Ancient Dragon Elephant Technique

"Is this the Tao character 'death'?" Lin Feng looked towards Shangyuan Daoist in shock.

He had serendipitously comprehended the Tao character "extinction" from the Xuanming Demon Book!

Thereafter, he had been unable to comprehend any other "Tao" characters.

But now,

he saw the second Tao character.

"Mr. Lin has a good eye."

Shangyuan Daoist said with a slight smile, with no intention to conceal.

Any Tao character

was condensed during the creation of the heavens and the earth.

Acquiring one

was not an easy task.

It required a tremendous stroke of fate.

...

Without pausing, Lin Feng and Shangyuan Daoist quickly departed.

Ten days later,

at night,

on an isolated island in the sea,

both Lin Feng and Shangyuan Daoist were cultivating.

Lin Feng was cultivating the Tao character "death",

while Shangyuan Daoist was cultivating the Tao character "extinction".

Shortly after witnessing Shangyuan Daoist's Tao character "death",

Lin Feng proposed an exchange of Tao characters with Shangyuan Daoist.

Being able to learn an additional Tao character

made Shangyuan Daoist very happy.

He imparted the Tao character "death" to Lin Feng,

and in turn, Lin Feng imparted the Tao character "extinction" to Shangyuan Daoist.

...

The Tao character "extinction"

was a furious power that destroyed everything,

while the Tao character "death"

was another kind of primal force.

It was the power of death.

In the following days, Lin Feng and Shangyuan Daoist exchanged their cultivation experiences daily.

Comprehending a Tao character on one's own was very difficult.

Usually, it was only possible through serendipitous enlightenment.

Without fate, even if you had the method of cultivation, you might not necessarily succeed in comprehension.

Thus, even with Lin Feng's comprehension,

after pondering for half a month, he still hadn't grasped the essence of the Tao character "death."

The situation was the same for Shangyuan Daoist.

He had been pondering over the Tao character "extinction",

yet to no avail.

This night, Lin Feng once again pondered over the Tao character "death",

but still lacked any clues.

He let out a helpless sigh.

At that moment, Lin Feng suddenly felt a cold breath.

Looking towards the not-too-distant place,

he saw a palm-sized, pitch-black poisonous insect.

Like a scorpion, yet like a centipede, it was a peculiarly strange kind of poisonous insect.

Wherever the poisonous insect passed,

all vegetation would instantaneously wither.

Watching those dead plants,

Lin Feng became slightly entranced.

From vibrant with life

to devoid of it,

it all happened in an instant.

"In an instant, withering, losing vitality."

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes, murmuring to himself.

His eyes,

however, grew brighter and brighter.

Lin Feng sat cross-legged,

and once again had a sudden enlightenment of the Tao character "death".

This time, Lin Feng felt a mysterious and profound aura.

That aura

seemed to be the breath of death, the power of death.

To control the power that could cause life to wither in an instant.

That was the power of death.

Lin Feng had an enlightenment.

Black gas emanated from within his body,

enveloping everything it touched,

including flowers, grass, and insects.

All lost their lives.

The flora withered instantly,

while tiny insects died as if their life forces had been drained.

"Eh, what's this..."

Shangyuan Daoist appeared to sense something, looking towards Lin Feng with a moved expression.

He then chuckled to himself, saying, "This fellow's talent really is formidable. To think he grasped the essence of the Tao character 'death' so quickly, but as for the essence of the Tao character 'extinction', I've also found some clues. In at most a month, I will certainly have a sudden enlightenment."

Following that,

Shangyuan Daoist closed his eyes and continued to ponder over the Tao character "extinction".

A month and a half later,

Lin Feng and Shangyuan Daoist crossed the Black Sea.

They finally arrived at the depths of the East Sea.

From a distance,

Dense, massive ships scattered in various parts of the sea domain.

Many ships bore traces of cultivators on board.

And in a deeper location.

There was an illusory world.

In that world, the void itself twisted.

That mysterious and illusory world.

Was the "Divine Ruins".

