The night was boundless. The water of the Realm River was rippling and the night breeze was slightly cold.
Ning Fan controlled the Treasure Searching Compass while flying close to the surface of the water. He followed the patrolling route of Great Emperor Lai Jun that day and moved further away from the Azure Sky Pass.
Ning Fan had planted a trace of Lai Jun's qi into the Treasure Searching Compass. Using it as an index, the compass could vaguely sense the whereabouts of Great Emperor Lai Jun.
It was a very weak sense.
It could only sense that Lai Jun was currently somewhere in the Realm River but it could not sense his exact location for the time being.
After flying for an unknown period of time, the compass suddenly pointed at the bottom of the river.
Ning Fan remained silent for a moment. In the end, he decided to dive into the third path to find out what was going on. Of course, he would not dive in openly. He stood on the surface of the water and suddenly held his breath.
At this moment, Ning Fan's qi suddenly changed. He no longer felt like a living person but a tree!
He then transformed into the ghost face that he had not used for a long time and dived into the bottom of the water. The Immortal Sovereign Seal on the surface of the water actually did not sense anything.
The Immortal Sovereign Seal had determined that Ning Fan was an ordinary plant. Thus, it did not sense anything.
In that case, the low-grade foreign race members who were patrolling in the water did not notice that Ning Fan had gone into the water.
"The sense is starting to get stronger. It seems like Lai Jun is nearby …"
Ning Fan had no choice but to dive down to the bottom of the water.
Just as he dived, he discovered a problem.
He had been diving for more than two hours but he still could not reach the bottom of the river!
The river here is so deep! If it was any other place, he would only need to dive for one hour at most to reach the bottom of the water!
The deeper the water, the more intense the sense of the Treasure Searching Compass became.
The feeling of uneasiness in Ning Fan's heart also increased bit by bit. It was a premonition of danger.
There must be something dangerous down there … Since it could make Lai Jun disappear without anyone noticing, I must not let my guard down!
Ning Fan dived for another four hours but he still could not see the bottom of the water. At this depth, there were no longer any low-grade foreign race members who were patrolling the area.
There was no light at the bottom of the dark water. There were also no corals that could emit light in the surroundings.
Ning Fan's eyes were covered with green light. Even though there was no light in the surroundings, his Heavenly Being Eye could still see the scenery around him clearly.
Fish bones, a lot of huge fish bones …
Ning Fan discovered that there were countless gigantic fish bones floating in the water. There were also traces of gigantic creatures gnawing on the bones.
After diving for several more hours, the number of fish bones began to decrease until they could no longer be seen. A fishy smell began to enter his nose.
"In order to steal the Gloomy Heavy Wood, I've traveled almost the entire Eastern Boundary River, but I've never been to such a deep place. This place is like a bottomless pit in the Realm River. I have already dived for close to half a day, and I still can't feel the bottom of the water … "
Ning Fan raised his guard and continued to dive deeper.
One day passed, two days passed … Six days passed, and he finally reached the bottom of the water!
The water pressure at such a depth was already so heavy that even his divine spirit body found it hard to endure.
Ning Fan's eyes widened in astonishment as he stared at the gigantic creature that occupied the bottomless pit of the Realm River. If the Treasure-searching Compass didn't sense wrongly, Lai Jun Di was currently in the stomach of this giant creature.
It was a gigantic cuttlefish that emitted faint red light from its body. Currently, its eyes were open and it was snoring loudly like thunder.
The body of this cuttlefish was too huge. Just its eyeball alone was as huge as an emperor-grade cultivation planet! If it stretches its body, it could cover the entire starry sky of an emperor-grade starfield!
Its skin was too thick. It was so thick that even Mid Grade Innate Magic Treasures might not be able to break through its skin!
Its blood and qi were just too vast! Ning Fan only knew that Black Rope's blood and qi could already be considered as one of the top experts in the Era of Dharma Decline. However, the blood and qi of this cuttlefish was actually several thousand times stronger than Black Rope!
If the difficulty of killing a single Black Rope was comparable to killing several thousand immortal emperors, then the difficulty of killing this cuttlefish was comparable to killing several thousand Black Ropes!
