Despite having heard Xiahou Aotian talk about the situation under the sea, the sight still made everyone's scalp tingle when they saw it with their own eyes.
They understood why Xiahou Aotian had been so terrified before. For those who weren't Night Watchers, the scene was indeed too shocking.
“Damn, scared the hell out of me,” Freedom Eagle’s voice rang in everyone's ears.
Then came Hongjige's voice: "No wonder the Yin energy is so strong, my hands and feet are stiff. There are so many Yin corpses. I really want to burn them all, but I can't exert any strength under the sea."
Hongjige's underwater combat ability is even worse than Yuanshi Tianzun's Yin corpse, "Yunmeng's voice then sounded.
Hongjige turned his head to look at the Qinghe tribe girl in shock. He didn't expect this delicate-looking girl to think of him that way. Yunmeng's expression suddenly became a little awkward.
At this moment, Xiazhi Lian's short reminder exploded in the team members' ears: "Be careful!"
As her voice fell, tens of thousands of Yin corpses standing on the seabed and the bow of the ship floated up together, rushing upwards as densely as schools of sardines. Some of them were wearing cloth clothes, and some were wearing armor, but they were all tattered. Their hands didn't move, and the current automatically pushed them upwards.
“They are Yin corpses with water-extracting properties. This is difficult.” Xiahou Aotian grimaced and quickly floated up to open the distance. “You guys hold on. Although I am the protagonist, I am a Strategist who is not good at fighting.”
His voice rang in the earphones, and no one could tell whether this was an uncontrolled thought or an open and shameless statement.
Yin Ji lunged downwards, quickly diving and actively facing the Yin corpses. In the next second, majestic Yin energy surged from her body. At this moment, her black hair fluttered, like a queen of the underworld.
Yin Ji opened her cherry mouth slightly and let out a sharp scream that only Zhang Yuanqing could hear.
A round of unstoppable Yin energy erupted, sweeping around like ripples. Immediately, those Yin corpses that were driving the undercurrents to force them to approach suddenly froze, and then fell like robots that had been disconnected.
Tens of thousands of Yin corpses fell, which was a spectacular sight.
What kind of skill is this?! Yin corpses are not wraiths. Even Night Watchers have to rely on physical means to solve Yin corpses... Zhang Yuanqing couldn't understand, but was greatly shocked. "Solved? So simple?" Hongjige's happy voice sounded.
As if to slap him in the face, those armored Yin corpses that had fallen haphazardly on the seabed and deck suddenly "came alive" and drove the current upwards again. Seeing this, Yin Ji's eyebrows tightened.
"These Yin corpses are also part of the formation. They are raised by the seabed formation. The seabed formation will continuously provide them with Yin energy." Xiahou Aotian deserved to be a Scholar, and saw the clue at a glance. "To solve the Yin corpse army, we must break the formation first."
"Then hurry up and break the formation," Hongjige said anxiously, looking at the approaching Yin corpse army.
Ants can kill an elephant. No matter how powerful they are, they will be torn to pieces by this huge army of Yin corpses.
“Aren’t I looking at it? This formation is very complicated. I need time...” Xiahou Aotian floated above everyone’s heads, using the light of the flashbang to examine the entire formation.
He didn't forget to deploy troops: "You guys help me delay the time. Yin Ji and Freedom Eagle are the main force, and Yuanshi Tianzun, you assist."
While speaking, he took out a compass. At the same time, Xiahou Aotian's eyes bloomed with clear light, shining brightly. The flow of Qi of the entire formation was fully visible, and the compass could help him find the formation's eye.
Zhang Yuanqing and others could only helplessly fight back. Freedom Eagle swooped down, spread her arms, and swung them violently.
In an instant, a water tornado with a diameter of tens of meters formed and rushed into the Yin corpse army, engulfing the Yin corpses one by one and rolling them away. Freedom Eagle was invincible in the sea. Freedom Eagle could play a role comparable to a level 6 Yin Ji.
