Chapter 50

The mud and sand slowly settled like a curtain, and two towering shadows like mountains split the water. Finally, at this moment, their eternal true appearance was completely revealed.

They are actually two ancient fish dragons that have survived from the ancient times!

The fish dragon on the left was covered in silver-white scales, entwined with purple-gold lightning patterns. Each scale shone with dazzling brilliance, reflecting a dazzling cold light beneath the water. Its head was like a mountain, crowned by towering horns. Purple thunder coiled and roared. Its eyes blazed like red thunder, and every glance sent a shiver of fear. The slightest flick of its tail fin caused thousands of thunderbolts to explode in the water!

The ichthyosaur on the right glows with a turbulent blue glow, its scales like the heart of the ocean. A misty cloud condenses on its surface, swirling around it and generating violent turbulence. It's even more massive than the one on the left, with no horns on its head, but a massive fin on its back that covers the sky. A single fin stretches out, and it stirs up waves as powerful as a mountain and a sea!

Two ichthyosaurs, each over ten feet long, hovered in the water, their gazes fixed fiercely on the tiny figures below, clearly viewing them as enemies who had destroyed their home. However, upon realizing that Su Ruo possessed the highest level of cultivation, their crimson eyes flashed. The left-hand ichthyosaur launched the first attack, unleashing a stream of purple lightning as thick as a bucket. With a shrill, air-rending whistle, it slashed straight towards Su Ruo!

At the same time, the blue fish dragon on the right was not to be outdone. It waved its huge tail fin, raising a wave of water that covered the sky and the sun. In it were countless sharp water blades, which slammed towards the demonic clone in the distance!

“——God Transformation Stage?!”

Looking at the incoming attack, Su Ruo's pupils suddenly shrank, her eyes filled with shock and disbelief. She had never imagined that such a powerful being could be hidden in the Fish Dragon Realm!

The pressure from the Transformation God was like a mountain, causing the magic energy in her body to stagnate. She had no choice but to give up chasing Yan Bujian, and spun her hands rapidly, condensing a thick magic shield in front of her.

"boom--!"

The purple lightning collided violently with the shield, and the magic shield cracked into spider-web-like patterns. Su Ruo felt a sweetness in his throat, and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. He was immediately shocked and flew back several feet!

The situation on the side of the evil spirit clone was not optimistic either. Although it had power similar to Su Ruo's original body, it had no independent consciousness. Facing the waves raised by the clouds, rain, fish and dragons, it did not know how to dodge, but only mechanically waved the short blade to resist.

However, the power of the waves was too strong. The short blade was shattered as soon as it touched the waves. Then the huge waves pressed down like a mountain, and the clone instantly disintegrated into wisps of black mist and disappeared in the water.

Yan Bujian took advantage of the chaos and, holding on tight, swam towards Lin Yibai. After finding Lin Yibai hiding behind a white jade pillar, the two of them clung together, warily gazing through the cracks in the pillars at the fierce battlefield in the distance.

"Huh... Fortunately, as you expected, the ichthyosaur was actually attracted by the commotion we caused." Lin Yibai stroked her chest lightly, her voice trembling with the feeling of having survived a disaster. However, when she saw the battle situation clearly, her eyebrows, which had just relaxed a little, were furrowed again.

It turned out that although Su Ruo was only at the early stage of the Nascent Soul stage, his skills were extremely strange. Under the joint attack of the two fish dragons at the Spirit Transformation stage, although he was caught between two odds, he was always able to transform into a wisp of misty gray fog at the moment when the power of wind and rain came, and repeatedly avoided the killing moves of the fish dragons!

So she murmured, "...But at the moment, we still can't take it lightly."

Yan Bujian nodded, his face still pale. "That's right. Summoning the fish dragon just now was a helpless act. Now you and I have two more enemies. No matter which side wins, we will be doomed. We must find a way to make them both lose, preferably to perish together."

After he finished speaking, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought. However, after thinking for a long time, he still couldn't come up with a plan to kill two birds with one stone. When he raised his head anxiously, he unexpectedly found -

There was a strange look in the eyes of the girl in front of him!

