Chapter 27

Returning to the medical shed, everything was normal.

Li Youyi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Cai Yutong, Gao Huan, Old Liu, and others knew the purpose of Li Youyi entering the tomb forest and had been waiting outside. Seeing him return, they thought he had already succeeded and asked about the situation one after another.

"That skeleton demon is no small matter; she can already walk out of the tomb. With my current strength, even if I use all my means, I can only stand on equal footing with her."

Li Youyi's face was full of worry; failing to eliminate the opponent meant that the opponent could do whatever she wanted to some extent. If she really attacked the research team members, it would be impossible to guard against.

What's more, there was also a ghost figure riding a camel who didn't know if his soul had flown away and vanished.

"Are you injured?"

Cai Yutong saw the bloodstains on Li Youyi.

"It's nothing."

Li Youyi instructed: "Notify everyone that no one is allowed to enter the tomb forest from now on, and if you hear camel bells, put on earplugs immediately. Also, be careful to guard against Dr. Qi."

"What's wrong with her?"

Cai Yutong was concerned about Qi Shanshan's safety.

Li Youyi pondered for a moment and said uncertainly: "She might have been possessed by the skeleton demon!"

Cai Yutong's expression was somewhat gloomy; although she had long expected that Qi Shanshan might have had an accident, the current result seemed even harder to accept.

"It might not necessarily be possession; I feel her state is very strange," Li Youyi comforted.

"Brother Youyi, the First Mate is awake!"

Qin Ke rushed out of the medical shed, shouting happily from afar.

Li Youyi's spirit lifted, all kinds of worries and distracting thoughts in his mind vanished, and he walked quickly into the medical shed.

The two brothers had a laugh and a recount.

Zhao Meng sat up and said distressingly: "Have I transformed into a giant now? I see my height is at least three meters, and my legs are almost as thick as water vats!"

Li Youyi said: "If I had any other way, I would never have easily fed Brother Flood Dragon blood."

Zhao Meng felt the guilt in Li Youyi's heart and laughed loudly: "I think it's quite good; my whole body is full of strength, maybe I can catch a tiger with my bare hands. How about we brothers spar, do you have the guts, kid?"

Zhao Meng did not shed his shell, nor did he show signs of skin celestial-spirit transformation.

It seemed that everyone's changes were different after drinking Golden Crow blood and Black Flood Dragon blood.

Even like Li Youyi, his appearance didn't change at all.

Li Youyi asked: "Sparring is unnecessary; I have an urgent matter I want to ask Brother. Does Brother still remember Senior Sister Canaan?"

A peerless figure that he could never forget in this life immediately appeared in Zhao Meng's mind, and he said: "Why did you suddenly mention Senior Sister?"

"I remember Senior Sister stayed in the sect for three years, but I was too young at that time, and I can't remember many things. Where is Senior Sister from, why didn't she ever return to the sect later, did something happen?" Li Youyi asked.

"Not three years, it was two and a half years."

Zhao Meng recalled every bit of the past: "Senior Sister had the best relationship with you, unfortunately, you were too young to remember anything. If you were a little older, Senior Sister would definitely be the woman you could never forget in your life; she was too outstanding, not like something that should exist in the human world."

"Don't reminisce about your youth, I'm asking about serious business," Li Youyi said.

Zhao Meng said: "You tell me what's the matter first?"

"I can't explain it in a few words here."

The reason Li Youyi asked about Senior Sister was that the language used by the red-clothed Qi Shanshan and the ghost figure on the camel to communicate was the same as Senior Sister's hometown language back then.

Li Youyi was young at that time, but he wasn't unable to remember things.

He had learned that language with Senior Sister, so he could understand the general idea of their conversation.

Zhao Meng said: "Master said Senior Sister came from a minority tribe overseas, and she went home after leaving the sect. Later, I went to sea many times and traveled to countries around the world to find her, but I could never find that mysterious minority tribe."

"Didn't you ask Master?" Li Youyi said.

Zhao Meng said: "I asked, how could I not ask. But Master advised me to stop asking, told me to give up the idea, and even scolded me, saying I was a dirt monkey on the mountain and not worthy of Senior Sister. I'm wronged; I just wanted to see Senior Sister one more time, don't you want to?"

"I naturally want to! But I feel that we might be able to see Senior Sister in this world," Li Youyi said meaningfully, thinking of many things in an instant.

Two days later.

Li Youyi stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the crimson sea, his mood becoming increasingly heavy.

He had entered the tomb forest many times to look for the red-clothed Qi Shanshan and the ghost figure named "Yu Tuonan," but found nothing. He guessed that the two evils were hiding in some tomb pile, recuperating from their injuries.

There were too many tombs, and there was no way to dig them all up to search.

What if a third evil was dug up...

With the rapid sailing of the bronze ship, there were more and more coffins on the sea, becoming denser, almost converging into a coffin-sea shore ahead. A black mass blocked the shipping lane.

Making the ship's sailing speed unprecedentedly slow, almost as if it were about to stop.

The coffins were of all sizes, and their shapes and forms were different.

The large ones could even reach hundreds of meters, the coffin wood pitch-black, carved with demon patterns, wrapped in chains as thick as a basin, not knowing what kind of corpse was buried inside.

