Xu Yuehuai sat on the deck, letting Ji Yuanchi hold her tightly. Zi Sangyi knew what had just happened on their side, her face grim. She ignored them, focusing instead on reinforcing the spiritual energy shield with even greater effort, as if her body possessed an inexhaustible source of spiritual energy. However, the two elders beside her were shocked. "Zi Sangyi! What are you doing?! Didn't we agree to sacrifice the pawn to save the king? If the spirit boat is damaged, so be it. Everyone just needs to stay inside and survive! Why are you burning your own life essence?!"
Elder Zisang was surrounded by dense rays of light. His face was bloodless, and his body swayed unsteadily. He forced a grim smile and said, "I brought them all up from the lower realm. I must safely bring them to the middle realm, to Qingtao Valley. I can't let these talented geniuses perish here because of our Qingtao Valley!"
Zisangyi's voice was neither loud nor soft, yet it struck a chord in people's hearts, making them feel an extraordinary energy emanating from her.
Xu Yuehuai took out a lot of healing pills from her spatial storage. This time, she didn't take them by the bottle, but swallowed them one by one. Even so, she still took about ten pills.
She tossed one of the bottles containing the restored spiritual energy to Fu Ziyi and Baili Xiuwen.
Although Baili Xiuwen didn't speak, his face was indeed terribly pale. Pu Erge walked over, his eyes filled with self-blame. He hadn't been able to save Xu Yuehuai, and hadn't even been able to help much during this time. He felt a little sad.
Xu Yuehuai noticed this, smiled, and handed a bottle of pills to Second Brother Pu, saying, "Second Brother, why do you look so worried? Take some pills and recover."
They didn't have much time to recover. Once they recovered a little, they would immediately start repairing the spiritual energy shield. Everyone was working hard. Pu Erge didn't make a fuss. He took the food, ate it, and said to Xu Yuehuai, "You just rest here. I'll do your part of the work for you."
Xu Yuehuai neither refused nor agreed, but changed the subject with a joke, comforting Ji Yuanchi in her arms, "Don't worry, I'm perfectly fine, aren't I?"
"If Fu Ziyi hadn't pulled you up, you would be gone! I wouldn't have made it here at all!" Ji Yuanchi's voice wasn't loud; she was sobbing, blaming herself while also feeling that she wasn't strong enough.
With Elder Zisang sacrificing his life essence, the spiritual energy shield quickly returned to its initial state, and everyone did their best to prepare for the final blow.
As lightning flashed and thunder roared across the sky, and the last bolt of lightning was about to strike, Zisangyi shouted to everyone, "All of you, get inside! Go in quickly! Close the door from the inside!"
After Zisangyi finished speaking, no one dared to delay and hurried back.
When Xu Yuehuai and the others entered the room, they saw that the things that had been placed by the window were all smashed. She immediately said, "Quickly clean up these broken glass shards!"
Everyone immediately got to work, putting everything into their spatial storage. In the blink of an eye, the room was empty except for the blankets on the bed. A girl lay on the bed, her eyes filled with complicated emotions, and looked at Xu Yuehuai, saying, "Why are we cleaning this up?"
Xu Yuehuai kindly explained that at least this person did not choose to stand idly by when faced with this matter, but asked questions after finishing the tidying up.
Who knows what kind of flips the spirit boat will undergo later? During the flips, the shards of broken glass will move along with it, and you might get hurt, or those things might get into your mouth and nose.
The man trembled upon hearing this prediction.
"Boom!"
A deafening roar echoed through the sky, a harbinger of the final, incredibly powerful bolt of lightning.
With the exit right in front of them, and the speed of the spirit boat limited, they had to accept this final bolt of lightning, or they would be stuck watching the land right in front of them but unable to get on it.
Xu Yuehuai looked at the speed talisman in her hand. She had drawn the talisman casually during her class practice. She stuck it on the spirit boat and activated her spiritual power. She felt that the spirit boat's speed increased slightly, but the effect was better than nothing.
But what Xu Yuehuai doesn't know is that the little bit of speed she disliked actually saved their lives.
The lightning struck the ship without mercy, instantly shattering the spiritual energy shield. The surrounding air surged unstoppably towards the spirit boat, and after breaking through the spiritual energy shield, the lightning headed towards the hull, smashing a large hole in the deck. The front two halves appeared to be on the verge of splitting apart.
The surrounding gale carried boulders, tossing the spirit boat around and causing it to twist and turn violently. Several stones also struck the spirit boat with a thud.
In this situation, no one could think too much; they could only try to maintain their own situation as quickly as possible.
After the incident, several elders, including Zisangyi, took the initiative to rebuild the spiritual energy shield, at least to prevent the strong winds from blowing in and the stones from hitting them, so that they could hold out for a while longer.
The three of them were all in a sorry state, with wounds of all sizes all over their bodies and their hair in disarray, but at this moment no one cared about their appearance; survival was the priority.
The disciples inside had no idea what was happening outside and could only watch helplessly as the annoying spirit boat hurled them against the walls in all directions.
Fu Zi also couldn't stand it. The entire space was filled with ghosts, squeezing them into one place so they couldn't move. This was better than smashing things everywhere.
That's what he was thinking, when he received a resentful look from Pu Erge.
He turned his head away, refusing to look, because if he didn't look, he wouldn't know.
On Xu Yuehuai's side, everyone was alright; when they bumped into certain places, they could use the blankets as cushioning.
Upon seeing the situation, Elder Huangfu of Qianlibao immediately left his own spirit boat and flew to the spirit boat of Qingtao Valley. Before he could even stand properly, he stumbled, as Zisangyi and the others were repairing the spiritual energy shield.
He walked up to the three of them and used his spiritual power to reinforce the spiritual energy shield. Immediately, he sensed something was wrong. "The spirit boat is about to shatter!"
The four of them looked at each other, their faces filled with seriousness and worry.
The spirit boat had been pounded by lightning and was in a terrible state; even the parts that were moving were damaged. No one noticed that this was because the spirit boat was still moving forward.
This was exactly the effect of the talismans that Xu Yuehuai pasted on the wall. She pasted five or six of them, but found them useless, so she stopped.
While restoring his spiritual energy, Elder Huangfu asked them curiously, "What method did you use? How can the spirit boat still move even though its operating mechanism is broken?"
Under normal circumstances, this spirit boat would have been shut down long ago.
The three men shook their heads, saying that they had not done it.
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