Chapter 27027 She will always keep Ah Huai by her side
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The rain is still falling, and it seems like it will never stop.
"Dear guest, you've booked a room in the upper room for half a month, and you're leaving now?" Liao Sanda's eyebrows drooped, and he spoke with reluctance, "Why don't you stay a few more days? Besides Qiongtai Opera and Qingshui Fish, our Star Picking Formation has other specialties for you to experience..."
His lingering gaze was mainly directed at Ah Huai.
The mechanical bird was made, but the Liao family still has other lost artifacts that they want to learn from, but the master is about to leave... What should they do?
Zhuang Rong'er did not respond to the request to stay and turned around and walked towards the door.
The rainy season has arrived early.
Naturally, they have to leave early.
Ah Huai nodded to Liao Sanda for the last time and followed him.
The little snake turned back into its snake form after lunch and was now staying obediently on Zhuang Rong'er's wrist.
Maintaining this form, you can save a water-repellent bead when you enter the Starry Sea later.
Zhuang Rong'er prepared enough water-repellent beads in advance, but she was always afraid of accidents, so she decided to save as much as possible.
After they enter the Starry Sea, they will mainly rely on these beads to maintain breathing and movement.
Although spiritual power can also play a similar role, if all the spiritual power is used to maintain underwater survival, when encountering a monster crisis, there will be no energy left to fight.
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The cliff abruptly stretches across the seashore, as if the place has been split in two by a ruthless knife, one half falling into the abyss of the seabed, and the other half remaining at the border of the continent.
The sea was dark, deep and quiet, with no rolling waves on the surface. It seemed peaceful, but it also exuded a sense of suppressed danger.
Amidst the gray sky and earth, a bright oil-paper umbrella opens up a small space.
Liao Sanda originally presented two oil-paper umbrellas.
However, Zhuang Rong'er did not need to hold an umbrella. Ah Huai held it only for himself at first. Later, unknowingly, the umbrella covered both of them and tilted towards the woman whose clothes were not wet at all.
They were very close to each other along the way, sometimes rubbing each other's clothes, and occasionally even touching each other's bodies. For example, when Zhuang Rong'er stopped suddenly one time, her back touched A Huai's arm and half of his chest.
It's not like she had never had closer contact than this before, but her mind wandered for a moment, so that every step she took thereafter was slower.
There was silence throughout the whole process, and they maintained a subtle, yet distant intimacy until they reached the Starry Sea.
There were some monks standing scattered on the shore. When they saw the two people with outstanding appearance coming over, they all looked sideways.
When they discovered that the two people who came later still needed umbrellas to protect themselves from the rain, the man had no spiritual power at all, and the woman looked extremely weak, many people became curious.
A skinny, monkey-like man stared at them for a moment, then smiled frivolously. "Where did this couple come from? Are you here for the magic weapon? I wonder if you have the ability to go to sea. I'm the white dragon of the waves in the world of cultivation, and I don't mind giving you a ride. If you miss my opportunity, you'll miss it forever. People like me who don't care about gender are rare..."
Before he could finish his words, a white snake came rushing towards him like an arrow and wrapped itself around his neck.
The white snake, which grew from the thickness of a finger to the thickness of a wrist, coiled around his head and neck, its venomous fangs approaching the fragile flesh in his throat. His face gradually turned gray, and he knelt on the ground tremblingly, trying to beg for mercy, but was afraid that he would be bitten accidentally while begging.
"Sir, please... please spare my life..." He was so frightened that he almost kowtowed, and his previous obscene expression was gone.
The white snake spat out its tongue at him in disgust, but instead of biting him, it kept tightening and constricting. He gradually had difficulty breathing and was about to faint when the snake suddenly loosened its grip and returned to its owner.
After seeing this scene, everyone no longer had the heart to provoke or tease. They simply changed their gazes from openly observing to secretly spying.
The woman looked indifferent the whole time, and didn't even spare a glance towards this side.
