Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

Chapter 393 Eye-Catching Coral
Now it was Lian Gou's turn to feel a chill run down his spine—had he perhaps run into a peer who appeared and disappeared like a ghost?
"This"

“It’s not a leather painting,” Wei Xi interrupted, “That ‘Sea Warrior’ is definitely no benevolent creature! I estimate its strength far surpasses that of the High Master of the Ten Thousand Swords Sect!”

Lian Gou's anxiety was not relieved, and he was deeply hurt by Wei Xi's blunt honesty, leaving him speechless for a moment.

Faced with this bizarre situation, Wei Xi pointed to the doorway.

The three wary individuals quickly entered the room. Qin Feng, still feeling uneasy, added a defensive spell to the door.

"That guy, Ku Xun, had terrible luck," Qin Feng said, shaking his head as he settled down in the next room. "He died so mysteriously, and his body disappeared without a trace. It's such a pity!"

"Grandma! You're still feeling sorry for him!" Lian Gouyan said with a mournful face, "We helped Ku Xun escape, so why didn't those merfolk come after us? In the end, this kid was killed by that strange thing! Nobody would believe it if you told them!"

"It's impossible to explain now. Let's pack our bags and go to Yin Yang Slope to serve our sentences!"

With a somewhat heavy heart, Wei Xi looked at Lian Gouyan with a sinister gaze, while the latter shrank back and covered his mouth.

"We didn't kill them, so why is the Devouring Sea Sect making a fuss?"

“There’s no need to try to cover up any traces,” Wei Xi said with a headache. “Since Qin Feng can’t find any traces, it’s likely that even if the merfolk of the Devouring Sea Sect chase us here, they will be helpless.”

"If they can find the traces, all the cover-ups will only make things worse and be counterproductive."

Wei Xi only told half of what she was saying, but there were some things she was unwilling to say without evidence.

Wei Xi's thinking was quite simple: if he were a powerful "Sea Warrior," why would he bestow a blessing upon the slugs? Or rather, what benefits would this so-called blessing bring to both sides?
For the blessed slug, it's simple: the blessing grants it immense power and uncanny abilities.

But what will the "Sea Warriors" get? A bet with Wei Xi?

Obviously not.

The process of betting with "Sea Warrior" inevitably reminded Wei Xi of another old friend—the Everlasting Wood.

The Everlasting Tree was still able to control Sitya after her death, which seemed somewhat similar to the so-called "blessing".

What's new under the sun? It's all about using one's own power to manipulate others. Plus, the "Sea Warrior" seems to have recognized the gift of the Everlasting Wood, making it hard not to connect the two.

Since the way the Everlasting Tree and the "Sea Warrior" act are somewhat similar, Wei Xi boldly speculates that the "Sea Warrior" is probably now unable to move around easily, just like the Everlasting Tree trapped in the mountains of Nanjiang.

Of course, since the evergreen tree is a plant that grows in the ground, it's understandable that it would be confined to one place.

But the ocean is unrestrained, so why would the "Sea Warrior" need to use the body of a merman to communicate with Wei Xi?

Wei Xi never considered the possibility that the other party would take care of her comprehension ability; her thoughts raced along the path of "Sea Warrior's" serious injury.

This strange misunderstanding only made Wei Xi more wary—the other party knew he was going to the Bone Reef Sea, and yet asked him to find its name. Could the Bone Reef Sea be its lair?

“‘The Eternal Sea,’” Wei Xi suddenly exclaimed, “it says I must go to the ‘Eternal Sea’!”

Qin Fengteng stood up abruptly, grabbed Wei Xi's arm, and was afraid that she would follow in Kui Yi's footsteps.

"Why does it call the Guan Gu Reef Sea the 'Eternal Sea'?" Wei Xi came to his senses. "It said it itself!"

"Perhaps it's just another name?" Lian Gouyan guessed. "Like how Baoxiang City is also called Buried Sand City? Different people use different names." "It might just be a hoax," Qin Feng said, holding Wei Xi down as he reassured him. "Besides the three of us, only the Tenth Princess's people know about the mission. It can't possibly know the future."

Wei Xi didn't think the Deep Sea Gambler had anything to do with the Heaven and Earth Sect, which was good at divination and calculation, but there was something strange about the matter.

“It knew we were going to the Bone Reef Sea,” Wei Xi said somewhat urgently, more to clarify his thoughts than to persuade us. “It had already taken control of the slugs before we even found them!”

Wei Xi took out the magical notebook that his cheap master had given him from his Qiankun bag and started flipping through it rapidly.

Qin Feng and Lian Gouhan exchanged a worried look, clearly not understanding what had happened.

“Materials. Other dazzling marine corals!” Wei Xi’s fingers slid quickly across the pages. “Life isn’t about color, it’s right here!”

"Legend has it that the Eye-Stealing Coral hears the sobs of the drowned ghosts, extracts their grievances and solidifies them into eyeballs, and often appears near shipwrecks."

"It's disgusting, I even touched that thing!"

Wei Xi ignored him and continued, "'The eyeballs on the coral weep incessantly, day and night, forming a green sea. The ghost is thus freed.'"

"It sounds like nonsense," Qin Feng frowned. "Was it written by Elder Xianhua?"

“No,” Wei Xi tapped the book cover, “He found fragments of eye-catching coral in a remote fishing village in Dongyi. Without the eyeball, Xian Hua tried some methods to find the fragments.”

"Elder Xianhua discovered that this thing is particularly sensitive to spiritual energy, but there aren't enough fragments, so he could only test it up to this point. He casually wrote down the legend, which is usually a distortion of the facts."

"So we know this thing is a low-spec version of Qin Feng?"

Qin Feng rolled his eyes and grabbed at the air. "So, the merfolk live in piles of dead bodies? They must have something to talk about with the people of the City of the Dead."

“The striking coral may be transplanted,” Wei Xi said, closing his magical notebook. “The green sea may be the result of the moon’s shadow burning green.”

"Assuming the Eye-Catching Coral is particularly sensitive to spiritual energy and has excellent hearing, it's possible that merfolk use it to monitor strange things?"

Lian Gou Lang clicked his tongue in amazement and said, "The underwater world is full of wonders! Coming out of the statue, you're watched by hundreds of your people, treated like an alien—it feels so familiar!"

"It sounds like someone deeply agrees," Qin Feng frowned and said, "Isn't your identity a secret?"

Upon hearing this, Lian Gouyan winked and said in a strange voice, "I am a secret!"

"What Xiaoxi means is that those muscular merfolk knew that something was wrong with the slug's urination a long time ago, and they kept him under house arrest until we unknowingly sneaked in."

"So 'Sea Warrior' knew we were going to Bone Reef Sea because I told it myself. Even those merfolk! They might have let it go on purpose." Qin Feng's expression turned extremely regretful. "Damn it!"

"No wonder it reminded us about the eye-catching coral; it was trying to pique our interest and make sure we would have further contact with it!"

“At least we know that the ‘Sea Warriors’ can’t predict the future,” Wei Xi said in a deep voice, “and we don’t need to worry about the merfolk coming to cause us trouble.”

A chilling smile appeared on Wei Xi's face. "Looks like we've lost the first round!"

I can't control myself. I'm writing so slowly.