Why is the Ghost King’s Tomb in the Sea of Misfortune?
This was because the final visual scene left behind by the Ghost King’s Eye when it last gazed up at the starry sky was used by the Mirror Demon King to roughly deduce the location based on the positions of the stars in the sky.
However, the moon and stars in the sky are simply too far away, so basically, no matter which corner of this world one stands in, the positions of the stars in the sky are almost the same.
After extremely complicated calculations, combined with his contact with the Ghost King and his understanding of him, the Mirror Demon King deduced that the Ghost King’s Tomb was in the Sea of Misfortune.
Of course, the so-called Ghost King’s Tomb might not actually be a tomb. It could simply mean that the Ghost King died in that place.
When the Ghost King released his spiritual perception to explore the universe and starry sky, he accidentally discovered the secret of the moon.
Then, he encountered a catastrophe.
The Ghost King was unbelievably powerful. He had almost single-handedly unified one third of the territory of the Southern Wilderness.
Such a Ghost King should have been invincible under heaven, but… actually, he was not.
The thing on the moon might contain the greatest secret of this world. The mysterious power on the moon was incredibly powerful, so powerful that even the Ghost King could not resist it.
After discovering the secret of the moon, the Ghost King knew that he was destined to die.
He made some brief arrangements for what would happen afterwards, then chose a place to die!
Normally, the Ghost King should have been immortal, but when faced with an absolutely overwhelming force, even he would still die.
According to Lan Ling and the Mirror Demon King’s deductions, even if the Ghost King died, he still wanted to leave something behind.
He wanted to die in a place that no force could reach, so he chose the Sea of Misfortune.
According to legend, the Sea of Misfortune contained the greatest ruins and greatest secrets of the ancient Misfortune Demon Empire. This was already common knowledge among the upper levels of the demon race.
However, until now, no one had been able to discover where this secret was.
According to legend, the Sea of Misfortune was once the Demon Capital of the ancient Misfortune Empire, once the strongest and most glorious city of the demon race.
However, a celestial body that flew in from outer space destroyed the Misfortune Demon Capital, turning this once greatest city of the demon race into a huge depression. After countless years, this depression filled with seawater and became the largest inland sea, the current Sea of Misfortune, covering 350,000 square kilometres.
How many years ago did the ancient Misfortune Empire exist?
No one knew. Perhaps more than a hundred thousand years ago, or perhaps even longer.
The Sea of Misfortune concealed the ruins of the Misfortune Demon Capital, and quite a few people knew this secret. However, until now, not a single person had discovered the secret within, nor had anyone truly found the ruins of the Misfortune Demon Capital. Instead, quite a few ruins of the Misfortune Empire had been discovered around the Sea of Misfortune.
But the ruins of the Demon Capital, said to have been destroyed by a celestial body from the universe, had never been discovered.
Others had not discovered them, but the Ghost King might have. After all, he was a pure spiritual being and could use his perception to explore this world.
According to Lan Ling and the Mirror Demon King’s deductions.
The Ghost King’s Tomb was within the ruins of the Demon Capital of the ancient Misfortune Empire.
The ruins of the Misfortune Demon Capital were in the Sea of Misfortune.
Perhaps even the powerful force on the moon had not discovered the ruins of the Demon Capital. Otherwise, the Ghost King would not have chosen to die there.
This left Lan Ling facing an enormous problem.
The upper levels of the eight great demon races of the Southern Wilderness all knew that the ruins of the Misfortune Demon Capital were in the Sea of Misfortune, yet no one had discovered them for tens of thousands of years.
The eight great Demon King families possessed such immense power, and they had spent tens of thousands of years searching without finding the Demon Capital ruins. What made Lan Ling think he could find them?
This should be an unparalleled mystery.
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The Sea of Misfortune was located at the junction of three demon territories, the Rakshasa Clan, the Esha Clan, and the Disha Clan.
Lan Ling and Goli rode the three headed Chimera, flying at an altitude of 20,000 metres towards the Sea of Misfortune.
At an altitude of 20,000 metres, only the three headed Chimera, which was an energy creature, could reach such a height. Neither the Dragon Eagle nor the Griffin could possibly fly this high.
Not only that, a Griffin could fly at most less than 1,000 li before needing to rest and feed.
The three headed Chimera, however, could fly the entire 15,000 li without sleep or rest, and it did not need to eat.
Only by flying this high could Lan Ling avoid being attacked.
For the three headed Chimera, 15,000 li was only a day and a night of travel.
Twenty four hours later, Lan Ling had already arrived above the Sea of Misfortune.
It truly was a miraculous sea.
Looking down from an altitude of 20,000 metres, it was an absolutely perfect circle. It was like a crystal clear magic mirror embedded in the earth, a perfectly round mirror.
This discovery greatly surprised Lan Ling.
