Upon hearing King Qi's answer, Lu An couldn't help but be shocked.
The Dragons were the sovereigns of all beasts, the leaders of all the exotic beast races before the eighth era. Even after ten thousand years of internal strife, the Dragons were still not something that any single exotic beast race could contend against. Whether it was Wang Yangcheng's group of four or Zhu He's group of fourteen, they all had extremely high evaluations of the Dragons' strength, but King Qi said that he could defeat the eight patriarchs.
However … Lu An believed in King Qi.
King Qi's personality was straightforward, but he would never boast. Whatever he said, he would definitely do. He would never exaggerate or show off.
"Don't underestimate my strength. In a one-on-one fight, not a single exotic beast in the entire Southernmost Sea Region would dare oppose me." King Qi smiled confidently. "However, this is limited to one-on-one fights. If the patriarch of the Dragons has helpers, then it's hard to say. After all, our Heavenly Tiger Race is the least skilled at teamwork. Every Heavenly Tiger has its own strong personality and battle instincts. Forcing them to work together will actually lower our combat ability."
Lu An bitterly smiled. If the Heavenly Tiger Race worked as one as the Flaming Lion Race, then perhaps all the other races would tremble in fear and become the overlord of the entire Southernmost Sea Region.
"Alright." After a while, King Qi took a deep breath and said, "Let's go. Let's continue on our way."
Lu An nodded and stood up, setting off once more with King Qi.
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Two days later, in the morning.
The boundary between the Inner Circle and the Outer Circle was also the boundary between the territories of the upper eight clans and the lower sixteen clans. It was a boundless sea.
Wind and rain intersected, lightning flashed, and thunder rumbled!
Dark clouds covered the sky, and even in the morning, not a single ray of sunlight could be seen. The entire world seemed to be shrouded in darkness. The entire ocean was surging with waves. The towering Megalosaurus was over three thousand meters tall, and some of the waves were even over two thousand meters tall. Torrential rain poured down and fierce winds swept across. Even the depths of the ocean were severely affected. Even a rank seven exotic beast would find it difficult to withstand the surging waves and would need to exert all its strength to stabilize its body.
When King Qi brought Lu An to this part of the ocean and saw that the weather was so bad, his heart couldn't help but become very heavy.
It was a bad omen.
Prince Qi frowned as he turned to look at Lu An. She removed the protection around Lu An's body. Although the seawater could greatly affect the seventh-rank Wonder Beast, with Lu An's strength, he wouldn't be hindered much.
Lu An raised his hand and took out the water droplet object from his space ring. He found that the water flow was much more obvious than before. Compared with the edge of the South Second Sea, the difference was even more obvious. At first, it was just a tiny water flow that could barely be seen. But now, the water flow had reached half the length of the water droplet, and it became very obvious. However, it was also clear that the distance was far from enough.
Lu An would have to rely on himself for the rest of the journey.
Prince Qi had used a total of eleven days to reach this place. If Lu An were to travel by himself, it would take him at least half a year to reach this place. However, since he was already here, Lu An absolutely wouldn't shrink back. He didn't even have such thoughts in his mind, no matter how far it was or how dangerous it was.
After Lu An put away the water droplet object, he turned to look at King Qi and earnestly said, "Many thanks for seeing me off, King Qi. I will continue on my own."
"You really won't reconsider?" King Qi's frown deepened. "Not to mention the fact that you'll die without a doubt if you're discovered, even if you're not discovered, no one but the Dragons know about the environment of the Inner Circle. Even some hidden environments could take your life!"
King Qi was right. It wasn't just the South Second Sea. Many other sea regions had their own unique climate and environment. Some environments could even harm level nine Heavenly Masters and ninth-rank Wonder Beasts. Not all of these environments were out in the open. Some were hidden, like dormant volcanoes. Once a creature intruded, they would immediately be activated. It was impossible to guard against such environments.
Even King Qi had encountered such environments twice during his seven days of travel. However, King Qi was strong enough to directly rush out. Lu An didn't have the strength to do so.
However, Lu An still didn't hesitate and didn't say too much. He only said seriously, "I'll be careful."
