Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

Chapter 402 Snake

The other sea snakes were not to be outdone, and they all slithered over to the nearby oarsmen, devouring them one by one with great relish.

They were satisfied, but Wei and Qin were in a very bad situation.

Qin Feng frowned, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Xiao Xi, why don't you take the people on the boat and go ahead? I can still keep an eye on the snakes for a while!"

“No need,” Wei Xi said decisively. “Besides, where can we run? As long as we don’t deal with these things, no one can leave!”

There was another thought that Wei Xi kept to herself—she suspected that she had already stumbled into the Bone Reef Sea.

After all, apart from the Bone Reef Sea, there were no other dangerous and mysterious sea areas in the vicinity.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that everyone who witnessed such a strange sight has died.

However, with Wu Da, a local fisherman, around, Wei Xi felt that the possibility was extremely slim.

After much thought, the most reasonable explanation is that Wuhan University lost its course during the storm, and the entire ship was taken to an unknown corner of the Bone Reef Sea.

After all, the map contributed by Gu Xun before his death did not clearly mark the extent of the Bone Reef Sea, so who knows how big the Bone Reef Sea actually is?
Clearing his mind of distractions, Wei Xi pressed the silver ring and said decisively, "This is definitely not a coincidence. The moment I removed this thing, these snakes came back to life!"

After saying that, Wei Xi led Qin Feng to jump onto another oar demon. Almost at the same time, their original landing spot was swallowed up by a sea snake with an enormous appetite.

"Disgusting!" Qin Feng exclaimed. "Why is this thing starting to melt?"

“Their eyes are very juicy,” Wei Xi said without looking up as he carefully examined the ring-shaped object. “I’ve never seen a metal like this before.”

"It doesn't feel like an eyeball; it's more like the thing itself is melting!"

Wei Xi looked up abruptly and saw Qin Feng looking pitiful, like a foal stuck in a swamp, with one foot stuck in a muddy, grayish-brown semi-solid substance.

Looking down, Wei Xi saw that her own foot was also stuck in the boot. She tried to pull her foot out, and surprisingly, it was easy, but the boot was covered in stringy sticky liquid.

"Let's go!" Wei Xi used [Thread of Silk] to carry Qin Feng to another foothold. "Aren't these snakes going to get enough to eat?"

"Xiao Xi, this oar demon is starting to melt too," Qin Feng said, trying to freeze a solid foothold with his spiritual power. "Strange, there are remnants of spiritual power!"

"What residual spiritual energy?"

Qin Feng said uncertainly, "Um, that's a bit strange. There's a lot of residual spiritual energy on it."

Stroking the ring-shaped object, Wei Xi asked, puzzled, "This means that a cultivator used spiritual power here not long ago. What do you think is wrong?"

Qin Feng used his sword sheath to pick up the semi-solid that couldn't be frozen. "That's the strange thing. I used much more spiritual power than this, but it was like throwing a stone into the sea. There was no reaction at all."

"Also," Qin Feng looked around and whispered, "how long do you think these things have been here?"

“It’s been at least seven or eight years,” Wei Xi kicked a six-pronged sea urchin. “Nobody’s mentioned this place.”

"what?"

“Nobody has ever mentioned this place,” Wei Xi said, as he led Qin Feng out of Shekou once again. “It’s either a newly discovered place or so old that nobody knows about it.”

“I think it’s the latter,” Qin Feng nodded. “That’s another strange point. These spiritual energies should have been stronger!”

Wei Ximo stopped what he was doing. "You mean you want me to see?"

Before she could finish speaking, Wei Xi knelt down to observe the paddle ghost. She peeled away the layers of slime with her hands, and amidst disgust and urgency, she found a part of what she wanted.

“This is it,” Wei Xi stepped aside to let Qin Feng come closer for a closer look, “It’s not a ghost or monster from legends at all!”

"Is this a formation?"

"It's part of the formation," Wei Xi affirmed. "We've encountered a master, but definitely not the Sea Dragon King those fishermen were talking about!"

The fifteenth snake silently pounced, and Wei Xi slapped it without hesitation, then leaped onto another oar demon like a gust of wind.

"Damn it!" Wei Xi immediately used a cleansing spell to wash his hands. "This snake is poisonous!"

Wei Xi's already scarred hands were severely corroded, with the most serious areas revealing the bare white bone.

"Who would trap snakes in an array?" Qin Feng took out a bottle of light blue liquid from his Qiankun bag. "Bear with it!"

