"Wait a minute, I have an idea."
Just when they were about to be strangled to death by the quiet atmosphere, Liu Shenghan suddenly came up with an idea. Bai Ya and Qi Huan both looked at her as if grasping at straws, which made her a little embarrassed.
"Well, I'm not sure..."
"It's better than starving to death here."
"Fire again."
They didn't know what Liu Shenghan had planned, but this proposal was indeed suspicious. Don't let Mr. Shuangyue spread their ashes before they are burned to death by the fire of Dragon Palace.
"Do you have a hobby of consuming other people's internal energy for fun?" Shuangyue Jun looked at her.
"It's just a drop in the bucket for you...can you do it?"
Bai Ya and Qi Huan couldn't figure out what she was going to do, but in view of past experiences, they still had a little trust in her. This time, Lord Shuangyue was a little dissatisfied. However, just when they thought Lord Shuangyue would pursue the question, he was not prepared to talk anymore.
"Back off."
Is he going to do it? He really trusted Shenghan. The three of them kept retreating until they hid inside the cylindrical space. Mr. Shuangyue raised his hand and looked at his posture this time, indicating that he was not going to have a small fight like before. The mysterious smoke-like cold fire was like pieces of soft silk. Although the formation was much softer than before, a large number of "fire ribbons" as vivid as life spurted out from his hands. They wrap around the rows of rocks like snakes, agile and dazzling, with a different kind of vitality. Then, the fire became even more ferocious - the white flames bit and hit the rocks, strangling them severely, trying to break the stone pillars into pieces.
The reefs began their own counterattack: growth.
The rumble continued, but still not from vibrations, but from the stretching of the stone. The tempering and baptism of fire cannot defeat them, but inject new vitality like nourishment. The stone pillars grew taller and stronger, almost touching the ceiling of the second floor. There are only a few gaps between the rows of stone pillars.
The fire subsided and the three of them took a few steps forward.
"Don't come over yet."
Lord Shuangyue suddenly spoke and they stopped. Seeing, in the gaps between the stone pillars, the silver mercury slowly rose again, as if there was a platform below that lifted the mercury and the rocks up. The mercury shimmered and quickly calmed down. Now, it has returned to the water level when they came, like a mirror-connected ground, except that there is a large area of reef than when they came.
Use fire to nourish earth, and earth generates metal.
"Isn't this more troublesome?"
"I understand." Lord Shuangyue suddenly understood something, "You want to level them."
"That's right."
"What is bulldozed? What is bulldozed?"
"Only by stimulating water on this road can we move forward."
"Ah...I understand."
However, the next steps are difficult. If the power of the stone pillar symbolizing earth is strengthened, the magic of fire cannot be continued, because fire and metal are in conflict with each other, and the gold used to promote water - that is, mercury - will fall again. If "soil" is applied directly, no matter where you find so much sand, even if it forms water that blends with the sea, it will be eroded by the excess "soil".
"We need just the right amount of 'gold'."
After Qi Huan thought about it, he came to this conclusion. As he spoke, his eyes fell on Bai Ya's knife.
"Don't you feel uncomfortable if you don't think about this knife for a day?" Bai Ya glared back, "Besides, this is only a few kilograms of iron, how can it completely transform so much mercury?"
"Although it is a sword struck by Shui Wujun, in the end it is just an ordinary thing." Liu Shenghan shook his head gently, "It would be nice if there were unusual iron tools."
Bai Ya and Qi Huan suddenly looked at Lord Shuangyue again.
"What are you doing, trying to plot the Demon-Sealing Blade?"
"The Demon-Sealing Blade is not ordinary iron...and besides, aren't you eager to get rid of this thing? Look -"
"Don't even think about it." Shuangyue Lord tilted his head back slightly and narrowed his eyes, as if to warn, "The person recognized by the Demon-Sealing Blade is its real scabbard. The scabbard and the blade symbiotically exist and perish together, except for the change of owner. , there is no other way. Although I am a dead person, I don’t want to put the Demon-Sealing Blade in a place like this. If I can’t even go back and can’t see the Lord, it’s a trivial matter to be removed from the name, but it’s meaningless to lose my soul. I’ll just You've already given me enough face when you come here, but don't push yourself too far."
It seems that using the Demon-Sealing Blade won't work either. However, Qi Huan soon thought of a new idea.
"Eh... wait, don't we have an unusual weapon?" 3800
"What?"
"You are stupid." Qi Huan hit Bai Ya, "Quick, quick, take it out."
"...Are you crazy?"
If there are unusual weapons that are also forged from Shura and otherworldly gold, there is indeed one more.
"It's not mine anyway, so I don't feel bad." Qi Huan said seriously.
"..."
Under the gaze of the other three people, Bai Ya took off the Demon-Conquering Pestle from his waist.
The Demon-Conquering Pestle still looks golden, with fine workmanship, sharp ends, and the whole body exudes a lavender polarized light. Since Liu Shenghan's inference is correct, and the magic weapon of this barrier seems to have no other use, why not...
"Okay, I'll do it."
After saying that, he swam forward, leaned down to be parallel to the ground, then stretched out his hand and slowly placed the end of the magic pestle onto the flat mercury surface.