She simply raised her hand and pushed a wave of air into the sea—
Along with a sound of breaking through the air, the calm and dark sea surface suddenly surged up, and opened up from the side of the woman to both ends, as if a gap was torn open abruptly, but under the gap, there was still the sea.
"What's this trick?"
Even greater shock appeared in the eyes of the wandering cultivators.
Their attempts to go into the water in the past few days have all failed, because there are some monsters in the shallow layer of the Xingluo Sea waiting for an opportunity. They are lurking under the water, ready to grab any monk who rashly enters the water and feast on them.
Although this type of monster is very ferocious, its strength is limited, and this group of cultivators cannot defeat it.
But when their numbers increase, it’s a different story. After all, two fists are no match for four hands, and no one wants to go down and be wasted.
Occasionally someone would jump into the sea, only to float up dejectedly after a short while, or disappear from sight forever, wondering if they had been eaten by a monster.
Yet, the woman before him possessed such power. With one strike from her, the superficial demons had already scattered. Who was she? Was she some renowned figure in the world of cultivation?
Ignoring the attention of the onlookers, Zhuang Rong'er pinched the cherry-sized water-repellent beads in her hand and put them to Ah Huai's mouth.
"Hold it in your mouth, don't swallow it."
After that, she grabbed his hand and went into the sea.
The open gap will be quickly closed after their figures disappear.
"Hurry up, catch up now!" someone said hurriedly.
It's a pity that it was too late when I wanted to get involved. The Starry Sea returned to its previous appearance, as if a passage closed again after welcoming its exclusive guest.
Only an inconspicuous figure at the back of the crowd jumped down before the reminder came out and went into the sea.
If Zhuang Rong'er saw his appearance, she would probably strike the sea water again, causing countless waves to break his body.
The young man had a short stature and a pale face - that was the same Yu Huanye from Feiyuan Pavilion who had used the forbidden technique of replacing flesh and blood in Liusha City before.
The interest in his eyes flashed by, and his figure disappeared.
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Being in the sea.
Ah Huai opened his eyes, and his pupils were a little dry for a moment, but he quickly adjusted to normal.
It felt strange to breathe normally in the freezing water.
But, it seemed as if there was some kind of pressure covering him.
But the deeper he went, the more he felt that it was not pressure, but an indescribable attraction.
It was as if something at the bottom of the sea was calling him, waiting for him.
Ah Huai suppressed the inexplicable strangeness in his heart and held Zhuang Rong'er's hand tightly.
His action was probably sensed, and Zhuang Rong'er suddenly turned her head to look at him.
Then, as if to comfort him, she gently pinched his palms twice.
"There seems to be something underneath..." Ah Huai said this, only to realize that his words had no sound at all.
Zhuang Rong'er stared at his lip movements, her eyes seeming a little confused.
Perhaps she interpreted his words as an expression of panic, because Ah Huai heard her whisper in his ear: "When the World-Devouring Whale appears, the current may sweep you and me apart. Then I will wrap my shawl around you."
The sound underwater was diluted to an extremely weak level. Zhuang Rong'er's lips were almost touching his earlobe, and with the help of a little spiritual power, he was able to hear the words.
Her point was that there was no need to panic.
Ah Huai responded to Zhuang Rong'er with a smirk. Zhuang Rong'er glanced at him, stepped back a little with an expressionless face, and turned her head away.
A piece of cloth made of unknown material was already attached to his waist, and the other end was tightly wrapped around her ring finger. The entanglement started even earlier than she said.
Zhuang Rong'er looked calmly at Ah Huai's waist which was tightly bound by her silk ribbon, and felt that the cloth was a bit like a chain.
That's good.
She will always keep Ah Huai by her side.
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The shallow layer of the Starry Sea is somewhat chaotic, but the deep layer is as calm and peaceful as the surface.
They had gone down deep enough that they could see some broken walls and ruins with their naked eyes. Those were the former buildings of Xingluo Kingdom.
