White-Robed Immortal Banished from Heaven

Waves surged in the Eastern Sea beneath a clear, azure sky.

Chu Xingchen gently pinched the jade token in his hand, a hint of regret in his expression.

The true purpose of the ship beneath Chu Xingchen's feet was not for resting. The one with the lowest cultivation present was Donggua, a Nascent Soul cultivator, but that was more than enough to stay and search the Eastern Sea.

If they got truly tired, they could just soak in the sea for a while; either way, they wouldn't die.

The main reason this ship had been brought out was that its primary function was to receive these urgent jade tokens.

The matters in the Southern Zhanbu Continent had essentially come to a close.

Li Junzi's new policies had been fully implemented across the Xuanwu Kingdom. There might have been some trivial troubles along the way, but Li Junzi had sorted them all out.

Riding this momentum, the new policies also began to spread beyond the borders of the Xuanwu Kingdom.

The situation was largely set in stone.

However, Li Junzi did not achieve the Sub-Sage realm through this endeavor.

As expected, by comparison, what Li Junzi wanted to accomplish was still too insignificant in the eyes of the Heavenly Dao.

Still, making progress was a good thing. If you felt certain actions were right, they didn't necessarily require a reward.

This ship had also been drifting on the Eastern Sea for over two months.

During this time, they saw giant whales breaching the waves and schools of fish darting about. Deep-sea monsters that had gained sentience also surfaced out of curiosity.

Those with shallow cultivation still looked like fish, but those with profound cultivation around the Nascent Soul realm had roughly taken on a human form, though they couldn't speak the human tongue.

When Chu Xingchen felt curious, he invited two humanoid monsters over to observe them.

After all, reading about them in books couldn't compare to seeing them with his own eyes.

However, perhaps it was because Xie Lingyu's Body Integration realm cultivation gave off an overwhelming sense of oppression.

The ferocious sea monsters described in the books were incredibly docile when fished up, not even daring to bare their teeth.

Their docility rivaled that of the dazed Donggua standing to the side.

It was just that most of these sea monsters seemed to have a natural fear of humanoid figures. Many would spot them from afar and turn to flee without a moment's hesitation.

Thinking deeply about it, there must have been a reign of terror and bloodshed in the Eastern Sea in the past.

Perhaps these sea monsters already viewed humans as their natural predators, making fear their first reaction.

But it made sense. Ordinary Qi Condensation or Foundation Establishment cultivators wouldn't run to the center of the Eastern Sea. Anyone who dared to come here would be at least a Soul Formation realm cultivator.

Furthermore, most sea monsters relied purely on stacking their long lifespans to increase their cultivation.

A Soul Formation expert could easily match the strength a sea monster would take eight hundred to a thousand years to accumulate.

Sailing the Eastern Sea was somewhat interesting at first.

But as time passed, it began to grow dull.

Xu Linglong was truly patient, showing no reaction to such provocation. Chu Xingchen just wondered how Bai Xuanling's sweeping operation was going.

Chu Xingchen pondered for a moment, then put away the jade token, his gaze subconsciously shifting to Donggua beside him.

Detecting the gaze, Donggua immediately spoke up like a reflex:

"Senior Chu, I really am trying very hard to search."

"Mhm, I know." Chu Xingchen didn't quite get why he was so tense, but he replied casually.

Donggua felt a bit panicked in his heart. For some reason, whenever he faced Chu Xingchen, he felt a subconscious sense of dread, as if looking at an irresistible natural predator.

Besides, Donggua no longer thought Chu Xingchen was truly easy to talk to or full of patience.

After all, Chen Baiqing's heart-to-heart talk was still ringing in Donggua's ears.

He spoke again to defend himself, "I really am not slacking off. The Eastern Sea is vast, and Xu Linglong is probably already terrified of your presence, fleeing far away at the sight of you. How would she dare to appear before you?"

Chu Xingchen lowered his eyes slightly, a smile curving his lips. "Donggua, sometimes I really wonder if you would be more talented at learning the Heaven Divination Art than Sect Leader Lu."

