Chapter 1737

But he had to be heroic in his speech: "I originally wanted to check Upside-Down Lake. Isn't the Illusion Sect planning to ambush us here? Give them a chance!" His calmness and composure greatly encouraged those around him. But Bai Ziqi knew clearly that the difficulty of hollowing out the cave this time far exceeded the past; if his side was not careful, the possibility of failure was great.

Miaozhantian God had already clearly sent a message that the large-scale divine art "Time Trick" protecting the fleet could not be used again in a short time. In the opponent's illusion, it was clearly a bit strenuous for the Heavenly God to cast divine power.

If the Upside-Down Sea raised a tsunami again, or some large-scale divine ability that was difficult for humans to resist, Bai Ziqi's fleet might suffer major losses.

Before this situation appeared, he had to lead his men to land on Silver Pearl Island as soon as possible, so as not to let the opponent recover and release another big move.

The Illusion Sect has its own helplessness, and Bai Ziqi also has his own unspeakable urgency.

The opened Upside-Down Lake had turned into a large bay with an irregular polygon, and the fleet naturally wanted to dock nearby. The lake shore was full of stone beaches, the pebbles were white, and the lake bed slope was gentle, suitable for docking.

The characteristic here is silence; as soon as the fleet sailed in, it was like entering a dragon's pool, and there was no miscellaneous sound around, even the wind was at rest, only the gurgling sound of rowing water.

Despite the blessing of magic, the ships moved slower and slower, as if dragging a thousand-jin weight underneath.

Standing on the ship's side and looking down, the water surface was sparkling, and no abnormality could be seen, but if the perspective was switched to below the water surface and a light was shone, the scene in front of everyone would definitely make everyone's hair stand on end:

Every large ship, below the waterline, was wriggling!

Look closely, these are not water plants, but dense monsters.

Some look like humans, some don't; some have three eyes, some have two gills, some have human-like bodies but pointed ears and bald heads, some have dark blue skin covered with fish scales...

In short, the appearance is very abstract, but without exception, they are all ugly.

No matter who encounters them in the deep water, it's like having a nightmare.

These things shuttled back and forth on the bottom of the lake, and the number was increasing; those attached to the bottom of the ship were becoming denser, and even two thick layers were attached to the bottom of Bai Ziqi's flagship.

In order to fight for a little space, they even fought each other.

The ship's body originally had multiple layers of defensive arrays, not allowing them to be so rampant, but the arrays had basically been destroyed after hard-taking several rounds of the Illusion Sect's great divine abilities, and they hadn't had time to replenish them, and the monsters hadn't launched an attack, so the people on the ship were unaware.

But with them all lying on the bottom of the ship, the ship was very heavy.

The Luodian general ordered his subordinates: "Find someone to go to the bottom of the ship and see what's dragging the ship's speed."

The Luodian people were mainly land soldiers, and few could swim; the unlucky one chosen had no way to shirk, so he had to go into the water unhappily.

Then he never returned.

Just during the time everyone was waiting, there was movement at the stern of the last two large ships:

The water monsters quietly climbed up along the ship's body; just as a sentry was urgent, he walked to the stern to relieve himself. He unzipped his pants and looked down, suddenly meeting a pair of copper-bell-sized eyes! "Ah..." He was startled and was about to draw his sword, but he was dragged down.

But this sound still alarmed his companions; everyone had just drawn their weapons when they saw one monster after another bursting out from the stern, strange-shaped, ferocious and ugly, rushing up like a tide!

The alarm bell rang on one ship after another, because the water monsters launched an attack almost at the same time.

Fourteen large ships, not one was left out, all were visited by water monsters.

The warriors brought by the Tiangong were all well-trained elites, very brave, and could chop off a monster's head with a wave of their swords. The individual combat power of these monsters was indeed not as good as theirs, but the quantity was shockingly large! They climbed up from under the water along the ship's body, like an ant army rushing toward prey, dense and endless! Each warrior could chop off one head, five heads, or even thirty heads, but could they chop off a hundred? They say that many ants can bite an elephant to death; this is the most vivid portrayal.

Only less than a quarter of an hour after the war started, dozens of soldiers revealed flaws when surrounded, were accidentally dragged down, and then—

And then they were torn to pieces, and even their screams couldn't last seven or eight breaths.

The most miserable thing was not dying immediately, watching their own bellies being ripped open, and their intestines, liver, and stomach being hard-pulled out, becoming living meat for the monsters to fight over!

"Gather on the deck, don't be alone!" The generals' roars came one after another. "Form an array to deal with them!"

On one large ship, five sorcerers joined forces to cast spells, releasing more than ten fire crows. They were covered in flames, and as long as they flew around the large ship, countless water monsters were ignited by the true fire and fell into the water screaming.

Every time they flew a circle, they could clear a large wave of monsters.

But the problem is, the water monsters were not afraid of death, rushing one after another, and couldn't be killed at all.

Could it be that the bottom of Upside-Down Lake is directly connected to hell, so it can endlessly transport monsters to the ship?

Bai Ziqi's flagship received special care from the water monsters, with 2,000 starting from the 1,000 that climbed onto other ships. However, his defensive power was the strongest here, and everyone just had to gather their defenses, and the monsters couldn't break through for a while.

