Chapter 93 Sea Monsters Quietly Gather
Similar temperament, similar appearance.
Meng Yingyang instinctively felt that the thought that arose was utterly absurd.
There was only one face in the world that Meng Yingyang could clearly recognize with just a fleeting glance, a glimpse of its outline through a crack.
After all, such a face leaves an extremely deep impression on any ordinary person who has seen it.
But how could that person possibly appear at the spiritual retreat? He was clearly already...
"You..." Meng Yingyang had just begun to ask when he saw the person with the bowed head move slightly.
The other two members of the Unnamed Sect moved in perfect unison, raising their heads to look over.
The tranquil atmosphere of the night suddenly changed.
Meng Yingyang's alarm blared, a cold glint of sword light flashed beneath his feet, and he instantly retreated a thousand meters away.
A colossal creature suddenly rose from the waves, emitting a deep, resonant rumble that spread for miles, like a deep-sea behemoth awakening from hibernation after many years of slumber, announcing its return.
"What's wrong?"
"What kind of monster??"
Upon hearing the roar of the demonic beast, the disciples of Hongqi Sect and Liuhuan Valley rushed out of the cabin. Seeing the behemoth, which was more than ten times larger than the spirit boat, they exclaimed in disbelief, "What... what is this?!"
"Squeak squeak squeak..." A sharp cry echoed across the sea. Ten miles of sea surface, sea monsters rose up one after another. The sea monsters had long hair covering their bodies, and if it weren't for the clear moonlight tonight, it would be difficult to see their grayish-blue skin and sharp fangs hidden under their long hair.
The giant creature and the siren dived down at the same time.
"Back off!" Meng Yingyang rushed off like lightning.
The Hongqi Sect disciples participating in the trial responded extremely quickly, immediately flying towards the ship's rudder on their swords. However, the spirit boat began to rock violently from side to side. Caught off guard, the Liuhuan Valley disciples were immediately flung through the air and crashed into the Hongqi Sect disciples who were flying on their swords.
"Get in the way!" The Hongqi Sect disciple, who had stopped in his haste, cursed angrily, and then charged forward on his sword.
It was too late after all.
Boom! This time the loud noise came from under the spirit boat, and the giant beast actually crashed into their spirit boat.
The spirit boat emitted a humming sound that foreshadowed danger to the ship.
A vast sword aura swept across the sea, splitting the surface and revealing the back of a colossal beast lurking within.
Meng Yingyang stood in mid-air on his sword, raising it to strike again.
The densely packed, protruding spherical objects on the back vibrated violently from the sword strike, and opened up in an instant just before the sword fell.
It was all eyeballs, each one trembling and turning.
Meng Yingyang was so shocked that his breath caught in his throat. The sword he was about to swing paused slightly, and seawater surged up like a tide, instantly covering his eyes and back.
Along with that half of the body that occupied most of the sky and filled the eyeballs.
All the cultivators on the spirit boat stopped moving in shock at the sight before them.
Cold sweat soaked his back. At the critical moment, Meng Yingyang successfully forced himself to turn around, avoiding the horrifying gaze from the front.
In that instant of turning around, out of the corner of his eye, he saw the black-robed cultivator standing in the distance casually take the black sword from his waist and wave it forward in a nonchalant manner.
Silence reigned.
Like pure, silent darkness that instantly swallowed everything, the sea, the full moon, the spirit boat, and the cultivators and demons fighting in the distance disappeared from sight.
In an instant, the black tide receded, and what had been swallowed by darkness was once again bathed in the silver moonlight.
The enormous creature in the sea had vanished without a trace.
It was silently erased by pure blackness in an instant, without uttering a sound, and then disappeared from the moonlit sea of night.
The disciples of Hongqi Sect and Liuhuan Valley looked at each other with confusion.
Where did such a huge sea monster go? Could it be an illusion created by a siren?
Meng Yingyang's eyes darkened, and his gaze returned to the man from the Nameless Sect.
He saw the giant beast disappear into the darkness for a fleeting moment, while no one else noticed.
