Chapter 400 The Sea Within the Sea

When leaving the hiding place and approaching the center of the open sea, Meng Zhou was neither in the real world nor in the real world, but turned into water and merged with this sea.

——As early as when he was building his foundation, Meng Zhou had cultivated the "body of vortex water" and obtained the talent of turning into water. Now, this talent has become a part of the five elements of the body.

When he uses it, he can do it more freely.

In this state, although the speed will be slightly slower, the concealment is undoubtedly the highest.

Moreover, this also gives him a keener insight into this sea.

Some abnormalities that are difficult to detect in other states are easier to discern in this state.

In this way, Meng Zhou, who turned into water, sank while approaching the center of the open sea.

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When he first entered, except for feeling that the spiritual energy became thicker, Meng Zhou did not notice anything more special.

But when he came to the center of this open sea and dived deep into the seabed, Meng Zhou felt that the water around him was becoming heavier and heavier.

That is, the density was getting higher and higher.

If it weren't for the fact that the "water" that Meng Zhou "transformed into water" could also be flexibly adjusted according to the changes in his mind, just this one change, his self-proclaimed secret way of infiltration might have caused abnormal movements in this sea area.

——The water with lower density was restless in the upper layer closer to the sea surface, and it was desperately drilling down. This was the biggest abnormality.

Fortunately, Meng Zhou's changes were flexible enough, and he had been quietly changing his state according to the changes in the water environment around him, so he did not cause any abnormalities.

Meng Zhou, who turned into water, continued to sink.

Gradually, Meng Zhou's heart began to become a little uncertain.

"Is this really a 'bottomless pit' under the sea?"

"But don't those ancient books say that this is the passage to the 'Starry Sky Lake'?"

Meng Zhou suddenly thought of another possibility.

"Is it possible that the passage leading to the 'Xingxiu Tianchi' and sinking down along this passage to reach the 'Xingxiu Tianchi' are not the same thing?!"

"Perhaps, this passage is like the corridor before entering the room of the 'Xingxiu Tianchi'.

You can't enter the room by walking along the corridor.

You need to stop at the right place in the corridor and open the door with the right key to really enter the room."

When this thought came to his mind, Meng Zhou realized that perhaps this was the correct process to enter the "room".

And the information about the "Xingxiu Tianchi" that Kou Chong saw in the library hall only told him where the correct "corridor" was. As for the correct "house number" and the "key" to open the door, he didn't have any of them.

"Trouble."

At this moment, Meng Zhou, who had turned into water, had stopped sinking and was suspended in a water area with no light above and no bottom below, empty and boundless, and in a trance with no top or bottom.

After realizing where the problem was, the first thought that came to Meng Zhou's mind was to let Kou Chong, who was adjusting his state of mind, go to the library hall again, thinking that the vast collection of books there could give him a clear answer.

But soon, Meng Zhou rejected this idea himself.

The key is still time.

Before this operation, Meng Zhou drew a line for himself. Regardless of whether there was any gain, this exploration must be completed within half a month.

Even with the reminder of "Zheng Bo", it took Kou Chong about a year to get the current understanding of "Xingxiu Tianchi" from the vast collection of books.

Therefore, unless "Zheng Bo" secretly helps to open the "luck hang", otherwise, this method basically does not work.

Moreover, doing so also means that the stumbling block he set for "Zheng Bo" is invalid.

Because he secretly stumbled and pulled his legs, "Zheng Bo's" plan that was temporarily stopped will continue to move forward.

This is even more unacceptable to Meng Zhou.

"The library hall can't be relied on. It seems... I can only rely on myself."

Meng Zhou had such an awareness in his heart, and his thinking became active.

It seemed that in the next moment, or it seemed that a long time had passed, an idea emerged in Meng Zhou's mind.

"What's the point of just guessing here? We must first conduct a full investigation. Have you even forgotten this basic principle?!"

After having such an awareness in his heart, Meng Zhou, who had originally turned into water and was suspended in the water, moved again.

