Yue Ya has already confirmed that the monster with white tentacles behind its head is the professor of the Academy of Fine Arts.
The professor also found that Yue Ya had recognized him. He adjusted his expression and showed his usual gentle smile: "You already know who I am. The teacher will not harm you. Give the heart of the god to the teacher."
A gentle smile appeared on the professor's weird face, which was very creepy, and Yue Ya felt disgusted. However, the professor's appearance here showed that Yue Ya's previous speculation was correct.
"You deliberately gave us the wrong clues so that we could get here smoothly... As long as I nail the Heart of God into the goddess statue, she will be resurrected immediately, right?" Yue Ya narrowed his eyes: "So the fifth container is among us. Even if I give you the Heart of God, you will not let us escape unscathed."
As long as the main god is resurrected, the "container" will lose its body and will never be able to leave this copy.
A trace of annoyance flashed across the professor's face, but it was quickly replaced by a smile: "So what if you know? If you don't accept my toast, I'll have you drink the wine for punishment."
The professor put his fingers to his mouth and made a very strange whistling sound.
Yue Ya had an extremely ominous feeling in his heart, and the other players also had bad expressions.
Zhuang Yan frowned: "What is he going to do?"
Black mist emerged from the suction cups of the huge tentacles and wrapped around the pale statues. Then, the stiff statues in the water began to move one after another!
Their stone-like bodies were cracked and oozing muddy blood, and their tentacles were dancing in the air, as flexible as sea snakes. The statues' eye sockets had been filled with blood red, and only black pupils the size of rice grains were staring at the players, looking spooky.
The clear sea water was made turbid by black fog and blood. These hideous statue monsters floated in the water, constantly making a "clucking" sound that made people's scalps numb.
Yue Ya said coldly: "He wants to rob openly."
Zhuang Yan gritted his teeth and said, "This is their lair. There are countless underwater statues. We definitely can't defeat them."
"We might as well destroy the statue of the goddess. Even if you don't hand over the Heart of God, the goddess will still be resurrected when the yellow moonlight comes." Hongcha always does what he says without considering any consequences. He directly uses the Soul-Locking Rope to attack the statue of the goddess.
Red Tea's Soul-Locking Rope had completely digested the proprietress's soul. If it pulled with all its strength, any statue made of any material would be split in half, but the goddess statue was completely unharmed, without even a trace of damage.
Hongcha's palms were numb from the shock, and she couldn't even lift her arms. She gasped in pain, "What on earth is this made of!"
Xuecha suddenly screamed: "Sister, your hand!"
"What's wrong with my hand?" Hongcha's hand had lost all feeling and she couldn't lift it up. She looked down and saw that the palm holding the Soul-Locking Rope had turned into stone!
The pale stone color spread up along her wrist at a very fast speed. Hongcha's eyes turned red with anxiety: "What's going on!"
The professor sneered: "Humph, this is the consequence of your disrespect for the Lord God! The statue of the Lord God was nurtured by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. How can your mediocre skills destroy it? God is merciful. If you use your statue to protect the underwater city for 500 years, God will forgive you and let you become a noble and elegant messenger of God like us."
After the professor finished speaking, he proudly flicked the tentacles behind him with an intoxicated expression.
Red Tea was so angry that she cursed at him: "If I become an ugly old octopus like you, I would rather die right now!"
"Stop saying unlucky things!" Xuecha quickly used her skills to freeze the petrified part of Hongcha to slow down the petrification process.
The professor was so angry at Black Tea's words "old octopus" that he said gloatingly, "It's useless. Unless you cut off her hand, she will turn into a statue!"
Yueya had already come to Hongcha and said calmly, "Bear with it."
Hongcha hadn't reacted yet, and subconsciously followed Yueya's gaze to look at her own palm.
A flash of light flashed by, and Hongcha saw his petrified palm being cut off by the dagger and floating in the water.
The pain sensation returned slowly, and just as she frowned, Yue Ya's hand covered her wound, and the broken palm miraculously recovered.
"Your healing skills have actually been upgraded to this level!" Hongcha was surprised, and also felt lucky to have saved his life: "Thank you, I thought I was dead."
Yue Ya looked at the professor and said, "Thank you. You taught me this method."
The professor was so angry that he was fuming. If he knew that Yueya had the ability to repair broken limbs, he would never have said that.
Black Tea winked slyly: "Thank you, old octopus~"
[Thank you, old octopus~]
[Thank you, old octopus~]
[Yuezai's resurrection skills are getting better and better. I'm stunned]
The professor was furious: "Since you refuse to hand over the Heart of God, then you will die!"
At the professor's command, the statue monsters geared up and approached the players.
"Wait." Yue Ya smiled bitterly, "You should die knowingly. At least you should tell us who the container is, right?"
The professor snorted and laughed: "You won't die."
