Chapter 59 Suzaku, get your filthy mouth off my friend...
Hidden Dragon Abyss.
The group had barely swum a short distance when the dark seawater suddenly churned violently, and a huge, purplish-black tentacle burst through the water, sweeping across with the speed of thunder.
"Ah, help!" The cry of alarm had barely been uttered when the cultivator was struck by the tentacle and instantly exploded into a cloud of blood mist.
"Oh no, the Primordial Demon Chapter has arrived!" A cultivator cried out in alarm, his voice filled with despair. He had finally escaped from the Hidden Dragon Abyss, only to encounter this monstrous creature in an instant.
Everyone's expression changed drastically. They were underwater, their movements were restricted, and they had no chance of fighting back.
"Run! Run!" In a panic, the cultivators scattered and fled, none daring to turn back and fight back.
The depths of the sea are inherently dark, and in their panic, the scattered cultivators stumbled around like headless flies, with screams echoing from the dark waters from time to time.
Zhong Jiuli's expression was solemn. She tossed Bai Ye away with her backhand, "Jiaojiao, take her away."
"Good!" Jiao Jiao roared, her body swelled up, and she caught Bai Ye who was thrown into the air.
Silver light carried Bai Ye and landed steadily on Jiao Jiao's back. The screams coming from all around woke her up from her unconsciousness.
Bai struggled to sit up, his eyes flashing with golden light as he took in everything that was happening around him.
Zhong Jiuli stood with her back to everyone, radiating a dazzling silver light. Countless points of light scattered like stars. The giant tentacles that stirred the seawater withered and died instantly upon touching the silver points of light.
This is the power of the law of time; in the blink of an eye, it can cause all things to decay or be reborn.
Such a powerful attack seemed to have little effect on the Primordial Demon Octopus. After hundreds of withered and shriveled tentacles fell off, even more purplish-black tentacles emerged from its mountain-like body in the blink of an eye, seemingly without end.
Bai Ye stared at the lone figure facing the enemy and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Zhong Daya, don't try to be a hero, let's go together!"
Zhong Jiuli's black hair flew wildly as she turned her back to the crowd. Only her gentle voice came through the seawater, "Big White, obediently go back to the surface of the sea."
She paused, then said in an unquestionable tone, "Liu Erhong, I want her to return safely to the surface of the sea."
Without saying a word, Liu Xianyue grabbed the Chu sisters and jumped onto Jiaojiao's back.
"Boss Liu, take them and leave first." A-Lian chuckled, dodging Liu Xianyue's outstretched hand. "The seabed is my home turf."
After she finished speaking, her figure transformed into flowing water ripples before everyone's eyes, and the next second she appeared directly in front of the Primordial Demon Chapter, standing shoulder to shoulder with Zhong Jiuli to face the enemy.
A pale blue aura emanated from A-Lian's body. She formed hand seals, and countless water blades condensed in the deep sea, each gleaming with a ghostly blue light. The dark seabed instantly became as dazzling as a galaxy.
"Let me show you, you ugly giant octopus, who's the real master of water." She parted her red lips slightly, her tone relaxed, and with a casual wave of her hand, tens of thousands of water blades shot out simultaneously.
The tentacles of the Primordial Demon Chapter instantly exploded with countless bloody holes, and demonic blood gushed out, staining the sea area for hundreds of miles around with a murky dark color.
When A-Lian launched her attack, Zhong Jiu-Li also moved. With someone helping to restrain the tentacles, she was able to free her hands to attack the giant octopus's main body.
The reason why the Primordial Demonic Chapter is so difficult to deal with is that its tentacles can grow infinitely. If the cultivation levels are not too different, it is easy to be dragged down and worn down to death at the bottom of the sea.
Bai lay on Jiao Jiao's back, watching the two slender figures obscured by blood, his mind replaying the words Zhong Jiuli had spoken on the way here.
If Zhong Jiuli wasn't bragging, then the odds were 40/60, and with A Lian added, it should be 60/40, right? They would win, wouldn't they?
"Xiao Wang, my wife won't die, will she?"
"No, Ye Zai, she's the female lead, she won't die. Don't talk, just rest." Xiao Wang's voice was very soft, and among everyone present, only she could feel Bai Ye's pain.
Upon hearing this, Bai closed his eyes wearily.
