Chapter 86: One Set After Another

"What tier?" Jiang Yu retrieved the flying boat and sank into the sea with him.

"A wounded sixth-tier, accompanied by a few small fifth-tier." Ao Ze originally wanted to handle it himself.

But he feared his dragon‑breath technique would be too heavy, attracting high‑tier humans; he hadn't forgotten that his demon pill is sealed, allowing at most fifth‑tier strength.

On the island, there was a living late‑Nascent Soul old monk.

Jiang Yu wore Jiang Tu's turtle shell on her back; the underwater pressure instantly dispersed, and she and Ao Ze swiftly flew through the water.

Soon they saw, beside a coral cluster on the sea floor, a panting massive mysterious ice flying whale, its body over ten zhang long, bearing a huge wound that was currently sealed by ice while bleeding.

The scene resembled a recent massive brawl.

The other side, upon seeing them approach, immediately led several fifth‑tier companions to launch ice attacks, countless ice arrows surged against the current.

Jiang Tu's turtle shell could not scare off the fifth‑tier, but the water‑shaped protective aura it formed easily blocked those volleyed arrows.

The sixth‑tier mysterious ice whale, seeing Jiang Yu's strength, ceased attacking and instead let out two whines, prompting the flanking fifth‑tier guards to attack again.

It itself focused on watching Ao Ze, and the latter happened to look back, their gazes meeting instantly.

At this moment, Jiang Yu dodged the first wave, and before the second wave arrived, she unhesitatingly drew a thunder sphere to strike.

But Ao Ze suddenly stopped her: "Wait, that's a mother whale; it's about to give birth."

No wonder it hadn't left the seabed; Ao Ze felt partly guilty, having only been reporting the news and not looking closely.

"Go." Jiang Yu retracted the thunder sphere, instantly activated a water‑escape talisman, grabbed Ao Ze and turned away.

Of course, she could not leave the battlefield head‑on, but instead maneuvered along the flank.

But the flock of mysterious ice flying whales didn't know; they also turned around, ready to launch another round of attack.

"Transmit to sixth‑tier, we're just passing by, we won't disturb its birthing." With the water‑escape talisman's aid, Jiang Yu dodged swiftly.

In fact, had it not been a mother whale giving birth, she would have already opened combat.

Ao Ze turned his head, murmured low, and using bloodline power, forcibly restrained several fifth‑tier foes, then quickly transmitted to sixth‑tier.

After a short breath, he relayed to Jiang Yu, "It says its wound is too severe and asks me for a rescue protection method."

"It not afraid you'll eat it?"

"I would never eat a mother whale with a newborn; it said within three hundred li there are several groups of fifth‑ and sixth‑tier, many injured by the storm."

If we lend it our pills, it will thank us greatly later, but I have no pills left; can you give yours?"

"These two, take them to give it: hemostatic powder and small restorative pill.

"Don't get too close; sixth‑tier ice techniques may have ice‑sealing divine powers." Jiang Yu glanced at the massive mother whale, took another bottle of small restorative pill and several bottles of hemostatic powder for him.

She sighed inwardly, whales truly are clever, one set after another.

Ao Ze quickly flew to the sixth‑tier mother whale, but he didn't get too close; he tossed the pill bottles over, exchanged transmissions, then withdrew.

"Sorry for making you run in vain."

"It's fine, there's more ahead." This time Jiang Yu simply stopped surfacing, instead laid down water‑escape talismans one after another; after all, she didn't have many other things, but the talisman scripts were sufficient.

With Ao Ze's own water‑escape already fast, the two of them, hand in hand, doubled their speed, and soon within a hundred li discovered another group of monsters.

They were fifth‑tier sea wolves, wolf‑headed, eagle‑clawed, fish‑bodied, fiercely vicious; after sensing the dragon‑turtle aura, they not only didn't flee but, before the two could approach, launched a frontal attack.

Against these single‑water‑type, injured fifth‑tier foes, Jiang Yu was essentially unafraid, meeting them with several fifth‑thunder talismans, water‑thunder dual effect, instantly blasting their formation.

