Sunlight and seawater blended together, making the ocean look like flowing amber, its luster swirling, crystal clear.
“Splash!”
Water sprayed from the surface as the massive form of a great white shark emerged.
Bai Sha raised her head to look into the distance. The continent was now clearly visible before her eyes, its long, boundless coastline like a colossal, heaven-reaching beast lying across her path.
The continent was called the Profound Verdant Continent.
As far as Bai Sha knew, the Cultivation World had only this one continent, and humans were its masters.
Perhaps the continent wasn’t a good choice for her?
Bai Sha pondered this, but still swam toward the Profound Verdant Continent.
It didn’t take long for her to reach the shore. What appeared before her was a seaside village, where the ordinary lives of some mortals could be faintly seen.
Cooking smoke curled upwards, and the scent of rice paddies filled the seaside air.
Once ashore, Bai Sha used her two pectoral fins to drag herself across the ground, pulling a watery trail as she quickly bypassed the village and ventured deeper into the continent.
‘Should I learn a flight spell first?’
Bai Sha thought helplessly as she moved.
She hadn’t felt it in the seawater, but after coming onto land, she realized that moving around the continent wasn’t so convenient in her current great white shark body.
If she could fly, these problems would be solved. At the Qi Condensation level, as long as one grasped the relevant spells, flight was indeed possible.
But it was too late to say that now.
Bai Sha bypassed populated areas, pressing onward. Not long after, she paused.
She looked up. A majestic city appeared not far away, somewhat familiar.
“This is Windward City.”
Bai Sha recognized it.
In her third life, she had fallen into the hands of a cultivator from the Wind-Thunder Observatory and was brought to the Profound Verdant Continent, even entering the observatory itself. She had seen Windward City then, because the Wind-Thunder Observatory was located nearby.
After recognizing Windward City, Bai Sha’s gaze shifted left and right, quickly locking onto the location of the observatory.
But upon seeing the Wind-Thunder Observatory, Bai Sha couldn’t help but show a look of surprise.
The observatory had originally occupied the entire mountain, with buildings everywhere from the base to the peak, clearly a rather prosperous sect.
But now, many of the structures on that mountain had been reduced to rubble. Even from a distance, she could see a thick layer of old blood covering them, and it seemed many corpses remained.
What happened here?
A chill ran down Bai Sha’s spine. The Wind-Thunder Observatory, once an overlord of the coast, had been annihilated?
She hurriedly headed towards Windward City. If the observatory had been destroyed, there should be some reaction from the city.
Soon, Windward City was right before her eyes. Bai Sha could sense the sounds of people within; the city seemed to be operating normally.
She came to the base of the city wall and looked up. No one was guarding the high ramparts.
This was normal. In the world of cultivators, guarding a city gate was superfluous. The walls mainly existed to defend against wild beasts.
Bai Sha immediately slapped the ground with her tail fin, propelling herself upwards. By controlling her strength, she just barely cleared the wall, landing on top of it. She then used her pectoral fins to pull herself to the other side, looking out at the scene within the city.
Buildings of an antique style were laid out before her in an orderly fashion, divided into countless districts by wide, clean streets.
Men and women, young and old, bustled through the streets, living their ordinary lives.
Did the fall of the Wind-Thunder Observatory have no effect on this city?
As Bai Sha looked around curiously, a sudden sound of rushing wind caught her attention, making her look over.
In the sky above Windward City, several black-clad individuals were flying towards her. As Bai Sha looked at them, they also looked at her.
“Over here. It’s actually a Demon Cultivator? Hurry.”
A leading black-clad man spoke coldly, a murderous aura naturally emanating from his body.
Discovered!
Bai Sha’s heart tightened. She didn’t know how she had been found, but she understood that she was likely no match for them, because the aura emanating from the lead man was clearly that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
She immediately flipped over and dropped down from the city wall.
‘Those black-clad men… their clothes are similar to the black-clad envoy I saw in my last life. They are cultivators from the Heavenly Devil Palace.’
Bai Sha made that judgment.
Then, everything else clicked into place.
The Heavenly Devil Palace wanted to seal the Eastern Sea to refine the Ten Thousand Demon Sea Map, planning to refine the Eastern Sea’s Demon Cultivators for it. But with such a massive operation, the surrounding areas couldn’t possibly remain unaware.
So, to ensure the news wouldn’t leak too quickly, taking control of the Eastern Sea’s periphery was necessary.
The coastal land near the Eastern Sea, and the areas of the Sunlight Sea bordering it, were probably already under the Heavenly Devil Palace’s control. This timeframe was definitely much earlier than the official sealing of the Eastern Sea.
The Wind-Thunder Observatory was undoubtedly destroyed by the Heavenly Devil Palace.
Contemplating all these circumstances, Bai Sha’s mood unavoidably grew heavy. It meant that even if she returned to the very start of her transmigration and immediately tried to flee to the mainland or the Sunlight Sea, she likely couldn’t escape the Heavenly Devil Palace’s control.
‘Let’s not dwell on this for now. I need to escape first.’
Bai Sha summoned the Blue Spirit Pearl and took the Invisibility Cloak out from within it, then put the pearl away.
Although the Invisibility Cloak was shaped like a cloak that Bai Sha couldn’t wear as a great white shark, this Ancient Forbidden Artifact only required the input of Demonic Power to function. She didn’t actually need to drape it on her body.
After Bai Sha input her Demonic Power, the Invisibility Cloak immediately turned transparent and merged into her body, causing her body to become transparent as well.
During this process, Bai Sha needed to continuously channel Demonic Power to ensure the cloak’s effect. The moment she stopped the flow of power, the Invisibility Cloak would reappear.
“Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!”
The figures of several Devil Cultivators streaked across the sky, their lightning-like gazes scanning the land below.
“Gone?”
“That Demon Cultivator was just on the city wall. It absolutely couldn’t have gone far. Everyone, spread out and search! If you find it, immediately use a signal to notify the others.”
“Yes!”
Accompanied by their exchange, the Devil Cultivators scattered.
Seeing this, Bai Sha turned and left.
The Invisibility Cloak’s stealth function was extremely powerful. Those below the Demon Core level absolutely couldn’t detect her.
Furthermore, this invisibility didn’t just make her unseen; it even prevented her from leaving traces.
When Bai Sha moved by pulling herself along the ground with her pectoral fins, she’d normally leave a dragging trail. But in this invisible state, not even such a trail would appear.
Shaking off the Devil Cultivators wouldn’t be a problem. But what should she do next?
The coastal region of this continent was clearly already occupied by the Devil Cultivators.
