The Villain Saint is my secondary account

Ye Xiao surveyed his surroundings, estimated the duration of the underwater potion, and then, supporting himself against the wall, continued to probe downwards.

As he descended, the light in his field of vision became increasingly dim.

Darkness pressed in from all sides like a wall, making one feel suffocated and overwhelmed. Gradually, only the faint glow of the ring could guide the way.

The noise from the water's crashing surface gradually faded away, replaced by a deathly silence, and the sound of my own heavy breathing began to echo in my ears.

Although I was mentally prepared, it was still not a comfortable experience—I should have brought Li Cheng over to explore this pool, so that the guy wouldn't keep bragging about his glorious diving feats in Hawaii.

After descending about ten meters, Ye Xiao finally sank into the strange, cotton-like group of floating objects.

These things look like some kind of flaky algae. They can be easily brushed aside with your palm, but they will float back after a while and feel damp and sticky on your skin.

Ye Xiao pushed aside the inexplicable "black algae" and finally reached the top of the giant statue.

What came into view was a bronze head with a hood and a female figure.

Despite being corroded by the water, her gentle facial features, delicate and three-dimensional eyes, and high nose bridge make it easy to identify her as a young girl of Loren descent.

When Ye Xiao was looking at the statue from above, he already thought it was enormous, but when he actually stood up to it, he found that his entire body was not even as tall as the bronze statue's head.

He stood on the statue's shoulder, tossed a sapphire stone down, and looked down. In the cold light, he discovered that the statue was similar to the one he had seen earlier in the Samuel's Hermitage Hall, also possessing three pairs of arms of different shapes.

However, due to corrosion, its arms are covered with moss and rust spots, so it is no longer possible to tell whether they are arranged in the manner of old age, middle age, and young child, like the statues of the Mother of Arthritis.

And slightly different, each of these three pairs of arms has countless bronze chains attached to its fingers, and these chains run along the sloping stone wall above.

However, Ye Xiao clearly remembered that the face of the Arthropod Mother Goddess statue was obviously that of a young girl, which was quite different from the image of this obviously grown-up girl.

Could it be that the Samuel Order altered the image of the idol as the sect developed?

But what's the point of doing this? One day, the Arthropod Mother Goddess discovers that she actually prefers the image of a loli.

Moreover, Cui Xiu had told him that the Samuel Order had only moved into the capital about twenty years ago.

If that's the case, putting aside the statue itself, the intricate waterway structure on it must be at least a thousand years old, which doesn't match the time period depicted by the statue at all.

Could it be that... the Samuel Order established a foothold in Valond long before that?

Ye Xiao pondered for a while but couldn't figure it out. He had faked his death during the Samuel Order ceremony, so naturally he couldn't ask the people in the church.

We can only continue the investigation.

Ye Xiao jumped off the giant statue's shoulder and continued swimming down its tall bronze body.

Faced with this colossal creature, Ye Xiao, who was diving down, was like a tiny mayfly, grasping the only glimmer of light in the vast darkness, and slowly sinking to the deep seabed.

After a long while, Ye Xiao finally managed to reach the knees of the bronze statue.

At that moment, he suddenly saw three hunched figures lying at the feet of the giant statue directly below.

Holy crap, there are people in this godforsaken place?!

Ye Xiao quickly grabbed the bronze protrusion beside him, stopped his descent, and held his breath to examine it carefully.

The three people were curled up and motionless like shriveled shrimp, as if they were worshipping the huge statue, but their postures were somewhat stiff.

It didn't seem like he made the movement himself; it was more like someone forcibly bent his torso into this position.

What the hell? A believer who was martyred a thousand years ago?

If that were the case, wouldn't it have corroded away long ago?

Ye Xiao took a deep breath. The assassin's Shadow Step skill wasn't as effective underwater, but it was still usable. He used this to slowly approach the three strange figures along the ankles of the bronze colossus.

Chapter 160 Corpse Egg

The three figures lay motionless, seemingly blending into their surroundings.

Ye Xiao deactivated the fluorescent spell on the ring and swam closer, only then able to see the three strangely shaped human figures clearly with the help of the brilliance stones that had fallen to the bottom of the pool.

The three people appeared to be lifeless, their limbs stiff and bent at bizarre angles beyond human capabilities. They were all dressed in black robes embroidered with pale red speckled patterns, and they looked somewhat familiar at first glance.

This made Ye Xiao's heart skip a beat.

The robes of these three men were clearly identical to those worn by the three elders of the Samuel Order whom they had seen earlier in the hall.

Is it a coincidence?

The Samuel Order has a strict bloodline hierarchy, and the patterns on their robes theoretically follow strict etiquette; it's unlikely that just any believer could wear the same clothes as the elders.

Ye Xiao frowned slightly. The black robes worn by the three people did not appear to be worn out. The clear stitches and faintly visible patterns suggested that they were not products of the same era as the ancient and mottled bronze statue next to them.

