He set out in the morning, cruising high above the Secret Sea.

It is said that over two thousand years ago, the skies were essentially no-fly zones. The vast majority of people were not qualified to fly at high altitudes.

The skies were entirely the domain of Demons.

Any human who tried to fly would only end up as food for the Demons.

Fighting Sky Demons in the sky was just like battling Sea Demons in the ocean—it put them at a natural disadvantage.

Mages needed to consume Magic Power to fly.

Warriors and other Professions, in order to walk on air, had to control their own Qi.

Flying, in and of itself, meant increased exertion.

Because of the Sky Demons, travel between the different continents was extremely difficult.

Traveling by sea, one would be attacked by Sea Demons; flying through the sky, one would be swarmed and killed by Sky Demons.

There was truly nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

In the end, most people were trapped on a single continent for their entire lives, never knowing what the world outside was truly like.

Never knowing what lay on the other side of the ocean...

Lu Cang’s Perception swept over the ocean below at the same time.

’There certainly are a lot of Sea Demons...’

However, most Sea Demons couldn’t survive out of water for long, let alone high up in the sky. Their combat effectiveness would plummet here.

BANG!

In an instant, Lu Cang plunged into the water.

He kicked up a huge spray on the surface!

His War Spear shot forward!

It instantly pierced through a Sea Demon a full ten meters in length!

WHOOSH!

The next instant, Lu Cang was back in the sky, holding the War Spear aloft.

A giant fish the size of a small truck was impaled on his War Spear.

’A Demon from the Secret Sea.’

’I’ve heard the Secret Sea gets its name because this region holds the greatest mysteries and is the ocean with the densest concentration of Magic Power.’

’The Demons born from the Secret Sea are supposed to be even stranger than ordinary ones...’

Lu Cang looked at the fish impaled on his weapon.

’I don’t see what’s so strange about it, though.’

WHOOSH!

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH—

With a mere thought from Lu Cang, massive blocks of seawater materialized high in the sky, drawn from all directions!

SPLOOSH—

The water fell back toward the ocean below.

But countless sea creatures were left suspended in mid-air.

[Tier Five Root Magic—Spatial Transfer]

It could not only move the caster to another location, but it could also displace other living beings, transferring them to a new spatial position according to the caster’s will.

He had directly transferred Demons that lived in the ocean into the sky.

WHOOSH!

At the same time, directly beneath these Demons, countless sharp ice spikes had already formed.

[Unchanging Eternal Technique]

The Ice Spikes were frozen in mid-air, held in place as if they would never melt.

SQUELCH!

The Demons plummeted downward!

They were skewered on the Ice Spikes, pierced through and through.

Lu Cang then reached out, touching one Sea Demon after another to extract information from them.

’This is actually my first time proactively venturing out to sea.’

’Before, it was either for the sake of a promotion or just crossing the Moon Sea in a simulation.’

’I’ve never once come out over the vast Secret Sea all by myself.’

It was now afternoon, and both the Ruelun Continent and the Zuoyu Continent looked extremely distant on the horizon.

They looked less like continents and more like sesame seeds on the vast ocean.

’I’ve already flown for tens of millions of kilometers...’

’This stretch of ocean is frighteningly large. Could it be as big as the entire Solar Element?’

’I don’t even know the distance from Earth to the other planets.’

’It feels like I’ve flown so far.’

’Even starting from Earth, I should have reached somewhere like Venus or Mars by now, right?’

Lu Cang wasn’t too clear on the distances between the planets in the Solar Element.

He gazed at the calm, yet gently rippling, expanse of sea.

An odd feeling began to surface in Lu Cang’s heart. He felt that this whole stretch of ocean... possessed a faint sense of being a single, unified entity.

If he had to explain it, Lu Cang couldn’t articulate any theory or provide any concrete evidence. The feeling came from his Spirituality.

As this thought crossed his mind, Lu Cang, who had paused mid-journey, was struck by a curious idea.

FWOOSH—

Hundreds of thousands of souls appeared around Lu Cang.

The souls swirled around him.

’There are many things one can do with the souls of a Death Priest.’

’But... when used for purposes unrelated to the Death Priest Profession, the enhancement from Sacrificing souls has a limit.’

’For example, when using souls to enhance a Demon.’

’Sacrificing more than a certain number of souls will hit an enhancement ceiling.’

’Any further souls Sacrificed after that are simply expelled from its body.’

’Unfortunately, they don’t just explode and die.’

Otherwise, at the rate he was currently accumulating souls, Lu Cang wouldn’t have minded Sacrificing an excessive number of them into Demons just to make them burst.

’If that were possible, it could be a way for me to defeat powerful Demons far beyond my level in the future.’

’However, even though they don’t explode, it seems they enter a state of overload after being enhanced for a period of time.’

’During that period, the Demon’s various abilities will drop sharply compared to before, and it might even stop all activity, becoming completely Unmoving.’

’The applications for this ability aren’t very broad, though. After all, before overloading, the Demon goes through a berserk phase.’

If he were to actually use this method to kill a Demon, Lu Cang felt he would never allow it to enter a prolonged berserk state.

At this very moment, the sea before him gave Lu Cang an inexplicable feeling.