He was stunned for a moment, then hesitantly asked, "Do you... have a solution?"

Lin Yibai took a deep breath and turned to look at him. There seemed to be a flame burning quietly in the depths of his eyes: "Maybe... I really have a plan."

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The battle in the distance has reached a fever pitch.

Although Su Ruo repeatedly avoided fatal attacks with her cunning atomization technique, each transition from reality to illusion consumed a significant amount of her Nascent Soul-level spiritual energy. Her face grew paler, her aura became erratic, and the demonic energy surrounding her was no longer as condensed and surging as it had been at the beginning.

"We can't delay this any longer!"

After realizing that continuing to fight would only lead to death, Su Ruo's eyes flashed with a fierce light. She suddenly made a feint, pretending to be exhausted and drifting backwards. At the same time, she quickly made hand gestures in front of her chest. The demonic energy that was originally scattered around her body seemed to be attracted by a black hole, and it gathered and compressed madly towards her palm!

A heart-pounding wave of destructive force rippled outward, causing even the surrounding water to freeze and tremble. She was determined to concentrate most of her remaining spiritual energy into a single point, unleashing a single, powerful blow—

I don't want to kill the enemy, I just want to temporarily force these two beasts to retreat and open up a way to survive!

Although the white and blue fish dragons were intelligent, they still had animal nature. When they saw the prey showing signs of weakness, they did not suspect anything but were completely aroused by their ferocious hunting instincts.

They roared, carrying wind, thunder and raging waves, and rushed towards Su Ruo from the left and right with a more ferocious posture. Their huge figures almost blocked all her space to dodge.

Seeing that the two huge shadows were about to swallow up Su Ruo's petite figure, the extremely compressed, dark magic ball in her palm was trembling to the extreme, about to burst out -

However, at this moment, something strange happened!

Two hazy and warm shadows of ancient lamps suddenly fell quietly from the void above, accurately covering the two fish dragons. As the light and shadow flowed, countless fine runes appeared and disappeared in them, exuding an ancient and vast breath.

The next moment——

"roar--!"

"hold head high--!"

With the help of the light and shadow, the two fish dragons roared at the same time, shaking the bottom of the water. Their power increased several times in an instant!

The thunder wrapped around the silver-white fish dragon suddenly became several times thicker, like violent lightning snakes, illuminating the surrounding waters into purple; the huge waves raised by the blue fish dragon instantly turned into a roaring waterspout, and the water blades contained in it were as dense as locusts, emitting a sharp aura that could tear everything apart.

Their originally ferocious aura now had a bit of vastness and tyranny from the ancient times, and their speed was even faster than Su Ruo had expected. They were like two deadly streams of light, one on the left and one on the right, biting towards her head!

Su Ruona's momentum, which had been condensed to the peak, suddenly stagnated at this moment, and for the first time, an expression of incredible horror appeared in her eyes - she never expected that at this critical moment, a third party would intervene, and in such a way to strengthen the enemy!

...The power contained in the light was so mysterious that it made her feel a throbbing from the soul!

"not good!"

Warning signs rang loudly in her heart. She tried to use the atomization technique to escape, but it was too late. The silver-white fish dragon attacked first, its maw wrapped in destructive thunder, closing violently at a speed beyond her reaction!

"puff--!"

A teeth-grinding tearing sound was heard, and a large cloud of crimson blood mist exploded in the clear water in an instant like a sad and beautiful flower that suddenly bloomed.

Su Ruo let out a painful groan, and felt a heart-wrenching pain in his waist. A large piece of flesh and blood along with torn clothes had been torn off by the fish dragon. The wound was charred black, and faint white bones could be seen in it.

Her face instantly turned as pale as gold paper, and her breath rapidly weakened like a dying candle. Then, she endured the severe pain and raised her head. Her eyes penetrated the blood-red air and stared intently at the source of the light.

Not far away, a girl stood quietly in the turbulent water.

