Chapter 40. Si Yao still held onto Li Ye tightly...
The River God's Cave is hidden beneath the Cloud and Water River, making it damp and slippery year-round.
Fortunately, the interior of the cave was fairly well-organized, with square paths and lamps in every passageway and room.
In the bright light, Si Yao didn't have much difficulty walking.
She has always liked bright and airy spaces.
A steady footstep sounded behind him. Turning around, he saw that Li Ye had already followed.
Si Yao slowed her pace, waiting for him to walk beside her, before slowly saying, "Disciple, that 'River God' shouldn't be completely dead; perhaps he's still hiding in this cave."
At this point, Li Ye looked around.
Si Yao continued, "Thinking back to the fight with him just now, it wasn't until he revealed his true form that I realized that the 'river god' was actually a Lu fish monster. I have seen records of such monsters in ancient books."
Li Ye closed his eyes slightly. "The 'Luyu Monster' is covered in fish scales, has a pair of wings on its ribs, and its shape and body resemble a cow. That's what the monster looks like, so it must be a 'Luyu'."
Si Yao praised, "Little Yezi likes to read ancient books in his spare time, that's good."
Li Ye looked up and frowned. "To the left."
Si Yao became alert and peered to the left. A strange aura was indeed emanating from the left side of the passageway.
They took the left fork in the road and soon reached its end.
The road ended abruptly, revealing a massive cavern on the other side, separated by scalding lava.
Standing on the stone path at the end, Si Yao looked down. The lava was clearly dozens of feet away from them, but the scorching heat of the lava still hit them, making the originally slippery ground completely dry.
If you accidentally fall in, you might get burned to ashes.
However, to reach the cave on the other side, one must cross these lava formations.
Just then, a dark purple light flashed from the entrance of the stone cave opposite.
This is no different from the aura of that fish demon.
"He's still alive!"
Si Yao said to Li Ye, "Chase after him? We can't let him escape! If we don't kill him, he might go somewhere else to harm people in the future!"
After saying that, Si Yao took off and was about to fly towards the stone cave in the distance.
As they passed the lava, billowing heat surged forth. Before Si Yao had flown more than a few steps, a group of flying monsters suddenly appeared in front of her.
Those monsters were serpentine in shape, but had wings on their bodies. They looked ferocious and were filled with endless malevolence.
She knew then that crossing the lava to the other side would not be an easy task.
The dark purple light just now was like bait, deliberately luring Si Yao and Li Ye to fly over there.
These serpentine flying monsters will attack them whenever they attempt to cross the lava.
Si Yao waved her cloud-patterned fan, and several flying monsters were repelled. However, there were many of them, and as soon as one wave retreated, a new wave attacked.
"How come there are more and more as we fight!" Si Yao exclaimed. Beneath her feet, the rolling lava in the distance was radiating heat, causing her forehead to be covered in sweat.
Li Ye also joined the battle, but just as Si Yao said, these flying monsters with snake bodies showed no signs of decreasing; on the contrary, their numbers increased with each battle.
Countless flying monsters blocked their way, making it difficult for Si Yao and Li Ye to reach the entrance to the stone cave on the other side.
Si Yao focused her mind and looked ahead. Thousands upon thousands of flying monsters had gathered in one place, densely packed, which was terrifying to look at.
wrong……
Si Yao shook her head; they couldn't just keep attacking.
She took a step back and noticed that the flying monsters had also stopped and were not flying over.
They flew in the air, intertwined in place, and wove together into a dense net.
"Look, what's in the middle?"
Hearing Li Ye say this, Si Yao looked in the direction he pointed and saw a two-winged snake of a different color from the other flying monsters in the center of the dense web formed by the flying monsters.
This monster is also much larger.
Si Yao was certain, "That must be the leader of this group of flying monsters. We'll just attack it."
As soon as she finished speaking, Si Yao flew closer again, holding the Yan Yun fan in one hand and starting to form hand seals with the other. She waved it in the air, and several beams of light attacked the giant winged snake with great force.
The light emitted by the fan waving Yan Yun resembled blue raindrops.
"Bang bang bang—"
As if lightning were colliding, Si Yao struck the winged snake.
Even Li Ye's Soul-Destroying Lamp delivered the final fatal blow.
"boom--"
The dense net woven from countless flying monsters was shattered in an instant. The flying monsters plummeted into the depths of the lava, their bodies hissing as they were swallowed by the lava.
The air was immediately filled with the smell of burnt meat.
Si Yao didn't pay much attention to it; she wanted to keep moving forward, eager to reach the stone cave on the other side as soon as possible.
It was too hot above the lava; she didn't want to stay there for another second.
However, at that moment, the air was violently shaken by an invisible force.
Just then, the two-winged serpent that had been defeated by Si Yao and Li Ye returned with a vengeance. It had lost one wing and its eyes were glowing green. Then, suddenly, with a "bang," its entire body exploded.
Self-destruction.
The two-winged snake chose to self-destruct.
The power brought by the self-destruction of demonic energy was enormous. Even though Si Yao and Li Ye raised their barriers to resist, they were still blasted away.
They lost their balance and fell rapidly toward the lava.
