Chapter 1297: Chapter 1295 Dangerous Journey
The merman sighed inwardly. He wasn’t the type to let someone die without help. Earlier, during the battle with the devilfish, he noticed Ye You’s extraordinary skills and suspected they were related to that person. Sure enough, the facts proved it.
Although they hadn’t come from there, they were heading there, which meant the same to him. These two people who had saved his life ultimately couldn’t become his friends.
"Just keep swimming east, and you’ll reach his place in about two days." The merman tossed out one last sentence, then turned and swam swiftly into the distance.
Qin Sisi looked at his back and shouted, "What is your name?"
The merman didn’t stop, yet from the water came a soft reply: "Zhuo Chen."
Zhuo Chen quickly disappeared without a trace. Qin Sisi and Ye You sat on the fine sand to rest, softly discussing what Zhuo Chen had said.
Zhuo Chen said the guardian was selfish, narrow-minded, despicable, and shameless, which was bad news for them. If true, no matter how they begged, they wouldn’t be able to get the Life Divine Water from the guardian.
If they tried to steal it, Ye You wasn’t confident about defeating the guardian, considering that the opponent was a deity who survived for thousands of years.
No matter what, since they’d come all this way, they had to try.
Qin Sisi and Ye You continued on their journey, swimming eastward as Zhuo Chen had said. However, the journey was anything but smooth; they encountered unprecedented difficulties and dangers.
The creatures they’d encountered earlier generally wouldn’t attack unless provoked.
Yet, the creatures in this sea area were generally aggressive. Even if Qin Sisi and Ye You passed quietly, they would still be surrounded and attacked, as if this place didn’t welcome foreign species.
Moreover, perhaps because they were nearing the guardian’s dwelling, the creatures in this sea seemed to possess intelligence. They were much smarter than the ones they first encountered; these creatures couldn’t speak but their eyes clearly expressed emotions.
Qin Sisi could see only coldness and killing intent in their eyes. Additionally, they possessed a certain level of spiritual power, making their attacks noticeably stronger than the sea creatures they previously encountered, often catching Ye You and Qin Sisi off guard.
During their journey, just as they escaped one danger, they would immediately encounter another.
One time, just after escaping a dense water grass forest, they saw a giant squid waving terrifyingly long tentacles, rushing at them ferociously.
Escaping the pursuit of the colossal squid, they were eyed by a pink, gorgeous, enchanting jellyfish. Its semi-transparent pink umbrella floating down almost caused Qin Sisi to hear the crackling of electric currents.
Avoiding the beautiful yet dangerous jellyfish in the complex terrain of rocks, a large sea turtle hiding among the stones stealthily emerged and bit Qin Sisi’s tail hard, causing her to tear up in pain.
The omnipresent danger made Qin Sisi and Ye You suffer greatly; even the Earth Escape Skill was no longer safe as some plants and shrimp-crab type creatures could burrow into the sand. If discovered late, it could lead to injury.
To leave a good impression on the guardian, Ye You originally intended to avoid killing and focused on dodging and fleeing. But after Qin Sisi was bitten by the sea turtle, Ye You finally got angry.
These sea creatures were simply bullying people too much, seriously thinking they were weak and easy prey?
From then on, whenever they faced inexplicable attacks, Ye You would certainly fight back unreservedly. These animals, though domineering and fierce, didn’t possess particularly strong spiritual power and couldn’t compare to Ye You, who was a High-level Magic Emperor.
Thus, when a fight broke out, the battlefield quickly transformed into an Asura Field for Ye You alone. The creatures that came to stir trouble usually ended up annihilated, unless some particularly smart ones saw the unfavorable situation and fled fast enough to escape.
Qin Sisi, too, grew weary from escaping, so when Ye You wanted to fight, she rested on his back, releasing her magic power to form a shield, protecting their bodies, ensuring Ye You had no worries.
Strangely, ever since they began resisting forcefully, they encountered significantly fewer attacks. Some species that were severely taught a lesson by them would avoid them from afar later.
However, there would always be some forgetful or arrogant ones delivering themselves, so battles occurred almost daily, each lasting quite a while.
After battling, Qin Sisi and Ye You needed a good rest.
Time kept getting delayed that way; they traveled slowly, and Zhuo Chen’s supposed two-day journey took them nearly a month to complete.
This day, after crossing a towering undersea mountain, their view opened up.
Beyond the mountain was a vast plain area, where short, fluffy green grass grew on the seabed. It resembled a vast verdant grassland on land, brightening their mood.
In the middle of this great plain stood a delicate and ornate building, about a hundred meters long, three stories high, richly decorated with carved beams and pavilions, its walls and roof all stark white, without a trace of any other color, as if the entire structure was carved from ice and snow.
At the exquisite windows hung pearl curtains or swayed shell wind chimes, and as the seawater surged, faint collision sounds wafted through, pleasing to the ear.
There was a circular archway in the middle of the first floor, entirely white, with only sparse designs of emerald green coral. From afar, it resembled a few slender willow branches swaying amid falling snowflakes.
"Is it here?" After gazing at the stunning white building for a long time, Qin Sisi couldn’t help but ask softly, her mood subtly excited, having searched for so long, finally found it?
Ye You replied softly, "It should be. Let’s take a look."
The two slowly swam towards the white building at the center of the meadow, and during their approach, Qin Sisi suddenly felt something amiss, like something was missing.
As they finally stood before the white building, Qin Sisi glanced back, finally realizing what was wrong, a trace of worry flashing in her eyes.
She whispered to Ye You, "Xiao Hei, have you noticed that in this sea area, besides the grass, there are no other creatures?"
Ye You furrowed his brows and looked around; indeed, as Qin Sisi had said, in the sea area above the meadow and near the white building, the water was very clear, yet no fish, no shrimp, not even longer water plants could be seen.
All they could see was the deep blue water and the lush green grass, and the exquisite white building standing here alone.
