mtl008 Chapter 278 Breathing
Chapter 278 Breathing
The moment the remaining soul of the Mermaid King rose from the golden harp, the entire sea suddenly solidified.
The shadow was over a thousand meters high, with its fish tail coiled with broken starlight.
It held a trident in its left hand, and the coral beads hanging from the end of the trident were actually made of monks' skulls.
In the right hand is the golden harp, emitting an inviolable glow.
Lu Yuguan clenched the shark pearl tightly, and the system prompt sound in his ear vibrated wildly:
[Warning! Nascent Soul Stage pressure detected——]
[The mission difficulty has been upgraded...]
[Additional Reward: [Solar Period Records·Middle Part] Skill*1]
"Re-embed the mermaid pearl back into the altar!" Qi Wei's voice penetrated everyone's consciousness, "Otherwise, the ruins will collapse and everyone will be buried with them!"
"understood!"
Lu Yuguan shouted.
Wen Lanfeng pulled the red silk, intending to throw Lu Yuguan back to the center of the altar, but was torn into pieces by the undercurrent raised by the residual soul.
The female cultivator of the Shuoyue Sect quickly retreated on the Moon Wheel, screaming, "Handsome boy, put it back quickly. I'm leaving first!"
Lu Yuguan tried hard to open his eyes and tried to swim towards the center of the altar, but the phantom of the Mermaid King waved his trident, stirring up the sea water into chaos.
"Damn it, is it that serious?"
"Gululu..."
"Isn't it just some local specialties—"
"Gululu..."
[Host, stop complaining. If you keep complaining, you'll run out of oxygen.]
The system prompted.
"What are you afraid of? I've already reached the Golden Core stage before, so my physique is excellent—"
"Gululu..."
Lu Yuguan rolled his eyes.
He had just managed to swim three meters when he was pushed back five meters by the sea water and could not even touch the groove of the altar.
Everyone is struggling.
Pan Yin's snake tail wrapped around the coral pillar, and her vertical pupils reflected the bulging veins on Lu Yuguan's neck: "Boy, give me the mermaid pearl!"
The snake tongue in his mouth suddenly stretched out, but the moment it touched the mermaid pearl, it was burned into charcoal by the golden light.
"ah!!!--"
Pan Yin was forced to retreat towards the ruins.
"Stop fighting," the burly man from the Barbarian Martial Sect swung his meteor hammer at the altar, "Watch me grind this place into powder!"
Wherever the hammer wind swept through, countless mermaid corpses turned into phosphorescent flames and drifted away, while the remaining soul of the mermaid king let out a deafening scream.
"Roar!……"
The sound waves pierced straight through, knocking the strong man and his hammer into the coral wall, and the blood dyed the entire sea red.
"Fuck, is this Shark King so powerful?"
"Gululu..."
Seeing this, Lu Yuguan was so frightened that his whole body trembled and he continued to swing his limbs wildly.
Qi Wei possesses a mutated fog spirit root. In order to prevent the ruins from collapsing, he can only continuously atomize seawater to support the dome and buy time for Lu Yuguan.
"Junior Brother Lu, throw it to me quickly——"
Wen Lanfeng shouted.
Lu Yuguan looked up and saw that Wen Lanfeng had already swam to the groove.
"At this point, I can't care less—"
"Senior Sister, catch it!"
Lu Yuguan shouted and threw the mermaid pearl towards the dome.
Wen Lanfeng stood up in response, but when he was about to touch the bead, his wrist was twisted by the chain of the female cultivator from the Shadow Sect.
Snapped--
The mermaid pearl fell steadily into the hands of the female cultivator of Shadow Sect.
"Shadow Sect?" Wen Lanfeng was shocked. "What do you want to do?!"
"What..." The female cultivator of the Shadow Sect snorted coldly, "Of course, they are working for the mermaids."
The mermaid pearl in the palm of the female cultivator of Shadow Sect burst out with a strange blood light, the entire ruins trembled violently, and the corals on the dome fell like a rainstorm.
"Holy Son of the Xuanyu Sect? Today I will bury you in the vast sea!"
The female cultivator grinned grimly and activated the Mermaid Pearl. The Mermaid King's phantom trident suddenly turned, carrying with it vast sea water and piercing Qi Wei's heart.
"careful!"
Lu Yuguan controlled Xia Huoliyang and pushed him away with a fire barrier.
In an instant, the trident brushed past the moon-white wide sleeves and smashed the stone pillar behind into pieces.
Qi Wei condensed a mist shield with his backhand, blood oozing from the corner of his lips: "The Shadow Sect is colluding with the remnants of the Mermaid Clan... This Saint Son underestimated them."
