To avoid unnecessary trouble, Ling Feng left a letter inside his tent for Bai Linger. In it, he explained that he had urgent matters to handle and would return within three days. With that done, Ling Feng set out with Despicable Donkey, heading southwest. After several hours of travel, they finally reached a vast ocean just past the second half of the night. This stretch of water was a particularly dangerous region within the Nanjiang demon domain. It was known as the Yanming Sea. The Yanming Sea was shrouded year-round in terrifying yin-malevolent energy. Even the more ferocious demon clans avoided coming near. Many of the demonic beasts that lived in the surrounding area had mutated from prolonged exposure to this energy and turned into savage fierce beasts that lived only to kill. "That evil qi, there's no mistake. It's in this area!" Despicable Donkey paused and sniffed the air. A cold sneer rose on his lips. "Hehe. Those Evil Dao cultivators think they can use the malevolent qi from the Yanming Sea to block this divine beast's senses? Maybe they fooled others, but they underestimated this divine beast. If this divine beast hadn't refined the essence of the Evil Emperor's Blood Soul, even this divine beast might not have picked up on this twisted evil qi." "Mhmm," Ling Feng said with a nod. Now that they were standing at the edge of the sea, Ling Feng could also sense a strange aura in the air. Perhaps it had something to do with the fact that he, too, had absorbed the Evil Emperor's Blood Soul in the past. There was no way the Silver Wolf Demon Emperor would have guessed that his secret dealings with the Demon-Masked Lord would be uncovered through a twist of fate by Ling Feng. "This is definitely a supreme treasure of the Evil Dao! As the saying goes, if the heavens offer you a gift and you don't take it, you're the one at fault. Kid, this is clearly heaven's blessing to us." Despicable Donkey grinned from ear to ear. When it came to shamelessness, it was hard to find anyone who could rival him. This time, however, Ling Feng fully agreed. Since the opportunity had presented itself, it would be a waste to leave such a treasure behind. To do so would be to betray the will of the heavens. Man and donkey suppressed their presence and flew low across the sea, slipping directly into the territory covered by rolling waves of malevolent qi. Fortunately, this level of malevolent qi was nothing to them. It posed no real threat at all. This area had already become the temporary domain of the Blood God Cult, an alliance forged between the Blood Sword Heavenly Lord and the Demon-Masked Lord. Although the humans and demons were locked in deadly conflict at Tianmang Fortress, to these Evil Dao cultivators, human lives meant nothing. Their only concern was their own survival. What happened to others was of no importance. "We're getting closer," Ling Feng muttered as he looked ahead. Not far from the coast, a massive island came into view. It was on this island that the Demon-Masked Lord and the Silver Wolf Demon Emperor had reached their agreement. This island was the Blood God Cult's temporary base of operations. No matter what the cult did here, the demon clans had agreed not to interfere. The only condition was that they must deliver the Supreme Lotus Seed on time. Ling Feng and Despicable Donkey dove beneath the surface and swam silently toward the island. The water had been stained black and foul-smelling by the heavy concentration of evil qi and malevolent qi. Ling Feng activated his Boundless Vision. With his current level of spiritual consciousness, vast as an ocean, he could extend his perception over an area larger than a hundred li. In moments, he swept past the waves and began surveying the entire island. One of the greatest strengths of Boundless Vision was that it left no trace. No spiritual thoughts could detect it. Not even a whisper. Before long, Ling Feng had a clear picture of the island. Scattered throughout were powerful Evil Dao cultivators in black robes, moving about busily. Above them, tendrils of black mist rose like smoke signals into the sky. The weakest among these black-robed figures were at the Transformation Realm. Every single one of them was an expert! At the island's center, countless severed limbs and broken bones were arranged into a massive formation. The arrangement was deliberate. The result resembled a giant sacrificial altar made entirely of skeletons. In the middle of these corpse-rings was a circular pool of blood. From the surface of the pool, evil qi rose constantly, turning into a dense fog that hovered above. At the eight compass points of this mist, eight blood-colored soul-summoning banners had been planted. Thin threads of blood connected them all, forming a sinister array. Suspended above this array was a crimson lotus platform. On that platform grew an enormous white lotus. The lotus petals were pure as snow, untainted by even a speck of dust. Each petal spread open elegantly, and together they spanned nearly ten zhang in every direction. It was difficult to comprehend how such a "holy" white lotus could grow in a place soaked with evil qi. It had been nurtured by corpses and saturated with blood, yet the result was something that looked like a divine flower. Ling Feng felt a chill deep in his heart. This white lotus was no ordinary object! The entire array was centered around the giant lotus. The blood essence of countless humans and demons, along with the energy extracted by the Evil Dao cultivators, was continuously channeled into it. Through the use of evil qi, blood, and soul vigor, they sacrificed everything to raise this Evil Dao White Lotus. Waves of eerie red light rippled outward from the flower, lighting up a radius of several dozen zhang. Seen from a distance, the Evil Dao White Lotus gleamed brightly. It dazzled the eyes and seemed to shake the soul. Dozens of low king-tier Evil Dao cultivators stood stationed across the island. Around the white lotus, three high king-tier Evil Dao cultivators remained on alert, keeping close watch as the lotus neared maturity. Soon, it would produce the Supreme Lotus Seed. Aside from them, over two hundred Spiritual Element Realm Evil Dao cultivators sat cross-legged nearby. Each one poured their spiritual energy into the blood pool, extracting the blood energy and vital essence from the corpses on the ground and feeding it into the array, helping the lotus grow. With severed limbs as nourishment and a pool of blood for irrigation, and as countless streams of evil qi and malevolent qi rose into the sky, everything was focused on cultivating a single white lotus that looked as pure as snow. It created a disturbing contradiction. The more holy the flower appeared, the more unnatural it felt. The contrast between purity and corruption clashed so violently that it left a sense of harshness. Yet somehow, the contradiction had merged into a single terrifying harmony. There was no denying it. The mysteries of nature could be both wondrous and horrifying. This Evil Dao White Lotus gathered the most extreme yin and evil energies under heaven and earth, yet it was producing a Supreme Lotus Seed filled with pure yang energy. If someone were to swallow that seed, the tremendous energy and spiritual power it contained could allow an emperor-level expert to break through the heavenly barrier and ascend instantly to the level of the Great Emperor! Ling Feng could not help but suck in a sharp breath. Despicable Donkey's sense of evil qi had been spot on. Now it made sense why, amidst such overwhelming evil, there had been a trace of sacred energy. That sacred aura had come from the lotus seed that was about to emerge. If I could obtain that seed... Even the thought of it made Ling Feng's breathing grow heavier. At the very least, he would rise to the sixth level of the Spiritual Element Realm. He might even break through directly to the king-tier!