Chapter 3313: Entering The Ninth Sea

The group fell silent, and even the usually cheerful Cattaleya furrowed her brows as she surveyed the unsettling view.

Shanhu Guimen spoke in a hushed tone. "We are close. This is the boundary of the Ninth Sea."

No starlight shone from above. No moonlight pierced the clouds.

The sky was covered by a single solid shroud of black clouds that never parted. Unlike normal clouds, these did not drift, did not swirl, and did not respond to wind. They hung motionless like a suffocating blanket, sealing the heavens from sight.

Lin Mu stepped closer to the edge of Little Shrubby’s back, his immortal sense expanding. He reached out with his hand and summoned a small sphere of water from the sea below with Bending Will Fists.

In the darkness the droplet was completely black, with no hint of blue or green.

"This is not normal seawater," Lin Mu muttered.

Cattaleya leaned closer. "What do you sense?"

Lin Mu let the water rest on his palm. A faint sizzling sensation touched his skin. The water gave off a strange energy, faint but potent. It felt alive in a way that made even Daoist Chu frown.

"There is something foreign in it," Lin Mu said. "A strange force that tries to drain vitality."

Shanhu Dian shivered. "Even from here... I can feel the cold creeping into my soul."

The chill was not physical. It was the kind that scratched at the spirit, making their backs stiffen and their breaths tighten. The air itself felt wrong, like a place where the world’s laws had been twisted and bent.

Lin Mu sensed deeper. Beyond the water’s surface, far within the Ninth Sea, his Spatial Perception detected violent fluctuations. It was as if the very fabric of reality wavered.

They were still nearly a kilometer away from the true boundary, yet the corruption leaked out enough for them to feel it clearly. A lesser group would have turned back by now.

"We cannot fly into that," Elyon muttered. "Those distortions are too close to the surface."

"I see them," Lin Mu replied, eyes narrowing.

Spatial cracks flashed intermittently across the distant sea.

Invisible to normal senses, but to Lin Mu they appeared as violent tears across the fabric of reality, lined with unstable ripples of energy. Dark gashes opened and vanished without warning, each one briefly revealing the Lesser Void beyond.

Through his perception, he saw entire torrents of seawater being sucked into the void through these cracks. When the cracks closed moments later, massive whirlpools erupted in their wake, spinning with enough force to tear even large immortal beasts apart.

"There is water here to buffer the distortion," Daoist Chu said solemnly. "But if one tried flying above, the rifts would pluck them out of the sky instantly."

Shanhu Ying trembled. "This... this is why the Ninth Sea is forbidden. It is impossible to navigate without the clan’s ancestral methods and a strong ship."

Lin Mu nodded.

He reached into his ring and withdrew the Shanhu Clan’s High Grade Immortal Ship. The enormous vessel materialized over the water with a low hum, its coral reinforced hull glowing faintly with a blue radiance. Arrays lit up across its surface, illuminating the night for a brief moment before settling into a steady glow.

The group climbed aboard. Little Shrubby leapt gracefully onto the deck, shrinking slightly to rest in a comfortable crouch near the front. The youngsters approached the ship’s control formation, and Shanhu Guimen placed her hand on the core pedestal.

"We must activate the arrays now," she said. "Only the bloodline holders can—"

She froze.

The moment she tried channeling her immortal Qi, the ship jerked violently. The water roared beneath them. The oppressive pressure of the Ninth Sea made her knees weaken. Sweat formed on her brow in just seconds.

"It is harder than usual," she whispered.

Lin Mu immediately stepped forward. "Let me take over."

"You cannot," Guimen said, still struggling to maintain balance. "The ship’s arrays are bound to the bloodline. They cannot respond to—"

Her voice cut off.

SHUA

Without any force, without any visible gesture, Lin Mu’s immortal sense slipped through the ship’s restrictions with laughable ease, brushing aside the bloodline locks and merging with the formation core as if it were welcoming him.

The control instantly left her hands and flowed into Lin Mu’s.

She stared wide eyed. "How did you..."

Daoist Chu could not help but laugh. "There is no need to think too hard. Lin Mu is a Formation Grandmaster. Even a bloodline restriction is nothing more than a puzzle to him."

Shanhu Qing whispered, "A... Formation Grandmaster?"

Shanhu Jie’s jaw dropped. "But he looks so young!"

Cattaleya grinned. "He is full of surprises. You will get used to it."

Lin Mu guided the ship with calm ease, smoothing its movement through the turbulent waters. Even the violent waves bent beneath the ship, turning into gentle undulations as if bowing to a higher command.

Daoist Chu placed his own hand on the secondary control formation. "I will handle directional movement. You maintain defenses."

"Agreed," Lin Mu replied.

The two worked seamlessly together.

Lin Mu extended his immortal sense outward and coated the entire ship in a thin veil of energy.

Then he layered his Sword Intent on top of it, creating a second transparent barrier that shimmered faintly. It was sharper than any blade, able to slice away distortions or repel malicious energy. The ship glowed faintly under his influence, almost like a star gliding across the blackened sea.

Daoist Chu rotated the steering formations with perfect precision. Under his command, the ship slid through narrow gaps between unstable currents, avoiding whirlpools and the subtle vibrations that warned of spatial cracks.

The youngsters watched the older cultivators in awe.

"They make this look like a calm lake," Shanhu Ying whispered.

Shanhu Guimen felt her heart pounding. "How is this possible? Even our Patriarch struggles to control the ship so smoothly."

Elyon crossed his arms and smirked. "I told you these people are not ordinary."

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