Chapter 151 Xiao Yu (30,000+ words)
Seeing that he was coughing badly, Yu Sui asked worriedly, "Senior, can you still hold on?"
Lin Chenghai waved his hand, then pulled it back to cover his mouth, and glared at Yu Sui: "I'm afraid I won't make it out alive."
"That won't do!" Yu Sui said anxiously. "If you die, Wen Yangzhou will die too."
Lin Chenghai wiped the blood from his mouth and said, "You're hiding from a dying man. You're not sincere. How can I trust you?"
Upon hearing this, Yu Sui tore off the cloth covering her face, revealing a face that was slightly red from being wrapped in cloth. Her dark, bright almond-shaped eyes stared unblinkingly at Lin Chenghai, a helpless expression on her face: "Now you can rest assured, Senior?"
Lin Chenghai looked Yu Sui up and down, then suddenly laughed. It wasn't Wen Yangzhou's voice, but a hoarse, older male voice: "Although your master has lost his chastity, he has a good eye for choosing disciples."
Yu Sui reached out and wiped her face, looking back with a puzzled expression.
"Although the poison of the Jade Blood Golden Butterfly is potent, its ability to steal souls and exchange spirits is not widely known." Lin Chenghai pointed in a direction for Yu Sui. "I need to rest for a while before I can move. Could you pick some hemostatic herbs for me first?"
Yu Sui asked, "Can we use hemostatic pills directly?"
“Of course,” Lin Chenghai asked. “Do you have one?”
Yu Sui took two out of the puzzle box and handed them over: "I bought them."
Lin Chenghai didn't stand on ceremony and reached out to take it, saying, "This must be quite expensive."
“It’s quite expensive,” Yu Sui nodded. “The price of one is enough for my senior brother to spar with me five times.”
Lin Chenghai tilted his head back to take his medicine, and choked on his words: "You have to pay money to spar with your senior brother?"
“Yes.” Yu Sui rested her chin on her hand, looking helpless. “If you don’t have money, you’re not qualified to spar with my senior brother.”
Lin Chenghai was eager for Yu Sui to say more about Mei Liangyu, so he deliberately scolded, "How can fellow disciples be so stingy when exchanging skills, only offering guidance after receiving payment! Your senior brother has really gone too far. What else has he done? Tell me so I can help you scold him!"
Yu Sui looked at him, puzzled: "Why are you insulting my senior brother?"
Lin Chenghai said righteously, "Shouldn't he be scolded for being so awful?"
Yu Sui looked disapproving: "My senior brother is so skilled, it's a waste of time for him to spar with just anyone."
Lin Chenghai: "..."
Yu Sui's words left him speechless.
He regulated the five elements within his body, looked up at Yu Sui for a moment, and his expression became unfathomable: "Do you like your senior brother?"
"Me?" Yu Sui was not surprised by this sudden answer. Lin Chenghai could not even see a trace of shyness on her face. The girl pointed to herself with one finger and then shook her head.
Lin Chenghai thought she was denying it and was about to speak when he heard Yu Sui say with a smile, "My senior brother and I are in love with each other."
Upon hearing Yu Sui's words, Lin Chenghai found it hard to believe. He looked at Yu Sui with a mixture of disbelief and doubt, but Yu Sui only winked playfully.
It looks like a joke no matter how you look at it.
While Lin Chenghai was adjusting his breathing, he subtly inquired about Mei Liangyu's whereabouts from Yu Sui. Every time Yu Sui fell for his tricks and went along with his words, Lin Chenghai couldn't help but sigh at the little girl's naivety.
"You said you came to see your senior brother, is he on business in the Undersea Mechanized City?" Lin Chenghai looked at Yu Sui with one eye open and the other closed.
"I don't know either," Yu Sui said with distress. "My senior brother came to the Abyss Sea and then disappeared without a trace. Now that so many sea eyes have appeared in the Abyss Sea, I'm even more worried."
Lin Chenghai teased her on purpose: "Your senior brother might have already been swallowed by the sea eye. He can't be found. Once swallowed by the sea eye, he would be torn to pieces by the chaotic five elements energy inside, leaving no trace of his body."
