Chapter 1385 : A Familiar Path

"Perfect timing."

Eldrin murmured inwardly, realizing that the Dark Roc Demon King was rushing to the Abyssal Ruins Sea in such haste, most likely summoned by the Western Abyss Dragon Palace.

Watching the Dark Roc Demon King depart, Eldrin felt a slight sense of relief. Without delay, he utilized the Yin-Yang Void Mirror to traverse toward Tempest Valley. Having visited Tempest Valley once before, Eldrin moved with practiced ease this time.

He stealthily made his way to the core of the blessed land and soon located the 8-tribulation demon immortal of the Dark Roc Clan. "A pity, the Heavenly Spiritual Root (Spiritual Root) remains unopened."

Gazing at the Whistling Wind Valley before him, Eldrin couldn't help but feel a tinge of regret.

作为顶级的福地，飂风谷一脉足有十几位地仙老祖，如此底蕴凑齐四株开Heavenly Spiritual Root (Spiritual Root)肯定是绰绰有余的。

At present, it is not here. Evidently, the opened Heavenly Spiritual Root (Spiritual Root) was most likely hidden by the Dark Roc King within the Earth Immortal Realm and has yet to be retrieved.

At this thought, Eldrin shook his head and said, "Enough. Obtaining 1 8-Calamity Dao Source is already more than sufficient for me."

With this thought in mind, he wasted no time. In an instant, he gripped the Flaming Prison Heavenly Halberd and thrust it forward in a single decisive strike.

Ambushing with the power of a late-stage Earth Immortal left no suspense in slaying an 8-Calamity Immortal.

Before the 8-Tribulation Demonic Immortal from the Whistling Wind Valley could even react, a single strike pierced through his glabella in an instant. A torrent of baleful energy violently churned, completely annihilating his primordial spirit.

"Who goes there?"

In the blink of an eye, the Dark Roc clan was alerted, and over a dozen Earth Immortal elders charged out in utter astonishment.

Alas, it was ultimately too late. Eldrin activated the Yin-Yang Void Mirror, which enveloped the Source of the Dao and fled through the void. In an instant, he had already emerged hundreds of millions of miles away across the seas.

The Earth Immortal Patriarchs of the Howling Wind Valley were engulfed in boundless fury, yet lacking a Void Spiritual Artifact to suppress him, they could only lament in futility, watching helplessly as he departed.

After leaving the Tempest Wind Sea, Eldrin prepared to head toward the Sea of Returning Abyss. Yet he had not flown far before halting abruptly. "No, I cannot go back."

Eldrin murmured inwardly, his expression turning profoundly grave.

Now that the master of the Western Abyss Dragon Palace has stepped into the Celestial Immortal Realm, the demon race will launch a counterattack against humanity in these final 1 1000 plus years. Under such circumstances, the first targets the master of the Western Abyss Dragon Palace will deal with are undoubtedly top-tier blessed lands like Lord Yexu.

Setting aside the millennia-old enmity between the 2 sides, even the Primordial Chaos Treasures and Taiyi Immortal Artifacts contained within these supreme blessed lands alone were prizes the Western Abyss Dragon Palace would stop at nothing to obtain.

Moreover, top talents like Eldrin (Person Name), who have ventured into forbidden realms, are all seeds of future Celestial Immortals and undoubtedly among the primary targets the demon race aims to eliminate.

"With my current strength, I might not be worthy of catching the eye of the Western Abyss Dragon Palace's master."

"Yet to guard against any unforeseen peril, I must not return to the Abyssal Sea. At the very least, I must remain concealed until this great tribulation has passed." Eldrin murmured inwardly, resolving at once not to seek refuge within the Return-to-Abyss Blessed Sanctuary.

He concealed himself deep within the abyssal trenches of the Western Qi Divine Abyss Sea and immediately transmitted a message through esoteric means to Lyra (Person Name) and the others, informing them of the unforeseen developments in this battle.

After receiving the news, Lyra (Person Name) and Qing Ji (Person Name) openly fled the Sea of Returning Abyss and concealed themselves within the boundless Western Qi Divine Abyssal Sea, leaving Ri Ji (Person Name) and others to guard the Sea of Returning Abyss.

In fact, not only Lyra (Person Name) and Qing Ji (Person Name), but countless prodigies among the human and divine races across the entire Western Qi Divine Abyss Sea were now following the same path.

