"Xiao Man!" You You exclaimed in surprise, trying to support her, but Ming Ye suddenly grabbed at the two of them and said in a deep voice, "I'll deal with you, you traitor, first!"
With that, she retracted her hand, and a flash of red light appeared. Something connected to Xiao Man's heart, and she was instantly sent flying towards Ming Ye's direction.
In a moment of panic, Youyou summoned her spirit sword and, disregarding skills, mobilized her inner power, leaping into the air and slashing towards Mingye.
"Hmph!" Mingye didn't take Youyou's attack seriously at all. He not only quickly lifted Xiaoman over, but also lightly swept his other hand to summon a layer of divine power defense to block in front of him.
The next moment, Youyou's sword slashed down, landing on the defensive layer, and then...
It shattered with a loud crash!
The divine power defense summoned by Mingye was as fragile as a layer of candy wrapper. The sharp sword tip came straight towards his right side and landed accurately on his right arm with the force of shattering the heavens. It looked as if it would cut his entire arm off.
"How could this be..." Mingye was extremely shocked. After all, he was a god, and he reacted in an instant. He didn't care about grabbing Xiao Man anymore. He immediately released the spell, activated the power to make the real thing illusory, and his figure scattered and retreated dozens of feet away, thus avoiding being cut in two by the sword.
Losing control, Xiao Man fell into the pool with a thud and sank downwards.
"Xiao Man!" In a panic, You You forgot about fighting and jumped in, diving underwater to rescue her.
Mingye looked back in the direction the two had fallen into the water, still shaken. He pressed his hand against his own, which was just inches away from being severed, his face filled with shock. That sword strike... it had actually shattered his divine power so easily and even injured him. Just who was this celestial maiden? How could she possess such power?!
Such a special power, if it could be guided out...
His expression shifted several times, his eyes initially showing shock, then a hint of greed, and finally excitement. Something seemed to surge violently from the wound on his cleaved right arm, as if it were about to burst forth. His face darkened, and he quickly formed several hand seals to barely seal the wound.
The commotion here also attracted the attention of the people in the Celestial Palace, and soon a large number of Celestial Lords rushed over.
"My Lord, you are injured? What... what happened?" asked the leading immortal.
Mingye's expression darkened further. He glanced at the Sacred Pool again. "Someone has broken into the Sacred Pool. Quickly seal off this entire area and activate the array at the bottom of the pool. I don't believe they won't come out!"
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You You dived down and realized that the bath was incredibly deep, the kind where you couldn't see the bottom at a glance. Adding to the darkness was the fact that it was nighttime, making the surroundings even more dim. It took her a while to finally spot Xiao Man, who was sinking downwards.
She swam down faster and grabbed the person, only to find that she was in bad shape and looked pained because she hadn't used any water-repelling spells. Just as Youyou was about to cast a spell, the surroundings suddenly brightened, and one array after another appeared around them, densely covering the entire body of water.
Damn! She wondered why there were no formations around the pool; it turned out they were all submerged in water. Although she wasn't familiar with formations, she could tell they were all killing formations, and triggering even one would be disastrous. Gritting her teeth, she didn't rush to use her unfamiliar water-repelling technique on Xiao Man and directly activated her invincible skill.
The next moment, a giant Kun appeared around the two of them, completely engulfing the fishpond and instantly blocking the water flow. It also pushed away the surrounding array, isolating them from the outside.
Whether it was due to increased familiarity or because she was in the water, Youyou discovered that she could actually move this time with her invincibility skill. She quickly nudged Xiaoman, but she still didn't wake up, and her expression didn't improve. Upon closer inspection, she noticed a thin red thread connecting her to her chest, seemingly linking her to something.
Youyou immediately realized that this must be what Mingye was using to control them. She immediately turned her sword and slashed at the line, severing it completely.
"Cough cough cough cough..." Sure enough, the next moment Xiao Man coughed a series of coughs and finally woke up.
"Xiao Man, how are you?"
"Fellow Daoist You..." Xiao Man coughed for a while before she recovered. She looked around blankly. "We... what is this?!" She then realized that the two of them were inside the belly of a giant fish, and her face turned pale.
"This is one of my spells!" Youyou explained, then added after a moment's thought, "A defensive spell!"
Xiao Man was taken aback. Was there such a defensive technique? But she didn't ask further. "Where are we?"
"We fell into that pool! I never expected it to be so deep!" It's sinking deeper and deeper, and we still can't see the bottom. Instead, there are even more arrays around us, layer upon layer like a spider web. And for some reason, the deeper we go, the denser the spiritual energy becomes, truly giving it a feel of the legendary sacred pool.
"Then... what do we do now? Should we go up?" But Lord Mingye will definitely be waiting for them from above.
"Of course we should go up." Youyou glanced down, vaguely sensing something below. "But let's go down and see if there's another way!"
Having said that, she merely thought of it, and the invincible Kun skill enveloping the two of them flicked its tail and swam towards the bottom. The surrounding killing formations were pushed aside, unable to stop its movement at all.
"There's light!" After swimming for less than half a day, Xiao Man exclaimed with delight, "Fellow Daoist You, perhaps there really is another exit below."
You nodded, quickened his pace, and descended downwards. The light drew closer and closer, and soon the two reached the bottom. Unfortunately, the light was not the exit, but a cave nestled against the mountain rocks. Inside the cave were inlaid glowing pearls, and the entrance was protected by a defensive array.
"This seems to be a secret chamber!" Youyou observed the entrance and found that these isolation formations were completely different from the formations outside. Although they also prevented people from entering, they were not killing formations.
Because they were invincible, the array at the cave entrance couldn't stop them at all, and the two walked straight in. The giant Kun that had been enveloping them instantly shrank to only about the size of the two of them, with its tail trailing behind You You, flitting left and right.
The two followed the light and suddenly found themselves in a secret room. The room looked rather simple, without any precious treasures or magical artifacts. There was just a table in the center with a pile of books on it, looking somewhat cluttered.
Youyou originally thought it would be some kind of immortal technique manual, but upon closer inspection, she found that it was full of numbers and marked with words like "expenditure" and "remittance".
Isn't this an account book? You You was speechless; these were the things she saw most often in the True Exploration Sect.
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