Wen Lanfeng's red silk rolled like a red python, twisting around the female cultivator's neck and saying, "Give mermaid pearl back!"
"It's too late!" The poison needle on the female cultivator's fingertip flashed coldly, "The soul of the Mermaid King has awakened, and you will all be buried with him—"
Before she finished speaking, the mermaid pearl in her hand flew towards the dome by itself.
The phantom of the Mermaid King screamed towards the sky and plunged his trident heavily into the altar.
In an instant, the earth shook and the sea trembled. Thousand-year-old corals turned into sharp blades and shot out. The whirlpool formed by the backflow of sea water tore everyone into pieces.
Most of Wen Lanfeng's red silk was torn into pieces. She gritted her teeth and threw out a maple leaf dart, the dart blade accurately piercing the female cultivator's eyebrows.
"Junior Brother Lu, catch it!"
Wen Lanfeng threw the recovered mermaid pearl with all his might, but he was sucked into the deep sea by a whirlpool.
Just as Lu Yuguan was about to fly over to catch it, the entire dome collapsed.
Qi Wei's bone bell burst out with a dazzling blue light, and the moon-white wide sleeves wrapped him in his arms.
"Hold on to me!"
Qi Wei's voice mixed with the sound of bones breaking came, and Lu Yuguan discovered that there was half a piece of coral stuck in his back.
The two fell into the abyss with the turbulent current, and the shadow of the Mermaid King gradually faded above their heads. The last scene was Wen Lanfeng being thrown to the distant sandbank by the waves.
Gululu...
The salty sea water squeezed in from all directions, and Lu Yuguan's mental fire flickered in the deep sea.
Qi Wei condensed water mist from his fingertips, sealing the two of them in a narrow bubble, but the coral ruins completely closed at this moment.
"Ahem..." Lu Yuguan pointed at his neck, "Not enough oxygen..."
Qi Wei lowered his eyes and looked at the person in his arms. The young man's pale lips were tinged with purple, and his chest rose and fell increasingly weaker.
A trace of struggle flashed in his ice-blue pupils, and he suddenly pinched Lu Yuguan's jaw and lowered his head to cover his cold lips.
The moment the warm and cool breath entered his mouth, Lu Yuguan's eyelashes trembled slightly.
Qi Wei's breath was filled with the scent of frost and snow, and there was a faint scent of sandalwood between his lips and teeth.
Tangled hair brushed across his cheek, and he vaguely heard the other person sigh: "If I had known I would have to endure this, I should have done it in the Law Enforcement Hall..."
"Well!"
Lu Yuguan suddenly opened his eyes, only to see Qi Wei staring at him.
What came across his lips was not air, but a cold mist wrapped in spiritual power.
Lu Yuguan was startled and tried to break free, but found that her body was restrained and she could not move.
The cold mist penetrated into his limbs and bones like silk threads, dispelling the suffocating feeling in his lungs.
After a moment, Qi Wei let him go, with a gleam in his eyes.
"Hold on."
Outside the bubble, a few faint lights shone through the cracks in the coral ruins, like a glimmer of hope in a desperate situation.
Qi Wei raised his hand, and the bone bell swayed gently in the air, making a crisp yet powerful sound, trying to use his spiritual power to open a way out.
Every vibration was accompanied by a slight tremor in the eyebrows.
The coral on his back pierced deeper, and the blood stained his clothes red, creating a faint red mist in the sea water.
Lu Yuguan endured the burning sensation in his lungs, lightly tapped his fingertips, and the fire of his mind suddenly rose.
"Xia Huo Li Yang."
His mental fire resonated with Qi Wei's spiritual power, burning the coral branches.
"Crack..."
The coral was finally stretched open to create a narrow gap, and the sea water swept them out violently.
The two were finally able to relax a little.
"This is……"
Qi Wei narrowed his eyes and saw the golden harp standing straight in front of him.
And the mermaid pearl was firmly embedded between the two strings of the zither.
Lu Yuguan exclaimed in delight, "It's the Mermaid Pearl!"
As he spoke, he reached out to grab it, completely disregarding any danger.
Qi Wei was startled and quickly shouted, "Yuguan, don't touch it!"
However it was too late.
As soon as the mermaid pearl fell into Lu Yuguan's hands, the golden harp turned into a pool of golden water and attached to Lu Yuguan's lower body.
"what happened?"
Lu Yuguan wanted to wipe away the golden water, but found it was too sticky.
"Yuguan——"
Qi Wei was about to go forward to help him when half of the coral on his back suddenly fell off. The pain was so severe that he fell to the ground.
"Qi Wei," Lu Yuguan said in a daze, "I seem to..."
"I can breathe."