Perfect: I am Shi An from Shicun, and I am Huang’s brother!

Chapter 232: Meeting an Old Friend
After escaping the horde of ferocious beasts, Shi An and Yun Xi continued their journey deeper into the Heavenly River Secret Realm.

But after they had ventured thousands of miles into the water, a huge whirlpool suddenly appeared ahead of them.

The whirlpool was like a giant black hole, constantly swallowing the surrounding water and emitting a heart-palpitating roar. The edge of the whirlpool shimmered with a cold light, as if it concealed endless terror.

What surprised the two most was that there was a strange light flashing in the center of the vortex, as if some kind of treasure was radiating light.

The two stared intently and discovered that it was actually a crystal-clear aquatic plant with four leaves, each leaf as if carved from beautiful jade, swaying gently in the center of the whirlpool and emitting a soft blue light.

However, the two did not approach rashly, because in that vortex, a group of cultivators were fighting a group of jellyfish-like creatures.

The jellyfish-like creatures were transparent, emitting a ghostly blue light, with arcs of electricity flashing on their tentacles, and each attack carried a powerful current.

As for the cultivators, they each used their own methods, either summoning magical treasures to defend themselves or unleashing spells to attack. For a time, water splashed everywhere, lightning flashed, and shouts of battle and roars intertwined, creating a chaotic scene.

Gazing at the azure waterweed at the center of the vortex, Yunxi's beautiful eyes flashed with a strange light, and she said softly, "Could that waterweed be the rare treasure that Senior Lin Feng mentioned—the Four Symbols Water Spirit Grass?! No wonder it has attracted so many people to fight over it."

Upon hearing this, Shi An narrowed his eyes slightly, staring intently at the battle in the vortex: "Judging from the commotion and the aura emanating from the water plants, it is most likely the Four Symbols Water Spirit Grass."

"However, we cannot intervene in the current situation. Those jellyfish creatures are not weak, with the lowest being at the Venerable level, not to mention their large numbers. Moreover, there are currently a group of cultivators fighting them. If we rashly go in, we will probably become the target of everyone's attacks."

Just as the two were discussing, the battle in the vortex intensified.

"Oh!"

With a loud bang, a cultivator dressed in a gleaming gold robe was accidentally struck by the tentacles of a jellyfish creature. His body was instantly engulfed in arcs of electricity, and he let out a scream before plummeting from the sky into the surging water, his fate unknown.

This made the other cultivators shudder, and they became more cautious in their attacks.

Upon seeing this, Shi An and the other person also tensed up. They immediately concealed their auras and hid behind a huge reef not far away, closely watching every move in the whirlpool.

As time passed, their attention was inevitably drawn to a woman dressed in a fiery red dress.

The woman was graceful and elegant, dressed in fiery red. In the turbulent and perilous battlefield, she was like a lively flame, moving with the grace of a startled swan.

She was surrounded by a blazing shield of flames, which blocked all the incoming electric arcs. She wielded a fiery red whip, and as the whip flashed, a phantom of a fire phoenix seemed to hover around it. Wherever she passed, jellyfish creatures would scatter and avoid her. If they were not careful and were hit by the tip of the whip, they would make a sizzling sound and leave charred marks on their transparent bodies.

It's her...

Looking at the fiery red figure, a hint of surprise flashed in Shi An's eyes, and then he turned his gaze to the woman's side.

"They are also there..."

But then they saw several figures they had met once before standing beside the woman in red.

"What's wrong? Do you know them?"

Shi An's unusual behavior naturally caught Yun Xi's attention, prompting her to ask him questions out of curiosity.

Yunxi's question made Shi An withdraw his gaze, and then he explained in a low voice, "That woman in red seems to be from the Crimson Phoenix Palace. I had some interaction with her in the lower realm of Xuan Domain."

"So that's it."

Upon hearing that the woman in red had once crossed paths with Shi An in the lower realm, Yun Xi's expression subtly changed, but she quickly recovered and turned to Shi An, asking, "Should we make a move?" Hearing this, Shi An didn't answer immediately. Instead, he observed her for a moment. Seeing that she was struggling, forced to retreat by the electric arcs of the jellyfish creature, and looking somewhat disheveled, he nodded slightly: "Since we've encountered her, let's lend a hand. After all, we had a past relationship. If we stand idly by, I fear it might breed inner demons."

"but········"

But as soon as he finished speaking, Shi An turned around and said, "We don't need to show ourselves directly; we can act secretly."

After speaking, Shi An condensed a sword aura as thin as a hair at his fingertips, which quietly pierced through the void and precisely stabbed into the core of a jellyfish creature that was about to ambush the woman in red.

"puff!"

With a single blow, the jellyfish trembled violently, its eerie blue light extinguished rapidly, and it vanished into the water like bubbles.

Seeing this, Yunxi also summoned a treasure and pointed it in mid-air.

"call out!"

The next moment, a wisp of purple light transformed into a wisp of silk and disappeared into the vortex, instantly piercing through the three jellyfish creatures that pounced from the other side.

The two worked together seamlessly, defusing crises perfectly with each move, yet never revealing their identities.

"Strange, why did these guys suddenly..."

The woman in red was naturally aware of the changes around her, but what puzzled her was that she couldn't find the person who had made the move no matter how she looked around.

Just then, a stunning woman in a light blue dress standing next to her suddenly shouted, "Watch out for your head!"

"boom!"

As the woman spoke, the vortex above her suddenly split open, and a giant jellyfish, as big as a sacred mountain, burst out of the water. Thousands of electric arc chains hung from its canopy, enveloping the entire battlefield.

The jellyfish creatures that had been fighting earlier retreated as if welcoming their king.

"Divine Fire?!"

"Back off! Back off!"

The appearance of this giant jellyfish was like throwing a red-hot iron into an already boiling water surface, instantly causing chaos on the entire battlefield.

The cultivators who were originally engaged in fierce battle now showed expressions of terror on their faces and fled in all directions without regard for anything else.

The giant jellyfish exuded a terrifying aura, and every movement it made created towering waves. The waves were mixed with bone-chilling electric currents, and wherever it passed, even the void was distorted by the electricity.

Its canopy rotated slightly, and countless arc chains of electricity poured down like a torrential rain, each one releasing a chilling energy fluctuation that illuminated the surrounding sea as if it were daytime.

The woman in red and her companions had no time to think and hurriedly used their movement techniques to try to avoid the deadly attack.

"boom!"

However, the giant jellyfish was clearly not going to let them off so easily. Its huge tentacles suddenly lashed out like thick steel whips, striking the woman in red and her companions fiercely.

(End of this chapter)