Chapter 2834: The Sea Emperor's Territory?

Seeing that the Earth Mother wasn't eating people and only asking questions, the man calmed down a bit and spoke more fluently, "But the Yakshas sent by the Sea Emperor will drive away the man-eating sea monsters for us!"

"Sea Emperor?" Hearing this name, the Earth Mother felt something was off, "Wait, what is the Sea Emperor's name?"

The man raised his hand and made a gesture at his chest to show respect: "His venerable name is 'Xuandu'!"

Ah crap! The Earth Mother froze.

This island belongs to the Sea Emperor Xuandu?

That's not right, isn't this the Dream Goddess's dream realm? How did he randomly intrude into Xuandu's sea island?

What kind of situation is this?

"Have you seen the Sea Emperor?"

"N-no, I haven't." The man smiled bitterly, "How could I have that kind of honor? But our Haidong Liao has worshipped the Sea Emperor for hundreds of years; every sacrificial day, Yakshas come into the city to collect offerings."

The Earth Mother's heart stirred: "Where do the Yakshas come from?"

The man pointed behind him: "From inside the lagoon."

Through his explanation, the Earth Mother learned that the island they were on was an atoll — an irregular ring-shaped reef with a lagoon at its center that experienced tidal rises and falls daily. Without exception, the Yakshas all emerged from within the lagoon.

So, where does the center of the lagoon lead to?

"Have you ever entered the lagoon?"

"I have, but I didn't dare dive deep." The man nodded repeatedly, "There's a black hole at the bottom of the lake; no one knows where it leads. The closer you get to this black hole, the stronger its suction. No one who has been sucked into it has ever returned."

Could it be the exit of this dream realm, or the entrance to the next dream realm? The sea island is only this big; there doesn't seem to be anywhere else to go.

The Earth Mother instinctively didn't want to stay on Xuandu's island.

It had never had a direct confrontation with the Sea Emperor Xuandu, but the bad blood between the two sides had long since been formed. When He Lingchuan went to steal the Hidden God Lord's body, he took a single step from the Glazed Sea Minor World and returned directly to the Earth Mother Plains, killed several immortals and demons, and only then left swaggeringly.

After that, Xuandu led the sea clans to obstruct Cang Yan's fleet, and Cang Yan didn't let him off either, dispatching immortals and armies everywhere to wipe out the Sea Emperor's forces — that's right, it was the Earth Mother who transported them there.

Relying on the fleet alone, it's very hard to defeat the sea clans; only a high-capacity platform like the Earth Mother that combines speed and stealth can transport troops for a one-step infiltration.

Not to mention distant events; just two or three months ago, the Earth Mother was still carrying the Black Armor Army to uproot the sea clans of the Yada Archipelago, which was one of Xuandu's core forces.

The Earth Mother now also figured it out; Xuandu had long been mixed up with the Heavenly Demon, so his appearance in the Dream Goddess's Dream Kingdom didn't seem strange at all.

This petty fish-man definitely came to find it for revenge!

This is not good.

The Earth Mother hadn't yet decided what to do when movement came from the direction of the lagoon center the man had just pointed at — the sound of vegetation snapping.

Something was rapidly approaching.

"Yakshas, the Yakshas are here!" The man was so happy his voice cracked.

The Earth Mother threw him aside and turned to look.

Sure enough, two Yakshas came striding over, one green-skinned, one red-skinned, both with ghost faces and fangs, weapons in hand, each over a zhang tall, much taller than the current Earth Mother.

"Right here!" The moment they saw the Earth Mother, their eyes lit up. The red-skinned Yaksha didn't say a word, pulled out a conch shell, and blew wu-wu-wu.

This is calling for reinforcements; how could the Earth Mother allow it? It threw a punch: "Put it down!"

The two Yakshas had some martial prowess, but how could they be the Earth Mother's match? In a few moves they were beaten to the ground, their steel forks seized by the Earth Mother, and the conch shell smashed to pieces on the ground.

The Earth Mother asked them: "Does the Sea Emperor Xuandu know I'm here?"

"He knows, he knows!" The red-skinned Yaksha hurriedly said, "The old man sent us to search for you, saying we absolutely, absolutely cannot let you go!"

"Who am I?"

"The Earth, Earth Mother."

"Where is Xuandu?"

The red-skinned Yaksha also pointed toward the lagoon center: "The Sea King Palace. There's a passage in the lagoon center leading straight to the Sea King Palace. We came from there."

The Earth Mother asked a few more questions, saw they couldn't provide any more useful information, and snapped both their necks.

Just after dealing with these two Yakshas, heavy footsteps sounded once again from not far away.

Pursuers came again.

The Earth Mother exhaled irritably, stood up, and walked out. It had to first figure out the terrain of this sea island, to see if there was any other way out at all.

If it were the real world, it wouldn't need to be this troublesome; sitting in place and extending its perception, it would have the topography within fifty li fully in mind, not even mistaking a mountain hollow; but in this damn dream realm, its perception was no different from a human's.

Several hours should have passed; it wandered around the island and discovered this was just a reef island surrounded by water on all sides, with fundamentally no other way out; it had also killed ten-odd waves of pursuers, each wave more formidable than the last, and now a Patrol Sea Yaksha was chasing it.

Although they're all called Yakshas, this Patrol Sea Yaksha and the two things it killed at the start weren't on the same level at all — ten zhang tall, a single punch smashing down would shake the entire island three times. This kind of pure strength fighting style used to be the Earth Mother's specialty, but now it was its turn to suffer.

The Earth Mother at this time, having defeated batch after batch of enemies consecutively, was already a bit exhausted.

This can't go on; it'll be exhausted to death alive.

The Patrol Sea Yaksha also had powerful water-control divine abilities; seeing the Earth Mother near the water's edge, it summoned water dragons to attack it. The problem was, this is an atoll island — where could the Earth Mother get far from the water surface!

The Earth Mother silently dodged a water dragon attack, rolled to the Patrol Sea Yaksha's feet, and before it could lift its leg, punched its foot dorsum.

Being short has its advantages — at least it's agile.

By rights, this punch should have smashed the Patrol Sea Yaksha's sole to a pulp, making this big guy hug its leg and howl in pain.

However, it didn't.

The Earth Mother's punch rang out with a loud bang, but the Patrol Sea Yaksha's sole was still perfectly fine, not even its bones shattered.

Bad.

The Earth Mother's heart chilled. Its stamina — no, its soul power couldn't hold up.

A dream realm isn't like reality; every bit of power it uses here is a bit less. The Dream Goddess wants to use these trash mobs to wear down its soul power and reduce its strength.

The Earth Mother finally felt the long-lost Wang Lijie. This soul-deep fatigue, manifested on the soul body, was gasping for breath, unable to catch the next breath.

This strike of its failed, and the Patrol Sea Yaksha backhandedly slapped it into the seawater five zhang away, like hitting a ball.

The Earth Mother hadn't climbed up yet when seawater rushed into its eyes, stinging!

Immediately after, the Patrol Sea Yaksha raised its steel fork and fiercely stabbed at it. For the first time, the Earth Mother wasn't sure if its body's hardness could withstand this steel fork.

Fortunately, at this moment, a cold light suddenly flashed behind the Sea-Patrolling Yaksha. The Earth Mother saw the Yaksha's chest suddenly burst open with a blood hole, and purplish-black filthy blood spurted out more than ten zhang away. The Yaksha's miserable cry was even more earth-shattering.

One strike hit its mark.