Chapter 1421: Sea Side

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Although the beast group sensed Han Li held no ill will, they still slowly retreated with their young, moving away. Soon after, the beasts turned and galloped off, disappearing behind a high ground.

Han Li, meanwhile, sat cross-legged by the stream for a while longer. Once the nearby mist had completely dispersed, he rose into the air and ascended straight into the sky.

At this moment, both his magic power and spiritual energy had fully recovered. When he tried to extend his divine sense again, he found that although it could slightly leave his body, it was significantly suppressed, only able to scan a range of about ten li.

Given this, he simply continued to fly higher, preparing to use his Bright Sight Spiritual Eye ability to survey the surroundings directly. Everything within at least a hundred li could be clearly seen.

From a thousand zhang high in the sky, his eyes, imbued with the Bright Sight Spiritual Eye, shone with a dazzling blue light as he rapidly scanned the surroundings.

He saw that the eastern and western horizons were still a vast expanse of white, seemingly a rocky wasteland. To the south, about thirty li away, there was a patch of green, appearing from a distance to be a sizable mountain range. To the north, a large amount of water spiritual energy surged, suggesting the presence of a great river or a sea.

After a moment of hesitation, Han Li's escape light flared around him, transforming him into a streak of green rainbow as he headed north. Given Han Li's current escape speed, this distance was naturally covered in mere moments.

His eyes brightened as an boundless ocean unexpectedly appeared before him. However, the seawater was somewhat peculiar, being distinctly crimson. On the shore, thousands of giant turtles of varying sizes were resting on the beach. The larger turtles were three to four zhang in size, while the smaller ones measured several chi. Each was partially buried in the sand, appearing lethargic.

Above the sea, a flock of crimson strange birds with sharp, long beaks circled restlessly in the air. Every now and then, a few would dive into the sea, snatching foot-long sea fish with their beaks and claws, then tossing them into the air. Immediately, other strange birds would swarm, instantly devouring the fish completely.

Han Li surveyed everything impassively. After a while, as if remembering something, he suddenly looked up into the high sky.

Seven blazing suns still hung in the high sky, and Han Li's expression changed. For some reason, he faintly felt that the sunlight seemed a bit dimmer and much fainter than before, appearing slightly blurred.

It seemed the place he had been teleported to was truly very far from human territory. Otherwise, even the suns in the sky wouldn't show such changes. Fortunately, Han Li had already anticipated this point due to the physical discomfort he experienced after teleporting. So, he wasn't overly surprised now. His gaze shifted, falling upon the turtle group below.

On this beach, besides the turtle group, there were also numerous empty turtle shells scattered across the nearby sands, numbering several thousands. It was unknown how many more lay buried beneath the western sea sand.

With his eyes slightly narrowed, Han Li flipped his hand, and a green turtle shell, about one zhang in size, appeared in his grasp. Holding the turtle shell in one hand, Han Li compared it to the turtle group below.

A moment later, a hint of surprise appeared on Han Li's face.

At first glance, the turtle shells below seemed very similar to the one in Han Li's hand; even shells much larger than his own were present. However, Han Li immediately spotted the difference. While the turtle shell in his hand wasn't particularly large, every shell pattern on it contained a faint trace of silver. In contrast, the shell patterns on the turtles below were merely ordinary white marks.

Han Li tilted his head in thought for a moment, then made a grabbing motion in the air towards a turtle shell below. A two-zhang-sized turtle shell flew straight up into the sky.

With a loud 'boom,' the turtle shell instantly shattered into powder and vanished under Han Li's casual strike. The loud noise caused a stir among the turtle group. Many giant turtles poked out their dark, gnarled heads and glanced into the sky. But they seemed to perceive no threat from Han Li, and most of them retracted their heads, with the turtle group returning to calm.

“Indeed, these aren't ordinary turtle shells! But this turtle shell must also originate from this place,” Han Li murmured to himself.

With a flash of green light, Han Li slowly descended to a lower altitude. At the same time, he closed his eyes, forcibly released his divine sense, covering the surrounding few li, and began to search carefully for something.

After a while, Han Li's eyes snapped open, shining brightly. His form transformed into a streak of green rainbow, shooting out and rapidly circling the beach several times before returning. However, three other huge turtle shells now floated behind him.

One was four to five zhang in size, another about one zhang, and the last one was only several chi in size. The shell patterns on these three turtle shells were indeed silver, though their shades of color differed slightly.

On the smallest shell, the patterns gleamed like pure silver. The one about a zhang in size was identical to the one Han Li held. As for the largest shell, it only contained a faint trace of silver.

All three shells were buried quite deep beneath the nearby beach sand. If not for Han Li's divine sense, which could penetrate directly downwards, he truly might not have been able to find them.

Han Li's escape light halted, and he stopped in mid-air. With a flick of his hand, he gestured towards the several turtle shells. With a whoosh, the three turtle shells aligned themselves in front of him.

