Chapter 1716 Time to Return
?Alex swam away from the Fire Coral, leaving it behind to hopefully heal itself. He took a look at the 3 coral tentacles in his hand with a smile and put them into his Soul Space.
'These 3 tentacles should be enough for a single pill,' Alex thought. 'No point in harming a harmless Coral for more.'
He wanted to make a pill out of it as soon as possible, but creating a Pill Cloud in this place would be one of the easiest ways to let the soldiers know where he was hiding.
The only logical choice remaining here was to return to the Southern Continent now that he was healed and make the pill there. He also needed to see to his sister's poison.
'A week more and then I'll leave,' Alex thought. It would take some time to return, so it was better if he gathered resources for the journey back. Once he made up the plan, he continued on his search for more beasts.
He found a place for himself to sit down and cultivate for 2 days before continuing on his journey to fight the beasts and gain more blood and core.
Alex lost himself in the mission, killing anything that was willing to kill him, leaving alive anything that was not. In the week or so he spent fighting in the ocean, he fought over a hundred different Saint beasts, killing almost all of them.
By the end of the week, he had more than enough beast cores to last him on the journey back to his continent.
He was done fighting and he was done cultivating, so it was time to leave the ocean.
He got ready to swim back to the island where the old man and Pearl were, but he didn't remember what direction that was in.
'The hell? Where is that island?' he thought. 'How am I not even sensing where Pearl is?'
The hiding formation set up by the old man was unusually strong it seemed. It even masked his bond to Pearl. He tried feeling the bond once again, but it was too faint to feel anything except the fact that Pearl was okay.
He sent his spiritual sense around to find the formation and see where he needed to go, but as he did, he found a distinct lack of anything manmade in the ocean.
'Hmm? That can't be right,' Alex thought and increased the range of his perception, trying to catch any sort of disturbance to the aura in the ocean that might have been caused by a formation.
It took him 2 minutes to find something that he could believably say was the work of a formation and made his way to it.
Arriving up close, Alex took hold of a small sphere of something that was hidden from his senses. He took hold of it and finally saw that it was a small leather sack that was filled with spirit stones and a formation plate inside that constantly ran thanks to the spirit stones.
'So that's why no one has ever found it,' Alex thought. It was hard to even notice the thing in the first place even when you were looking for it. It was unlikely that anyone would ever find it in the ocean.
'It's about time,' he thought and slowly rose out of the water while letting out some of his aura for the formation to pick up. He then took out the talisman to wait for the old man to answer back.
"I saw two blips right next to each other. Was that you?" the old man asked.
"Two?" Alex frowned. Was there another one of these formations close by that he had activated accidentally?
"I don't see any other ones. It should just be one singul—"
Alex's words stuck to his throat when nearly 20 spiritual senses locked onto him from the distance. Alex slowly turned around and looked far away to see 3 ships approaching in his direction with people already flying out of it.
'Shit!' Alex thought and was ready to run away when something made him stop. He looked back, starting at the ships. He recognized those ships.
Those giant ships with brilliant azure paint with a golden dragon wrapped around a sword were the signature ships used by the Scale Legion. And the man who was making his way toward Alex was none other than Long Jianyu, the commander who had taken Alex and his people to the Eastern Continent.
Alex wanted to run, but some stubborn part of him wanted to question this man. This man had spent most of his latest time in the Southern Continent, so finding out the situation surrounding that continent would come easiest from him.
"King Alex," Long Jianyu said with a look that said this was all unexpected for him. "I did not expect to be the one to find you here."