"… …"
King Qi didn't know what to say, but Lu An didn't want to waste any time. He cupped his hands and said, "Farewell."
After saying this, Lu An's figure instantly rushed out, heading north at full speed!
Seeing Lu An's figure, King Qi's heart tightened. He had an impulse to chase after him. However, he resisted this impulse and stood in place, watching Lu An's figure and aura get farther and farther away. Finally, he left the range of his perception and completely disappeared.
King Qi didn't immediately leave. Instead, he stayed in place for a long time before taking a deep breath and starting to create a teleportation array.
If … Lu An could really find the secret of the water droplet, if he could really come out of the second southern sea region alive, King Qi believed that his strength would definitely advance by leaps and bounds.
This premonition suddenly appeared in King Qi's heart, but it was very clear … Even if Lu An couldn't become a level nine Heavenly Master, he would definitely obtain unimaginable strength!
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For the next ten days, Lu An continued to advance at a depth of forty thousand feet. It had to be said that ever since he entered the inner circle of the second southern sea region, the situation in the ocean hadn't been very good.
Lu An stayed in the four southern seas for the longest time. Generally speaking, even if the weather was very bad, it would at most affect a depth of twenty thousand feet. It was very difficult to affect a depth of forty thousand feet. However, in this part of the sea, forty thousand feet was always affected. The sea regions that weren't affected were the minority.
During these ten days, Lu An did his best to restrain his aura. With the help of the Concealment Immortal Ring, he was relatively safe. During this time, it wasn't that he didn't encounter Dragons. In fact, he encountered them a total of four times. Two of them were Megalosaurus flying through the sky. They should be hurrying on their way, and their strength should be around the eighth rank. The other two times he encountered Megalosaurus were seventh rank Megalosaurus, which didn't have the qualifications to discover his existence.
It could only be said that it was all thanks to Liu Yi constantly spreading false information, leading a large number of Dragons to other sea regions. Otherwise, Lu An definitely wouldn't have been so safe.
Of course, Lu An's ten days had only just begun. The distance he had advanced in ten days was far less than King Qi's half a day.
It wasn't that Lu An hadn't thought of a way to increase his speed. The most direct method he could think of was to borrow the power of the ocean's undercurrents to send him to the north faster. During the ten days of hurrying, Lu An also encountered two undercurrents. However, the power of the undercurrents was too weak, and their speed was even slower than his own. Only one of them pointed north, so Lu An could only advance at full speed. Undercurrents in the ocean were things that could only be encountered by chance. He couldn't concentrate on searching for them. His main focus was on hurrying along.
Lu An had been hurrying along at full speed for ten days. Every time he rested, Lu An didn't even have half a minute of rest. This kind of hurrying along made Lu An extremely tired, and he felt intense pain all over his body. The pain didn't affect Lu An, but the loss of energy was real. No matter how impatient Lu An was, he still needed to rest, and for a long time at that.
With no other choice, Lu An could only rest. However, he didn't dare to leave the ocean and rest on an island like King Qi. He didn't even dare to approach the island, and would always take a detour around it. If he entered the Creation Space, he wouldn't be able to absorb the energy of heaven and earth to recover his strength. Thus, Lu An could only rest in the ocean.
He completely concealed his aura and floated in the water forty thousand zhang above the ocean. The energy of the ocean within several thousand zhang of him continuously surged into his body. He didn't know why, but he could clearly sense that the rate at which he absorbed energy in the ocean was much faster than in other environments. Lu An had already discovered this when he was cultivating in the ocean. Although he was somewhat afraid of the ocean, the ocean seemed to be particularly close to him.
Of course, there was only one reason why he was afraid of the ocean, and that was because of the voice that had appeared before, the voice that had been calling out to him.
"I'm waiting for you in the depths of the ocean."
Lu An recalled this voice in his sea of consciousness, and he couldn't help but frown slightly. Only he could hear this voice. What in the world was going on? He had always believed in his senses, so he didn't believe that this was a hallucination or an illusion. However, even now, he didn't have the slightest clue.
However … at this moment, Lu An's body shook violently. His eyes instantly widened, as if he had been struck by lightning!
"You've come … I've been waiting for you …"
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