Chapter 1145 (1/2)

Chapter 1145: 1145

The eastern sea gleamed like crystal under the sunlight . A flying boat slowly flew across its boundless surface .

“Long Chen, what’s going on? How have we not encountered any powerful sea demons in two days?” Meng Qi gently brushed back some strands of hair that had been blown astray by the wind .

“It’s probably the calm before the storm . It means a huge beast tide is about to erupt . ” Long Chen’s expression was a bit grave .

According to past records, each time the beast tide occurred, the sea demons would enter a quiet state as if they were preparing their strength .

After flying for so long, they had essentially reached the edges of the deep sea . According to reason, despite that state of calm, there should still be sea demons present . However, things were frighteningly calm .

“Boss, why does the beast tide even occur? I still don’t understand, what’s the point of this periodic attack?” asked Gu Yang .

“To put it simply, it’s a method of weeding out the weak . The Martial Heaven Sea-Ring is controlled by the sea demons, and in the depths of the sea, no one dares to provoke them . Even the continent’s peak experts are intimidated by them . As for the sea demons we’re killing, they’re just inferior members of the sea demon race . Their bloodline is impure, and the ninth rank is their limit . Only sea demons that can reach the tenth rank and above are true members of the sea demon race . Those who came with me to the Central Plains, you must still remember that we encountered a tenth rank sea demon on the way . They are the true leaders of the Martial Heaven Sea-Ring .

“Just like the continent, the sea is also a land of cultivation . But there are just too many sea demons, and when the numbers reach a certain level, it affects the pure-blooded sea demons’ cultivation as well . The beast tide is caused by the leaders of the sea demons who want to see the numbers go down,” said Long Chen .

This secret was actually something only a few people knew . The Xuan Master had told him so he would be prepared .

“Heavens, they can control such a huge army of sea demons? Then couldn’t they easily exterminate all human cultivators?” cried Gu Yang .

“It’s not that exaggerated . After all, they’re still beasts . They don’t know alchemy, forging, formations, etc . Once they come onto the land, experts will kill them eventually . They can only run rampant in the sea .

“The reason they cause beast tides is to suppress the number of sea demons . It’s through this balance that the number of sea demons stays low enough that the spiritual qi in the sea doesn’t grow thin . That would affect the true experts of the sea demon race .

“This is also why they will always put out some signs that the beast tide is about to start, so that the human race can prepare . It’s just a game of survival of the fittest . It’s not a bad thing for humans or sea demons .

“The sea demon race is using human cultivators to eliminate a portion of their wasted resources . As for human cultivators, they use this battlefield to temper their disciples, as well as gathering Neidans .

“This is also why the Martial Heaven Alliance forbids King experts from going hunting in the sea . They’re afraid they might kill some pure-blooded descendants of the sea demons . That would draw out the true leaders of the sea demon race, and then a huge battle would definitely erupt . ”

As Long Chen explained, he scattered some medicinal powders he had previously refined into the sea . These powders also contained the blood of some of Meng Qi’s Magical Beasts .

Sea demons were very sensitive to Magical Beast’s blood . With Long Chen’s powders, their scent was magnified .

In just an incense stick’s worth of time, the sea began to surge, and countless huge figures charged over .

“Ninth rank sea demons!” Wilde was the first to charge out with delight . He directly summoned his Barbarian Blood Bronze Body and swung his club, blasting the first monster fish’s head apart .

At the same time, a bowl in his hand released a ray of light that drew the monster fish inside . Wilde directly swallowed it .

The others found that surprising and funny . Wilde was actually filled with such urgency because of hunger . They all went out to kill the sea demons .

Eighth rank sea demons were no longer useful to them, but ninth rank sea demons were treasures . Their corpses could be sold for money, and their Neidans were exceptionally valuable .

Long Chen’s bait was drawing over more and more ninth rank sea demons . Now that the Dragonblood Legion had all advanced to Foundation Forging, killing these ninth rank sea demons wasn’t at all difficult .

The sea was quickly dyed red with the blood of the sea demons . The scent of that blood drew over more sea demons, and huge waves began to surge .

Long Chen had the flying boat float over the battlefield . He looked at the intense battle below . Wilde was killing and eating them one by one . In just a bit, he killed dozens of them but still wasn’t full .

“Long Chen, what are you thinking about?” Seeing Long Chen frowning in thought, Meng Qi walked over .

“Have you noticed? The blood of these ninth rank sea demons, the energy within it quickly dissipates in the sea,” said Long Chen .

“Isn’t that obvious? When blood enters the sea, the sea will absorb it,” said Meng Qi with a teasing smile .

Long Chen shook his head . “That’s not what I was talking about . I’m thinking, the sea demons are using the hands of humans to eliminate their weak members . Then is our cultivation world also the same? Is there also a large hand pus.h.i.+ng us forward?”