However, there were too many Yin corpses, and several streams of white-eyed Yin corpses successfully broke through the encirclement, successfully breaking through to the front of everyone. "Pa! Pa! Pa!"
Yunmeng flew nimbly in the sea water, smashing the Yin corpses one by one with her thick snake tail.
“Get out of here!”
Hongjige punched and exploded an approaching Yin corpse. A fiery light flashed and went out. The Yin corpse was torn apart, and a cloud of dark green juice exploded from its body, quickly spreading in the sea water.
Xiazhi Lian held a short sword. Each time she pointed it out, a Yin corpse's head was pierced.
“Cough cough.”
Hongjige coughed violently, his face turned blue and black. He was poisoned. The Yin corpses contained terrible gu poison. A multi-player dungeon was like this. At first glance, it seemed like a supernatural dungeon, but it actually contained the characteristics of various professions.
“It’s gu poison!” Xiahou Aotian maintained the posture of overlooking the formation and grabbed a wooden box with four sides. “I have Detoxification Pills here.” Freedom Eagle swam over like a fish, snatched the wooden box, opened it, and saw a dozen quail egg-sized pills lying on the yellow silk-covered bottom of the box.
She quickly took out one and swallowed it, conveying the thought:
“Catch!”
With a flick of her finger, the quail egg-sized pill flexibly avoided the Yin corpses in the sea and was sent to the teammates.
Hongjige took the pill, and the discomfort in his body immediately disappeared. He helplessly cursed and tried to save face: "Damn it, I can't exert my combat power at all underwater." Fortunately, Xiazhi Lian and Yuanshi Tianzun also performed mediocrely, which made him feel a little relieved.
On the other side, Yunmeng opened her bloody mouth and spewed out streams of green turbid fluid.
This turbid fluid quickly spread in the sea water. Soon, clumps of seaweed grew in clusters. The seaweed seemed to have consciousness and actively floated towards the Yin corpse army. Dozens of Yin corpses were entangled by the seaweed, struggling and falling to the seabed. Yunmeng's crisp and sweet voice sounded through the earphones: "They can purify water quality, weaken toxicity, and trap Yin corpses."
It was indeed a comforting thing to have a group of high-quality teammates. Zhang Yuanqing swallowed the Detoxification Pill and sighed in his heart. At this moment, he saw that the Yin corpses that had been swept away by Freedom Eagle had returned again. Freedom Eagle said in a deep voice:
"They're back. Xiahou Aotian, you better hurry up, otherwise even if we kill them until we are exhausted, we won't be able to solve so many Yin corpses."
Looking around, the dense army of Yin corpses was like duckweed, countless in number, swimming at high speed.
Yin Ji and Freedom Eagle greeted them at the same time. Suddenly, they stopped again, because Yuanshi Tianzun took the initiative to meet the Yin corpse army before them. What was he going to do?
It was no joke to be surrounded by Yin corpses proficient in water skills.
“Yuanshi Tianzun, come back!” Xiahou Aotian, as the backbone of the protagonist team, took it upon himself to issue orders.
Zhang Yuanqing ignored him, shook his hand and threw out the heavy Demon Subduing Pestle. Then he used Divine Travel. His powerful spirit was attached to the Demon Subduing Pestle, driving it to shoot out.
Blood Rose moved her limbs to guard the owner's body.
The Demon Subduing Pestle turned into a light golden streamer and shot out, bringing up dense bubbles, piercing the head of the Yin corpse at the front, then two, three, four... piercing more than thirty armors in one breath, and then changing direction to continue piercing the armor.
The Yin corpses burning with light golden flames fell into the seabed and never stood up again. This... Seeing this scene, Yunmeng, Freedom Eagle and others were stunned.
“Damn, does he want to steal my limelight?” Xiahou Aotian’s thoughts turned into voices and echoed in everyone’s ears. “Damn, I’ve completely become a burden. Is Yuanshi Tianzun so strong? He clearly just advanced to Saint.” Hongjige’s shocked statement followed closely.
