Chapter 162 Senior Brother, why are you ignoring me?
Yu Sui remained vigilant all night, wondering if anyone would come. She dared not move Situ Lingkui to another place, and focused intently on observing the five elements within Situ Lingkui's body, even ignoring the burning sensation from the strange fire.
It should be daylight outside by now, and the scorching heat of the strange fire has subsided. Yu Sui covered his hand and yawned. As soon as he looked up, he heard the sound of ice shattering coming from deep underground.
She observed the people everywhere, and the most quick to react were the sorcerers of the mechanical families.
Murong Lie was still looking at the map and trying to find his way when the sudden strange noise made him look up abruptly. The First and Second City Lords of Beikun City were there, and they shouted loudly to ask what was going on.
The mechanical sorcerer holding the Five Elements Qi detector responded loudly amidst the cracking sounds: "It's coming from underground! Over at the Panlong Grottoes!"
Amidst the sounds of ice breaking and crashing, there was inevitably the sound of water colliding. This sound made Murong Lie and the others very sensitive, fearing it might be a surprise attack from the sea eye.
What is the reaction of the golden conch?
"Just in case, activate the emergency response team and monitor the activity of the sea eye from all angles!"
"Have you found the road? Hurry up and go down to check!"
"Lord! We've found it! If we connect the ice chamber to the next level, we can see the Panlong Grotto at the very bottom!"
There were too many mechanical sorcerers below, making the scene chaotic and noisy. Yu Sui calmed his mind and focused on listening to information that was useful to him.
After the people of Beikun City investigated, they determined that the disturbance was not caused by the sea eye. Murong Lie looked at the map and pondered, "Then the problem lies with the Panlong Grotto at the very bottom."
Baili Mo stood on the edge of the scorching fire, looking down with Situ Jin and the others who had emerged from underground. He pondered, "Did the sea eye leave something else down there?"
"I don't know about that. What about my second grandmother?" Situ Jin asked him.
"Your second grandmother went to look for you. She should be underground. Didn't you see her?" Baili Mo asked curiously.
Situ Jin frowned: "They might have gone to the wrong place. I'll go down and check again later."
Baili Mo comforted her, "The signal has been sent out, and your second grandmother will definitely come to find you first."
"By the way, the people from the academy and the Water Boat have arrived." Baili Mo turned to the side, looking towards the direction of the Spirit Bird behind him, where a second giant ship was docked.
"A water boat?" Situ Jin was stunned.
Yu Sui was also stunned for a moment.
Baili Mo nodded and said slowly, "The flames left by this sea eye are strange. They need to come and examine it in person before they can draw a conclusion and find a way to eradicate it."
"Who are these people?" Situ Jin asked in a low voice.
"They haven't come out yet, so I don't know either," Baili Mo said.
Situ Jin looked thoughtful. With such a commotion coming from the Panlong Grottoes below, the people on the boat would surely arrive soon.
There must be saints from the academy among those who come.
Situ Jin turned her head and said to Li Jinshuang beside her, "There will probably be some saints from the academy coming over later. If they recognize you, just say you came with me."
Li Jinshuang glanced at him but didn't answer.
Situ Jin winked at her and patiently asked, "Did you remember?"
Li Jinshuang responded.
She sensed that Situ Jin meant no harm and was much easier to get along with than Zhang Xiangyun.
Inside the underground city.
Hu Gui, carrying the stolen Situ family spirit puppet, hid in the secret passages for quite some time before finally meeting up with Lin Chenghai near the central point.
The central hub of Beikun City is filled with gears of all sizes, crisscrossing and creating long and short mechanical passages within the vast space.
Hu Gui strolled through the sea of mechanical gears, disappearing into the distance in a flash. He stepped onto a giant mechanical gear, causing the rapidly spinning gear to come to a halt at his presence.
He took the spirit puppet off his back and placed it in the recess on the mechanical teeth.
The spirit puppet remained motionless.
Hu Gui retreated to the ground and looked up at the large gear in front of him. It was forged from bronze and had dents of varying depths on both sides. Apart from these dents, the rest of the gear was covered with black incantations.
