Chapter 1506: Dangerous Sea of Stars

Later, someone founded a sect at the Sea of Stars called the Sect of Stars.

The Sect of Stars observed the stars, knew the stars, and refined the stars. The sect master believed that the stars existed in the nine heavens, but he was greater than the heavens. So, with his immense power, he reversed qian and kun and dumped the all stars in the sky into the sea.

Since then, there were no longer any stars in the sky. They were all in the middle of the sea.

But be it the Sect of Stars or the Colossi whose immense powers could reverse heaven and earth like nothing, none of them could withstand the passing of time. In the end, they all vanished into the rivers of time. Only the Sea of Stars remained eternal.

Of course, the Sea of Stars of today was not the Sea of Stars of the old a long, long time ago.

According to the rumors, the Sect of Stars encountered some sort of tribulation and was wiped out in a single night. After their destruction, the Sea of Stars became incredibly chaotic, dangerous, mysterious, and anomalous.

The Sea of Stars might appear to be tranquil and fantastical right now, but it was really exceedingly dangerous. Not only was it beset by all sorts of natural disasters such as the Stellar Wind, the Starfall, the Stellar Explosion and more, it was infested with terrifying Strangers and Anomalies as well. Anyone below the Sage-stage was guaranteed to perish[1].

That was why the Sea of Stars was a taboo to seafarers. Everyone stayed far, far away from it.

But today, the Sea of Stars welcomed an uninvited guest. A boat with two people standing on the deck was sailing leisurely across its surface right now.

The boat was of course the Cloud Boat.

And the passengers were of course Ye Qing and Feng Qingyou.

Of course, they hadn’t entered the Sea of Stars on purpose. It was pure coincidence.

Earlier, Ye Qing and Feng Qingyou had accidentally encountered a group of Nether Bats who were hunting for food. The Nether Bat was an extremely unusual Stranger that was flesh and blood during daytime. It was afraid of sunlight, somewhat frail, and only a Phenomenon-class Stranger during daytime. But at night, it would become invisible and formless like a ghost, immune to weapons and unafraid of ordinary secret arts and Magia. Its power would also increase drastically to that of a Disaster-class Stranger.

Besides that, Nether Bats were social animals. The smallest group of Nether Bats numbered several hundred, and the biggest could go up to tens of thousands.

It was one thing to run into the Nether Bats during daytime, but at night? The only realistic way to deal with them was to run away or hide. If you couldn’t, then you must be resolved to hold out until daytime. And if you still couldn’t do that, then just stay where you were and die.

Unfortunately for them, they had run into the Nether Bats during nighttime.

Even more unfortunate, the group of Nether Bats numbered over ten thousand. Their numbers were so great that they literally blotted out the sky.

And most unfortunate of them all, he and Feng Qingyou hadn’t made a full recovery.

So, they could only escape, and the Nether Bats gave chase the entire way.

Before they knew it, they found themselves in the Sea of Stars. They tried to leave, but the exit had long since passed them by.

The Sea of Stars was a chaotic place where heaven and earth were reversed, and time and space were displaced. Anyone who entered this place would discover that the surrounding spaces and directions were all distorted. It was extremely difficult to navigate this place and find an exit.

In other words, they had escaped the frying pan only to fall right into the fire. It was perfectly seamless as well. It was easily one of the worst luck they had had in a while. “Tsk tsk. Do you think we used up all of our good luck when we stole the Rakshasa God Blood?” Ye Qing wore a bitter grin as he stared at the colorful, fantastical scene in front of him.

“Love the hand that fate deals you and play it as your own.”

Feng Qingyou wasn’t very worried though. She said smilingly, “Besides, this place is extremely rich in spiritual energies and origin energies. Don’t you think it’s perfect for our recovery?”

“Not only that, this place is shrouded from the rivers of fate. It is exactly the kind of place we need to make our breakthrough.”

“Sure, but the Sea of Stars is rumored to be highly dangerous. I’m not sure we—”

Ye Qing didn’t manage to finish his sentence. Not far away from him, a star was suddenly flashing and growing bigger by the second. It looked as if it was crashing toward them from the extremely distant bottom of the sea.

“It’s a Starfall!” Ye Qing’s pupils contracted slightly as he hurriedly steered the boat away. At the same time, he summoned the Earthly Sovereign Bell to guard them with its penta-colored light.

They had traveled a couple dozens of kilometers when suddenly, they heard a terrific explosion. The sea surface within a radius of tens of kilometers suddenly exploded, and the star shot out of the water. Roaring and wreathed in flames, it shot toward the sky faster and faster.

It felt as if a star had fallen from the infinite void and crashed down onto the earth, except in reverse.

When the star sank into the murky, chaotic sky, a tremendous explosion suddenly took place. It deafened the nine heavens and dispelled the darkness. The fiery, magnificent light would remain for a very, very long time.

This was one of the scariest natural disasters in the Sea of Stars. Starfall was exactly what it sounded like: the fall of a star. Outside, this happened very rarely, and the stars usually fell from the sky toward the earth. Here though, it was the opposite. Not only did it fall toward the sky from the bottom of the sea, it was a common occurrence.

A Starfall usually affected dozens, even hundreds of kilometers of sea. It was highly dangerous to say the least. If a seafarer failed to evade it in time, then they would take damage in the best case scenario, or die in the worst.

A long time later, Ye Qing rubbed his nose and asked wryly, “Still think that this is a good place to practice in seclusion?”

Starfall was dangerous, but it was only one of the many terrible natural disasters one could encounter here. For example, there was the Stellar Explosion. You could at least see a Starfall coming and have some time to get out of its way, but a Stellar Explosion happened completely without warning and gave one very little time to react. Its power was at least one the same level as a Starfall as well.

One could maybe dodge a Starfall, but they could only endure a Stellar Explosion head on.

𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

“Relax. I know a way.” Feng Qingyou gave him a mysterious smile.

Ye Qing’s curiosity was piqued. “What is it?” “You’ll find out very soon.” Feng Qingyou did not tell him immediately.

Ye Qing was fine with waiting. He smiled back. “I look forward to it.” About a teatime later, the raging seawater slowly returned to calm. At the same time, Feng Qingyou flicked a drop of blood into the Sea of Stars.

It was only a drop, but it dyed large patches of the sea red in the blink of an eye. It was also giving off a strange scent.

Ye Qing lifted his eyebrows in puzzlement, but he did not say anything. He waited.

An incense stick later, Feng Qingyou whispered, “It’s here.” Sensing something, Ye Qing looked up just in time to see a bunch of crabs swarming in from every direction. The crabs were extremely big. They were the size of millstones and had a silvery white shell. Its limbs were red in color though. They were fighting to consume the blood as fast as possible.

The blood was consumed in just the blink of an eye.

It was at this moment Feng Qingyou flicked another drop of blood.

Once again, the crabs rushed toward it like crazy.

Feng Qingyou would repeat this a dozen times or so. By now, tens of thousands of crabs had gathered in this sea region. Their numbers were innumerable.

However, Feng Qingyou had also become a little pale. The blood she fed the crabs were no ordinary blood. It was her heart’s blood. Each drop contained an enormous amount of vitality and spiritual energies. To lose even one drop was to lose an insane amount of energy. If she was at peak form, then this level of expenditure was nothing. However, Feng Qingyou was still recovering. At this rate, her past two days of recovery would have been for naught.

“Allow me!” Ye Qing stopped Feng Qingyou. He still didn’t know what she was planning, but he couldn’t bear to see her like this.

1. Just a reminder, but Half-Sage counts as Sage as well. ☜