Down.

Up.

Front and back.

Meng Zhou spent five days to travel around the empty sea area with a radius of thousands of miles on the east side of Lingming Island.

He found a very magical place.

Before entering the "funnel deep hole" in the central sea area that existed in the simulation in his mind, although this empty sea area also showed some special places, overall, everything was still relatively normal.

But after entering the range of the "funnel deep hole", to be more specific, it should be within a radius of 200 miles from the center of the empty sea area, things suddenly became strange.

When he was not too deep and could still feel the dim light of the sun shining through the deep waters, everything was relatively normal.

If he moved forward, backward, left, and right, he could successfully reach other areas of this empty sea.

But when he could no longer feel the light from the sun, things suddenly became strange after passing this depth.

If he moved forward, backward, left, and right again, he would have the illusion that he had not moved at all and had been staying in the same place. It was also like there was no end in any direction, and no matter how he moved, he could not get out of this special water boundary.

In such an illusion, the sense of direction such as front, back, left, and right would quickly become confused and blurred, until the sense of front, back, left, and right was completely blurred at the perception level.

What was blurred was not only "front, back, left, and right", but also "up and down".

When Meng Zhou lost the exact sense of "up and down" because of random attempts, he really felt panic in his heart.

At that time, he was really in a situation of "boundlessness, no top and no bottom".

If he could not find the right way to escape, he might be trapped to death in such a situation.

Fortunately, such a thing did not really happen.

Meng Zhou calmed down and soon developed a special sense of a certain direction.

There were invisible and substantial, real and perceptible "chains" shooting from that direction and connecting to himself.

The other end of the "chain" is connected to a large monster of different shapes.

The other end of one of the "chains" is connected to the monkey monster contracted by Kou Chong;

Another one, the other end is connected to the earth spirit turtle contracted by Fan Ling;

Another "chain" is connected to the contracted spirit snake of Cao Bin, the deputy hall master of the Observation Hall;

...

The existence of these "chains" provides a clear "direction anchor" for Meng Zhou at this moment.

He no longer needs to worry about "where is up", he only needs to move forward along the direction of the chain connection, close the distance between each other, and naturally get out of the strange environment and return to the normal open sea.

Mastering the correct way to enter and exit, and exploring the specialness of this water area, Meng Zhou realized that "Xingxiu Tianchi" is likely to be directly related to this anomaly.

The strange phenomenon created by this water area also gave Meng Zhou a very familiar feeling in his heart.

It was as if he had seen a similar environment somewhere before.

Meng Zhou, who was thinking in his heart, soon got the answer.

"Death Realm!"

Meng Zhou immediately thought of his first experience and exploration of the "Death Realm".

--The Death Realm is not unique to the Juye Wasteland. The Hongze Wasteland and the Lianlu Wasteland all have the "Death Realm".

Moreover, its performance in these two areas is exactly the same as the "Death Realm" in the Juye Wasteland.

From this, Meng Zhou can basically be sure that the "Death Realm" in the other five wastelands that he has not yet entered should also have the same performance.

...

Before discovering the truth of the "Death Realm", the feeling of never reaching the end is too similar to the feeling created by this "boundless, topless and bottomless" special water environment!

It's just that the latter creates a more difficult scene to break.

At least the "Death Realm" still has the unchanging earth that is like solidified waves as a "hint".

If you have the ability to remember all the "waves" and make a positive judgment when you meet them again: "I have seen this wave."

Or if you can ensure that you always walk in a straight line during a long journey of tens of thousands of miles and find the marks you left behind, you can also crack the secret of the "Death Realm".

Compared with this, this water environment is undoubtedly more dangerous.

In this water environment without any waves, which is "boundless and without top or bottom" in perception, he can't find any useful clues through the environment itself.

"Fortunately, fortunately."

Meng Zhou felt very fortunate. He never expected that those Tai Sui bodies could still play such an unexpected miraculous effect.

