As more outsiders arrived, the underwater ruins gradually became lively.

Martial Cultivators in the underwater ruins must be extremely cautious to survive.

Here, the native creatures in the underwater ruins are far more dangerous than the outsiders. Creatures capable of surviving in the ruins infested by parasitic demon flowers are certainly no safer than the demon flowers themselves.

Just like the bizarre creature Lu Yu encountered, whose tentacles carried poisonous stingers—it could even disguise its exterior as a plant, fooling the parasitic demon flowers.

If it weren't for Lu Yu's formidable physique, which resisted the creature's stingers, he would have died from the poison long ago.

The creature's venom is certainly lethal enough to kill Martial Cultivators; if a Martial Cultivator is carelessly stung, the results would be disastrous.

Lu Yu descended into the tangled crumbling walls, taking Hai Wei with him. The swordfish leader led hundreds of sea tribes in a sweeping search throughout the secret realm.

Here, even the senses of Qi Sea realm are suppressed to the extreme; the swordfish leader cannot directly sense Hai Wei's whereabouts.

Even the pressure exerted by royal blood must be felt at very close range.

In some sense, this is beneficial for the sea tribe because under Hai Wei's bloodline pressure, their strength is greatly affected.

The reason several sea tribes were swiftly killed in Lu Yu's courtyard by the He family was partially due to Hai Wei.

Though sea creatures at Demon Might realm are not skilled at fighting on land, they wouldn't be so easily killed by Martial Cultivators; they could at least blow the conch whistle before dying. They would resist for a while before being slain.

"Ah!" A sea creature screamed, and the other sea creatures looked towards it, only to see its body rapidly collapse.

When the others arrived, all that was left was a shriveled fish skin.

The killer's figure had long disappeared.

Not few sea creatures screamed; some even vanished silently without a trace in the corners.

The swordfish leader chopped down several sea creatures parasitized by vines, noticing vines sprouting from their bodies, making it frown.

This cursed land, it didn't want to step here, but it had no choice; the princess was hiding here, and it had to come to capture her.

This pertains to General Kuangsha's plans; if successful, the positions of Blue Ring King and King of the Shallow Sea would be replaced by sea tribes.

General Kuangsha is preparing to take the throne as King of the Shallow Sea.

It is at the peak of the Demon Core realm now, ready to break through at any moment. But only one king is needed in the shallow sea, so it doesn't risk advancing, instead accumulating power.

Sword light flashed, and several vines attempting to wrap around the swordfish leader were sliced apart.

Looking around, the swordfish leader shouted, "Be careful, don't get parasitized by the demon flowers here."

"If you spot the princess, don't act rashly. Inform the others first."

"Ah!" A sea creature screamed; when others arrived, they found the creature decapitated by a sharp weapon—not the native creatures' method.

"Humans! There are humans over there!" shouted a sea creature loudly.

Lu Yu crushed the sea creature's head in his hand, heard the sea creatures' voices, and looked that way. Though he couldn't understand what they were saying, the cries weren't screams, indicating a new discovery.

"What are they saying?" Lu Yu asked Hai Wei beside him.

"Those fishmen said there are humans," Hai Wei, able to understand sea tribe language, though it was a dialect, responded.

Human language is a compulsory course for mermaids, the sea tribe royalty, and Hai Wei had learned it.

After all, the largest power in this world is the human force.

Though the number of sea tribes surpasses humans, in terms of power strength, humans dominate because the sea tribe is divided into many factions; the deep sea alone has over ten factions, even more in the shallow sea.

Mermaids are nominally the royal family of sea tribes, occupying the royal court of sea tribes, ruling all sea creatures. But practically, they can only govern their own territory.

Even the weak sea tribes in the shallow sea could ignore orders from the mermaids, claiming "military orders are not followed outside" as their reason.

It's unlike the Great Zhou Dynasty, whose royal family holds absolute power. Even though various forces seem to rule autonomously, one command from the Great Zhou royal family and all forces obey obediently.

Because the royal family wields supreme power from their bloodline.

The Chu King Manor is a branch of the Great Zhou royal bloodline; Chu Tiange's royal bloodline was diluted over generations, yet upon awakening, even without cultivation, his combat power far exceeded low-level Martial Cultivators.

Royal family members cultivate rapidly, possibly advancing from Body Refinement realm to Qi Sea realm in a day.

Hai Wei's blood was supposed to possess such powerful lineage, but for unknown reasons, she hadn't cultivated at all, lacking both spiritual and demonic power.

Even newborn sea creatures bear demonic aura, but Hai Wei did not.

Some say her bloodline is fake, yet she can exert genuine bloodline pressure on lower sea tribes, proving her royal lineage.

"Humans? Lin Tao? It's unlikely him; though he hates sea tribes, he wouldn't risk his life to sneak attack them. This behavior resembles players," Lu Yu pondered.

These sea tribes carried nothing valuable; Demon Core realm sea tribes have valuable demon cores, but to kill Demon Might realm tribes—for what, to sell the sea tribe meat?

Regardless, with corpses left behind, it was clear the attacker wasn't after the sea tribe's materials but something else.

Lu Yu, for instance, slayed sea tribes for experience points.

The strength of these sea creatures ranges from the second to the ninth stage of the Qi Realm. You can roughly tell their strength from their physique; the taller and stronger the sea creatures, the greater their strength.

One sea creature saw its companion lying on the ground and cautiously approached. Just as it poked its head out, a flash of a blade split the water, slicing off most of its head.

