Chapter 192

In the sky, the weather was fine.

On the sea, waves stretched for ten thousand miles.

The blue sky and the black sea, under the sunlight at this noon hour, had a scenery that was more or less magnificent.

Especially as the sea surface rose and fell, the flying of swordfish stirred up spray, and at the same time, the seawater in the sunlight refracted seven-colored rays.

The beauty of the rainbow and the warmth of the sunlight diluted the mystery of the black, cold sea, and the peace became even thicker at this moment.

This sea area was very far from the Seven Blood Eyes and closer to the Sea Corpse Clan's homeland. Due to the war, there weren't many merchant ships passing by on weekdays, and because of the richness of the strange substances, the number of large sea beasts under the sea was clearly not small.

At this moment, under the sea, a Cang Dragon was moving rapidly. Its ferocious face, sharp teeth, and the aura radiating from its entire body made most sea beasts along the way scramble to scatter upon encountering it.

Thus, this Cang Dragon did not encounter any obstruction, and its speed under the sea became increasingly shocking. But if a Core Formation cultivator were to investigate carefully and gaze at this Cang Dragon, they would be able to discover that this Cang Dragon was not a living creature!

It was formed by a technique, and inside it sat a youth cross-legged.

Above the youth's head was a black canopy with bursts of flames flowing, which enveloped him while also concealing his aura.

His clothes were tattered, he was covered in a wretched state, his entire body had multiple indentations, his aura was unstable, and while he was severely injured, there was also a black silk thread faintly existing within his body.

This thread was not substantial but existed like a phantom. However, it was buried deep within the youth's flesh, preventing his recovery, and wherever it passed, his flesh was withering, even giving the feeling that his body was about to break apart.

The youth was none other than Xu Qing, who had escaped from the Sea Corpse Clan.

During the previous teleportation, because the Seventh Corpse Ancestor God Statue was located in the near-sea area, his teleportation was considered smooth. Although he didn't teleport directly into the sea, he appeared on the coastline.

Relying on his own disguise, he endured the eruption of his injuries and used the fastest time to dive into the sea and escape far away. During the process, he also encountered Sea Corpse Clan powerhouses, but under Xu Qing's caution, it was ultimately a close call.

Of course, the most important thing here was that after the Core Formation boy's report, the Sea Corpse Clan had focused most of their energy on the culprit, the Captain. Although they also strictly investigated Xu Qing's side, there was a clear difference.

And at this moment, ten days had passed since the nose of the Sea Corpse Clan's Corpse Ancestor God Statue collapsed.

In these ten days, Xu Qing, with the help of the Cang Dragon's speed, had penetrated deep into the Forbidden Sea. But what made his heart gloomy was that his own injuries were recovering at an unprecedentedly slow pace during these ten days.

The key point affecting his recovery was the phantom black line within his body.

This line came from that three-headed, six-armed Core Formation cultivator of the Sea Corpse Clan. Although Xu Qing successfully escaped, this black line appeared in his body after he left.

This line was very tenacious. Even if Xu Qing used his Life Fire to burn it, he couldn't destroy it. Under the suppression of the Life Lamp's power, the opponent was clearly terrified, but Xu Qing's cultivation base clearly couldn't display the true power of the Life Lamp, so it only made it inactive, but it still didn't die.

Thus, Xu Qing manifested the black umbrella to block its aura from leaking out, and during these ten days, he deployed the Jin Wu Refining All Spirits method to refine this black line.

The level of the Jin Wu Refining All Spirits was extremely high, so even though Xu Qing's cultivation base couldn't display its full effect, combined with the power of the Life Lamp, he finally managed to slowly grind it down. In the end, he even arranged for the shadow to devour it, and by gathering the power of all three, it finally showed signs of dissipating.

Until the Cang Dragon he was in had sneaked under the sea for another seven or eight days, after half a month, Xu Qing finally completely wiped out the black line in his body.

The moment it completely dissipated, he spat out a large mouthful of black blood.

This blood clearly contained a potent poison. Seeing that it was about to contaminate the Cang Dragon and spread into the seawater outside, Xu Qing narrowed his eyes and quickly took out a small bottle to contain the blood he had spat out.

He could feel that the mouthful of blood he spat out contained a poison he had never seen before, or to be precise, it wasn't just poison; he could feel that in this blood were countless black insects that were difficult to detect with the naked eye.

The black line in his body before was formed after a large number of these black insects gathered.

"I'll study it; this blood can also become one of my trump cards." Xu Qing took a deep breath, carefully put it away, and began to heal his injuries with all his might.

Without the obstruction of the black line, Xu Qing's injuries clearly began to recover normally. During this recovery, he recalled his gains this time, especially feeling the burning of the sixty-five dharma apertures in his body, and Xu Qing felt extremely satisfied in his heart.

"It was worth it!" Xu Qing muttered. Especially since there was another item in his storage bag. That item was over ten zhang in size, irregular in shape, and at a glance, it was basically difficult to guess what it was.

Only those who had truly seen its complete shape would know that this object... was exactly the nose of the Sea Corpse Clan's Seventh Corpse Ancestor God Statue!

However, after leaving the scope of the Sea Corpse Clan, the material of this nose had changed, turning into an ordinary object, becoming gray, and also losing any sense of mystery.

But Xu Qing couldn't bear to throw it away. He felt that this thing might have other uses; after all... this was the nose of the Sea Corpse Clan's sacred object.

Xu Qing didn't know what kind of storm the incident he had caused would eventually form. Although he had some guesses in his heart, in reality, he didn't feel that this matter would have any extreme severity.

