Exploring Immortality Cultivation

Wang Qi stood atop the highest Spirit Tower on the Langde Sea Border, looking into the distance, and couldn't help but complain, "Old Ai really left at the worst possible time. If the two of us had joined forces, who knows how many Merit points we would have raked in by now."

Ai Changyuan had left five days ago to meet Lu Qianqian's parents. However, judging by Lu Qianqian's bewildered expression, Wang Qi guessed that this entire arrangement must have been concocted by Ai Changyuan himself. Lu Qianqian was completely in the dark.

Wu Shiqin was present though, and that muscle-brain of a guy would definitely be up for "throwing a punch." Unfortunately, before perfecting her Heavenly Song Technique, the ocean wasn't an ideal battlefield for Wu Shiqin. The seawater, dissolved with a massive amount of metal ions, was one of the best conductors. In such circumstances, Wu Shiqin could hardly control her electromagnetic spells, reducing her strength by a good twenty percent and possibly harming allies. If she abandoned her most proficient lightning skills and opted to use Elemental Magnetic and Light and Heat, her combat power would be less than half of her peak, which was extremely troublesome.

"You probably shouldn't care about that little bit of Merit anymore," Feng Luoyi said with a gentle laugh, "Plus, I'll directly inform you of the locations of the most threatening, most representative Demon Beasts, or the weakest parts of their lines. Your combat power surpasses most Guardian Envoys, and you're most efficient at eliminating those 'big fish.' This strategy benefits both you and the battlefield the most."

According to Feng Luoyi, this time the Dragon Clan of the West Sea David Royal Family had suddenly abandoned all influences in the Shallow Sea. All dragons above the Transformation Stage and servant Sea Demons above the Demon God Stage had surged towards the Deep Sea, completely abandoning the continental shelf. The ordinary Demon Clan and the Transformation Demon Clan who likely couldn't meddle with the affairs in the Deep Sea were all driven here.

This Beast Tide was more than ten times larger than any before!

Right when the Guardian Envoys and the Demon Beast Tide collided, Feng Luoyi raised her hand, pointing to a spot, "That there is the first trouble, a Qi Storage Stage Sea God Whale. Originally a deep-sea species, it's the largest known Demon Beast in terms of size."

The Qi Storage Stage was merely equivalent to the Foundation Establishment Stage of the Human Clan. However, Wang Qi had never underestimated his opponent due to their lower realm. For the Demon Clan, combat power before the Transformation Stage was determined by lineage, with vastly different combat abilities between Demon Beasts of different lineages at the same stage. A Qi Storage Stage rabbit and a Qi Storage Stage tiger were not on the same level, just as a Qi Storage Stage tiger and a Qi Storage Stage whale weren't.

Merely by the title "Largest Demon Beast," Wang Qi could imagine how immensely terrifying the accumulation of demonic power in the opponent was.

Suddenly, a gigantic "splash" appeared before Wang Qi, feeling a bit like a stone marbling plunging into a puddle. However, this illusion lasted only for an instant. The water's surface couldn't support such a sight and mixed with the dark "splash," it suddenly shattered into a gigantic wave charging forth. Wang Qi watched as a white line rapidly rushed to the shore at a speed that could heat up the seawater by friction. Langde City's thirty-meter-high walls barely held back the wave, and the already heated seawater shattered against the walls, with droplets over sixty degrees hitting Wang Qi.

The source of the "earthquake" was a whale.

Wang Qi understood now why the Sea God Whale surfaced there. It was simply too big, with its body from head to belly standing a hundred meters tall; moving any further forward would reveal its form due to the shallow water, losing the element of surprise.

Feng Luoyi explained, "It must be one of those that couldn't be moved. This breed has strong explosiveness but doesn't last long. The wild ones chase ocean currents and devour schools of fish. Since they're too difficult to transport, they rarely appear on this battlefield. Also, a Qi Storage Stage Demon Beast's Spirit Wisdom is too low to conceive a strategy like ambushing. There's definitely a Transformation Demon hiding behind this whale, maybe even in its mouth."

In the distance, the defense line, nearly collapsed under the Sea God Whale's strike, started to reorganize. The Sea God Whale was still just a Qi Storage Stage; its vast demonic power mostly spread thin across its massive body and not particularly strong. Most Cultivators were merely sent flying by its huge kinetic energy, with some seriously injured, but none dead.

Tu Zhenxi was one of those unlucky ones. He was currently "embedded" on the forehead of the Demon Whale, with several broken ribs, unable to move.

The body of the Sea God Whale wasn't smooth. Its enormous size meant that sensations were transmitted very slowly, and its long lifespan allowed it to accumulate many things on its skin—barnacles, seaweed, coral, parasites, even schools of fish. Even a slight leak of the Sea God Whale's vast vitality was enough for these symbiotic organisms to overfeed. And this process could last hundreds, even thousands of years. The organisms living on the Sea God Whale would gradually evolve into its spirit pets, Gu Worms, Magical Treasures!

Countless spells bombarded the Sea God Whale mercilessly. However, the hardened shells of the demonized barnacles and the calcified layers accumulated by demonized coral insects over hundreds of years nullified most of the spells. The demonic power of the Giant Whale flowed unobstructed through these layers of shells. Moreover, being presented as a Dragon Clan War Beast, the defensive layer on its body even incorporated precious minerals.

The Giant Whale sang its song. This was its Innate Divine Ability; the solemn whale song swept across the battlefield at the speed of sound, even causing the air to vibrate unevenly. The terrifying power nearly caused the Guardian Envoy's stance to collapse.

