296: Chapter 296 Quite a Coincidence

Not only that, but Chen Yi also discovered that this sea calming pearl seemed to be an extremely powerful defensive spiritual energy weapon.

When suffering an attack, he only needed a thought to instantly hide within the pearl's inner space.

Relying on the sea calming pearl's own incredibly sturdy spatial barrier, it was estimated that attacks below the ninth rank would likely struggle to shake it even a little!

Offensive and defensive in one, and it could even carry a paradise-like dimension with him—

This sea calming pearl was truly tyrannical beyond measure!

It felt like this was the biggest gain from this trip to the Antarctica secret realm!

"Speaking of which, being able to find the sea calming pearl this time is all thanks to Sister Shiyin!"

"Just good luck, I happened to get the feather that triggered the change."

"But then again, if we had known that there was such a thing as the sea calming pearl that could directly collect the entire Crystal Palace, we wouldn't have needed to waste a whole day working ourselves to death picking up those magic beast crystal cores—"

"Indeed, wasting two and a half days feels like losing billions!"

"You can't say it like that; those magic beast crystal cores are solid resources! Besides, without this process, we might not have been able to trigger the sea calming pearl's final master recognition condition!"

"Anyway, the Crystal Palace is already Chen Yi's, so aren't the things inside sooner or later all ours? Picking them up early or late is the same!"

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The girls on the dragon's back discussed it animatedly, their laughter and cheer ringing out constantly.

Chen Yi looked at them and smiled: "Alright, don't complain too much! Being able to discover and obtain a secret treasure like the sea calming pearl is already our immense good fortune. Let's just treat those two and a half days as the price paid to obtain this thing!"

These words received unanimous approval from The girls.

Indeed, compared to obtaining the sea calming pearl and the entire Crystal Palace, two and a half days of hard collection was nothing at all.

"Right, right! This is getting a bargain and still acting spoiled!"

"Next, it's time to properly explore this sea calming pearl world!"

"I feel like we can build it into our exclusive home."

"Mm—it will definitely be very beautiful!"

Just as everyone was excitedly discussing how to plan the space inside the sea calming pearl.

Lin Mengxue, who had been responsible for flying, suddenly spoke up to remind them: "Everyone pay attention, we are about to enter the fifth-layer area—the Storm Zone!"

Hearing this, everyone looked forward.

They saw that the horizon ahead was completely different from the previous scenes of snowy landscapes or clear skies.

A gray, hazy area shrouded the heavens and earth, forming a curtain connecting the sky and the ground.

High in the air, countless huge rocks were visible to the naked eye, rolling and colliding in the violent airflow, emitting dull rumbles.

Streaks of invisible, massive Wind Blades cut wantonly through the air, carving tiny cracks into space itself.

Even from a great distance, one could feel that destructive aura and the shrill whistling sound.

The wind elements here were a bit like the Storm Zones encountered in the Five Elements Secret Realm before, but it seemed—more dangerous!

The high altitude was filled with a large amount of debris and Wind Blades; if they wanted to fly like before, they would likely get injured very easily—

Although Chen Yi had numerous earth-attribute or other defensive heaven and earth spiritual treasures to activate shields and force his way through.

But to keep consuming Enhancement Points or treasure energy to maintain a shield for an area where the specific direction and situation were unknown was obviously not very realistic.

Moreover, this Storm Zone was different from before; the power was too tyrannical. Even for Su Taotao, she could only swallow a little bit at a time, making it hard to cause any substantial impact on this storm.

He thought about it and made a decision: "Since the risk of flying is too great, let's explore on foot! Anyway, we aren't in a rush; let's just treat it as—an outing and a stroll on the ground."

"A stroll? In a place like this?"

"Otherwise what? Do you want to be sliced into sashimi by the wind?"

"No way!"

"Then walk obediently! It's a good chance to carefully explore this area; maybe we can discover some hidden treasures."

"Indeed, just treat it as an outing! Relax!"

"Okay!!!"

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After making the decision, Lin Mengxue found a relatively stable place on the edge of the Storm Zone to land.

Everyone jumped down and began to march on foot towards the depths of the Storm Zone.

Time passed quietly during their stroll, and in the blink of an eye, three days had gone by.

Relying on Chen Yi's Treasure Seeking Eye, they had also successively discovered nearly ten types of quite rare heaven and earth spiritual treasures!

Most of them were heaven and earth spiritual treasures related to wind, thunder, and earth attributes!

The resources were preserved quite well, which was enough to show that they should be the only explorers here—as if!

Just as everyone thought of this.

From behind a wind-eroded rock pillar not far away, came a sound of indignant complaining.

"Damn it! What kind of hellish place is this! Navigation is malfunctioning, energy is chaotic, and we can't even fly! If we have to rely entirely on our two legs to walk, who knows when we'll find the way to the sixth layer?! This is really bad luck!"

This voice of complaint was none other than the Su Country Beast Tamer encountered previously in the Crystal Palace—Ivan, along with his Contracted Spirit Beast team!

At the same time that Chen Yi's group discovered Ivan, Ivan also discovered Chen Yi's presence.

When he clearly saw the group of figures not far away that were so familiar they made him tremble with fear, his whole body instantly froze, the color drained from his face in a "whoosh," and he wore an expression exactly like having seen a ghost.

"F*ck! Just how unlucky is this?"

Ivan was wailing wildly in his heart, "The Antarctica secret realm is so big, there are so many areas, and there are clearly so many areas and treasures waiting to be explored in the Crystal Palace, why did this star of misfortune appear here? And why did I happen to run into him? Did I not check the almanac before going out? This luck is too terrible, right?"

He subconsciously wanted to turn and run away, the farther from Chen Yi the better.

But just as his feet moved half a step, reason forcibly held him back.

"No! Can't run! What if I run and this guy Chen Yi thinks I have a guilty conscience, or thinks I found some incredible treasure and want to swallow it alone, and comes chasing after me? With his perverted speed and strength, can I run away? Wouldn't it be even more miserable then?"

Thinking of this, Ivan forcibly suppressed the stormy waves in his heart, his facial muscles twitching.

He struggled to squeeze out a smile that he thought was kind and approachable, but was actually uglier than crying, and biting the bullet, he took the initiative to greet them.

"Yo! What a—what a coincidence! Brother Chen Yi! Didn't expect—didn't expect to meet you guys here!"

Chen Yi was also quite surprised; he really didn't expect to see Ivan here.

Regarding Ivan as a person, Chen Yi actually didn't have many thoughts.

Although this guy had some petty thoughts before in the Crystal Palace, he was considered sensible and knew when to advance or retreat.

In his view, as long as the other party didn't take the initiative to harbor malicious intent towards him, or jump out to fight for something.

He was too lazy to waste energy dealing with others.

Adding too much innocent killing karma to his hands was not his intention, nor did it have any benefits.

Therefore, facing the smile that Ivan had barely squeezed out.

Chen Yi just nodded indifferently and replied in a calm tone: "Mm, it is quite a coincidence! You came to the Storm Zone too?"