Chapter 79: Intimidation_2
Soon, several people passed through this layer of Formation, advancing toward the enormous entrance, dark and deep like a mirror...
Just after Wang Ba and the others flew into the Sea Market.
A series of gazes flickered, figures whose faces and auras were hidden, stealthily converging from the market below towards the entrance of the Sea Market.
Gazes intersected, each seeing the wariness and hostility in the others' eyes.
But after a brief intersection, they all tacitly and silently passed through the Formation, diving in like fish into what seemed like a deep underwater pool...
Meanwhile, a few figures hurriedly approached, led by Zu Wenqiu, whose appearance and aura had become indistinguishable from those Outer World Cultivators, sweeping his gaze over those figures who had broken into the Sea Market.
His gaze slightly focused.
"It seems it's not just us keeping an eye on this Taiyi Mountain Master..."
With one glance, he guessed the identities of these people; they were all teams of treasure hunters nurtured by different forces.
Appearing here at this critical moment, it was evident that the Primitive Demon Mountain's supply of spirit food in recent days had indeed caught the attention of these forces.
It's no wonder that even they from the Jade Pot Realm were stirring restlessly; those poorer forces would naturally be more impulsive.
Everyone was curious about where the Primitive Demon Mountain had managed to obtain so much spirit food.
The gaze slightly darkened.
He turned his head to exchange a glance with the few behind him, then quickly crossed the Formation, rushing in as well.
As Zu Wenqiu and his group broke into the Sea Market, among the nine stationed there, a prosperous-looking old woman slightly raised her eyelids, glanced at the entrance, and then quickly closed them again...
...
Swish—
Wang Ba just felt a flicker before his eyes, and immediately felt as if he had drilled from above water into it.
It wasn't truly entering the water, but the feeling inside and outside the Sea Market was completely different, somewhat similar to the first time entering the Guantao Realm, where the transformation of Rules could be distinctly felt.
But he hadn't had time to take a closer look before suddenly hearing a dull, gruff, and hurried voice:
"Get out of the way!"
Boom!
Even before this voice, a somewhat broken Dao Domain came crashing toward him like an overwhelming force!
"Class III Dao Domain?"
Wang Ba immediately responded, his gaze slightly narrowed, though startled, he remained calm, quickly looking upward.
He saw a figure cloaked entirely in a black robe crashing towards him with a trace of panic, two more similarly cloaked figures with a hint of murderous intent rapidly pursuing him.
"Hmph!"
Yu Wuheng also realized what was happening, snorting coldly as she prepared to act.
But Wang Ba quickly and softly said:
"Don't cause trouble for now."
Yu Wuheng's gaze became slightly cold, and with a thought, the figure about to collide with them unconsciously veered to the side, then involuntarily accelerated and crashed into the mirror surface, disappearing.
The two pursuing figures abruptly halted, casting a wary glance at them, a flash of dread in their eyes.
Then one of them shouted:
"Go!"
Before the words were even finished, the two didn't give Wang Ba and the others any time to react, quickly fleeing, vanishing from sight in an instant.
"Those two should be treasure hunters."
The corpse-digging Ghost King realized after the fact, quickly speaking up.
Wang Ba nodded, finally having the chance to look at the scene within the Sea Market.
The first thing that caught his eye was a landscape full of wrinkles and twisted grassland... It might sound strange, but that was indeed what Wang Ba saw.
A solid, wide land, grass swaying with the wind and an endless grassland, even with their eyesight, they couldn't see the end.
And on this vast grassland, it was all wrinkles and twists, as if the grassland itself had wrinkled and twisted along with it.
From behind, Yu Yu couldn't help but ask in confusion:
"This is clearly grassland, so why is it called the Sea Market?"
Upon hearing Yu Yu's question, Chen Xuan gently shook his head, explaining:
"In the Sea Market, the scenes you see are mostly ambiguously real and fake, changing with every step, so you must be very careful. Here it's fine, as the influence of the Rules isn't too large. But if you go deeper, you'll witness the strangeness of this Sea Market."
"As for why it's called the Sea Market..."
He gazed far ahead, raising his hand to point into the distance, then drew a large circle:
"This place is like a great ocean, with tides rising and falling. When the water rises, it buries everything in the deep sea. Cultivators who come here can only sigh in dismay, helpless. Only when the tide recedes can they see the 'islands' beneath the waters, the life, which is also the time of harvest... By the way, I've heard that sometimes one can see mirages, so I guess the name Sea Market might have something to do with it as well."
"Mirage?"
Yu Wuheng raised her eyebrows slightly. She had left her retreat long before Wang Ba, having wandered through the market for some time, but hadn't heard of these things.
"Yes, mirages, but they are said to appear very rarely, so seldom anyone in the market talks about them... Many speculate that within the mirages lie the secrets of the Sea Market or some kind of supreme treasure. Thus every appearance prompts everyone to scour for their location."
Chen Xuan shared some rumors.
Wang Ba slightly frowned.
Mentioning such rumors at this time made him, who was partaking in such an adventure for the first time, have a faint uneasiness.
"It surely couldn't be such a coincidence, right?"
Yet there was no time to think further; he had a vague feeling that multiple pairs of eyes were watching them with scrutiny and greed, making him very uncomfortable.