Chapter 519: 519: Hall of Water’s Trial (4)
After cleaning up the underwater cave full of monster calms, and even capture two cultivators snooping around them, the haul of the sentient blue lotus flower spirit, Yue Huashui and the Supreme Elder’s disciple, Xia Baiyu was enough for them to contend in the ranking. However, they didn’t leave this place right away and planned to interrogate the two whom they just captured.
Well, the tor—interrogation was done by Xia Baiyu. He was covered in blood or at least the barrier around him was tainted by blood leaving a shade of light red making it look visible compared before.
Xia Baiyu was even smiling as he appeared before Yue Huashui. "I am done~ We can find another cave for hunting as well."
"Where did those two come from? This is the first time I saw humans turned into two legged lizards," said the sentient blue lotus flower spirit, Yue Huashui.
Xia Baiyu was surprised, "You don’t know about Lizardmen? They can be considered a race with dragon bloodline. They are a failure for merging human blood and dragon blood. They are considered impure dragons as they couldn’t completely change their forms. Those two can be considered a talent of their race as they can fully transform in their human form."
"You don’t know about the other races don’t you? Did your master not tell you anything?" He asked.
Yue Huashui glanced his way and said, "According to my sister, Xuexue, Mom and others didn’t come from the Cultivation Realm right from the start. They come from a place called Mortal Realm. In such a place, there are more humans and only a bit of those other races and they just recently came out after the spiritual qi of this world had returned."
"So my Mom also doesn’t know much about this world. That’s why we are travelling all over the place."
Xia Baiyu didn’t expect this kind of side. Though he had heard some old rumors saying that the Supreme Elder had just returned from his mission somewhere else, no disciple truly knows where he had gone. He could have asked another sect elder about this, but they seem to avoid mentioning it as the disciples didn’t know the details of this mission his master had completed.
Now it seems that his master had gone to the Mortal Realm where he had just recently found where his wife and descendants are and finally brought them over to the Cultivation Realm.
What made it absurd is that thinking of this case meant that the Moon Goddess used to be a mortal as well and it only took as long as the Supreme Elder returned to the Sect for her to reach the Huashen Realm.
Xia Baiyu shivers and mumbles, "She is no ordinary monstrous genius, our princess is?"
"Did you kill those two?" Yue Huashui asked.
Xia Baiyu nodded his head and gestured with his hand to pull something from behind the stone wall not too far from them. When the two corpses appeared before Yue Huashui, they no longer looked humanoid, much less had the shape of a human.
Though Yue Huashui wasn’t scared by the corpse’s state, he still felt disgusted and his chubby face contorted with frown.
The sentient blue lotus flower spirit said, "You are truly a two-faced person. Mom said to stay away from your kind."
"Come on~ Little one. Gege promised not to harm you. If I do, your mom would definitely mince me worse than these two," said Xia Baiyu. "I know your kind can absorb the energy of the living. Since you want to leave those calms to your siblings you should at least turn these two into fertilizers and that way, their corpses can be cleaned as well," said Xia Baiyu.
Yue Huashui exclaimed, "Shuishui is not a recycle bin trash can!"
Hahaha~
"I didn’t mean it that way. Just get stronger as the inheritance trial is harder than it was listed on it. But with you... It should be possible to pass it. After you are done absorbing them we can leave as well. I had divine where is the next underwater cave where another cluster of monster clams can be found~" said Xia Baiyu.
Yue Huashui transformed the water barrier around them into a huge bubble once again and floated out of the cave the same way they had entered.
"Eh? You are done already?" Xia Baiyu asked in surprise.
The sentient blue lotus flower spirit raised his small head proudly and said, "Just two lizards, It barely fits my teeth."
"Haha~ alright. Can you call me brother then?"
"No. You are an uncle," said Yue Huashui as they headed to the next location.
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Meanwhile at the crowded area where the calms are limited, a few cultivators will find a few calms. When they did, only the strongest could keep the clams. Lots of cultivators fight over a few clams making it look stupid. The two monks just watch the scene as if observing the changes of the world.
Monk Hu Gu said to his senior brother, "Shixiong, are we not going to fight over the clam with them?"
""No need. The right time hasn’t arrived yet," said Monk Hu Ren.
The battle between Yuanying cultivators is making large ripples in the water basin they are in. They were fighting without care for the place they are in and all they had within their line of sight are those claims which can help them complete the Minor Trial in this Hall of Water.
Explosions and destruction underwater were made by the fighting of the cultivators and those who are watching are waiting for the right moment to make a move. The two monks are watching over this area which the other disciples of the Starfield Sect had separated. They were divining their own path to secure the completion of the trial.
Lan Guye was paired with Xing Suiri and he had no choice. His master, the first elder of the Starfield Sect had instructed him to support this Senior Brother Xing instead of Senior Brother Xia.
Xing Suiri was using his own star compass to get to the location he wanted to reach. Like Xia Baiyu, he is also looking at the place where the most clams are hidden. They found a small cave similar to what Xia Baiyu and Yue Huashui had found before, though a bit smaller.
Lan Guye felt the water is a bit chilly in this area. He couldn’t help but ask, "Senior Brother Xing, are we going to enter there?" He gestured.
Unlike Xia Baiyu and Yue Huashui, these two had no water barrier to protect them and the only way to communicate was through gestures. Though they did protect their bodies with qi.
Xing Suiri nods his head and dive into that small, eerie cave he found. Lan Guye only hesitated for a moment before following Xing Suiri inside.
Inside the small cave, a certain area was devoid with water and not only possessed light but also air. The two had stood over to that area and dried their robes with a cleansing spell. They only saw a tall altar in this cave but at the pillars of this altar are countless clams with various shades. Lan Guye was delighted to see such a huge pillar covered with clams.
Lan Guye exclaimed happily, "Xing Shixiong we hit a jackpot with this cave. Let me go get the clams for Senior Brother."
He approached the pillar with excitement and used a small dagger to scratch the clams off the pillar and place it all in his storage bag. He was busy working on the clams while Xing Suiri was protecting him by watching over the area. He noticed that this cave is a bit weird. There are no other presence of animals or beasts and even those clams are barely alive.
Xing Suiri suddenly felt something that made him uncomfortable and peered at the depths of the pillar that lifted that strange looking altar. He was startled when he met a pair of eyes under the pillar also looking at him. Though he didn’t know what that was, those eyes gave him quite a scare and immediately grabbed the busy Lan Guye to leave the area.
Lan Guye said, "Eh? I’m not done harvesting clams yet!"
"Find another place," said Xing Suiri. He even used a water spell to increase their movement in water and immediately left the place.
The pair of eyes peering at them from under the pillars had slowly closed its eyes and seemed to have no intention of chasing after them. Only when they got farther from that location did Xing Suiri let go of Lan Guye. They went to the surface temporarily as Xing Suiri had overdue his qi just to escape from that place.
"Shixiong, what’s wro–"
His words were cut off and hear Xing Suiri says, "Protect me for a bit."
Meanwhile, Lan Guye was dumbfounded as he truly didn’t know what was wrong with this Big Senior Brother of his. He wanted to ask him why but had to shut his mouth seeing that he entered meditation.
Lan Guye can only do as he was told but mumbles, "What had just happened? I can’t understand a damn thing!?"