He sank about a thousand feet into the sea, and indeed, he could feel the weak aura of a Qilin.
Mo Tiange stopped, closed her eyes, and put her palms together, silently operating her cultivation technique.
Spiritual energy flowed out of his Dantian, followed by the Qilin's breath. When the Qilin's breath filled his entire body, the aura of his kind around him became clearer.
Mo Tiange opened her eyes and swam slowly along with the Qilin's breath.
The Qilin's aura here was very strange. It was thin and indistinct, almost impossible to find. Even if she had the Qilin's aura, she couldn't sense where it came from.
How could this be?
Now that the Qilin's breath in her pursuit had stopped, Mo Tiange stopped and once again stimulated the Qilin's breath inside her body.
But this time, it didn't last long before it disappeared.
After thinking for a while, he still couldn't come up with a solution, so he decided to give up for the time being and swam upstream.
"Crash!" Mo Tiange's head popped out of the water. With a flick of her sleeve, she shook off some water droplets, only to discover that Nie Wushang had already come up and was sitting cross-legged on the surface of the sea.
"You're up here too?" She raised her eyebrows.
"This is strange. I need to think about it."
Nie Wushang also didn't disturb her. The two of them just sat cross-legged, facing each other in silence.
After a while, there was another splash and Dao Lord Lingxi's head popped out of the water.
"The two of you came this morning?"
Daolord Lingxi flung the water droplets away and sat cross-legged a little further away. "I've found the Qilin's aura but it's just too odd. I can't touch it or grab it."
"You're right, Senior Brother Lingxi."
"I also have Qilin's breath in my body, but I can't sense it … Could it be that this Qilin's breath is only here and the Qilin Sacrificial Temple isn't here?"
"If it's not here, then where?"
Nie Wushang said, "The Azure Dragon from the east, the Vermillion Bird from the south, the White Tiger from the west, and the Black Tortoise from the north — all of them are in their respective positions, so Qilin should be in the center.
Moreover, if the Qilin Temple isn't here, then how do you explain the Qilin's aura here? "
"Yes … Why did it turn out like this?" Mo Tiange muttered to herself.
"Perhaps, it's because the entrance to the Qilin Sacrificial Temple has been concealed?" Dao Lord Lingxi suddenly said.
Mo Tiange and Nie Wushang looked up at the same time.
"What's wrong?" Seeing their expressions, Daolord Lingxi thought that she had said something wrong.
"No!" Mo Tiange smiled. "Senior Martial Brother Lingxi is absolutely right!
We can't find it because it's covered up!
This Qilin aura was leaked out earlier. "
"If that's the case, are we still going to keep looking?" Nie Wushang asked.
"Let's contact them first."
Mo Tiange took some time to think then said, "Let's see how they're doing and whether they're also in the same situation."
"Hmm …"
Just as he took out the voice transmitting talisman, Lil Fan popped its head out and shouted, "Master, there are sea beasts, a lot of sea beasts!"
"What?" The three of them were stunned.
Yifan quickly swam over, followed by Xiaohuo and Feifei. He said, "The flow of the sea isn't right, there are many sea beasts coming this way."
"A lot?" Mo Tiange was confused. She asked, "Where did they come from?
What are you doing here? "
"South, from the south!"
Yifan nudged her anxiously. "Let's go to the shore. There are thousands, no, tens of thousands of them …"
Ten thousand sea beasts?
Mo Tiange's face was a bit pale. If tens of thousands of sea beasts swarmed her, even if there weren't any eighth rank demonic beast cultivators, it would still be hard for her to deal with them. Besides, this was simply impossible since there were eighth rank demonic beasts in the vicinity.
"Let's go!"
Feifei shouted from behind, "Maybe they're sea beasts that came out to look for food, or maybe the demonic beasts on the Demonic Cultivator Continent were driven away by demonic beasts … We can't stay in the water!"
"Let's go!" Lord Daoist Lingxi immediately stood up. "Let's hide on the shore and find a chance to meet up!"
"En."
Mo Tiange didn't hesitate. She activated the Sound-Transmitting Talisman then quickly summoned several spirit beasts, put them into the Spiritual Beast Bracelet, and shot towards the nearest island.
The other two teams obviously found out earlier than her. When she sent out the Sound-Transmitting Talisman, they received Qin Xi's and Jing Xingzhi's voice messages one after another. Their messages were concise and comprehensive, expressing the same meaning: "There are many sea beasts in the south. Hide quickly!"
When they set foot on the island, their divine senses had already found traces of many sea beasts.
The three of them didn't say anything and found a cave. Mo Tiange quickly took out a formation and laid it, concealing her breath and hiding inside.
These sea beasts were getting closer and closer, and the buzzing sound lingered in their ears. Mo Tiange silently calculated with her divine sense.
Xiaofan was right. There were at least tens of thousands of them. The lowest ones were in the third or fourth rank, while the higher ones … were in the eighth rank, ninth rank, and tenth rank … Where did they come from?
Did they gather together to hunt for food?
That shouldn't be possible, right?
Or maybe they came from the Demon Cultivator Continent …
It was as if thousands of soldiers and horses were trampling over their heads. The ground was shaking and the waves were rolling. The three of them were not low-level cultivators with shallow experience, but this kind of movement still caused their faces to turn pale.
The sea beasts rushed past them like a tide and didn't seem to pay much attention to them. The three of them relaxed a little, but in the next moment, an eighth rank beast cultivator stopped above them, followed by two ninth rank beast cultivators …
They held their breaths, feeling like a huge rock was hanging on their chests. Suddenly, they sensed that one of the beast cultivators made a move. The three of them didn't even have time to say anything and quickly flashed out of the cave.
