Chapter 425: Moonlight Grand Cross

The violently shaking ground indicated that this altar was also about to collapse.

Xia De chanted that incantation again in the fish-man language. The golden pearl flew out of the blood water; its surface was not stained with any blood. The slightly viscous scarlet liquid gathered under the pearl along the smooth arc, and only after converging into a large drop did it fall into the altar splashing with blood.

"Now I need you to help me."

Xia De stared at the pearl emitting golden light and said in his heart:

"Just like at the blood banquet in the Lakeside Manor."

The floor of the temple had all collapsed, and the surging blood-red sea waves were roaring. But the walls and the corridor outside the temple were not affected at all. The only level ground in the temple was the high platform where the altar was placed in the deepest part.

The golden pearl above the blood water and Xia De in front of the altar, two golden light sources, were so strange in this exceptionally dangerous scene. Jin Huang embers drifted to the surroundings, and behind the dim yellow sky above his head, the light beam seemed to shroud the high platform.

She chuckled:

【Outsider, seeking my help, do you know what you should say now?】

Xia De looked at the pearl in front of him, and the pearl was reflected in his eyes:

"I certainly know."

【Then, please begin.】

The murmurs seemed to be chanting.

"You, are me..."

With his right palm facing upward, he reached his hand toward the bottom of the pearl and then lifted it upward. His palm felt a clear repulsive force, and even a black holy emblem pattern representing the Evil God faintly appeared on his palm.

【... I, am you.】

Only, in the narrow gap between Xia De's palm and the pearl, a transparent woman's palm connected to Xia De's wrist slowly emerged. Her transparent silver palm held the pearl, and Xia De's hand held her hand.

"Oh~"

Closing his eyes and moaning softly, then taking a deep breath, with the rise and fall of his chest, the golden luster on Xia De's body became brighter.

He turned around slowly, and on his right hand, the pearl emitted light as strong as the sun.

The intoxicating color made Xia De's gaze linger for a moment, but then he looked up at the collapsing temple in front of him.

The seawater had already surged up from below, and the vanished ceiling also allowed him to see the complete dim yellow sky.

Although the temple had collapsed, the Sea Return Ceremony had not ended yet. Feeling the power as strong as the sun held in his palm, Xia De thought he might be able to do something.

【I thought you would choose to store this pearl in the god's gift box and use it when needed.】

Although her silver transparent palm was pressed against Xia De's palm, Xia De could not feel any touch or temperature at all. When he first saw her arm at the Lakeside Manor, Xia De was in a semi-comatose state. Seeing her palm clearly at this time, it was so unreal.

The voice still came from his ear.

Compared with the golden light like jumping flames around his body, the silver streak behind him was so faint. It was as if Xia De had grown long silver hair, or as if a silver figure was staying behind him.

"Not absorbing it immediately after getting it, waiting to be stolen by someone, right?"

Xia De asked in his heart. Although the probability of being stolen was very low, he would not take any risks at such a time:

"However, after absorbing the divinity, the power overflowing from the divinity for ten minutes cannot be wasted either. Although the church has almost won, I think I can do other things."

With the outsider's calm breathing, the golden luster on the pearl clung to his arm and spread to his whole body like a chain. The golden scars on his body became more and more intense, further dyeing the fate ring that automatically emerged behind him into a dazzling pure gold.

【Then what are you going to do?】

She chuckled in his ear.

"I've been running with a fishing rod for so long, I should at least catch a fish, right?"

Xia De asked with a smile in his heart, then closed his eyes and sighed:

"I, feel the power."

The beating frequency of his heart gradually tended to be consistent with the vibration frequency of the pearl in his hand. Her voice was very gentle; she had always been by Xia De's side:

【The spiral of the fish tail symbolizes the first fish-man and the first secret of the deep sea abyss. In the ancient deep sea temple, the Scarlet God once slept here.】

【You listened to the story of the Ancient God "Lord of the Scarlet Spiral", and you learned one of the blasphemies of the Ancient God "Lord of the Scarlet Spiral".】

【You obtained the spell—Water Walking.】

"The god of the drowned allows me to breathe underwater; the god of aquatic creatures allows me to walk on water. The ancient gods of this world are really interesting~"

The golden pearl in his hand gradually faded. Xia De, who opened his eyes, saw the dark golden light in his eyes slowly subside.

(Little Mia is running...)

