Long Wei, carrying Long Xiao Chong, swam for a long distance along the dark boundary, patrolling for a long time and gaining an understanding of the great formation.
"This formation is quite ingeniously designed. As a prison, we cannot open it from the inside."
"May I ask, Lord Long Wei, where does this great formation lead to?"
Long Xiao was astonished in his heart. Such a large-scale formation would be difficult to achieve even in their Demon Realm.
"Hahaha..."
"You may not know this yet, but if my guess is correct, the true Tian Yuan Realm lies beyond this great formation."
"Ah! Then where is this place?"
Long Xiao Chong had always believed that the Eastern Continent, the Eastern Sea, and the surrounding small landmasses constituted the entire Tian Yuan Realm.
This had always made him look down upon the Eastern Continent.
Any piece of land they casually designated in their Demon Realm would be larger than this.
"This place is merely a prison shrouded by the great formation.
In the past, the Tian Yuan Realm had many powerful experts who frequently invaded the Demon Realm and suppressed my demon race. It's natural that there wouldn't be just such a small continent."
Generally speaking, if a region's area is too small, the number of powerful individuals it can produce will certainly not be too great.
The birth of powerful individuals requires a vast population base and abundant material foundations.
"Let's go! We'll search along the dark edge again to see if we can find a way out."
In their current physical state, with injuries and their demonic power completely depleted, their strength was no different from that of two ordinary sea fish.
With such physical conditions, it would take at least several decades of drifting at sea to swim back to the Eastern Sea or the Eastern Continent, where spiritual energy was abundant.
It would be better to look for other exits.
...
Xiao Fei had accumulated approximately 11 billion spirit stones. This was already a colossal sum for any Nascent Soul cultivator.
To achieve this, he had almost scoured the Eastern Continent bare of spirit stones.
Furthermore, he had also earned almost all the spirit stones currently held by the Eastern Sea's demon races.
Looking at the large pile of spirit stones stored in his spatial artifact, Xiao Fei still felt uncertain.
For safety, he estimated that he would need to stockpile at least twenty to thirty billion spirit stones to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.
With only 11 billion in hand, he was still a significant distance from his goal of twenty to thirty billion.
Even though the Eastern Sea had abundant spirit stone reserves, it would be difficult for him to find so many more.
Xiao Fei looked at the large quantity of Nascent Soul Pills piled up in his spatial artifact. The pills he had painstakingly refined could not be wasted here.
He should at least consume a few himself to taste them.
After much deliberation, he decided to visit the ancient teleportation array on that turtle island again.
The island had a natural formation that only opened once every 60 years, allowing entry.
Calculating the time, it had been two or three sixty-year cycles since he last entered the turtle island. It should be able to open again in about ten years.
Since there was nothing significant happening on the Eastern Continent at the moment, Xiao Fei simply rode his flying fish ahead of time to the turtle island to wait.
After more than a hundred years, the turtle island was still the same. There wasn't even a single bird on the island.
Xiao Fei let his flying fish roam freely in the nearby sea, while he sat on the island meditating and waiting.
There was no spiritual energy here, but it did not affect Xiao Fei's cultivation.
After all, the "Wind Thunder Battle Body" he practiced always required him to consume pills to replenish spiritual energy, so it didn't matter where he cultivated.
Xiao Fei took out a pill the size of an egg and swallowed it in one gulp.
A vast amount of spiritual energy erupted within his abdomen. Xiao Fei quickly circulated the "Wind Thunder Battle Body" cultivation technique to refine this spiritual energy and strengthen his physical body.
Xiao Fei's time cultivating on this turtle island passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, eight years had gone by.
During these eight years, with the aid of a large quantity of pills, his cultivation of the "Wind Thunder Battle Body" progressed rapidly.
He had finally broken through from the fourth to the fifth level of the "Wind Thunder Battle Body" cultivation technique.
Upon reaching the fifth level of the "Wind Thunder Battle Body," his physical strength was already equivalent to the mid-Nascent Soul stage.
