Hunyuan Immortal Sect

Chapter 391 Sea Beast
Having easily dealt with the demonic beast, Song Xian went to the Purple Coral Spirit Tree, cut it off at the bottom, and put it into his storage bag.

Just then, the seawater suddenly surged violently, forming a huge whirlpool that enveloped him.

His body began to spin with the swirling water.

Song Xian's expression changed, and his spiritual power surged wildly, continuously flowing into his spiritual power shield. Only then did he stop spinning. Under the huge vortex of water, the spiritual power shield around him was visibly torn apart.

As the whirlpool grew larger and larger, he clasped his hands together, and golden flames enveloped his entire body. The next moment, they detached from his body and condensed into the shape of a golden crow.

With a flap of its wings, the golden crow instantly engulfed the swirling water that enveloped it in golden flames.

The towering waves surged in like a tsunami, layer upon layer, with no end in sight.

Amidst the towering waves, the form of a massive black-tailed python shark was faintly visible.

Song Xian's divine sense had already detected it; the spiritual energy around it clearly indicated that it was a sixth-order demon beast, equivalent to a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

He cursed his bad luck inwardly; he had only just acquired the first Purple Coral Spirit Tree when he encountered such a behemoth.

Without a doubt, this black-tailed python shark is the king of this sea area. Many monsters have the habit of patrolling their territory. This black-tailed python shark was probably patrolling its territory when it was attracted by the magical light that he had just used.

For them, it is certainly not acceptable for an outsider to do whatever they want.

Therefore, they approached stealthily and launched a water-attribute divine power to ambush him.

Even if the intelligence of a sixth-tier demon beast doesn't reach the level of a cultivator, it's not far off. It's incomparable to those low-tier demon beasts. Song Xian had fought a sixth-tier demon beast many years ago when he encountered that demon fox in the Tianlan Forbidden Land, which left a deep impression on him.

At that time, the demon fox was fighting three against one and clearly had the upper hand and room to maneuver, but instead of fighting to the death, it fled.

Its decisiveness and sense of danger are unmatched even by cultivators. Although the intelligence of this black-tailed python shark may not be comparable to that of the demon fox, it is certainly not much different.

Judging from its attack methods, this black-tailed python shark is quite intelligent.

It launched the attack from outside Song Xian's field of vision. If it had gone any further, it would have been detected by Song Xian's divine sense, thus losing the opportunity for a surprise attack.

With Song Xian's current spiritual power, if he were to exert his full strength, he could cover an area of ​​two to three hundred feet.

However, he cannot maintain this state indefinitely, as it greatly depletes his spiritual energy.

If he continues to exert all his spiritual power, he can only maintain this state for a maximum of two hours before exhausting his spiritual energy.

Therefore, he could only reduce the range of his divine sense detection, and only guard the area within a radius of fifty feet.

When the black-tailed python shark launched its attack, it was about 60 or 70 feet away from him.

Because visibility was obstructed in the deep sea, and because he had just taken the Purple Coral Spirit Tree into his possession and the Black-tailed Python Shark had concealed its tracks, he did not detect its approach.

The towering waves surged in layer upon layer. Song Xian retreated, clasped his hands together, and unleashed the Flame Meteor, sending massive fireballs crashing down on the overwhelming waves.

The blazing golden crow protected him as he headed towards the sea.

On land, his strength would be comparable to that of a typical sixth-tier demon beast, but in the sea, it was not only disadvantageous to him, but also highly advantageous to the other party.

In this back and forth, the difference becomes very large.

Therefore, he had to leave the seabed first before fighting the monster.

Just as he was rising, the water above suddenly began to surge violently, forming irregular ripples. Overall, it looked like a giant sea monster had blocked the water flow and was pressing down on him.

Clearly, the blacktail python shark knew that fighting on the seabed was highly advantageous for it, and therefore wanted to trap it there.

The surging water, like a sea monster, separated the seawater where Song Xian was located into two layers, and opened its huge mouth, heading towards him as if to swallow him whole.

Song Xian, his body wreathed in golden crow flames, charged toward the giant beast formed from the water. Without a sound, the golden crow flames rushed into the beast's mouth, scattering golden flames in all directions, and the beast's body shattered with a crash.

The Golden Crow Flame returned to his side, its size now reduced by almost half.

Song Xian then used the Mysterious Heavenly Fusion Fire Technique to retrieve it.

This golden crow is the embodiment of flame itself. If it were to dissipate, it would permanently lose this strange fire, which would be a great loss.