The medicinal liquid splashed onto his hands, and black smoke visibly billowed out. Wei Xi's forehead was instantly covered in cold sweat. "They're going to devour all the paddle demons in this area," Wei Xi murmured, watching the sixteenth snake swallow a behemoth that was clearly beyond its capacity. "But there's only that incomplete array... the array's core!"

Wei Xi slowly lowered his head and saw the silver ring-shaped object.

Half rusty and half silver, if the rusted side were properly polished, it would probably be a perfect circle.

However, Wei Xi could not find any description of this seemingly ordinary metal.

It's worth noting that Wei Xi, originally from Xizhou, studied under Elder Xian Hua for two whole years, completing her academic studies. From the Shengde Stone from the towering Wanren Snow Mountain to the most common copper ore, she knew quite a few metals.

Although Wei Xi attended Elder Xianhua's "recorded class," he did indeed gain a lot of knowledge.

However, Wei Xi couldn't match the hot ring she had just touched with any metal she knew.

Because Wei Xi can feel its heartbeat.

As soon as he got his hands on the ring, Wei Xi, who had a rudimentary understanding of human anatomy, clearly heard a faint but rhythmic beating sound next to his heart.

The throbbing sound was hitting her eardrums and was hard to ignore.

"I want to go to heaven and take a look! Take care of yourself!"

Wei Xi suddenly uttered these words, and the [Tethered Silk] was promptly taken back by her.

Then Wei Xi flung out most of the puppets on his body, each puppet inlaid with pale green spirit stones. As soon as the puppets landed on the sea, Wei Xi's spiritual power, through [Threads of Connection], activated each puppet, and light enveloped the entire sea area.

The seawater was boiling restlessly, and the spiritual energy of the entire sea swirled and gathered towards Wei Xi, using it to lift her up with spiritual power.

Qin Feng, who jumped to another foothold, was quite surprised—Wei Xi had actually used the spirit stones on the puppet to construct a magic array that gathered spiritual energy. This method was quite ingenious, and most importantly, it was suitable for cultivators like Wei Xi with narrow energy centers.

But this was no easy task. Just the precise placement of the puppets according to the local conditions was no easy feat. One can imagine how much effort Wei Xi put in to complete it in one go.

Wei Xi, who has been studying and practicing diligently for the past two years, is unaware of her friend's praise. She is taking a brief flight using a magic array and is carefully observing this mysterious and dangerous sea area.

"This is..." Wei Xi was shocked, "a medicine mortar?"

After confirming it repeatedly, Wei Xi had to admit that the sea snakes, busy devouring, were forming the shape of a medicine jar.

Wei Xi stretched out his hand and compared the ring to the center of the medicine mortar.

Wei Xi thought to himself, "Could this thing really be the core of the formation?"

However, Wei Xi could indeed sense the spiritual energy flowing within the sea serpent's body.

The more sea serpents consume, the more concentrated their spiritual energy becomes.

Wei Xi then realized that this was a living formation, and the oar demons outside were merely vessels carrying these sea serpents.

Or perhaps, it was he who awakened these sea serpents.

Just as Wei Xi was observing, the twenty-one sea snakes had finished eating, and their bodies swelled to an incomprehensible size, their jet-black scales gleaming with an unusual luster.

As if sensing the presence of an intruder, the restless swarm of snakes lunged at Wei Xi, who was holding the ring.

Wei Xi tried to dodge with her spiritual power, but she could not withstand the fierce attack of the twenty or so giant snakes. As the puppet exhausted its spirit stones, she inevitably fell into the sea.

"Xiaoxi!"

The seawater that filled Qin Feng's nasal cavity amplified his shouts, and a snake's tail lashed out at Wei Xi's lower abdomen.

Despite the obstruction of the seawater, the powerful and spiritually charged blow sent Wei Xi flying three zhang away.

Wei Xi struggled to get up, but blood uncontrollably spilled from his seven orifices. He felt a sharp pain in his chest, and his spiritual energy was once again running rampant in his body, not to mention the flesh that was being corroded by the unknown liquid.

Wei Xi used the last bit of his spiritual power to activate a protective spell, then raised his hand and fired a crossbow bolt at the snake's tail, hoping to cause even the slightest damage.

Before closing his eyes, Wei Xi's last memory was of Qin Feng, who was fighting a giant serpent while carrying Gao Han on the sea.

He's not dead.