Chapter 819: Chapter 668: A Perfect Match
The two exchanged some intimate words in low voices.
The sea breeze scattered their fragmented sentences.
Mostly, it was Long Yunshang who was giving instructions, while Shen Xuan responded briefly.
From beginning to end, Long Yunshang did not ask for anything from him.
No probing, no hints, just sharing secret words between them.
Deep in his heart, Shen Xuan felt a slight tremor.
He reached into his storage pouch and took out a warm azure jade box.
His actions were secretive and swift, quietly passing it into Long Yunshang’s hand.
"This is a Dragon Bone Fruit, a quasi-Tier Four Spirit Fruit, extremely rare. It greatly supplements both Qi and blood, as well as the Divine Soul. You can consume and refine this fruit before you break through to the Late Stage Dharma Realm, it will aid you significantly."
Shen Xuan’s voice was extremely low, brushing against Long Yunshang’s ear, his breath ruffling her hair.
After speaking, he did not linger, turning and striding towards the large ship.
Behind him, that gaze followed him like a shadow, fixated on his back.
The sea breeze grew even stronger.
Shen Xuan stepped onto the deck, standing firm, without turning back.
"Ah Jun!"
A loud shout pierced the sea breeze, clearly transmitted from the pier.
"Be careful on the way! Ah Qiao is waiting for you on Golden Dragon Island!"
Shen Xuan turned around.
On the pier, the figure clad in crimson stood against the wind, waving vigorously at him.
Shen Xuan lifted his arm, giving a gentle wave in her direction.
"Set sail."
He instructed Long Zhijiao beside him.
"Yes."
Thick ropes were untied and cast into the sea.
The sails, pulled by a group of men, slowly rose and swelled with the wind.
The heavy iron pearwood ship emitted a deep "creak" as it slowly left the pier, heading towards Starlight Island in the northwest.
Standing on the deck, Shen Xuan gazed towards Golden Dragon Island, faintly sensing a powerful Divine Sense withdrawing.
"It’s a pity, the great powers of Long Family Stronghold still refuse to reveal themselves even once."
Shen Xuan mused silently.
He viewed Golden Dragon Island as a place of retreat.
In the future, when the Demon Race invades the Profound Origin Realm in force.
If the situation collapses and becomes untenable.
He plans to bring his friends and family from Starlight Island, offspring, and those willing to follow him, retreating to Golden Dragon Island.
In his eyes, an isolated island ten thousand miles away from the mainland coast, surrounded by the treacherous Endless Sea Domain, serves as a natural barrier.
An excellent base for resistance and hibernation.
What Shen Xuan values is not the island itself.
But the Long Family members.
Tens of thousands of Long Family members, almost all achieving Golden Body Realm as Body Refining Masters.
This is a tremendous and unique wealth.
The threshold for Body Refining is much lower than that for Spirit Cultivation.
As long as some offspring among them have Spirit Roots and also practice spiritual methods.
With the profound foundation in Body Refining of the Long Family as a base, many can emerge and break through to the Dharma Realm.
The resources and time required to train a Dharma Realm Body Refining Master are far less than that for a True Pill Cultivator.
If provided with well-crafted Magical Treasures, armor, coordinated battle arrays...
An adequately equipped Dharma Realm Body Refining Master is enough to directly confront or even defeat Same Tier True Pill Demon Generals on the battlefield.
If hundred or thousand gather into battle formations, with unified commands, moving and retreating as one.
Even a Demon Infant ancestor can be besieged and killed.
Shen Xuan has planned the subsequent moves long ago.
He himself can, due to his cultivation, flee anytime and anywhere.
But those friends and family, offspring, followers from Starlight Island, they need a reliable base that can allow them to survive through the chaotic times.
As long as enough cultivation resources can be accumulated, advancing Artifact Refining and Array Methods to the utmost.
Relying on the manpower and financial resources of both Golden Dragon Island and Starlight Island.
Shen Xuan is confident he can manage Golden Dragon Island into an impregnable sea fortress.
It’s just that the Long Family on Golden Dragon Island is not completely trusting, still wary of him.
On Golden Dragon Island, there is also a presence, powerful enough to deter Transformed Sea Demons.
A strength comparable to the Nascent Soul Realm.
Yet that presence has never revealed its true form before him, nor has any contact been made.
"Although, my actions indeed utilize the Long Family."
"However, for the Long Family, it’s also a path forward."
Shen Xuan glanced at the excited Long Family members on the large ship.
They were in their prime, ambitious, eager to venture into the outside world.
If he were not on the ship.
Relying solely on this large ship and someone like Long Zhijiao, a Dharma Realm Elder, crossing this perilous ten thousand mile sea to reach the mainland would practically be a fool’s dream.
Any Tier Three or higher Sea Demon they encounter could devour them, ship and all, leaving no trace.
However, he is on the ship now.
The situation is naturally different.
...
An hour later, Long Yunshang returned to the forbidden area at the back of the mountain.
She did not head towards the solitary stone hut, but paused briefly by the cold pool.
Then, she leaped silently into the icy, bone-chilling water.
She dived all the way down, to the darkest depths of the pool.
Reaching out, she pressed somewhere on the moss-covered rock wall.
A secret door, almost blended with the surrounding rock, slid open noiselessly, revealing a water channel lit by soft blue light.
Long Yunshang swam inside.
The secret door quietly closed behind her, sealing off the outside pool water.
The water channel sloped downward, extending into the deeper seabed.
After swimming roughly a hundred feet, it opened up into a vast space.
This turned out to be a cave mansion carved deep within the seabed rock layers.
Pure and concentrated Water Spiritual Qi, into a light spirit mist, filled the space.
In the depths of the cave, a primary root of a Spirit Vein emitting shimmering blue light, like a massive tree root, deeply embedded into the rock wall.
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