Surrounding the giant mermaid corpse, the battle around the temple ruins was still continuing. Whether it was under the water or on the platform around the ruins, the battle between the church's Ringed Shushi and the Scarlet Secret Sect was nearing its end. The cultist Ringed Shushi were almost suppressed by the church from the beginning, and although humans did not have the upper hand in the underwater battle, the appearance of some strange marine creatures reversed the church's disadvantage.

First, the temple in front of the giant corpse's heart collapsed suddenly, and then the golden light that oppressed people's hearts rushed into the sky.

"Space Stabilization Halo!"

Although the low voice could not suppress the violent sea waves, it still reached the ears of the high-level Ringed Shushi with sensitive senses.

Xia De stood on the crumbling altar in front of the heart. Under the blessing of the slight divine power overflowing from absorbing the divinity, invisible ripples spread to the surroundings with him as the center. This ancient ruin, which had emerged from the seabed due to spatial anomalies, began to collapse as a whole.

This meant that this ruin was being expelled back to the ancient fish-man ruins in the deep sea abyss.

Turning the pearl, which had shrunk by one-third in volume, into a toy and putting it into his pocket, Xia De carried the fishing rod and left the altar, stepped on the seawater surging from under the collapsed floor, and walked outward along the constantly disappearing corridor.

As Xia De walked, the speed at which the ruins cracked and disappeared became faster. Scarlet seawater surged from the ground under the ruins, swallowing pieces of building fragments. At this time, whether it was the church's Ringed Shushi or the remaining forces of the Scarlet Secret Sect, they all retreated toward the outside of the ruins.

The walls on both sides of the corridor collapsed, and Xia De could see fish-men looming in the sea tide, trying to attack the church's Ringed Shushi who were gathered together and preparing to leave. But as the ethereal sound of a conch sounded, beautiful creatures with human bodies and fish tails actually rushed out from the deep sea, rescuing the fallen human Ringed Shushi and hunting the remaining ugly fish-men.

These were real mermaids, with real female bodies on the upper half, covered by shells and water plants, and beautiful fish tails on the lower half, flapping waves in the scarlet seawater to help them move.

"Mermaids and fish-men are mortal enemies, it's not strange that they appear at this time... Difa said that mermaids are the secret of the Witch Council, she cannot talk too much about it... Local rumors say that the Aurora family has a relationship with mermaids... So that's it, Miss Aurora can summon the alien race of mermaids, which is why the Council sent her to Cold Water Harbor."

This was the secret of the witches. The third seat of the Council, Xivi Aurora, a descendant of an ancient Ringed Shushi family, indeed had the oldest contract with the mermaid population.

Xia De thought in his heart, seeing that the church's Ringed Shushi had already left the collapsed ruins, and the entire ruin had collapsed into the water. He threw away the frog legs in the surging sea waves, and then jumped upward violently.

In the state of divine power overflow, the power exerted by the spell made him jump as if flying, rushing from the last stone slab of the ruins toward the top of the giant mermaid corpse's head.

"Stop him!"

A strange language of "gurgle gurgle" came from the shore far away, which meant that the high-level priests in the Scarlet Secret Sect were speaking. The sound crossed the rain curtain and reached Xia De's ears, and the next moment, the giant mermaid corpse, which was originally just moving toward Cold Water Harbor with instinct in the sea waves, actually stretched out its right hand from under the water and then grabbed Xia De in the air violently.

Even without the support of the strange power in the heart, the raised giant palm still looked like a mountain falling from the sky, revealing white bones in the rotting flesh. Seawater fell from the sky, and dead fish corpses, seaweed, stones, and more seabed garbage hit Xia De first.

The Sun 1 Luo De Pai flew out of Xia De's hand and stopped in the air. Xia De stepped on the Luo De Pai with his right foot and kicked hard. Under the effect of the spell strengthening his jumping ability, he changed direction in the air and dodged the giant palm that was closing together.

It was just that Xia De dodged the palm, but the Luo De Pai in the air was grabbed directly in the mermaid's palm. But this also meant that the fishhook already pierced on the Sun 1 was also grabbed by the mermaid.

"Hooked."

The fishing line tightened automatically, as if the fishing rod was also jumping for joy. Although this document-level relic 【Soul Fishing Rod】 could not obtain anything from a corpse without a soul, it did catch something good.

