"Who is this?"
"Saintess, is this Immortal Fairy looking for her brother?" Shui Qin looked at Zhao Yangzi strangely and said respectfully, bowing her head.
"Ah ha, so I recognized the wrong person. He's not my brother." Ye Ju looked at Zhao Yangzi, the only man in the room, and denied it with a calm expression. This guy already has a sister who looks like a celestial being; I don't want to be mistaken as one of his sisters.
Zhao Yangzi raised his eyebrows and watched Ye Ju introduce everyone.
"This is Immortal Ye Ju, she was the first to discover your distress signal!"
"Thank you for coming, Immortal Ye. Please have a seat. Shui Qin, pour the tea." The Saintess's face was pale, and her voice was gentle.
Ye Ju sat down calmly. She felt she might be able to cure this Saintess's illness. Should she tell them?
"Brother Yang, we are trapped here and cannot sail. It's all because of a sea beast. It destroys the ship every time it's repaired. It's fast and can turn invisible!"
The Saintess looked at Zhao Yangzi with a smile. She never expected to meet Zhao Yangzi so coincidentally. She heard he had come to Pearl City from her sect, and it happened that her sect was transporting goods to Pearl City this time, so she volunteered to escort them. She just hoped to see Brother Zhao Yangzi. They were indeed destined to be together. Unfortunately, she was poisoned now, which would damage her meridians and stagnate her cultivation. She would never be able to keep pace with him again. Thinking of this, a hint of sadness appeared on the Saintess's beautiful face.
"What kind of ferocious beast is this? Can you see it clearly? It can poison and damage meridians. There were no records of this before." Zhao Yangzi's expression was solemn as he asked everyone.
The elder lady looked worried:
"I couldn't see it clearly. It just flashed by. Its tail was like a snake. The guards cast spells on it, but they had no effect. The beast seemed immune to magic, yet it was incredibly strong.
The last time, the Saintess used the sect's treasure, the Celestial Silk Gauze, to bind it. It actually shrank and escaped. The Celestial Silk Gauze can wrap all things, but this demon beast clearly wasn't afraid of it. It also held a grudge. Knowing that the Saintess captured it, it sneaked up and bit her when she was not paying attention on the deck."
Ye Ju had seen the large hole in the ship. It was obvious that this sea monster held a grudge. Otherwise, why would it deliberately damage the ship after it was repaired every time? Had they captured its ancestor?
Zhao Yangzi looked at Ye Ju, who was silent beside him, with a thoughtful expression.
"Fellow Daoist Ye, have you thought of something?"
Everyone's gaze turned to them, filled with hope. This large ship was stuck here. If it wasn't resolved soon, the goods on board were valuable and were tribute to the Heavenly Radiance Dynasty. The deadline would be missed. Yes, the Yu family had obtained the imperial merchant qualification last time. The Qingyan Sect behind the Yu family naturally supported it with all their might.
"Um, I haven't thought about what kind of sea beast it is. I just feel that this sea monster holds a grudge. Could it be that you offended it while sailing? For example, did you capture its parents or its cubs?" Ye Ju could only voice her guess.
Huh? What does that mean? Is this Immortal Ye joking?
Shui Qin couldn't help but say, "Immortal Ye, you're joking. Who would capture this sea beast for no reason? This sea beast is so powerful, who could capture it?"
Zhao Yangzi and the Saintess exchanged a glance.
"Shui Qin, do not be rude!" The Saintess reprimanded Shui Qin.
"Fellow Daoist Ye, you have a point. I will check if anyone below captured any strange fish or sea beasts." Zhao Yangzi stood up. He would go and see for himself.
Ye Ju looked at the Saintess's complexion and felt that she could help her detoxify. It was not her style to save people but not act.
"Wait, I can detoxify her!"
"What?" The elder lady exclaimed.
From the time the Saintess was poisoned until now, she had taken many divine detoxification treasures, but they were all useless. This Immortal Ye, whose name she had never heard of, claimed she could resolve this unknown poison!