Xie Lingyu, who was sitting to the side, stood up the next moment, her hand subconsciously reaching for the spirit sword at her waist.

In the distant sea, a figure was approaching at extreme speed.

Donggua hurriedly turned around, and the panic in his heart instantly exploded.

Wearing a black dress, Xu Linglong stopped a hundred zhang in front of the ship.

Donggua subconsciously swallowed a mouthful of saliva, silently praying that Xu Linglong hadn't actually heard what he just said.

But the next moment, Xu Linglong's calm voice carried over:

"As expected of Donggua, you really guessed my thoughts perfectly."

Donggua felt his vision go dark; he couldn't say a word now.

Chu Xingchen remained seated, his gaze piercing through Xu Linglong as he chuckled softly:

"You're in the mood to send a clone to see me today? Your cowardice is almost unbelievable. Coming here this time, are you no longer afraid of death?"

Xu Linglong stared fixedly at Chu Xingchen. After confirming she couldn't discern his exact condition, she spoke slowly:

"What I didn't expect is that you truly aren't afraid of dying."

"With your heavily injured cultivation, do you really think you can hold out until the Tribulation Transcendence cultivators on the shore come to your rescue, just by relying on the Innate Primordial Dao-Fixing Dual Qi Pearl?"

Chu Xingchen's expression remained lazy. "If your true body came, then naturally I wouldn't think so. But against a mere remnant clone like you, of course I can. How about it, interested in testing if it's true or false?"

Xu Linglong slightly raised her right hand, and then her entire hand turned into origin blood, flowing into the Eastern Sea. At the same time, she chuckled softly:

"Naturally. You humans inhabit the Five Continents, while we remnant demons can only eke out a living in the sea."

"Take a guess—over a thousand years, how many things are hidden in this sea that you know nothing about?"

Chu Xingchen stood up leisurely. "Stop bragging. Do you think I don't know? Back then, just in case, the human race flipped the Four Seas and the Endless Sea upside down time and time again."

"Otherwise, why would these sea monsters react to seeing humans like they're seeing the wrath of heaven and earth?"

Xu Linglong didn't speak, just offering a faint smile.

Behind her, a monstrous wave surged forward.

Numerous sea monsters rode the waves, controlling the water as they arrived.

Amidst the churning waves, a massive, densely packed swarm of Golden Core and Nascent Soul realm sea monsters swept in.

At a rough glance, there were at least a thousand of them.

The drops of Xu Linglong's origin blood rapidly dyed this region of the sea crimson.

After the thousands of sea monsters mounted the crimson waves, their auras began to climb by a minor realm once more.

As the waves surged, the sea monsters completely surrounded the ship.

Black clouds pressed down, fierce winds suddenly whipped up, and torrential rain poured from the sky.

"Let me do it," Xie Lingyu's calm voice sounded.

Chu Xingchen didn't hesitate, nodding lightly. "Don't hold back."

Xie Lingyu nodded to show she understood, then tightened her grip on her spirit sword.

In an instant.

A streak of white light suddenly flared up brilliantly.

The terrifying pressure of a Body Integration realm cultivator radiated in all directions.

It pressed down on the surrounding sea, flattening it as smooth as solid ground.

The difference in realms was like heaven and earth; the sea monsters riding the waves in the distance involuntarily slowed down drastically.

After all, anyone rushing headlong to their death would hesitate for a moment.

Xie Lingyu did not hesitate. With a chilling spiritual light, her figure darted straight toward Xu Linglong's clone.

The cold gleam of ten thousand swords flowed out from behind Xie Lingyu, like a scene of the heavens collapsing.

She slashed out with a single strike.

It cleaved through ten thousand zhang of ocean waves, and severed the endless stretch of black clouds and rain.

The sea monsters rising with the waves were entirely reduced to fine dust wherever the sword light passed.

Xie Lingyu stood there with her sword held horizontally, looking just like an exiled immortal in white.