Don't be afraid, fairy, I'm blind

Chapter 419 Desperate Hope

You Su and Bai Ze continued to go deeper into the sea to search for the stone tablet that recorded the method of salvation.

The dark seabed was covered with jagged rocks, and corals swayed in the water like ghostly dead branches. Occasionally, schools of glowing fish would pass by, like the phosphorescence of ghosts, which flashed and disappeared, highlighting the dead silence of this sea area.

Bai Ze followed You Su, looking around curiously. She would poke the floating seaweed with her fingers from time to time, then pull them back, like a timid and curious kitten.

"Brother, look there, isn't that..." Bai Ze pointed to a shadow in front, where something seemed to be wriggling.

You Su followed Bai Ze's gaze and frowned. The shadow was getting closer and closer, gradually revealing its true appearance - a huge anemone-like evil spirit, with densely packed barbs on its tentacles, swaying slowly in the water, like a gaping bloody mouth, waiting for its prey to come to it.

They walked for a long time before they found an area where evil spirits were concentrated. This was the center of the area. This sea anemone-shaped evil spirit was the "lord" that occupied this place.

"It's an evil spirit." You Su tightly grasped the Mosong Sword, and the sword made a low hum, as if it sensed the master's will to fight.

He protected Bai Ze behind him and said, "Follow me closely."

Before he finished speaking, the sea anemone suddenly opened its tentacles and pounced on the two. Its sensitivity to the smell of danger was beyond their expectations. The barbs on the tentacles flashed coldly and made a sharp sound.

Fortunately, You Su had mastered the Ruyi Wind Controlling Technique. His figure was as light as the wind, and he flashed by like a ghost. The Mosong Sword in his hand drew a sharp arc of light, like a meteor in the night sky, cutting off all the attacking tentacles. The broken tentacles twisted painfully in the water, spewing dark green venom, which quickly spread and polluted the surrounding air. A pungent stench filled the air.

"It stinks!" Bai Ze covered his nose with a disgusted expression on his face. He hid behind You Su like a frightened little rabbit, holding on to the corner of his clothes tightly.

You Su covered his nose with one hand, frowned, and waved his sword with the other hand to dispel the poison. His eyes were dark, which allowed him to see clearly even in the dark, but he looked around and could not find the white jade stele.

He was slightly disappointed, and guessed that it was probably the same as most of the cases he had encountered before, that this was just an evil spirit dominating a place, and it did not collect the stone tablet. After all, it was a rare case that the stone tablet was hidden like the giant eye.

Before he could think carefully whether to continue fighting to find out the truth or to escape in time, the severed tentacles quickly grew back again, not giving him any chance to breathe. This sea anemone-like evil spirit seemed to have infinite vitality and kept attacking.

You Su thought it was a difficult situation, so he fought and retreated, leading Bai Ze to maneuver on the rocky seabed. He was agile and his sword moves were sharp. Every time he struck out with his sword, he accurately cut off the tentacles of the sea anemone, preventing it from getting close to Bai Ze.

Bai Ze would not listen to You Su and not attack. She hid but waited for an opportunity to strike. Her smart eyes kept observing the weakness of the sea anemone, and suddenly she would use her superb ice control ability to shoot a hidden arrow at the terrifying sea anemone, which was not fatal, but annoying like a fly.

"Brother, it...it seems like it can't be killed!"

Bai Ze hid behind You Su and stuck his little head out to observe the battle situation.

"There is no immortal thing in this world." You Su said in a firm voice, and as soon as he finished speaking, he raised his sword again to face the challenge.

You Su dodged the anemone's attack while carefully observing its movements.

As he cut more and more tentacles, You Su discovered that every time a tentacle was cut off, the anemone's movements seemed to slow down for a moment. The source of this slowness seemed to come from the depths of the seabed, where there was always a weak wave coming from.

"The body of this evil spirit is not a tentacle, but a rhizome hidden under the sea. As long as the rhizome is not removed, it can regenerate infinitely."

You Su made a quick decision, "Freeze it! Let me see what's hidden underneath it!"

Bai Ze was nourished by the gem, and You Su was no longer so stubborn in not letting her take action. And this appropriate need did make Bai Ze feel a sense of accomplishment, and she often enjoyed You Su's orders.

In the dark seabed, Mo Song's sword flashed like lightning. You Su leaped up, the sword blade split the foul-smelling poisonous fog, and the broken limbs fell like rain. Bai Ze curled up behind him, and the ice suddenly solidified as his ten fingers flew, nailing the tentacles that attacked again to the reef.

"Frozen!" the girl suddenly shouted, with ice-blue ripples appearing deep in her pupils.

