was as easy as lifting a hand, ready to be cast at will.

"Boom!"

The destructive power blasted downward into the sea; a radiant light erupted underwater, resembling a colossal sword, piercing hundreds of miles into the seabed!

The massive creature in the sea, its head pierced by the Ten Absolute Formation, was opened into a bright hole spanning several acres, and its body slowly sank to the ocean floor.

However, Chen Shi was startled as he borrowed the light from the Ten Absolute Formation. This sea was unfathomably deep; the cold light from the formation penetrated three hundred miles but still seemed far from reaching the bottom!

How deep is the Dark Sea?

Moreover, he used the light to see that there were gigantic structures floating in the sea, connected by chains to those structures.

Numerous sea demons clung to those ancient edifices.

The wonders beneath the sea far exceeded imagination.

The Willow Leaf Boat continued forward, and more demons approached. Chen Shi sometimes wielded swordsmanship, sometimes summoned thunder, sometimes interchanged sun and moon, and sometimes cast demon techniques to repel or slay the invading demons.

The small boat sailed through the sea, its speed gradually increasing, with wind and thunder roaring around, and torrential rain pounding down, hitting like sharp swords, showing the speed of the little boat.

At such speed, sea demons hardly had time to see before the small boat dashed past.

Chen Shi relaxed a bit, activating the Daoist Field to create a small space, sheltering from the rain.

At this moment, he suddenly saw a wooden boat drifting amidst the crashing waves outside the Daoist Field.

On that wooden boat, there was a Daoist, bound tightly to the mast with black iron chains.

The waves battered the Daoist's face, and raindrops and seawater were splashed everywhere.

The Daoist and the boat appeared in the turbulent waters, on the verge of destruction, yet he stubbornly used mana to activate the anchor, battling against the sea demons.

"That Daoist!"

In a fleeting glimpse, the Willow Leaf Boat had already left the wooden boat far behind.

He looked back, filled with doubt and surprise: "That Daoist looks like the one we met before the calamity, when we went to the outer heavens!"

At that time, Chen Shi and others drove the transformed mechanism, heading straight for the outer heavens. Due to the intense evil qi, a hundredfold stronger there, they had to return to the mortal world, but encountered this Daoist beyond the heavens.

This Daoist was also bound by chains on a wooden boat, on the verge of a malevolent transformation, with flesh and blood in chaos. Fortunately, Chen Shi activated Yin Yang Refining, allowing him to regain sanity, seizing the moment to crash toward the mortal realm with the mechanism.

Since then, Chen Shi had heard no news of this Daoist.

Unexpectedly, he encountered him again, still tightly bound on the boat, but this time not exiled to the outer heavens, but overseas!

"I wonder what sin he committed, or whom he offended, to be treated like this."

Chen Shi shook his head; Lady's boat was moving too fast for him to ask what this Daoist had done.

"The Lady's boat sails so fast, I wonder if we might encounter the Great Ming Treasure Ship?"

A hint of anticipation arose in Chen Shi's heart. The obsession of the previous True King steering the last Great Ming Treasure Ship, carrying a shipful of corpses of the court's civil and military officials, driven by their obsession, entered the Dark Sea, searching for the whereabouts of the Huaxia Divine Continent. It's been eight years since, and there's been no news.

"I wonder if the True King found Huaxia Divine Continent?" Chen Shi thought.

He hoped the True King could find their homeland, yet he didn't wish for the True King to bring the evil qi from the West Bull New Continent to Huaxia, feeling very conflicted.

At this time, the sea surface suddenly brightened, with the seawater changing color. Previously, the water was black, dim, seeming to absorb all light, filled with deep demon qi.

Now, the demon qi in the seawater suddenly vanished, replaced by pure Heaven and Earth Righteous Qi. Xuanhuang Qi in thin streams rose from the sea surface, curling like silk.

This part of the sea even dispelled the gloominess that Chen Shi previously felt, making him look around in surprise.

"West Bull New Continent, located at the edge of the Xuanhuang Sea."

Lady Houtu said, "It's a place even the Immortals are unwilling to visit. Only your Great Ming treats it as a treasure. Now we've entered the Xuanhuang Sea."

Chen Shi looked at the Xuanhuang Sea ahead, then back at the Dark Sea, saying, "Dear Lady, is the Xuanhuang Sea your Daoist Field?"

"Sort of."

Lady Houtu said, "Anywhere people stand can be considered as my Daoist Field. The myriad worlds of the Earth Immortal Realm can all be considered my Daoist Field."

Chen Shi asked doubtfully, "Since it's your Daoist Field, why is this sea region the Dark Sea? If your Daoist Field is polluted, don't you want to take it back?"

Lady Houtu laughed: "Your Majesty misunderstands. The Xuanhuang Sea is my Daoist Field, but the Dark Sea may not be. My Daoist Field follows the human clan cultivators' footsteps outward. If the human clan enters the Dark Sea, finds new worlds, establishes themselves, and worships this Lady, then I can establish my Daoist Field there, dispelling the darkness. However, such Daoist Fields don't last long and quickly dissipate for various reasons. The world in the Dark Sea is not the main world; it's just sidelined stuff."

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