Obviously, Wu Heng had been here, and the light ants he spread had already taken root and partially reproduced, so that there was already light underneath.
The ruins that were wiped out from the land were illuminated by the light, but they did not reduce the eerie feeling at all. Instead, they dyed the natural white light emitted by the light ants into a dark green.
Zhuang Rong'er stopped and stared at a thick broken stone pillar.
She remembers this place.
The first battle with the World-Devouring Whale took place near here decades ago.
The remaining height of the pillar was originally even higher. It looked like this now because during that battle, she was thrown onto it by the giant tail of the World-Devouring Whale, causing it to be damaged again.
Fighting with it did not give her any advantage. The World-Devouring Whale was also unaffected by the poison, and her poisonous insects were completely ineffective.
That time, she fought a protracted battle with the monster with a life-threatening attitude. If she wanted to avoid being eaten by the giant mouth of the World-Devouring Whale, she needed to be extremely agile in dodging and could not be distracted for even a moment.
But she also learned about the weakness of the World-Devouring Whale in that bitter battle - there was a small pit right above its spine. It was the thinnest skin and flesh on its entire body, and there was no bone to support it. Using spiritual power to assist a sharp weapon to penetrate it could cause the World-Devouring Whale to enter a state similar to "rumination".
The things it swallowed will be spit out briefly, and then it will swallow them back in a hurry. This is the best time to inflict a fatal blow.
She already had a 90% chance of winning.
Next, just wait.
The World Devourer has an insatiable appetite for blood, even cannibalizing its own kind. This is one of the reasons why it is so rare.
Strangers like them who suddenly intrude will naturally attract its appearance.
But I didn't expect that before the World Devouring Whale arrived, there would be other variables that would come even faster -
The stone pillar in front of him collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if the stratum beneath it was being rapidly dissolved by something.
Ah Huai, who was always calm and composed, actually went towards the collapsed place, and the cloth hooked in Zhuang Rong'er's hand brought a strange pulling force.
"what you do?"
Zhuang Rong'er tried to stop him in surprise, but she couldn't resist the gravity. Ah Huai would never do that, nor did he have the ability to resist her.
This means that there is a third force below that is pulling him.
Ah Huai hurriedly glanced back at Zhuang Rong'er and tried to untie the restraints around his waist.
He really couldn't resist this strange attraction. Ever since he entered the Starry Sea, he seemed to be drawn to it. After coming here, he felt like he was trapped in a vortex. It seemed that if he went deeper, he would find the truth... This irrepressible desire was a danger. At this moment, the only thing he could do was not to implicate her.
"I'll be fine..." Even though he knew Zhuang Rong'er couldn't hear him clearly, he still tried his best to speak.
Zhuang Rong'er was furious. She rushed over and hugged A Huai's waist, resting her head on his back.
The arms were used instead of cloth to wrap around him, so that he would never think of getting rid of it.
At the same time, a pair of women's hands climbed up from the edge of the "abyss". She climbed out with difficulty, looking disheveled, and the water-repellent beads in her mouth had turned bloody.
Zhuang Rong'er shouldn't have been distracted by bystanders at such a critical moment, but the woman who crawled out had white hair and almost the same physical characteristics of a demon cultivator as the little snake, but she was not an ordinary demon cultivator like him... familiar eyebrows and eyes, teardrop-shaped birthmarks at the corners of her eyes, that was the goddess of Yingyue Palace, Nian You!
They had met before; Nianyou had even helped her win first place at the Full Moon Night Banquet that year...
Why did she climb out of the "abyss" of the Starry Sea?
Why is Ah Huai about to fall uncontrollably?
Without thinking too much, Zhuang Rong'er threw the little snake that was anxiously standing up on her wrist to the side of the woman. She also hung a bag full of water-repellent beads on the snake's tail and threw it over. There is no need to say what entrustment this meant.
As for herself, she and Ah Huai fell into the "abyss" that suddenly appeared...
——What else is there under the sea of stars?
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