Grinding EXP From a Demon Hunting Ship

Chapter 360: Chapter 355: Divine Kingdom Space, Dao Embryo’s Transformation

BANG.

Within the Forest Sea.

It was as if a giant beast was rampaging, running wild.

One after another, unusually thick, tall, and straight grayish-brown giant trees crashed to the ground!

The dense, verdant branches and leaves swayed, making a "RUSTLE RUSTLE" sound.

BOOM!

A ’giant beast’ appeared!

It had a towering, pitch-black hull. Its underside was covered in a layer of hard, smooth bone plates. Six pairs of giant load-bearing wheels were mounted on both sides of the hull, providing mobility.

And on its front, like a logging machine, grew multiple bony arms. These arms were equipped with hands capable of grasping and circular saws with immense cutting power!

That’s right.

This giant beast was none other than the Ghostly Flood Dragon!

—Land-faring mode!

Who said spirit ships couldn’t travel on land?

’I, Su Ye, will sail this vessel on dry land today!’

After making some adjustments and transforming the Ghostly Flood Dragon into a form best suited for traversing the forest, Su Ye steered it to begin his exploration of the Fog Forest.

However, finding an exit still seemed a distant prospect.

"A Divine Kingdom truly is the pinnacle of the Southern Deities’ craft... My level of skill in Arrays is just a joke in comparison."

On the deck of the Ghostly Flood Dragon, Su Ye expressionlessly put an Array Plate into his Storage Ring.

He was trying to escape.

According to Su Ye’s understanding, a Divine Kingdom Space was, in theory, a type of array space.

In essence, it wasn’t much different from the space within the Storage Ring he wore.

They were all artificial spaces constructed by cultivators, or deities—in short, by beings with cultivation—using means such as array patterns and runes.

Theoretically, as long as one’s skill in Arrays was high enough, one could use an array to counter an array and break through the Divine Kingdom Space!

Of course.

Su Ye also knew that shaking, let alone destroying, a Divine Kingdom with Arrays was far beyond his current capabilities.

’But creating a spatial fissure for me to escape this place...’

’Surely that’s not... so far out of reach?’

Su Ye pondered.

However, reality was a bit cruel.

After Su Ye’s attempts, he found that creating a spatial rift within this Divine Kingdom... even this ’small goal’ was beyond his capabilities to achieve.

Of course, it wasn’t entirely impossible.

’Maybe... if I research and test continuously for a dozen years or so, I might be able to do it?’

’Heh... is this a joke?’

At this thought, Su Ye himself couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

The God of Mist Forest had gone to great lengths to pull him into the Divine Kingdom; it must have a scheme.

Even if it hadn’t made its move yet, it was only a matter of time... If it were a matter of months, he could perhaps stall, but a dozen years?

It was impossible no matter how he thought about it.

This kind of timeline made Su Ye give up on the idea of escaping the Divine Kingdom through deduction and planning.

’I still have to explore...’

A Divine Kingdom was just a high-level form of an array space.

Of this, Su Ye was one hundred percent certain.

’I’m a third-rank, middle-grade Array Master, after all. Show some respect!’

’So...’

’Since it’s an array space, it definitely has an exit...’

Su Ye mused.

Considering that these deities of the Far South Continent could descend upon the mortal world even in their current state.

And back then, when the Divine Kingdoms were first established, the deities must have descended upon the mortal world even more frequently!

’According to the records in Aino City, during the Goddess of Fertility’s peak, an Angel would descend every year or two to bless the mortal King.’

’So, with that kind of frequency, there must be a regular exit in this Divine Kingdom!’

Su Ye was very confident.

As long as he found this exit, he could get out!

Even if this exit passage had already been sealed by the deity.

But, it had existed once!

Relying on this exit, the difficulty of leaving the Divine Kingdom would surely be greatly reduced!

With this thought in mind, Su Ye relied on his attainments in the dao of arrays.

He deduced several possible locations for an exit.

He steered the Ghostly Flood Dragon toward the target locations.

"I hope I can find it."

"This Mist Forest Divine Kingdom... I don’t want to stay here for a single minute longer..." Su Ye grimaced, his expression hardening as he stared at the dense, mist-shrouded Sea of Trees.

This Fog Forest gave him a very bad feeling.

No insects, no birds, no beasts...

Only an endless expanse of trees, a perennial dense fog, and wildly growing fungi—this stuff was the source of the toxins in the air!

"Cough, cough..."

"What a disgusting smell."

Su Ye covered his mouth and nose, coughing.

...

The Ghostly Flood Dragon’s journey was exceedingly dull.

The Sea of Trees and the dense fog before him seemed endless.

He would cut down one tree, only for three more to appear before him, a repeating cycle.

Moreover, this Fog Forest looked almost identical no matter where he went.

This caused Su Ye to lose all patience for sightseeing and enjoying the journey in a very short time.

Instead, he returned to the captain’s cabin and dedicated most of his energy to cultivation.

...

「In the captain’s cabin.」

A whale-oil lamp burned brightly, its flame flickering.

It cast a warm, dim yellow glow upon the intricate, dark-red carpet.

On the bed, Su Ye sat cross-legged, his consciousness sinking into his Dantian Qi Sea.

BZZZT.

Within his Magic Power Crystal, six divine seeds of different colors and dazzling lusters spun and floated!

’Six divine seeds...’

After refining the Cyan Rong Divinity and obtaining the sixth divine seed—[Reversing Destiny and Returning to Life]—Su Ye now had six divine seeds!

This meant he had become like the Daozi of the Celestial Sword Sect, Xiri of the Xuankong Temple, the Loose Cultivator Wujian... like the many renowned and prodigal cultivators who had left a brilliant mark on history and dominated their eras.

’Welcome to the Dao Embryo Dharma Aspect club!’

Su Ye opened a bottle of fragrant Spirit Wine for himself, poured it into a white porcelain cup, and downed it in one gulp!

’Er...’

’In the Far South Continent, shouldn’t I be drinking hot cocoa?’

’Ah, whatever, who cares!’

Dao Embryo Dharma Aspect.

Su Ye was still far from the Nascent Soul Realm; his six divine seeds were just seeds, unable to manifest a Dharma Aspect like a Nascent Soul True Monarch.

But, even so, it had brought about a remarkably noticeable change!

’The cooldown time for Quasi-Techniques has been drastically reduced.’

The two ’Small Triad’ structures cycled with each other, and the six divine seeds flowed amongst themselves.

This caused the cooldown time for the Quasi-Techniques represented by each divine seed to be greatly shortened!

’One year?’

Su Ye estimated the time.

It wasn’t a reduction *of* one year.

Rather, it was a reduction *from* five years *to* one year!

An epic-level enhancement!

Furthermore, this cooldown reduction was just a side effect.

The direct effect of the Dao Embryo was an increase in the nurturing speed of the divine seeds.

If before it was dual-core (base speed + one Small Triad),

then now, all six divine seeds were cores!

Hexa-core!

Super acceleration!

And on top of that, Su Ye had made another surprising discovery.

’I can actually use creation points to bypass the cooldown and activate Quasi-Techniques now?’

’It can even do that?’