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As Luo Hao walked along the riverbed, when he was having difficulty breathing, he took out the Water Repelling Pearl and used it to move forward.

"Crash!"

A wave of seawater roiled and quickly split apart in two directions. A soul beast shot towards Luo Hao like an arrow that had been released from a bow. Luo Hao slashed to the side, dodging the tip of the attack. Clearly seeing that it was a leopard shaped soul beast, with a body that was close to three meters long, without even a single attack, its four limbs moved. It very quickly turned around and rushed towards Luo Hao with unparalleled speed.

It was an early Second Order Soul Beast with the strength of a human at the ninth stage of the soul nourishing stage. Its eyes revealed a vicious light, and after nearing Luo Hao, it stopped and landed on the ground on its hind legs, standing at the bottom of the sea like a human, its forelegs extended through the ocean to grab towards Luo Hai's head.

Luo Hao did not want to tangle with it, so with a light wave of the Heaven Swallowing Sword in his hand, the seal's forelimbs were immediately sliced off. Luo Hao's palm flipped outwards again, cutting the seal in half.

Along the way, Luo Hao saw many caves at the bottom of the sea. From them, blisters the size of buckets would occasionally pop out.

When he passed by a cave, he discovered that there was a red light shining from inside. Luo Hao looked carefully and noticed that there was a red fruit growing on a small tree.

A spirit who was covered in tentacles was guarding the cave, noticing Luo Hao who was looking at the cave, suddenly shot out a few tentacles with lightning speed from the cave, the head of the tentacles was as sharp as a steel needle, if he was hit, it would definitely pass through his body.

Luo Hao waved his Heaven Swallowing Sword and formed a wall of swords in front of him. The few tentacles that his soul had attacked were immediately sliced apart, the soul beast released a sharp scream and retracted its tentacles.

The Soul Beast could feel the threat from Luo Hao. It knew that it was no match for him but it didn't want to retreat, so it could only use its voice to threaten Luo Hao.

Luo Hao had previously used his soul consciousness to inspect the red fruit, and discovered that there was an energy flowing inside it. Although he did not know what the fruit was called, he was sure that it was a good item and would not let it go, the soul beast could not scare it off just using its voice.

This soul beast had strength at the ninth level of the human soul nourishing stage. In this region of the ocean, it seemed to be an overlord, but in Luo Hao's eyes, it was nothing.

If the soul beast refused to leave, then he could only use force.

Luo Hao forced his way in, waving the Heaven Swallowing Sword in his hand.

Although the Soul Beast had previously suffered from its tentacles being chopped off, it was now afraid in its heart. Luo Hao had no place to hide, it could only fight back, its mouth screaming as he mobilized hundreds of tentacles to wrap around Luo Hao, in an attempt to trap Luo Hao through the part of the tentacle that was lost. Unfortunately, the Heaven Swallowing Sword was able to cut off all of its hands that were not hard on the steel rope like vegetables, causing the water to turn red, causing the Soul Beast to scream repeatedly.

Luo Hao took this opportunity and chased after him, slashing the Soul Beast into two. With a wave of his two palms, he sent the blood and flesh of the Soul Beast out, filling it up with clear water.

Luo Hao approached the small tree and observed the blood-red fruit carefully.

Although the fruit was red, it was translucent. One could see that there was a substantial amount of energy flowing within the fruit.

It could only grow in the deep sea, where it would blossom for a thousand years, and the fruit would bear fruit for two thousand years. In other words, it would take a full four thousand years for the fruit to mature and become edible, which meant that the value of this fruit was not small. After being consumed by others, the immense energy inside would be able to quickly raise one's cultivation, increase one's strength, and increase a martial artist's soul power.

After being discovered by this soul beast for hundreds of years, it had been waiting for it to ripen. Today was the time the Blood Soul Fruit would mature, so before Luo Hao could leave, it had just chased away a soul beast from other waters, and because it consumed too much energy, it laid at the entrance of the cave to rest. It wanted to recover its strength to its peak before it ate the Blood Soul Fruit.

Luo Hao did not know the origins of the Blood Soul Fruits, and he did not know how long a period of maturity a Blood Soul Fruit would take. After sizing it up, he reached out and plucked it, and just as he was about to put it into his storage ring, he discovered that the energy within the Blood Soul Fruit was quickly leaking out.

Luo Hao felt that it was a great pity. At this rate, all the energy in the Blood Soul Fruit would probably leak out, wouldn't it be a great pity?

Thinking about that, Luo Hao opened his mouth and swallowed the Blood Soul Fruit into his stomach. Immediately, a huge amount of energy dissolved out, like a ferocious beast rampaging in his body, almost causing the meridians in Luo Hao's body to surge violently, causing him to almost faint from the pain.

Fortunately, Luo Hao had learned the Art of Solidified Soul before, so his five organs were extremely tough.

Luo Hao tried his best to maintain his clarity of mind, and guided the enormous amount of energy in his body to flow through his meridians and into his dantian. Following the integration of the energy into his dantian and his initial spirit energy, Luo Hao's strength increased at a speed that could be seen with the naked eye.