Yuanshi Tianzun's powerful and effective killing power surprised several Saints. These Yin corpses had bodies that could be called copper skin and iron bones. Don't look at Yunmeng and Hongjige easily exploding the Yin corpses, but in fact, they used all their strength in every strike. That's why Freedom Eagle said that even if they killed them until they were exhausted, they wouldn't be able to solve the Yin corpse army.
But at this moment, the killing power displayed by Yuanshi Tianzun made them see the hope of a protracted battle.
Zhang Yuanqing couldn't hear Hongjige and Xiahou Aotian's complaints. He drove the Demon Subduing Pestle to pierce the dog Yas of the Yin corpses one by one. Under the influence of the killing aura, the hostility in his heart became more and more intense. With him attacking the Yin corpse army like a butterfly, the pressure on Yin Ji and others suddenly eased, and they each dealt with the Yin corpses that rushed to the front.
Time passed quietly. Just as Hongjige was about to run out of strength, Xiahou Aotian shouted:
"Found it, found the formation eye on the ship with the broken mast at three o'clock in our direction!"
Everyone looked at it at the same time. There were many ships with broken masts, but there were not many ships in the three o'clock direction that met the conditions. Zhang Yuanqing's heart moved, and he drove the Demon Subduing Pestle back, his spirit returning to his body. Then he took out a scarlet longbow and shot an arrow of essence blood at a large ship hundreds of meters away. The light red arrow accurately hit the ship. This bow was a trophy he obtained in the killing dungeon.
“Is that it?” Zhang Yuanqing’s thoughts were converted into speech.
“Yes, that’s the one!” Xiahou Aotian responded.
Immediately, everyone didn't hesitate to move their limbs and swam towards the big ship. The Yin corpse army surged from all directions to block them, but they were all swept away by Zhang Yuanqing and Freedom Eagle's manipulation of the water flow.
The six people landed on the deck without any danger and turned their eyes to the dark cabin.
Zhang Yuanqing and Yin Ji were Night Watchers and could see through the darkness. The two saw an ancient grand master's chair sitting in the silt-filled cabin, with an old man in official robes sitting on it. He had a goatee and a pale face, and his eyes were closed, as if he was a new corpse, completely different from the Yin corpses outside that were soaked and swollen by the sea water.
The official robe on his body was tattered, and the pattern embroidered on his chest was vaguely unclear, making it difficult to identify the specific rank.
The Yin energy emanating from his body was like substance, making Zhang Yuanqing, who was a Star Official, feel a chill in his heart.
On his knees was a plate the size of a washbasin, half white and half black, with a red pointer in the center.
Who is this? Lu Xiufu? Zhang Shijie? Or other officials... Zhang Yuanqing guessed in his heart, and then his thoughts were converted into speech and sounded in his teammates' ears.
At the same time, Yin Ji's thoughts sounded:
“It’s barely at level 6. It shouldn’t be my main quest. It’s the boss of the previous team. It’s not difficult to solve it.”
“Yin Yang Roulette? It’s mine, this is mine...” Freedom Eagle stared straight at the roulette, unable to control her thoughts.
“Damn it, kill him.” “What did you see? There are Yin corpses inside, right? Be careful, he is either the formation eye or guarding the formation eye. Kill him quickly.” Xiahou Aotian babbled in the earphones. “Ah.” The babbled sound suddenly turned into a scream. Everyone was suddenly shocked and looked back in shock, only to see Xiahou Aotian's chest pierced by a pale, white-fleshed ghost claw with black fingernails.
The ghost claw was holding a bright red heart. Its owner was a white-clothed, disheveled female corpse. This was a female corpse with extremely high intelligence. She had not appeared in the previous battle. She waited until everyone went to the cabin before attacking Xiahou Aotian, who was alone and had the least combat power. As the ghost hand was pulled out, large amounts of blood spurted out of his chest, spreading like ink.