An inland sea covering 350,000 square kilometres was actually a perfect circle when viewed from above.
No natural inland sea in this world could be a perfectly round circle. Such an absolute circle had definitely been caused by an external force.
Now Lan Ling somewhat believed the legend that the Sea of Misfortune had been formed by the impact of a celestial body from outer space, and it had even been an absolutely spherical celestial body.
After reaching the Sea of Misfortune, the most difficult part had only just begun.
They needed to find the ruins of the Demon Capital within this 350,000 square kilometre inland sea.
How large was 300,000 square kilometres?
It was roughly the size of two Jiangxi Provinces. Finding something in such a huge area really was like searching for a needle in a haystack.
Lan Ling began to descend. When he was only a few dozen metres above the surface of the sea, he and Goli jumped directly into the water.
When searching for ancient ruins, anyone’s first reaction would certainly be to search the seabed.
……
Lan Ling and Goli continued diving down, deeper and deeper.
Thirty metres, fifty metres, one hundred metres, three hundred metres, five hundred metres, eight hundred metres, one thousand metres…
The Sea of Misfortune was actually so incredibly deep. The two had already descended more than 1,000 metres, yet they were still nowhere near the bottom.
Two thousand metres down!
Fortunately, both Lan Ling and Goli possessed immortal bodies. Otherwise, they would have suffocated to death before reaching 2,000 metres, and the deeper they went, the more terrifying the water pressure became.
At a depth of 2,000 metres, the water pressure was already astronomical.
Goli had already begun transforming. Her physical body became a crystalline body, and her limbs could no longer move. She could only rely on gravity to continue sinking.
Lan Ling could clearly feel the power continuously being released from deep within his bloodline, balancing the water pressure outside, so he did not feel uncomfortable.
The two continued diving.
Three thousand metres, four thousand metres, five thousand metres!
Even at 5,000 metres, they still had not reached the bottom.
At a depth of 5,000 metres underwater, every square centimetre was subjected to more than 500 kilograms of water pressure.
In other words, Lan Ling’s entire body was subjected to more than ten million kilograms of water pressure.
At this moment, Lan Ling was already feeling uncomfortable, with a sensation that his body was about to explode.
This was already the limit. The power deep within his bloodline could no longer provide enough energy to balance the water pressure outside.
“Master, my crystalline body is also about to explode.” Goli said, “We cannot go any further. I can feel that you have already reached your limit.”
Of course, both Lan Ling and Goli were immortal, but after being completely shattered, they would need an enormous amount of energy to reconstruct their entire bodies.
Moreover, 5,000 metres seemed far from the end. How deep was the Sea of Misfortune? It was completely unknown.
“Master, release your spiritual power and sense the surroundings.” Goli said.
Lan Ling nodded, then used the Spiritual Shell Release Technique to release his spiritual perception from his body and continued descending, deeper and deeper.
The Sea of Misfortune was so incredibly deep that Lan Ling felt there might be a surprise waiting at the bottom.
Six thousand metres, seven thousand metres, eight thousand metres, ten thousand metres…
The spiritual perceptions of the two had already descended to 10,000 metres.
Lan Ling could sense several thousand metres away from his body because of his heaven defying spiritual power and spiritual talent.
As for Goli, strictly speaking, she had already died once, so her soul could leave her body at will.
However, neither of them could compare with the Ghost King. The Ghost King’s spiritual perception could leave his body and explore the universe and starry sky tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of li away.
The depth Lan Ling could explore was quickly approaching the limit of his soul leaving his body.
He was worried that the depth of the seabed might be endless and far beyond his limit. If so, he would be completely unable to sense it.
Then, at 13,000 metres, they finally reached the seabed.
At this moment, the spiritual power of Lan Ling and Goli was rapidly being consumed, so they hurriedly explored the seabed world.
This was more than 10,000 metres beneath the sea. There was no doubt that light from the outside world could not reach this depth.
Therefore, the entire seabed was pitch black. Lan Ling and Goli could not see anything through their spiritual vision.
Suddenly…
The seabed world lit up.
Lan Ling clearly saw several glowing jellyfish swimming towards them.
There were actually jellyfish at a depth of 13,000 metres beneath the sea? How could such fragile jellyfish withstand the terrifying water pressure?
Looking more carefully, Lan Ling was surprised to discover that they were actually pure energy creatures. They did not have real physical bodies, which explained how they could survive 13,000 metres underwater.
Borrowing the light from these energy jellyfish, Lan Ling explored everything beneath the water.
But he was disappointed!
There was nothing in this seabed world. It was simply a normal seabed.
Apart from strangely shaped rocks, there was nothing else.
No ruins, no remains, no writing. In short, there was no trace of civilisation whatsoever.
