Tao Yaoye was very happy to hear that she could go to the East Sea with Lu Yang, and readily agreed.
Li Haoran was the same. The moment he heard they could go out, he agreed on the spot, afraid Lu Yang might change his mind.
"Go to the East Sea? That's great, that's great!" Man Gu's eyes lit up, but then he remembered something, and a troubled look came over his face.
"What is it?" Lu Yang asked.
"Aren't there a lot of Sea Race beings in the East Sea? You know my bloodline, Brother Lu. Although it makes me exceptionally strong when fighting against the Sea Race, it also enrages them."
"I'm worried that as soon as I arrive at the East Sea, before I can even do anything, I'll be surrounded by the Sea Race."
Lu Yang remembered now—this was the blessing that the Immortal Fairy had bestowed upon the Ancient Barbarian race.
"That really is a problem... Fairy, do you have any good solutions?" Lu Yang thought about it and decided it would be quicker to ask the culprit directly.
"Of course I do! Just use your Invincible Nascent Soul and beat down all the Sea Race folks who come swarming in!" The Immortal Fairy threw little punches with playful battle cries, shadowboxing as if there were invisible enemies in the spiritual space.
"...Is there a more peaceful way?" Lu Yang had always advocated avoiding violence whenever possible.
"Well, this Immortal could reluctantly enhance the effect of the barbarian kid's bloodline. That way, even Body Integration stage Sea Race experts would feel terror toward him, guaranteeing that the five of you could swagger through the East Sea without hindrance. Though that would draw the hatred of Tribulation Transcendence stage Sea Race experts, how many Tribulation Transcendence cultivators can there possibly be in the East Sea? You won't run into one."
"...Can we switch to another way?" Lu Yang had heard that the East Sea possessed the Dragon Palace and the Nine Great Sea Races, which amounted to at least ten Tribulation Transcendence cultivators.
Besides, anyone could guess that a behemoth like the Dragon Palace couldn't possibly have only a single Tribulation Transcendence cultivator in the Old Dragon Emperor.
The Immortal Fairy said reluctantly, "Then the only thing left is to seal it. Temporarily seal away his Ancient Barbarian bloodline, and lift the seal once you leave the East Sea."
Lu Yang was overjoyed. "Then we'll go with that method!"
The Immortal Fairy traced out an extremely obscure formation array.
"What is this?"
"A sealing formation. Your cultivation isn't high enough to draw it, so have your Second Elder draw it instead."
"All right!"
The group found Old Ba by the entrance to the Herb Garden. Old Ba was lying on a recliner with a palm-sized leaf covering his face, humming a comfortable little tune. Two half-man-tall leaves hovered over his head, swaying gently like palm fans.
"Old Ba, we need your help with something."
Old Ba opened his eyes and took off the leaf covering his face. Seeing the eager looks in the eyes of Lu Yang and the others made him feel a bit uneasy.
"Out with it. Don't look at me like that."
"A few of us are planning to go have some fun at the East Sea for a couple of days. But Man Gu's bloodline tends to draw hostility, and it just so happens that I found a formation array that can seal bloodlines in an ancient book, so we came to ask for your help."
"So that's how it is. That's simple enough. What does the formation look like?"
"Right here." Lu Yang brought out the array rubbing he had copied from his spiritual space.
Old Ba took it and clicked his tongue in wonder. "Truly worthy of an ancient formation. The design is exquisite."
"Wait here. I'll have it done in two hours." For an unfamiliar formation, Old Ba needed to study it thoroughly before he could draw it. The layers, stroke order, the amount of spiritual energy to use... all required careful study and experimentation.
Two hours later, Old Ba had Man Gu expose his belly and gave it a slap, leaving an ancient seal etched onto his stomach.
Chapter 788