She exuded a completely different aura from before. Her eyes were lightly closed, her long eyelashes casting a faint shadow under her eyelids. Her hands formed an ancient and complex hand seal in front of her body.

The two hazy shadows of light flowed out from her handprints.

Her clothes fluttered gently in the water, her hair stretched out like seaweed. Although she was in danger, her expression was strangely peaceful and focused, as if she had been immersed in some mysterious state and could not extricate herself.

…

Not long ago.

When Lin Yibai and Yan disappeared from the hiding pillar, and saw Su Ruo still able to maneuver with her strange body skills under the siege of fish and dragons, a long-forgotten name could not help but emerge from the depths of her sea of ​​consciousness -

"The Secret of Ember Heaven".

She silently repeated this familiar yet unfamiliar name in her heart.

This technique is the secret of the Bo Deng Sect, which has never been passed down. Thanks to its prosperity, the sect assisted the demonic sect in slaying the remaining remnants of the righteous sect, thus establishing a firm foothold. However, it was also the root cause of its downfall. Due to the heavy bloodshed, the sect incurred divine punishment, and all the orthodox cultivators were forever forbidden to advance beyond the Nascent Soul stage...

It can be said that the rise and fall of a family depends on this.

All direct disciples of the Bo Deng Sect practice this secret technique. Her original self, the young master of the Bo Deng Sect, had received personal instruction from Lin Wuya in her youth. Even though her current body had been judged to have "poor physique," barring her from truly understanding the secret technique, the secret techniques and mental methods, personally passed down by her father and imprinted deep within her soul... had never truly faded.

They are just silent, like sparks buried deep under the ashes, always waiting to reignite at some point.

"Yan, I haven't seen you yet." She looked at the young man beside her, whose face was pale from injury and anxiety, and said in a strangely calm voice, "I may have a method... you can try it. I'll be grateful if you can protect me."

Yan Bujian was startled when he heard the words, and met the inexplicably burning, deep and determined fire in her eyes——

That was a look he had never seen on Lin Yibai before.

So he didn't ask any more questions, just took a deep breath and nodded heavily: "Okay!"

After receiving his promise, Lin Yibai slowly closed his eyes, no longer paying attention to the deafening roar and roar outside, and immersed all his mind into the depths of the vast sea of ​​consciousness.

In the beginning there was chaos and darkness.

But soon, a tiny light lit up from nothingness - it was the general rune of "Jingtian Jue", like the rekindled flame, only a few scattered ones, but then, the second one, the third one... Countless golden runes carrying the supreme mysteries of the Bo Deng Sect flew out from the abyss of memory like summoned sparks, connecting into a river, illuminating her entire sea of ​​consciousness!

——And just beneath the calm sea surface, there are countless dark golden roots and veins extending along the brilliant river of stars and outwards at the same time!

"A thin flame leads the way, illuminating ignorance;

Even the remaining embers can start a prairie fire..."

The ancient formula echoed silently in his heart, and a ray of spiritual light arrived at dawn, illuminating the dusty path. The path of the martial arts, which had been awkward for countless years, now melted like solid ice, transforming into a thin but unstoppable stream of spring water, flowing freely.

She only felt a faint warmth coming from deep within her dantian, as if a tiny flame had been quietly ignited and drawn out.

Then, the two shadows of lights fell.

…She succeeded!

At this critical moment of life and death, relying on the instincts engraved in this body and the indomitable will of this new soul, she finally pried open this door that had been sealed for a long time and had never been opened by "Lin Yibai"!

Su Ruo's gaze was fixed on Lin Yibai. Looking at the warm aura flowing around the girl, which was completely different from the demonic energy, her eyes were filled with shock, resentment, and a hint of fear that she herself had not even noticed.

"It's actually... you, a waste?!" She almost squeezed out these two words from between her teeth.

The next moment, before she could react, the two fish dragons, which had become even more ferocious after being blessed by the "Ember Sky Art", had changed direction and rushed towards her again with the aura of destroying everything!