He felt a strong pull.
Bai Ya didn't intend to let go, but swung his legs to fight against the force. The Demonic Pestle was swallowed up bit by bit at an extremely slow speed. Qi Huan immediately grabbed him and swam backward with all his strength. Others also stepped forward to help. The mercury began to fall again, and ordinary seawater slowly replaced it from above. Hopefully the current impact of the reef isn't enough to shake up the new waters. But there seemed to be something hidden under the mercury. It tightly clamped the tip of the Demon-Conquering Pestle, engaging in a power struggle with them, as if they would not give up until the weapon was broken. Moreover, blisters suddenly appeared one after another on the originally smooth mercury surface, slowly and sticky.
Gradually, relying on the strength of the four people, something was slowly pulled out of the water.
A mouth - yes, a mouth, firmly biting the tip of the magic pestle. Some smoke spread from where they touched, as if the Demonic Pestle had caused some damage to it. But it still didn't let go, and the layers of mercury wrapped around its body faded away, finally allowing them to see its true appearance.
Hunchbacks, horse ears, antlers, fish scales, griffons—and long tentacles.
...is it a dragon?
When the smaller half of its body fully emerged from the mercury, they realized how huge the monster in front of them was. The liquid metal slipped from its body, revealing its rough horn and shiny scales. Its widened eyes were as red as blood, as if they were filled with anger, and uncontrollable madness was about to move within them.
If he were a normal person, he would have been so frightened that his legs would weaken, and he would have thrown away the magic pestle and run for his life. But Bai Ya knew very well, escape? Where is it safe to run away to? No matter how big the entire Dragon Palace is, it is only this big, and you can't escape no matter how you run. With quick eyesight and quick hands, Qi Huan swung out his hidden sword and stabbed it into the dragon's jaw from bottom to top. Even though the skin there is relatively fragile, it is still not soft enough, not to mention that the size of the entire faucet is equivalent to half a human body. With Qi Huan's power and the knife, not even a scratch would be left.
However, this move obviously made the dragon with dark red scales feel uncomfortable. It loosened its mouth slightly, and several people were thrown out due to inertia. Those fangs were really terrifying, the largest one was almost as long as Bai Ya's scimitar.
Probably as revenge, Qi Huan was kicked out hard.
He fell heavily against the wall of the Crystal Palace, and the hard protrusion of the dragon's head pressed tightly against his chest. He felt that his ribs were about to be broken - no, they were already broken, but the sound that reached his ears through the body and the water was not very clear, so he could not tell. When he completely felt the severe pain coming from his chest, all the strength in his body was about to dissipate.
A large group of bubbles came out of Bai Ya's mouth, and he seemed to scream subconsciously, but he couldn't be heard. Qi Huan tried his best to adjust his inner breath, hoping to make his body stronger. But this was of no use in the face of pure power. In addition to his chest, he also heard a shattering sound on his back, which came from the walls of the Crystal Palace.
Guoyi has strong toughness and should not be easily torn into pieces. But it is not hard, and the pain caused by external forces is real. Qi Huan didn't know if there was something rotten about him, he only saw blood. A large mass of red spread in the sea water, blurring his vision. Even the outline of the dragon's head could not be seen clearly.
Is it his sight or his consciousness that is distracted?
Before he could figure out the problem, a black figure quickly rushed into the side of the dragon head from the side. Under the influence of this force, it staggered its head. Qi Huan slowly slid down, leaving a long blood trail on the transparent wall. It won't be long before they disappear into the waves. When he fell down, he happened to see Lord Shuangyue.
Mr. Shuangyue stood on the dragon's head and felt that his feet just weren't strong enough. Otherwise, how could this beast still have so much strength to shake his head randomly? Most of its body had already poked out of the mercury, and the front half of its body kept hitting the solid rocks. The rocks were constantly vibrating, stirring up the mercury into strange patterns. It began to form irregular balls, spreading upward little by little, interspersed among the collapsed and broken reefs. Although he was under the deep sea, Lord Shuangyue was as nimble as on land. He nimbly dodged the flying mercury, stepped on or around large pieces of gravel step by step, and always landed back on the red dragon. , like a fly, I can’t get rid of it.
Bai Ya and Liu Shenghan quickly came to Qi Huan and dragged him to a safe circular area. His face was pale, obviously a symptom of excessive blood loss. Liu Shenghan's expression didn't look good either - she wasn't optimistic.
"The heart... was not stabbed by the broken bone. It can still be saved, but -"
But this is not land. Let alone a medical clinic, there are no tools that can be used for first aid.
Liu Shenghan groped his chest twice with his hands, but he had lost all feeling. But his alveoli have been severely compressed, making every breath difficult. He opened his mouth wide, trying to get more oxygen, but to no avail.
"We're not going down." Liu Shenghan held his stiff hand, "After passing this level, we'll find a way to go back."
But everyone knows that according to the structure of the Dragon Palace, they will never come back. This is just her comforting words.
"Leave me alone." Although they lost the ability to speak, their dialogue was never achieved through "speaking." Qi Huan said firmly, "I know it's hopeless."
His pupils became dull, and the "voice" gradually faded in their minds, losing its original vivid power.