After seeing the distribution of the incantations on the gears, Hu Gui used the Wind Control Technique to get up, came above the gears, and stretched out his hands, which were full of the five elements, to change the incantations.
Lin Chenghai suddenly appeared beneath the gears, panting, and asked, "Why isn't anyone chasing you? Did they all come after me?"
"I hid well," Hu Gui replied without turning his head.
Lin Chenghai wiped his sweat and looked up at him: "Where's that kid from the Situ family?"
Hu Gui said, "Release them."
The main purpose of capturing Situ Jin was to open the gate to the Situ family's forbidden area. The restrictions on the Spirit Puppet Pit could only be broken by a close relative of the Situ family.
"Why did you only take one spirit puppet? Why not take one more?" Lin Chenghai instantly appeared at the top, stood next to the spirit puppet, looked it up and down, and clicked his tongue, "You know what, only the Situ family makes something decent like this."
“It’s too late.” Hu Gui said calmly, “There were quite a few people who stole from Beikun City this time. For some reason, the disciples of Taiyi Academy also came. It seems to be related to the young master.”
Lin Chenghai raised an eyebrow upon hearing this, recalling the little girl he had left outside, and asked, "You also met the young master's junior sister?"
When Hu Gui heard him say that, he remembered.
When they were fighting in the corridor and being chased by Ou Rushuang's poisonous creatures, not only was Li Jinshuang forced out, but another person was also chased away. This second person probably went with Lin Chenghai.
Hu Gui asked directly, "Did she come to Beikun City with you?"
Lin Chenghai nodded: "This young lady is not bad. She sent Ou Rushuang away, giving me time to recuperate. She is also the young master's junior sister. She said a lot about the young master and that she and the young master are in love."
"Impossible," Hu Gui said coldly.
"Hey, why is it impossible?" Lin Chenghai raised an eyebrow. "Our young master is, after all, a handsome and dashing man."
“She is Nangong Sui,” Hu Gui said, “Nangong Ming’s daughter.”
Lin Chenghai froze: "Who?"
Hu Gui said, "Young Master's junior sister is Nangong Ming's daughter, Nangong Sui. She came to find Young Master with the young lady from the Li family."
Lin Chenghai's mind raced for a moment before he realized what Hu Gui meant, and his expression turned strange.
Hu Gui told Lin Chenghai about her experience in the Spirit Puppet Pit. After exchanging information, they confirmed that the girl who kept saying "Senior, you can just call me Xiaoyu" was Nangong Sui.
Lin Chenghai took a deep breath, then slowly squatted down, holding his forehead with one hand, and said through gritted teeth, "This is outrageous! I was actually tricked by a little girl!"
"Although she wasn't very strong, she was a bit clever and didn't seem bad. I even thought she was innocent and cute, so I spared her life. I never expected that she would actually be... Wait, isn't Nangong Ming's daughter a member of the Ping Shu faction?"
Hu Gui said, "Since Chang Gen took her as his disciple, she must have some extraordinary abilities. Nangong Ming has always liked to spread rumors that are hard to distinguish from the truth. His daughter may not have been a person of Ping Shu from the beginning. She was just using this method to lure those who wanted to seize the Xirang into carelessly throwing their lives away."
Lin Chenghai stared wide-eyed, looking down at Hu Gui below: "Your Ghost Daoist school has a way to allow those who practice martial arts to cultivate?"
Hu Gui: "As far as I know, there isn't one, but Chang Gen has lived for who knows how many years. Nobody knows if he has a way."
"That old monster!" Lin Chenghai clenched his fists in anger, wanting to punch something. With his last punch, he struck the gear, causing the entire mechanism to vibrate.
Hu Gui, who was changing the incantation, twitched his eyelids and looked up at Lin Chenghai: "Even if Nangong Ming's daughter is innocent and cute, she should not be underestimated."
She said this simply because of her father, Nangong Ming.
Lin Chenghai sneered: "If I had known earlier that she was Nangong Ming's daughter, I would have killed her directly and taken the Breath Soil from her body back to Yan Manfeng to drink with his wine."