At most, it was just that he and the Captain had gone to swallow some spiritual liquid, and at most... it was just that the Captain had taken a bite of the statue's toe, triggering the instability inside the statue and causing the statue's nose to collapse.

This was nothing. Xu Qing had heard the Captain talk about the strangeness of the nine Corpse Ancestor God Statues and knew that their recovery ability was excellent. At this moment, they might have already recovered as before.

As for the Captain...

"He won't die." Xu Qing didn't know why, but he always felt that the Captain wasn't someone who would kick the bucket so easily, so he didn't think too much about it and continued to sit cross-legged in the Cang Dragon, recovering from his injuries while controlling the Cang Dragon to head toward the Mermaid Clan island.

He intended to return to the Seven Blood Eyes.

But this place was too far from the Seven Blood Eyes. If he were to go back, he was afraid it would take a year or half a year to reach it, so using the Mermaid Clan island's teleportation array was the most convenient method.

And as a participant in the war, teleportation was free, so this became Xu Qing's first choice.

And at this moment, while Xu Qing was healing and traveling, the entire Sea Corpse Clan had already stirred up a sky-shaking commotion. First was the matter of the Seventh Corpse Ancestor God Statue's nose. Although outsiders couldn't see it because that place was sealed, it was still gradually spread out.

And this kind of matter, for the Sea Corpse Clan, belonged to a major event like a thunderbolt from the blue. Almost as soon as it spread, it spread frantically, and countless Sea Corpse Clan members learned of it one after another, their anger instantly reaching the extreme.

Especially those Sea Corpse Clan members who had been transformed by the Seventh Corpse Ancestor God Statue throughout the ages, their emotional fluctuations were even more intense. It was because the connection between them and the Seventh Corpse Ancestor was just like that between a child and a mother, existing in a complex and subtle way.

Therefore, the disappearance of the Seventh Corpse Ancestor's nose was the greatest humiliation to them. And what made this sense of humiliation reach its peak was that after the Sea Corpse Clan investigated, they determined that these two people who should be killed a thousand times were Foundation Establishment disciples of the Seven Blood Eyes.

Foundation Establishment was very strong in the eyes of mortals, but to a clan, it was nothing at all. To have such a sky-shaking incident committed in their own base camp by such low-level cultivators, how could the entire Sea Corpse Clan not be furious?

Not only were the ordinary clansmen furious, but even the Sea Corpse Clan nobles and the King were also furious because of this, especially those old antiques, who were even more so.

Thus, after this matter spread like a storm in the Sea Corpse Clan's territory, it inevitably affected the battlefield with the Seven Blood Eyes.

A large number of Sea Corpse Clan members rioted and went crazy on the battlefield. Although they had a moment of ferocity, it was precisely this vent-like ferocity that caused their battle formation to change, appearing with many unstable emotional fluctuations.

And in the war, although there were commanders who were good at utilizing the anger of their subordinates, this kind of thing was a double-edged sword. With the slightest lack of attention, it would collapse on its own.

As for the Seven Blood Eyes, how could that group of cunning old foxes let go of this opportunity? So they immediately increased their efforts, causing the scale of the war to rise frequently in this short half a month.

And the high-level members of the Seven Blood Eyes were also surprised at first, but they soon learned the reason, understanding that two Seven Blood Eyes disciples had committed this earth-shattering event within the Sea Corpse Clan.

After hearing it, they were also shocked. Several Peak Masters looked at the Seventh Master for the first time. It was because in their cognition, it seemed that only the Seventh Master's Seventh Peak disciples could do such a thing.

Especially... sixty years ago, the Seventh Master had also done something similar, only it wasn't as shocking as it was now.

And the Seventh Master was also stunned for a moment, his expression becoming somewhat strange, as if he had remembered something, but he didn't say much.

But in any case, this matter caused the momentum of the Seven Blood Eyes to rise greatly. The Ancestor was even more delighted and personally issued an order to reward these two Seven Blood Eyes disciples with great merit.

As for the names of these two disciples who had committed such a major event, the Seven Blood Eyes side hadn't even finished investigating before the Sea Corpse Clan had already helped them find out.

As their backgrounds were dug out, the Sea Corpse Clan soon changed their war must-kill wanted list!

This wanted list had existed before this. Ranked first on it was Xue Lianzi, with an extremely generous reward. Second was the Seventh Master, and the following ones were all Peak Masters and Deputy Peak Masters of each peak.

It was only after more than a dozen people that Core Formation cultivators appeared.

But now, the list had been updated.

Must-kill wanted list.

First, Chen Erniu. This person is a Seventh Peak disciple, the current Head of the Criminal Capture Division, and is the primary culprit of this desecration case of my Sea Corpse Clan's Corpse Ancestor. All Sea Corpse Clan members who see this person must, at all costs, tear him into pieces and devour his flesh and blood! Whoever kills this person will be rewarded with my Sea Corpse Clan's Great Dao inheritance, as well as the King's Sequence, and the right to choose ten items from the treasury, plus one hundred million spirit stones!

Second, Xu Qing. This person is a Seventh Peak disciple, the current Deputy Head of the Criminal Capture Division, and is an accomplice in this desecration case of my Sea Corpse Clan's Corpse Ancestor. All Sea Corpse Clan members who see this person must kill him. Whoever kills this person will be rewarded with my Sea Corpse Clan's King's Sequence, as well as the right to choose ten items from the treasury, plus seventy million spirit stones!

Third, Seven Blood Eyes Ancestor Xue Lianzi.