Maybe it was good luck. Toward evening, just as Chu Chengzhou was about to "clock off" and return to Seagod Island, he unexpectedly sensed a very powerful aura on the deep-sea floor far ahead.
Because of the distance, Chu Chengzhou still couldn't tell what species this oceanic ferocious beast was, but judging by its aura, its age was at least over five hundred thousand years.
At once, Chu Chengzhou grew interested and hurriedly told Xiao Guang to fly forward.
For the past half month, Chu Chengzhou had been "wandering" outside by day and had covered quite a few sea areas. He had found sea soul beasts of a hundred thousand years and above, but most were only at a hundred thousand. Few were over two hundred thousand.
The age wasn't high enough and didn't meet his expectations. On top of that, the species wasn't a great match for Ning Rongrong's Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul, so Chu Chengzhou had no intention of making a move.
To say that sea soul beasts in the boundless ocean have no backing wouldn't be accurate. Seagod Poseidon was exactly that.
Poseidon could be so generous because he had the capital. Besides standing at the pinnacle below the five supreme god kings in strength, the main reason was that the Seagod's believers were spread across the four seas.
If a soul master needed a spirit ring to advance, killing some sea soul beasts was no problem. But if one slaughtered sea soul beasts on a large scale purely to farm for soul bones or practice an evil art, then there would likely be objections.
It was precisely for this reason that, when the Nine Breaths Qi advanced to a rainbow-grade technique that could "eat people to cultivate," Chu Chengzhou did not go on a killing spree over the sea.
Xiao Guang was very fast. In no time, that unknown ferocious beast on the seabed appeared within Chu Chengzhou's spiritual sight.
"Hmm, looks like a super big sea cucumber?"
Looking at the seabed more than eight thousand meters below, at the soft cylindrical creature covered in blunt, tentacle-like protrusions, dark gold all over and six to seven meters long, Chu Chengzhou raised his brow in surprise, then silently swallowed.
His earlier assessment was off. This dark-gold sea cucumber was probably already at six hundred thousand years.
A sea cucumber. A great tonic.
Ordinary sea cucumbers are already great tonics, let alone this ferocious-beast-grade sea cucumber.
With it, maybe he wouldn't have to fear being emptied out by that little vixen Qian Renxue.
No doubt, compared with other ferocious beasts of the same age, this dark-gold sea cucumber was a weakling.
But weaklings have their way to survive. Chu Chengzhou could be sure that the reason this dark-gold sea cucumber had cultivated to such a realm might include some luck, but its greatest reliance was not luck, it was the environment.
A seabed more than eight thousand meters deep is not somewhere ordinary soul beasts can reach. The terrifying water pressure at that depth would leave most ferocious beasts hardly able to move, turning them into lambs for slaughter.
At that point, even if this dark-gold sea cucumber's combat strength was weak, it could rely on its own exceptional pressure resistance to defeat or even kill opponents.
Luckily, this problem did not stump Chu Chengzhou. Catching seafood didn't require him to dive in person. With his current spiritual power, the "maximum effective range" of the Void Illusion Realm had already surpassed eight thousand meters.
Then, in his spirit-manifestation state, with spiritual power that had long since broken mortal limits and firmly entered the Divine Origin Realm, Chu Chengzhou unleashed the Void Illusion Realm.
In an instant, that spiritual power crossed the more than eight thousand meters of seawater and descended into the sea of consciousness of the dark-gold sea cucumber that was sleeping.
The next moment, this dark-gold sea cucumber, six hundred thousand years old, had its consciousness altered by Chu Chengzhou and became a devout believer in the Great Lord God.
Boom.
Before long, waves surged and water pillars splashed on the sea's surface. The dark-gold sea cucumber that had been sleeping in the deep sea shot up at extreme speed, then transformed into an ugly middle-aged man and flew through the air to a spot not far in front of Chu Chengzhou.
Unlike the permanent human form of a hundred-thousand-year land soul beast, a hundred-thousand-year sea soul beast can temporarily transform into human form. Ferocious beasts of two hundred thousand years and above, whether on land or in the sea, can freely switch between beast form and human form.
"Get on."
Pointing at Xiao Guang's dragon back, Chu Chengzhou called to the dark-gold sea cucumber in human form.
Seagod Island.
Night was about to fall. A platinum-colored divine dragon flew in from the dim sky and landed by the ring-shaped shore at the foot of Seagod Mountain.
After letting the ugly man transformed from the dark-gold sea cucumber dismount, before Chu Chengzhou could recall the Time Dragon Spirit Xiao Guang, a long-skirted figure holding a jeweled scepter flew down from Seagod Mountain. It was Bo Saixi.
"Good evening, Great Priest."
Seeing Bo Saixi arrive, Chu Chengzhou greeted her.
After half a year apart, Chu Chengzhou noticed that Bo Saixi had actually condensed a soul core.
From the perspective of spiritual power, observing the large vortex of soul power on her body's surface, Chu Chengzhou knew that Bo Saixi had not only condensed a soul core, she had condensed a second soul core.
However, since there was only one large soul power vortex rather than large and small vortices all over her body, it was obvious that the dual soul cores Bo Saixi had condensed were not yin-yang complementary dual cores, but dual cores condensed through the same-position resonance method.
Bo Saixi's gaze did not fall on Chu Chengzhou but on the ugly middle-aged man standing at his side.
With Bo Saixi's strength, she could naturally see that this ugly middle-aged man was not a human soul master but a sea ferocious beast temporarily transformed into human form.
"The Seagod's domain forbids outsiders to intrude. The only reason you can enter is because your little girlfriend is the heir chosen by Lord Seagod."
After sizing up the ugly middle-aged man, a trace of displeasure flashed in Bo Saixi's eyes. She turned and spoke to Chu Chengzhou in a low voice.
Of course, that wasn't the only reason. Another was that this sea ferocious beast was not weak. If caught unawares, it wasn't impossible for it to cause great losses to Seagod Island.
"Oh, you mean this? Don't worry, it won't live past tonight."
Chu Chengzhou suddenly understood. He thought as much. For Bo Saixi, a super homebody, to leave the Seagod Hall, it had to be for this.
"Mm?"
Bo Saixi's delicate brows knit. She didn't quite follow.
"Aren't Rongrong and the others already at level 80? I've been busy these days helping them find their eighth spirit rings.
Today my luck was good. I ran into a big sea cucumber that even has innate skills of the healing type and of damage immunity. It seems a good fit for Rongrong's Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul, so I brought it back."
Chu Chengzhou gave a brief explanation.
Earlier, on the way back to Seagod Island, Chu Chengzhou had already asked clearly about the innate soul skills possessed by the dark-gold sea cucumber.
This is because the soul bone skill attached to a soul bone comes from the innate soul skills and other acquired skills possessed by the soul beast that drops that bone, and the soul skill formed when its spirit ring is attached to a soul master is also closely related to the beast's innate and acquired skills.
Healing and damage-immunity skills are indeed worth having for Ning Rongrong, who is an auxiliary-type soul master.