You Su turned around upon hearing this, and the tip of his sword scraped against the jagged rocks, leaving sparks. He saw the right moment and stabbed the sword into the center of the anemone's rhizome. The sword went deep into the ground, and felt a strong resistance, as if it was fighting against the evil vitality. You Su shouted loudly, and concentrated all his strength on this sword.

He stirred it vigorously, and a stream of black liquid gushed out. The mud and sand on the seabed also exploded, revealing the gnarled roots entwined on the dark reef. The anemones hovering on them withered and rotted at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Bai Ze poked his head out from behind You Su, looked at the dead anemone, and patted his chest, "I was scared to death! These monsters in the sea are really more difficult to deal with than each other!"

Seeing You Su frowning in silence, Bai Ze whispered again, "Is there really no stone tablet here?"

In fact, You Su did not want to convey this feeling of disappointment to the innocent Bai Ze, but he could not deny the facts. When he was about to shake his head, You Su's pupils suddenly widened.

The corruption of the anemone finally spread to the rhizome, and the troublesome evil spirit finally turned into a pool of pus. In the huge pit left after the rhizome disappeared, an irregularly shaped white jade stele lay quietly there, like the only light in this dead sea.

But what really shocked You Su was not the hard-earned stone tablet, but the gray and dry bones placed next to the stone tablet. Scarlet flesh whiskers were entangled between the joints, like some kind of vicious curse.

"This is..." Bai Ze obviously noticed the corpse, his brows knitted together, and he had already thought of the most desperate possibility in his mind, "Could this be the corpse of the immortal who left the inscription..."

"We can't even defeat this evil spirit, how can we possibly defeat that senior?"

You Su jumped into the pit and carefully observed the corpse.

"This skeleton is so rotten that it is hard to recognize its shape. It must have been here for at least a hundred years." You Su felt a little relieved when he said this. If the predecessors who left them a chance to survive were all dead, then wouldn't they be doomed?

Bai Ze followed closely behind and asked curiously: "Why?"

You Su released the mysterious Qi in his hand and turned the corpse over in mid-air, revealing the transparent bead buried under its spine. He picked it up and carefully wiped it clean with a piece of cloth. "This is a water-repellent bead. Like the Shenhui Stone, it is a material controlled by the God Mountain and is extremely precious."

"Water-repellent beads? What are they good for?"

Bai Ze was about to take it and play with it, but You Su slapped her naughty little hand back and said seriously:
"As the name suggests, it allows people to go deep into the seabed and avoid the current. The owner of this corpse should be a pioneer monk who explored the seabed in ancient times, but he remained in this dark seabed forever and was parasitized by the evil spirit just now. This is a relic and should be treated with respect."

You Su had only come into contact with the Water-Repellent Beads in the Exorcism Bureau. They were even rarer than the Qiankun Bag. After all, they were chiseled from the same alien object and were both non-renewable.

The materials used to make the Qiankun bag are only the outer layer of the outer world, while the water-repellent beads are the core. The working principle of the water-repellent beads is the same as that of the Qiankun bag, both of which have extremely rare spatial properties. However, the Qiankun bag cannot hide living things, but the water-repellent beads can. It will form an independent space around the host, isolating it from the outside world, thereby achieving the purpose of avoiding water. Similarly, although it is called the water-repellent beads, it is also proficient in avoiding fire and electricity. Of course, it is also necessary to ensure that there is enough air in the water-repellent beads.

Therefore, the Qiankun Bag can still circulate in the world, but the Water-Repellent Beads are strictly controlled and trading is prohibited. They are only used in extreme missions such as diving into deep water.

It was because of this that You Su deduced that the monk was a pioneer explorer. He wanted to confirm the identity of the victim more specifically, but he could not find any other clues except the dry bones.

"How pitiful..." Bai Ze looked at the horrific corpse with heartache, the sadness in his eyes came from the bottom of his heart.

You Su did not comment, but picked up the stone tablet and said, "Go out."

Bai Ze's sadness came and went quickly, and he immediately opened his arms, "I'm a little tired, carry me out."

You Su held his forehead with his hand in silence, not knowing whether the girl was really tired or not. However, he was too lazy to find out the truth. He put his arms around the girl's slender waist and jumped lightly to the ground.

"Bury him."

You Su had great respect for this senior who sacrificed his life in the deep sea, because he knew very well that even in the Exorcist Bureau, going out to sea was a task that most people would avoid, not to mention going into the sea.

Bai Ze did not object, and very tactfully began to condense the surrounding icy mysterious Qi, and actually made two exquisite ice shovels.

You Su rubbed her head approvingly and began to fill the grave. When he put the last shovel of sand on the simple grave, the surrounding seaweed suddenly lit up with tiny dots of fluorescence, as if thousands of souls had come to see him off.

You Su watched for a while, and he felt so disappointed, not only because of his respect for his predecessor, but also because of his concerns about his future. He was worried that he would be like this predecessor, buried in the sea with great ambitions, and become a hotbed for evil spirits.

