Chen Xia's two greatest skills at present are going crazy and getting into fights.
And right now he had perfectly combined these two things.
He was going crazy while fighting.
"The tenth heaven of the Heaven Mending Realm, haha, let me kill him, it's been a long time since I've killed any cultivators!"
"Don't be impatient."
"..."
After muttering to himself, Chen Xia looked again at the short fat cultivator, grabbing its somewhat sharp head with his fingers, and asked with a smile:
"Which realm are you a cultivator of?"
"Huangli Realm, we are cultivators of Huangli Realm, spare us, please spare us." The short fat cultivator quickly realized the situation, and hurriedly shouted.
"Good, second question, have you heard of Xu Zhen of the Immortal Realm?" Chen Xia asked again.
The short fat old man was clearly startled, his eyes sized up Chen Xia's crimson left eye, and he nodded: "Of course I've heard of this, Xu Zhen of the Immortal Realm has a great reputation."
"Do you know where he is?" Chen Xia still asked calmly, the crimson glow in his left eye fading a bit, the inner demon seemed to know this was a critical moment and couldn't make trouble.
He's really so thoughtful, I could cry.
The short fat old man hesitated for a moment, thought for a bit, then slowly said:
"I heard he went into a newly opened ruin, in the Dead Sea Star River of the Great Death Realm, many cultivators went into this ruin, it's a hot destination."
"How do I get there?" Chen Xia asked again.
The short fat old man looked hesitantly at Chen Xia's shuttle-shaped flying sword, and said hesitantly:
"With your flying sword that's of course impossible, the resistance in the Dead Sea Star River is extremely great, and there are many wandering dead stars, even peak Heaven Mending Realm cultivators don't really dare to arrogantly travel through it, you must have a star river ferry."
"Don't worry, I'm bold."
Chen Xia calmly replied, directly picking up the short fat cultivator, dark purple thunder constantly crackling, his eyes staring at him as he asked again:
"You just need to tell me where that ruin is."
The short fat cultivator's expression was tense, he paused for a moment, then slowly said:
"I'm not too clear either, I only know the Dead Sea Star River is in the southeast corner of the Great Death Realm, but the southeast corner is very big, so..."
He didn't dare finish his words, nor dare to look into Chen Xia's eyes.
"Hmm." Chen Xia nodded, his gaze looking again at the dozen or so ferries in front of him, and asked:
"Are all these ferries yours from Huangli Realm?"
The short fat old man shook his head and said: "They belong to three realms together, Huangli Realm, Diyu Realm, and Dou Realm. Our Huangli Realm only has four ferries."
"Four ferries huh." Chen Xia murmured, then lightly laughed and asked:
"Would it be convenient to borrow one for me?"
The short fat cultivator was startled, and asked in confirmation: "You mean really borrow?"
"Of course." Chen Xia laughed.
Borrow of course meant borrow, but he didn't say when he would return it.
The short fat old man let out a dry laugh, clearly not believing Chen Xia, there was no such thing as returning in the Great Death Realm.
But he didn't dare refuse either, he could only say in a negotiating tone:
"We three realms were also thinking of going to the Dead Sea Star River to see the excitement, appreciate the battles between top heavenly prides, broaden our horizons. If you don't look down on it, you can come along with our ferry."
"I look down on it quite a bit." Chen Xia immediately replied.
The atmosphere became a bit awkward.
The short fat cultivator opened his mouth, not knowing how to respond.
The two stared at each other, neither speaking first, only the dark purple thunder constantly jumping above the short fat old man's head.
The short fat old man didn't know there was Saint-level thunder above his head, he just felt his head was a bit itchy, there was a huge pressure hovering over him, scaring his heart.
Ma Xiaohong hugged half of the sword tip, carefully watching on the side.
"The Great Death Realm is too vast, with many twists and turns, I'm afraid you won't recognize the way, so it's better if we travel together, it will save some time." The short fat cultivator suddenly said again, this was indeed a pretty good reason.
