PDLP Chapter 148 Red Skeleton
Chapter 148 Red Skeleton
The dive went smoothly and it took almost an hour to reach the bottom of the lake.
At this time, a dark blue liquid emitting a bright blue light had settled in the depression just below Hua Li. It was a lake within a lake. Colorful auroras flashed above it from time to time. It was undoubtedly the entrance to the blessed land.
The three of them looked at each other, Shi Zhixing made a gesture and swam into the dark blue liquid first, Hua Xue followed closely behind, and Hua Li was the last.
After entering the lake, Hua Li suddenly felt the water pressure on his body disappear. He looked up and saw ripples above his head, with light shining through. It seemed like the surface of the lake. The three of them swam towards the lake without hesitation.
As soon as they emerged from the lake, they were sucked away by a suction force. When they came to their senses, they were already standing in the hall of a strange palace. There were flashing colorful lights inside, and rare corals of various properties were planted everywhere. The water-attributed spiritual energy was pure and rich.
The spiritual energy in Hua Xue's meridians became active, and her cultivation began to loosen up. She looked at Hua Li and exclaimed, "I'm going to condense my meridians!" Then she sat cross-legged and began to absorb the spiritual energy.
Hua Li raised an eyebrow, not expecting him to arrive so quickly. He casually set up a defensive formation for Hua Xue, and then explored the hall with Shi Zhixing. The corals and strange stones inside were good materials for refining medicine and weapons and should not be missed.
Outside the Fairy Lake, after Hua Li and the other two entered the Mermaid Ancient Tomb, the mirage in the sky began to dissipate, leaving only the colorful aurora.
Seeing this, Yun Mengze sighed. It seemed that he still underestimated Captain Shi.
When the mirage dissipated, the entrance to the blessed land would also be closed. The crowd watching on the shore dispersed in boredom. No one expected that the people who finally entered the blessed land were not the people from the three major families they bet on, but Hua Shi who came from behind.
When the dust settled, the Yun family ship left first. Yun Xue Ning, who was standing on the deck, had a dark light in her eyes. She was considering whether to include Shi Zhixing in her list of candidates for her husband. After all, his abilities and looks were both top-notch, which made her reluctant to let him go.
Maybe, when he comes out, I can extend him an olive branch.
Another person who had the same wild ideas was Shen Yunyan, who regretted that she did not insist, otherwise she would definitely have been among the people who entered the blessed land.
The Nangong family and the Gu family were not in a hurry to leave. There were many high-level jade fish in the Fairy Lake that had miraculous effects on nourishing and tempering the body. Since they came here, they could not return empty-handed, so they took out their tools and jumped into the lake to start fishing.
In the blessed land, Hua Xue was wrapped in a huge water ball and began to condense water spirit veins.
Hua Li and Shi Zhixing put all the corals and strange stones in the hall into the space and sat on Hua Xue's left and right to protect her.
Four hours later, the water ball gradually shrank and was completely absorbed by Hua Xue into the Water Spirit Vein, forming a condensed vein.
Hua Xue opened her eyes and felt the strength of her body after entering the Condensed Veins Realm, and she was filled with joy.
"Congratulations on your successful meridian solidification, elder sister!" Hua Li's lips curled up, he was really happy for his elder sister.
"Thank you, Fourth Sister and Brother-in-law, for protecting me."
"Well, then what should we do next to activate the formation and leave the palace hall?" Shi Zhixing said.
Hua Xue then realized that the hall was empty. She looked around but couldn't find any passage or door.
"Yeah," Hua Li responded, pulling Shi Zhixing and Hua Xue to the only stone statue of a mermaid against the north wall and inputting spiritual energy into it, causing the statue to emit a bright light.
A vortex suddenly appeared behind Hua Li and sucked people in. Shi Zhixing was quick to grab Hua Li's wrist and was also pulled in.
When Hua Xue reacted, another vortex appeared and sucked her in.
Hua Li woke up and found herself lying in Shi Zhixing's arms in an ice lotus. She looked up and saw that Shi Zhixing had not woken up yet, so she sat up and observed the situation around her.
