107 Opening of the Ocean Gods Graveyard. (2/2)
Fang Ying's lips curled up even more as she leaned on the table and pushed her face closer to Li Yang, who in return turned his head to the side, the corners of his mouth twitching slightly. Fang Ying tilted her head slightly, continuing to push with a faint smile.
”Come on now, tell me, just what happened on Ocean's Heart?”
Li Yang glanced at her out of the corner of his eyes, trying to come up with some sort of excuse. In the end, he could only let out a sigh and down his cup of wine.
”It was on Ocean's Heart that you beat me in a duel for the first time.”
The two frequently dueled each other, it was a good way for them to test out new moves and see if they had any weaknesses. But as Li Yang had been more suited for combat, he had won most of the duels. But the duel on Ocean's Heart became his first loss, quite a bad one too, it could be said to be a stain on his previously stellar achievement. Fang Ying's face bloomed into a faintly victorious smile, filling up Li Yang's cup with some more wine while talking.
”Yup yup, quite badly too, you didn't even stand a chance from the start, did you? If I remember correctly, you never even got to land a hit on me, am I wrong?”
The loss could only be called disastrous. There was no need to even talk about landing a hit on her, he hadn't even been able to touch the hem of her robes before losing. Li Yang drank some of the wine, clicking his tongue in defiance.
”Tch, that's only because you cheated. Had we fought like normal, I would have won.”
Fang Ying had won because the moment the battle started she had used her poison to have all the living beings in the ocean beneath them to enter a frenzied state, just barely having them listen to her orders. Facing the simultaneous attack of all the living beings on a planet was too much, especially for the caught off-guard Li Yang. Fang Ying burst into a light giggle when she heard his response and saw his pouting face, pouring herself some more wine.
”Don't whine just because you didn't think about using the terrain to your advantage, a win is a win.”
Had Li Yang just been given a second to react, he could have used his lightning to kill everything living in the ocean beneath them, rendering Fang Ying's efforts moot. Fang Ying leaned even closer, looking intently at Li Yang while slightly tilting her head.
”Or what are you saying, do you wanna have a duel right here and now? You were always so adamant about neither of us ever holding back, so I'll make sure to treat you, someone who can't even tell me his location, really gently and thoroughly.”
Only now did Li Yang understand why she had insisted on meeting here and digging up that shameful loss of his, it was because he hadn't told her his location when he sent her the messages. Truly, a woman was a being that would hold a grudge. Li Yang could only raise his arms in defeat and do his best to placate the beast in front of him, the days quickly passing while he was appeasing Fang Ying.
A week after the two reached the promised spot and sat down in the pavilion, the seal on the Ocean God's Graveyard had reached its weakest point, it would temporarily vanish in a few days. Fang Ying and Li Yang put away the pavilion, Langshen joining them again before the three of them headed for the location of the Ocean God's Graveyard.
The Ocean God's Graveyard's location was actually rather close to their current location, only a three day run away. It was located in the vast ocean that made up the eastern part of the continent, the only sign that something was strange about the area being countless glowing runes that formed a massive array. Normally these runes would be hidden, but as the seal was weakening, the runes became visible, marking the location of the Ocean God's Graveyard.
Fang Ying and Li Yang were sitting in the air high above the runes, using a piece of solidified space as a platform they could sit on. Five days after their arrival, the last of the light-green runes vanished, a massive whirlpool appearing in the ocean, sucking in everything in the surroundings. Li Yang and Fang Ying could feel that there was a thin membrane of space located at the halfway point of the whirlpool, there was clearly another hidden realm located past that membrane, the actual Ocean God's Graveyard. The moment the last rune vanished, the expressions of Li Yang and Langshen changed slightly, turning solemn. Fang Ying, not having felt what they had, quickly questioned them.
”What is it?”
Li Yang didn't immediately respond, his eyes narrowing as his gaze nearly drilled a hole into the whirlpool. After a short moment of silence, the corners of his mouth curved up slightly.
”Divine Beasts, several of them even. They probably forgot to hide the aura of their blood after having been locked up here for so long. They retracted their auras as quickly as they could, but I was still able to sense them thanks to my own bloodline.”
He had sensed the auras of several Divine Beasts the moment the last seal vanished. He hadn't been able to check how strong they were, they had pulled back their auras too fast for that. But he had been able to sense at least six different auras, meaning that there were at least six different Divine Beasts within the Ocean God's Graveyard, a rather incredible number. Li Yang's lips curved up further, revealing his sharp canine teeth as his smile turned ferocious.
”Ying'er, those Divine Beasts, I need as much of their Essence Blood as possible. With it, I should be able to awaken Jinwu and the Shenlong twins.”
It would be a while before Li Yang could kill a cultivator at the Celestial Immortal realm and steal his Essence Blood, so he thought he would have to wait for quite a while before he could wake up Jinwu and Shenlong again. But now, with the presence of several Divine beasts confirmed, he could kill them and harvest their Essence Blood for Jinwu and Shenlong. Fang Ying nodded her head, her brows furrowing slightly.
”You say that, but I don't think just the two of us are enough to take on several Divine Beats.”
They didn't know just how strong these Divine Beasts were, but no matter how low their cultivation was, they would still be Divine Beasts, killing them would not be easy. Li Yang continued to smile, stretching out his arm and pointing at the countless groups of people that had gathered around the whirlpool.
”Why should we do it with just the two of us? There's plenty of people here, I refuse to believe that not one of them will be drawn to the Divine Beasts and try to fight them out of greed. With so many people here, I expect that the Divine Beasts are going to have quite a rough time.”