Food Fairy Lord

Chapter 609: Luoshen Peach (Part )

After only a few dozen breaths, the black cat agreed with Pei Ye's inference that the direction here was definitely not the same as that of the outside world, or it could be said that here, it was difficult to have the concept of "direction" itself.

They were clearly turning back, but they did not pass through the place where they had just fought with the first mermaid, and the traces of sword throwing and sand shooting also disappeared - from this, it can be seen that their thought of heading north might have been just wishful thinking.

The feeling of being an "outsider" is too strong. Obviously, the creatures that grow here have their own unique perceptions, while others can only be like people without five senses. This is probably the reason why Taipingcao went to great lengths to bring the mermaids here.

If humans mistakenly enter here, nine out of ten times they will die in being lost.

Pei Ye and the black cat kept an eye on the oncoming mermaids, and used them as a guide to adjust their direction... Darkness and coldness were always following them, and they were not sure whether their direction was correct.

The further you go, the more unpredictable the unknown becomes. It seems like there is endless darkness ahead, and more and more mermaids are gathering around you.

Yu Sicheng seemed not to lose his direction, and the wisp of Chi fire hanging on his body was moving towards them steadily.

"There is some way for him and the mermaids to transmit information." said the black cat.

Pei Ye did not answer. Compared to the black cat, he was almost a real deaf and blind person in such an environment. He just thought in silence.

And just at this moment, he raised his eyebrows and suddenly smelled something strange...it was fragrance.

It really was a fragrance. In the heavy, dark, cold water, his ear canals and nasal cavity were under pressure that had to be relieved with his true energy. But even in such a blockage, a kind of information that seemed to exist above all these feelings still floated steadily into his nasal cavity.

Tranquil, light, ethereal... Everything here is filled with strong blood and fishy smell, and all five senses are filled with murderous intent and coldness, but it is so light, like the crisp laughter of a girl by the spring stream.

It seems as if everything is just a curtain of thick ink, and it is the only touch of color on it.

At the same moment Pei Ye smelled the faint fragrance, the mermaids around him began to press in from the front left in large numbers. There were at least a dozen of them moving at the same time, and the sharp water currents intertwined into a terrifying mess.

"They are trying to stop us." Pei Ye said, "Just run into them!"

"Yu Sicheng is still three hundred feet away." The black dragon reminded, and its long body rushed forward without any delay. In an instant, several sharp blood marks appeared on the side of its body.

The powerful body of the immortal hunter does have the best vitality in the world, and its bones are often a hundred times stronger than other species. However, like the young boy who has been away from his hometown for only half a year, the black dragon is only in the infancy of its long life. Even with the help of the precious elixir, it is by no means easy for it to face these groups of adult mermaids.

The spiritual energy stored in the body is limited. Consuming more of it on these mermaids means having one less support when facing Yu Sicheng. From the moment they chose to meet him head-on, the danger of this trip has been rising.

Pei Ye couldn't see anything, and his hearing was suppressed by the water, but he could clearly sense that they had indeed caused some kind of commotion. A large number of mermaids, tens of them, were surging in the darkness, their chaotic and sharp voices constantly piercing his ears and brain, and they were talking to each other as if they were having a conversation. Some of them even collided with the mermaids chasing them and couldn't dodge in time.

"Kitten, I really smelled it." Pei Ye whispered.

"what?"

"Floral."

"..."

"There are too many mermaids here, and you'll get hurt too quickly. Let me do it."

"You are crazy. It only takes one breath for them to tear you apart."

"It's okay. Didn't you feel that they were hesitating?" Pei Ye said quickly, "Their dispatch is not as orderly as before."

The black cat paused. Yes, although there were still seven or eight of them clinging to their backs, and although the huge body of the dragon was still rapidly incurring new wounds among the mermaids, some of them had indeed begun to wander away.

Some began to stay where they were, some swam back and forth frantically, as if there was a conflict between the commands in their heads and the instincts of their bodies, and some let out sharp roars.

"I'll do it." Pei Ye said again.

The black dragon said no more words, and with one final flick of its tail it helped the young man fly forward. It itself had transformed into a kitten and shrank into his arms.