The secondary damage caused by the burst of Qi Blood exploded its unprotected brain matter, scattering everywhere.

Lu Yu tugged at the dragon-binding rope at his waist, and Hai Wei swished her tail forcefully, swiftly dragging Lu Yu towards another broken wall.

Though she had no Spiritual Power or Demonic Power, the inherent strength granted by her bloodline was definitely incomparable to ordinary sea creatures.

Lu Yu weighed at least over 800 pounds, yet Hai Wei could easily drag him through the water. Although she seemed very frail, even for ordinary people, she was a monster-level existence.

This was evident from her ability to easily bite into and eat the soul meat of fish demons at the Demon Power level.

Even a Martial Cultivator would need to be above the Qi Realm to digest the meat of a demon at the Demon Power level, let alone the refined portion of a monster from it—the soul meat.

While eating it could speed up cultivation, enhance the physique, and increase Qi Blood, it might inevitably result in indigestion.

Usually, soul meat is used as a material in Alchemy; after being refined into pills, it's much easier to digest.

Sea creatures also have soul meat, but it's rare, and Lu Yu doesn't bother to find or collect it.

Moreover, being humanoid, their meat is somewhat hard to stomach.

If you want to find soul meat, you should look for the large-sized monsters. The meat from such monsters is abundant, and the soul meat comes in large chunks.

With Hai Wei providing mobility assurance, Lu Yu adopts a hit-and-run tactic on isolated and small-sized sea creatures.

Within just a dozen minutes, he accumulated more than 200,000 experience points again, but he's still far from the 1.4 million experience points needed to upgrade his realm.

Now Lu Yu's Spiritual Power cultivation far surpasses his realm; his Cultivation Technique no longer increases the Spiritual Power limit and instead increases experience points.

Between relying solely on cultivation experience increasing by 20,000 to 30,000 per day, Lu Yu would still need a month to break through to the second stage of the Qi Realm; leveling up primarily relies on experience points.

Generally, a Martial Cultivator's Spiritual Power cultivation and realm are balanced; it is rare to see high cultivation but low realm, or high realm but low cultivation.

But Spiritual Power cultivation is not equal to the realm; Spiritual Power cultivation is "quantity," while the realm is "quality."

The higher the realm, the stronger the quality, and the higher the combat power, but quality also needs quantity to support it.

The Sword God projection is the best example; the Sword God's Sword Dao realm is high, able to utilize his Spiritual Power cultivation to the maximum, crushing same-level Martial Cultivators, and fighting beyond his rank with ease.

Yet when the Sword God projection was surrounded and killed by over twenty peak Qi Realm Martial Cultivators, despite having a realm far exceeding others, it was due to the Sword God's limited Spiritual Power cultivation hindering his realm's performance.

Cultivation and realm depend on one another and restrain each other.

If the realm cannot keep up with the cultivation, it influences the growth of the cultivation. If the cultivation cannot keep up with the realm, it limits the display of power and may even cause the realm to fall.

"Mermaid Princess?" A figure emerged from behind a broken wall, exclaiming.

Lu Yu noticed him only after he came out, and there were less than ten meters between them.

The person glanced at the bisected sea creature beside Lu Yu and silently retreated, disappearing behind the broken wall.

The seabed ruins severely suppressed perception; otherwise, it wouldn't be possible for the person to approach within ten meters of Lu Yu without detection, only discovering when the person spoke.

The person also failed to detect Lu Yu and Hai Wei beforehand; otherwise, he wouldn't have seemed so surprised.

[Seabed Ruins] Anonymous: The mermaid princess is also in the seabed ruins, beside a black-robed figure.

Lu Yu saw the messages on the public chat channel and secretly felt something was amiss; that person must be a player.

The player wasn't confident about dealing with Lu Yu alone and wanted to stir things up to take advantage of the situation.

[Seabed Ruins] Anonymous: Where? Give a coordinate.

[Seabed Ruins] Anonymous: Is the Qi Sea Realm player here?

[Seabed Ruins] Anonymous: Lu Yu, hand over the mermaid princess yourself; there's no way you can stop all of us. Even with the help of a Qi Sea Realm, it's useless; there isn't only one Qi Sea Realm player present.

[Seabed Ruins] Anonymous: You've got the mermaid princess but haven't handed her over to complete the task; are you after the highest reward? If you're willing to cooperate and share the task, we can help you finish it to the end, and the rewards will be split evenly after completion.

Two messages popped up, causing everyone to be greatly surprised.

[Seabed Ruins] Anonymous: Lu Yu is a player?

Previously, they all thought Lu Yu was a native of the Divine Weapon World because they had never heard of a player joining a top force like the Divine Weapon Pavilion.

Soon someone asked the critical question.

[Seabed Ruins] Anonymous: How to join the Divine Weapon Pavilion? Requesting appearance, private chat, I'm willing to spend a fortune for this information, is 100,000 gold enough? If not, I'll spend 10 million cash to buy this info!

The chat messages paused for a while, followed by a string of "Can't afford this tycoon.", "666.", "Rich and inhuman."...

Not every player is a multi-millionaire tycoon; those reaching the Qi Realm can easily exchange a few treasures for a lot of money in reality, earning tens of thousands easily.

But most players only sell excess and unused resources without impacting their own cultivation.

They might exchange more resources for cash due to reasons like buying a house or a car, but the actual cash kept on hand isn't much.

After all, exchanging resources for cash can be done anytime, but getting cash into resources depends entirely on luck.

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