Chapter 248: Help, Fellow Daoist! (1/2)
There seemed to be no end in sight to the expanse of dark crimson water. A thick, metallic tang burrowed into everyone’s noses, inducing spells of dizziness despite their iron wills.
Lu Yun had slapped a Silence Talisman over Mo Qitian’s mouth, which headed off multiple attempts to talk from the youth sovereign. They finally understood why the ghost in white had told them not to speak.
The lanterns on the ship radiated a special power that concealed the energy of a living being. If anyone spoke, the energy dispersing from their mouths and noses would attract the monsters in the crimson ocean. While the vast depths looked peaceful, within lurked terrible monsters the likes of which no one could begin to imagine.
They could glimpse the crimson humanoid lizards that’d devoured Lu Shenhou, as well as countless zombies and monsters made of bleached bones. They even encountered a skeletal dragon that spanned five thousand kilometers, will-o’-wisps burning in its head and wielding the power of a dao immortal. It twisted and flailed in the ocean as it fought another skeletal beast.
That was when Lu Yun had refined a Silence Talisman to shut Mo Qitian’s mouth. The man was so much more talkative than he seemed, making him the polar opposite of Zi Chen, who was a man of few words.
Lu Yun didn’t want him to alert the terrible beings in the ocean by running his mouth. The ghost was right; not even the Dao Flowers could save them, should the monsters notice them.
Bam!
Tall waves suddenly reared from the surface, sweeping aside the corpses and monsters in their path. However, the paper ships carrying Lu Yun and the others moved with the currents, unusually stable in face of the powerful waves.
A nine-headed skeletal dragon running three thousand kilometers long surged from the ocean, piercing howls sweeping through the air.
A nine-headed dragon!
This was a mythical dragon that existed only in legends! Even Aoxue thought of it as a mere story. Contemporary dragons themselves didn’t know if such an ancestor had ever existed, but here was living proof that it did!
In the next moment, both Lu Yun and Qing Han shot to their feet, eyes wide with disbelief. Qing Han clapped his hands tightly around his mouth to prevent even a peep from escaping. Lu Yun went a step further and stuck a dozen Silence Talismans to his lips to keep a yelp from escaping his mouth.
The nine-headed dragon was fighting another behemoth: the bottom half of a blue-black dragon!
It was about as long as the nine-headed dragon, but its rotten, scaled body was dripping with yellowish grey corpsewater. Black bones were visible through its rotting scales and flesh, and its two claws had deteriorated to the point of non-recognition.
It was the other half of the Azure Dragon King!
Back in the ancient times, someone had bisected the dragon king and ferried its upper body to the eastern tomb realm of the Skandha Extinction Tomb, setting up a curse against its kin. Fortunately, it had encountered the dying Sal Tree of Life and Death hidden within the tomb realm. It’d fused itself to the tree and recovered with the tree’s remaining vitality.
No one had expected to see the dragon king’s bottom half in the ocean of blood!
The bottom half likewise emanated piercing vibrations and fought the nine-headed dragon, their floundering and grappling raising tall waves and pulverizing countless skeletal creatures in the boundless ocean.