Free Web NovelChapter 91: Demon Den! Gambling With One’s Life!
Usually, locating oneself on a map was a simple matter for cultivators.
A sufficiently powerful divine sense could survey the surrounding landscape and identify notable landmarks before comparing them with those in the pictures.
Unfortunately, this was not the case for Chen Xuan at the moment.
They were stranded on an unremarkable island in the middle of nowhere.
Even if he could determine its approximate shape using his divine sense, there were simply too many similar islands marked on the map. Thousands in total.
After several minutes of futile effort, he sighed and rolled the map back up.
For a brief moment, he even felt like cursing the System.
What was the point of giving him a map without marking his current position? Did it think that he was omniscient?
Noticing his expression, both disciples understood his investigation had yielded no result. freёwebnoѵel.com
Chi Yao looked as though she wanted to say something, but she ultimately shut her mouth.
Chen Xuan noticed this.
Although he suspected she knew more than she was willing to reveal, he chose not to press the matter. Asking any further was unlikely to have any result.
"Master," Huo Ling’er suddenly spoke up, "Do we really need to determine where we are?"
Chen Xuan looked at her. freeweɓnovel.cѳm
"What I mean is... before your arrival, I noticed several runes inside the underground cave. There should be a teleportation formation beneath the island."
"If we can activate it again, shouldn’t we be able to return to the mine?"
Huo Ling’er was somewhat naive and impulsive, but not stupid.
After piecing together the earlier events, she had come to understand they had been teleported far from the Tianxuan Domain.
With that in mind, she believed that her Master might have a way to take them back.
Otherwise, how else would he have reached this place?
In response, Chen Xuan smiled wryly.
He shook his head.
"I’m afraid it’s not that simple."
"The teleportation array exhausted its remaining energy reserves when it was last activated. If we want to use it again, we’ll need to gather the resources required to recharge it."
He had known this before activating the array, as Honglan had gone out of her way to specifically remind him.
Unfortunately, there had been no time to prepare and gather the resources on the other side.
He knew that his disciples were in danger, and he had no time to waste.
And indeed, reality showed that if he had hesitated for even a minute, these two troublemakers would have ended up in the spider demon’s belly.
Having answered her question, Chen Xuan didn’t speak any further but motioned for them to follow.
He approached the shore.
Almost immediately, he sensed violent fluctuations beneath the water, evidence that beings were fighting below.
Blood drifted upward through the currents and briefly touched the water’s surface, while a savage aura permeated the surroundings.
AS he extended his senses downward, Chen Xuan traced the disturbances to their source.
His expression darkened.
Several Core Formation demons lurked beneath the waves, locked in a fierce battle.
Although he detected no creature at the Nascent Soul realm, this discovery had already confirmed his worst fears.
This place was a sea beast den!
As though reading his thoughts, Chi Yao looked down at the sea and spoke once more.
"The Nine Origins Seas is said to be the birthplace of all beasts. They were the first creatures to be born in this Domain, and its original inhabitants."
"It was only later that human cultivators arrived, settled here, and established settlements," she explained before shaking her head.
"Even so, beasts occupy most of the region. Their numbers are immeasurable, while the powerful individuals among them are numerous."
As if to prove her words, a massive shadow suddenly appeared dozens of miles away.
The ocean erupted as a colossal tentacle burst from the sea and pierced the heavens.
The clouds were split apart.
The next instant, a sharp cry echoed.
"Chirp!"
A beautiful bird cloaked in five-colored light appeared overhead in the sky.
Its feathers shimmered brilliantly, while its cultivation had already reached the Core Formation realm.
Yet it was powerless to resist.
The tentacle coiled around its body like a serpent, before several more emerged from the sea and bound it completely.
The next moment, the bird was dragged beneath the waves.
A splash echoed, followed by the sound of chewing.
Moments later, the scent of blood in the air intensified.
The entire confrontation had lasted only seconds from start to finish.
But that short amount of time had been enough for Chen Xuan to identify both creatures.
A Deep Sea Kraken and a Five-Elements Peacock—both demons he had only encountered in ancient books.
Both species had long vanished from the Tianxuan Domain and its neighboring regions, becoming a thing of the past.
Yet, legends regarding their power remained.
’If possible, I’d rather avoid provoking creatures like that. Unfortunately...’
Chen Xuan shook his head. He knew they had little choice.
After one final glance at the turbulent sea, Chen Xuan enveloped his disciples in his power and rose into the air.
He neither dared to step close to the sea nor chose to go too high into the sky.
The earlier scene had made one thing abundantly clear: the sea was dangerous, but so was the sky.
As such, he moved in the space between the sea and the sky, maintaining an altitude of roughly fifty meters above the water.
In his Dantian, the Nascent Soul pointed its finger, concealing the auras and scent of his disciples.
Then, carefully, he began heading toward the south.
Not because he had suddenly discovered something, but because that route appeared to contain the fewest beasts among all directions.
’Such situations usually mean one of two things.’
’Either that place is the territory of cultivators and demons have learned to stay away, or...’
’It’s the place where a more powerful demon is lurking.’
Chen Xuan could only bet that it was the former.
