Translator: Noodletown Translated Editor: Noodletown Translated
“Auntie, this is…” Hao Ren was surprised.
“As the Commanding General of our East Ocean Dragon Clan, you should know the boundaries of our territory, right?” Zhao Hongyu smiled slightly while the River-Mountain Qian-Kun Painting swept up a long wave.
On the surface of the ocean appeared sporadic islands.
Some islands emitted red auras, naturally protected by array formations and undetectable by mortals. With the great speed of the River-Mountain Qian-Kun Painting, they soon arrived deep into the ocean which couldn’t be reached by mortals.
“Greetings to Dragon Queen!”
The shouts rose around them when a group of soldiers emerged from the sea.
Nodding slightly at them, Zhao Hongyu steered the River-Mountain Qian-Kun Painting and flew over them.
“Controlled by the East Ocean Dragon Clan, these islands act as scout stations, and the soldiers guarding this area will organize counter-attacks upon seeing enemies,” Zhao Hongyu explained.
The East Ocean Dragon Clan controlled over a vast region, and it didn’t mean that no one guarded the places far from the palace. In fact, all the ocean territory was guarded by hidden soldiers from the East Ocean Dragon Clan, and any outside cultivators would be detected immediately as soon as they enter.
While the River-Mountain Qian-Kun Painting flew at the great speed, Hao Ren released his spiritual senses and found that there were indeed troops hiding under the surging waves of the ocean.
Judging from the vast territory, he could imagine the number of soldiers East Ocean had.
Wherever the River-Mountain Qian-Kun Painting went, the East Ocean soldiers who were hiding in the ocean would come out in lines and greet.
Each summer, Zhao Hongyu would do her routine inspection while Zhao Yanzi was on summer vacation.
The size of the territory of the East Ocean Dragon Clan was greater than Hao Ren had imagined, and they hadn’t reached the boundary after flying for half an hour at the great speed of the River-Mountain Qian-Kun Painting.
“Ren, you must be aware that you are not only responsible for Zi’s happiness but also the livelihood of the tens of millions of members of the East Ocean.”
“Ok…” Hao Ren suddenly felt the burden on his shoulders became heavier.
In the future, he could take over not only the elders and the senior generals of the East Ocean Dragon Clan but also the low-ranked soldiers who were guarding the territory of the East Ocean Dragon Clan.
“The end of East Ocean’s territory is in front of us,” Zhao Hongyu said.
Hao Ren stretched his neck and looked hard into the distance.
He looked in the direction that Zhao Hongyu pointed, but he could see nothing like a physical boundary.
The River-Mountain Qian-Kun Painting beneath them slowed down gradually and finally hovered above the ocean surface.
Around them, everything was quiet without any generals or soldiers coming out to greet them.
“This… is the east border of the East Ocean.” Zhao Hongyu pointed at a small island before them and said, “With the Immortal Spirit Island as the boundary, the anything to the west belongs to the East Ocean Dragon Clan while the area in the east is… Demon Sea.”
Zhao Hongyu put special emphasis on the two words, Demon Sea.
Demon Sea… Hao Ren found the name familiar as if he had heard it from somewhere.
“The area of the Demon Sea is about the combined territories controlled by the four ocean dragon clans. Situated in the center of the four ocean dragon clans, it’s a forbidden area for both the dragon cultivators and human cultivators,” Zhao Hongyu explained slowly.
“Demon beasts?” Hao Ren asked tentatively.
Zhao Hongyu nodded. “Millions of demon beasts live in the Demon Sea, ad it has lots of rival forces. Unlike Little White, many of them are transformed already with strength at least equivalent to the Nascent Soul Realm.”
Hao Ren thought for a while and vaguely remembered that Zhen Congming came from the Demon Sea.
“The Demon Sea is in peace with our East Ocean Dragon Clan, right?” Hao Ren asked.
Zhao Hongyu smiled helplessly. “The biggest reason that the four ocean dragon clans formed a close alliance is to guard against the Demon Sea. Most of the demon beasts in the Demon Sea is powerful, and the four ocean dragon clans have reached the agreement to guard against the Demon Sea with joint forces, preventing them from breaking out of the territory of the Demon Sea and threatening the safety of the four ocean dragon clans.”
“Demon kings… Are there such things?” Hao Ren suddenly remembered something and asked.
“Once a demon beast could transform, it could rule one piece of territory and call itself a king. There are thousands of demon kings, big and small, in the Demon Sea,” Zhao Hongyu said.
“Damn! They sound powerful, but there are just too many of them! They couldn’t be that powerful!” Hao Ren thought.
“The top-ten demon kings rule the ten most powerful forces, and it’s said that each of them has the strength equivalent to or greater than that of that Soul Formation Realm, and they could never die or be killed,” Zhao Hongyu said.
“More powerful than the Soul Formation Realm…” Hao Ren immediately corrected his previous impression.
He had witnessed the great power of the old Grandma and experienced the strength of the old man living in the Kunlun Mountain. Now, he wondered about the power of the ten strongest demon kings in the Demon Sea…
“Of course, we got the information from some small demon kings. In the territory of our East Ocean Dragon Palace, there are dozens of demon kings. They have small forces, and they were squeezed out of the Demon Sea. They had nowhere to go and sought shelter in our East Ocean Dragon Clan,” Zhao Hongyu said slowly.
