Chapter 3042: Undersea Yin Souls

Fortunately they weren't careless; as these small fish drew near, they all shot out the spikes on their backs, bombarding the shields until they sounded with loud bangs.

The two puppets, meanwhile, were bombarding those small fish outside the shields.

Those small fish were low-level; a single punch could blast away a large group.

Soon, all those small fish were completely blasted away.

Those two puppets, however, had many white marks on their bodies from the hits, but suffered no serious damage.

Ye Liuyun and the others had just put away their shields when his Golden Pupil spotted some brownish small worms burrowing up from the seabed.

They followed the blood trail, first sucking dry the blood of that group of small fish in the sea, then they rushed toward Ye Liuyun and the others.

The two puppets at the front of the group immediately began bombarding those worms.

However, those worms were too small, and many still slipped through.

Ye Liuyun immediately used Ice Power to freeze those worms, freezing a large area at once.

Then he followed up with a palm strike, shattering the entire ice block.

After bombarding for a while, he felt continuing like this would consume too much energy, so he immediately used Sea Ice Power to condense into a conical ice sculpture, then used Spatial Power to move all those small worms into that conical ice sculpture.

Everyone also helped, using Spatial Power to move those worms.

The temperature inside the ice sculpture was lower; once the worms entered, they froze solid and could not crawl out.

They were busy for a while; until he could no longer see any worms, he then sealed those worms in ice, and then used Spatial Power to input a wisp of Golden Crow Holy Fire, burning those worms to ashes.

Ye Liuyun caught his breath, swapped positions with his First Clone, moved to the rear to rest a bit, and had the clone lead the team forward.

Not far along, everyone felt that the pressure in the deep sea ahead had increased and the temperature had dropped further.

Inside the sea trench ahead, it also grew darker.

Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil looked ahead and discovered that many sea beasts' Yin Souls were flickering there.

"Yin Souls!"

The First Clone reminded the Martial Cultivators behind him to prepare their Soul defenses.

Then he led them closer, using Nether Ghost Fire to dispel the yin energy ahead and burn toward those Yin Souls.

In this environment, Nether Ghost Fire was far more usable than Golden Crow Holy Fire—one blast could incinerate a large area, causing some Yin Souls to howl in pain.

Ye Liuyun and his Second Clone, meanwhile, jointly used Buddha Light Power to envelop everyone, guarding against attacks from those Yin Souls.

Nether Ghost Fire and Buddha Light Power left those sea beasts' Yin Souls with no means against them.

"These Yin Souls are really strong—they're all sea beasts at the Return to Unity Seven or Eight levels."

The First Clone, up front, also sighed: "If we didn't have a way to restrain these Yin Souls, we truly wouldn't be a match for them."

"Release a bit of the Lord of the Underworld's aura, see if we can find any information."

Ye Liuyun reminded the clone ahead.

Thus the First Clone released the Lord of the Underworld's aura, rescuing a Return to Unity Eight-level sea snake from the Nether Ghost Fire.

That sea snake had been wailing and howling, but suddenly noticed its Nether Ghost Fire was gone and sensed the clone's aura of the Lord of You Ming, showing a doubtful expression.

But then the clone raised a hand, and Nether Ghost Fire and Buddha Light Power again enveloped that sea snake.

"Do you want to die or to live?"

The clone directly threatened it.

"I'm already dead!"

That sea snake still had decent intelligence, and it communicated with the clone via Divine Sense.

"I can let you all go to the Underworld, so their Yin Souls can reenter reincarnation—far better than you vanishing into smoke."

The clone told the sea snake.

The sea snake looked doubtfully at the clone, then glanced around at the wailing sea beasts' Yin Souls all around, momentarily undecided.

Seeing this, the clone waved a hand, taking back all the Nether Ghost Fire.

At this moment, the clone summoned the Gate of the Underworld, contacted Zhuge Feiyu, holding the Hundred-forged Soul Banner, and waited at the underworld's gate to collect these sea beasts' Yin Souls.

At this moment, all the sea beasts stopped attacking, looking at the Gate of the Underworld with eyes full of longing.

But no one stepped forward to surrender, and they dared not express their stance.

Zhuge Feiyu, meanwhile, cooperated with the clone, waving the Hundred-forged Soul Banner.

The banner's suction, combined with the underworld gate's emanating Nether Qi, made these sea beasts even more restless.

The sea snake that the clone had first rescued hesitated, then bowed its head to the clone in submission, gave up resistance, and was sucked into Zhuge Feiyu's Hundred-forged Soul Banner.

With one leader, more and more sea beasts followed behind, all being sucked into Zhuge Feiyu's Hundred-forged Soul Banner and then placed into the Underworld.

Once all the sea beasts' Yin Souls here had been sucked in, the yin energy ahead gradually dissipated.

Zhuge Feiyu also collected the Hundred-forged Soul, telling Ye Liuyun: "Those sea beasts' Yin Souls said that at the deepest part of this sea trench lies a Secret Realm, within which there is a particularly powerful Sea Demon."

"Those Yin Souls are all trapped here by a formation set up by that Sea Demon."

"This place can gather yin energy; they can only linger here to block adventuring Martial Cultivators for that Sea Demon, merely scraping by."

"According to their speculation, that Sea Demon's cultivation level should be Return to Unity Nine, and it is very skilled in formations."

"A Monster Beast?"

"What species?"

Ye Liuyun asked Zhuge Feiyu.

"Its true form is a blue whale!"

Zhuge Feiyu told Ye Liuyun.

"A blue whale?"

"Help me ask those Yin Souls whether that blue whale is currently in its lair."

Ye Liuyun suddenly recalled the blue whale outside.

Zhuge Feiyu helped him and went to ask again.

As expected, that blue whale is not in its lair now; it went out to feed earlier and hasn't returned.

"Good, I understand.

Thanks for your hard work.

"You go back first; I'll take the Underworld Gate back."

Ye Liuyun also nodded and thanked Zhuge Feiyu.

Zhuge Feiyu also nodded at him, then returned to the Underworld, letting Ye Liuyun put away the Underworld Gate.

Ye Liuyun, however, began to think, wondering in his mind whether that blue whale outside was that sea demon.

If it isn't that sea demon, then what relation does it have with that sea demon?

Finally, he also made a decision, leading everyone to retreat and search for that blue whale.

Regardless of whether that blue whale is that sea demon, first capture it into the Space World and control it, then talk.

The way back was much smoother for them, and wherever there was a formation, Ye Liuyun remembered it clearly.

As they were about to leave, they even saw martial cultivators killed in the formation; obviously they had just died not long ago.

They were probably killed after following them in.

Ye Liuyun also ignored them and walked straight out of the sea trench.

But as soon as they went out, before they could find that blue whale, they were ambushed by several martial cultivator experts.

But they were all blocked by the five martial cultivators he had released.

These experts fought fiercely in the sea; the few martial cultivators who came to ambush Ye Liuyun were all directly killed by Black Tiger and Illusion Hand using Black and White Light.