Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

Chapter 392 The Smell of Blood
As a strong merman, Ku Xun had never felt so tired.

Even when it's only the size of a palm, the slugs are the fastest swimmers among the same group of merfolk.

Now, his weary body felt as if it were enveloped by the gentlest seawater, swimming deeper with the warm current.

The slug didn't know where it was going; it just drifted helplessly forward with the current. The seaweed along the way beckoned to it, and small fish, some crystal clear and others colorful, cleared a path for it.

In such a warm atmosphere, the slug's vigilance was forgotten, and weariness led him into an even deeper slumber.

In a daze, the slug saw a crack appear in the sea, and black and red gases rushed out in a frenzy.

When the thick red gas obscured the merman's eyes, Ku Xun belatedly realized that he had returned to the beginning.

When Qin Feng and Lian Gou rushed into the room, the merman was already dead.

Having completed its mission of delivering the message, Lingyin gracefully landed on its master's shoulder and gave the rag doll that was clutching Wei Xi's hair a big bite.

Wei Xi looked somewhat annoyed, his whole body soaking wet, and he held the pale head of the quail in his hands, trying to pull the drowned merman away from the water.

If an outsider saw this, they would probably think that Wei Xi had killed the cricket.

Qin Feng glanced around the room and then used several spells to try to find any suspicious remnants of spiritual energy.

Lian Gou, who had closed the door, stepped forward and pulled Wei Xi away—who knew if there was anything wrong with the water in the bathtub?

Wei Xi's anger didn't last long. Her face turned gloomy, and she grabbed a towel from the side to wipe her hands. The excessively long linen cloth was pulled and kept shaking.

"There is no suspicious spiritual energy residue, and even our spiritual energy traces have been erased."

Qin Feng was extremely sensitive to spiritual energy, and the fact that even she couldn't detect the traces showed how suspicious Gu Xun's death was.

“I thought you were joking just now,” Lian Gouyan whispered, circling the corpse. “What do you mean ‘drowned’? He was a merman!”

With a cold expression, Wei Xi threw the towel on the ground and recounted the strange events that had just occurred.

“After the slug’s body went limp, I was worried that ‘Sea Warrior’ was bluffing, so I didn’t go forward.”

"Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, he was upside down, convulsing all over. I rushed forward to save him, only to find that he had already drowned."

Qin Feng patted Wei Xi on the shoulder and said gently, "No one would have expected it to be so fishy?"

Wei Xi raised her head slightly, not understanding what Qin Feng was talking about.

"Honestly," Qin Feng wrinkled his nose and leaned forward, "you smell really fishy, ​​is that the smell of a mermaid? It's like you just got off a fishing boat."

Wei Xi smelled his hands and indeed found a faint fishy smell.

A sea breeze blew through Fish Tail Town, and Wei Xi had become accustomed to the fishy smell in the air. If Qin Feng hadn't reminded her, she wouldn't have noticed the fishy smell on her body.

Wei Xi thought for a moment, then rushed to the bathtub, and Lian Gou quickly made way for him.

The water in the bathtub was originally warm, but after all that fuss, the water temperature was noticeably lower than Wei Xi's body temperature.

The slug's beautiful scales gradually fell off and slowly sank to the bottom of the increasingly murky bucket.

Wei Xi paused noticeably, then scooped up a handful of water and brought it close to his nose to smell it.

There was a strong, pungent smell of the sea.

"We're at the beach, it's normal to smell the sea!" Lian Gouyan sniffed the air forcefully. "Who would have thought that merfolk would drown!" No one expected to smell anything from a painting. Qin Feng racked his brains, "Let's go through it. Ku Xun and Kui'er lost contact, then Ku Xun broke into the Sea Warrior's statue, got injured, got the map, was captured, and... well, then was placed under house arrest."

“We went to visit him,” Lian Gouyan said, taking out paper and pen to write down his thoughts. “The merfolk were fighting fiercely, and the slugs took the opportunity to escape. They made a deal with us, and he grabbed me and ate the Rongjing Pill—we really know how to exploit loopholes.”

“We were only gone for a short while after we got ashore when that ‘sea warrior’ appeared,” Lian Gou Mang grinned. “Then he drowned.”

"When exactly did this 'Sea Warrior' find the slugs, and how?"

Wei Xi, staring at the corpse, suddenly said, "Blessing!"

"what?"

Wei Xi suppressed his meager pity, straightened up, and replied, "Blessing. I guess this gambler is what the merfolk have been worshipping all these years."

"When the slug broke into the statue, it not only got the map, but also received a 'blessing,' though it was unaware of it."

After drying his hands again, Wei Xi sighed, "'This body is quite suitable,' he was killed by the very thing he believed in."

"Wait a minute, wasn't it said that the merfolk worshipped some kind of sea god?" Lian Gouyan tried to dig into his memory. "The one from the sect competition? What sea dragon merfolk?"

"The sea god might be a human concept. You saw that statue too; it's all swaggering around!"

“He admitted he didn’t like the name ‘Sea Warrior’,” Wei Xi said, a headache coming on from lack of sleep. “I still need to find his real name.”

“Your audacity is astounding,” Lian Gouyan said with a bitter face, kicking the bathtub. “The lesson from the past is right here, and you still want to bet with ‘Sea Warrior’?”

“Greed, my greed is admirable,” Wei Xi said, raising his eyes. “He’s a gambler, and I’m curious to see what good things he can give me.”

"That piece of wood?" Lian Gou closed his eyes, trying to remain calm, and said, "I don't see anything good about it!"

"This thing can drown merfolk! Drown them! Are we really going to enter the Bone Reef Sea?"

"If you're worried about that Tenth Sister, we can easily escape! [Thousand Faces] and pills always have ways to hide their tracks."

“If that tenth princess isn’t blind,” Lian Gouhan’s tone turned somber, “I think killing an ordinary person would be quite easy for me.”

Lian Gouyan spoke at length, only to find that Wei Xi was just staring at him.

Courage comes and goes quickly; Lian Gou sat dejectedly to one side, muttering, "Fine! Fine! Forget I said anything."

“I don’t doubt your abilities,” Wei Xi patted Lian Gouhan on the shoulder. “Even the Tenth Princess can’t threaten me. But I’m curious about her background.”

Lian Gouyan was very unhappy and complained to Qin Feng, "Aren't you going to do anything about her?"

Qin Feng said indifferently, "I am a cultivator, what's so strange about defying fate? Besides, after leaving Chongxiao City, I thought it over and over and felt that the Ten Thousand Swords Sect might not be that reliable. Since I have the opportunity to accumulate strength, I shouldn't miss it."

"Qin Feng and I are going to Bone Reef Sea to complete our mission. Your injuries haven't fully healed yet," Wei Xi made the arrangements. "Stay in town to support us and focus on investigating the matter of Yueyin Shaolv."

Lian Gouyang resigned himself to his fate—to be friends with two stubborn people. He said painfully, "What about the slug's corpse? If the people from the Devouring Sea Sect come looking for us, is there a three-person room at Yin Yang Slope?"

Wei Xi kicked the bathtub. "Take a look!"

Lian Gou looked back and saw the empty bathtub, not even a single fish scale was left.

Wei Xi didn't kill the slug; he couldn't withstand the power of the 'Sea Warrior' and died from the explosion.

Lian Gouyan was worried. The Tenth Princess (Liang Yu) was not a cultivator, so Lian Gouyan said he could assassinate her.