Mid Ninth Layer!

It continued to climb.

Peak of the ninth level!

When Luo Hao's realm stabilized at the peak of soul nourishing stage, the energy inside the Blood Soul Fruit would be completely absorbed, and Luo Hao was only one step away from reaching the Soul Concentrating Fruit. As long as he comprehended the profound principles within, and his soul reached the requirements to enter the Soul Condensation Realm, he would be able to smoothly break through the Soul Condensation Realm, and officially enter the ranks of the strong.

's soul force was already stronger than ordinary people's. First, after passing through the fusion between the two souls, he awakened the Heaven Swallowing Martial Spirit, then he started to practice the celestial spiritualization, especially after consuming the Blood Soul Fruit, it caused his soul power to increase at a rapid pace. Right now, his soul force is stronger than anyone else's, so using the word 'abnormal' to describe the strength of his soul power, it's comparable to the strength of someone at the eighth level of Soul Condensation Realm.

Luo Hao felt that the strength of his soul power had already greatly surpassed the power of Soul Condensation Realm. However, in order to make a breakthrough, he still needed an opportunity.

This kind of comprehension ability was very mysterious. Everyone needed different insights in order to achieve a breakthrough, and one could learn from it, not pass it on, and not borrow it. One could only rely on the superior cultivator.

He had crossed the sea and the sky, but he still couldn't cross the sea. He could only struggle for the rest of his life.

Every time a martial artist advanced by a great rank, the obstacles that were placed in front of them were like transparent sheets of paper. It seemed as if it could easily penetrate through with just a simple poke, but in reality, sometimes it was like a bottomless black abyss.

For example, the Holy Soul City's Chu Family's ancestor, who had been stuck in the Peak of ninth level of Soul Nurturing for dozens of years, was still unable to break through to the Soul Condensation Realm. Also, Luo Hao's future father-in-law, Lu Chenglong, had already entered the peak of the ninth stage of the Soul Condensation Realm for close to ten years.

Luo Hao stabilized his realm at the Peak of ninth level of Soul Nurturing level, trying to see if he could break through. The result was that he did not know what to do, but because he was anxious and impatient instead, he felt the blood in his body churning, the Soul Sea rippling incessantly, it was the sign of him going berserk.

Luo Hao was so scared that he quickly gave up.

After exiting the cave, they continued onward.

All of the soul beasts they met along the way suddenly gathered together, all heading in the same direction with extreme speed. When they saw Luo Hao, they only took a glance, but didn't launch an attack.

Could it be close to that thing?

Luo Hao guessed like this. Without a soul beast to stop him, their speed would increase greatly, and once he had difficulty breathing, he would take out the Water Repelling Pearl.

After walking for two hours, the concentration of soul beasts had reached a point where not even a drop of water could trickle through. All of the soul beasts wanted to run to the front, but they were stopped and began to fight.

If there were battles, there would be casualties. If there were casualties, there would be bloodshed. Thus, the seawater was dyed blood-red. The sediment at the bottom of the seawater was stirred up, and the seabed immediately became dark.

Luo Hao stuck close to the bottom of the sea and kept moving forward, but when he saw soul beasts attacking him, he started killing them. His speed was not slow either, continuing to move forward.

After a few hundred kilometers, the number of beasts suddenly decreased. There were only two or three that appeared in each section of the water, but they were separated by quite a bit. With less soul beasts, however, their strength increased by quite a bit and soul beasts equivalent to the middle ninth stage of human cultivation began to appear.

In the previous battle with the group of beasts, Luo Hao had been able to avoid the attack by stealthily moving forward, but now, he couldn't.

Furthermore, the Soul Beast wouldn't stop attacking just because it was stronger. Unless it was afraid of a fight, or because its bloodline was higher than normal, it would attack the moment it arrived. This was the situation that Luo Hao was facing.

"Crash!"

A walrus soul beast shook its nose, which was a few feet long, and flung it towards Luo Hao. Luo Hao dodged to the side, dodging the walrus's attack, but with a boom, the walrus's nose slapped onto the hard underwater rock, causing it to shatter like tofu. The rock flew in all directions and hit another part of the rock, creating a hole in it.

Luo Hao originally wanted to ignore the sea beast and only wanted to continue moving forward. With such a powerful soul beast, Luo Hao did not even have the motivation to make a move and did not want to waste more time. He wanted to quickly obtain the item and get ashore so that he could search for the final destination of the secret realm.

However, the walrus did not want to rest, following Luo Hao closely behind and not letting go. The body of the walrus split the sea apart, like a submarine moving at high speeds, it was a sight to behold.

"Bastards are courting death."

It was as if Luo Hao had grown a pair of eyes at the back of his head. Hearing the sound of water splashing behind him, the Heaven Swallowing Sword in the water surged, and from its initial length of one meter to nearly three, it moved backwards at lightning speed.

"Aooo."

That walrus only had time to let out half a scream before it was cut in half by Luo Hao. With a loud bang, its mountain-like body fell to the seabed.