Countless cultivators came for the Divine Ruins.

But now, the Divine Ruins had yet to open.

"Boom..."

A terrifying aura came from afar.

The sea itself seemed to be shaking.

There appeared to be a shocking battle occurring.

"Let's go over there and take a look,"

exclaimed many cultivators.

Now that the Divine Ruins were not open,

a distant battle, such lively events, would attract numerous cultivators to watch the battle.

Lin Feng and Shangyuan Daoist also flew towards the distant location.

This battle took place a hundred miles away.

Looking from afar,

the waves soared to the sky.

Within the sea, a gigantic vortex formed.

The vortex enveloped more than thirty miles around it.

Waves tens of thousands of feet high soared into the sky.

The enormous, twisted vortex seemed to swallow an ancient warship.

"That is... the All Gods Pirate Ship,"

recognized a cultivator amidst the huge vortex.

They exclaimed in utter shock,

"Indeed, it's the pirate ship of the Water Flower, the Pirate Queen from the Gods Sea Domain."

Then someone yelled excitedly.

It turned out to be the pirate ship of the Pirate Queen Water Flower.

Previously, the Nine Great Pirate Kings and the Sea Clan had attacked the fleet where Lin Feng and his companions resided.

That fleet.

Had suffered heavy casualties and deaths.

Now, someone had launched an attack on one of the Nine Great Pirate Kings, the Water Flower.

This made Lin Feng somewhat astonished.

The massive vortex was extremely terrifying, as if it could devour everything.

Islands in the distance were being sucked in by the distorted vortex.

As those islands neared the vortex,

they were instantly torn apart.

Then,

the islands were devoured by the vortex.

"What's with this vortex?"

someone wondered.

"Could it be a demon cave within the sea domain?"

another suggested.

Legend had it that a demon cave existed in the sea domain.

Once a demon cave appeared,

it would create a powerful devouring vortex.

Anything enveloped by the devouring vortex

would be instantly swallowed.

The All Gods Pirate Ship moved against the massive vortex,

striving to break free from within the vortex.

Clearly, the All Gods Pirate Ship was encountering trouble.

"Those massive islands were shattered instantly upon barely touching the periphery of the vortex, yet the All Gods Pirate Ship at the center of the vortex is unharmed; just how sturdy is this pirate ship?"

Lin Feng wondered in astonishment.

Shangyuan Daoist said, "The All Gods Pirate Ship is one of the Nine Great Pirate Ships, a treasure passed down from the Ancient Era. It is said that the Ancient Gods once crossed the Suffering Sea rumored in myths aboard this divine ship."

The Buddhist teaching goes:

"The sea of suffering is boundless,

yet turning back is the shore."

In the mythical legends, there indeed existed a Suffering Sea.

It was said that if a cultivator could cross the Suffering Sea,

they would undergo an unprecedented transformation.

But the whereabouts of the Suffering Sea was not something ordinary people could know.

Perhaps only upon reaching the Emperor Realm could one become aware of it.

Lin Feng nodded, "No wonder this pirate ship is so formidable."

"Roar..."

Unable to devour the All Gods Pirate Ship, suddenly, a furious roar came from the depths of the massive vortex.

Wow.

That roar,

many cultivators who were there to watch could not withstand it, spat out blood, and fell from mid-air into the sea.

At this moment, within the massive vortex, the blurry outline of a gigantic creature could be vaguely seen.

That huge creature stirred in the sea,

causing the entire sea domain to shake violently.

"Oh my god, it's the Sea King!"

Countless cultivators cried out in frightened disbelief.

The Sea King,

the king of the ocean,

was the most powerful creature in the sea domain.

Just one Sea King could even destroy an island of the Ancient Desolate Force level.

This gave an idea of just how terrifying the Sea King was.

In the sea domain, Sea Kings were rare, with all the sea domains combined, there would be no more than five Sea Kings at most.

But here, a Sea King had appeared, and that Sea King was launching a ferocious attack on the All Gods Pirate Ship.