Chapter 46
She wasted so much time that when she arrived under the coral stone, Sun Xie and his disciples had just arrived at the cave entrance.
It was indeed an illusion. In the illusion she unfolded, everything was based on her, so even if Sun Xie and his disciples felt like they had been gone for a long time, as long as she didn't come to the next node, the next scene would not begin.
Sun Xie arranged the order of entering the cave, and Ji Tang followed him and entered second.
Jitang didn't look at the corpse in the cave, but went straight to the corner where the turtle shell was.
The tortoise shell was most likely the medium of the illusion. She dug out the shell with great pain and did not use the nightmare energy immediately.
According to Jiang Ruiwei, the spiritual power of a person who is under the influence of an illusion will be sealed as he becomes unconscious, and the same goes for nightmare energy.
Although she had regained consciousness, it was unclear whether she could immediately use her Nightmare Qi. Directly releasing it would likely trigger the illusion mechanism like before, forcing her to start all over again.
Jitang turned the shell over and over, examining it carefully, not even missing the cracks in the shell.
This piece of tortoise shell looks ordinary and there is really nothing special about it.
Since the nightmare energy cannot be used, just destroy it.
She called out Ji Yao.
In the illusion, she is "real", and Ji Yao is naturally "real" as well.
She held the hilt of the sword with both hands, pointed the tip of the sword at the shell, and stabbed it hard.
The tip of the sword instantly penetrated into the shell, causing it to crack several times and break into pieces.
Jitang immediately looked around.
Sun Xie, holding the female cultivator in his arms, held back his tears as the disciples were about to gather the bodies together.
Nothing has changed.
Ji Tang frowned in confusion. The more he looked at the shell, the more he disliked it. He stabbed the shell into pieces with a few swords.
At this point, Ji Tang was no longer in a hurry. She wanted to see how the illusion would continue to develop after the shell was destroyed and the nightmare energy could no longer cover the shell.
After waiting for a long time, the disciples had already gathered the corpses together, but Sun Xie still had no intention of getting up.
Ji Tang came to Sun Xie and squatted down. He connected the end of the oxygen bottle to Sun Xie's oxygen bottle and used a tiny sound transmission array to try to wake him up: "Brother Sun?"
Sun Xie pretended not to hear anything and held the female cultivator's body, unable to suppress his grief.
Ji Tang tried to carry the female cultivator out of Sun Xie's arms. At this moment, Sun Xie suddenly looked up. His eyes were bloodshot as he looked at Ji Tang, and his expression was more fierce and malicious than ever before. Ji Tang felt as if he was nailed to death by his gaze, and his body tensed up.
She tried to keep her voice steady as she spoke, "Senior Brother Sun, this fellow Taoist has already returned. We should bring them out of the sea and back to Weihai Palace."
Sun Xie pushed her away.
He moved too fast, and Ji Tang was directly bounced out by his external spiritual power, and hit the coral stone wall heavily.
She spat out a mouthful of blood, which was quickly diluted by the sea water.
Jitang suffers from drowning all the time, so this little injury doesn't matter to him.
Sun Xie's spiritual power in the illusion remained undiminished. A blow from his Golden Core Stage was a heavy blow to Ji Tang, who was only in the late Heart-moving Stage.
Ji Tang took a long time to move. She approached Sun Xie again and connected with his oxygen spirit bottle. This time, she changed her approach. Instead of hugging the female cultivator, she patted Sun Xie on the shoulder and said, "Brother Sun! Our disciples' oxygen spirit bottles are almost exhausted! Let's return to the surface quickly!"
With a loud bang, Ji Tang was slammed onto the stone wall by Sun Xie again.
This time, Jitang almost coughed out his lungs, and it took him a long time to catch his breath.
Sun Xie didn't work, so she tried other disciples. The result was the same: they all ended up injured.
"You are all in the Jindan stage. I can't afford to offend you, okay..."
Ji Tang saw stars and couldn't stand steadily when he tried to stand up by holding on to the stone wall.
It seems that the only way out of the illusion is for her to cover the shell with nightmare energy, and there is no way to break through from Sun Xie and other disciples.
Can……
Jitang looked at the shell that she had pierced into powder.
This is really a headache.
*
Zhang Zhuyou stood on the calm sea with his sword, listening to his disciples' reports.
"We found the sword tassel left by Team Wei 19 under the sea." The disciple presented the sword tassel to Zhang Zhuyou.
Zhang Zhuyou took the sword tassel and checked it. It was soaked by sea water. The blue tassel must have been hooked by something. The thread was scattered and wrapped around the other tassels in a messy tangle.
"Where did you find this?"
Disciple: "I'll take you there!"
Zhang Zhuyou: "No, you guys just wait here, I'll go by myself."
*
Jitang tried various methods, but failed to change the illusion.