At this moment, the fireballs formed by the Flame Meteor spell were shattered one by one under the attack of the giant waves constantly condensed by the Black-tailed Python Shark.

Song Xian continued to ascend, and at the same time, he formed hand seals again, casting the second-tier high-grade defensive spell, Flame Wall, to protect himself.

As flames rose from his palms, they transformed into shields of fire, forming a wall that protected him inside and cleaved through the waves.

However, the higher he went, the greater the resistance became. Dozens of huge water tornadoes had formed around him, surrounding him.

Meanwhile, in the outer room, the water continued to flow, gradually forming a huge water sphere, like a cage trapping him inside.

This enormous water-shaped sphere was several hundred feet in size. This was the first time in Song Xian's life that he had encountered such a large-scale spell, which showed the monster's control over water-based spells.

Inside the giant water sphere, waterspouts formed one after another, each ten feet in size, and they continued to form continuously.

The fire shields shattered one by one under the attack of the water tornadoes from all sides.

Song Xian clasped his hands together, condensed a fiery meteor once more, and shot it toward the waterspouts that were pressing in from all sides.

At the same time, with a thought, the Golden Armored Ant emerged from the spirit beast pouch, its fierce golden pupils fixed on the Black-tailed Python Shark. Its body shone with golden light, and golden spikes grew out. With a hiss, it thrust the golden spikes toward the Black-tailed Python Shark.

Song Xian then took out a humanoid puppet from his storage bag and poured his divine sense into it.

The puppet lunged at the black-tailed python shark, but was blocked by a waterspout and was swept into a whirlpool. It then swung its fists continuously, and under the onslaught of the storm, it quickly dispersed the waterspout.

With the help of the Golden-Armored Ants and the puppet, Song Xian's pressure was greatly reduced, and he immediately released the Xuanluo Yin Fire.

Black flames covered his body, then broke free and condensed into the shape of a giant black serpent, rushing towards the sea. Wherever it passed, black flames spread and devoured everything around it.

The condensed water tornadoes shattered under the impact of the giant snake. With a loud bang, the huge water cage was smashed open by the black giant snake, and then the water cage shattered.

Song Xian seized the opportunity and quickly ascended upwards.

The golden-armored ants and puppets protected him, dealing with the waterspout attack launched by the black-tailed python shark.

The reason he didn't choose to let the Xuanluo Yin Fire attack the Black-tailed Python Shark directly was mainly because he was worried that the Xuanluo Yin Fire would be no match for the Black-tailed Python Shark.

Up until now, the Black-tailed Python Shark had been completely at ease, only using water-attribute magic to attack him. It was unclear whether it had any stronger tricks up its sleeve. Therefore, Song Xian dared not take the risk and instead had the Xuanluo Yin Fire attack it directly.

In this deep sea, the Black-tailed Python Shark's water-attribute magic is more powerful, while his fire-attribute magic is greatly reduced in power.

Although Xuanluo Yin Fire is a different kind of fire, it is still essentially a fire element and is affected by environments surrounded by water.

It's unwise to fight this monster underwater; he needs to find a way to lure it out of the sea before dealing with it.

The black-tailed python shark followed behind him, using water-based magic to continuously attack him.

Water tornadoes formed all around him, while a giant beast condensed above, attacking and blocking the water flow, pressing down on him.

Song Xian retrieved the Golden Armor Ant and the puppet, and once again condensed the Flame Wall spell to protect his body, while the Xuanluo Yin Fire above cleared a path for him, cutting through all obstacles.

The distance from the seabed to the surface is only a few thousand feet, but it seems incredibly long due to the interference of black-tailed python sharks.

As he got closer to the surface, he could faintly see light shining through the seawater, while the black-tailed python shark was still in hot pursuit, seemingly unwilling to let him go so easily.

Song Xian wasn't afraid of it chasing him; he was afraid it wouldn't chase him.

If the monster doesn't chase him, it will be quite troublesome for him to continue harvesting the Purple Coral Spirit Tree.

Once they leave the sea, he is confident that with his strength, along with the golden-armored ants and the puppet, he can deal with this monster.

Even if he couldn't kill the demon beast, as long as he severely injured it and made it suffer, it wouldn't dare to act recklessly again when he encountered the demon beast the next time he harvested the Purple Coral Spirit Tree.

A sixth-tier spirit beast, its intelligence is not low.

If it encounters a stronger opponent, it will definitely take a detour.