He added at the end, "Even a saint couldn't possibly emerge alive from the eye of the sea."
Yu Sui said, "I don't care about any of that. I'm just going to find my senior brother. I'm sure I can find him."
Lin Chenghai scoffed, "What if he dies in the eye of the sea? How will you find him?"
Without hesitation, Yu Sui said, "Then let's look in the sea eye."
Lin Chenghai slapped his thigh with one hand and pointed at Yu Sui with the other: "You've gone to such lengths, and you still say you don't like your senior brother!"
Yu Sui seemed puzzled as to why he was so agitated, and asked in confusion, "I already said it's mutual affection."
When Lin Chenghai heard this for the second time, he became somewhat skeptical.
He hadn't seen the young master for many years, and had no news about him. He had no idea what the young master looked like now, and could only piece together his thoughts from snippets of conversation.
“My senior brother is so powerful, he might not have been swept into the sea eye. He might have gone to the underwater mechanical city.” Yu Sui stood up and said, “If you’ve finished your meditation, senior, let’s hurry up and leave here to find him.”
Lin Chenghai's gaze followed Yu Sui's movements. He looked up and asked, "Little girl, what's your name?"
Yu Sui deliberately revealed that he was the disciple of the Ghostly Saint.
Upon seeing Lin Chenghai's reaction, he realized that Lin Chenghai was unaware that Nangong Ming's daughter was the second disciple of the Sage Changgen.
Telling him his name at this point might cause unnecessary complications.
Yu Sui wanted to find Mei Liangyu through Lin Chenghai. After guessing that the young master Lin Chenghai mentioned was Mei Liangyu, she thought she could use this to make Lin Chenghai like her.
Meeting Lin Chenghai's probing gaze, she said softly, "Senior, you can just call me Xiao Yu."
As Lin Chenghai stood up, he said, "Since you're such a lovable girl, I'll lend you a hand. Once we get to the Undersea Mechanized City, I'll help you find your beloved senior brother."
Yu Sui looked at him with suspicion: "You just said you were going to scold my senior brother, but now you're saying you're going to help me find him. Forget it, I'll go find him myself. As long as you don't let Wen Yangzhou die, that's fine."
Lin Chenghai, his teeth itching with rage, coughed, covering his mouth, and said in a way that brooked no refusal, "How can we let it go? It's settled then. I'll help you find one! So you won't fall into the trap of looking for something like this, silly girl!"
That use of the word "also" is truly brilliant.
Yu Sui chuckled inwardly, but put on a helpless expression: "Senior, I overheard your conversation with Ou Sheng earlier. You must have had other things to do before sneaking into the Undersea Mechanized City."
"That won't delay you." Lin Chenghai waved his hand. "I'll handle my own affairs. As for you, besides being bold and rich, you only have the strength of less than the third realm. If I send you to find your senior brother alone, it's questionable whether you can even return to the sea alive."
Yu Sui asked in surprise, "How did you know I'm not even at the third realm?"
Lin Chenghai snorted, pointed to his own eyes, and then pointed at Yu Sui: "There are some things I can tell just by looking at them."
In Lin Chenghai's view, Yu Sui was a little clever, but not much, and was easily seen through.
It's normal for a girl of this age to be so innocent and naive.
Yu Sui made no attempt to hide her surprise: "Is it a unique Nine Schools Technique of your Buddhist family? It allows you to see through someone's cultivation level at a glance."
Lin Chenghai laughed and said, "It has nothing to do with the school of thought. When you reach my level in the future, you can too."
Yu Sui asked, "The thirteenth realm?"
Lin Chenghai was about to answer when he coughed again, covered his mouth and stopped walking. Yu Sui turned to look at him: "Senior, would you like to take a few more hemostatic pills?"
"How many do you have?" Lin Chenghai asked, surprised.
“Fifteen pills a bottle,” Yu Sui gestured to him, “I have two bottles left.”
As Lin Chenghai reached out, he exclaimed in surprise, "You've filled your entire puzzle box with medicine?"
Yu Sui took out a hemostatic pill for him and said, "I brought two mechanical boxes, so I can carry more things."
Lin Chenghai put the medicine in his mouth and stared at Yu Sui in disbelief.