But this made people even more uneasy, because if Ye Xiao understood correctly, it meant that the three of them had not been sunk here for a particularly long time.

The fact that the three corpses were forcibly bent into a prostrate kneeling position clearly has some religious significance.

If these three are elders of the Samuel Order, then who were the three people wearing ceramic masks we saw in the hall earlier?

At the same time, does this also mean that there is something else active at the bottom of this abandoned pool, which is nearly a thousand meters above the ground?

Ye Xiao swallowed hard. He had first relied on the rat familiar to squeeze through the nooks and crannies, and then used the anchor points on its body to teleport here. In theory, it should be difficult for a normal human to reach such a deep ruin.

But if it's not human... then what could it be?

Ye Xiao subconsciously turned her head to look behind her and suddenly had the illusion that there were other eyes watching from a corner she couldn't see.

But in the depths where the light of the gray stones could not reach, there was only tranquility and darkness.

Enough is enough. We'll deal with whatever comes our way. There's no need to worry unnecessarily.

When Ye Xiao turned around again, he was surprised to see that the three corpses had somehow sat up straight.

It seems they have already finished bowing to the statue and are now beginning to pray.

Ye Xiao was startled, and then immediately pulled out a sharp obsidian dagger from his waist.

Although the Shadow Chaser is also worn at the waist, the size of the long sword underwater makes it inconvenient to swing. A shorter dagger would be much more agile in close combat.

But the three corpses stopped moving, as if everything that had happened before was just an illusion.

Ye Xiao cautiously approached. The bottom of the pool was slippery and covered with a thick layer of the "black algae" that floated around it.

Upon closer inspection, the three corpses revealed their faces, swollen from being submerged in sewage. Their pale features were squeezed together, bulging and completely unrecognizable.

Ye Xiao frowned, not concerned about their appetizing appearance, but rather that their appearance meant that these three people had been in the water for a closer time than he had estimated, perhaps within the last few months or even days.

Suddenly, the three corpses shuddered violently, and strings of tiny bubbles emerged from beneath their tattered black robes.

Ye Xiao immediately spread his fingers on his left hand, which was adorned with a ring, and held it in front of him. The next moment, he saw translucent and slender limbs bursting out of the human's abdomen.

These limbs of varying lengths clung to the corpse from the inside, shaking and pulling its round torso out of its belly.

It was also a white, semi-transparent body, about the size of a basketball, with a head covered in densely packed compound eyes, and its newly grown fangs opening and closing slightly with the trembling of its mouthparts.

spider……?

Ye Xiao recognized the creatures before him; these corpses resembled three human-shaped placentas, from which these three enormous spiders had been born.

He held his breath and retreated, but the newly hatched spiders were exceptionally perceptive. The water flow caused by his footsteps alone attracted their attention, and they all turned their terrifying heads to look at where Ye Xiao was.

These spiderlings seemed to have an intense hunger for living creatures. They tore open the human-shaped cocoons that trapped them, and swam towards Ye Xiao like torpedoes, their legs moving rapidly.

As Ye Xiao retreated, he immediately began chanting a spell. The water swirled and gathered in his palm, twisting into a spiral-shaped spear that shot out.

The abundant water elemental power struck the spider swimming at the front, but had no effect whatsoever, instantly disintegrating into chaotic bubbles.

Such high resistance to water?

Ye Xiao immediately unleashed another spell. This time, the violent lightning was bound in his palm, and with a wave of his hand, it transformed into a blue crescent moon that slashed across the spider's head.

The effect was exactly the same as before; the surging lightning disintegrated into hundreds of tiny arcs of electricity as soon as it touched the spider's head, which was covered with compound eyes.

Neither of the two rapidly chanted spells had any effect, as the spider's enormous body had already pressed against them.

Holding only a small dagger, Ye Xiao did not want to engage in close combat with these three creatures. He dodged the biting fangs and thrust his dagger into their foreheads.

Despite the resistance from the water flow, Ye Xiao's physical attributes and the sharpness of the dagger were enough to pierce through the concrete floor slab. However, when he stabbed the spider's head, it felt as if the force in his hand had been poured into a bottomless pit and inexplicably disappeared.

Ye Xiaoxin sensed something was wrong. He hadn't expected to be able to pierce the spider's head so easily; he just wanted to use this opening to jump up and escape the attack of the three spiders.

But now that force seemed to have been completely swallowed up, and his body couldn't get any strength back, so he stood still like a fool.

It's impossible to fight underwater.

Seeing the three spiders about to pounce, Ye Xiao decisively recited the teleportation spell, using the anchor knife he had placed on the pool bank to teleport at the last second.

Above the sewage tank.

Ye Xiao, soaking wet, suddenly appeared, startling Greta, who was grooming herself, so much so that she jumped up from the rock. "Old Wu!!!"