Xiahou Aotian fell weakly to the seabed, and was then submerged by the surrounding Yin corpses one after another. "Don't worry about me, I'm the protagonist, I'm the protagonist." The voice in the earphones gradually lowered and stopped abruptly.
At this time, the purple-robed official sitting on the high-backed chair opened his white eyes. He did not immediately attack the six-person team, but raised his pale and stiff arm and moved the pointer on the roulette. The pointer rotated rapidly, and a formation covering a radius of forty meters instantly formed, like an inverted bowl, trapping Zhang Yuanqing and others inside.
Crap! Everyone's hearts sank. At this time, they couldn't care about Xiahou Aotian's life or death.
“Kill it immediately.” Yin Ji's voice rarely revealed urgency.
Her body disintegrated into dreamy starlight and appeared in front of the purple-robed official. Her delicate jade hand held a black dagger shrouded in Yin energy and stabbed it into the Yin corpse's brow.
The purple-robed official sat motionless on the grand master's chair. The moment the dagger stabbed over, his body fell backwards, and streams of undercurrent pushed him backwards. The Yin Yang Roulette "clattered" to the ground, and the pointer rotated at high speed.
Yin Ji possessed and wanted to pick up the roulette, but was shaken away by a force. She frowned slightly and had to give up controlling this item and concentrate on dealing with the purple-robed Yin corpse.
Under the black veil, Yin Ji's lips parted slightly, and wisps of Taiyin power roared out, turning into wisps of Yin wind. More than a dozen spirit servants glided towards the purple-robed Yin corpse.
Under the black veil, Yin Ji's lips parted slightly. A burst of ghostly screams drilled into its body, vying for the dominance of the body. Yin Ji's two Yin corpses ran towards the enemy with slightly shaky steps.
The purple-robed Yin corpse roared in a deep voice, and the surrounding sea water suddenly exploded. The violent undercurrents were like the shock waves formed by missile explosions, destroying everything around them like dead branches and rotten leaves. The rotten hull of the ship collapsed inch by inch, and wooden blocks flew everywhere. Yin Ji's two Yin corpses were the first to bear the brunt, and were blown away by layers of undercurrents.
Xiazhi Lian and others only felt a burst of water waves pushing against their bodies, causing them excruciating pain, and were "thrown" out one by one.
Even the plague god Freedom Eagle could only barely resist the impact of this terrifying undercurrent.
Zhang Yuanqing and Yin Ji's bodies disintegrated into dreamy starlight and moved away, avoiding this wave of "explosion" and not being harmed. However, Zhang Yuanqing sensed that Blood Rose's sternum and ribs were broken.
Just one blow caused no small loss to the level 4 Yin corpse.
Many props underwater cannot be used, such as the Earth Walking Boots that cannot leap, the Mountain God Scepter that cannot borrow the power of plants and terrain, and the Sword Master's sliding shoes. These equipment cannot be used either.
It has super water control, and the seabed is its home field. It is extremely difficult to deal with because one side is weakened and the other is strengthened.
We must find an opportunity to use the Demon Subduing Pestle to kill it with one blow... Zhang Yuanqing quickly pressed the earphones, "Yin Ji, think of a way to control it once, and I will find a way to kill it." As soon as he finished speaking, the purple-robed Yin corpse standing on the bare deck bulged violently in its abdomen, and spurted out large amounts of "ink", which quickly spread.
In a few breaths, the sea water within a radius of tens of meters was dyed black.
The field of vision was suddenly blinded, and the visibility was less than two meters. In addition, the ink seemed to be a highly corrosive and poisonous substance. Even with seawater dilution, it still made everyone's skin burn like fire. "Be careful of attacks!" Yin Ji warned and said: "Xiazhi, Hongji, you two move closer to me..."