In the vast darkness, the feeling of emptiness and helplessness descended again. Pei Ye immediately pursed his lips and went down in the direction he had identified. His speed was indeed far behind the black dragon. The sharp teeth and claws caught up with him after only two breaths. Pei Ye paid the price of having his right shoulder pierced to kill the fastest one, while the others that lagged behind had caught up again.

But they did not rush up, and Pei Ye gritted his teeth and held the sword in front of him without meeting the impact - just a few steps away, these fierce streams of water all stopped in front of them.

Pei Ye couldn't see anything in the darkness, but he realized that he might have found something.

He reached behind him clumsily like a disabled person, first feeling a rugged rock... then his hand touched a few thin pieces of soft material.

And as he touched it, something seemed to be awakened, like a candle that had just been lit, slowly growing from a tiny fireball... and so Pei Ye saw a light source other than the Chihuo for the first time in this realm.

The faint, soft light was like warm jade in the night, reflected in the boy's eyes like a slowly blooming... beautiful flower.

The petals are as graceful as willow leaves and as thin as cicada wings. Twenty-four of them are linked together, emitting a cool blue light, a color that is almost dreamy.

It has no branches or leaves, only a slender single stem, which does not overshadow the big flowers.

The stems were surrounded by a wisp of thin gauze like a light mist, gently swaying in the water as if in the wind. But they were not tied to the stems, but extended downward into the soil, as if entangled with the roots. The jade-blue glow reflected in the boy's pupils, and also vaguely reflected his face and long blood-stained hair. In the dim light, the blood mist from the wounds was seen to be tied into a ribbon-like shape, rushing towards the flower and slowly soaking into the petals.

Pei Ye did not expect this scene, nor did he expect the next scene - the flower in his field of vision suddenly bloomed, and the petals flew towards him and penetrated into his body through his fingertips.

Pei Ye was stunned and had no way to avoid it - most of his mind was still on being alert to the mermaids behind him - and the next moment the Chihuo in his body also hit nothing, but he did not feel anything unusual. He lowered his head and saw the flower appear on his wrist, with twenty-four small willow leaf scales gathered into the shape of a flower.

But the next moment, all the abnormalities surged up, and he felt dizzy, as if all his senses were in chaos. Quail Head wanted to do something at this moment, but found that the dizziness did not affect his mind at all... Then Pei Ye suddenly realized something with surprise, and stopped interfering with it.

This isn’t a dizziness…it’s a correction.

The human sense of direction was corrected and replaced, and the chaotic four directions returned to their proper places. Pei Ye suddenly understood what a headless journey they had just gone through;

The swaying limbs stopped, and Pei Ye suddenly lost the sense of resistance to the water. The heaviness, coldness, instability... all disappeared from his feelings. He even felt the freedom in the water, the feeling of not being bound by the earth...

A layer of strange light blue covered his pupils, and then the thick darkness around him gradually became transparent, and he saw everything about the bottom of the lake... It turned out that this place had never been empty and dark, but from the direction they came from here, it was gradually changing from monotonous to prosperous and lush.

Undulating gullies and hills, a wide variety of aquatic plants, small schools of fish of varying sizes swimming around, numerous tall rocks of varying sizes... and the clear, detailed, cold mermaid faces in front of him.

Two sharp hisses came from the trembling of their throats and necks. Everything happened in just a few breaths. It seemed that the command in the head finally prevailed, and three mermaids leaped forward at the same time.

There was almost no visible ripples on the water, and their movements were as swift as air. They were as fast as poisonous snakes, and as soon as they moved their bodies, their sharp claws were already in front of the throat.

Pei Ye was slightly stunned by the speed, thinking that he had always been facing such an opponent... Then he twisted his wrist and raised his sword to block the claw, and a low muffled "clang" sound was heard in the water.

Pei Ye leaned over to avoid the second merman who was stabbing at his chest. At the same time, his sword slanted and crossed with the claws. A sharp sound that made one's teeth ache suddenly rang out and fell. The blade had split the entire arm along its bones and tendons.

An angry roar of pain rang out in the water. Pei Ye's sword turned and cut off its throat. Then he turned around and carried the sword on his back, blocking the attack of the second mermaid. At the same time, the third mermaid in front of him had penetrated the blood mist and rushed straight to his face.