Those with the potential to attain Celestial Immortality all fled their sanctuaries 1 after another, concealing themselves within the Sea of Western Qi and Divine Abyss.

Although it was unlikely that the Western Abyss Dragon King, now a Celestial Immortal, would stoop to attacking lower-level immortals, they dared not take the risk.

Vast and boundless, the Western Qi Divine Abyss Sea stretched into infinity. Once he concealed himself within its endless expanse, even a Celestial Immortal would find it nearly impossible to locate him—let alone now, as the great calamity erupted and the heavenly secrets grew obscure and inscrutable.

Hidden deep beneath the ocean's depths, Eldrin changed hiding locations every few years to avoid detection by the demon clan. Unknowingly, hundreds of years had slipped away.

During this time, Eldrin had also secretly gathered intelligence, gradually coming to understand the current situation.

Back in the day, after the master of the Western Abyss Dragon Palace had defeated all those half-step Celestial Immortals, his first move was to summon the demon tribes and lay siege to the Ye Xu Divine Sea, intent on utterly eliminating his great rival, the Ye Xu Divine Lord.

However, that Lord Ye Xu was truly extraordinary. In the Western Qi Divine Abyss Sea, he had laid down a ninth-rank mountain-protecting grand formation using the Great Void Heaven Sword of the Primordial Unity. The battle against him raged for hundreds of years without a decisive outcome.

"The great war has raged for nearly 30 1000 years. The Western Abyss Dragon Palace has truly exhausted its accumulated resources."

Understanding that this battle had yet to reach its conclusion, Eldrin murmured inwardly, a trace of emotion stirring within him.

At its peak, the Western Abyss Dragon Palace lineage boasted over 2 100 Earth Immortal Elders, more than 30,000 9 Heavens True Dragons, and even several Great Perfection Stage Earth Immortals.

In the great war that spanned tens of thousands of years, the strength of the Western Abyss Dragon Palace was decimated, leaving fewer than 50 Earth Immortal Elders today, with only 1 having reached the Great Perfection of the Earth Immortal realm.

Like the Heaven-Splitting Ancient Ship, over half of the myriad rare treasures had already been destroyed.

Under such circumstances, the strength of the Western Abyss Dragon Palace proved insufficient. Even with the conscription of forces like the Dark Roc Demon King to besiege the stronghold, they had failed to capture the Leaf Ruins Blessed Land after hundreds of years of warfare.

"I hope the Divine Sea of the Leaf Ruins can hold out a little longer."

Eldrin murmured inwardly, suppressing the thought in the end as he continued traversing the boundless ocean depths. Unconsciously, he arrived at a place brimming with vast emptiness.

He was about to depart when his brow subtly furrowed, sensing faint yet distinct auras of immense power clashing in the distance. "Could experts at the Earth Immortal level be battling here?"

Eldrin's eyes flickered slightly as he immediately concealed himself within the void using the Yin Yang Void Mirror, stealthily approaching the battlefield. He hadn't ventured far when he spotted 2 dazzling figures engaged in combat across the vast expanse of the open sea.

Of the 2 warring parties, 1 was a Ninth Heaven deity commanding boundless thunder, while the other consisted of 5 earthbound immortals radiating overwhelming demonic aura.

Eldrin roughly sensed that the Thunder Deity's cultivation was at the First Level of Earth Immortal, yet its combat prowess rivaled that of a Sixth Level Earth Immortal—a force not to be underestimated.

The cultivation levels of the earth immortals among the demon race varied greatly, yet the leader had reached the seventh tier of the Earth Immortal Realm.

At this moment, 5 Earth Immortals from the demon race had laid down a grand formation. Under their relentless assault, the Thunder Deity was already on the verge of being utterly defeated. "It's the Golden-Winged Celestial Ape clan, and that 1 among them."

Observing the identities of these individuals, Eldrin paused briefly in contemplation before discerning their origins. The combatants were none other than members of the Golden-Winged Celestial Ape Clan and the Thunder Deities of the 10 1000 Calamities Lightning Sea.

Within the Western Qi Divine Abyss Sea, the Golden-Winged Sky Ape lineage stood as an immensely powerful Earthly Immortal blessed land. At its zenith, this bloodline boasted 15 Earthly Immortal patriarchs, including 1 formidable expert at the Eighth Level of Earthly Immortal Realm.