"Boom!" With a loud noise, the cave they were hiding in was smashed to pieces.
As soon as they came out of the cave, they saw a dense mass of flying sea beasts above them.
Mo Tiange's heart sank. She pressed the Spiritual Beast Bracelet and released all the spirit beasts. "We can't hide anymore. Let's get to work!"
"So many?"
Xiaohuo exclaimed in surprise, feeling very guilty. Ever since she was a child, she had very few opportunities to fight.
Mo Tiange waved the Heaven and Earth Fan, and a bolt of lightning smashed the sixth or seventh rank demonic beasts near her. She said in a deep voice, "There's nothing we can do even if there are so many of them. Since we can't hide, we can only fight our way out!"
She raised her head and looked at the more and more beast cultivators gathering not far away. Almost all of these beast cultivators were in their original forms, and their eyes were full of hostility.
Mo Tiange quietly released the puppets. She winked at the other two people and quickly rushed forward.
It was definitely not a good idea to let the beast cultivators have time to gather. The faster they rushed out of the encirclement, the better. As long as they met with the other two groups, their chances of survival would be greatly increased.
Seeing them rushing over, these beast cultivators were even more disgusted, but some were excited. They slightly changed their formation and assumed a fighting posture.
They were actually beast cultivators who knew how to fight in groups …
Nie Wushang's devil cloud was the first to be ready. She still had the habit of being a martial cultivator. She threw a heavy punch, and the devil cloud quickly attacked the beast cultivators.
At the same time, Lord Daoist Lingxi waved her hand. Countless green flashed in the air and spread into a big green net. This big net gathered and suddenly turned into a towering ancient tree with a desolate ancient aura and endless vitality.
In the face of them taking the initiative to attack, the Demonic Cultivators were on high alert, and they resisted the attacks of the Demonic Cultivators.
Mo Tiange saw a tenth rank beast cultivator among them. He hadn't made a move yet and just watched coldly from the side. The other beast cultivators were in their original forms, but he was in his human form.
His dark and thin appearance looked very familiar. When she saw the pair of wings on his back, Mo Tiange shivered and cried out involuntarily, "It's you!"
The dark and thin beast cultivator's eyes were fixed on her, and his eyes narrowed ruthlessly. "So it's you. I didn't expect to see you again after we parted that year."
He spoke in an unfamiliar human language with a strange accent. Surprisingly, he was the black beast cultivator who escaped from the Returning Ruins Sea with them!
When the Returning Ruins Sea collapsed, three beast cultivators — black, white, and blue — escaped together. Mo Tiange and Yang Chengji triggered the Nascent Soul Heavenly Tribulation, but they triggered the Transformation Heavenly Tribulation.
After the Heavenly Tribulation, wind and rain intertwined, and the world changed. Yang Chengji escaped from the sea, and Mo Tiange, Qin Xi, and Jing Xingzhi went to Yuan Province. The three beast cultivators were nowhere to be seen. It turned out they had become the leaders of the beast cultivators in the sea.
Nie Wushang and Lord Daoist Lingxi looked at them in surprise. Nie Wushang said, "Tiange, how do you know this beast cultivator …"
Mo Tiange waved her hand, indicating that they would talk later.
She raised her voice and said, "So it's Fellow Daoist Old Black. Fellow Daoist escaped after we parted in the Returning Ruins Sea. Congratulations!"
The dark and thin beast cultivator laughed and said, "I have to thank you. If it weren't for you, we would have been trapped in the Ice Palace for the rest of our lives. How could we have left?
How could we have the glory we have today? "
"I wouldn't dare. It was just a coincidence!" Mo Tiange paused for a moment then raised her voice and asked, "Fellow Daoist Old Black, may I ask why you're doing this?"
The dark and thin beast cultivator looked at her and said indifferently, "I'm afraid it's not convenient for you to know." His refusal was stiff and his eyes were ruthless, as if he wanted to attack her at any time.
Mo Tiange didn't want to fight him right away. With so many beast cultivators, wouldn't she die of exhaustion?
"You're right. It's useless for us to know about beast cultivators."
The dark and thin beast cultivator narrowed his eyes. "This is the territory of beast cultivators. Why did you come here?"
Mo Tiange paused for a moment then said, "Fellow Daoist, you're wrong!
The sea is the habitat of sea beasts like you, but there are also humans living on the island. How could it be the territory of beast cultivators? "
"Hmph!"
The dark and thin beast cultivator said in a bad tone, "Didn't you humans come to the sea to hunt beasts?
You have a glib tongue, but you still can't change this fact! "
"Hmph!" Mo Tiange also snorted coldly. "Since when were you beast cultivators friendly to humans?
Didn't you order low-level demonic beasts from time to time and use them, who haven't developed spiritual wisdom, to rob humans of their medicinal pills and magic weapons to pave the way for you to take human form?! "
"You …" Beast cultivators weren't good at bickering. Mo Tiange's words rendered the dark and thin beast cultivator speechless.
He wanted to say he took human form in the Immortal Palace in the Returning Ruins Sea, but if he said that, it would seem like he admitted what she said.
Just as Mo Tiange was about to say something to ease the situation and coexist with the beast cultivator, an earth-shattering strike suddenly came from the distance. The other four people had already fought with the beast cultivator. Old Black turned his head to look and instantly became furious. He shouted, "Kill them!"
"Yes!" The beast cultivators around him responded in unison. They rubbed their fists and were about to pounce on Old Black.
Mo Tiange groaned inwardly, but she had no choice but to shout, "Go!"