Xia De's body fell, but the black chains that rushed out from both sleeves intertwined and entangled the fishing line, climbing upward rapidly. When Xia De landed lightly on the crest of the red sea wave that was still rolling forward, the chains of sin had already tightly entangled the mermaid's palm, ensuring it could not let go of the fishhook.

Under the dim yellow sky, the dim sun behind the clouds made that black chain look like it was connecting the sky and the blood-red ocean.

And in this doomsday-like scene, the fish-men, mermaids, and Ringed Shushi in the sea all looked here, seeing Xia De, who was like a black dot on the crest of the wave, holding a fishing rod in one hand and tightening the fishing line with the other.

The ruins appeared here because of the power of space, and could be expelled with the 【Space Stabilization Halo】. But the mermaid corpse swam from the deep sea to the near sea of Cold Water Harbor, and to stop it, one could only inflict damage.

As for what the church's original plan was, Xia De didn't care; he just didn't want to waste the power of divine overflow.

He was exerting force, converting the slight divine power overflowing into the purest physical strength:

"Heya!"

With Xia De's low roar, he gritted his teeth and held the fishing rod high above his head. The fishing rod extended at this moment, the fishing line tightened, and the chains of sin retracted.

In the rumbling sound, in the red sea waves, with the surging waves, the mermaid's right arm stretched toward the sky, then the whole body moved forward, and then slowly upward, and the part below the shoulder gradually emerged from the water surface.

He was actually pulled up from the seabed by Xia De. The huge body below the shoulder completely rose into the air, almost blocking all the light of the entire ocean. Below the shoulder, the lower half of the giant corpse was full of small scarlet tentacles wriggling in a spiral.

At this moment, the corpse finally broke free from the chains and fishhooks. Following the prayers of the cultists on the shore, the corpse absorbed the last power of the Sea Return Ceremony. It opened its eyes at Xia De below, and two rotting hands grabbed toward the ocean.

But it was too late. Xia De looked up at the terrifying corpse in the air, and his two hands drew crossed light marks above his head:

"Moonlight Slash!"

The huge cross light mark flew into the sky, piercing the corpse and leaving a cross-shaped hole in the strange yellow clouds.

The corpse seemed to freeze in the air, and then, the split corpse pieces fell into the sea.

This was the first time Xia De had used 【Silver Moon Slash】 like this; perhaps this strange technique had more room for development.

"The God-Caller of Tobesk has restored his full power!"

People looked at this scene in a daze. Bright yellow sunlight appeared in the dim yellow sky, and the sunlight finally shone on this ocean from the traces broken by the moonlight. Because the clouds were cross-shaped, the light projected down was also reflected in the sea in the shape of a cross, and the intersection of the cross was exactly Xia De holding the fishing rod.

Explosive sounds came from under the sea surface. This was the base array of the large Sea Return Ceremony, which was being damaged one by one because the core of the ceremony was destroyed. And as the power of the ceremony faded, although the towering waves continued to slap toward Cold Water Harbor, they became weaker and weaker. Until the old lighthouse standing on the sea cliff lit up together, those lights finally calmed the sea tide and calmed the anger of the ocean.

The scarlet color of the sea surface faded and was slowly diluted. The corpses sacrificed on the seabed also floated up. The sea tide took away this piece of red, and at the same time, the giant corpse that seemed to melt in the water also disappeared.

It was 8:50 AM, and it was still early morning. The strange-colored clouds dispersed, and the clear sky was revealed again. Today was a good day.

Xia De, who felt that his eyes were a bit unable to open, dived into the water again with the falling sea tide. Pinching the badge on his chest with his right hand, under the keen senses of the divine overflow state, he finally found the traces of the witch and the enemy.

On the surging red sea waves, Ivan Darkness, who had returned to his normal form, was riding a dilapidated wooden boat with the rudder entangled in water plants, sailing toward the shore at an astonishing speed.

Behind him, Miss Xivi Aurora was running on the waves, the strange race with human bodies and fish tails clustered under the sea surface around her, exerting the power of controlling the ocean for her.

Most of the mermaids were fighting with fish-men in the sea. A small number were following the witch, helping her catch up with Darkness who was riding the relic boat.

Although the faded red sea waves were still surging, the two people moving toward the shore were not affected at all. They both saw the astonishing scene behind them just now, but neither of them had any intention of stopping. ===== CHAPTER 426 =====