NOVPUBA giant, half-broken Buddha statue stood erect at the forefront of the sea barrier.
Seawater slid down from Buddha’s topknot, passing the broken shoulder, and splashing onto the sea surface.
Ci Wu stood with a compassionate expression, his palm upright on the Buddha statue’s chest.
In front of him, a battle drum with a pattern of divine beasts and a konghou with twenty-three strings were held in the hollow of a Buddha’s palm.
At the drum and konghou’s positions, one could vaguely perceive the figures of a boy in white clothes and an exquisitely beautiful woman.
However, these two figures showed no strong emotions on their faces.
The drum thundered, and the konghou was plucked.
Upon the drum’s sound, a crack formed on the Buddha’s palm, but was instantly healed by Buddha’s light.
The succession of string notes transformed into countless sharp blades, slashing towards the Buddha’s palm.
Seeing that these two had no intention to stop, Ci Wu sighed softly:
"Why must you two insist on this? If a cultivator who has attained spiritual transformation was wielding you here, Ci Wu would retreat thirty thousand li."
"Now that it’s only you two, how would you resist the overwhelming desire to survive from us cultivators of the Xituo Continent?"
"You two shouldn’t expect cultivators from the Fenglin Continent to come here. The rules of heaven and earth here are different now. Even if you two fall, no one outside can know…"
However, in response to Ci Wu’s words,
The boy in white clothes and the beautiful woman didn’t make a peep.
On the drum, a faint crack appeared, and the strings of the konghou seemed as if they were going to snap at any moment.
...
"The blood energy here ... it’s so dense ..."
Seeing the surging bloody mist in the sea before him, Wang Ba felt an inward chill.
He looked in all directions.
The demonic beasts had completely blocked his idea of trying to escape from the sea barrier. No matter which direction he went, he would encounter the demonic beasts.
If he gets entangled by one demonic beast, many more would soon swarm around him in a short time.
Therefore, the only direction he and Qin Lingxiao could go at this point was further in.
However, the spreading reddishness made him involuntarily hesitate.
Especially when he saw those Class III and even Class IV demonic beasts behind him maintaining a respectful distance, he was even more hesitant.
Although he was able to maintain his form in the sea barrier just barely by leveraging the Cloud-Water True Vacuum Technique,
With time, he would run out of the Mother Qi of Dharmas, which would mean becoming a sitting duck.
Moreover, he noticed something seemed off with Qin Lingxiao.
It seemed to be due to the violent water flow and the vast amount of magic tools and talismans she had given to Wang Ba. She had consumed a huge amount of mana and was now faintly showing signs of unconsciousness.
"Qin Lingxiao! Keep awake!"
But, Qin Lingxiao’s condition was becoming increasingly dire.
She could hardly sustain her grip on Wang Ba’s arm.
What was worse, behind them, a Class IV demonic beast finally seemed unable to suppress its urges and slowly approached Wang Ba.
Left with no choice, Wang Ba had to grab Qin Lingxiao and urgently ride the torrent towards the direction filled with blood.
The scent of blood got thicker and thicker.
The blood almost dyed the already pitch-black seawater even darker.
And as he was swimming, when Wang Ba saw a lifeless, giant black octopus being tossed by the sea currents ahead, with its white, expanded tentacles laid bare, he was instantly dazed.
"Is this.. the sea beast controlled by the cultivator from the Tupi Continent just now?"
"How is it here?"
"No, it’s not right. This one seems a bit smaller than the one I saw before..."
With one arm clutching Qin Lingxiao and floating amidst the current, Wang Ba was shocked at the sight of the giant beast.
He subconsciously looked around.
To his surprise, the current up ahead suddenly seemed to slow down.
"Could it be that I’m about to escape the sea barrier?"
Just as his heart started thumping with excitement, a shadow rushed towards him from behind.
He had been prepared and instantly swam deeper into the sea with the aid of the current.
The Class III two-headed Sea Python, having failed its attack, hovered around the spot for a while, but finally restrained itself from approaching the monstrous octopus’ dead body lying ahead.
And as Wang Ba dived deeper, the current became even more calm.
However, Qin Lingxiao finally couldn’t hold on and passed out.
She had not fully healed initially, and after having used up a great deal of mana, she could barely keep awake.
Wang Ba hesitated shortly then eventually relented. He really couldn’t bring himself to leave her behind.
Looking at the faint glow above him,
With a slight grit of his teeth, he continued to swim upwards whilst holding onto her.
However, what puzzled him was that the higher he swam, the denser he felt the presence of Yuanci.
The density was strange.
Suddenly feeling as if he had collided against some invisible barrier,
it felt similar to when he previously entered Yuchen’s temporary immortal cave by crossing through the Yuanci barrier.
Just at that moment, his spiritual sense tingled, and a hair-raising sensation surged up instantly!
The next moment, he saw a somewhat familiar and ordinary sword qi shoot towards him!
However, it was this ordinary sword qi that made his hair stand on end!
Wang Ba’s heart throbbed, without any further thought, he immediately summoned the Azure Spirit Turtle to shield in front of him.
But just at the spot where the sword qi was about to hit him,
a cold voice with a hint of surprise came from above:
"Wang Ba?"
Hearing this voice, Wang Ba was astonished momentarily.
He hurriedly swam towards the origin of the sword qi.
Soon, he saw a giant dome made up of numerous sword qis and a cultivator sitting underneath it with nonchalant composure and no arms.
"Martial Uncle Xumi?!"