Upon seeing this, Si Yao immediately cried out, "Oh no! If we fall, we'll probably die!"
She circulated her spiritual energy, intending to fly upwards, but an invisible suction force from the depths of the lava forcefully pulled her back towards the magma.
Si Yao was shocked, her face turning deathly pale. Li Ye, who was not far away, was the same, his body completely out of his control.
"Disciple! Grab me now!"
There was no time to worry about anything else at the moment. Just as she was about to be sucked into the lava, Si Yao grabbed Li Ye's hand.
She activated the Cloud-Evolving Fan, and a blue barrier transformed into a light shield, enveloping her and Li Ye.
At that moment, the two fell into the depths of the lava, and the rolling lava immediately spread out and swallowed them up.
The light shield formed by Yan Yun's palm-leaf fan protected the master and disciple who had fallen into the lava.
The light shield emitted a blue glow, isolating the scalding lava from the heat, and a constant stream of coolness emanated from it.
Inside the light shield, due to the urgency of the situation just now, Si Yao still held onto Li Ye's hand tightly and did not let go.
Li Ye's gaze fell on Si Yao's hand. He wanted to pull his hand away, but he hesitated to do so.
He shifted his gaze, looking around through the cloud-like light barrier. "Is this the depths of the magma?"
Outside the light shield was endless red magma. Without this Yan Yun light shield, Si Yao and Li Ye might have been melted into ashes in less than a breath.
Si Yao nodded, "Yes, we need to get out of here as soon as possible. Yan Yun can't hold out for long."
The Yanyun is an extremely Yin magical artifact, which can play a great role in this situation. The Soul Extinguishing Lamp is extremely Yang, and if the Yanyun cannot withstand it, the Soul Extinguishing Lamp will be helpless in the lava.
Li Ye was very obedient at this moment, "Let's cast the spell together."
Only after he finished speaking did he release his grip.
Si Yao finally realized what was happening and quickly let go of his hand, coughing lightly.
They formed hand seals, trying to propel the cloud-like light shield upwards and then burst out of the lava.
However, this continuous stream of lava was very viscous, sticking to the light shield like chewing gum, and it was impossible to shake it off.
The magic power was unable to propel the cloud-piercing light shield through the obstruction, and at that moment, a hole appeared in the lava at the bottom of the light shield, causing the light shield, along with Si Yao and Li Ye, to plummet downwards at high speed.
They were descending very quickly, but Si Yao also noticed that the magma attached to the surface of the light shield was gradually decreasing.
“It seems we’re about to escape the lava.” Si Yao focused intently on the changes in the scene outside the light shield. “However, we don’t know where we’ll fall next.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the light shield did indeed leave the rolling lava and instead fell into the bottom of a deep body of water.
"Bang--"
At that moment, the light shield formed by Yan Yun's power suddenly shattered.
In an instant, Si Yao and Li Ye were both surrounded by icy cold water.
Si Yao reflexively opened her mouth to speak, but unexpectedly choked on several mouthfuls of water.
She looked uncomfortable for a moment, then used her spiritual energy to suppress her physical discomfort and transmitted her voice to Li Ye: "This water is not like ordinary water. I feel my spiritual energy is constantly being drained. If I'm not mistaken, this is Spirit-Eroding Water. If we stay here for too long, our spiritual energy will be drained."
Li Ye nodded. "I know."
"Huh? You actually know that too? How come you, a young person, seem to have about the same experience as me?"
Without responding to Si Yao's words, Li Ye summoned the Soul-Destroying Lamp, flicked his finger, and the Soul-Destroying Lamp flashed with light.
Immediately, Li Ye reached out his hand and said, "Grab me."
Without hesitation, Si Yao gripped his hand tightly in return.
Li Ye held the Soul Extinction Lamp in his other hand. The Soul Extinction Lamp was radiating warmth, which made Si Yao feel that the icy water was not as bone-chilling as before.
Soon, the Soul-Destroying Lamp rushed towards the top of the deep water, quickly bringing Si Yao and Li Ye to the surface.
Breathing in the fresh air, Si Yao felt much better. She opened her eyes and looked around, finding that the surroundings were filled with jellyfish of various colors floating in the air.
Some of them are blue, some are purple, and some are white.
If it weren't for the fact that this was another space at the bottom of the magma, Si Yao would have thought the scenery here was quite nice, like a starry dreamland.
“Apprentice, look, these jellyfish don’t actually live in water; they can live for a long time in the air.”
She spoke, but received no response from Li Ye.
His palm was gripped tightly by Li Ye, and at that moment his body lost its balance, he leaned back and fell to the ground.
Si Yao was taken aback and immediately bent down to check what had happened to Li Ye, only to see him trembling uncontrollably.
His eyes were closed, his face was deathly pale, and large beads of sweat were seeping from his forehead.
A piercing, excruciating pain shot through his body.
This pain made him realize that the aftereffects of the fusion of the primary and secondary souls had occurred.
If this doesn't work out, the primary and secondary souls will separate again, and the two souls will start fighting over this body once more.
He'll probably do something strange to Si Yao then.
Li Ye gritted his teeth; he was determined not to let such a situation happen again.
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