Such terrifying strength, could he really be a cultivator with only Foundation Establishment cultivation? Just who is he...?
Before the tangled thoughts could be sorted out, thousands of sea monsters roared and pounced on the spirit boat.
Meng Yingyang took a deep breath, cleared his mind of distractions, and charged toward the spirit boat like a sword of light.
......
"Dad, you promised you wouldn't interfere! You said you were just coming to take a look?" The childish voice echoed on the raft.
Beneath the veil, the man's eyelashes fluttered as he glanced at the bright moon in the night sky, and he said indifferently, "Hmm."
The Nameless Sect's raft was protected by a sound-concealing spell, preventing its sound from spreading beyond the spell's range. Ji Xingyang bluntly pointed out, "Then what was that sword strike you just unleashed?"
“She’s nearby.” The man’s eyes reflected the shape of the full moon, the soft moonlight blending into them. “Clean it up thoroughly to avoid any spillover.”
"Really?!" Ji Xingyang exclaimed excitedly, causing the raft beneath him to sway and create gentle ripples on the water.
The raft was quiet in the night, while the spirit boat was engulfed in chaos, creating a stark contrast.
"Everyone." Ya Dongbai walked to the edge of the deck, and the Hongqi Sect disciple who had been circling the spirit ship and slaying the sea monster threw out a pill, "Breath-Sealing Pill, which can be used for your underwater movement."
The disciples of Hongqi Sect hurriedly accepted it.
The Liuhuan Valley disciple, who had just been nearly knocked down by Hongqizong, stretched out his hand, holding a pill in his palm, and snorted, "Now you won't say we're in the way, will you?"
Another disciple of Hongqi Sect, without uttering a word, snatched the pill from his hand, swallowed it, and plunged into the water with the force of a dragon entering the sea.
"Is it them?" Mu Huanhui flew to Meng Yingyang's side. He had already heard that Venerable Chongjue had arranged for cultivators to secretly assist him.
He assumed they were a sect that needed to obey Hongqizong's orders.
"It's one thing that they arrived so late, but why are they just standing by and doing nothing!" Mu Huanhui said with dissatisfaction. "I will definitely report this to Venerable Chongjue when I get back."
He wanted to make some more accusations, but then he stopped talking.
Suddenly, a spirit boat adorned with pearls and various gemstones appeared gracefully from the sky.
It crashed and killed a group of sea monsters upon landing.
"Heavens above!" A charming voice, full of surprise, rang out as a female cultivator in a pink, thin dress slowly stepped out of the pearl-embroidered spirit boat. "Where have you thrown us here?"
"Where's the auspicious direction we agreed on?" Amidst the surrounding blood mist and the little demon beast's mournful howls, the bloody scene did not diminish the female cultivator's voice in the slightest from its alluring charm. "Junior brother, could it be that your lover tricked you?"
On either side of the female cultivator stood a male cultivator dressed similarly in revealing clothing, one masculine and the other alluring. The alluring male cultivator looked around and said helplessly, "I told you, we can only try our luck. He is the only disciple in this sea area who knows a little about stargazing. Apart from asking him, there is no one else we can ask."
The siren bared its sharp teeth and roared as it pounced on the three of them.
"Tsk!" The female cultivator in the thin dress raised her fan. "Ugly."
The three people standing on the deck flashed, the siren's attack missed, and she smashed the railing of the spirit boat deck to pieces, getting stuck on the deck and unable to move.
"The Hehuan Sect!" Mu Huanhui recognized the person and called out, "Shi Jinle, you've actually come! Come and kill the sea monster together!"
"What do you mean by 'together'? We're not acquainted with you." The female cultivator waved her fan lightly, and the sea monster's corpse fell to the ground. "Never mind, we can't fly anywhere else for now. Let's wait a while."
The three of them slipped into the chaotic battle.
......
Ji Mingran wiped the bits of flesh off his face and tentatively suggested, "Perhaps next time we should try attacking from a distance?"
"I'll try my best." Shen Qingluo pulled on a thick rope with one hand, dragging the cargo ship behind her, maintaining the same speed while controlling her sword.