While they were talking, huge waves suddenly rose from the peaceful ocean.
Hundreds of East Ocean soldiers with long spears stepped on the waves and stabbed toward the surface of the sea.
Suddenly, a dozen or so of black monsters like brutal bulls charged up, and they shot black light toward the soldiers of East Ocean.
Bang! Bang… The hundreds of soldiers fought the dozen or so monsters fiercely and couldn’t gain the upper hand.
One soldier wearing white armor was stabbed by the hard horn of a brutal bull, and blood instantly splashed out. Meanwhile, these monsters ran wild on the sea surface and scattered the formation of the East Ocean soldiers.
They had been fighting at the bottom of the sea, which gave the illusion of peace on the sea surface. As the battle escalated, they rushed out of the sea!
With a wave of his right hand, Hao Ren shot out dozens of sword energies toward the brutal bulls.
The brutal bulls turned to Hao Ren with a red light flashing in their eyes. If Hao Ren had been a mortal instead of a Gen-level cultivator, he would be terrified.
Dang! Dang… Sword energies hit the hard horns of the brutal bulls, and some of them were bounced off.
Also, some sword energies pierced their bodies but couldn’t cut them into pieces, making them even fiercer.
They all rushed toward Hao Ren.
Hao Ren was surprised that his Gen-level sword energies which were equivalent to that of the top-tier Core Formation Realm couldn’t kill these demon beasts.
“Three Talents Heaven Earth! Initiate!”
The 320 sword energies suddenly formed three loops and connected, crashing toward the brutal bulls.
With the five-elemental sword energies connecting, the sword arrays’ powers significantly increased. With an explosion of five-colored light, the arrays cut down all the brutal black bulls.
Splash! Splash… The corpses of the brutal bulls dropped into the ocean.
“Thank you, Dragon Queen, for saving us!” Hundreds of soldiers yelled toward the direction of the River-Mountain Qian-Kun Painting.
“It wasn’t me.” Zhao Hongyu waved her hand. “It’s East Ocean’s Commanding General who saved you!”
Hearing her words, the soldiers all looked at Hao Ren in surprise.
They had been guarding the boundary of the East Ocean and had little information from back home. They didn’t get to attend the dinner banquet during the Dragon God Festival but knew from sources back home that Third Lord was no longer the Commanding General, and the person who took his place was the young Fuma who was also very powerful.
Seeing Hao Ren and hearing the words from Zhao Hongyu, they knew that this young man who helped them was indeed the new Commanding General of East Ocean!
“I have an elixir pill. Take it this moment.” After taking out a Detox Pill from his necklace, Hao Ren handed it to the soldier whose belly had been stabbed open by a demon beast.
The soldier was a tough guy who was still alive despite the big wound in his belly.
Pale-faced, this soldier thought he couldn’t make it, but the Commanding General handed an elixir pill to him.
Although he didn’t know how to make elixir pills, he smelled the intense nature essence from the elixir pill and knew it was not a low-leveled one.
In fact, this elixir pill was a level 4 elixir pill made by Xie Yujia, and it was something the sects on Fifth Heaven would fight for.
“Take it immediately,” Hao Ren urged him when he saw the hesitation on the soldier’s face.
“Thank you, Commanding General!” The soldier looked at Hao Ren gratefully and swallowed the elixir pill.
The moment the elixir pill entered his stomach, the wound began to heal visibly.
Looking at the young and powerful Commanding General, this soldier suddenly burst into tears. “General Liu… General Liu… He…”
The surrounding soldiers all looked sad.
After looking around, Hao Ren saw no general among them and knew the demon beasts must have killed their general.
The guarding of the boundary between the East Ocean and the Demon Sea was the most dangerous task that was shared by the soldiers of East Ocean in turns. Despite all this, some of them would die in the conflicts each year.
The fierce demon beasts in the Demon Sea would launch sneak attacks on the patrolling East Ocean soldiers, and the soldiers couldn’t back off since their retreat would mean dozens of meters of expansion of the Demon Sea’s territory!
It was fortunate that the mighty demon beasts lived in the center of the Demon Sea while the demon beasts living near the boundary were comparatively low-leveled ones.
After a moment of consideration, Hao Ren took out a bottle of elixir pills.
“These are some Essence Replenishment Pills which are beneficial to both cultivations and wound healing. You guys use them according to your needs.”
He placed the porcelain bottle containing the elixir pills into the hand of the soldier who just got wounded, and it was meant for the whole team to share.
Essence Replenishment Pills… The soldiers looked at each other in shock
The people who excelled in cultivation would try to become an elder of the dragon clan, and the ones who were less talented but still stronger were at least generals.
However, the ordinary soldiers couldn’t get more powerful than Zhen-level due to their lack of talent, and they couldn’t get many resources.
That was why they only had heard about the Essence Replenishment Pills but never saw one before, not to mention taking them!
Hua! Hua… After a few seconds of pause, hundreds of soldiers all kneeled before Hao Ren and said “Thank you for giving us the pills, Commanding General! We swear we’ll protect East Ocean with our lives!” The uniform chant resonated in the area.
Not able to face such a great show of respect, Hao Ren immediately returned to Zhao Hongyu’s side and waved at them.