Yueya understood: "So I am the container." The only player that the professor cannot kill is the player chosen as the container, because the main god needs a living person's body.
Professor: “…” Damn, I let it slip.
Professor: "So what if you know it? The result will not be changed."
"Really? I guess as a vessel chosen by God, I will be able to digest this Heart of God very well." The Heart of God that looked like obsidian appeared in Yue Ya's palm. As soon as he thought about it, all the energy contained in it flowed into his body along the lines on his palm.
As soon as these energies came in, Yue Ya had a very familiar and peaceful feeling... as if these energies had originally been drawn from him and were simply returning.
"No!!" The professor's face turned green and he roared as he rushed towards Yue Ya. The huge tentacles swept over like snakes.
Yue Ya was absorbing energy and could not be distracted, so other players immediately coordinated and stood in front of Yue Ya, forming a temporary line of defense and killing all the monsters that pounced on him.
The professor found that the statue monster could not be attacked, and Yue Ya had already absorbed more than half of the heart of the god. He looked gloomy and kept muttering: "It's too late, too late..."
The professor suddenly knelt on the ground, crossed his hands on his chest, and lowered his head. Under him, a strange magic circle was being generated.
The monsters' offensive became weaker, and many of them suddenly knelt on the ground and made the same movements as the professor. Their souls floated upwards and condensed in the sea water. The monsters' bodies became more gray and decayed because they lost their souls, and they were so fragile that they would fall apart at a push.
Black Tea asked in confusion, "What is the professor doing?"
Zhuang Yan said: "The magic circle under him looks familiar, I seem to have seen it somewhere..."
"Where have I seen this before?" Ah Bai racked his brains, his face suddenly turned pale. "I remember now, the sacrificial array beside the holy spring is exactly the same as this one! He wants to sacrifice all the souls in the underwater city!"
Hongcha was shocked: "How many souls are there here?"
Xuecha bit her lower lip and said, "I don't know, but I know we are also included in it! Yueya, who is absorbing the Heart of God, cannot escape the sacrifice either, so as long as the formation is completely formed before Yueya completely digests the Heart of God, the energy of the Heart of God and Yueya's soul will be sacrificed to the main god."
"So no matter what efforts we made before, we were just helping the believers." Ah Bai put his hands together, and a blue-purple magic circle appeared in front of him: "We must stop the professor."
Abai pushed with both hands and the magic circle moved towards the professor, but just as it reached the professor, Abai's magic circle was shattered by a huge tentacle.
Ah Bai was dumbfounded: "How can we fight this?"
Hongcha threw out the Soul Locking Rope and smashed two statue monsters in a row: "Don't be discouraged, Yueya is still working hard, we have to buy him more time."
The players looked at Yue Ya, their eyes became firm again, and they focused on dealing with the monsters that were attacking them.
Although Yueya couldn't participate in the battle, he could hear the outside world. He asked the little puppet that was not restricted by the sea water to come out to help. Lulu had been staying in the space of the puppet card. Knowing the emergency, she took the initiative to say: "Brother Yueya, let me go out, I can control this situation!"
There was no better way now, Yueya nodded and let Lulu go out.
Lulu was very happy about this: "Brother Yueya, don't worry, I won't let the monster hurt you."
Yue Ya smiled helplessly: "Don't get hurt."
Then, the players saw a pretty little girl appear in the sea, with her soft long hair floating gently with the water.
Her appearance seemed to change something silently. The statue monsters that were attacking the players stopped, and the players were able to catch their breath.
"Why did the monsters stop?" Ah Bai turned around and saw Lulu, and was very surprised: "Who is this girl? Where did she come from?"
Hongcha said, "This little girl is... Yueya's sister, right? I saw her on the boat, but Yueya didn't let her out because the environment was too dangerous."
Xuecha swallowed and guessed, "She seems to be controlling these monsters, so the monsters stopped moving as soon as she appeared."
In the blink of an eye, Lulu was already near the professor.
Seeing the tentacles approaching Lulu, Ah Bai's eyes almost popped out: "Sister, don't go over there, it's dangerous!"
Lulu didn't retreat even a step. When the huge tentacle stretched out in front of her, she raised her little hand and gently touched the tip of the tentacle: "Good baby, lie down."
The tentacles paused, and then they all crawled obediently on the seabed!
Lulu had no idea what an amazing thing she had done. She calmly floated in front of the professor and wiped out the magic circle that was about to be formed with her hand, as easily as if she was playing a game.
The magic circle failed, and the professor was attacked by the backlash of energy. He vomited blood and his body gradually turned to stone.
The players looked at this scene in disbelief, almost thinking it was an illusion.
Hongcha's voice was a little shaky: "Sister wiped out the magic circle with her hands? Barehanded? Am I seeing right?"
