Chapter 244: Susu

Xiaoye has a beloved person trapped in the Linghai Forbidden Ground; I already knew this.

Her name is Zhong Susu.

Xiaoye's many attentions to Liu Junyan, aside from their deep brotherly bond, are solely for this request.

He wants Liu Junyan to help him rescue Zhong Susu.

But the forbidden ground is fraught with danger; this time Liu Junyan decides to move his natal magic artifact to cleave a water path for me, and Zhong Susu's appearance was not in the plan.

She simply appeared out of nowhere.

I lay in the water bubble, looking at the girl.

Her whole state was like a flower about to wither, imprisoned in the water.

Not to mention Xiaoye; even just glancing at her makes my heart ache.

The girl slowly raised her hand toward Xiaoye.

On her pallid arm hung heavy iron chains, bruises oozing thick black; the chain's muffled sound through the water: "Xiaoye, I've waited for you so long, why did you only come now? I thought you didn't want me..."

She trudged forward with difficulty, persistently lifting her hand, step by step approaching Xiaoye.

Xiaoye staggered forward a couple of strokes, also reaching out: "Susu..."

Watching the two hands slowly approach, at this moment I felt as if heaven and earth had stilled.

And indeed it had stilled.

It seemed that from the moment Zhong Susu appeared, the guards who had been lying in wait to attack me just vanished instantly.

Thinking of this, my heart gave a jolt.

Something's off!

I opened my mouth to warn Xiaoye, but saw his hand already gripping Zhong Susu's hand.

At the moment their hands clasped, Xiaoye suddenly twisted his hand and threw Zhong Susu over his shoulder!

The move was swift and ruthless.

Just moments ago, seeing Zhong Susu filled my eyes with pity and my body with defeat; now it's all gone.

I was shocked in my heart; it turned out Xiaoye had long noticed something wrong with this Zhong Susu before him.

He is too perceptive.

Such perceptiveness cannot be achieved merely by being strong enough.

After all, heroes often fail the beauty test, let alone when the person before him is his beloved.

Xiaoye's perceptiveness likely stems from his deep understanding of Zhong Susu.

After being thrown, Zhong Susu's entire form turned into a string of bubbles.

The next moment, each bubble turned into a Zhong Susu.

Countless Zhong Susus of various sizes surrounded Xiaoye, incessantly moving their lips, calling: "Xiaoye..."

While calling him, they also expressed her bewildered helplessness.

Sound after sound, word after word, drilled straight into the ears, impossible to ignore.

I saw Xiaoye clench his fists, close his eyes, lower his head, desperately enduring not to be disturbed by those voices.

Although he is perceptive enough, staying clear-headed in this situation is truly difficult.

After all, that's the person dearest to his heart!

I was worried about Xiaoye's condition; the ripples on my middle finger seemed to sense it, wrapping around my middle finger, lifting its head, restless, darting about, several times trying to protrude to touch the large bubble enveloping me.

Just as I hesitated whether to reach out and pop the bubble, Xiaoye suddenly moved.

He suddenly turned his head, his eyelids twitched slightly, his ears perked up; the next moment he flung his eyes open, waved his hand, and a scale armor sliced toward a 'Zhong Susu' on the right.

The scale armor struck precisely; when that 'Zhong Susu' was split into pieces, all the surrounding 'Zhong Susus' vanished.

Only a large expanse of black liquid remained in the water.

Those liquids quickly coalesced, ultimately forming a gigantic black catfish.

That catfish was over two meters long; its long barbules were about as thick as my thumb, its belly undulated, and its gills bulged high.

Suddenly, the two gill flaps opened outward, and I saw inside the scarlet gills teeming with countless tiny fish.

The instant the gills opened, countless tiny fish shot at us like bullets from a chamber.

Xiaoye immediately formed seals with both hands; powerful inner force drove water waves to block them, yet some still slipped through.

Dozens of tiny fish pierced the large bubble enveloping me.

The large bubble burst, and my body was instantly submerged in seawater.

I immediately bit my finger, right hand forming a sword finger, pressed to the base of my left middle finger, moving upward, then pointed the sword finger at the black catfish.

The water ripples instantly turned into a dragon shape, surging straight at the black catfish; a dragon roar shook the entire water.

The constantly wriggling tiny fish in the seawater vanished in that dragon roar, and even the black catfish was shattered.

But the next moment, a dark mass loomed ahead, rushing toward us at great speed.

Xiaoye, who had always been calm, visibly grew tense when facing that mass.

He turned his head and gestured to me to hurry, then swiftly formed a seal, erecting a barrier before him to block the mass's approach.

Li Qingying told me that Xiaoye is greatly favored in the Linghai Dragon Clan, fearing neither heaven nor earth.

If it weren't to protect me, he wouldn't need to be tense at all.

Therefore, I should leave this place of right and wrong as quickly as possible; for him, that is already the greatest help.

I also understand that the water path Liu Junyan and Xiaoye painstakingly opened for me heads toward Mount Cangwu.

Liu Junyan said he would send me back to Mount Cangwu tonight.

Thinking of this, I turned my head and swam forward.

But this vast Linghai is endless sea everywhere; where should I swim, and how far?

Although I am good in water and have some Xiūwéi, my breath-holding ability is decent, but I am not an iron lung; I clearly know I cannot swim far.

At this moment, that black mass was already striking the barrier.

I turned my head and glanced back; that was actually a horned snake.

No, that was a black dragon!

Besides Liu Junyan, this was the first time I had seen a flood dragon; merely locking eyes with it, that intimidating feeling was so strong it made my heart tremble.

Xiaoye, facing that black dragon, had no spare energy to worry about me.

I could only speed up and swim forward.

But before I had swum long, I felt as if my lungs were about to burst.

At that moment, another tremor came from the seabed.

Immediately after, a more fierce sword qi surged up from the depths of the seabed, and in the next instant I was again enveloped by that sword qi.

In the path cleaved by the sword qi there was no water; I immediately clutched my chest and gasped heavily.

As soon as I caught my breath, I sprang forward and ran.

I have to be quick!

Two sword qi burst forth in succession; for Liu Junyan to achieve this was also no easy feat.

Moreover, with such a commotion, the black dragon has appeared; who knows how many big figures of the Linghai Dragon Clan will be drawn next.

For them to break through this sword qi is hardly a matter of minutes, is it?

In the process of running, I also discovered that not only was I running, but the sword qi itself was swiftly moving forward as well.

In the blink of an eye, I could no longer see Xiaoye or that black dragon's silhouette.

But I could feel that a fight was taking place behind me.

The sword qi grew fainter and fainter…

As I watched the sword qi about to disappear, a woman's voice suddenly came from afar behind me.

That voice……had once appeared in my dreams……