The two of them charged ahead, undoubtedly the first to encounter the horde of monsters.
That's when the horde of swordfish monsters attacked.
However, despite the large number of swordfish, they were no match for Shen Qingluo's swift and skillful longsword. She cleared a path through the group of swordfish monsters with a single strike, causing swordfish meat to fly everywhere and splatter all over Ji Mingran.
Ji Mingran's role in sitting at the front, besides providing guidance, is mainly to keep an eye out for any drifting objects in the sea while Shen Qingluo focuses on flying with her sword. If any are found, she can use the teleportation array to retrieve them in time.
Yes, in order to conserve as much spiritual energy as possible, Ji Mingran did not use the Vajra Formation again, and let Shen Qingluo carry him and fly ahead, watching her fight up close without any protection.
Go back and cleanse yourself with purification techniques.
Ji Mingran closed his eyes and sensed the changes in the surrounding spiritual energy again, reminding him, "That's about enough, let's go back. The spiritual energy is even more chaotic further ahead, and I feel like there are quite a few high-level demonic beasts and mutated species gathered there."
Shen Qingluo replied, "Okay." The blade beneath him was about to turn.
Changing direction means that everything that just happened has to be repeated. Ji Mingran thought that next time he should have Shen Qinglu release the pony, and she could sit behind it and follow.
Keeping his eyes peeled, Ji Mingran decided to use his human detector on the return journey. He stared intently at his surroundings.
"Huh?"
She actually saw something. Ji Mingran pointed to the sea to her left and front, "To the left front, it looks like someone is floating on a wooden plank."
"Who...who...who?" A flurry of running sounds rang out from the sect's wooden plaque, followed by Guan Wangzhen's excited voice, "I'm coming to see."
Golden Core cultivators have a wider field of vision than Foundation Establishment cultivators. Although Guan Wangzhen was behind her, she saw the wooden board at the same time as the person she was looking at.
The thin, frail female cultivator, with her black hair wrapped around her waist, sat alone on a narrow wooden plank, her knees drawn up.
Sensing the cultivator's aura, the female cultivator looked up, her pale face revealing a gleam in her eyes.
Qin Danniang.
"Ah?" Guan Wangzhen's tone clearly changed from anticipation to disappointment and regret. "It's her. Liuhuan Valley really came, but why is she the one in such a sorry state?"
While chattering on and on, Guan Wangzhen called over Zhu Shibai, who then sailed a boat to meet him.
"Dan Niang!" Ji Mingran returned to the boat and ran to greet Qin Dan Niang: "What are you doing here?"
Qin Danniang was also somewhat surprised: "I... I was originally with my senior brothers and sisters, but we encountered a demon beast on the way, so we separated. Later, they sent me a message saying that they had found a white rhinoceros spirit boat team and would pick me up soon."
When she saw a boat coming, she thought it was a fellow disciple coming to pick her up, but she didn't expect it to be the Dingsheng Sect.
Qin Danniang said gratefully, "I didn't expect you to be willing to pick me up. I have been wandering for more than ten days, and there are more and more monsters around here. I was worried about what to do if I still couldn't meet my senior brothers."
"Fellow Daoist Qin has actually managed to survive alone for more than ten days." Zhu Shibai examined Qin Danniang's condition and determined that although her face was pale, her spirits were quite good and she was not seriously injured. "Her strength is indeed profound."
"I was just lucky." Qin Danniang lowered her head shyly and smiled, feeling a little uncomfortable after being praised. "I just happened to have some explosive pills and detoxifying pills for self-defense."
"However," Qin Danniang said with concern, "all these pills are on me. I don't know how my senior brothers and sisters are doing. They should be not far from me, in this vicinity."
"We're about to turn back, but according to what you said, the White Rhinoceros Spirit Boat..." Ji Mingran pointed ahead, where a small white dot appeared before the full moon on the sea: "You're not talking about that side, are you?"
This is precisely where the fluctuations of spiritual energy are extremely chaotic.
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