Deep within her sea of consciousness, the true dragon power left behind by Hei Yang was slowly piecing together the fragments of her primordial spirit. The fusion of each fragment was accompanied by intense pain.
The pain is like someone taking a meter-long iron skewer and stabbing it deep into your brain, then cruelly spinning and churning it until your brain is pulverized into tofu.
If Bai Ye hadn't been physically strong enough, she wouldn't have been able to remain calm and talk and laugh with everyone under such pain.
It wasn't that she wanted to be strong; she just didn't want people to worry.
However, misfortune never comes singly, and crisis follows one after another. Just as the group broke out of the attack range of the ancient demonic octopus's tentacles, a gaping maw suddenly lunged at the golden dragon turtle.
Liu Xianyue's almond-shaped eyes widened, and a fiery lotus instantly formed at her fingertips, carrying the power to burn the eight wastelands and piercing straight into that blood-red maw.
With a loud boom, the Red Lotus Karmic Fire blazed fiercely in the deep sea, and by the light of the fire, everyone could see the true form of the enemy.
Nine ferocious serpent heads danced wildly in the depths of the abyss; they were none other than the legendary Nine-Headed Serpent, the sixth most fearsome creature in the Nine Provinces.
"Have I broken some heavenly law? Two ferocious beasts have appeared at once! With Zhong Jiuli not here, how can a mere Mahayana cultivator like me possibly defeat monsters like these?!"
Liu Xianyue muttered under her breath, tearing off the cumbersome skirt to reveal her close-fitting, fiery red outfit.
She stood on a crimson lotus, and with each step she took, the seawater surged and boiled beneath her feet. "Jiaojiao, take them away. Swim as hard as you can. If you can't get out, I'll roast turtles and eat them."
"Awoo, good!" Jiao Jiao let out a long howl, tears streaming down her face, but she still obediently turned around and swam in another direction with the three of them.
"Waaaaah, Sister Liu won't die, will she?" Jiao Jiao cried as she swam.
"No, Jiaojiao, don't worry." Bai also forced a sliver of clarity and looked at the sea in the distance that was illuminated by the firelight.
Liu Xianyue stood on crimson flames, her domain fully activated, with countless fire lotuses swirling around her. At this moment, she was the fire goddess of the deep ocean.
With each wave of her hand, several fire lotuses would burst forth, exploding between the hydra's hideous heads.
The intense firelight illuminated the dark seabed in a fiery red glow, making the seawater resemble the color of a sunset. Under the intense heat, the seawater began to boil continuously, with dense bubbles churning and surging towards the surface.
The attack seemed extremely fierce, but Bai Ye's eyesight allowed him to see clearly that the fire lotuses could not harm the hydra in the slightest.
The nine ferocious snake heads continued to swim in the seawater, lunging and biting at Liu Xianyue. The fine, dark black scales on the snakes' bodies blocked the explosive impact of the fire lotus.
Liu Xianyue's attack was merely a delaying tactic, a way to buy time for Bai Ye and the others. Once those people had run far enough away, she would slip away!
She knew better than anyone that this ancient ferocious beast was far beyond her ability to defeat. But since she had promised Zhong Jiuli to bring her little tiger back to the sea alive, she would absolutely not break her promise.
The ferocious snake head swooped down, carrying immense force as it crashed into Liu Xianyue. She retreated hastily, but was still struck by the aftershock, and her entire body slammed into the underwater volcano like a meteor.
"boom!"
The volcano, which had been dormant for countless years, was awakened by this attack.
Golden-red lava erupted, staining the entire sea crimson. The scalding lava collided with the icy seawater, creating a billowing white mist that blotted out the sky, making the entire ocean seem to boil.
Amidst this cataclysmic scene, a streak of crimson light burst through the volcano, and Liu Xianyue emerged from the flames. Her once neatly styled hair was now completely disheveled, with crimson lava still flowing from the ends.
Several bloody marks appeared on her delicate face, and the rage burning in her eyes was more intense than lava.
"My hair, my face, do you know how precious my face is?!" Liu Xianyue said, each word distinct, her anger almost palpable.
She flipped her wrist, and a sword made entirely of flames took shape in her palm.
"If I don't kill you, you worm, today, I'll change my name!" Liu Xianyue walked on fire, her aura rising with each step.