Once the shell shattered, she was trapped here as well.
Tears welled up in Jitang's eyes—not out of fear, but a physiological reaction.
After being in a drowning state for a long time, her five senses have recovered. No matter how much she endures, she is almost at her limit.
Jitang couldn't stand and could only lean against the stone wall to find a way to break through.
If the tortoise shell was the medium of the illusion, then if she broke the shell, the illusion would definitely crack. But after that, she did not find a breakthrough from Sun Xie and other disciples.
It seems that either she found the wrong breakthrough point, or there is only one possibility -
Tortoise shell is not a medium for illusion.
Jitang once again propped up his body, which felt as heavy as a thousand pounds, and looked around.
The only possible media left today are coral rocks and corpses.
Coral stones and corpses...
Ji Tang looked at the corpses gathered together and the female cultivator held by Sun Xie.
If she was an enemy and killed the monk at the bottom of the sea with illusion, would she care what happened to the monk's body?
Why did they go to so much trouble to trap the corpse in the coral cave? And were those disciples of the Wei Hai Palace floating in it trying to cover up something?
Jitang tried to put himself in the other person's shoes, but gave up after just a moment.
She shuddered all over just thinking about it.
She had to look for a way to crack it from the female cultivator.
Ji Tang looked at Sun Xie with a headache.
If you want to see the female cultivator, you have to get past Sun Xie first. This crazy Jindan stage cultivator is really difficult to deal with, and Ji Tang is unable to compete with him at all with his cultivation level.
Since her strength doesn't allow it, she can only find another way.
Ji Tang thought so and immediately rushed to the side of the female cultivator.
Sun Xie slowly raised his bloodshot eyes.
Ji Tang simply threw away the bottle of oxygen and started crying. After all, she had already endured the pain of drowning, so there was nothing to be afraid of now.
A series of bubbles came out of her mouth, but Ji Tang didn't feel anything. After all, the pain had reached its limit and it couldn't get any more painful.
Ji Tang curled up his body and lowered his head, controlling his emotions very well. He howled for a while, but his voice was swallowed up by the sea water, and there were bubbles between the two of them.
When she saw that Sun Xie did not attack her, she immediately had an idea.
It seems that as long as she doesn't touch the female cultivator and Sun Xie, Sun Xie will not attack her.
Jitang felt more and more suspicious.
If the female cultivator is regarded as the medium of the illusion, then Sun Xie is the key to prevent the medium from being broken, and the other disciples are just a decoy.
The reason why Sun Xie attacked her was actually to protect the medium from being damaged and to keep the illusion running.
The more Jitang thought about it, the more reliable it seemed to her, so she observed the female cultivator from nearby.
The female cultivator had her eyes closed, her hair disheveled, her exposed skin pale and her lips purple.
She was tightly gripping a handful of seaweed in her hand, with protruding joints that looked even whiter than her pale skin.
A drowning person is in extreme pain, and her survival instinct will make her try to grab something.
Ji Tang's eyes lit up.
seaweed!
Ji Tang secretly circulated the nightmare energy.
The nightmare energy cast in the illusion couldn't break the situation because it was fake. But her five senses had recovered, and her mind had cleared up. So much time had passed, and she might be able to summon the real nightmare energy to break the situation.
Speaking of going crazy, Jitang is no exception.
She howled at the top of her lungs, and as she expected, since she didn't take any further action, Sun Xie wouldn't attack her.
A lot of bubbles gurgled out.
Ji Tang secretly gathered her strength, and when he was not prepared, she suddenly stretched out her right hand, and the nightmare energy burst out. She grabbed the seaweed that the female cultivator was holding tightly.
The moment she moved, Sun Xie also moved.
Ji Tang was beaten back heavily, his body rolling in the sea.
Sun Xie separated his spiritual power to place the female cultivator in front of him, and then made some hand gestures.
He used all his strength in this attack, and his spiritual power poured out. The sea water formed a whirlpool in front of him. The whirlpool was like a sharp icicle, rushing straight towards Ji Tang.
It is a mid-level water spell, forming a sharp cone of water.
Ji Tang could only make out the shape of the cone before she crashed into the stone wall. The sound of the stone wall cracking filled her ears. She was deeply embedded in the stone wall, her internal organs shattered. The blood that flowed from her body dyed the surrounding sea red, and even the area before her eyes was also covered in a large area of scarlet.
She was no longer able to survive in the illusion.
But she smiled proudly.
She clenched her fist tightly, and in her fist was half of the seaweed she had pulled out.
Her eyes were full of arrogance and red.
This was a huge gamble. If she won, she and the others would have a chance to survive; if she lost, at worst, she would just have to go to Yewangchuan, and she had nothing to fear.
Ji Tang became furious, and the seaweed in her hand was twisted and deformed by her grip.
