Chapter 456: Golden Egg Breaks Its Shell

Yuan Yao and Song Yan, after diving into the sea bottom, headed toward the location of Fusang Island.

During this time, the two of them encountered many sea beasts and contestants.

They upheld the principle "If man or beast does not offend me, I will not offend man or beast," and continued toward Fusang Island.

When they reached the deep sea near Fusang Island, the surrounding temperature had dropped considerably, the air was tinged with a chilling, gloomy cold, and darkness enveloped their sight.

Yuan Yao took out the Night Bright Pearl and illuminated the surroundings.

The two surveyed the area in a circle.

Yuan Yao and Song Yan exchanged a glance, then instantly sent a voice to Song Yan: "Eldest Senior Brother, there is no stone tablet here; I think it may be deeper. Let's go further down to see."

Song Yan had no objection.

But they did not expect that while swimming deeper, both of them felt a bone‑chilling, cold gaze.

They were startled in their hearts.

Immediately, Yuan Yao saw a massive teal‑black jiao dragon coiled below; its body was so huge it was almost like a hill, and its vertical pupils glowed with a dangerous dim light.

Seeing this, Yuan Yao and Song Yan exchanged a glance.

Before they could react, the giant jiao emitting a fierce aura lunged violently toward them.

Yuan Yao dodged while swiftly summoning the Phantom Sword and slashed toward the giant jiao!

Boom!

The water rippled, but left no mark on the giant jiao.

Yuan Yao realized their attacks in the sea met resistance, and the power they could exert was limited.

"This is a Sixth‑Stage Jiao Dragon!" Song Yan's voice transmitted gravely.

A Sixth‑Stage Jiao Dragon corresponds to the Void Refinement Realm of a human Cultivator.

Just as Yuan Yao was pondering whether to retreat, the Golden Egg in Yaoguang Space suddenly voiced to her: "I want its Beast Pill!"

Yuan Yao's mouth twitched slightly.

"Then you come out to deal with it?" she immediately summoned the Golden Egg.

And once summoned, the Golden Egg instantly rushed toward the Sixth‑Stage Jiao Dragon.

The Sixth‑Stage Jiao Dragon seemed to feel a strong blood‑line suppression; its vertical pupils narrowed slightly, and it quickly retreated, trying to flee.

Seeing this, Yuan Yao felt a bit surprised.

But soon, she realized—

The Golden Egg intends to refine the Sixth‑Stage Jiao Dragon's Beast Pill and then break its shell to be born!

If so, she certainly cannot stand by!

Yuan Yao, sword in hand, rushed swiftly toward the Sixth‑Stage Jiao Dragon.

Song Yan's heart tightened, and he hurried after them!

The two and the Golden Egg encircled the giant jiao.

The Golden Egg repeatedly slammed into the giant jiao, each impact unleashing an extremely powerful force.

Yuan Yao simultaneously released her own spiritual energy and swung her sword at the giant jiao!

Song Yan drew his sword and quickly engaged in close combat!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The explosions rang continuously.

Under the combined assault of the two and the Golden Egg, the giant jiao gradually fell at a disadvantage.

At that moment, the giant jiao swished its massive tail, using the water current to blast them apart, then swiftly swam away.

Seeing this, the Golden Egg gave chase!

Yuan Yao's complexion changed slightly; just as she was about to pursue, her own Eldest Senior Brother grabbed her.

"The stone tablet is not far; first use a seal to imprison the tablet. As for the Golden Egg, leave it to me," Song Yan transmitted rapidly.

Hearing this, Yuan Yao's peripheral vision caught the stone tablet not far away on the seabed; she inhaled deeply, then nodded.

Seeing this, Song Yan swiftly pursued the direction the jiao dragon and Golden Egg had fled.

Yuan Yao also seized the moment, swam to the tablet, and just as she was about to lay a sealing barrier on it, two objects on the tablet flashed before her eyes.

She focused and saw that the two items were multicolored beads, exactly like the ones previously given to her by Hua Chengyan.

She felt joy in her heart.

Yuan Yao reached out to detach them, but when her fingertips touched the beads, a buzzing sounded in her sea of consciousness, and her vision briefly plunged into darkness.

She reacted swiftly, jerking her hand back.

She looked at the tablet with lingering fear.

The tablet had just tried to affect her thoughts and control her mind.

Yuan Yao slightly narrowed her eyes.

She lifted the Phantom Sword in her hand and pried the two beads out with its tip.

At the same time, she also released her own spiritual power.

To counter it!

After she successfully retrieved the two beads, she found the tablet now emitting waves of power, as if the suppression had been lifted.

Yuan Yao was startled, instantly raised both hands, swiftly invoked a sealing technique, and simultaneously projected her divine consciousness to quell the tablet's uprising!

Buzz—

Two forces collided violently!

Yuan Yao felt a sharp pain surge through her head, accompanied by dizziness.

She clenched her teeth.

Continue suppressing and laying down seal prohibitions!

The power erupting from the stone tablet grew ever stronger, making Yuan Yao increasingly strained, and blood began to seep from her seven orifices.

At that moment, Tian Xue in Yaoguang Space spoke: "Master, I will lend you a hand."

Having said that, Tian Xue transmitted her power to Yuan Yao through the contract link.

After receiving Tian Xue's power, Yuan Yao gritted her teeth, and with both hands she blasted the seal sigil outward, accompanied by a "Bang".

The stone tablet suddenly quivered.

And the vortex that had gathered at the tablet's center gradually dissipated.

Yuan Yao let out a sigh of relief, but soon she laid a second seal, a third seal… on the stone tablet.

Until she exhausted her strength.

She took a Ling Pill from the storage space and swallowed it.

Now the stone tablet is bound by eighteen seal imprisonments.

Ordinary Cultivators cannot possibly break these seal imprisonments!

Not to mention opening them from the demonic realm on the other side of the tablet.

Yuan Yao paused briefly, then suddenly sensed danger to the Golden Egg!

Her complexion changed in alarm.

Relying on the contract sensing with the Golden Egg, she swiftly swam toward a certain direction.

As she drew nearer, she smelled a strong scent of blood.

Ahead, a vast expanse of blood-colored water spread in the sea.

Yuan Yao's nerves tightened further; after passing that sea of blood, a brilliant golden light suddenly erupted before her eyes.

Almost blinding!

Then—

Yuan Yao seemed to sense something; she strained to open her eyes and saw the Golden Egg in the golden light slowly cracking.

Crack!

Crack! Crack!

While Yuan Yao exhaled a sigh of relief, she suddenly realized something, rushed toward the cracking Golden Egg, grabbed it hard into her arms, and then propelled it upward at top speed!

"Yao Yao!" Song Yan, with a blood wound on the shoulder, looked pale as they watched Yuan Yao swimming upward, then gave chase.

"Eldest Senior Brother, the Golden Egg has broken its shell; it must be undergoing the thunder tribulation! I must take it away from this sea, otherwise the people and sea beasts within will suffer!"

"You go back to the small island first!"

Yuan Yao transmitted her words at lightning speed, then exerted all her strength to swim upward!

At the same time—

Above the Fusang Sea, the sky turned tumultuous, dark clouds gathered, the blackened cloud layer seemed ready to crush the island, an invisible pressure spread, and the sea surface gradually calmed.

"What is happening?!" At this moment, the people on the shore of Fusang Island saw this scene, their mouths agape, they exclaimed.