Ning Fan could not sense the specific cultivation level of this cuttlefish but he could make a rough estimate.
This cuttlefish should not have attained the Third Step yet. The fluctuation of its qi was also relatively large. It seemed like this cuttlefish was in a weakened state due to some unknown reason.
When its qi was at its weakest, it only possessed the cultivation level of the Six Tribulations Eternal Era.
When its qi was at its strongest, it seemed to be even stronger than Yin Mo and the strange eyeball that Ning Fan had seen before!
When he sensed this, Ning Fan's expression could not help but change. He thought to himself, Could this cuttlefish actually be an ancient great cultivator at its peak?
The faint red light that the cuttlefish gave off made Ning Fan's heart turn cold. There's no mistaking it. This red light was clearly the extremely pure power of tribulation sense!
The identity of this cuttlefish was actually a Grand Firmament Tribulation Spirit!
An ancient great cultivator, a Grand Firmament Tribulation Spirit with a blood and qi that was several thousand times stronger than Black Rope's … Ning Fan was rather doubtful that there was any living creature in the Era of Dharma Decline that could be a match for this cuttlefish …
"Why is there such a terrifying existence sleeping at the bottom of the third path?! Is this cuttlefish also a member of the foreign race's army?! If that's the case … "
Ning Fan's expression turned extremely unpleasant. If everything was as he had guessed, the situation would be troublesome. Is there anyone in the entire Eastern Heaven who could be a match for this cuttlefish?!
Even if all the cultivators of the Eastern Heaven were to attack together, they probably would not be able to kill this cuttlefish …
No wonder he had a sudden impulse. No wonder he felt a sense of danger. Fortunately, this cuttlefish was currently sleeping and did not notice his approach. Otherwise, Ning Fan did not have the confidence to escape from this cuttlefish!
[This is, the Blood God is even darker]
[This is, the Blood God is even darker]
The ability to communicate with all living beings allowed Ning Fan to listen to the voice of the surrounding river water. The river water was telling Ning Fan the identity of this cuttlefish! [This is, the Blood God is even darker]
Blood God …
Ning Fan was not unfamiliar with this title. In the beginning, in order to steal the Yin Heavy Wood, he disguised himself as a fish and sneaked into the foreign races. Thus, he often heard this name.
According to what he knew, the foreign races in the Eastern Jie River worshiped a god and called him the Blood God.
The Blood God was the belief of the foreign races in the Eastern Jie River. This kind of belief was even higher than the worship they had for the Great Divine Priest.
In the past, Ning Fan only thought that the so-called Blood God was an existence of religious belief and it was not a real existence. However, at this moment, his thoughts changed.
This cuttlefish that was as large as the starry sky in front of him was probably the Lord Blood God that the foreign races in the Eastern Jie River worshiped!
The Blood God is even darker! Geng Wu must be the name of this cuttlefish!
Ning Fan's eyes were filled with struggle.
He had clearly detected that Emperor Jun was inside the cuttlefish's abdomen. However, he did not have the ability to break open the cuttlefish's abdomen and rescue Emperor Jun.
He did not know how to report this matter to Emperor Cang. He also did not know if there was really someone who could defeat this giant cuttlefish and rescue Emperor Jun in this Dharma Ending Era …
No. Perhaps there is someone who can match this cuttlefish … If it is an outstanding expert among the great ancient emperors, he would certainly be able to do it!
Ning Fan's eyes lit up. If Great Emperor Ancient Chaos is here, he would certainly have a way to deal with this cuttlefish and rescue Emperor Jun!
But where is Great Emperor Ancient Chaos? Ning Fan felt a headache again.
According to the information he obtained, Great Emperor Ancient Chaos had come to the Eastern Jie River after leaving the Divine Tomb. However, Ning Fan did not find Great Emperor Ancient Chaos even after searching the entire Eastern Jie River. Obviously, Great Emperor Ancient Chaos was no longer in the Eastern Jie River. He had already left and no one knew where he went …
It was impossible to ask Great Emperor Ancient Chaos for help in rescuing Emperor Jun …
Just as Ning Fan was pondering, a sudden change occurred!
