Chapter 67 The Fierce Battle: They Killed Your Husband!
"The siren is coming!!!"
A gigantic head emerged from the sea, its lantern-sized, ghostly eyes fixed intently on the people on the ship. Her appearance instantly triggered cries of alarm and pleas for help.
The rocking boat suddenly stopped as long, scarred tentacles gripped the hull, and everyone screamed in terror.
"Ahhh!"
"A monster! Help!!"
Many people tried to escape, and even the weakest among them displayed a tenacious will to live, struggling to hide inside the cabins. Some even considered jumping into the sea to save themselves...
Xu Huaji coldly stared at Kui Wu, chanting a string of incantations like a siren. The eight-clawed monster's body began to tremble, its tentacles loosened, its expression was extremely painful, and blood beads kept gushing from its eye sockets.
"Xu Huaji! Prepare to die!" Kui Wu endured the excruciating pain and transformed her tentacles into gleaming silver blades, stabbing at him.
"Ugh!"
Xu Hua pushed the person next to him to shield him from the injury. Sharp tentacles pierced Pan Dapang's body. He slowly turned around, staring at him with eyes wide open, filled with unyielding doubt and shock.
Xu Huaji dodged it, chanting incantations incessantly, determined to extinguish its reason and kill it.
However, while the spell was effective against her, it wasn't particularly powerful; otherwise, he wouldn't have simply imprisoned her and made Lian Wu work for him.
"Xu Huaji, you are ungrateful! If I hadn't saved you from the storm, would you be where you are today?!"
Kui Wu's cries were like weeping blood, tears streaming down her face, her heart breaking. "Ha, that's easy to say. Haven't I already repaid your life-saving grace?" Xu Huaji was quite agile, dodging the attack from the tentacles, and tried to run back into the room to get the wind chimes.
"Wasn't it me who helped treat that old man's injury? Otherwise, how could he have lived long enough to tell you his will?"
Seeing his disrespect for the Grand Elder, Kui Wu was even more furious. Her remaining tentacles slapped the water's surface, causing waves to surge. The once massive merchant ship now resembled a leaf, swaying and rolling with the waves.
"Ha, treatment? If you hadn't used the wrong medicine, the elder wouldn't have died from a hemorrhage so quickly! Lianwu was almost able to find the medicine!" Kuiwu almost vomited blood as she recalled the past. If she hadn't acted impulsively and saved him, causing him to have malicious intentions, threaten the elder with his inner core, and overhear the mermaid clan's most secret secrets...
"Hahahaha, in the end, it's all your fault for being so stupid!" Xu Huaji laughed loudly. "That old man was already at his last gasp, beyond saving. I kindly treated him, and didn't I get anything in return? His inner core is thriving in my body..."
As Xu Hua continued speaking, she pulled out a pigeon-egg-sized object from her bosom and swallowed it whole. Her once magnificent brocade robe ripped apart, revealing skin similar to hers on her forehead. Claw-like tentacles emerged from the tear in her robe. "After searching for countless alchemists all these years, I have finally refined this inner core with its boundless inner power. Now I also possess magical power, hahahahahaha..."
Enraged, Kui Wu continuously unleashed its tentacles to attack the ship.
"Today I will kill you on behalf of the elders and Lian Wu to avenge this blood feud!"
On the other side, Bai Yuheng and Cui Mingcan drew a circle around the world, trapping the weak and innocent people within the barrier to keep them undisturbed. However, the ship was churning so violently that even Bai Yuheng, who was never seasick, was now feeling weak and nauseous.
"Xiao Can, you keep an eye on them. I'll try to find a way to get the boat away from this sea."
"good!"
Bai Yuheng held onto Chuan Zhi with one hand, trying to steer the boat away from the area while the two were locked in a fierce fight, so as to avoid being caught in the crossfire.
"Chirp—"
A loud whistle rang out from somewhere, followed by a long cry in the air. Bai Yuheng looked up and saw Duobao. The white phoenix swooped down from the clouds and carried Bai Yuheng on its back.