As soon as she finished speaking, they heard a painful groan, and then a violent disturbance of the water waves came from somewhere. Zhang Yuanqing's heart sank, and he pressed the earphones: "Who? Who was attacked?"
"It wasn't me!" Hongjige immediately responded.
Yin Ji said in a serious tone: "Xiazhi, Xiazhi"
She called several times in a row without getting a response. Xiazhi's life and death were unknown, and everyone's hearts were extremely heavy. "I can purify the water quality, but it takes time," Freedom Eagle said in a deep voice.
"It's too late," Yunmeng's voice came through the earphones: "It's using the poison to separate us and then defeat us one by one. I can feel a high-speed moving body nearby, but I can't see it. If we don't find a way to solve it as soon as possible, the next one to die will be Hongjige."
She assumed that Xiazhi had returned to the spiritual realm.
It's my fault. I shouldn't have used the Astral Escape Technique to escape just now. Xiazhi has been following me all the time. I abandoned her. Zhang Yuanqing's emotions exploded, but calmed down in the next second. He calmly conveyed his thoughts to his teammates: "Yunmeng, do you still have the seaweed you spat out before?"
“I do, but there’s too much Yin energy. I can’t entangle it, and it’s impossible to purify the water quality. It will take a long time,” Yunmeng responded.
“No matter how much there is, spit it out!”
Upon hearing this, Yunmeng immediately opened her bloody mouth and spewed out streams of green turbid fluid, scattering thousands of seeds into the sea.
Under the Gardener's promotion, the seeds quickly grew into clumps of tough seaweed, slowly wriggling with their tentacles. Zhang Yuanqing immediately took out the Mountain God Scepter and lit up the green gem at the top to activate the prop's promotion and mutation functions.
The green halo spread out in circles, and the light waves swept across the seaweed, rapidly multiplying and dividing, and gaining certain mutations. The tentacles became more and more tenacious, and the color turned dark black. Yunmeng felt that she had lost control of the seaweed.
In less than ten seconds, this sea area sealed by the Yin Yang Roulette was filled with thick, dark black seaweed.
With the help of the feedback from the plants, Zhang Yuanqing sensed the high-speed swimming enemy in the "ink" and unhesitatingly manipulated the seaweed to entangle it.
The ubiquitous seaweed successfully entangled the enemy and snapped in the next second, but more seaweed followed one after another.
Zhang Yuanqing thought and shouted: "Yin Ji!"
Yin Ji understood his meaning in seconds. She pointed her verdant jade finger in the direction where the water waves were disturbing.
The spirit servants around her screamed and rushed out, passed through the dark sea water, and arrived in front of the purple-robed Yin corpse, which was struggling to swim in the seaweed. The spirit servants crashed into the purple-robed Yin corpse's body one by one.
In the next second, Zhang Yuanqing's spirit came out of his body, attached to the Demon Subduing Pestle, and shot out.
The light golden streamer passed through the thick ink-like sea water and pierced into the purple-robed Yin corpse's forehead. A round of dazzling golden light burst out on the seabed, like a black sun in the dark water.
The purple-robed Yin corpse burned with light golden flames, and its white eyes quickly dimmed, turning into a floating corpse wrapped in seaweed. "Did you kill it? Did you kill it? Yuanshi Tianzun, you're really awesome!" Hongjige exclaimed excitedly. "Yuanshi Tianzun is quite reassuring," Yunmeng whispered.
Then came Freedom Eagle's relieved sigh: "If I could dig him to Heavenly Punishment..."
The thought quickly stopped.
Yin Ji's soft voice drowned out her teammates' murmurs: "Yuanshi Tianzun, check on Xiazhi Lian."
Zhang Yuanqing's spirit returned to his body with the Demon Subduing Pestle. Relying on the feedback from the seaweed, he sensed Xiazhi Lian's position and came to her side with the help of the undercurrent.