He was not so pessimistic at first, but after looking for two stone tablets in succession and not getting any substantial information, he had to doubt whether there was really a way out. The contents recorded in those stone tablets were either the predecessor's views on the underwater world or reminders of the surrounding environment. Except for the three mottos on the second stone tablet, they were not of much help to You Su's progress.

He knew he shouldn't be impatient, as the senior was also a new explorer, but it was inevitable that his enthusiasm for reading the stone tablet was dampened, so he started reading it only after he finished his work.

But this time, the way out that he had been searching for was actually engraved on the stele word by word!

"I see this abyss, it's not a natural sea, but a barrier formed by a mysterious evil spirit, which has built a nest in the water. The dome is as black as ink, it's neither the sky nor the sea, but a realm formed by the condensation of all kinds of filth. Miasma is everywhere, and evil spirits are everywhere. I don't understand what has transformed it to give birth to this evil domain and devil's nest.

However, the devil's nest is not a dead end. There are two ways to escape:
The first is to break through the barrier and fly into the sky. I have tried to fly into the sky, but the black barrier is like glue, corroding my bones and soul. Even if I managed to escape, the pressure of the deep sea would follow. If I were not an indestructible body, I would be crushed into powder in an instant. I used the water beads to avoid floating and sinking. The evil demons in the sea followed me closely. I could not escape the clutches of the evil spirits. I had a hard time breathing after fighting with them. Finally, my meridians were exhausted and I managed to get out to sea.

The second is to find a whirlpool and return to the land. Evil spirits often climb up from the coast, but the Shenhui Stone can keep them away. When I was exploring, I saw two secret tunnels, and then I realized that the Kongyuan Evil Well was not the only one. I have studied evil spirits in depth, and I have never heard of such a well in the past. I am afraid that this secret passage in the sea eye is a new way for evil spirits to bypass the coast and invade the inland. These whirlpools are hidden in the deep valleys, turbulent like a tornado, and connect to the world of the living. If you can go upstream, you may be able to return to the human world. However, there are many pubic lice in the whirlpool that eat souls invisibly. What's more, the whirlpool eye opens and closes unpredictably, so it is difficult to encounter.

As for the rest of my life, I am also searching hard...”

You Su's fingertips stroked the cracks on the stele, and the words were like a knife engraved into his heart. The tassel of the black pine sword moved without wind, making the gloom between his brows even deeper.

"We have a chance to fly through the barriers..." He stared at the lines on his palm, where there were still blood scabs from the fight with sea lice, "But how can we withstand the water pressure of thousands of miles and the pursuit of the evil tide..."

Just as he was muttering to himself in frustration, his sleeves suddenly tightened.

Bai Ze stood on tiptoe and rested his chin on his shoulder, the brightness in his eyes blending with the glow of the inscription: "Brother, look, this vortex is engraved particularly deeply."

She ran her fingertips along the stone lines and actually dug out half a fish scale from the ravine. "It must have been carved by the senior desperately before he died. He believed this."

The scales were faintly blue, clearly the remains of the flying fish they had seen in the coral reefs.

You Su shook his head, "We have already walked who knows how far, how can we still find the evil well we fell into. And that evil well is not as active as the senior described, and there is no vortex, I am afraid it is abandoned. Regardless of whether the senior's guess is correct or not, trying to find a new one is like looking for a needle in a haystack."

You Suqian sighed. Fighting and fighting in the seabed, practicing while surviving, and finally swimming out of the deep sea through the first method was the most feasible solution. But in this way, I don't know how much time I will have to spend here.

Bai Ze, who had always been timid and fearful, was not as worried as You Su. Instead, he hugged You Su's arm and encouraged him: "Go ahead and look for it. What are you afraid of? It doesn't matter if you can't find it. Didn't the senior say that he is still looking for other ways? Let's continue looking for the stone tablet. There must be a new way!"

Hearing this, You Su suddenly looked up and read the inscription again as if to confirm, "He... the previous article said that he had left the seabed. Could it be that he has come back? How could there be such a person?"

You Su didn't notice it when he first read it, but he found it unbelievable when he read it again. After escaping from the deep sea with so much difficulty, this senior didn't go ashore, but continued to return to the deep sea? It can be said that drought will kill drought and flood will kill flood, but Bai Ze's reminder did help him regain his confidence. He had already experienced twists and turns, and he knew that only by staying alive can there be a turning point.

Bai Ze looked at You Su's resolute look from the side with a smile in her eyes. She quietly flicked away the fish scales on her fingertips. The word "vortex" on the inscription was actually not heavier than other words.

The one who was sure that this method would work seemed not to be the senior who left a way out, but... herself.

(End of this chapter)