She suddenly felt her body shaking violently. At first she thought her body could not bear it, but then she saw the entire coral cave shaking violently.
Ji Tang looked up in surprise, as large pieces of coral continued to fall from above her head. She was not afraid, but instead was so excited that she wanted to cheer.
Success! She made the right bet!
Seaweed is the medium of illusion. When seaweed is destroyed, the illusion collapses.
Ji Tang watched the huge stone cave in front of her being destroyed. She was hit hard by the huge coral stone. After the severe pain, she appeared in the intact coral stone cave.
She knew that she had left the illusion.
Without the pain of drowning and serious injuries, Ji Tang could be said to be relaxed.
She first checked the oxygen bottle on her back. There was not much gas left for her to use, so she had to get the others out of the sea as soon as possible.
She didn't dare to waste time and swam to Sun Xie.
Although the illusion was fake, it still brought some negative effects to her. For example, when she got close to Sun Xie, her body would instinctively tense up and guard against him.
Sun Xie hugged the female cultivator tightly, his eyes dull, like a refined puppet.
Ji Tang was sure at a glance that Sun Xie was still in the illusion. She couldn't break the illusion for him, so she could only rescue him from the sea first.
She put her hands under Sun Xie's armpits, trying to pull him out of the coral cave.
However, Sun Xie held the female cultivator very tightly, and Ji Tang could not drag the two of them, so he had to separate them first.
I don’t know who the female cultivator is to Sun Xie, but even though Sun Xie was in an illusion, he still held the female cultivator tightly, which shows that they have a very close relationship.
After finally separating the two, Ji Tang turned around and saw tiny bubbles escaping from the slightly parted lips of the female cultivator. If she hadn't happened to see it, this bubble would have been easily overlooked.
She was filled with doubt and uncertainty, fearing that it was another illusion. She waited for a moment, but the female cultivator did not move.
...Could this female cultivator be alive?
Wouldn’t the delay she caused to this fellow Taoist be delayed?
Ji Tang made a prompt decision and changed his target, intending to rescue the female cultivator from the sea first.
The female cultivator was thinner than an ordinary person and looked a little weak, so Ji Tang didn't have to exert much effort to lift her up.
She led the man out of the coral cave and was about to swim upstream when she vaguely saw a dark shadow approaching.
Jitang felt a chill in his heart.
No way...what's going to happen again...
She pushed the female cultivator into the cave entrance and turned to face the dark shadow.
When they got closer, Jitang realized that the black shadow was a person, and someone she knew.
Senior Zhang Zhuyou!
Jitang hurriedly made some noise, and Zhang Zhuyou also came to Jitang quickly.
Ji Tang grabbed the man and gestured to him to wait, then turned around and went into the coral cave and pulled the female cultivator out.
Zhang Zhuyou watched in astonishment as she came back with someone in her arms, and when he was no longer paying attention, there was a little girl in her arms.
Jitang pointed upwards, indicating that he should take people up, and then pointed towards the coral cave, telling him that there were still people inside.
Zhang Zhuyou didn't care about being shocked. He nodded seriously and swam towards the sea with his men.
Jitang returned to the coral cave again. Calculating that it would take some time for Zhang Zhuyou to go back and forth, she swam to the deepest part and brought the monk inside out first.
She led the man out of the cave and saw that Zhang Zhuyou had not returned yet.
There was no time to waste, so she untied the monk's belt, tied him up in the protruding crevice of the coral stone, and turned around to swim into the cave.
When Zhang Zhuyou went into the sea again, he brought a group of disciples with him.
When they dived to the coral rocks, they saw five or six disciples tied to the rocks with belts. Their robes were open and fluttering with the waves. If they were not in the sea, they would have looked like kites flying in the sky.
They were all stunned and almost delayed the rescue.
Jitang brought out another person and just as he was about to pull out his belt, he noticed the stupid people above and was puzzled.
Zhang Zhuyou waved his hand, ordering his disciples to rescue the people immediately. He then swam to Jitang and pointed inside the cave.
Jitang nodded and took Zhang Zhuyou into the cave.
There are still about twenty monks in the cave who need to be rescued.
Zhang Zhuyou passed by the dead disciple and was about to take out the disciple carrying the oxygen bottle behind him.
Ji Tang stopped him, shook his head, and gestured for him to take those without oxygen bottles out first.
Zhang Zhuyou didn't have time to ask more questions, as the ocean wasn't conducive to communication. He decisively followed Jitang's instructions and led the seemingly dead monk out of the cave.
After that, the two of them went back and forth several times and finally brought all the disciples out of the cave.
Before leaving the cave, Jitang went to the corner and dug out the turtle shell that was stuck in the sand.
This may have nothing to do with the illusion, but is just the shell left behind by a dead marine cub. However, Ji Tang still took it with him to be on the safe side, as it didn't take much effort anyway.
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