The next moment, the sword, with the force of splitting mountains and parting seas, slashed down fiercely, carving a vacuum trajectory in the seawater where the blade passed.
"Clang!" The sound of metal clashing echoed across the seabed as the flaming blade collided with the snake scales.
The hydra roared in pain, its massive body thrown back by the slash, but the next moment, the other heads attacked simultaneously, their sharp fangs biting hard into Liu Xianyue's protective flames.
"You beast, you want to eat me? You're dreaming!" Liu Xianyue roared, raising her saber again to strike.
The soaring blade cleaved down, and with a "whoosh," a hideous snake head was severed by the flaming blade.
The hydra hissed as it raised its head, and the head that was biting Liu Xianyue's body suddenly tightened its grip.
With a "crack," the flame domain surrounding Liu Xianyue shattered instantly, and sharp fangs pierced through her body.
Liu Xianyue let out a muffled groan of pain, then without blinking, she raised her hand and struck the fang, which was thicker than her waist. A crisp breaking sound rang out as the fang was snapped in two by a single blow.
The hydra suddenly swung its head, and Liu Xianyue was sent flying like a kite with a broken string, crashing back into the boiling lava pool.
The volcano, struck by the impact, went completely berserk, sending towering lava billowing into the sky and forming a crimson pillar of fire in the deep sea.
Liu Xianyue felt the venom coursing through her body, and even lying in this lava pool, her body was gradually getting colder.
Her brows furrowed and then relaxed, a slight smile playing on her lips, revealing a blood-stained grin. "Cough... I never thought I'd actually fall into this damn trench."
"Since we can't leave, then we won't leave!" Liu Xianyue frowned, grabbed the fang that had almost split her upper body in two, and pulled it out forcefully.
The moment the fangs were pulled out, large gushes of blood gushed out like a fountain, leaving a horrifying, translucent hole in her chest. She ran a hand over the wound, and flames flowed to seal it, allowing her to leap out of the lava once more.
The lava covering her body was less dazzling than the surging crimson flames. Liu Xianyue quickly formed hand seals, and a crimson-gold fire lotus flew out from between her brows. As soon as the fire lotus appeared, the surrounding seawater instantly vaporized.
"Come on, you beast." Liu Xianyue's long hair flew wildly, and her eyes blazed with crimson fire. "I've traveled all over the Nine Provinces for so many years, and I've never been afraid of anything or backed down."
The hydra's cold, serpentine eyes narrowed slightly as it sensed a threat. Its scales glowed with a spiritual light, and it began to retreat.
But Liu Xianyue didn't give it a chance to dodge at all.
"I told you!" A mad smile curled at the corner of her lips as she transformed into a streak of crimson lightning and charged straight upwards.
"If the little tiger wants to live, then it must live!"
Her voice boomed from the depths of the ocean, carrying a resolute determination to destroy everything.
"Die!
"boom!"
The crimson fire lotus blooms.
In that instant, the entire sea area seemed to be pierced by a blazing sun, its blinding light engulfing everything.
Liu Xianyue's figure gradually blurred in the extreme light and flames. Her flesh and bones were burned to ashes in that instant, turning into this world-destroying attack.
Even after escaping a great distance, she could still sense the tremendous commotion behind her. The aftershocks of the explosion transformed into a surging undercurrent, causing Jiao Jiao to lose her balance.
The Chu sisters supported Bai Ye on either side to prevent her from falling off Jiao Jiao's back.
Bai also turned her head to look behind her. The sea in the distance was shrouded in intense light and could not be seen clearly, but she could feel that Liu Xianyue's aura was gradually dissipating.
"Sister Green, if we join forces, can we take down that giant snake?" Bai asked in his mind.
"Are you trying to die?!" The little green sprout in her dantian trembled with rage, almost going berserk. "Don't you know your own condition? Your primordial spirit is about to shatter, and you still want to play the hero?"
Bai ignored him and stubbornly pressed on, "Tell me, if we combine our powers, can you rescue Liu Xianyue? Her presence seems to have vanished."
"So annoying! So annoying!" Little Green's tender bud suddenly swelled up, and tens of thousands of green light spots flew out from Little Green's leaves and merged into Bai Ye's body. "If we're going to die, we'll die together! Let's go back and fight!"
