This is truly a great place to catch a dog behind closed doors, Ning Fa chuckled.
But he still needed to investigate further, to see if there were really only these Black Jellyfish here.
Before Ning Fa left, he looked back at Qin Xiao's corpse floating in front of him.
After a moment of thought, he raised his right hand and collected the corpse.
Ning Fa didn't even plan to touch the other party's Storage Ring. If he returned the corpse to Qin Xiao's sect later, it might foster goodwill.
Especially since he had already fallen out with the Wushi Demonic Palace and the Yuan Cha Gate.
As Ning Fa continued to swim forward, more Black Jellyfish appeared ahead. However, with Ning Fa now releasing the aura of his Five Elements Thunder Body, these Black Jellyfish naturally did not dare to approach.
During this process, Ning Fa encountered two more corpses.
They were cultivators from the Rakshasa Immortal Realm and the Tianwu Cultivation World. One of them, a thin old man, was even at the late Nascent Soul stage. Judging by his unwilling expression, he seemed unable to believe he would die here.
Ning Fa was not so polite with these two, directly collecting their Storage Rings.
When Ning Fa was close to the hazy ball of light, a large mass of black shadow suddenly appeared in front of him.
It was a giant Black Jellyfish, over ten zhang in size. Its surface had hundreds of walnut-sized protrusions that flickered with a strange luster, like its eyes.
It also had thousands of black tentacles that could extend for dozens of zhang.
Such a terrifying sight, just looking at it, could cause low-level cultivators to go mad.
Its aura had reached the late Fourth-grade stage, and it was far from ordinary late-stage.
Behind it were over a hundred Black Jellyfish, seemingly led by it. It was clear that this one was the leader of the jellyfish here.
The leading jellyfish turned its hundreds of eyes towards Ning Fa. In its cloud-like eyes, one could see flickering uncertainty and doubt.
Its countless black tentacles writhed ceaselessly, yet it dared not approach Ning Fa too closely.
Ning Fa secretly clicked his tongue as he looked at it. It seemed he had underestimated the difficulty of the highest-tier Vortex Spirit Realm.
Even a top Great Cultivator would likely find it very difficult to pass this stage alone.
However, he was relieved. It seemed there were indeed only these strange creatures here.
With this thought, a faint Five-Colored Lightning erupted from his body.
Behind him, a Five-Colored Lightning wheel appeared, spinning rapidly, with Five-Colored Lightning constantly emanating from it.
A powerful and supremely majestic pressure radiated from him.
This pressure was particularly intimidating to the surrounding Black Jellyfish. The ordinary Black Jellyfish, as if encountering something terrifying, quickly retreated.
Their numerous black tentacles also retracted in haste, as if expressing submission.
The leading jellyfish's hundreds of eyes flashed wildly, its many tentacles still writhing. For a moment, it resisted Ning Fa's pressure.
Ning Fa's expression darkened, the Five-Colored Lightning on his body intensified, and the Five-Colored Lightning wheel behind him spun even faster. The pressure he emitted also increased sharply.
His eyes, like a lightning vortex, stared intently at the leading jellyfish.
He gently raised his right hand, and in an instant, lightning converged. A five-colored lightning hand suddenly appeared in the water, like a giant palm supporting the sky, poised to strike.
The leading jellyfish's hundreds of eyes immediately showed fear, and it involuntarily retreated several zhang.
At this moment, Ning Fa's voice, as majestic as lightning, boomed out: "Submit to me, or die."
The leading jellyfish's countless tentacles writhed ceaselessly, then it slightly lowered its head. A somewhat stiff voice entered Ning Fa's sea of consciousness:
"Venerable One is a king born from lightning. Submitting to you is not a humiliation for me, but I cannot do it.
Because my subjects and I are all deeply bound by the restrictions here. Once we swear allegiance, it will trigger the restrictions, and we will perish immediately."
Ning Fa's expression remained unchanged as he said, "It's fine. I only need you to help me deal with some people, and that is originally your duty here."
"Since that is the case, we shall obey." The voice said with a sigh of relief.
Having dealt with the leading jellyfish, Ning Fa couldn't help but show a smile on his face. Then, he sped forward.
Soon, he entered the hazy ball of light. Inside, five Vortex Spirit Pearls and a Seven-Leaf Spiritual Grass were floating quietly.
The grass was entirely black, with silver veins on its surface forming star-like patterns, emitting a hazy silver-black mist.
Ning Fa felt his spirit invigorated with just one breath. This grass was exactly as described in the ancient texts, the Seven Star Spirit Soul Grass.
Ning Fa's face was full of smiles. Such a precious item was truly obtained without any effort.
He first carefully put the grass away, but he did not touch the remaining five Vortex Spirit Pearls.
After all, once these pearls were collected, this Vortex Spirit Realm would close, and his plan would not be implemented.
With this thought, Ning Fa immediately swam outwards.
Soon, the surface of Vortex No. 168 flashed with spiritual light, revealing Ning Fa's figure.
