Chapter 4584 — The Third Exit
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Wei Zhao looked up at the sound of its voice. The sight was identical to before—still the ceaselessly drifting Five Elements killing qi, with not the slightest difference to be seen. Yet that was hardly strange; even back at the original place, Wei Zhao could not have pierced the Five Elements killing qi with the naked eye to see the Five-Venom Swamp above. The only way to know what lay overhead was to go up and see.
"Up there... where is it?" Wei Zhao could not help asking. Having finally found a possible exit, he could barely restrain the urge to try it.
"I don't know. My master would not let me go up, and it seems it never went itself. The only reason it knew of this place at all was word passed down from the old flood dragon of the previous generation. But be that as it may, one thing is certain: there is danger up there. So whether or not to leave by this route—you truly must think it over carefully," the Dragon of Five Baleful Spirits said, its tone grave for once.
Danger there certainly was. Otherwise the Five-Venom Flood Dragon would never have warned the Dragon of Five Baleful Spirits so; if beings of their strength had to be so cautious, then for Wei Zhao, whose strength stood only at the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage, the degree of danger could well be imagined.
The old Western Mountain Sect was dangerous, and the spiritual beast clan was dangerous, and yet this unknown land above might well be more dangerous than the two of them combined. If that proved so, Wei Zhao would not even be able to cry.
Wei Zhao gritted his teeth and turned to look at the ghost thing drifting beside him. He was unwilling to give up just like that. He knew full well how perilous this place was, but compared with the other two exits it at least offered a thread of possibility. After all, going out by either of the other two meant, nine parts out of ten, being killed on the spot or driven back; this one before him at least left room for some hopeful imagining.
"Judging by the distance and direction we flew just now, I can roughly work out what's above us. No wonder the Five-Venom Flood Dragon would not let the lad of five baleful spirits go up here—I'd have done the same myself," the ghost thing said, its tone somewhat complicated.
Though the Dragon of Five Baleful Spirits was nominally master of this space, it knew nothing at all of what lay above. The ghost thing, by contrast, knew it like the palm of its hand; after all, the South Continent had once been its stronghold, and the whole map of the South Continent was stored in its mind. So long as the direction could be fixed, it could naturally find the corresponding place on that map.
Something in the ghost thing's tone made Wei Zhao's heart tighten. He asked hastily, "Above us is..."
"The Endless Sea!" the ghost thing said slowly, spitting out those four words.
"The sea?" Wei Zhao was struck dumb. He had assumed it would be somewhere like the core interior of South Island, and had even wondered whether it might be the territory of some top-tier spiritual beast like the Vermilion Bird—never had he expected such an answer.
Even the Dragon of Five Baleful Spirits beside him was somewhat taken aback. Since being transported here it had never once gone out, and the Five-Venom Flood Dragon had scarcely spoken of such things to it; of the sea around Cloud-Tier Island it knew nothing at all.
"There's no mistake. Judging by the position, up there is certainly no longer land. It is the Endless Sea itself, and some distance from South Island," the ghost thing said with certainty.
"Since it's the sea, what danger could there be?" Wei Zhao asked, puzzled. The most fearsome thing in the South Continent was undoubtedly the spiritual beast clan; so long as he could avoid them, and avoid the old Western Mountain Sect as well, Wei Zhao felt there should be nothing left to make him shrink back—at least, withdrawing in one piece should be no great problem. (To be continued...)