Name: Invisibility Cloak.
Category: Ancient Forbidden Artifact.
Level: Foundation Establishment Level.
Effect: After use, allows the wearer to remain undetected by any being below the Demon Core level, unless actively touching a target or causing a major disturbance.
Cost: For however long the cloak is used beforehand, the user will be rendered intangible, unable to interact with anything in the world, for an equal duration afterward.
A new Ancient Forbidden Artifact was thus exchanged by Bai Sha.
It was a black cloak-shaped Ancient Forbidden Artifact. Bai Sha merely glanced at it twice before immediately commanding the Simulator to absorb the mysterious aura from the Invisibility Cloak.
Name: Bai Sha
Cultivation: Qi Condensation Middle Stage
Simulation Count: 6
Simulation Saves: 1
Cultivation Art: Raging Waves Art
Spells: Water Dragon Burst, Wave Riding, Stone-Splitting Strike.
Items: Gray-White Stone Slab.
…
Her Simulation Count had risen to six.
Seeing this number, Bai Sha’s heart surged with excitement. The higher her Simulation Count, the more secure she felt.
After exchanging for the Invisibility Cloak, Bai Sha was left with 7,000 Contribution Points. If she sold the Invisibility Cloak, she could buy another new Ancient Forbidden Artifact, pushing her Simulation Count to seven.
However, after a moment of hesitation, Bai Sha decided against this.
Aggressively piling up Simulation Count wasn’t the best option, because if all her Contributions were spent on this, it would inevitably affect her personal cultivation to some degree.
Six Simulation attempts were more than enough.
Arriving at this conclusion, Bai Sha first purchased a Storage Artifact—the same Blue Spirit Pearl from her previous life. She then stored the Invisibility Cloak inside the Blue Spirit Pearl, placed the Thunderstrike Talisman in it as well, and then fused the Blue Spirit Pearl into her body.
That left her with only 5,000 Contribution Points.
Bai Sha didn’t hesitate. She immediately left the Rest Shell and headed for where the Cultivation Shell was located. She intended to spend all her remaining Contribution Points on cultivation.
In the blink of an eye, a whole day passed.
For Bai Sha, 5,000 Contribution Points only allowed for a single day of cultivation inside the Cultivation Shell.
But that one day of cultivation was more effective than a full month under normal circumstances.
Inside the Cultivation Shell.
In the simulated seawater environment, water grasses swayed, and bubbles drifted along one by one.
Bai Sha’s gray-white body darted rapidly through the water, trailing a white streak of wake behind her. She sprinted, feeling the sensation of seawater rushing past her body, enhancing her absorption speed of the world’s Spiritual Qi.
Just as she was charging forward at full speed, at a certain moment, Bai Sha’s delicate body trembled.
She felt a powerful feedback from the Demonic Power within her. Instantly, it voraciously consumed the vast amounts of Spiritual Qi she had absorbed, rapidly converting it into Demonic Power. In a flash, the upper limit of her internal Demonic Power reached a new level.
Late Qi Condensation!
With the cultivation from her previous life, a month of accumulation in this life, and finally a sprint within the Cultivation Shell, Bai Sha’s cultivation had broken through.
Compared to before, the cultivation of the Late Qi Condensation stage made Bai Sha feel far more substantial. Every movement felt imbued with greater power.
After briefly experiencing the changes brought by her cultivation breakthrough, Bai Sha began to mentally review the supplementary Spells within the Raging Waves Art.
Once a cultivator of the Raging Waves Art reached the Late Qi Condensation stage, the first complementary Spell became available for learning. This Spell was called Water Vortex. It could create a vortex with a powerful suction force in the seawater. Its offensive power wasn’t particularly great, but its ability to drag and entangle targets was quite exceptional.
Bai Sha immediately began studying this Spell. But before she could study for long, the Cultivation Shell’s panel materialized in front of her, and the surrounding simulated seawater environment vanished.
“Your cultivation time is up.”
Seeing this, Bai Sha paused briefly.
She had no Contribution Points left and couldn’t continue cultivating. The Water Vortex would have to be practiced slowly in the future.
However, Bai Sha didn’t rush to leave the Cultivation Shell.
Ignoring the panel asking if she wanted to extend her time, she instead summoned the Dream Ruins Panel and entered the Chat Section under the communication interface. She began searching for content related to wanted posters and bounties.
Over the past month, quite a bit of related content had appeared.
As Bai Sha read through the posts one by one, a smile surfaced in her eyes.
“I took on a wanted criminal, but missed out on a massive fortune. I’m so furious!”
In this post, the Demon Cultivator who authored it said they had accepted a seemingly insignificant bounty commission—the kind of commission that appeared to offer little profit on the surface.
But the reality was vastly different from appearances.
Because the wanted Demon Cultivator had actually been secretly conducting business. They had planted many Spiritual Materials in their dwelling. According to the author’s rough estimate, if sold, the total value of those Spiritual Materials could even reach 10,000 Contribution Points.
Yet the author of the post hadn’t managed to obtain these materials.
Because when they tracked down the wanted criminal, the criminal knew escape was futile. To avoid benefiting their hunter, the criminal immediately destroyed all the Spiritual Materials they had grown, leaving the poster with nothing.
“If I had only been a bit more careful and not been discovered, solving this with a sneak attack, wouldn’t all those Spiritual Materials have been mine? So frustrating, but it’s too late to say anything now.”
The poster seemed extremely depressed.
After all, to miss out on Spiritual Materials worth over 10,000 Contribution Points—they had every reason to feel heartache.
The replies below were similarly filled with lamentations.
“Too bad time can’t flow backwards.”
A Demon Cultivator said this amidst their sighs.
Bai Sha, however, read this with great delight. To other Demon Cultivators, time couldn’t flow backwards, but for her, the situation was different.
Silently committing this matter to memory, Bai Sha continued looking at other casual discussions about bounty commissions. She only stopped when the Cultivation Shell, having reached its limit of patience, forcibly burst forth with a repelling force that ejected her out. Only then did she raise her head.
Looking around, she saw Demon Cultivators coming and going, the water swirling with bubbles.
She didn’t see any Bloodthirsty Swordfish. She even used the Raging Waves Art to sense her surroundings, but still felt nothing.
‘Could it be that only Jian Yun’s group consisted of Bloodthirsty Swordfish? Or did I just happen to miss them?’
The thought briefly flashed through Bai Sha’s mind.
But she didn’t dwell on it. For her, the most important thing now was to leave the Eastern Sea.
There weren’t many days left before the Heavenly Devil Palace sealed off the Eastern Sea, and she didn’t have enough time to waste.
After leaving Seven-Colored Shell, Bai Sha slid her pectoral fins through the seawater and swam in the direction of the mainland.
Seven-Colored Shell was slightly closer to the mainland side. Heading to the Sunlight Sea might already be too late; going towards the mainland was a safer bet.
“Splash…”
Amidst the surging currents, Bai Sha darted through the water.
With the Wave Riding technique active, she shot forward like an arrow loosed from a bowstring, her speed remarkably fast.
As she swam onwards, the seawater grew shallower and shallower. Bai Sha was forced to swim closer to the surface. Sunlight penetrated the water, casting its rays down and illuminating the seabed’s coral clusters, seaweed, and boulder piles in vivid clarity—a rich and colorful underwater scene.