What a great opportunity that was! We could have killed that useless brat who wasn't even at the third level of cultivation. He didn't even need to use 20% of his power.
Lin Chenghai grew angrier the more he thought about it, and cursed, "What an adorable girl! How can she be Nangong Ming's daughter? Compared to her, I can accept that she's that old monster's disciple, but you're telling me she's Nangong Ming's daughter? How could Nangong Ming possibly have such a clean child?"
Having lived for so many years, he still has a good eye for people, but Nangong Ming's reputation makes him hesitant to trust him easily.
Hu Gui said calmly, "The child was indeed not born to Nangong Ming, but to Su Xing."
Lin Chenghai cursed, "That Su Xing is no good either!"
How good can the children born from two bad seeds be?
Upon hearing this, Yu Sui blinked, stared silently at Situ Lingkui's face for a moment, and finally couldn't help but laugh.
Lin Chenghai was still cursing when Hu Gui stopped him, saying, "Let's get down to business first. There was a commotion down there just now. It's probably the young master and the others trying to find a way out. Once the incantation here is changed, we'll have to leave Panlong Grottoes too."
Yu Sui wanted to study the changed incantations for a while longer, but she sensed someone coming to find Situ Lingkui, so she had to move to another place.
The five elements energy within Situ Lingkui's body was also drawn away by Yu Sui. Without Yu Sui's interference, the power of the jade bead within Lingkui's body gradually recovered.
Only after Yu Sui had gone far away did Situ Lingkui's eyes regain their clarity. She sheathed her sword and looked around. She had no memory of the pause; her memory was still stuck at the moment of the battle.
As Yu Sui walked through the dark passage, he looked down at the Five Elements Light Core in his palm, his expression thoughtful. He prepared to go to the Spirit Puppet Pit, but found that Zhang Xiangyun and Luo Fu were still inside.
It wasn't that these two didn't want to leave, but that they couldn't get out.
As soon as Situ Jin left, the restrictions on the pit activated again, preventing those outside from entering and those inside from leaving. Zhang Xiangyun was so angry he almost vomited blood. Time was already of the essence, and now not only had he failed to find Mei Liangyu, he had also been imprisoned.
Yu Sui ignored the two unlucky guys and went to find her senior brother instead.
Yu Sui came underground based on the map in Zhang Xiangyun's hand. He did not go to the half-tower that was destroyed by the sea eye, so he did not see those flames.
She learned about the sea fire from the monitoring within the Five Elements Light Core.
Senior Brother is most likely in the Panlong Grotto at the very bottom. The fastest way down is to cross the sea fire. Yu Sui arrived at the entrance of the passage destroyed by the sea eye and saw the dying flames.
Even when you get close, you can't feel the heat of the flames. They lazily occupy the edge of the stone wall, blocking the way. They seem harmless, but when someone gets close, they suddenly intensify the fire and engulf them in an instant.
Yu Sui stopped and looked down.
Because of the strange fire, Yu Sui is not afraid of being burned or other kinds of fire. Even the fire materialized by the Nine Streams Technique cannot harm her.
Yu Sui had always believed that, within the realm of fire elements, strange fire was the most extreme.
Similarly, as long as the flames in front of her are not strange flames, they cannot harm her.
Yu Sui also shared the same thought as Mei Liangyu. The flickering orange-red flames in front of them resembled dead strange fire, strange fire stripped from the body of the destroyer.
What if it really is a different kind of fire?
Yu Sui hesitated for a moment when she reached out her hand.
But she quickly rejected the idea.
The greatest threat of the strange fire is that it will indiscriminately devour everything in the world, and it cannot stop.
The flames in front of us are clearly not.
Yu Sui stretched out her hand, her fingers passing through the faint flame without causing any reaction or burns. She pressed her palm down on the ground, then withdrew it after a moment. The flame that had been lingering there, causing the mechanics so much trouble, was easily extinguished by Yu Sui.
She stood up and peered down into the darkness. Half of the beam was broken, and half of the stone roof was shattered. These things all had varying degrees of sea fire on them, which blocked the way for the mechanics family to go down.