Xuecha nodded slowly: "You're not mistaken, I saw it too."
The man in black almost fell to his knees: "What kind of god is this?"
Ah Bai's mind went blank: "Fuck, my sister is awesome!"
[My sister is awesome! ! ]
[As expected of a female goose, wow wow wow, is this the strength of an awakened NPC?]
[Finally I see Lulu again. I want to give her a gift. Does Lulu like pretty skirts?]
[Haha, Abai said before that the monster was dangerous and asked his sister not to go over, but it turned out that his sister was the most dangerous one]
[I am a new fan, what do you mean by awakening NPC?]
[Shh, this is a secret, you will find it out slowly later~]
Lulu stood on the giant tentacle and asked it to take her back to Yueya. The players looked at the tentacle so close with mixed feelings.
Lulu smiled sweetly: "Don't worry, brothers and sisters, it's very well behaved and will never hurt you."
After Yue Ya absorbed the last bit of energy, the Heart of God in his palm had turned into an ordinary stone. He felt pain in his shoulder blades, but he had no time to care about it. He asked the players to move away and came to the statue of the goddess.
He stretched out his palm, and used the power of the heart of God to condense vines that climbed up the goddess statue, entwined, covered, and then strangled!
Only the power of gods can fight against gods. The indestructible statue of the goddess was eventually destroyed by its own energy and collapsed.
The underwater city shook several times, causing many buildings to collapse. The underwater city was destroyed, and all the hidden conspiracies came to an end.
In order to avoid being hit by rocks, the players dived up.
After the shaking subsided, the players looked at the ruins beneath their feet. The various scenes they encountered in the dungeon flashed before their eyes like a kaleidoscope. Although they had not been in this dungeon for a long time, they felt as if they had been in it for a very long time.
Ah Bai sighed: "Let's go ashore first, the others must be waiting anxiously."
Zhuang Yan noticed that Yueya was not in a good state: "Yueya, what's wrong with you? You look a little ugly."
"It's okay." Yue Ya waved her hand: "You go ashore first..."
The severe pain behind the shoulder blade made Yue Ya curl up his body, and his horns and elf ears popped out.
Hongcha asked anxiously: "What happened?"
Zhuang Yan looked at the ruins below, his expression becoming serious: "I feel the spiritual energy from our plane emerging from the cracks in the ground."
Hongcha and Xuecha had heard him say this and had some understanding of the matter. Hongcha said, "This underwater city is the lair of the main god. Once her statue is broken, the suppressed spiritual energy may escape. The spiritual energy here is definitely not less than that in the Mouth of Samsara."
Xuecha looked at Yueya worriedly: "He is in such a state of discomfort, could it be that he has indigestion after swallowing the Heart of God?"
Yue Ya opened his eyes, and both pupils turned into a clear and cold bright yellow. He licked his lower lip and said, "No, I'm a little hungry. You guys should get ashore quickly."
"Hungry?" Zhuang Yan remembered the last time Yue Ya swallowed the spiritual energy and forced the Mouth of Samsara to close, so he quickly asked all the players to retreat.
Ah Bai was a little confused: "What's going on? Even though we've cleared the level, we can't leave Yueya alone, right?"
"Yueya is about to eat. The situation that will happen later is not something we can handle." Zhuang Yan said as he swam upstream.
Hongcha said, "When you look down from up there, you'll know what's going on."
Abai nodded and followed the main force to evacuate.
After the players left, Lulu also returned to the card space. Yueya was the only one "above" the underwater city. He no longer restrained his desire and absorbed the spiritual energy in the underwater city with all his heart and soul. The scattered spiritual energy that emerged from the cracks in the ground poured into his body, forming a misty light fog.
The hunger was relieved a lot, but the pain in the shoulder blade was highlighted again. Yue Ya frowned, eager to absorb more spiritual energy. He could feel that the Pixiu bloodline had reached a critical point and urgently needed a breakthrough.
A breakthrough requires a lot of spiritual energy...
The players kept Yueya's instructions in mind, and after floating to the top, they went ashore from the safe direction one by one.
The players guarding the shore breathed a sigh of relief when they saw them.
"Thank God, you finally made it up safely."
"You guys down there must be really thrilling. We all felt the tremors on the shore." One player said, "Rocks kept falling from the top. We almost thought the mountain was going to collapse."
Someone noticed that someone was missing: "Hey? Why didn't Yueya come up?"
"He's fine, and he has already dealt with the goddess statue. You just wait for the exit passage to open." Zhuang Yan, without taking off his equipment, hurriedly lay down on the safety surface and put his head into the water to see Yue Ya's situation.
Ah Bai and Hong Cha followed his example and dived into the water, whereupon a scene even stranger than the pile of mummies appeared in the cave—several players were lying on their buttocks sticking up beside the holy spring.