With several 'bang' sounds, Han Li lightly flicked his finger. Several streaks of green sword qi shot through the air, creating holes of varying depths on the turtle shells. The sword qi completely pierced through the largest shell. The smallest one only had a half-inch deep hole, while the one-zhang shell had a hole three to four inches deep.

Han Li nodded. With a shake of his sleeve, a wisp of green mist swirled out. The three turtle shells immediately spun within the mist, shrinking countless times in an instant, and were levitated into Han Li's hand. With a flash of spiritual light in his hand, they were all stored into his storage bracelet.

Just then, the cries of birds suddenly intensified from the distant sea. Han Li paused, looking up, and was startled.

He saw a gigantic demon beast, ten zhang long, had appeared on the sea surface at some unknown time. Its upper body was distinctly human-shaped with dark skin and and a ferocious face, holding a bone fork in each hand. Its lower body, however, was identical to a colossal octopus, with extremely thick tentacles dimly visible on the sea surface.

The octopus-like demon beast opened its mouth, spewing forth streams of inky black mist, enveloping hundreds of the crimson strange birds. It then sucked them in one by one, as if enjoying a feast. The strange birds struggled frantically within the mist, yet couldn't break free in the slightest. In a blink of an eye, more than half of them were swallowed.

Strangely, the sea turtles observing this scene remained placidly on the beach, showing no signs of panic. And the colossal demon beast showed no intention of disturbing the turtle group either.

Han Li felt a little surprised, but the demon beast before him appeared to be only an eighth-level demon beast. Naturally, he felt no fear. He simply stood still, his brow slightly furrowed, observing everything and silently speculating on the creature's origins.

In truth, in the Spirit Realm, the terms 'demonic beasts' and 'ancient beasts' are merely general classifications. For the human race of the Spirit Realm, 'ancient beasts' generally refer to the native beastly creatures of the Spirit Realm. 'Demonic beasts', on the other hand, mostly refer to beastly races formed by the descendants of demon cultivators who ascended from lower realms, alongside many other lower-tier ancient beast races that were incorporated.

For ancient beasts, although most never gain sentience in their lifetime, they naturally possess one or more innate divine abilities without needing cultivation, and their power is extremely formidable. Demonic beasts, conversely, can generally gain sentience unless they are species with special inheritances or are insectoid beasts incapable of gaining sentience. However, the innate divine abilities they cultivate are generally far inferior to the power of ancient beasts.

Of course, there is no strict distinction between ancient beasts and demonic beasts. Some ancient beast races living near the human and demon races, once they gain sentience, may choose to lead their clans to join the demon race after weighing the pros and cons. Alternatively, some ancient beasts, once favored by demon or human cultivators, might be forcibly tamed and brought into their respective clans. Naturally, thereafter, they too become a branch of the demonic beasts.

Therefore, Han Li found nothing particularly strange about the demon beast before him. He simply hovered quietly in the air, with his hands clasped behind his back.

After a while, the sea demon swallowed all the sea birds. Its massive tentacles excitedly slapped the sea surface a few times before it turned its head and suddenly spotted Han Li hovering nearby in the air.

Han Li had been concealing his aura earlier, and due to its carelessness, the demon beast hadn't noticed anyone else in the high sky near the beach.

But then a situation that startled Han Li occurred! The moment the demon beast saw Han Li, a look of terror appeared on its face. After a low roar, its form flickered, transforming into black mist, and it immediately dove into the sea.

Immediately after, countless wisps of inky black mist emerged from the seabed, instantly dyeing all the seawater within several li a murky black, making it impossible to see anything at all.

Han Li's eyes twitched, and a blue light flashed in his pupils. His gaze instantly penetrated the black mist, clearly seeing the situation below. The gigantic octopus demon beast was desperately fleeing into the deep sea, several li away on the seabed.

With a cold snort, Han Li's wings on his back shimmered. Just as he was about to activate his Wind-Thunder Wings to enter the void and capture the demon beast, an inexplicable long roar suddenly echoed from the deep sea. The sound, like rolling thunder, was unusually deep.

Immediately, he sensed an exceptionally powerful demonic aura emerging from the deep sea, over ten li away. It seemed no weaker than that of a Spirit Transformation stage cultivator.

Upon hearing this roar, Han Li's expression turned blank. He stared unblinkingly at the source of the roar, a hint of hesitation on his face.

A moment later, the astonishing demonic aura released from the sea converged with the octopus demon beast, which then, without hesitation, headed into the deep sea.

After shaking his head, the wings that had just appeared on Han Li's back flickered and vanished again. Although he harbored no fear of a Spirit Transformation stage demon beast, being new to such an unfamiliar place, he didn't want to rashly engage in a struggle with a peer-level entity.

After gazing into the deep sea for a while longer, Han Li's escape light flared, and he suddenly turned, shooting towards the south. Moments later, the green rainbow that was Han Li appeared before a lush, vast, and endless mountain range. At the edge of the mountain range, his escape light diminished, and Han Li's figure became visible.