"If there were no them, wouldn't I really be trapped here?... Not necessarily... uh."

Meng Zhou suddenly thought that in the face of this dilemma, he actually had another solution.

Jump out of the real world and enter the real world.

But just when he thought of this, Meng Zhou's thinking was stuck again.

Because he thought of the real world of the "Death Realm" that was condensed into a piece of iron plate and prevented him from entering.

"Will the real world here be the same?"

Just thinking about this, Meng Zhou suddenly had an idea: "Let's go to the real world and take a look."

-Compared to other times, Meng Zhou was more adventurous at this moment. It was not that he was arrogant, but that he understood his current situation very well.

If he didn't want to be trapped in this situation, if he wanted to continue to make progress, he had to take some risks and couldn't avoid it!

And the "Xingxiu Tianchi" in front of him was the most unavoidable level.

...

He did it as soon as he thought of it. Meng Zhou didn't even change his form. He was turning into water and skillfully cut into the mode of transitioning from the real world to the real world.

He didn't encounter any "iron plate" and was not hit back hard.

This made Meng Zhou's heart a little relieved.

But soon, Meng Zhou became a little confused.

"Hey, why didn't you move?!"

According to his experience of entering and exiting the real world countless times, if he successfully entered the real world from the real world at this moment, then he should have gotten rid of the strange water environment now, and only his "lonely" ball of water should be suspended in the real world.

But the reality is not like that.

I am still in the familiar and strange water environment after turning into water. Everything around me has not changed compared to before I entered the real world.

Meng Zhou's first reaction was that his attempt to enter the real world had failed.

Although this strange water environment was not like the "Death Realm" in the outer domain, which directly condensed the real world within the range into a whole block, it achieved the same effect-making it impossible for people to enter the real world in this area.

At this moment.

Meng Zhou suddenly exclaimed in his heart.

Because he once again felt the faint, dim light shining from a certain direction.

This experience was not unfamiliar to Meng Zhou.

When entering this strange water environment from the normal open sea, the critical point of the change was when the light on the sea surface completely disappeared.

The faint and dim light shining from one direction formed another clear "direction anchor", and the sense of direction that was confused and blurred due to the special water environment became clear again.

It made people subconsciously think: "There is the water surface, and there is the exit."

And just when Meng Zhou instinctively had this feeling in his heart, the "direction anchor" that belonged to him pulled him back fiercely.

"No!"

Meng Zhou clearly felt that the "invisible chain" connecting him and the Tai Sui bodies distributed in various places in the Xingxiu Sea was not from the same direction as the faint light he felt at the moment.

Instead, it came from two completely opposite directions!

Meng Zhou was shocked at first, and then suddenly happy.

"So that's it!"

At this moment, Meng Zhou was like a revelation, and suddenly realized it.

Meng Zhou, who turned into water, did not hesitate at all and "floated" in the direction where the dim light came from.

During the "floating" process, Meng Zhou clearly felt that the water around him became heavier and heavier, and the density was getting greater and greater.

In such a counterintuitive situation, Meng Zhou's heart was not disturbed at all.

Meng Zhou had a feeling that this "density difference" was the last "wall" in front of him.

It is impossible to succeed by forcing it, but it will bring terrible consequences.

Meng Zhou did not force his way in, but in the process of "floating up", he adjusted his "water density" quietly by constantly compressing his own volume, and then, his ball of water naturally floated up.

As he continued to "float up", the dim light he felt at first became brighter and brighter.

At a certain moment.

When Meng Zhou saw the bright sky again, he suddenly found that he was floating on the water.

And his own "water density" also reached the highest.

It looks like a ball of water, but it is actually like a ball of mercury.

At this moment, Meng Zhou did not pay attention to himself, but was immersed in a kind of enlightenment.

"This is Xingxiu Tianchi!"

"This is the so-called 'sea in the sea' in those ancient books!"

"A 'sea' that exists in the real world and connects the real world and the real world!" (End of this chapter)