Currently, all Nascent Soul cultivators on the entire Eastern Continent and the Eastern Sea demon races had only cultivated to the early Nascent Soul stage.
With his mid-Nascent Soul physical strength, he was already capable of sweeping through the entire cultivation world and being invincible.
However, after cultivating the "Wind Thunder Battle Body" to the fifth level, the spiritual energy required for cultivation increased by more than tenfold.
Even with his spatial artifact and a large supply of ten-thousand-year spirit herbs, he could no longer afford to be as extravagant as before.
During these years, the flying fish had been活动 independently in the nearby sea, preying on ordinary fish and shrimp.
Occasionally, it would return to the island. Xiao Fei would give it some pills or spirit wine to replenish its consumed magic power.
In places where it could not absorb spiritual energy, any consumed magic power could not be replenished from the outside world and could only be supplemented by consuming pills, spirit wine, and the like.
Today, the flying fish returned from the deep sea again, sneaking around as if it had done something wrong.
"What's wrong with you? What shameful deed have you committed again?"
Seeing its appearance, Xiao Fei teased it intentionally.
"Master, I have a great discovery."
"Oh! What is it?"
Seeing that Xiao Fei's attention was drawn, the flying fish began to play coy again.
"Master, I'm a bit thirsty right now. Can you give me 100 jars of ten-thousand-year spirit wine to quench my thirst?"
"100 jars of ten-thousand-year spirit wine, you wish! At most, I'll give you a pot. Take it or leave it."
Xiao Fei ignored the flying fish's exorbitant demand and only took out a small pot for it.
Even this small pot was a treasure that many Nascent Soul cultivators would covet.
The flying fish swallowed the entire pot of wine in one gulp, then let out a long breath of alcoholic vapor.
"Ah, that feels great!"
However, when it turned its head and saw Xiao Fei's slightly displeased gaze, it remembered that it still had important business to discuss.
"Master, do you remember that demonic dragon we fought several times back then?"
"You saw him? Where? Hurry and take me there."
Upon hearing this, Xiao Fei immediately stood up, his aura erupting.
"Don't dawdle, hurry and take me there! This time, we absolutely cannot let him escape!"
Xiao Fei had fought this demonic dragon multiple times, defeating him twice, but he had escaped both times.
"Master, no need to rush this time. I just saw him with another demonic dragon. Their condition seems unusual, as if they've encountered some major upheaval."
Immediately, the flying fish described the sorry state of the two demonic dragons to Xiao Fei in detail.
Xiao Fei pondered for a moment. He didn't know why there was an additional demonic dragon, but this was indeed a good opportunity to capture them.
"Take me to find them!"
Immediately, the flying fish took Xiao Fei and dived into the Eastern Sea, quietly swimming northward.
...
Long Wei and Long Xiao Chong each clung to a piece of rotten wood, their four claws paddling weakly.
They both knew how to swim, but based on years of drifting experience, paddling like this conserved the most energy.
The two demonic dragons had no trace of demonic power within them, but their demonic consciousness (divine consciousness) was unaffected, and they could still sense the situation in the surrounding sea.
Just then, Long Wei's expression changed. He had detected a person and a fish in the deep sea, quietly approaching them.
Long Xiao Chong noticed Long Wei's abnormality and followed his divine consciousness to look into the deep sea. Upon seeing Xiao Fei and his flying fish, his expression changed drastically.
"Lord Long Wei! We must flee quickly, this person is a great enemy of my demon race."
Long Xiao Chong was very panicked. He had been defeated by Xiao Fei several times and knew that Xiao Fei was very powerful.
Moreover, they couldn't muster any demonic power within them now. How could they possibly contend with Xiao Fei?
Long Wei's demonic consciousness swept over the person and fish at the bottom of the water, but his demeanor had already returned to the composure expected of a master.
"A mere two cultivators in the Nascent Soul stage, what is there to fear!"