"Have you started to change even your habits?" Ye Xiao chuckled and teased, then gripped the hilt of the knife at his waist and turned to face the sewage pool.

"Is there anything down there?" Greta asked, noticing Ye Xiao's expression.

“Three… Oh, they’re here.” Ye Xiao was about to give a brief introduction when three splashes of water rose from the dark pool surface, and three translucent spiders shot into the air like cannonballs.

They spun and hung from the top of the waterway, their open mouths spraying out several milky-white threads that intertwined into a net, gathering towards Ye Xiao's location.

But Ye Xiao, no longer in the water, was no longer as restrained as before. He drew his long sword from his waist, and the dazzling cold light split into three branches that pierced through the spider web.

Chapter 161 Time Lag (Happy New Year!)

The spider silk was snapped by the blade and scattered like snowflakes.

Ye Xiao then drew his sword and engaged in a fierce battle with the three nimble spiders in the dark waterway. Their figures intertwined, and the flashes of their swords created a chaotic scene, with the crisp sound of metal clashing echoing all around.

Greta, standing to the side, stretched out her claws, and a deep red magic circle spread out, catching a strand of spider silk and delivering it to her.

“Huh, this is…” Greta examined the spider silk, her eyes widening slightly.

"Any discoveries, little scientist?" Ye Xiao asked while battling his knife against the hard spider legs, keeping an eye on the commotion around him.

“The magic concentration in these spider silks is so high,” Greta said, stroking her plump chin with her little paws. “There are hardly any impurities; they don’t seem like the products of ordinary monsters.”

"No wonder these weird things are so sticky," Ye Xiao dodged the spider's attack and then began to peel away the spider web wrapped around the knife. "Can you see their weaknesses?"

Although it's not impossible to cut these spider webs, it's not easy; after a few cuts, the blade gets wrapped with more and more silk.

“I’m not a prophetic mage who can see through weaknesses,” Greta waved her claws, “but these monsters all carry a faint divine quality. Where did you get them from?”

"I didn't do this; they crawled out of the stomachs of several corpses underwater." After saying this, Ye Xiao pushed off with his foot, pulled out a blade of light, and clashed with the spider that pounced in mid-air.

"It's a newborn." Greta nodded. "Ye Xiao, can you catch one?"

"I can't even cut these damn things down..." Ye Xiao panted heavily. After several rounds of fierce fighting, he discovered that the bodies of these spiders seemed to be covered with some kind of strange formation. No matter how much force or how powerful the spell, it would sink to the bottom of the sea.

"Why don't you try the divine magic your girlfriend bestowed upon you, or the time-space magic of a miracle mage? These diamond-blooded monsters are naturally affinity for the elements, so mortal tricks probably won't work so well."

"Diamond bloodline??" Ye Xiao was stunned. These three broken spiders were actually creatures of the same level as dragons?

“I just suspect that the containers in which they were born were rather crude. Although they have noble bloodlines, they are not as good as true diamond-blooded races,” Greta explained. “It’s like fine wine in a crude wooden cup; the flavor will be ruined to some extent.”

"Alright, I hope this place won't collapse with one chop." Helpless, Ye Xiao could only wave at the staff leaning against the wall and summon it into his hand.

The staff moved on its own without wind, flying into Ye Xiao's palm. He had used this new staff for a long time, and now it was going to be ruined again.

After all, Ella's powerful divine spells are beyond the capacity of ordinary magical catalysts to withstand.

Fortunately, as an epic-level longsword, "Shadow Chaser" can probably withstand being ignited by "Osmon's Holy Flame".

Releasing the holy flame required a short incantation time, so Ye Xiao had to first parry the spider's attack, symbolically slashing at its torso before dodging to prepare his spell...

Wait.

Ye Xiao suddenly noticed that before he struck the spiders with his longsword, a faint light seemed to flash across the part of the back where the sword made contact.

Previously, Ye Xiao hadn't realized that the other party was carrying a natural magical barrier, so he hadn't paid attention. Now that he saw it, Ye Xiao wondered if that was the magical barrier.

It seems the opponent only sets up a defense a moment before his longsword hits. Come to think of it, force is mutual. If this kind of spell that can neutralize the force is always active, how can it hang itself on the wall with spider silk?

The tension of the spider silk will be dissolved, making it impossible to do work on it.

Noticing this, Ye Xiao immediately changed tactics. Before engaging the spider that pounced in front of him, he raised the tip of his staff and chanted a spell: "Time freezes, all things cease!"

"buzz"

Invisible ripples seemed to bloom in mid-air, and a spherical time-delay field appeared, covering the spider's head.

The movement of half of his body was forcibly slowed down, as if he had plunged headfirst into a pool full of glue.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ye Xiao slashed out with his sword. He was unaffected by the time lag field, and the speed at which the blade fell did not slow down at all.

As expected, a faint glimmer of water appeared on the spider's head again, but before it could form and block the blade's edge, the long sword easily slashed into the enormous head.