Then she seized her spiritual sword, rushed among them, swishing, the blade flashing like lightning, attacking relentlessly, leaving the rear entirely to Ao Ze, who was just tagging along.

The little dragon king hadn't had time to act when he saw Jiang Yu cut down several wolf heads; he looked up and sighed.

A sightless sea wolf leapt forward, and his small hand grabbed it, splitting it in two.

The battle came suddenly and ended quickly; Jiang Yu used an empty storage bag to capture the monsters, planning to dissect useful materials later.

The two, following the direction indicated by the mysterious ice flying whale, harvested injured fourth‑ and fifth‑tier monsters along the way.

Ao Ze was having a blast, catching fish, crabs, sharks, eels, crocodiles, and even two severely wounded flying birds.

Jiang Yu couldn't help but exclaim, "No wonder the cultivators on the island are excited; this is such an easy hunt."

"It's because you have too many talismans." Seeing a barrage of talisman scripts clatter, even a single‑technique monster or a peer cultivator couldn't withstand.

Ao Ze suspected she intended to empty the storage bag of its basic spirit talismans.

Of course, when encountering higher cultivation or strong opponents, Jiang Yu would decisively retreat, vanishing.

Until Xuantang Xingjun warned that many seventh‑tier beings roamed ahead, they stopped, and when they rushed back to Coconut Tree Island, it was already the evening of the third day.

Hundreds of fourth‑ and fifth‑tier monsters, thirty percent of them were given free to the enforcement squad, with the hand‑back marks removed.

The remainder, she cut useful materials for armor, and sold the rest on the spot to purchasing shops.

Many cultivators looked at Jiang Yu with shining eyes: "The little girl is so lucky, picking up so many."

Being stared at by cultivators emitting green light, Jiang Yu dared not stay any longer; she checked into an inn that night and didn't leave for five days.

Not for any other reason, she wanted to draw a Wood‑Hide Talisman, carving a Wood‑Hide Talisman that works equally well for underwater invisibility.

After three days of repeated practice, she finally etched a complete sigil onto fifth‑tier spirit wood.

Two more days later, she could carve a mid‑grade superior talisman, hang it on herself behind a fruit tree grown in space, and remain invisible, even evading Ao Ze's divine sense.

Jiang Yu sighed that the day's pill was worth it, and asked Xuantang Xingjun, if he didn't mind, whether he could detect her hidden behind the tree.

"Of course we can, my cultivation level, Ao Ze's cultivation level—

"However, if your Wood‑Hide Talisman is a high‑grade superior, it might fool me for a while." Xuantang Xingjun's comment was fairly accurate.

Jiang Yu wasn't aiming for lofty goals; as long as she could evade the core‑pill, that was enough, since the sigils on her Chaotic Origin Talisman weren't mastered yet.

After a brief discussion, she chose to open the disguise hall on Coconut Tree Island that night.

Unfortunately, there was no teleportation array to the southwest, so she could only travel a hundred li by water‑escape, then fly using a sword.

While flying, Ao Ze, seated on the sword, furrowed his brows: "Below the water, a monster is following us."

Xuantang Xingjun also spoke: "Not only that, there's a squad of cultivators behind you."

"Another calamity cultivator? I've already emerged from disguise." Jiang Yu's divine sense hadn't detected it; she quickly tossed Ao Ze back into the dragon‑pearl space, and she herself leapt underwater.

Thus: Xuantang Xingjun waited until that group flew close, then leisurely said, "It probably isn't looking for you."

Jiang Yu used a wooden concealment talisman to hide among the underwater seaweed, paid no mind to the group flying overhead, and after losing their trace, swam to a dense seaweed area to set up an array.

Unexpectedly, just after planting the array banner, her divine sense detected a white silhouette approaching.

Jiang Yu accelerated the array activation, hum—, the array formed, bang—, the white silhouette slammed into the invisible barrier.

"That mother whale? It has already healed." Ao Ze read it clearly on the dragon stele, then manifested to converse with the demon.

Shaoqing, transmitting to Jiang Yu: "It has come to fulfill a promise, saying that a thousand years ago, a Nascent Soul cultivator fell into an undersea rock cave."

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