Chapter 259: The Black Island and the Northern Sea
He should wait here a little bit longer.
Otherwise, if they kept missing each other like in those melodramatic cultivation stories where the protagonists repeatedly passed by without meeting, that would be troublesome.
Earlier, he had been too hasty in leaving.
Just because the island looked strange, he immediately chose to depart.
In truth, this island did not seem harmful to him at all.
Xiao Shou instead could feel that the sea beasts outside were showing a strong hostility toward him.
While thinking this, he did not realize that he had unknowingly begun to describe his situation and his disciple’s situation from a different perspective.
Although Fu Young’s words had not been fully spoken, his expressions and actions were already subtly influencing Xiao Shou.
However, Xiao Shou himself was unaware of this.
He was currently fully focused on sensing the island.
Through his perception, he discovered that his divine sense could not penetrate more than three meters below the island’s surface.
Above that depth, whether it was soil or rock, everything contained a special kind of energy particles.
These particles were infecting everything on the island and they were the source of its completely black appearance.
After sensing this, Xiao Shou tried to gather those particles together.
Just as Xiao Shou concentrated those black particles together, the communication jade at his waist lit up.
Only then did he remember that he still had a way to contact his disciple.
His mind had simply forgotten it earlier.
Fortunately, his disciple was quick witted.
Xiao Shou quickly stopped studying the black particles and activated the communication jade.
When he saw the light screen projection of the young man, he could not help but recall the earlier scene and his ears turned slightly red.
He quickly coughed to hide his discomfort.
"Young’er."
"Master, where are you? Everything here is completely dark. Are you in danger?" Fu Young asked worriedly.
Xiao Shou smiled awkwardly and nodded slightly.
He also carefully observed the environment around his disciple, but could only see what looked like mountain shapes surrounding him.
"I am on a strange sea island. There is no danger for now, but I have not yet determined the exact sea region. What about you? Where are you? Is there any danger around you?"
"I am very safe here, Master. Based on my deduction, you should be in the Northern Sea," Fu Young said with a bright smile mixed with a trace of gentleness.
However, beneath the area that was not captured by the communication jade, countless corpses of giant race were piled up like mountains.
Their blood flowed like a river, forming a horrifying scene where the corpse piles were level with surrounding peaks.
Even more shocking was that Fu Young himself was completely clean, not a single drop of blood on him.
It truly seemed as if there was no danger at all.
Xiao Shou had always trusted his disciple due to his intelligence and ability, so he immediately relaxed upon hearing this and did not even notice that Fu Young had not answered where he himself was.
Instead, he curiously asked, "How do you know I am in the Northern Sea? I have not even figured that out myself."
"That’s because of the sky."
"We were originally in the Sunfall Domain. While we were on the way back to Sunfall City, it happened to be night. When the geomagnetic storm erupted just now, I was sent here, while Master ended up in the sea region. It is sunset on my side, but it is bright daylight on yours. It looks like it is exactly opposite to the Sunfall Domain. This kind of celestial phenomenon is recorded in many time and seasonal jade slips," Xiao Shou said without any attempt to keep it secret and answering obediently.
Hearing this, Xiao Shou felt relieved.
His disciple was still the same obedient disciple.
It must have been that they had experienced too many shocking events earlier and the atmosphere afterward had been too strange, which causing him to misunderstand due to poor communication.
Perhaps he had also reached the legal age for marriage and it was just physiological distractions causing strange thoughts.
Because of Fu Young’s obedient response, he felt deeply ashamed and assumed he had misunderstood his disciple.
Then he thought he had wrongly interpreted him and indulged in irrational thoughts again.
Thinking this way, Xiao Shou felt extremely embarrassed and forced his facial muscles to stay steady so he would not lose his dignity as a master.
"My disciple is still as clever as ever. Since I am in the Northern Sea, it should not be too far from the location of the Ten Thousand Year Profound Ice. We should head to Northfrost Isle as soon as possible and recruit some cultivators there to obtain it," Xiao Shou said.
"Yes. I will listen to Master," Fu Young replied with a smile that remained as gentle as ever.
However, his heart that had been slightly tense finally relaxed after seeing Xiao Shou remain completely normal and unchanged.
Yet at the same time, a faint sense of disappointment arose inside him.
That feeling only faded when he noticed his master’s expression still unchanged after speaking as if he had deliberately frozen his face again.
Why did he always do that?
Even though Fu Young was curious, he suppressed the thought when he sensed a large number of giant race rushing in from afar.
He obediently said, "Then Master, please take care of your matters first. Let us contact each other when we have time, until we meet again on Northfrost Isle."
"Alright. I will turn off the communication jade now."
Only then did Xiao Shou finally notice the abnormal particles in this place and hurriedly cut off the communication jade.
He looked at his hair in shock.
If he had not seen wrongly, the hair formed by his bloodline ability had automatically absorbed those black particles from the ground while he was distracted talking to his disciple.
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