The cold and beautiful female instructor was quietly suspended in the seabed, her eyes wide open, her expression frozen on her face, and her delicate red lips were already pale, with dense bubbles attached to the corners of her mouth and nose.
She had stopped breathing.
There was a bloody hole in her chest, and the remaining half of her heart was no longer beating. "I'm sorry," Zhang Yuanqing supported her body, his eyes a little dim.
Suddenly, Xiazhi Lian's dead pupils moved slightly, and a touch of spiritual light quickly spread out. Then, her voice came through the earphones:
“Instead of apologizing, it’s better to think of a way to save me first. The Wood Demon’s 'Resurrection' doesn't seem to be able to bring me back to life. Please save me...”
She's still alive?! Zhang Yuanqing was stunned at first, then surprised and confused. He didn't have time to ask any more questions. He put Xiazhi Lian's body on his abdomen with one hand, and turned the Mountain God Scepter with the other, placing the gem against her chest to activate the item's healing function.
The soft green light lit up, awakening the vitality in this body and repairing the wounds, but it was not enough. The fatal injuries suffered by Xiazhi Lian had exceeded the limit of the Mountain God Scepter. Moreover, the swordsman was a profession with low defense and low health.
Fortunately, Zhang Yuanqing still had a tube of life essence left from the killing dungeon in his inventory. After the Mountain God Scepter awakened Xiazhi's vitality, he immediately took out the injection and pierced it into Xiazhi Lian's white jugular vein, injecting half a tube, put away the other half, and continued to activate the Mountain God Scepter's healing function to cooperate with the life essence to heal the wounds.
The half of the heart in the chest quickly grew, the flesh regenerated, the seawater was expelled, covering the heart, and then the tender red muscles grew out and were covered by a layer of fat. Finally, there was the fair and delicate skin. Xiazhi Lian's tight vest was torn and could not cover the regenerating flesh. A graceful and plump flesh ball was nakedly displayed in front of Zhang Yuanqing.
Having escaped from death, she didn't notice these trivialities at first until she glanced at Yuanshi Tianzun's happy gaze before suddenly realizing what was happening. While raising her hand to cover her chest, she broke free from his arms. Zhang Yuanqing silently took off his short sleeves, turned his face to the side, and handed them over.
The voices of the two rang in the earphones almost at the same time: "How embarrassing."
"What's embarrassing?" Hongjige swam over and said happily: "You didn't die. How did you do it?"
Xiazhi Lian followed the topic and said: "I had a Resurrection Orb of the Wood Demon profession in my mouth in advance. As you know, Wood Demons have a chance to resurrect once when they are dying, but my injuries were too serious, and the extraordinary prop could not truly resurrect me. Thanks to Yuanshi Tianzun."
“So that's how it is...”
“You're really lucky.”
"You're very smart." The voices of his teammates rang out one by one.
Xiazhi Lian suddenly glanced at Yuanshi Tianzun's high tent, her expression a little strange and a little resentful. She didn't expect that she would have such great charm. "So my charm is so great?" The earphones converted her thoughts into speech.
“No, it has nothing to do with you. It's the price of the prop.” Zhang Yuanqing twitched his lips and was then betrayed by the earphones. "What secret language are they talking about?" Hongjige's curious voice came. Zhang Yuanqing was about to perfunctorily answer when he heard Yin Ji's urgent voice: "Yin Yang Roulette!"
“Crap, there's still the Yin Yang Roulette. I almost forgot about it." Zhang Yuanqing's face changed, he kicked his legs and swam towards the bare warship.
Yunmeng, Xiazhi Lian, Freedom Eagle, and Hongjige followed closely behind, quickly swimming towards the warship.
Everyone came to the deck and found that the Yin Yang Roulette was still in its original position and had not been washed away by the exaggerated "explosion" just now.
At this time, the pointer was rotating extremely slowly and had a tendency to stop.
Everyone's eyes were fixed on the pointer. Soon the pointer stopped and stayed on the black half.