Chapter 571: Chapter 240: Heirloom Secret Map: Entering Wu Ling (2)

But he truly hadn’t expected that the area originally designated by the name "Compassion Sea" was so much larger than its current scope.

Considering the Moon Witch Race had also existed in an extremely ancient era,

Xiao Chen immediately realized that the location where they built the Wu Ling was most likely even farther away.

In other words, although he had harvested twelve Demon Pills over the past three days, it was very likely he had been searching in the wrong place.

It was a good thing he came to ask for directions today, and that Sun Haoran was generous enough to directly take out his family’s heirloom Nautical Chart.

"So there’s such a difference. Many thanks for your help, Sun!"

Xiao Chen mentally noted the location and returned the Sheepskin Scroll. "I have urgent matters to attend to, so I’ll take my leave. We’ll meet again if fate allows!"

Sun Haoran smiled and said his farewells. "There’s no need to be so formal, Xiao."

"My father often taught me that when you’re away from home, you should be kind to others."

"I wish you a safe journey!"

Watching Xiao Chen’s figure become a small black dot and disappear over the horizon,

the white-robed young man finally spoke up. "Second Brother, why did you show him our family’s Nautical Chart?"

"Isn’t it a huge loss to just let an outsider see the Secret Map we’ve preserved with such difficulty for free?"

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Sun Haoran didn’t answer the question directly.

Instead, he asked, "Then what do you think we should have done?"

The white-robed young man thought for a moment, then promptly replied, "He’s already seen the cave-dwelling, and he’s all alone."

"To keep this a secret, shouldn’t we have killed him to silence him?"

Sun Haoran’s expression was complicated. "Haoze, let me ask you, what did Father say before we left this time?"

He then answered his own question. "Use the Dragon-Seeking Chain to find and open the cave-dwelling left behind by our ancestor in his early years, and retrieve the family’s lost Secret Technique."

"In about ten more days, we can open the cave-dwelling."

"And yet you’re thinking of stirring up unnecessary trouble?"

Sun Haize immediately retorted, "That’s not it! I was worried that since he saw the cave-dwelling in the sea, he might hide and ambush us, or even notify others to come and seize the treasure."

Sun Haoran pressed on, "That’s a valid concern."

"So let me ask you, how confident are you that you can beat him?"

"What if, even with all of us together, we still couldn’t defeat him?"

Sun Haize’s voice dropped. "But he’s only at the Middle Stage of Golden Core, and he’s alone."

"Second Brother, you’re already a Late-stage Golden Core Cultivator. With me and Third Sister helping, it’s basically a sure thing."

But Sun Haoran reminded him, "That’s right, he’s alone."

"Let me ask you, if you were alone and discovered a Spirit Ship in the distance, what would you do?"

Sun Haize was taken aback by the question.

’If I’d encountered such an unexpected situation, the most prudent thing to do would be to keep a safe distance to avoid any needless conflict while I’m on my own.’

"The fact that he dared to approach us alone means he was confident he had a way to escape."

Sun Haoran explained, "Our goal isn’t to gamble that his methods won’t work. It’s to ensure our own plans aren’t affected."

"You wanted to know why I showed the Nautical Chart to Xiao, right?"

"It’s because the Meteorite Land is far enough from here."

"Who would come to such a remote place with nothing better to do? He must have more important business of his own."

"I was both helping him with directions and sending him away."

Sun Haize’s eyes widened, clearly stunned.

But he was still a bit confused. "But we still shouldn’t have just shown it to him for free. This is our family’s Secret Map. We could have just made up a fake location."

Sun Haoran looked as if he wanted to say more but stopped himself.

Finally, he patted his fifth brother on the shoulder. "Think of it this way: the family will be emerging into the world soon. These Secret Maps would have been used for trade anyway."

"For now, let’s just focus on the task at hand. Let’s head back to the ship."

’On the bright side,’ he thought, ’this kind of simple-mindedness isn’t all bad; it’s conducive to faster cultivation. Once the family emerges, we’ll recruit many more people. Then, when members of the Direct Lineage travel, we can arrange for a couple of Honored Guest Elders to act as guards. We won’t have to be like we are now, always having to find people from within the family for every little thing, which leaves us perpetually short-handed.’

「Seven days later.」

Just before sunset, Xiao Chen successfully found the massive Sea Abyss.

Setting everything else aside, just looking down from mid-air, one could feel that the color of the sea in that area was deeper, as if covered by a natural shadow.

He swept his Divine Sense downward but couldn’t even see the bottom.

One must know that, with the help of the Star Core over the past few months, Xiao Chen’s Range of Divine Sense had already expanded to a full seventy-nine li.

But in the face of such unique terrain, it was still insufficient.

"This world truly proves the meaning of that old saying—’The sky is high and the earth is vast!’"

Xiao Chen sighed with emotion, then searched the surrounding area.

However, within a radius of thirty thousand li, he couldn’t find a single place to land.

In the end, he was forced to turn back, returning to a reef thirty-eight thousand li away to rest and recuperate.

After all, while the Burial Abyss Fiend wouldn’t be an obstacle for him, successfully entering the Wu Ling to find and retrieve the Witchcraft Artifact would surely involve more than just this one problem.

He slept soundly, protected by a Defensive Array.

It wasn’t until he woke up naturally the next morning that Xiao Chen let out a long sigh of relief.

He then returned to the skies above the Sea Abyss, summoned the Ghost-Faced Profound Light Shield for protection, and dove directly into the depths.

"GLUG GLUG GLUG~!"

As he dove deeper and deeper, the surrounding light grew dimmer and dimmer.

Normally, this wouldn’t affect a Cultivator, since anyone who could come here would have Divine Sense, which is usually no less effective than one’s eyes.

But Xiao Chen still used his True Essence to ignite a ball of Spiritual Fire within his Protective Profound Light.

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