After turning another corner along the path, a bright light suddenly flashed before Gu Shi's eyes.
Gu Shi subconsciously narrowed his eyes and looked towards the source of the light. What appeared before his eyes was a huge cluster of transparent corals, emitting light.
"This is?"
Gu Shi looked at the coral reef carefully. It didn't look like a plant, but more like it was carved from some kind of mineral. It was full of edges and corners, and it seemed like it would make a crisp sound if it was hit hard.
While Gu Shi was still looking at the coral, Thanos had already swam to its side eagerly and stretched out his hand.
"Thanos, wait a minute!"
Gu Shi was about to speak up to stop him, but Thanos' hand had already quickly reached up. Fortunately, his action did not bring any danger.
Hearing Gu Shi's voice, Thanos turned around and said, "Don't worry, everything will be fine."
After saying that, he turned his attention back to the coral.
Gu Shi watched Thanos take out a small cloth bag from the space. He recognized this bag, as it contained the scales they had collected from those black shadows.
As soon as Thanos took out the bag, the scales inside broke free from their restraints, flew out of the bag, and headed straight for the coral reef.
Seeing this scene, Gu Shi instinctively tightened the staff in his hand.
The scales flew out and spun a few times in the air, as if looking for their own positions. After determining their positions, they fell into the coral reef one by one.
Gu Shi clearly saw that these scales fell in an orderly manner on the top of a coral branch, and then a tiny light flashed by. After some subtle changes, these scales completely became part of the coral.
Before Gu Shi could take a closer look at this newly grown coral, the little color that remained on its scales quickly faded, and its transparent color made it completely blend in with the coral reef.
Immediately afterwards, a colorful ball of light rose from the coral reef. It split into two in the air and shot towards Gu Shi and Thanos.
Gu Shi quickly released an ice wall to block it, but the colorful light was not affected at all. It passed through the ice wall and penetrated into Gu Shi's body in the blink of an eye.
Gu Shi immediately felt the changes in his body. His magic power was rising uncontrollably. Within a few minutes, a feeling of fullness spread from his body to his brain.
If we continue to let this go, there will definitely be problems.
Gu Shi was already on the verge of a breakthrough, but now, he was overwhelmed by this sudden surge of magical power and could no longer suppress it.
In order to sort out the sudden surge of magic power in his body and successfully break through, Gu Shi didn't care about other things. After hurriedly taking defensive measures around him, he immediately entered a meditative state.
It was unknown how long it had been, but Gu Shi had successfully broken through to the intermediate level of the sixth rank and adjusted the magic power in his body. As soon as he had done this, he immediately opened his eyes.
There was no sign that the defensive measures he had set up in advance had been triggered, and Thanos was standing there quietly. After seeing this scene, Gu Shi breathed a sigh of relief.
Noticing Gu Shi's movements, Thanos immediately swam to his side, "Gu Shi, how do you feel?"
Gu Shi smiled and said, "I'm fine. I advanced smoothly."
"That's good."
After confirming that Gu Shi was fine, Thanos apologized with a face full of apology: "I'm sorry, Gu Shi, my previous behavior was a bit reckless. I should have been more cautious."
Gu Shi shook his head. "It's okay. I know you didn't mean it."
Gu Shi certainly wouldn't bother with Thanos, who had clearly looked out of sorts. After accepting Thanos' apology, he asked another question: "Thanos, do you know what happened to the Dao magic just now?"
"This." Thanos turned his head to look at the coral reef beside him, "That's the reward it gave us."
"Reward?" Gu Shi's face was full of confusion.
Thanos' tone was a little hesitant, "You may not believe it, but from my perception, this coral reef actually has a faint consciousness.
It issued a commission to us, asking us to help clean up the dark shadows in the city and bring all the scales they dropped here.
In return, it will return the remaining magic within these scales to us in a form that we can absorb."
After listening to Thanos' explanation, Gu Shi couldn't help but take a few steps closer to the coral reef. Judging from the reaction of the scales before, this coral reef should be made up entirely of it. It is hard to imagine how many mermaid scales are left here.
Gu Shi continued to ask Thanos: "Have you communicated with that consciousness about anything else?"
Thanos shook his head, "That consciousness was actually quite weak, and it couldn't even speak clearly. It could only barely convey a few bits of consciousness to me.
After I agreed to the commission, it fell into a deep sleep and no matter how I called it, it had no intention of appearing again.
But it did mention that it would help us leave once we had cleared out the dark shadows in the city. I only agreed to this condition after hearing it make this offer."
At this point, Thanos touched his head helplessly, "It was only after I agreed to his conditions that I felt completely awake and realized that something was wrong with me before."
"Is that so?"
Gu Shi couldn't help but fall into deep thought. Judging from the current situation, the consciousness in this coral reef had no ill will towards the two of them for the time being, but looking at the way it was seeking help, it was indeed a bit unscrupulous.
"Forget it, let's take it one step at a time. How did you communicate with it? I want to try it too."
Thanos replied, "Just place your hand on these corals and you can sense their presence."
Gu Shi followed Thanos' instructions and placed his hand on the nearest coral, but he felt nothing.
"Strange, why don't I feel anything?"
Gu Shi changed his position several times but still failed. He looked at Thanos and had to admit that this was probably due to racial differences.
Gu Shi regretfully gave up the idea of communicating with that consciousness. Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the rocks under the coral reef out of the corner of his eye.
Gu Shi squatted down, picked up a familiar-looking stone from the ground and held it in his hand, while with his other hand he took out the pointer from the space ring.
Putting these two things together, one can tell at a glance that they are made of the same material. Even the stone that Gu Shi picked up is almost the same in shape and size as the pointer.
Gu Shi took the pointer and walked around the entire coral reef. Sure enough, during this process, the dark red pointer was always pointing firmly at the coral reef.
Gu Shi stared at the pointer in his hand helplessly, "So, this is the legendary treasure?"
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