Under this strike, Tu Zhenxi completely lost the strength to stand. The demonized seaweed on the whale's body, which normally looked like kelp, actually possessed a toughness not inferior to steel. Before he was strangled, he was rescued by his companions. The parasitic Insect Demons ejected from the Giant Whale's body were extremely troublesome, and even the hasty attacks by Core Formation Cultivators, though they pierced the Giant Demon's body, could not cause substantial damage.

Moreover, the Beast Tide wasn't comprised of just the Sea God Whale; just now, although the whale unknowingly crushed a large swath of enemies with its indiscriminate charge, the following Demon Beasts also surged forward, leaving the Guardian Envoys unable to spare many hands!

The battle had just begun, and the Guardian Envoy's defenses already showed gaps! This was unprecedented!

With a gentle flick of its tail, the Giant Whale stirred up countless heavy waves again. It was heading towards the northwest.

"Indeed, a Transformation Stage Demon Beast, this fellow is exactly the nemesis of the Zhenhai Navy."

Although among the Great Cultivators, the Sea God Whale is merely a giant target, the average Cultivation of the Zhenhai Navy is about at the Early-Stage Foundation Establishment, making it difficult to breach the outer shell of the Sea God Whale. Furthermore, the innate talent of the Whale Song is extraordinarily effective against groups of targets with lower cultivation levels.

Wang Qi stretched out his hand and drew up a handful of water. "Then we cannot let it pass."

The Zhenhai Navy is not just a combat force, but also an important experimental project, a stepping stone for Shenzhou towards the future, and a crucial reference for Wang Qi's own cultivation method.

Wang Qi felt the Mana Flow surging within his body. Operating at will, without any need for consideration, without any hindrance... The hidden troubles left from his youth had completely vanished, and now, what resided within him was only purity.

Turn the "mixed" into a unified "purity"!

Heavenly Calculation Power coursed through the Heavenly Position Calculator, displaying different properties as the Yin Yang Yao changed.

A gentle touch of Mana connected to the long-sealed assembly of Dragon Clan Coins, igniting the Dragon Power, and a powerful Essence spontaneously generating and filling Wang Qi's body. The handful of water quickly took the shape of a bow. Then, both the Elephant Phase Wave Skill and Heavenly Song surged forth. Heavenly Song manipulated the intermolecular forces within the Ice Bow, altering its physical properties. At each end of the bow, the Material Wave connected into a bowstring.

Then, another stream of water gathered onto the bow, solidifying into an arrow.

The Heavenly Entropy Technique continuously extracted the Thermal Energy from within the Ice Arrow. First, it formed white dry ice, followed by pale yellow Nitrogen Ice Crystals. This arrow looked less like an arrow and more like a small mace.

The high and low temperatures created by the Heavenly Entropy Technique had no limits, depending only on the user's Mana.

When the temperature plunged, making the medium enter a superconducting state, the magnetic field would abruptly change. The Electromagnetic Force-based Spiritual Sense would also be affected. Low-level Cultivators would be unable to bear such sudden changes, causing their Spiritual Sense to become disordered and their Souls harmed. Wang Qi couldn't fire this shot in the form of a Spell, as the drawn Spiritual Sense would suffer "Frostbite." Material Wave enveloped this frigid arrow, creating a vacuum strip to prevent sublimation of the arrow. Then, Wang Qi drew the bow to full moon and released the arrow.

This arrow seemed to take away all of Wang Qi's strength. It travelled a distance of kilometers, avoiding all allies, and struck precisely on the surface of the Sea God Whale.

There wasn't much reaction. It was just a bit of extreme cold air; killing required precision on the vital points, especially for a massive creature like the Sea God Whale. Wang Qi only saw a small white spot appear on the immense whale.

All the Cultivators engaged with the Sea God Whale felt a bone-chilling cold wind. A layer of white frost covered the forehead of the giant whale, covering only a few square meters. The whale suddenly became somewhat restless, with frequent whale songs.

"Is this place a vital point?"

Tu Zhenxi, supported by others, had a spark of hope in his eyes. The Demon Clan had no systematic cultivation method; each Demon Clan member at the Qi Storage Stage followed a different cultivation path. Finding the vital points was extremely difficult. Especially for the Sea God Whale, which was covered with a large number of demonized creatures, and many of them were of the same stage as it; years of immersion in demonic breath made these symbiotic creatures' aura incredibly close to its own, making it nearly impossible to pinpoint where to start.

But for Wang Qi, such immense vitality, if unnoticed, would be strange indeed.

Entropy Flow Sensing, a Divine Skill obtained through both the Heavenly Calculation Atlas and Heavenly Entropy Technique, allowed Wang Qi to perceive "entropy" or "negative entropy" almost visually. Life is a form of negative entropy. Wang Qi could sense the flow of life force in the giant whale in this way.

"Just now, I merely peeled off your shell."

Wang Qi drew the bow again. Material Wave directly formed into an arrow shape. In just a few seconds, his Mana had been replenished. Dragon Clan Essence was continuously transformed by the Heavenly Calculation Atlas, then directly turned into Entropy—the Heavenly Entropy Technique had already been integrated into the Heavenly Calculation Atlas in the form of a "program."

A dark red arrow appeared. It was also wrapped in Material Waves, but the outer Material Wave collapsed upon contact with the dark red inner power. Wang Qi had to layer them intricately. This arrow, too, couldn't be launched in the form of a Spell, as the drawn Spiritual Sense would only be burned up by extreme Entropy Increase.

"Next, this one will be the main show!" (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets at qidian.com. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please visit m.qidian.com to read.)