vncnus Chapter 301 - 294: The Distribution of the 7 Holy Hall-level Sea Beasts
Chapter 301 - 294: The Distribution of the 7 Holy Hall-level Sea Beasts
While waiting for Ah Jian to "mine for gold," Shi Ming took out the wondrous object that had been with him the longest: the Map of the Endless Sea.
He planned to use this time to upgrade it.
This 108th-ranked wondrous object, "left" to him by Chunyi, was the first one he had ever owned. It was also what had sparked his conflicts with the Black Society and the Lighthouse. As a magical treasure naturally maxed out at level 10, it should have been impossible to enhance further. However, Shi Ming possessed the Infinite Brain and could force it to break through its limits.
His Spiritual Power focused on the ancient sea chart.
[Map of the Endless Sea]
[Level: 10]
[Though the world has crumbled and the continents have sunk beneath the deep sea, you still need a map to show you the way forward.]
[Infuse it with Awakening Power of a corresponding level to detect the locations of sea beasts of that same level. The detection range is a cylindrical area with the map as its center, a radius of 2,000 nautical miles, and a depth of 5,000 meters.]
[Upgrade Requirement: 1,000 grams each of three different types of Holy Hall-level Sea Beast Blood.]
The blood of three Holy Hall-level Sea Beasts was already prepared! He didn’t even need to use his own blood after obtaining the Fallen Sanctuary! Shi Ming took out 1,000 grams of blood from the Abyss Lord and the Great Black Heaven Dragon, then squeezed out 1,000 grams of sap from the Creation Celestial Pillar. He enveloped them with his Spiritual Power and layered it all over the Map of the Endless Sea, which was still inactive and in its Land Era map form.
Infinite Brain! Activate!
The three types of Holy Hall-level blood and sap transformed into auras of destruction, corruption, and life, each with different properties, enveloping the Map of the Endless Sea. Under the power of the Infinite Brain, they initiated a "limit break" on the 108th-ranked wondrous object. Like tiny artisans with a collective consciousness, they rapidly shuttled along the map’s lines, weaving, reorganizing, and nourishing it.
Then, the three energies contracted sharply.
The energy fluctuations on the map completely tightened. Not a trace of Holy Hall Power leaked out, as if it had all been sealed and digested inside, becoming one with the Map of the Endless Sea.
An ancient map with an even richer texture, supported by Shi Ming’s Spiritual Power, floated in the biting wind.
Limit Break! Complete.
[Map of the Endless Sea]
[Level: 10+]
[Whether in the Land Era, the Wandering Era, or any other age, a conqueror always needs an explorer’s map to vanquish unknown enemies, one by one.]
[Infuse it with Awakening Power of a corresponding level to detect the locations of sea beasts of that same level.]
[Detection Range: The entire Endless Ocean.]
[Detectable Targets: "Holy Hall-level" added.]
[Its detection range has now been massively expanded. In this Endless Ocean, with the exception of sea beasts in a deep slumber with a near-zero chance of awakening, no living, conscious sea beast can escape detection by the Map of the Endless Sea.]
[It can now accurately display the locations of Holy Hall-level Sea Beasts.]
[Cannot be upgraded again.]
The resources required for the limit break were absurd, but thankfully, the improvement was also immense. This limit break not only massively increased the Map of the Endless Sea’s detection area but also added the ability to detect Holy Hall-level Sea Beasts!
Shi Ming thought for a moment and dripped a single drop of the Creation Celestial Pillar’s energy-less blood onto the Map of the Endless Sea.
WHOOSH~
The ancient map turned azure once more. On its surface, which looked like a miniature ocean, six glittering golden points of starlight lit up one by one.
None on Mount Everest, where Shi Ming was located!
But there were still six others!
He had originally thought that, over the long course of time, a few of the Holy Hall-level Sea Beasts would have perished. The inheritance conditions for Holy Hall Power were harsh, so there was always a possibility of the lineage being broken.
He never expected that in the current era, only one of the so-called Seven Holy Halls had fallen! On this planet, there were still six beings in existence similar to the Great Black Heaven Dragon and the Abyss Lord!
He stared at these locations, memorizing the places where they lay dormant.
Fujing Mountain;
the Sea of Boiling;
the Fichaz Sea Abyss;
the Extreme North Ice Eye;
the Amazon Earth’s Lung,
and the Great Salt Lake!
Including Mount Everest, home to the fallen Creation Celestial Pillar, he now knew the locations of all seven Holy Hall-level Sea Beasts!
This was extremely precious intelligence that even Ah Jian would have had difficulty obtaining!
But the Map of the Endless Sea could only detect their dormant locations; it couldn’t reveal their forms or abilities. To obtain more intelligence about them, the only way was to personally visit these regions and investigate with the Eye of the World.
The seven Holy Hall abilities were all different.
For now, Shi Ming only knew that the golden point of light at Fujing Mountain corresponded to the Holy Hall Sea Beast of destruction, the "Great Black Heaven Dragon." He also knew the golden point at the Sea of Boiling corresponded to the Holy Hall Sea Beast of corruption, the "Abyss Lord." The Fichaz Sea Abyss, the Extreme North Ice Sea, the Amazon Earth’s Lung, and the Great Salt Lake likely corresponded to the remaining powers: death, spacetime, eternity, and fate.
After memorizing these locations, Shi Ming withdrew the Holy Hall Power suffusing the Map of the Endless Sea.
Then, he infused it with a stream of S-class power.
Sanjiang Source, Kunlun, Lake Superior, the Sea of Yellow Sand... One by one, black spots of varying shades appeared on the Map of the Endless Sea. With Shi Ming’s current mastery over his Spiritual Power, he didn’t even need to examine them closely to instantly grasp their quantity and locations.
Twenty-seven black spots.
In the Endless Ocean, there were still twenty-seven S-class sea beasts lying dormant, having neither died of natural causes nor been killed by humans.
This number wasn’t far from Shi Ming’s estimate.
Although there were around 100 skills on the S-class skill ranking list, this didn’t mean there were 100 S-class sea beasts in the ocean. Some sea beasts, like the Xuanwu or the Three-Eyed Golden Crow, could provide two skills. Others, like "Infinite Matriarch," "Whale Fall," "The Third Law," and the Purity Domain, weren’t obtained by bathing in Sea Beast Blood at all. Furthermore, after the prolonged war of attrition with humanity, countless human elites had died, but the sea beasts had suffered losses as well.
Twenty-seven was a lot.
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One could never have too many broken branches from the Creation Celestial Pillar, but Shi Ming needed to save some time to visit the great stele’s location. He wanted to see for himself what content was held within the thirty-three thousand characters recorded on the mysterious Divine Revelation Stele.
Therefore, after Ah Jian had painstakingly excavated eight broken branches, Shi Ming put a stop to their "mining" operation and set off once more.
The blizzard and biting winds still howled, occasionally carrying powerful, cutting gusts. Shi Ming used the storm’s power to cover the tracks he had left behind when transplanting the Jianmu Seedling.
Step by step, he climbed to the summit.
This was the spine of the world, the highest point in the Endless Ocean. As Shi Ming planted his combat boots on a snowy slope, polished unnaturally smooth by the gale, he felt the world fall silent. Before him lay the ridge, the raging winds, the frozen earth, and the glaciers he had conquered—and beyond them, the boundless ocean.
Everything seemed so small.
His gaze swept across the landscape and finally locked onto his target.
A towering stone stele stood proudly in the cold wind. Just like him, it overlooked the hazy Endless Ocean, veiled by snow and clouds.
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PS: "As the bright moon rises from the sea, we share this moment, though worlds apart."
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