"Have I already entered the 'Heavenly Saint Ancient Tomb'?"
When Ye Chen's divine sense recovered from the dizziness of the teleportation, he found himself sitting on the back of a giant flying beast.
This was a huge eagle-like creature that measured a full kilometer in length, but bizarrely, it exhibited no signs of life, it was actually a flying puppet.
Besides Ye Chen, there were thirty-two other people on the back of the beast, but all of them still appeared dazed, seemingly yet to recover from the disorientation of the teleportation.
"Where is Jiang Yao?"
Ye Chen swept his divine sense over the thirty-two people but couldn't find Jiang Yao among the crowd.
He had entered the giant coffin teleportation formation with Jiang Yao, but now she had vanished?
Not only was Jiang Yao nowhere to be found, but the other individuals of the 349 who had entered the tomb were also missing.
A feeling of surprise began to rise in Ye Chen's mind.
Looking around, Ye Chen was shocked to find that he was in the high skies, with nothing below him but the massive flying eagle puppet, and above him loomed a gloomy and dull sky. Looking down, he could see a vast expanse of the ocean.
Immediately after entering the Heavenly Saint Ancient Tomb, had he been teleported above the ocean?
Where was this giant beast taking them?
As Ye Chen surveyed his surroundings, several half-step Rotating Pill Realm experts on the beast's back also gradually revived. Upon awakening, they quickly spread out their divine senses to inspect their surroundings. Discovering there were only a few dozen of them on the back of the beast, flying over the ocean, they all uttered soft sounds of surprise.
Soon after, the other individuals on the beast's back completely came to.
"Is this the 'Heavenly Saint Ancient Tomb'?"
"God, such vast heaven and earth, we are actually above an ocean!"
"Legend has it that the Heavenly Saint powerhouses could comprehend the laws of space and create a world of their own, but who would have thought that just an ancient tomb could be this massive!"
"And where are the others? Why are there only the few dozen of us here?"
After awakening, these individuals examined their surroundings, and each of them started expressing their astonishment and doubt.
Just as all thirty-three people on the back of the beast woke up, the flying beast suddenly turned its head and opened its mouth to spray something into the void. In an instant, thirty-three wooden tokens flew directly towards the group.
Each person caught a wooden token.
The moment Ye Chen's hand touched the wooden token, a flood of complex characters surged into his mind. After closing his eyes for a moment to digest this information, he then opened his eyes.
"So that's how it is."
From the information conveyed by the wooden token from the giant beast, Ye Chen finally understood why there were only thirty-three of them here!
According to the token, everyone who entered the Heavenly Saint Ancient Tomb would land on a flying giant beast, with a total of ten such beasts taking ten different groups of tomb explorers to ten separate islands.
These islands constituted the outermost area of the Heavenly Saint Ancient Tomb, known as the "Spirit Sea Relic Zone"!
Ye Chen's group was on the fourth flying giant beast and was headed for the Fourth Sea Island, where they had the opportunity to search for the relics within the Spirit Sea Relic Zone.
To call it a sea island was an understatement, as the area was immensely vast. From the sky, everyone could feel the grandeur of the sea island.
As they flew closer, the sea island felt more like a continent, with roars emitting from the island from time to time. They could also occasionally see giant flying beasts rising into the sky from the island.
As they approached close to the island's airspace, many people on the back of the giant beast stood up excitedly, and even a late Spirit Sea Realm disciple from the "Cloud Sky Sect" couldn't help but step off the giant beast and fly straight onto the sea island when they were still about thirty meters away.
Boom!
Clearly, this overly excited disciple had forgotten about the flight restriction around the sea island. As he stepped off, he plunged straight down towards the sea.
It was at this moment that the Cloud Sky Sect disciple remembered that the sea water below was not to be touched. Once it was touched, even a Rotating Pill Realm expert would be turned to ash.
Restricted by the flight prohibition, he couldn't fly, and plummeting into the seawater meant certain death!
The late Spirit Sea Realm disciple couldn't help but cry out in panic.
Just then, a whip extended from the body of the giant beast, "whooshing" tens of meters in length and gently coiling around the falling disciple, whisking him back to safety on the beast's back.
Back on solid ground, the pale-faced Cloud Sky Sect disciple was visibly shaken!
"Next time, if you're not careful, no one will save you!" The one who intervened was a Half-Step Rotating Pill expert from the Cloud Sky Sect, who scolded towards the Spirit Sea Realm disciple.
From the Cloud Sky Sect disciple's fall and struggle to the Half-Step Rotating Pill disciple's rescue, it all happened in the blink of an eye.
However, many on the back of the beast shuddered inwardly.
What was stated on the wooden token was indeed true, the flight restriction in the tomb was extremely powerful, so much so that not even someone in the late Spirit Sea Realm had any power to resist!
Boom!
Finally, after a small mishap, the flying beast carrying Ye Chen and the thirty-two others safely landed on the sea island.
As soon as they touched down on the island, the flying beast disappeared in a flash of light.
Leaving thirty-three people standing on the ground of the sea island.
"Let's go."
"With only a month for hunting giant beasts and treasure hunting, we must make haste!"
"Flying is not prohibited within the sea island, so we might as well fly around and take a look."
Among the thirty-three people, some were from the same sect and gathered together upon landing, preparing to set off into the island.
Others, like Ye Chen, who was the only one from his sect in this batch, were planning to go solo.
Ye Chen also planned to first look around the sea island. Just as he was about to set off like the rest, a long-haired young man stepped in front of everyone.
"Hehe, no need to rush off. Of the thirty-three people in our batch, only ten will have the chance to enter the central giant island in the future. Wouldn't it be better to eliminate a few people right here?"
As the long-haired youth spoke, his mocking gaze fell on Ye Chen and several others.
Without exception, these individuals were among the lower realms of the thirty-three, with Ye Chen only at the early Spirit Sea Realm and the others being in the mid Spirit Sea Realm.
This long-haired young man seemed eager to prey on the weak as soon as they arrived on the island!