Somehow, the giant cuttlefish woke up all of a sudden. Its giant eyes were filled with vigor and it locked onto Ning Fan's direction with ferocious flames!
"Xi lu lu lu lu lu?" Is there food coming to my door?
It's actually talking to itself!
Ning Fan's expression changed. Just as he was about to execute a method to escape from this place, the giant cuttlefish revealed an extremely adorable expression at the next moment. It withdrew all of its killing intent and let out a strange, lazy laugh.
"Lu lu xi xi … Lu lu xi, lu xixi lu lu lu, lu lu hu hu hu …" Hehe. It's not food. It's a companion of the Tribulation Spirit … Looks like I haven't woken up yet and I'm still dreaming about my hometown. Forget it. I'll go back to sleep …
The ferocious flames in the giant cuttlefish's eyes dimmed. It turned its body and fell asleep again. Due to its massive size, just a simple flip of its body was enough to trigger the most terrifying tsunami in this uninhabited deep water area. The strong water current nearly sent Ning Fan flying …
The cuttlefish had indeed seen Ning Fan.
However, it ignored him.
It was because it recognized the scent of Ning Fan's Tai Cang Tribulation Spirit.
With its limited spiritual intelligence, it thought that it was definitely daydreaming when it saw other Tribulation Spirits of the Grand Firmament Realm. Therefore, it did not pay much attention to this matter and treated Ning Fan's arrival as a dream …
"…"
Ning Fan used all of his strength to barely withstand the impact of the ocean current and stabilized his body. He remained silent and stared at the giant cuttlefish, falling into deep thought.
If it were someone else, they certainly would not know what the cuttlefish was talking about. However, he could understand it.
As expected, this cuttlefish was a Tribulation Spirit of the Grand Firmament Realm. Moreover, it did not seem to be very smart. It was prone to getting muddle-headed and could not even differentiate between reality and dreams when it is sleeping.
Looking at the giant cuttlefish's mouth that was talking in its sleep, Ning Fan suddenly had a bold idea.
He certainly could not defeat this cuttlefish in a fight.
However, what if he sneaks into the cuttlefish's stomach …?
As an ancient Grand Cultivation Realm being, this cuttlefish's senses were naturally extremely sharp. It could even sense Ning Fan's presence when he got close to it. It would open its sleepy eyes and see through Ning Fan's invisibility. If Ning Fan invades its body, there was no guarantee that it would not wake up completely. In a fit of rage, it would directly digest Ning Fan …
Sneaking into the cuttlefish's stomach to save Ning Fan seemed to be very dangerous. However, it seemed like he could only do it secretly. Ning Fan certainly could not defeat this cuttlefish in a head-on fight.
Ning Fan did not have much of a relationship with Emperor Lai Jun. However, since they were both cultivators of the Eastern Heaven, it would be somewhat unreasonable for him to not save Emperor Lai Jun.
The life and death of a stranger could not move his heart.
However, it was different for his comrades who were bathed in blood and fought alongside him.
The oath of the Realm River Meeting was still ringing in his ears. As long as Emperor Lai Jun wholeheartedly protects the Eastern Heaven, he would be Ning Fan's brother. It was impossible for Ning Fan to not save him.
After a long time, Ning Fan's eyes turned solemn. He finally made a decision. He no longer concealed himself. After all, the cuttlefish could still see him even if he concealed himself. Why bother?
He suppressed his cultivation base and used the qi of the Grand Firmament Realm Tribulation Spirit as the main source. His entire body was covered in red light.
Dressed in white robes and emitting a faint red light, Ning Fan approached the cuttlefish bit by bit.
Perhaps it was because Ning Fan's Tribulation Spirit Qi gave the cuttlefish a sense of intimacy. Even though it could vaguely sense that Ning Fan was getting closer to it, it did not open its eyes again. It also did not put up any guard to stop Ning Fan from getting closer.
Upon seeing this, Ning Fan secretly heaved a sigh of relief. He now had more confidence in sneaking into the cuttlefish's body.