He was disheveled, his face pale, and even filled with a look of terror, appearing as if he had narrowly escaped death.
His powerful aura was less than half of its peak, as if he had suffered severe injuries.
He glanced around, confirming that nothing was chasing him, and let out a long sigh of relief. He immediately took out several pills and swallowed them.
After his aura slightly recovered, he looked back at this Vortex Spirit Realm with a look of unwillingness, then gritted his teeth and flew back in.
The few strands of seaweed in the water below vibrated again, sending out ethereal ripples.
At this moment, in the ninety-second Vortex Spirit Realm, there was a pitch-black sea surface, and a small island with a hazy cluster of light.
Inside, three Vortex Spirit Pearls were placed, along with a pool of blue liquid suspended in the air, constantly churning and shifting into various shapes, appearing quite mysterious.
Near this island, waves crashed against the shore, with intense roars and the growls of demonic beasts echoing incessantly.
With a final, piercing shriek, a black giant python, nearly a hundred zhang long, stood upright in the air.
It stiffened for a moment, then countless blue light beams shot out from its body, and the giant python disintegrated into countless fragments, falling onto the sea surface like rain.
The sea surface gradually calmed, revealing over ten Sea Race cultivators.
Although they had dealt with the demonic beast in this spirit realm, they had paid a considerable price.
Everyone was injured, with the most severely wounded having only half of their body remaining. Furthermore, one had perished. The group of Sea Race cultivators all wore expressions of exhaustion mixed with relief.
Just then, Freya, who was leading them, stirred. The void around her rippled inexplicably, and the sound reached her ears.
Freya's eyes lit up instantly. She quickly relayed the message, and the Sea Race cultivators beside her all showed surprised joy.
A bald Sea Race cultivator in the mid-stage of the Fourth-grade exclaimed excitedly, "It seems there's something very important to Ning Fa in that spirit realm, which is why he refused to give up even when severely injured. This is a great opportunity for us."
Lor, however, frowned, looking somewhat puzzled. "Why didn't Ning Fa go to the 168th spirit realm as Aize predicted, but instead went to the 230th?"
Freya pondered for a moment. "That's not surprising. Ning Fa is clearly very special, and many of Aize's previous predictions about him have been wrong.
Even if he used the power of the Ancestral Sea this time, he might not be able to accurately predict Ning Fa's movements.
Of course, it's also possible that Ning Fa plans to go to the 168th spirit realm after visiting the 230th."
Upon hearing this, the other Sea Race cultivators nodded in agreement.
A Sea Race cultivator in the late-stage of the Fourth-grade, with spikes growing from his back, said with a cruel smile, "In that case, let's hurry there, contact the Demon Race and Tianli, and all go to the 230th spirit realm to corner Ning Fa."
Hathaway's eyes flashed. "Since Ning Fa is already quite injured, why do we need to cooperate with those two factions? Wouldn't it be better to take him down ourselves?"
The other Sea Race cultivators' expressions shifted, but an elder Sea Race cultivator frowned. "That doesn't seem entirely appropriate, as Ning Fa has quite a few trump cards.
If he escapes again, we'll have wasted this golden opportunity.
After all, the items on him are secondary; our most important goal is to kill him completely."
This elder Sea Race cultivator seemed to command considerable respect. After he spoke, even Hathaway didn't retort. The Sea Race cultivators looked towards Freya.
She pondered for a moment and said, "In my opinion, let's first contact the Tianli faction and join forces with them, but let's not notify the Cloud Break Demon Race for now.
After all, for Tianli, the most important thing is to kill Ning Fa, and they certainly wouldn't dare to fight us for the items on Ning Fa."
The other Sea Race cultivators secretly nodded at this. This move was indeed a prudent one.
It was both safer and excluded the Cloud Break Demon Race.
After all, the Cloud Break Demon Race was not weaker than them. Besides Yuan Gang, who harbored immense killing intent towards Ning Fa.
Another important figure, Feng Zhao, the young master of the Fire Phoenix clan, was very interested in Ning Fa.
Previously, when the three factions discussed joining forces, this demon had clearly stated that they wanted to retrieve an item from Ning Fa first.
While the Sea Race wanted to kill Ning Fa quickly, they were also very interested in the items on him, so taking him down alone would be ideal.
Freya smiled and tapped her right hand twice, sending two transparent ripples into the void.
Besides notifying the Tianli faction, they also had a group of Sea Race cultivators in another spirit realm.
Not long after, the 230th spirit realm flashed with light.
Over twenty figures appeared, the Sea Race cultivators. They cautiously surveyed their surroundings and then, led by Freya, slowly swam forward.
Just moments later, another six or seven figures appeared – the cultivators from the Tianli faction.
The leader was none other than the three Holy Witches of Tianli: Su Rihe, Aruoye, and Mei Danlun. However, Ling Yuqing, the Moon Lord of Tianli, was inexplicably absent.