Chapter 342 - 341: Birth of the Dragon Spirit Fish

When the number of online users on the Yin Net dropped to around ten thousand, the death rate finally started to slow. By this point, all Dharma Realm cultivators were dead, and the Peeping Dao Realm cultivators were scattered and decimated. Only a few of the most elite geniuses who had special fortuitous encounters survived.

The Fish of Two Lives had culled more than a hundred thousand of the remaining cultivators. Those who managed to survive this stage were undoubtedly rare geniuses from the Yin Yang Great Realm or other Great Realms.

At this moment, no more Fish of Two Lives leaped from the water, and Jiang Qiu’s fishing rod no longer caught any Fish of One Life. He lifted his head and felt the sky changing color; the daylight that had just arrived was once again shifting into night.

It was a strange, disorienting sensation of inverted time and space. But this time was different. It wasn’t just the sky changing color, but the surface of the water as well.

On the boundless surface of the sea, the faint outlines of some islands emerged. It seemed as if some other layer of spacetime was overlapping with this one, causing different bodies of water to merge.

At this point, someone on the Yin Net finally reacted, "Holy shit, were we fishing in different spacetimes just now?!"

"Awesome! I think I can sense the auras of other cultivators now. The concentration of Spirit Charm in this Secret Realm is rising too."

"Whose masterpiece is this Secret Realm? How can it have such a stunning nesting of Laws?"

The Space-Time Dao is one of the most difficult Daos to cultivate. It is not meant for Low Level cultivators. In other words, it’s impossible for someone to achieve Peeping Dao, Dao Entry, or Fusion with the Space-Time Dao.

This absolutely Dominator Level Dao is merely a small reward for a cultivator after they reach the Fusion Realm. Only experts of that level can glimpse a corner of this Dao.

In other words, the Space-Time Dao is like an advanced subject. A cultivator must first cultivate their basic subjects or their own specialized field to the level of Fusion before they can even attempt to study this Dao.

But one only gets the opportunity upon reaching the Fusion Realm; it doesn’t mean they will automatically know it. It still requires a long time to comprehend.

And under these circumstances, even a peerless genius who has just advanced to the Fusion Realm cannot directly traverse the void to teleport between Great Realms. It would still require many years of accumulation.

However, that is just one of the most basic applications of the Space-Time Dao. It might not even be able to affect other cultivators, so it can’t be considered all that stunning.

But things are different now. This Dragon Spirit Secret Realm is made of countless nested aquatic spacetimes. When everyone entered the Secret Realm earlier, they were all divided into different aquatic zones by the Laws here.

This was enough to show that the Space-Time Dao here could easily alter the spatiotemporal state of others, and even those at the Fusion Realm level could not avoid it.

It gave one the feeling of being a tiny, helpless ant, toyed with at will by a giant palm.

"The origin of this Secret Realm is far from simple," Jiang Qiu couldn’t help but muse. ’Can a Harmonization Realm expert achieve something of this level?’

He hadn’t seen much of the world, but from the True Dragon’s heritage he had received before, he had learned of many things that were beyond his own horizons.

There are also differences between Secret Realms. Some are fragments of a Great Realm, like the Northern Boundary, for example. Its terrain was naturally formed, but it later changed due to the fall of the True Dragon.

Other Secret Realms, however, did not exist from the beginning. They were created through Refinement by powerful cultivators using wondrous Secret Techniques. For instance, the Celestial Kun Illusion Realm he had experienced before should have been able to become a Secret Realm, but it didn’t because the Kun hadn’t completely died.

From the looks of it, this Secret Realm’s operations were always dramatic and large-scale—suddenly night, suddenly day. It couldn’t possibly be a normal Secret Realm.

It was highly likely that it was formed from the inner world left behind by someone after they fell.

’A Secret Realm of this scale, with layers upon layers of the Space-Time Dao...’

Upon reaching this conclusion, Jiang Qiu’s eyes lit up, and he secretly clenched his fists. ’Could it be one of the True Dragon’s inner worlds? That would mean a True Dragon’s body is really buried here!’

Usually, where there is an inner Secret Realm, there must be a fragment of a body. And it could never be just any random, ordinary body fragment; it has to be a crucial fragment that is intrinsically linked to the Secret Realm.

Just like in the Northern Boundary, where the True Dragon’s eyes changed the terrain, creating the Northern Boundary Mountain. That is the influence of a True Dragon’s body fragment.

A fragment of the True Dragon’s body must have appeared here as well, which is why its inner Secret Realm manifested.

OMMM—

The world was still changing color. After night fell, daybreak followed, and with it, more aquatic zones overlapped, shifting from illusory to real.

As miraculous as the rising of the sun and moon, spacetime continuously transformed. The Yin Net exploded with discussion: "HOLY SHIT, I think I felt the aura of the Dragon Race! It was only for a moment, an insignificant little trace, but it felt like a dark cloud blotting out the sky was rolling in!"

"For real? Where’s the Dragon Race aura... HOLY SHIT, IT’S REAL! Could this place really be where a True Dragon’s body is buried?!"

"Ever since the Era of Dragon Fall, no pure Dragon Race bloodline has existed in the world. Even Pseudo Dragons are pitifully rare. This is without a doubt a True Dragon heritage site!"

"Awesome, just awesome! The Netherworld Monarch is so generous, opening a Secret Realm like this for us to enter!"

"I felt it too. There’s definitely a Dragon Race aura. It’s changing imperceptibly, the rhythm like a fish flapping its fins, appearing and disappearing."

As the changes in the sky accelerated, a subtle Dragon Race aura began to emerge. Jiang Qiu and Snow, who possessed Dragon Race bloodlines, were the first to sense it.

Following the changes in this Dragon Race aura, one could probe further and detect a hint of a familiar presence, one that was incredibly similar to the aura the True Dragon had left behind at the Northern Boundary’s mountain pass, though subtle differences existed due to the different spacetime.

’The True Dragon’s residual aura has given birth to the Dragon Spirit Fish!’

As he reached this conclusion, the constantly shifting light in the sky abruptly turned from dayglow to a golden radiance, and the night transformed into an obsidian-gold glow. In the formless sky, the faint outline of a dragon-fish emerged, like a single, magnificent brushstroke splashed across a landscape painting.

When the Dragon Spirit Fish appeared carrying the True Dragon’s residual aura, a clamor rose and fell throughout the entire Secret Realm. Countless Fusion Realm experts soared into the sky, their visible figures like raindrops surging upward against the current, smashing into the heavens.

Clenching his fists, Jiang Qiu also felt the urge to act. His heart pounded wildly in his chest. He could already feel his soul being drawn to the Dragon Spirit Fish, and a resonance from the depths of his Dragon Race bloodline was urging him to seize it!

An instinctual feeling told him that as long as he could obtain the Dragon Spirit Fish, his path on the Great Dao would be smooth sailing from then on. The Dragon Race bloodline he possessed would become more complete, granting not just simple bloodline suppression, but a deeper, soul-level suppression!