Bai Yuheng suddenly sensed something and saw that the person steering the boat had changed his appearance, becoming handsome and dashing—it was Pei Yuan.
The two exchanged a glance and nodded. Bai Yuheng then used hand seals to pull the ship out of the whirlpool. The golden threads, though thin, were incredibly strong. As Duobao flew into the sky, they steered the ship around, deviating from its original course.
As the ship sailed away from the whirlpool, the swaying of the hull gradually decreased. Cui Mingcan breathed a sigh of relief and looked into the distance, where he spotted several large ships sailing side by side. The flags on the ships fluttered in the wind, exuding an extraordinary sense of power and majesty.
At the same time, the voices of Cen Ying and Li Tiankuo came from behind the three cicadas.
"Yu'er! We're here!"
Bai Yuheng also looked over and saw Cen Ying waving. She replied, "Let the official boat stop further away first. Xu Huaji and Kui Wu are fighting. Don't get involved."
“Okay,” Li Tiankuo replied.
The official ship stopped in the distance, and many soldiers holding long spears and bows and arrows stood on the deck, ready for battle.
Seeing that the merchant ship had escaped the whirlpool, Bai Yuheng ordered Duobao to fly to the sky above where Xu Huaji and Kuiwu were fighting to the death. She needed to capture Xu Huaji alive to find out the whereabouts of the Painted Skin Immortal.
At the same time, Li Tiankuo's words of advice came to his ears: "Xu Huaji needs to be captured alive, don't let her kill him."
"Okay, I understand." Bai Yuheng replied while making a hand seal to try to stop the two who were fighting fiercely. She then said to Pei Yuan, "Xiao Yuan, you and Xiao Can take the boat to Xiao Ying's place, send the person there, and come back to help me capture Xu Huaji alive."
Pei Yuan was taken aback for a moment upon hearing this, then a chuckle escaped his lips: "Okay, fine. Be careful."
Cui Mingcan nodded as well.
Seeing that the boat had been driven away, Xu Huaji shouted at the guards on board, "Quickly take back the boat! There are government soldiers ahead!"
The people on the boat were recovering, some of them were vomiting so badly they were almost vomiting bile. But when they heard this, they immediately perked up. They couldn't let the soldiers catch them no matter what, otherwise even the most powerful backer wouldn't be able to protect them!
Several men, carrying knives, tried to rush to Pei Yuan to reclaim control of the ship, but he merely glanced at them and bound them from head to toe. Strands of white thread, seemingly appearing out of nowhere, bound all those who wanted to cause trouble and were with Xu Huaji's group, rendering them immobile.
Just as those people were about to curse, Pei Yuan glanced at them coldly, and the silk thread, unusually sensible, covered its mouth tightly as well.
"Noisy".
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When Xu Huaji saw that everyone on the ship was tied up, he was so angry that he almost fell over backward. He was distracted and stretched his tentacles toward the people on the ship. Even if he had to let them die at the bottom of the sea, he would not let the government catch them!
The ship was rocking violently. Pei Yuan looked at Cui Mingcan, who was retching, and said to him, "You stay at the helm, I'll go help."
While gagging, Cui Mingcan nodded, "Okay, okay..."
Pei Yuan leaped into the air above the tentacles, flicked his wrist, and a sharp sword gleaming with cold light appeared in his hand. He fell down, the sword lengthening and dragging out a chilling blade, slashing down at the wreaking tentacles.
"ah!!!"
Xu Huaji cried out in pain, his attention diverted, and was pierced through the right arm by Kui Wu, who was fighting him to the death with the intention of dying together with him.
Bai Yuheng joined the fierce battle, and for a time the fighting was evenly matched.
After giving instructions to everyone, Li Tiankuo also picked up his sword and joined the fierce battle.
"Why are you stopping me!" Kui Wu glared at Bai Yuheng with bloodshot eyes. "Get out of my way! Or I'll kill you too!"