After confirming that the flames posed no threat to him, Yu Sui used the Wind Control Technique to travel directly from the center, which had been damaged by the Sea Eye.
Panlong Grottoes.
The ice shattered, the ground shook, and everything happened in the blink of an eye. Even Zhonglishan and Xingchun, who were hiding under the wall of the cave passage, were not spared and were swept below.
The seawater beneath the ice churned and surged, creating waves that crashed against the Buddha statue and the stone wall with a splashing sound.
The underwater world was cold and dark, so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. After Xing Chun and Zhong Lishan were swept away, they couldn't hear the cracking sound of the ice breaking. Everything was quiet. The two of them activated their protective energy to resist the fierce current. In an instant, it felt as if they were back in the center of the sea eye.
Unseen by them, the waves crashed high, again and again, fast and furious, against the walls of the grotto, almost overflowing the top of the Buddha statue.
The ice water soaked the wall, making the Buddha statue look wet and deepening the stone's color.
Mei Liangyu was the first to fall into the depths of the ice. Ice shards clung to his face, making him shiver with cold. He had no idea how deep it was or where it led. At that moment, the water was swirling, churning, and crashing, much like the experience of being swept into a sea eye.
He was also the person closest to the chaos. The thick ice layer exploded one after another in Mei Liangyu's ears. The sound, which spread underwater through the five elements, made his ears ring and his brain stop. The sharp ice shards cut across his skin due to the pressure of the water flow, and he could even taste a little blood on his lips.
Mei Liangyu lost consciousness for a moment, letting himself fall into the darkness, only hearing the sound of blood flowing, like a rushing torrent.
He counted in his mind, and when he reached three, his consciousness returned, and he opened his eyes again. He tried to float upwards, but someone grabbed his hand.
Just as Mei Liangyu was about to make his move, clusters of flames lit up in the dark water, as if thousands of streams of fire were falling into the sea, dispelling the darkness and chill.
The person holding his wrist blinked at him. Mei Liangyu was stunned and somewhat incredulous, but when he saw the bright firelight in Yu Sui's eyes, he immediately loosened his grip and let Yu Sui hold him and float upwards.
The flowing fire illuminated the path, making the strands of hair that were entangled around his fingers underwater clearly visible.
As soon as Yu Sui emerged from the water, she heard the splashing sound of the waves. The waves were still crashing against the rocks, but she ignored them and grabbed the people she had just brought out to avoid the giant waves as they moved toward the shore.
Mei Liangyu's ears were still ringing. Yu Sui called out to him, "Senior Brother."
He just blinked.
Yu Sui, unaware that he couldn't hear her, swam towards the shore and spoke at length, but received no response. She then turned to look at Mei Liangyu in confusion, "Senior Brother?"
Mei Liangyu glanced ahead and saw that the ice floes had sunk, causing the water level to rise and flooding the previous passageway. There was nowhere to get ashore, and even the Buddha statues and the walls of the shrines were mostly submerged.
He put his arm around Yu Sui's waist and lifted her up to sit on the Buddha statue's curved wrist.
Yu Sui looked down at him, "Senior brother, why are you ignoring me?"
"Senior brother's ears are injured, and he can't hear yet." Mei Liangyu hadn't withdrawn his hands yet; they were still on her waist, urging her to sit up.
Yu Sui stared at him: "Then how did you know what I said?"
Mei Liangyu reached out and pressed his hand against her wet lips, wiping away the water stains: "Look at how you read it."
Before he could ask Yu Sui why she was there, he said, "Don't go down yet, stay on the shore. I'll go find Chun'er and Dashan."
Yu Sui grabbed his hand, gesturing for him to look back. Mei Liangyu turned and saw that Zhong Lishan and Xing Chun had also emerged at some point. They were still in the water and hadn't come over, but they had witnessed his actions. Now they were staring at Mei Liangyu with strange looks, as if silently asking:
We're looking for you in the water, what are you doing?
What are you doing on the water?!
[Author's Note]
Thank you so much for your support! I will continue to work hard!
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