"Of course, matters of deities have nothing to do with you right now. What you need to do is use the special special environment and rules here to temper yourself."
At this point, Mu Ye paused, his brow furrowing slightly. "Sea spirit beasts?"
His mecha had Spirit Soul control, allowing it to share information with him. Just now, his Spirit Soul had told him that the sonar radar had detected the presence of sea spirit beasts.
This was a rare occurrence. The Abyssal Deep targeted all life. If sea spirit beasts really wanted to find a place to hide from humans, they could go to the Blood Sea Trench — what were they doing here?
Mu Ye narrowed his eyes, had his Spirit Soul keep a close watch on the sea spirit beasts, and led Huo Yuhao to a nearby island.
They would be spending quite a bit of time here. First, set up camp.
While busy with Mu Ye, Huo Yuhao took the initiative to contact Snow Empress in the Sea of Spirit. "Xue'er — do you know anything about this place?"
After learning the details, the Snow Empress fell into thought. "I've never come here myself, but the Spirit Transmission Tower does possess some energy fragments mined from this place. I've seen them. They contain only pure energy, completely devoid of any attributes, so they can merely be used as energy crystals. For powerful spirit masters, they aren't particularly useful."
"That's also why no major power pays much attention to this place. Although everyone knows these fragments may be connected to the Divine Realm, any divine power they once held has long since dissipated. For people like us, they don't even hold any real research value."
Huo Yuhao nodded slightly, looking thoughtfully at the ocean.
Demon Island had been born from the divine power fragments of the Goddess of Life and the God of Destruction. Those fragments contained the power of life and destruction. As long as one could withstand those powers, one could absorb and make them their own, making it much easier to comprehend the laws.
But according to Snow Empress, the divine power fragments mined here did not have a similar function. Their power had already been consumed. Was it because the divine power fragments that fell here were too weak, or was there another reason?
Just as Huo Yuhao was conjecturing, Mu Ye walked over carrying two plates of food. "Yuhao — eat these before you start training."
The two plates contained Red Jade Shrimp and the other was made from Illusion Moon Exquisite Fruit.
The former needed no further explanation. The latter was a heavenly treasure that could improve spiritual power and also relieve some of the pain... Mu Ye had put a lot of thought into this.
Watching Huo Yuhao consume them as instructed, Mu Ye led him to the junction junction between the Abyssal Deep and the normal sea area, asking along the way: "Do you know the reason why the Innate Secret Method can allow a tertiary awakening of the Body Martial Soul?"
"Because of innate energy."
Huo Yuhao thought for a moment, then answered: "The Innate Secret Method uses the power of heaven and earth to nurture one's own innate energy. The Body Martial Soul is a part of oneself, so it naturally will also be nourished."
"That's right."
Mu Ye nodded and sighed. "The Golden Body stage can allow a tertiary awakening. How could the Innate Secret Method not help with a secondary awakening? It's just that we, the current generation, are incapable — to this day, we still haven't fully merged the secondary awakening into the Innate Secret Method."
Huo Yuhao shook his head. "To be able to cultivate a divine-level physique — in this era, there is no stronger body-tempering method than our sect's. How can it be perfect?"
Mu Ye glanced at Huo Yuhao and smiled helplessly. "But the pursuit of perfection is human nature... Enough — let's not discuss this. Having you cultivate the Innate Secret Method first was to nurture your innate energy, nourish your martial soul, and increase your chances of a successful secondary awakening."
"If my inference is correct, given the speed at which you got started with the Innate Secret Method, your success rate can be increased by a quarter. It will be easier to complete the secondary awakening."
Huo Yuhao's eyes shifted slightly at this.
If he were talking about ten thousand years ago, his innate energy could be said to be his own. But his innate energy now... was hard to say.
Arriving at the junction junction between the normal sea area and the Abyssal Deep, Mu Ye grasped Huo Yuhao's arm and sealed his spirit power.
"Start here. Even I can't stay for too long in the deepest parts of the Abyssal Deep. I'll gradually increase the difficulty based on your performance... Yuhao — hold on."
A suffocating feeling surged the next moment, but Huo Yuhao was very calm, allowing Mu Ye to drag him toward the seabed.
As they continued to descend, the surrounding light grew fainter, and the pressure of the seawater became Heavier—like an invisible, giant hand—tightly squeezed Huo Yuhao's chest. The oxygen in his body rapidly depleted.
In a very short time, they
reached more than a thousand meters underwater. No light was visible. The heavy water pressure stimulated Huo Yuhao's nerves. The darkness below a thousand meters swallowed all sound, even depriving him of his own heartbeat — only the pulsing beat of the blood vessels at his temples shook against his skull like muffled drums.
For an ordinary person, under such huge water pressure and prolonged hypoxia and hypoxia, they would have been dead long ago.
Even a spirit master would feel fear because of the environment here.
After all, here, spirit power, blood and energy force, and even spiritual power were all suppressed and consumed very rapidly. Plus no external heaven and earth elemental force to supplement, it was difficult to adapt for someone accustomed to power.
But the only emotion Mu Ye could sense from Huo Yuhao was calmness.
"Such terrible terrible willpower... Does this kid have no weaknesses?"
Clicking his tongue inwardly, after descending another few hundred meters in depth, Mu Ye let go.
And at that moment, Mu Ye inexplicably felt a chill, causing him to frown.
Why did he have a bad feeling?
How strange...
In a state of extreme hypoxia, Huo Yuhao's vision was somewhat blurry, but his mind remained very clear and sober. He shifted his attention to the Sea of Spirit, looking at the several Spirit Souls staring intently at Mu Ye, and coughed lightly.
"It's just a little pain. Haven't we endured much worse ten thousand years ago? The heavenly treasures Teacher Mu Ye gave me before were meant to reduce my pain. His care for me is sincere. There's no need for this."
Snow Empress narrowed her eyes and looked away. "I know. Otherwise, I would have already acted through the Snow Empress Token."
Ice Empress and Skydream also looked away. The former gave a light snort. "Compared to absorbing me ten thousand years ago, this bit of pain is indeed nothing."
"..."
Huo Yuhao smiled helplessly. He was about to focus His energy for survival—swimming back to the surface—suddenly paused.
A strange feeling surfaced—like a faint spiritual connection. Intangible, yet undeniably present.
This spiritual fluctuation was extremely vast, as if surging from all directions of the sea. Yet it itself was indistinct, only able to convey the most basic information to Huo Yuhao.
"Welcome... back?"
Huo Yuhao clearly felt that this boundless sea, upon sensing the aura on his body, had expressed immense closeness toward him—like a child finding its parents.
Huo Yuhao's expression gradually changed.
What was going on?
He didn't have the Sea God's bloodline. Why was the ocean being so close to him?
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