If it continues to be chased like a dog, the monster will naturally not tolerate any intruders running rampant on its territory, since it believes it is weaker than the monster.

Just as it was about to leave the sea, the monster suddenly turned around and fled backward in a flash, its figure gradually becoming ethereal.

Song Xian felt it was a pity. He originally thought that the monster did not want to leave the familiar sea area to fight, but when he looked up, his pupils suddenly shrank.

A huge shadow loomed overhead.

Before he could react, a powerful suction force came.

The surrounding seawater surged wildly toward a certain whirlpool, and the fiery shield that had gathered around him shattered in the blink of an eye, causing his body to involuntarily move toward that whirlpool.

Song Xian was shocked, having no idea what was happening. Seeing the black giant snake being sucked into the vortex, he quickly used the Profound Heaven Fusion Fire Technique to retrieve the Profound Luo Yin Fire into his body.

At the same time, his spiritual energy surged wildly, trying to stop his movements, but to no avail.

The next moment, he saw a huge black object approaching at an extremely fast speed. In an instant, he felt as if he had fallen into a dark, bottomless abyss, his body sinking continuously, with something constantly hitting his body during the process.

After an unknown amount of time, he finally landed on the ground. Looking around, he saw only darkness, so dark that he couldn't see his own hand in front of his face.

Beneath his feet was a filthy tunnel filled with rotting matter and plenty of live fish and shrimp.

On the left and right sides were black walls like rocks, and above him, about five or six zhang high, was a white and reddish stone wall like granite.

The entire terrain resembles a large pipe, wide in the middle and narrow at both ends, with a length of several tens of feet.

"Where am I?" Song Xian was a little confused.

Before he could think, suddenly, the black walls on both sides contracted towards the middle, and the white and red granite-like stone wall above also bent, like a small lobster with its body bent.

The massive pipe contracted rapidly, startling Song Xian. Without thinking, he quickly clasped his hands together and unleashed the Flame Wall spell.

Before his spiritual energy could gather, the stone walls on both sides pressed in close. Song Xian watched helplessly as the black stone walls on both sides squeezed in. He had no doubt that he would be crushed into mincemeat, as his spiritual energy shield alone was not enough to protect him.

Fortunately, this did not happen, and the black stone walls on both sides finally left a space of about ten feet wide.

Before he could even catch his breath, the white-red granite above stirred and sprayed out a large amount of yellow liquid.

Song Xian was caught in the middle and had nowhere to hide. At this moment, spiritual power was surging within his body, and flames rose from his palms, transforming into shields of fire.

A large amount of yellow liquid poured down and landed on the fire shield, causing it to shatter visibly.

He was shocked. He hadn't expected that this ordinary yellow liquid would have such power, which even his fiery walls couldn't withstand.

Seeing the flame shield shatter one after another under the corrosive yellow liquid, he quickly took out a second-grade high-quality defensive talisman and condensed a cyan light shield to protect himself.

Once the yellow liquid finally stopped pouring out, the black walls on both sides began to move outwards, quickly returning to their previous appearance and reverting to the shape of the large pipe.

The fire wall spell he cast was mostly melted away by the large amount of yellow liquid, leaving only a few fire shields intact.

At his feet, the once vibrant fish and shrimp had been completely corroded by the yellow liquid, leaving not even bones behind.

"Thank goodness," Song Xian patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief. If he hadn't used his magic when the black stone walls on both sides tightened, he would have been fine.

By the time the large amount of yellow liquid is poured out, it will be too late.

Judging from the strength of the yellow liquid corroding the flame shield, the spiritual energy shield around him would certainly not be able to protect him either, and would be eroded and melted immediately.

Before he could rest for a moment and think things through, the terrain of the pipeline suddenly tilted, and the yellow liquid underground flowed to the lower left, all entering the narrow entrance at the end ahead.

Song Xian clung tightly to the right-hand stone wall to avoid falling into the narrow entrance ahead. After all, he didn't know what lay ahead or whether there was any danger.

After a while, the terrain of the pipeline returned to its original state.

This series of unexpected events made his heart leap into his throat. His eyes darted around, scanning his surroundings, fearing that something else might happen.

Fortunately, the 'turmoil' finally subsided, and Song Xian finally had time to consider his situation.

Based on the changes just now, if I'm not mistaken, he should now be inside the body of a powerful sea monster.

Before he fell here, he vaguely saw a huge object coming towards him; now that he thinks about it, it must have been the giant maw of a monster.

The monster swallowed him whole; this must have been the beast's esophagus.

(End of this chapter)