Bai Yuheng said, "I still need him. The mastermind behind the human skin lamp curtain has not been caught yet, so you can't arrest him."
Kui Wu gritted her teeth, dodging Xu Huaji's cold arrow, and said, "If we capture the person behind this, will you hand him over to me?"
Seeing that she was open to discussion, Bai Yuheng immediately nodded: "No problem."
Just as Kui Wu was about to agree, Xu Huaji burst into laughter and said, "Kui Wu, Kui Wu, so many years have passed, and you're still so foolish!"
Aoi Kiri gritted her teeth: "What do you mean by this!?"
Xu Huaji gave a cold laugh: "Do you know how your good lover died?"
The three parties are taking intermittent breaks, but the silent smoke of battle is spreading, and the air is thick with the smell of gunpowder; a battle is imminent.
"It's them!" Xu Huaji pointed at them with his long beard. "They're the ones who killed your husband!"
Aoi Kiri glanced at him in disbelief with her bloodshot eyes, then looked at him again and said, "Ha, why should I believe you?"
"It's absolutely true! They killed your husband with their own hands!!!" Xu Huaji's forehead veins bulged as he spoke of the eight-clawed monster's gruesome death, as if in revenge. "Your Lianwu had its tentacles cut off, its eyes pierced, and there wasn't a single unharmed spot on its body!!! And you're still willing to risk your life for them!? Kuiwu, don't be silly!"
Kui Wu looked at Bai Yuheng and asked, "Is what he said true? Did you kill Lian Wu?"
"..." Bai Yuheng was silent for a moment, unable to lie when she met her grief-stricken eyes, which were silently shedding bloody tears. "Yes, it was us who hurt him, but he is still alive. It was Xu Huaji who buried him alive and refused to even treat him!"
"..." Kui Wu closed her eyes, letting the blood droplets connect into a line. She roared and screamed, and the calm sea surface instantly surged into towering waves that blotted out the sky and wanted to devour everything.
Xu Hua smiled, thinking to himself that she was still as gullible as ever. Seeing that he had stirred up a dispute between the two, he had a wicked idea. He wanted to take advantage of Kui Wu's counterattack to drag the ship into the sea.
Pei Yuan was staring intently at him, and he stopped him at the slightest movement, and a great battle was about to break out.
The towering waves stood in mid-air, and Bai Yuheng created a barrier around all the ships on the sea. Meanwhile, she joined forces with Pei Yuan and Li Tiankuo to capture Xu Huaji.
Xu Huaji was originally human. Even though he swallowed the inner core of a demon beast and gained power, he couldn't use it skillfully. At this moment, he was being beaten back by the three of them.
He chanted the secret incantation of the Merfolk, wanting to take advantage of Kui Wu's loss of reason and control her. He knew that the secret incantation of the Merfolk would not be very effective against women, which was why he was willing to be attacked by the three of them without fighting back. He wanted to increase the power of the incantation, and it would be best if he could make her lose her mind and wipe out all the people on the sea!
Seeing that Kui Wu's roars were becoming increasingly frenzied, Bai Yuheng's heart sank. She could only tell Cen Ying and Cui Mingcan to lead the boats to escape quickly, as her barrier might not be able to withstand the power of nature.
The long-withered and severed tentacles grew from her flesh and blood amidst her siren-like chants, transforming into an even larger demonic form. The newly grown tentacles, like sharp arrows piercing the air, struck them fiercely, while more tentacles emerged from the abyss, entwining and binding them.
Xu Hua was overjoyed, thinking that his secret incantation had worked, and quickly ordered her, "Kui Wu, kill them all!"
The three of them felt a chill run down their spines as they looked at the "obedient" Aoi Mist and dodged the descending tentacles.
The tendrils of the antennae veered off course and charged straight at Xu Huaji, who was still grinning smugly and had relaxed.
"You scoundrel! I'll kill you!!!"
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