Offering Aid
"Watch out, it's Long-Fanged Fish!" Yuan Qing shouted.
Suddenly, a long spear appeared in his hand. The spear was over ten feet long and completely black.
With a flick of the gun, he shot forward, aiming straight for the belly of the Long-Fanged Fish.
The flattened body of the Long-Fanged Fish suddenly swelled up, its huge mouth opened wide, and it suddenly spat out.
A torrent of violent energy erupted from its mouth.
In an instant, a massive underwater whirlpool rapidly formed in front of the Long-Fanged Fish, reaching a height of tens of feet, like a giant funnel, frantically tearing apart everything around it.
The surrounding Sea Silk was caught in it and torn to shreds.
Countless grains of sand from the seabed were swept into it, making the eddy extremely turbid.
Faced with this enormous vortex, Yuan Qing appeared so small, as if he could be sucked in at any moment and minced into pieces.
Yuan Qing remained expressionless as his physical body rapidly decomposed, transforming into a thousand-year-old mummified corpse.
The spear in Yuan Qing's hand transformed into a black streak of light, a cold glint flashing out.
The vortex's rotation speed suddenly slowed down, and then a powerful surge of corpse energy erupted from the center of the vortex, instantly sweeping outwards.
Under the impact of the corpse energy, the vortex, like fragile paper, quickly disintegrated, turning into a surging current that stirred the seabed.
As Yuan Qing Qingren moved with his spear, a black streak of light sliced through the seawater and pierced the belly of the Long-Fanged Fish.
The Long-Fanged Fish tried to struggle, but felt a powerful surge of corpse energy erupting within its body.
"Bang!"
The Long-Fanged Fish's body suddenly exploded, and the scarlet chunks of flesh and blood stained the seawater red.
"Senior Brother Yuan Qing is indeed skilled. With just a few moves, an Early Third Rank Long-Fanged Fish died at his hands," Zhu Yin clapped and praised from behind.
A glint flashed in Song Wen's eyes. Judging from Yuan Qing's corpse-like appearance and the aura he exuded, the Cultivation Method he practiced was the <Corpse King Blood Refinement Art>.
Song Wen raised his hand and unleashed a burst of Law Power, which struck a section of the Long-Fanged Fish's corpse.
Within this corpse was the demon core of Long-Fanged Fish.
According to the agreement among the four, apart from the Earth Dragon Ganoderma and the Cold Marrow Wood, all other harvests would belong to Song Wen.
The carcass of the Long-Fanged Fish is not of much value, but its demon core is worth twenty to thirty thousand Spirit Stone.
The three of them did not express any objection to Song Wen's behavior of standing idly by while slaying demons, but rushing ahead to reap the benefits.
"The four of us will split up and search for the Cold Marrow Wood; that will be more efficient. Regardless of whether we find anything, we will meet back here in two hours," Yuan Qing said without room for argument.
"Wouldn't it be a bit risky to split up?" Zhu Yin asked.
Zhu Yin didn't want to separate, but she couldn't find a reason to object, so she could only use safety as an excuse.
Yuan Qing said, "The poisonous miasma has suppressed our Divine Sense, reducing their Divine Sense range to less than one-tenth of the outside world. If the four of us stay together, when will we be able to find the Cold Marrow Wood? The miasma's weakening time is limited, and we cannot waste too much time here."
As he spoke, Yuan Qing took out three blood-red Jade Slip slips and tossed them to Song Wen and the other two. He continued.
"This is a warning Jade Slip. If you encounter danger, simply crush it, and a burst of blood-red light will rise into the sky. Upon seeing the light, the other three will rush to your rescue."
After saying this, Yuan Qing casually chose a direction and disappeared into the Sea Silk Forest.
Seeing this, Si Xi chose to explore in the opposite direction from Yuan Qing.
Zhu Yin looked in the direction where Si Xi disappeared and gave Song Wen a wink, reminding Song Wen not to forget to follow Si Xi.
Song Wen nodded, donned a black cloak, and seemed to blend completely into the dark seabed, quietly following behind Si Xi.
Zhu Yin, using some unknown Cultivation Method, instantly vanished from her aura and disappeared into the Sea Silk Forest that Yuan Qing had entered.
Song Wen's Divine Sense could detect objects within a radius of about three miles. With the aid of the Shadow Gu, he could detect objects within a radius of six miles.
This distance was far beyond Si Xi's Divine Sense detection range, so Song Wen followed behind her without worrying about being detected.
Gradually, Song Wen discovered that Si Xi was specifically searching in areas where Sea Silk was abundant, as if he were genuinely looking for the Cold Marrow Wood, and not for any other purpose as Zhu Yin had guessed.
After following for a while, Song Wen lost interest in continuing. He found a group of strange rocks and hid inside.
He planned to stay there until the meeting time, and then return.
There was nothing he sought here, and there was no need for him to keep following Si Xi around just because of his promise to Zhu Yin.
He had barely taken refuge inside when a deafening roar suddenly erupted, accompanied by violent tremors in the seawater.
Song Wen's expression hardened; someone was engaged in a magical duel!
The direction from which the roaring sound came was precisely the direction Si Xi was exploring.
"Could it be that Si Xi encountered Demon Beast? Or has he already discovered the Cold Marrow Wood and is fighting against the guardian Demon Beast?"
Song Wen thought to himself.
As soon as he stepped out of the rubble where he was hiding, he saw a blood-red pillar of light rising from the seabed about ten miles away.
The beam of light had only risen a mile in height when it suddenly dissipated and vanished, as if it had been forcibly destroyed by something.
Song Wen slowly made his way towards the direction of the magical duel.
Upon getting closer, Song Wen discovered that the creature fighting Si Xi was not Demon Beast, but a female cultivator.
The female cultivator was stunningly beautiful with fair skin. She wore a Daoist robe embroidered with exquisite cloud patterns, which accentuated her graceful figure, making her appear like a fairy descended from the moon palace, aloof and proud.
She was wielding a longsword, its blade gleaming coldly, moving swiftly and gracefully like a dragon emerging from the sea.
The female cultivator was at the Peak Golden Core Stage, two minor realms higher than Si Xi. Coupled with the power of her flying sword, Si Xi was no match for her.
Si Xi set up a third-tier defensive formation, and only with the help of the formation's power could she barely withstand the opponent's attack.
"Judging from her attire, she should be from the Two Forms Sect," Song Wen thought to himself.
He initially intended to withdraw and not get involved in the battle between the two, but then he remembered that when exploring the underwater rift in the core of the Rebirth Valley, he would still need Si Xi to set up an array to trap and kill the Nethersea Ghost Hound.
Si Xi cannot die!
But it's clearly impossible for Song Wen to show himself and save people.
In a direct confrontation, he might not be a match for the female cultivator, and doing so would also expose many of his hidden strengths.
After retreating ten miles, Song Wen crushed the blood-red Jade Slip given to him by Yuan Qing.
In an instant, a pillar of blood-red light shot into the sky.
The sudden appearance of the crimson pillar of light immediately attracted the attention of the female cultivator and Si Xi, who were more than ten miles away.
The two reacted very differently.
The female cultivator's face was icy cold, and her gaze toward the crimson pillar of light carried a hint of anger.
The pillar of light was too far away from her; she wanted to destroy it before others noticed it, but it was simply out of her reach.
Si Xi's face lit up with joy.
The appearance of the pillar of light meant that 'Extreme Yin' had discovered that he was under attack and was informing Yuan Qing and Zhu Yin.
The reason Si Xi believed that Song Wen had activated the pillar of light was that if Yuan Qing and Zhu Yin were there, they would have intervened directly instead of calling for help from others.