[Alliance Leader bonus update 1/5, a cannon salute for the birth of a new Alliance Leader (damn it, that was clearly last month's Alliance Leader)]
Yue Luo Liuli looked at the enormous azure sphere before her, a flicker of surprise appearing in her eyes.
Just now, a massive amount of seawater had suddenly flown upward in reverse, wrapping around the cultivators. Including Ai Qinglan, who had already reached half a step into the Primordial Spirit realm, every cultivator had lost consciousness at the same instant. Naturally, this was the result of Xi's tissue drawing in the seawater.
Mixed with countless microorganisms, the azure seawater enclosing the cultivators looked very murky, making it impossible to see what was happening within. Streaks of blood welled up, lending the sphere a few more bizarrely grotesque touches. But Yue Luo Liuli could tell that Xi was using her own tissue to replace part of those cultivators' blood, while using her own power in place of the golden cores within them, taking control of their mana.
This was preparation for passing through the Gate of the Mysterious Female.
In theory, only immortals could cross the Gate of All Mysteries and continue deep into the Gate of the Mysterious Female. But this method was equivalent to temporarily merging these mortals, who had yet to become immortals, with an immortal.
It could be considered an alternative method of "symbiosis."
Yue Luo Liuli looked down at her feet with lingering fear. The sight of blue waves rolling like tides had nearly made her forget that beneath her feet lay a monster spanning several million square kilometers.
"The difficulty of directly absorbing a living being is far lower than that of temporary symbiosis..."
"As expected of a 'Sea God.' Truly a race envied by Heaven." Yue Luo Liuli gave