noffsinger Chapter 204: Finding the 9th and st Xu Ming Jie Stones
Chapter 204: Finding the 9th and st Xu Ming Jie Stones
The pool was not deep, only reaching Bai Jun's waist.
Hua Li walked into the pool, squatted down, and collected all the stone slabs at the bottom into the space, revealing the blue and white slag arranged in a regular pattern below, as well as a large piece of Xu Ming Jie stone in the center.
This is a time seal formation with the Xu Ming Jie Stone as the center of the formation. These stone residues should be the remains of the exhausted energy of the sea marrow jade and the exhausted spiritual essence of the spirit jade.
The time seal array is more special than other arrays and has limitations. It seals the mermaid eggs so it requires a constant supply of sea power and spiritual essence, otherwise the array will slowly become ineffective.
As for why there is only dusk on Dusk Island, it should be caused by the Void Stone after the time seal array dissipated.
Hua Li decisively took away the Xu Ming Jie Stone in the center of the formation. This was the ninth piece.
There are only two more pieces of Tianmen left to complete the task.
After a few people walked out of the cave, Shi Zhixing came late with ten people. Seeing that they were all injured, it seemed that the journey here was not smooth.
Hua Li stepped forward and told Shi Zhixing about the mermaid egg and Xu Ming Jie Shi.
Shi Zhixing nodded in agreement with Bai Jun's way of dealing with the stone eggs. Returning them to the clan's land was the best way.
As for after Xu Ming Jie Shi was taken away by Hua'er, the sky on Dusk Island returned to the same color as outside, which once again verified that spatial anomalies would basically occur wherever Xu Ming Jie Shi was.
Spatial anomalies on islands are easier to detect than those in the sea, but the situation in the sea is difficult.
So in the following time, Shi Zhixing went to the nearby sea alone to ask the sea beasts about the place where there were spatial anomalies in the sea.
Hua Li took others to collect poisonous insects, plants and flowers on Dusk Island.
Most of the exotic beasts and spiritual herbs on Dusk Island are highly poisonous and rare. Collecting more of them can help Shi Mo refine rare poisons, incense, and antidotes.
Five days later, Shi Zhixing and Hua Li reunited on the Poseidon.
Shi Zhixing actually found out three suspicious places from the sea beast, all of which were in the south.
In the next two months, we went to two suspicious deep-sea trenches, but found nothing. One of the anomalies was caused by the birth of a rare treasure, and the other was caused by the special geographical environment. Only the last place was left.
It is said to be a special blank sea area, so empty that no marine life can survive in it, let alone enter it. There is nothing but sea water.
It's like a restricted area for life, an isolated space.
It took Hua Li and his team half a month to get here. They could find something unusual by standing on the deck without going into the sea, because the colors of the sea water here are clearly distinct.
The color of the water in the blank sea area is a transparent sky blue like a gem, which is very different from the deep blue of the sea next to it.
It's more like a sky blue sapphire embedded in the sea.
Hua Li, Shi Zhixing and Shi Mo flew high into the sky and circled around, and saw clearly that the scope of the blank sea area was a circle of one thousand meters.
Afterwards, Shi Zhixing flew low over the empty sea area on his sword and released his soul power to investigate, but was blocked from entering, so he jumped off Han Ying.
Nothing unexpected happened. He was still standing above the empty sea area. Just as the sea beasts said, no living creature could enter.
Hua Li Shimo curiously followed suit and jumped onto the empty sea surface.
With a "splash", Shi Mo was standing on the sea surface, while Hua Li jumped directly into the empty sea.
"Hua'er!" Shi Zhixing was shocked. He didn't know the situation of this empty sea area, so how could he not be worried.
He ran over quickly, knelt at the place where Hua Li fell into the water, and stretched out his hand to try to tear apart the force that was blocking him.
Hua Li swam up by herself and grabbed Shi Zhixing's hand. Shi Zhixing held Hua Li tightly and lifted her up.
"Don't worry, the sea water below is no different," Hua Li spoke first to comfort him, as if he knew what Shi Zhixing was worried about.
Then he continued: "The reason why I can go down is probably because there is a Xu Ming Jie Stone in my space." She vaguely sensed it from below.
As he spoke, he took out the Xu Ming Jie Stone from the space and gave it to Shi Zhixing.
Shi Zhixing understood, it seemed that he had found the right place this time. He took the Xu Ming Jie Stone and there was no obstruction in an instant, and he and Hua Li fell into the empty sea together.
Shi Mo's eyes widened, how could they do this?
Under the sea, Shi Zhixing put the Xu Ming Jie Stone into the space and pulled Hua Li all the way down to the bottom of the sea.
This sea area is not very deep, only about ninety meters deep. The seabed within the blank sea area is covered with white fine sand and nothing else.
Hua Li used his soul power to scan the area, swam to the center, pointed downwards and said, "I can sense it down there!"
Shi Zhixing raised his eyebrows. He had just used his soul power and the situation was the same as when he was on the sea. His soul power was blocked. It seemed that Huaer was really special.
Under Hua Li's expectant gaze, Shi Zhixing quickly formed seals with his fingers and turned his wrist, controlling the sea water to wrap around the fine sand, turning over the white sand on the seabed like turning the pages of a book.
Revealed were Lingyin wooden boxes of various sizes scattered on the ground, filled with various pearl Lingfei, top-grade Lingyu, sea marrow jade, sea essence stone... etc.
The two of them put all the Lingyin wooden boxes into the space, revealing a tilted oversized wooden box underneath. Hua Li reached out to open the half-open lid and sucked in a mouthful of sea water when he saw the Xu Ming Jie Stone inside.
Before, she had used her soul power to scan it and only knew its meaning but not its shape. Now she estimated that it was two meters wide and two meters high. She didn't know which big guy would be willing to use such a large spiritual wooden box to store it.
It's really... a bargain for her.
Shi Zhixing did not expect that the tenth piece of Xumingjie Stone he found would be so large. His brain quickly recalled the eleven base points on the Tianmen Terrace.
He remembered that the five base points on the left and right sides were of normal size, but the base groove of the eleventh base point in the middle was several times larger than the other base grooves.
Now it has finally been decrypted.
Hua Li also thought of the largest base point among the ten base points of Tianmen, which seemed to be the location of this giant Xu Ming Jie Stone.
With a wave of his hand, he put the Xu Ming Jie Stone into the space and put it away. The spatial force of the surrounding sea water suddenly disappeared, and the clear sea water lost the effect of the spatial force and slowly melted into the normal sea water.
On the sea, Shi Mo had already flown back to the deck. Now, looking at the clear blue water slowly merging with the surrounding water, he thought that the mysterious power must have disappeared.
After returning to the Poseidon, Shi Zhixing took out the piece of Xuming Jieshi that he had put into his space and gave it to Hua Li, asking her to keep it all.
This trip to the mermaid tribe was quite rewarding, and their next destination is Starlight Island.
It takes a month and a half to reach Starlight Island from their current location.
During the one and a half month return journey, Shi Zhixing took Bai Jun out to sea for training almost every other day. Bai Jun's cultivation level improved too quickly and required actual combat to settle down.
And ever since Hua Li acquired the talent for devouring, she could increase her cultivation just by eating and drinking every day. Occasionally, when she felt like it, she would follow Shi Zhixing Baijun to go for a stroll in the sea.
Life can be as carefree as it can be.