"Hmm." Chen Xia nodded, agreeing very briefly to it, then he looked up at the ferry that had a hole punched through it, and asked again:
"Do you still need compensation for that 100,000 spirit stones?"
The short fat old man immediately smiled, patting his own cheek, and righteously said:
"What are you saying, earlier it was me who wasn't looking clearly, it wasn't you ramming into our ferry, it was our ferry blocking your flying sword's path, it should be me compensating you 100,000 spirit stones."
His outlook had opened up.
Chen Xia nodded, the dark purple thunder on his hand dissipated, he patted the short fat old man's head twice, and laughed:
"A child can be taught."
The short fat cultivator smiled, he was truly happy.
100,000 spirit stones could be exchanged for an amazing cultivator like Chen Xia to travel together with Huangli Realm, not to mention profit, but it definitely wasn't a loss, and in the future they could build good relations.
In his perspective, Chen Xia must have deliberately suppressed his realm, hiding his true realm at the Sea Inversing Realm, his actual realm must at least be a Heaven Mending Realm eighth heaven genius, that's how he could so suppress himself.
Killing across two realms wasn't a big issue for some top geniuses.
The short fat old man still hadn't realized the severity of the problem.
In fact, Chen Xia really was at the Sea Inversing Realm.
The main reason he could subdue the short fat old man so quickly was the dark purple thunder was too insane, equivalent to peak Heaven Mending Realm combat power, subduing this tenth heaven Heaven Mending Realm short fat old man was easy.
Ma Xiaohong was still watching in a daze at the side, seeing Chen Xia go from being beaten to counter attacking, from compensating to receiving money, her pretty face was lost in thought, seeming to gain some enlightenment.
Chen Xia waved a hand, gathering his flying sword that was in the shape of a shuttle back into his sea of consciousness, then boarded the Huangli Realm's ferry together with Ma Xiaohong.
The leader of this ferry was the short fat old man, called Mystic Departing True Person, with the strength of a tenth heaven Heaven Mending Realm cultivator he was already considered a top expert in Huangli Realm, he came here to protect the sect's geniuses on their journey.
Mystic Departing was extremely polite to Chen Xia, respectfully saying:
"The conditions on the ferry are a bit lacking, please don't look down on it, after all our Huangli Realm has just gone through the end of the great world, we don't even have a Sage now. Coming to the Great Death Realm this time is to seek opportunity, so our geniuses can become Sages."
"How many people did you bring in total, with four ferries it seems like quite a large group?" Chen Xia curiously asked.
Mystic Departing replied: "It's not that many, only 215 people total, among them 15 are Heaven Mending Realm cultivators, 200 are Sea Inversing Realm, only 5 above the fifth heaven of Heaven Mending Realm.
"Including me, there are 4 protectors."
"And 1 genius."
Chen Xia was startled, commenting: "What, four protectors and one genius?"
The short fat old man scratched his cheek, dryly laughing: "Huangli Realm's strength is on the weak side, it can't be helped, but the realms that came to the Great Death Realm this time aren't all that strong either."
"For example, the two realms allied with us have about the same strength as us, they also want to obtain opportunities and add top combat power to their realms."
This was understandable, realms lacking top combat power could easily be annihilated by other realms.
The Great Death Realm in front of them was the best example.
In an extremely ancient age, Celestial Dragons still dominated the world, Divine Crows still controlled the starry river, the silver river flowed endlessly.
At that time, the Great Death Realm still had 3 great emperors, led by the Heavenly Emperor, under him were the Fire Rain Great Emperor and the Ash Emperor.
The same great world, 3 great emperors.
Yet they still couldn't stop the invasion of other realms.
In total it took 30,000 years.
The 3 great emperors perished in succession, the vitality of the world was drained, even the Heavenly Dao gave up on this realm, gradually receding.
All things withered away.
Mystic Departing suddenly spoke again:
"Some say the entire Great Death Realm is a tomb."
"And we cultivators who come here seeking opportunities are just grave robbers."
Upon hearing this, Chen Xia frowned, retorting:
"I'm not robbing graves, I'm borrowing."
He really did understand borrowing.
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