In the two rounds of fighting just now, he had been accurately using the body of the mermaid he had just killed as a partition, temporarily keeping it out of the battle.

Pei Ye glanced at it, and the sword energy behind him slightly increased. The [Spread Wings] accumulated in three clashes was suddenly emptied, and the [Clear Singing] instantly knocked away the two arm claws of the merman behind him and pierced through its chest.

Pei Ye loosened the hilt and let the sword pass through the chest of the mermaid behind him and swept into the water. At the same time, he rushed backwards. The mermaid with a bloody hole in her chest still had strong vitality. She roared and her middle finger claws crossed over her shoulder and dug into Pei Ye's throat. Pei Ye held its elbow with one hand and its wrist with the other. With the two hands exerting force in opposite directions, she broke its arm with a "crack", and then pulled it in front of her.

At this time, the third merman was chasing after him with a shrill scream, but beside him, a stream of light in the water drew a graceful arc and passed through its throat. As the blood mist dissipated, it returned to Pei Ye's hand.

Pei Ye swung his sword and cut the throat of the mermaid that was locking in front of him, then let go, and the bodies of the three mermaids slowly fell into the water at the same time.

He looked down at the sword in silence, and this time it was covered in the enemy's blood.

After mastering the power of water, many sword techniques returned to me naturally, and [Carrying a New Corpse] was not too difficult.

The black cat also poked its head out from his collar and looked at the scale mark on his wrist.

Pei Ye still didn't speak. At this time, he heard a very light voice, coming from somewhere, perhaps in his heart, perhaps in his ears, as light as the wind, and as ethereal as the fragrance of flowers just now.

"You use the sword so well... It reminds me of some old friends." She smiled and looked up. "Unfortunately, I can't remember what they look like."

Pei Ye turned his head suddenly, and saw a very faint female figure sitting where the flower had just grown. This beautiful figure, just a shadow, made Pei Ye dazed for a moment. She leaned her hands on her sides, tilted her head and looked at him with a gentle smile: "You are the first person I like you to come in, I can't explain why."

She pointed lightly below her body and said, "I named this flower 'Luo Shen Mu Tao'. You Confucian scholars on the shore often recite it, 'You gave me Mu Tao, I gave you Qiong Yao in return', that's it. Drinking it can make you have clear eyesight, sharp ears, and control water. Well... if you have the legendary 'Dantian Planting Immortal Method', maybe it can even grow meridian trees. It lasts for a quarter of an hour. No matter where you come from, I hope you can return to the shore safely and smoothly."

"..." Pei Ye subconsciously lowered his head to glance at the mark on his wrist. When he raised his head again, the already faint figure had disappeared without a trace.

He was stunned for a moment, then he looked inward at his Dantian, and saw that the tender short buds above the Qi Sheng had grown visibly. Even though it was still a drop in the bucket, it made Pei Ye completely speechless.

——Since he had never met the Immortal Lord, Binglu had never been raised by anyone else.

He looked down at the black cat, which also had shock and astonishment in its eyes, but this was not the time to think about this matter. He raised his head and looked at the few remaining mermaids in front of him, and in the distance, there were more shadowy figures looking over here, some of them were hesitant and fearful, while some were hesitant and still rushed here directly.

It seems that even if there is no iron rule between him and them, there is obviously a soft constraint that is difficult to cross... Pei Ye always kept in mind the short note he saw in Yu Sicheng's study.

"Two flowers, one mermaid died, three were injured..." Will the flower hurt them? Is it the smell?
The three mermaids who had just attacked him had actually shown some signs of crookedness before they died... A strange guess suddenly arose in Pei Ye's mind, when the mermaids entered this side, were they in the same state as he was before he drank the scale flower?

"Yu Sicheng still has a hundred feet to go." Black Cat whispered.

Pei Ye's heart trembled, and he finally looked back in the direction he came from. He turned around and disappeared into the water, grass and stone forest.

The bad news is that Yu Sicheng is not a mermaid.

The good news is that without the mermaid following him, Yu Sicheng might not be able to find his whereabouts in the water.

(End of this chapter)