The cave was filled with piles of top-quality spiritual jade. In the center of the cave sat a skeleton in a fiery red robe. Judging from the style of the robe and the hairstyle, it was that of a female cultivator.
Hua Li was almost blinded by so many top-grade spiritual jades. They were really top-grade. One thousand pieces of high-grade spiritual jades were worth one piece of top-grade spiritual jade.
They have made a fortune!
As soon as their feet stepped out of the ice lotus, they immediately shrank back because of the burn. There was no fire outside but the temperature was extremely high. There was a red flame at the entrance of the cave in the distance. It seemed that they were teleported into the volcanic cave.
The soul domain expanded and wrapped the entire ice lotus inside to isolate it from the high temperature outside. The ice lotus dissipated as if it had completed its mission and turned into a point of light and merged into Shi Zhixing's body. Not long after, Shi Zhixing opened his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief to see Hua Li beside him.
Seeing Shi Zhixing wake up, Hua Li withdrew to the soul realm and released his soul power to explore the surroundings. Although the temperature outside was high, they could still bear it. There was no need to waste soul power and spiritual energy.
Hua Li retracted his soul power and looked at Shi Zhixing and said, "It seems that we have been teleported into a volcanic cave. The trouble is the sacred beast-level fire-attributed red dragon snake in the magma below the cave."
Her current level is at the peak of the spirit beast level, and with her bloodline level, it is not a problem for her to deal with the red dragon snake. However, the red skeleton sitting cross-legged in the center is so deep that even her soul power cannot see through it as it is always blocked by a thin film.
"Hmm." Shi Zhixing also withdrew his soul power and analyzed: "This volcanic cave seems to be a closed space. There is no exit and no trace of a teleportation array. It is too clean. This is a bit weird."
Hua Li nodded in agreement. It looked like a cage and not at all like a mermaid's cave.
Finally, the two people's eyes stayed on the red skeleton, a normal yet extremely abnormal existence.
Thinking of Nangong Si's experience of being almost possessed by the remnant soul of ten thousand years, Hua Li did not let Shi Zhixing get close to the red-clothed skeleton. With a wave of his hand, half of the top-grade spiritual jade in the cave was collected into the space, and said: "Put the spiritual jade into the space first."
"Okay." Shi Zhixing quickly put the other half of the top-grade spiritual jade into the space, and the whole cave suddenly became much emptier.
Hua Li walked forward and approached the red-clothed skeleton, reaching out to take the golden bead in the skeleton's hand. It seemed that this was blocking her soul power. As soon as her fingers touched the golden bead, the red robe spontaneously ignited and turned into strands of golden threads to form a binding array.
Shi Zhixing was shocked, and he moved forward to pull Hua Li out, but was bounced away by the golden thread.
Everything happened in a flash, and Hua Li was trapped in the formation before he could react.
It was at this time that the red snake in the magma woke up, emerged from the fiery red magma, and swam towards the cave.
Shi Zhixing saw that the huge snake head blocking the cave entrance had no intention of attacking, so he shifted his attention to the golden threads that bound the formation. He took out the Qingxue Sword and slashed at it, trying to break the golden threads.
When the red dragon snake saw someone attacking the formation, it roared angrily and quickly shrank its body to attack Shi Zhixing.
Shi Zhixing held the Qingxue Sword in his backhand and started to wrestle with the red dragon snake. On the night he was with Hua Li, he broke through to the transcendent realm, and with the blessing of the black lotus and the golden lotus, he was able to fight against the holy beast-level red dragon snake.
During the struggle, Zhixing discovered something was wrong. The red dragon snake's physical strength was more than several realms higher than its revealed strength, and even the Qingxue Sword could not break its scales.
Although the Qingxue Sword is a divine sword, the power it can exert depends entirely on the ability of its user. With his current ability, he cannot leave any marks on the scales. It can only be said that the physical strength of this red dragon snake is more than just at the divine beast level.
Fortunately, the red snake was not in full consciousness, and the black lotus' attack was very effective, able to restrain the red snake.
However, Shi Zhixing still had a bad feeling. The physical strength of the red snake exceeded that of a divine beast, so its origin was most likely from the upper realm. The red skeleton suspected to be the owner of the red snake was also most likely from the upper realm.