Large-capacity puzzle boxes are quite expensive, beyond the reach of ordinary people, and they also consume some of the Five Elements energy. Larger-capacity puzzle boxes consume even more energy, as they hold more items and require more Five Elements energy to maintain. To avoid excessive consumption, most people only need to carry one, and they won't fill it too full.
If you bring two, or three or four, it means you have extreme confidence in your own Five Elements energy.
Yu Sui dared to bring two because she had hundreds of Five Elements Light Cores. Each light core contained its own unclaimed energy, and she could easily spare a few or dozens of them to maintain the existence of the mechanism box.
Lin Chenghai was surprised that Yu Sui, who was not even at the third realm, dared to use the five elements energy on the mechanism box.
If she really was a sorcerer from the mechanical family, then it would be understandable.
Yu Sui released the Five Elements Light Core to scout the way, leading Lin Chenghai around the crowd and hiding in the shadows using the Instant Concealment Talisman. Lin Chenghai followed for a while, not letting his guard down, and also using his own methods to explore the surroundings. He was somewhat surprised to find that Yu Sui was able to avoid the crowds every time she led the way.
Although his cultivation level is below the third realm, he seems to have some skill.
Yu Sui could avoid the crowd, but he couldn't find Li Jinshuang.
The five elemental light cores that were released back then were shattered by the shockwave and couldn't keep up with Hu Gui and the others, so they have to find them again now.
On the way, Lin Chenghai said, "We need to go to the third basement level and move closer to the stern of the ship."
Yu Sui was unfamiliar with the structure of the Spirit Bird, but Lin Chenghai was very clear about it. With Lin Chenghai guiding the way and Yu Sui exploring, the two cooperated well and made it through without any major incidents.
Once they reached the stern of the ship on the third underground level, the two hid in a houseboat for people to rest.
Yu Sui stood by the window and looked out. This place looked familiar. It was the spot where Zhang Xiangyun and the other two had climbed up before. Opening the window, she could see the passageway and fence outside, as well as the barrier that enveloped the ship not far away.
Lin Chenghai sat cross-legged on the chair, continuing to regulate the five elements of his body.
Yu Sui asked quietly, "Senior?"
Lin Chenghai did not respond. He closed his eyes, his face was pale, his forehead was dark, and his breath was weak and almost imperceptible.
Yu Sui asked again, "Senior, are you dead?"
Lin Chenghai: "..."
Hearing the genuine worry in the girl's words, he swallowed back the words of anger that were about to come out of his mouth.
Lin Chenghai closed his eyes and said in a deep voice, "I'm adjusting my breathing."
Yu Sui was relieved and said, "It's good that you're not dead. Will your other companion also come here?"
“Maybe not,” Lin Chenghai said. “I don’t need to look for him. By the time the Spirit Bird arrives at the underwater mechanical city, no one will be on the ship.”
"You've all been discovered, how are we supposed to get into the underwater mechanical city?" Yu Sui muttered after her initial surprise. "Senior, if you're not going to find someone, what am I supposed to do with you?"
Lin Chenghai couldn't help but open one eye and glare at her: "Don't think you can hide from Ou Rushuang's eyes just because you have the Instant Concealment Talisman. From the moment you were knocked out, he was able to guess the existence of the Instant Concealment Talisman and will re-examine the mechanical sorcerers on the ship."
That's true.
Yu Sui also saw the situation on Ou Rushuang's side through the Five Elements Light Core. He asked Baili Mo and Murong Lie to re-examine the mechanical sorcerers on the ship.
He also ordered people to guard several exits and light fire talismans at the exits. Anyone who used a stealth talisman to approach would be immediately exposed.
Yu Sui pretended to be innocent to the end, and after hearing this, she stared at Lin Chenghai with wide eyes: "Then what should I do?"
Lin Chenghai closed his eyes again and said, "What are you afraid of? You are the disciple of the Ghost Dao Saint. Do you think Ou Rushuang can kill you?"
Yu Sui said, "He will definitely stop me from going to find my senior brother, but I won't be able to rest easy if I don't find him."
Lin Chenghai thought to himself, whether their feelings for each other were genuine or not, this girl definitely liked the young master.
[Author's Note]
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