Eternal Cultivation of Alchemy - Chapter 1714

Chapter 1714 Underwater Battles

Submerged in the coldness of the ocean water, Alex felt a sense of calmness that was hard to find outside of the water.

A sense of calmness and a sense of lurking danger.

The dark water made it feel as though there could be a strong beast right next to him and he would never know. But of course, that was just a feeling. There was nothing around him.

He delved deeper into the water, Midnight already in his hand, and started searching for something to fight. Unfortunately, it seemed that he would have to move further away into deeper territories to find what he was looking for.

The weight of tons and tons of water above Alex put pressure on him that inhibited his movements to a certain extent. His movements were ever so sluggish and his speed ever so slower.

He was sure that the water would also cause his attacks to become slightly weaker just as it already had affected his Spiritual sense. What should have allowed him to sense 10 kilometers around him, now only allowed him a little less than 9 kilometers.

It wasn't a terrible suppression, but it was certainly there, and it was likely that it would get worse the deeper he went into the ocean.

Alex was a few kilometers away from any island and more than a kilometer underwater when the first Saint Beast decided to attack him.

It was a giant fish with 8 razor-sharp fins on either side of its body, a giant grooved fin on its back, and a tail that a nearly three times as large in proportion as a regular fish. At Saint Core 5th realm, the fish wasn't much of a danger to Alex.N♡vεlB¡n: Your Escape into Infinite Tales.

Alex did not know the name of this fish. Aquatic beasts were outside the scope of what he had learned in his life. So, he didn't even know if the beast was supposed to be aggressive or not, or if it had some weaknesses.

Alex watched the fish get close to him, and while he knew the fish could speak if it chose to, he was still ready to fight.

All 8 of the fish's fins glowed red all of a sudden and the water around him boiled hot red. Then, all 8 fins struck out at him, as if slashes from a blade.

Instead of defending, Alex willed the fire in those attacks to go out. His Intent went into work and using the True Fire Dao, he fought against the Intent of the fish to wrestle away its control over the fire to easily get rid of it.

The fish was surprised for just a single second before Alex sent out a single sword slash with Sword Qi that instantly cut it in half, not only killing the body but also the soul.

Without a moment's delay, Alex teleported right next to the fish and quickly stored it in his storage ring before moving on.

The Saint Core realm fish had just been a piece of stone blocking his path. Kicking it away, he could continue down his path to find better fish to kill. He was sure he would find so many.

Alex fought 3 more beasts. A fish, a sea mantis, and a snake. Throughout each of those fights, he used nothing but just Sword Qi. Not because he wanted to, but because that was his only choice.

If Alex wanted to find more beasts, he had to move elsewhere.

Alex felt a small buzz in his Soul Space and quickly looked in to find the talisman that Zhou Linfan had given him had received a message. Alex read into it with no time wasted.

"Heads up! Several soldiers are flying toward a single location in the sea. I think this might be you."

"Oh!" Alex thought and immediately hid his aura. Not only that, he also used his Yang Qi to cover up his body in a way that Alex felt everything around him almost burning.

There were even bubbles forming around his body from the head his body was producing. Thankfully, the water wasn't literally boiling or that would have given away his location more clearly.

Just as Alex was thinking that, a wave of spiritual sense passed around him. It never actually passed through him as anything that did get too close to him would burn up and disappear.

To everyone who was using their spiritual sense at the moment, all they would see was a small blank spot in their sense, and that was if they noticed it in the first place at all.

Unless they knew he was down here, he doubted they would care enough to know that there was a missing piece in the area they had scanned.

Alex waited in the water for a long time before the spiritual senses started pulling again. 'God! How many did the Emperor send after me? He should know nothing more than the fact that I'm a cripple too. Does he want to steal my storage ring or what?' he thought.

He waited until all the senses were gone and then waited some more before moving once again.

This location no longer had any more beasts for him to fight, so Alex would now have to move much further away. There was no time to waste.

He flew in chose a direction at random and went in that direction for a long time, hoping to find a worthy fight. Along the way, he found many beasts that wanted to fight him and eat him, none that were capable of even touching him.

Alex didn't ignore them of course as they were good sources of blood and cores. He killed what he could find. A fish, a snake, a crab, it didn't matter.

After flying for some time, he entered what he thought was another beast's territory. There had been a significant lack of fish swimming around for a short time now.

'Let's see who is here then,' Alex thought and let out his spiritual sense in all directions. When he did so, he noticed something that made his jaw drop.

'It can't be...' he thought and used his senses to look at it closer. It really was it.

'It really is a Fire Coral.'