The danger of this move was even a few times greater than him challenging all the Immortal Emperors and Quasi-Saints in the Eastern Realm River alone. As long as he takes a wrong step, what awaits him would be being killed by this cuttlefish. However, that was his nature. As long as he made up his mind on something, he would not hesitate to do it no matter how dangerous it is!
He's getting closer! He's getting closer!
It would not be difficult for the cuttlefish to swallow tens of cultivation planets in a single gulp. Relying on his identity as the Grand Firmament Tribulation Spirit, Ning Fan swam all the way to the cuttlefish's mouth without causing any resistance. Seeing this, Ning Fan's confidence grew by a lot. He took a deep breath and felt as if he had entered the cuttlefish's black hole.
This cuttlefish's body was too huge!
Ning Fan had clearly just entered its body but it felt like he had entered a vast and desolate starry sky.
No, it was not accurate to say that it was desolate. Ning Fan discovered all kinds of strange things inside the cuttlefish's body.
First of all, Ning Fan discovered that there were countless leech-like parasites growing inside the cuttlefish's body.
They were not ordinary leeches. Instead, they were existences as large as mountains. Those leeches sustained their lives by sucking the cuttlefish's vast blood qi. There were more than millions of them. Any one of them had a cultivation base comparable to a True Immortal Realm cultivator. Some of the stronger ones could even fight against an Immortal Emperor Realm cultivator …
This made Ning Fan fearful. However, he had already encountered more than forty Immortal Emperor Realm leeches along the way. If all of them attack him at the same time, he could only protect himself with all his might.
Fortunately, the leeches here did not attack Ning Fan.
They did not sleep together with their host. Instead, each of them stared at Ning Fan with eyes that were as large as copper bells.
They did not know whether Ning Fan was another food for their host.
They only knew that the qi of the Grand Firmament Tribulation Spirit on Ning Fan's body was very similar to their host's. The cuttlefish's strength made them unable to resist. Even when facing Ning Fan who was a Grand Firmament Tribulation Spirit, they did not dare to act presumptuously or attack him …
In other words, Ning Fan was the only one who could make them fear him. If it's some other food … hehe …
Ning Fan remained unscathed along the way and entered deeper into the cuttlefish's abdomen.
Over there, Ning Fan saw all kinds of strange things being swallowed by the cuttlefish.
There were giant sunken ships, the remains of ancient cultivators, an abandoned city whose architectural style was obviously not the style of the Four Heavens and a cultivation planet that had been abandoned for an unknown number of years …
This cuttlefish really eats everything! Ning Fan was deeply speechless.
The deeper he went into the abdomen, the stronger the stench of decay in the surroundings.
He did not know how long he had been moving forward. Suddenly, a ray of blood light soared into the sky. According to the Treasure Searching Compass, Lai Jun was in that direction.
Ning Fan raised his guard and entered the range of the blood-red light. At the moment he entered the area, countless blood-red tentacles suddenly attacked him from all directions. Each of the tentacles carried the full power of a Nine Tribulation Immortal Emperor's attack!
However, after sensing the qi of a tribulation spirit on Ning Fan's body, those tentacles suddenly calmed down. They no longer attacked Ning Fan and allowed him to move forward.
Ning Fan heaved a sigh of relief. If these tentacles do not stop attacking him, he would have no choice but to counterattack with all his strength in order to not be tied up by them.
The identity of the Grand Firmament Tribulation Spirit was unexpectedly useful in this place.
In other words, he could enter the cuttlefish's abdomen unscathed. Other food would not have such good luck …
Ning Fan's eyes scanned the surroundings.
In the depths of this blood light, there were no less than ten billion tentacles. Most of the tentacles were entangled with something!
Spiritual herbs, magic treasures, cultivators, experts of the foreign races … These tentacles were the digestive organs of this cuttlefish. They could digest all the food that the cuttlefish swallows!
Speaking of which, isn't this cuttlefish the Lord Blood God that the foreign races worship? Why does it even eat the foreign races …
Speaking of which, there seems to be a lot of good stuff in the cuttlefish's abdomen. There are rare spiritual herbs, Emperor Grade Pills and even Innate Magic Treasures … I wonder where it swallowed all of them from.