……
Over the following days and nights, Lan Ling used his spiritual power to explore more than 1,000 li of seabed, yet still found nothing.
It was entirely normal seabed rock. There were no ruins of the Misfortune Demon Capital, no writing, and no remains of civilisation.
The entire seabed world contained nothing apart from these energy jellyfish!
“Master, could it be that this is not the site of the ruins of the Misfortune Demon Capital at all?” Goli asked.
Lan Ling closed his eyes and began thinking carefully.
The Ghost King’s Tomb was here. That should not be wrong. The visual image from the Ghost King’s Eye could determine that the last place the Ghost King appeared was this Sea of Misfortune.
On the other hand, the claim that the Misfortune Demon Capital was in the Sea of Misfortune had always been merely a legend and had never been confirmed.
Then, could they break free from the limitations of their thinking and imagine another possibility?
For example, perhaps there were no so-called ruins of the Misfortune Demon Capital at all. Even if they existed, perhaps they were not in the Sea of Misfortune, after all, the Sea of Misfortune was named by later generations.
The reason the Ghost King died here was because he wanted to preserve certain secrets and did not want his remains to be destroyed.
However, no matter where he died, he could not escape the search of the mysterious force on the moon. Perhaps there was one exception, and that was… the forbidden area of the Dragon Sacred Temple?
The forbidden area of the Dragon Sacred Temple was the Heavenly Tomb.
In order to preserve secrets, many ancient priests of the Dragon Sacred Temple would be sealed inside the Heavenly Tomb before they died, so that they would neither truly die nor truly live forever.
Because time was stopped inside the Heavenly Tomb.
Lan Ling had entered the Heavenly Tomb once before. It seemed as though an extremely long time had passed inside, yet when he left the Heavenly Tomb and returned to the surface of the sea, not even ten minutes had passed.
Could the Ghost King have buried himself inside the Heavenly Tomb of the Dragon Sacred Temple?
Was this possible?
Yes, it was possible. For example, no one in the Dragon Sacred Temple would ever open the Heavenly Tomb, because it was a forbidden area.
But… countless years later, if the need arose, the Dragon Sacred Temple might still open the Heavenly Tomb. At that time, would the Ghost King not still be exposed?
Then, could there be another possibility? An even more terrifying possibility?
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“Master, why don’t we surface first?” Goli said.
Lan Ling nodded.
They could not forcefully search for the Ghost King’s Tomb. Otherwise, it really would be like searching for a needle in a haystack.
The two continued rising.
It took quite a while before they finally broke through the surface of the water once again.
Before his death, the Ghost King had looked up at the starry sky and left behind a special visual image.
At this moment, all the visual images from the Ghost King’s Eye were stored inside Lan Ling’s brain.
Previously, the Mirror Demon King had warned him that unless absolutely necessary, he must never recreate the visual image from the Ghost King’s Eye, as doing so would attract danger.
But now, Lan Ling had reached a moment of absolute necessity. He needed to use the Ghost King’s final visual image to pinpoint the exact location where the Ghost King had died.
Only then could he accurately find the Ghost King’s Tomb.
Lan Ling took a deep breath, raised his head and looked towards the sky, his spirit entering the visual world of the Ghost King’s Eye from the moment before his death.
“Swoosh!”
An incredibly beautiful and brilliant scene appeared before Lan Ling’s eyes.
Familiar stars, familiar sky, familiar moon. It was almost no different from the night sky at any other time.
Suddenly…
Lan Ling noticed that in the final visual image of the Ghost King’s Eye, there was actually one star that was extremely unusual. Out of every hundred flashes, one of them was actually a blood coloured light.
Previously, he had truly never noticed it, because its position was too far to the side, and the vast majority of its flashes were normal light. Only once every hundred flashes was it blood coloured.
Lan Ling knew of this star. It was extremely famous in both the demon territories and the human kingdoms. It was called the Blood Coloured Star.
It appeared once every hundred years, and every time it appeared, it was accompanied by a terrifying blood light calamity. No one knew how many people would die.
At this moment, the Blood Coloured Star also began appearing in the real starry sky that Lan Ling could see with his naked eyes.
Another full hundred years had passed, and it was once again the time when the Blood Coloured Star appeared?
Was the entire world about to experience another terrifying blood light calamity?
……
At this very moment!
The Northern Pole of the human kingdoms, the Gate of Aurora.
The powerful members of the Dragon Sacred Temple were holding energy books when they suddenly began flashing violently.
“Someone has recreated the visual image of the Ghost King’s Eye in the Sea of Misfortune. Immediately go and capture and kill them!”
At once, Saintess Ji Xiuning led several hundred powerful members of the Dragon Sacred Temple, riding flying mounts through the Gate of Aurora and entering the Southern Wilderness’s Extreme South Desert, before flying towards the Sea of Misfortune.