Master of Strange Dao

The Cloud Whale understood, and after recovering, it dove under the Black Ship, lifting the vessel with its body.

Clouds gathered, and the Cloud Whale flicked its fins, rising from the sea surface, carrying the Black Ship, soaring into the sky.

At the moment of leaving the sea's surface, the High Priest realized they were seemingly safe.

The one pursuing them seemed unable to leave the deep sea.

...

In the deep sea, beneath the darkness, black smoke rolled and continuously converged.

A giant squid, reaching the end of its life, was engulfed by the pervasive black smoke at the seabed.

After a frenzied struggle, the gigantic squid, spanning thousands of feet, utterly vanished within the black smoke.

The black smoke began to coalesce, forming black tendrils and black eyes abruptly opened.

Those eyes looked westward, filled with greed, emerging from the sea floor.

At the moment of emerging, it sensed the echoing call at the seabed.

Moreover, a force propelled its immense body towards one direction.

No, it wasn't the newly formed body being moved, but its consciousness was propelling the body to speed ahead.

Even though it was at the bottom of the sea, it felt itself falling.

Continuously falling, finally it saw a giant vortex, heading straight for it.

The calling here felt increasingly strong.

After an unknown period, following the final desperate howl, it plunged completely into the vortex, disappearing entirely.

The world's calling seemed almost tangible, all seemingly falling towards here.

Yet, no one was aware of this scene.

...

Flying amidst the clouds, the Cloud Whale's enormous form effortlessly supported the Black Ship.

The High Priest gazed eastward, slightly dazed; the occasional senses in his mind had vanished.

The peculiar entity that wanted to coerce them had disappeared.

He felt dazed; all his knowledge told him that the being might have given up.

Yet his rationality told him the other had completely vanished, literally.

Because such an unreasonable being, extreme in behavior, would never give up.

As if in a mere instant, the other simply disappeared.

He dared not declare the being was dead, for he didn't know what power could kill such a ghostly entity.

He merely confirmed that it seemed the trouble was gone...

Was it over?

The High Priest dared not lower his guard easily; the trouble had vanished after eradicating it from the sky, and surely he wouldn't be returning to the deep sea any time soon.

"Weren't you saying you needed to find something?"

"Is it in the Southern Sea?"

"If not, head southward; best not to approach the human territories."

"Humans on land aren't very friendly to giant beasts at sea."

"I can inquire for you."

The Cloud Whale understood, adjusting its direction within the clouds, heading southwest.

...

The failed Queue No.1 contacted Che Lun, letting Che Lun speak some good words for him at Yu Ziqing's.

Saying the reason for last failure was discovered.

He wished for Yu Ziqing to connect again and complete the information.

The reason for not contacting Flower God or Matchstick was purely because Che Lun seemed most reliable.

Che Lun, an honest person, did not solely praise, rather he genuinely shared his understanding of Queue No.1.

Yu Ziqing understood that last failure wasn't due to Queue No.1's subjective fault.

The Almsgiving Ceremony called the True Name, forging the connection.

"I truly didn't wish to conceal, and I have no secrets, I reason that the calling had issues, and my memory expanded."

Upon establishing contact, Queue No.1 quickly explained again thoroughly.

Yet before Yu Ziqing said anything, he exposed his Memory Armor used for protecting his consciousness to Yu Ziqing completely.

Appearing as if he feared Yu Ziqing would find him not worth paying heed to.

Yu Ziqing said nothing immediately, beginning to observe.

The prior information he acquired mostly came through Che Lun and the others as intermediaries, given time was lengthy within the Mud Sea of the Muddied World, among acquaintances, secrets hardly existed between them.

Personally inspecting his Memory Armor equated to directly reading his chaotic, abundant fragmented memories.

Queue No.1 was indeed correct, quite increased.

This marked the first emergence of memory increase since entering the Mud Sea of the Muddied World, before there had been only reductions.

Until reduced to the last, when no protection was afforded, consciousness would obliterate within Mud Sea.

Upon hearing, everyone unanimously experienced this increment, without exceptions.

Yu Ziqing matched with previously garnered information, and the original memories resembled almost identical to previously.

Where the added information primarily concerned Ancient Gods, the calling of Ancient Gods, yet only acknowledging the existence, without thorough details.

Most subsequent additions comprised assorted other memories.

Concerning All Gods, concerning wars, concerning the entity deep within Mud Sea.

The entity deep within Mud Sea once ranked amongst All Gods, previously partook in wars between All Gods and Ancient Gods.

Post-Ancient God calling, the substantial new memories mainly pertained to this entity.

Yu Ziqing deeply frowned when viewing.

Because within the memories, wherever this entity's figure appeared, it was as though heavily censored.

Seeing this one seated on the clouds, brilliance glaring.

Witnessing the punishment upon His subordinates' clan, exterminating half their populace, skeletal remains towering.

Bloody sacrificial scenes numerous beyond count.

Arrival of human race, nurturing of human race, akin to former subordinates, having no marked distinction.