Ning Fan did not go to steal the treasures in the cuttlefish's abdomen. He did not want to cause unnecessary trouble. After all, it was already a huge risk to save Lai Jun alone.
With the help of the Treasure Searching Compass, Ning Fan quickly found Lai Jun's location.
Lai Jun's entire body was entangled by the tentacles. He could not move at all and was unconscious. When he was unconscious, he was still talking in his sleep with fear in his eyes.
"Don't … Don't eat me … Don't …"
"Save me … Save me … I don't want to be eaten. I don't want to be eaten …"
The fear contained in those words was not an act. Lai Jun seemed to have been traumatized by being eaten by the cuttlefish …
Ning Fan tried to pull Lai Jun's body out of the entanglement of the tentacles.
It was obvious that the tentacles were unwilling to let go of Lai Jun who was a delicious food. Ning Fan did have a way to cut off the tentacles and save Lai Jun. However, doing so would inevitably cause him pain and there was a possibility that the cuttlefish would wake up.
After trying a hundred times, Ning Fan still could not pull Lai Jun's physical body out of the tentacles.
Without any other choice, Ning Fan could only give up on Lai Jun's physical body. He made a bloody hole on his dantian and directly pulled out his primordial spirit.
The small face of Lai Jun's primordial spirit looked weak. Ning Fan's destructive actions and the tentacles that had been feeding on him for many days had definitely brought him quite a lot of damage. Even his Dao cultivation foundation had been damaged.
Amidst the pain, the small face of Lai Jun's primordial spirit slowly opened its sleepy eyes. As soon as it saw Ning Fan, it revealed a silly smile and its eyes were blank.
"Who are you?! Are you here to save me?! Hehehe … I'm saved. Hehehe … I'm saved … "
There was not a single word of gratitude.
There was not the slightest bit of calmness.
He did not have the demeanor of an immortal emperor.
Because he was overly afraid of the cuttlefish, Lai Jun was actually scared silly!
What kind of terrifying experience must he have gone through to be able to stun an immortal emperor …
Ning Fan did not know whether he should despise Lai Jun or pity him.
He still remembered the day when Lai Jun came to the meeting at the Border River. He was in high spirits as if he was eager to start an all-out war against the foreign races.
Today, however, he was scared out of his wits by the foreign races and became a fool …
Ning Fan sighed and ignored Lai Jun's silly words. He activated his illusion technique to make him fall asleep again. Then, he kept his primordial spirit and quietly left the cuttlefish's stomach.
After another six to seven days, Ning Fan swam back to the surface of the water. Only when he saw the layers of Immortal Sovereign's seals on the surface of the water did he feel somewhat relieved.
As long as Immortal Sovereign Zi Dou's seals were still on the surface of the Border River, that terrifying cuttlefish would not be able to chase him out of the water and cause no harm to the living beings in the water.
The Immortal Sovereign's seals would never allow such a supreme existence to come to the surface of the water!
Looking at the layers of seals, Ning Fan fell into silence. On the day when Lai Jun went missing while patrolling, he must have dived into the water for some reason and got caught by that cuttlefish.
Thinking about how many living beings in the natural world had ways to attract their prey, Ning Fan inwardly guessed that the cunning cuttlefish might have used some methods to attract Lai Jun into the water in order to find food … Forget it.
Ning Fan was actually not really concerned about how the cuttlefish attracted its prey.
What he was more worried about now was how to deal with Lai Jun who was scared silly.
If the cultivators of the alliance find out that there was a terrifying cuttlefish that could scare Lai Jun silly at the bottom of the third path, their morale would probably be greatly affected …
Should I make Lai Jun's matter public?
Forget it. Why should I worry about this? It's better to let Emperor Cang and the other higher-ups of the alliance worry about this matter! I just need to focus on killing the enemies!
"To think that such a terrifying creature is actually hiding at the bottom of the Border River. No matter what, I must not let the Immortal Sovereign's seals be destroyed … No matter what, I must repair the Immortal Sovereign's seals!"
Once this giant cuttlefish escapes from the Border River, what awaits the cultivators of the Eastern Heaven would be a catastrophe!
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