In some places, thousands of coffins were piled together, transforming into "floating islands," growing purple-red vines. The roots of the vines didn't know where they were rooted.

The entire coffin sea was unusually quiet.

It was not known if it was originally this quiet, or if it only became this quiet after the bronze ship sailed here.

Li Youyi said to Gao Huan beside him: "You explain, what place in myths and legends is this? Where did these coffins come from?"

"We have sailed all the way here, the number of coffins we have seen is not ten million, but at least a few million, right? And this is just what we have seen."

"They seem to be driven by some unknown force, all converging here."

Gao Huan's lips parted, he thought for a moment, and said calmly: "Perhaps they all fell from the macro world, just like us... There are many planets in the universe, and it's certain that Earth is not the only one with life. After those life forms are buried, maybe because of some special reason, they fell into the micro world!"

After Zhao Meng woke up, Gao Huan was the first to drink Golden Crow blood.

He shed his mortal shell and transformed as if he were a celestial spirit, his whole body's skin as white as warm jade. Like Cai Yutong, his physical strength increased a lot, comparable to those peak-state athletes.

But...

His height shrank by a large margin.

He was originally only 1.65 meters, and now he was not even 1.5 meters.

Except for the surname Gao, he had nothing to do with the word "tall."

"Eh! Master Li, why is there a red figure on the sea below?" Gao Huan exclaimed.

Li Youyi's eyesight was far stronger than his; even from hundreds of meters away, he could see clearly that the figure jumping and moving away on the floating coffins was "Qi Shanshan."

She had actually gotten off the ship?

A pair of flame light wings grew on the red-clothed Qi Shanshan's back, and she was holding someone in her arms. In an instant, she had landed on a huge floating island of coffins.

She looked back at Li Youyi at the bow of the ship and pointed at Cai Yutong in her arms with her finger.

Afterwards.

She rushed into the depths of the coffin floating island without looking back, disappearing into the nether fog.

"Is that the red-clothed skeleton demon?"

"Was Dr. Cai captured by her?"

"What does she want to do? Leaving the bronze ship, it doesn't matter if she's a skeleton, but how can Dr. Cai survive?"

Gao Huan followed Li Youyi closely toward the medical shed and the direction of the broken research ship.

"She did it on purpose, wanting to lure me off the ship."

Li Youyi found the rope tied to the side of the ship used for drawing water; clearly, the red-clothed Qi Shanshan had gone down from here.

How did she dare?

Did she know what place this was?

"Youyi, something big is wrong, Dr. Cai was attacked by Dr. Qi..."

Zhao Meng, Old Liu, and a group of people rushed over with hurried expressions.

Li Youyi said: "I know, they have already gotten off the ship."

"When she left, she said a very strange thing. If Li Youyi wants to know who he is, I can give him the answer, let him come to find me," Zhao Meng repeated word for word.

"Who am I?"

Li Youyi frowned; he had never thought about this question before. But with the appearance of the skeleton demon and the so-called "Dao-protecting wife," everything became confusing.

A person must have an origin.

His hand gripped the rope tightly, quite hesitant.

It wasn't that he didn't dare to get off the ship, but he knew there was an even more terrifying ghost on the ship, and he was very worried that after he got off, the First Mate and others would encounter an accident.

And if everyone got off the ship, the road ahead would be uncertain.

This coffin sea was too gloomy, no one knew how many dangers existed, and once the bronze ship sailed away, they would lose all hope.

"It stopped... the bronze ship seems to have stopped completely..." Gao Huan lay on the side of the ship, looking at the sea.

"Clang, clang!"

In the tomb forest, the sound of camel bells and wind grew louder, rapidly approaching the side of the ship.

"Be careful!"

Li Youyi stepped forward quickly, mobilized the cold and hot airflows in his body, formed a Heaven-Turning Palm Seal, and slapped a palm toward the nether fog cloud flying out from above the tombstone.

With a bang.

The terrifying power in the nether fog cloud sent Li Youyi flying out of the side of the ship.

The human ghost figure rode the camel, and amidst the deafening camel bells, leaped high over the side of the ship, slashing the ghost flag in mid-air toward Li Youyi's waist and abdomen, wanting to hit him directly so he would fall and die on the sea surface.

In extreme danger, Li Youyi couldn't care that he was falling in mid-air, pulled out the Yellow Dragon Sword on his back, and swung his sword to block.

"Bang!"

Two forces collided.

Li Youyi's blood surged in his body, and he fell at a faster speed.

What was even more fatal was that the sound of camel bells and the ghost flag came again; the human ghost figure was not afraid of falling at all, determined to put him to death.

In this near-certain death situation, the spring eyes at the soles of Li Youyi's feet surged wildly, airflow filled all twenty-six trace meridians in his body, and he performed the Yellow Dragon Ascending to Heaven.

Taking the first step, like stepping on a wind and cloud cluster, he stabilized his falling momentum.

Taking the second step, his figure avoided the ghost flag, reaching the same height as the human ghost figure.

Taking the third step, Li Youyi had already appeared above the human ghost figure's head.

In the shocked eyes of the human ghost figure, the offense and defense changed.

"Go die."

Li Youyi raised his sword with both hands, the yellow light on the sword edge erupted, and he slashed down heavily with one sword.

(End of chapter)