"Jiaojiao, don't look back, keep swimming forward, and bring Second Sister and Third Sister back to the surface of the sea." Bai's whole body radiated green light, and even his golden eyes, which burned like little suns, turned green at this moment.
Xiao Lü's powerful spiritual energy completely took over Bai Ye's body, and a surge of vitality coursed through her, causing her cultivation level to rise dramatically.
A flash of green light appeared beneath Bai Ye's feet, and he transformed into a sharp sword, heading towards the battlefield behind him.
"Ye Zai... Sister Liu said we should leave." Jiao Jiao shouted loudly, but Bai Ye's figure had already disappeared from sight.
After Bai Ye left, Jiao Jiao, who had always been very obedient, went against her wishes for the first time.
Instead of running away with the Chu sisters, she turned to them and asked, "I need to go back to find Yezai. Can you run away on your own?"
"We have to go back and help!" the two sisters said in unison.
"Okay! Let's go back together!" Jiao Jiao said, then suddenly accelerated and rushed towards the battlefield.
Jiaojiao had only one thought: she had to be with Yezai. Her world was small, consisting of only a narrow river and a fluffy little tiger.
Now that little tiger has gone on an adventure by himself, Jiaojiao must go with Yezai.
In the heart of the rear battlefield, deep in the trench, the flames of the explosion gradually died down.
The hydra let out a painful roar as its head near the center of the explosion was blown to pieces, its scales peeling off to reveal bare white bones.
However, these injuries were nothing to it. In the blink of an eye, new scales grew on the injured areas of the snake's head. For a hydra, unless all nine heads were damaged at the same time, these were all minor injuries and could not be fatal.
Only a few sparks remained burning in the seawater, along with a small, crimson egg—the last trace of Liu Xianyue's existence.
"Hiss..." The remaining heads of the Hydra hissed simultaneously, the sounds overlapping, like thousands of venomous snakes flicking their tongues at the same time, which was terrifying.
"So it possesses the bloodline of the Vermilion Bird. No wonder it smells so good." The hydra flicked its tongue and leaned closer to the small, crimson egg.
The snake lightly licked the small egg with its tongue, a look of intoxication on its face. "It really is a pure-blooded Vermilion Bird."
It opened its mouth, as if to take the little egg into its mouth.
"call out!"
A streak of emerald green light burst through the water. The light was faster than anything else. The hydra's eyes had barely caught the attack when it tried to dodge, but the light still pierced through its upper and lower jaws.
"Pfft!" Foul-smelling blood spurted out, and the hydra let out a painful roar. The head that had been pierced thrashed wildly, but it could not get rid of the emerald green branch.
A moment later, a figure radiating green light rode the waves. In her right hand she carried a heavy black sword, the blade pointing directly at the enormous hydra.
"Get your filthy mouth off my friend."
Bai Ye's voice boomed like thunder in the depths of the sea abyss, carrying an overwhelming killing intent.
The remaining intact heads of the Hydra all turned to look at the uninvited guest, their cold serpentine eyes reflecting the seemingly frail yet imposing figure.
It recognized at a glance that this was just a little bug that had run away earlier, and now this little bug dared to come back and provoke it.
Hydra sniffed the scent of Bai Ye in the seawater, then suddenly realized, "How dare a mere white tiger cub be so insolent before me!"
The central snake head suddenly opened, spewing out a dark green poisonous mist. Wherever the mist passed, the seawater was corroded and made a "sizzling" sound.
Instead of retreating, Bai advanced, transforming into lightning. In a flash, he appeared behind Hydra.
The great black sword, wreathed in raging lightning dragons, slashed down with the force of parting the sea. Wherever the sword light passed, the entire sea crackled with lightning.
Before the hydra could even turn around, its rightmost head was severed by a thunderous strike.
But it was, after all, an ancient ferocious creature, and it launched a counterattack almost as soon as it was injured.
The remaining intact heads attacked Bai Ye simultaneously. The snake head on the left spewed venom, while the snake head on the right opened its mouth and spat out countless ice spikes, each ice spike gleaming with a dark light and extremely poisonous.
The largest snake head in the very center opened its blood-red maw and bit down at Bai.