"Night-fork!" Bai Ziqi frowned after seeing these monsters clearly.

Isn't this the man-eating monster Night-fork in the fishermen's mouths? Every time the storm wall disappears, they might rush out of Upside-Down Lake to do evil. But this time they weren't looking for trouble with mortals, but fighting the Tiangong team.

Bai Ziqi looked back at the fleet; every ship was covered with dense water monsters, and his flagship had the most, with no space for a foot to step outside the defensive circle.

A rough estimate is that there are at least 20,000 monsters out of the water.

Even the Tiangong team had to helplessly reduce their numbers when facing them; if this number of water monsters were released on Silver Pearl Island, I'm afraid all the living people would be eaten to extinction! The commoners on Silver Pearl Island total only 100,000 or so.

Bai Ziqi had heard from fishermen that the most terrifying water monster attack in history, with only 2,000 or so coming out of the lake together, caused the death of more than 30,000 people on Silver Pearl Island!

How come the number of water monsters coming out of the lake increased by more than ten times as soon as the Tiangong team arrived? Bai Ziqi became interested and waved his hand at his Bai Wei: "Drag that corpse over! Yes, drag it directly over."

Bai Wei just happened to kill a seven-foot-tall water monster; this thing looked like a human, with legs standing upright, green skin and bulging eyes, and a big mouth that could split to the back of the ears, with rows of yellow teeth turning outward.

Bai Ziqi put on gloves, cut it open with one knife, and directly gave it an open-chest dissection. This monster didn't bleed, but emitted white foam.

He grabbed both sides of the knife cut and pulled it open with force.

The feeling of this was wrong; it didn't have the firmness and toughness of a flesh-and-blood body, but rather like rotten meat left for more than ten days, loose and slippery, with a hole for every poke.

After the monster's chest cavity was opened, everyone looked, and they were even more stunned:

The internal organs also emitted foam, and the abdominal cavity was full of water.

In just a few breaths, the digestive tract melted away under everyone's eyes, like ice melting into water.

In less than half a cup of tea, the whole monster melted, without leaving any residue, and the deck was full of water stains and foam.

However, a thin, shallow gray mist that was difficult for human eyes to see rose from the monster's body and drifted toward the outside of the ship.

It was unlucky; it was illuminated by the lamp spirit as soon as it appeared. Bai Ziqi pulled out a hair, lightly scorched it in the lamp spirit's golden fire, and flicked it toward the gray mist.

With a "whoosh," the hair turned into a thin little binding rope, automatically binding the gray mist.

The gray mist struggled desperately, but it was to no avail. Bai Ziqi dragged it over to look, and then smoked it with the lamp spirit, and this thing revealed its true face:

A ghost.

It was a dead soul with a bloated body and facial features squeezed together.

Bai Shiqi saw it and said: "It's a water ghost!"

A drowned ghost living in the body of a Night-fork?

Bai Ziqi casually threw it to the lamp spirit and then said: "Bring another one."

Another water monster was dragged over for dissection and inspection.

The situation was exactly the same; it started to melt into water as soon as it died, from inside to outside, and finally nothing was left.

No wonder for so many years, the people of Silver Pearl Island couldn't figure out what the structure of these monsters was; the time they existed after death was too short, and even Bai Ziqi didn't have time to perform an autopsy.

A dead soul also floated up from this monster's body.

Bai Ziqi understood and pointed at the Night-fork on the ship: "Go!"

The lamp spirit suddenly became larger, dragging a long tail and patrolling the ship.

Under the golden light, everyone discovered that the newly dead Night-forks all emitted a little gray mist; they climbed over the ship's side and quickly threw themselves into the bottom of Upside-Down Lake.

Bai Ziqi took off his gloves and shook his head: "What Night-fork? They are all Qianhuan's puppets."

This is not a natural living thing! Then the question is, why does Qianhuan regularly release this kind of monster to Silver Pearl Island? Before one of his thoughts turned, there was an abnormal wind sound above. Immediately after, several Bai Wei shouted: "My Lord, be careful, the water monsters can fly!"

A water monster dived down from the sail, aiming directly at Bai Ziqi.

The lamp spirit rushed into the sky with a "whoosh," turned into an arrow, and pierced through it in one go.

Waiting for it to fall onto the deck, everyone raised the lamp to look; this thing actually had bat-like membrane wings on its back, and it could glide with the wind after climbing to a high place and jumping up.

In an instant, more and more winged water monsters climbed onto the ship's body. They jumped directly into the gathered soldiers to bite people, trying to tear open the defensive circle.

"The opponent releasing these things is just to consume our strength."

Earlier, the Illusion Sect used great divine abilities to consume the power of the Heavenly Gods, and now they sent water monsters to kill and injure the military power of the Tiangong team, using both methods. Bai Ziqi couldn't indulge them either, and immediately ordered, "Pass my order, each ship should offer the Heart-Calming Banner!"

Each ship had divine abilities to communicate news, and his instructions were passed on immediately; each ship opened a large white umbrella in the crowded area.

It looked like an oil-paper umbrella, with a pearl embedded in the umbrella head and more than a dozen thin, long cloth strips under the umbrella.

After all fourteen white umbrellas were opened, Bai Ziqi ordered again: "Beat the Soul-Shaking Drum."