Underwater, invisible spiritual energy surrounded Yue Ya, forming a slow whirlpool. He curled up slightly, motionless, as if he had fallen into a deep sleep.
"Is he asleep? Is there any danger..."
Hongcha stopped talking because many spots of light of different sizes suddenly appeared from the bottom of the sea and began to revolve around Yue Ya. The underwater city became brighter, as if the starry sky had sunk into the bottom of the sea.
Then, the players saw an unforgettable scene: the clothes on Yue Ya’s back were torn by something, and a pair of wings emerged from under his shoulder blades, spread out in the clear sea water, and gently wrapped the young man’s graceful body.
It took the players a moment to find their voices again.
"Wow...what beautiful wings."
"How did Yueya grow wings? Is he not an ordinary human?"
The players were unable to continue chatting because the sea level suddenly dropped! They were caught off guard and almost fell! Fortunately, they were agile and firmly grasped the protruding rocks on the shore.
The sea water dropped very quickly. In less than ten minutes, the tallest building in the underwater city was already above the water.
Hongcha's eyes widened: "What's going on? Where's the water?"
Zhuang Yan went to sense the spiritual energy and said, "The spiritual energy of the underwater city is almost being sucked away by Yue Ya. This may be related to this."
Speaking of Yue Ya, Zhuang Yan leaned over and looked down again.
Yue Ya was full. The pain in his body disappeared, and all the wounds, big and small, healed, leaving only some shallow scars and dried blood. He slowly opened his eyes and saw his appearance on the screen of the live broadcast room.
When he felt the pain in his shoulder blade for the first time, he knew something was going to grow, so it wasn't strange to see wings now... Hmm? Wings?!
Yue Ya frowned, pinched the tips of her wings, and a blush appeared on her pale cheeks.
Damn it, does this Pixiu bloodline treat itself as a doll, growing horns and wings one moment and the next!
But this time, he finally sensed what activated the Pixiu's bloodline - it was a vein growing along the spine. It had already grown more than half way. Yue Ya estimated that it would not be complete until it grew to the cervical vertebrae.
[The big wings are so beautiful hehe~ The baby doesn’t seem to like it, but I like some twisted melons hehe~]
[The forced melon is really sweet]
[What kind of battle-damaged angel is this?]
[Yun stroked the cub's big wings. This shouldn't be a decoration, right? Can it fly?]
"Yueyaya!" Zhuang Yan's call came from the holy spring.
Yue Ya tried to flap his wings, and his body actually flew up nimbly. After flapping a few times, he got used to the wings and flew very skillfully.
This feeling was a bit strange, as if... he should have had a pair of wings and had flown countless times.
Seeing Yue Ya flying up, the players lying beside the holy spring quickly made way. Yue Ya folded his wings and successfully got ashore.
The players were moderately curious, but when they saw that Yue Ya had no interest in explaining, they stopped asking. They were relieved when they saw that his wound had healed.
When leaving the Dragon Cave, the dim moonlight descended on the earth. The players looked at the unreal orange-yellow moon in the sky and laughed at the same time.
Hongcha put her hands on her waist and said, "This moon is so round, like a perfect ending."
[Congratulations to the player for successfully clearing the level. The exit channel will be opened soon. 】
Yueya received an additional private notification:
[Blow the whistle of the ghost ship to get a copy of the Easter egg. 】
Yue Ya was indeed holding the ghost ship's whistle in his hand. He greeted the players, flapped his wings, and flew into the sky, heading for the nearest port.
The sound of a whistle pierced the night sky, and a ghost ship appeared out of nowhere and slowly approached the harbor. The lights on the ship were like vague will-o'-the-wisp fires.
After the ghost ship stopped, Yue Ya realized that not only was there no one inside, there was not even a ghost.
Could it be that after the statue of the goddess was destroyed, these cursed ghosts also disappeared?
When Yue Ya was about to board the ship to see what was going on, a crow flew out from the cabin. Yue Ya looked carefully and saw that the crow had a letter in its mouth.
When the letter was delivered to Yue Ya, the crow made an ominous "cawing" sound and stopped at the bow of the ghost ship. Its blood-red eyes stared at Yue Ya, as if supervising him to open the letter.
When seeing the crow, Yueya easily thinks of the artist.
By the way, Yue Ya also found the work of the artist Black Crow in this copy - the picture book that recorded the curse-breaking flower and the broken container. From then on, he suspected that there was some kind of connection between the copies of this game.
Yueya opened the envelope, unfolded the letter, and read the words on it:
"Your growth rate is faster than I expected. You jumped three levels at once, so you didn't enter the dungeon I expected. You missed the things I left for you in the dungeon. You will have a choice before entering the dungeon next time. Please make sure to choose Huangquan Inn (Friendly reminder, your sister's behavior in this dungeon is too conspicuous, and the above has noticed it)."
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