Bai Ye's figure appeared and disappeared amidst the deadly attacks, dodging the Hydra's attacks. Wherever there was lightning, there was her figure.
This is the biggest difference between her and Liu Xianyue. Fighting in the depths of the ocean, Liu Xianyue's flames are naturally suppressed.
If it weren't for being underwater, she would never have been injured so easily. For a Mahayana cultivator, if they are determined to escape, very few can stop them.
"Annoying ants." The hydra roared, no longer chasing Bai Ye, but instead turning to bite the quietly floating crimson egg.
The moment the gaping maw opened, the thunder in the entire sea suddenly went berserk.
"I told you, if you dare touch her, I'll kill you!" Bai Ye's voice echoed from all directions, forming a sound effect in the deep sea.
"Boom boom boom." The thunder was deafening, and nine dazzling bolts of lightning lit up at the same time. In each bolt of lightning was a figure holding a sword. The nine figures moved in perfect sync, swinging their heavy swords at the same time. The lightning swirling around the swords was enough to illuminate the entire abyss.
At that moment, time seemed to stand still, and only nine world-destroying lightning sword beams fell towards the Hydra.
"Hiss, do you think I'm a fool?" The central head of the hydra sneered, and the other eight heads instantly turned to defend, all the serpent heads intertwining together to form an impenetrable defensive formation.
Mysterious light flowed across the snake's scales, forming layers of defensive barriers around its body.
"Boom!" The sword light struck the hydra, and the blinding lightning collided with the eerie green barrier, causing the shockwave to vaporize all the seawater within a hundred miles.
A moment later, the lightning faded, and the scene before Bai filled him with despair.
Even with such a powerful strike, he only managed to sever two of the opponent's heads.
"Hiss... Little tiger, are you done with your tricks?" The hydra sneered, its massive body slithering closer to her.
Bai was suspended in the seawater, his hand holding the sword was cracked, and blood flowed down the hilt of the sword, only to be slowly cooled by the cold seawater.
Xiao Lü's life force coursed through her meridians, desperately trying to repair her broken bones and muscles. However, the repair speed was far from keeping up with the rate at which her body was collapsing. Forcibly pushing her beyond the limits of her physical body caused her body to disintegrate naturally.
"You stinky tiger, you can't hit it anymore, or you'll be crushed!" Little Green's voice was anxious.
Bai, panting slightly, looked at the floating crimson egg. "Sister Lü, when Liu Xianyue was risking her life to stop this giant snake, did she ever think that she couldn't fight anymore, or she would lose her life?"
Xiao Lü was silent for a moment.
Bai didn't need her answer and continued talking to himself, his voice carrying a hint of dazed laughter, "I think she probably didn't think about it. Maybe she just wanted to stall for time at first, but she got carried away as the fight went on."
"After all, that's Boss Liu, such a hot-tempered person! If you make her angry, she's capable of anything."
That person, who was clearly very shrewd, sacrificed his life to protect them from the enemy at this critical moment.
How could Boss Liu, who possessed both boundless wealth and an endless life, perish in this dark trench?
If we don't take her soul with us, she'll definitely become an even more schizophrenic ghost than the Black Dragon.
“So, I can’t back down,” Bai said in a low voice, his gaze fixed on the small red egg.
Little Green throbbed wildly in Bai Ye's dantian. After a wave of impotent rage, it finally turned into a furious curse through gritted teeth: "Then let's fight! Let's beat that bastard until he can't find his way back! Let's beat him until all nine of his heads explode! I'll soak his gall bladder in wine and use his snake pills to heal him. Today, I'll turn this worm into a dead worm!"
A surge of immense vitality erupted, and Bai's shattered body was forcibly reassembled in the green light. She raised her head and looked at the Hydra with the ferocity of a real tiger.
The hydra suddenly stopped, no longer advancing, but watching Bai Ye from a distance. This tiger cub, who should have been on the verge of death, was now emanating an aura that frightened it.
Unlike the previous unpleasant aura of thunder, this one now exudes a more ancient and higher-level life pressure.
"It's too late to be scared now."
The moment she finished speaking, Bai also made her move. Dozens of emerald green branches emerged from her body, shooting towards the hydra like swimming dragons.
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Author's note: [hugs][hugs][hugs] Please don't scold me, Sister Liu is temporarily offline to prepare for a strong comeback.
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