"I am Yu Changxian, an elder of the Qingyan Sect. If you can truly detoxify the Saintess, I, on behalf of the sect, will surely reward you handsomely."
"No need to be polite. I've met shopkeeper Yu Linlang once. It's just a small effort, no need to mention it!" In Ye Ju's opinion, it was as normal as encountering a fainting passerby on a street in China and calling an ambulance.
Ye Ju had never displayed her healing arts in front of others. So, she only kept Zhao Yangzi outside the door while she treated the Saintess in the inner room. After her last tribulation, her healing arts had opened the Eye of Healing. She discovered that she could see the internal organs, bones, and meridians of a person with internal vision.
Ye Ju closed her eyes and concentrated. White spiritual energy condensed at her fingertips. The white spiritual energy slowly flowed along the Saintess's wound into her meridians. A holographic image of the Saintess's entire meridian system appeared in her mind. She saw a black,胶状 substance attached to her meridians. That substance was alive and was devouring spiritual energy. When it encountered the white spiritual energy, it instantly vaporized.
The Saintess's body trembled slightly, and she was covered in sweat, as if enduring extreme pain. Half an hour later, Ye Ju withdrew her healing arts and retracted the white spiritual energy. The Saintess finally could not bear it and fainted.
When Ye Ju exited the room, everyone else rushed in to see the Saintess. Zhao Yangzi looked at Ye Ju with concern: "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine, just need to replenish my spiritual power." Saying that, she took a spiritual fruit from her spatial ring and began to eat it.
Zhao Yangzi smiled helplessly.
"Hey, aren't you going in to see your sister?" Ye Ju said playfully.
"Stop those wild imaginations of yours! She's just a god-daughter my mother took in, a sister from childhood." Zhao Yangzi inexplicably felt the need to clarify with fellow Daoist Ye...
Ye Ju chuckled. The Saintess looked at him with eyes that could almost drip water.
"Let's go, time to fight the monster." Ye Ju lazily ignored their personal affairs.
As soon as they reached the main deck downstairs, the guard named Yu Jian ran over.
"Senior Brother Zhao, we've investigated. The kitchen caught a peculiar fish. It was flat all over. Because it was strange, they didn't dare to kill it and kept it in a water bucket."
"Lead the way, let's go see!"
Zhao Yangzi and Ye Ju went to the kitchen and looked at the fish in the large water bucket.
"This is a juvenile ray. It has a stinger on its tail, and it's poisonous." Ye Ju recognized it as soon as she saw it, but she wasn't sure if it was an electric ray or a manta ray. Both were rays, but she was foolishly unable to distinguish them. The marine encyclopedia in China mentioned that electric rays live at the bottom of the sea and are good at hiding in the sand to prey on their prey.
Zhao Yangzi called Yu Jian to order people to bring the fish to the deck to see if it could lure out the sea beast that was attacking the ship.
The large hole on one side of the ship had already been repaired, and guards and cultivators stood ready to prevent the sea beast from deliberately damaging it again.
Ye Ju curiously extended her divine sense. She found nothing in the seabed, but she discovered a dark shadow at the bottom of the ship. If she didn't look closely, her divine sense wouldn't have detected it.
Ye Ju secretly transmitted her voice to Zhao Yangzi. Zhao Yangzi was surprised by Ye Ju's keenness. He also extended his divine sense and made a discovery, confirming it was the sea beast Ye Ju mentioned. The reason Ye Ju discovered it so quickly was thanks to her own little Mo also liking to hide at the bottom of the ship.
Zhao Yangzi ordered people to grab the small ray. The struggling little creature opened its mouth silently...
Splash! A huge figure emerged from the water. The guards exclaimed:
"Sea monster, alert!" The invisible sea monster revealed its true form.
Everyone's pupils contracted. This was a sea beast with a cultivation realm of a Demon Emperor.
Ye Ju looked at the sea monster, unable to distinguish whether it was an electric ray or a manta ray. In the cultivation world, both marine creatures and land animals seemed to have mutated and were different from the existing creatures in China. It was estimated that the animals in the cultivation world were the ancestors of China's animals...