latelenovela Chapter 312 Undersea Battle
Chapter 312 Undersea Battle
Several arrows rained down from above, causing no pain or itch; the merman even felt they were no different from the flying coral fragments around him.
Zhong Ming had no particularly suitable means underwater, so he could only look for opportunities on the flanks while holding onto the late spring chill.
The two merfolk were also slightly injured, but it was nothing serious, much better than the old woman's condition.
The old woman spotted her warriors and immediately panicked. Weren't they just sending her to her death?
But then I thought, this might be the only chance of survival. Several Foundation Establishment cultivators piloting high-grade spiritual artifacts would soon run out of spiritual energy. Once these two merfolk killed them and caught up with them, it would be a complete massacre.
The spirit boat barely slowed down. The two people inside were only doing one thing: pushing the spirit boat to its limits and injecting all their spiritual energy into it within a dozen seconds.
The old woman who had been directing them for years immediately understood their intentions.
"Ah!"
With a wave of her hand, all the ribbons crashed heavily onto the seabed, stirring up a cloud of mud and sand.
"Don't run!" (in the mermaid's voice)
They immediately realized that the two humans wanted to escape, so they swam forward and used their keen senses as merfolk to pinpoint their location.
The silver ribbons rushed towards one of them. The merman quickly sank down, dodging the ribbon that came flying at him, but he didn't expect that there was another ribbon below him. It had taken the opportunity to bury itself in the sand and dust, and now it suddenly flew out and wrapped around him.
"Kill her quickly."
All the ribbons were now used to bind him; if he could just kill the old woman, the ribbons would break free.
The old woman pressed her hand against the pendant on her chest; now, all she could do was leave it to fate.
Another merman swam rapidly towards them, and Zhong Ming and the others formed a military formation, landing in the enemy's path of advance.
For two late-stage Qi Refining cultivators to stop a Foundation Establishment cultivator is like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
As Zhong Ming landed, the merman in front of him had already rushed to within three zhang.
Zhong Ming understood that the time had come to decide his fate.
"Taoist Techniques: The Ultimate Squandering Art!"
In an instant, most of Zhong Ming's spiritual power surged into his storage stone, and the sea around him was thrown into chaos.
Just as the merman was charging forward with great momentum, another merman suddenly appeared in front of him.
After a moment of surprise, he realized it was a corpse.
'Damn it, give me back the lives of my people!' he thought angrily, and swam forward faster, smashing the corpse to pieces.
Behind the corpse was another corpse.
Then came more corpses, the merfolk's corpses seemed endless, interspersed with broken bone artifacts, some foul-smelling "food," and even spirit stones.
But at this moment, his attention was drawn to the corpses of the merfolk, as if he had returned to the brutal battlefield of Jade City. He rampaged through the corpses, completely unaware that his path was being altered.
After he charged past the last corpse, smashing it in two, he was ready to use his greatsword to cleave the damned human in two.
But this last corpse had many explosive tags pasted on it.
Underwater, the explosive tokens function differently than usual; the fire's destructive power almost disappears, replaced by a powerful ability to create water waves.
A violent explosion suddenly occurred behind him, and the current propelled him to swim in another direction. Although it was only for a very short time, it was enough for the old woman to swim several meters.
"Boom!"
When the merman turned around, all that could be seen was the merman's body, tightly bound by silver ribbons, colliding head-on with the spirit boat, behind the swirling sea grime.
This is a top-grade spiritual artifact.
The head-on collision was so severe that his head was bleeding profusely, and his injuries were even more serious than those of the Hidden Wolf Army cultivators.
The situation suddenly reversed. He glared angrily at Zhong Ming, who was swimming wildly among the mess of debris. Just now, in order to disrupt the merfolk's senses, he had even used crushed spirit stones as spiritual energy interference, used smoke pills originally used on land to pollute the sea, and used some small mechanisms that could move at timed intervals to interfere with the water flow.
They've gone to any lengths.
Another monk also provided ample cover; his storage bag contained bait fish, the kind used to distract the enemy and prevent the small boat from being overtaken by a large fish.
Having suffered a setback, the merman immediately drew his sword and charged forward, his speed rivaling that of the previous shockwave.
Merfolk communicate at very low frequencies, yet the messages can travel thousands of kilometers. Even though they have traveled this far, the merfolk in the ocean behind them must have received the information.
He unleashed a flash of light with his blade, determined to injure them and leave these wretched humans here.
Zhong Ming tried to defend himself with the "Great Cold" technique, swinging his spear, but because he was underwater, he had very poor speed control, and the blade flew past his spear.
The old woman's body trembled, and the pendant shone brightly, yet she was still sent flying backward.
The merman suddenly appeared in front of her, plunging his knife deep into her bones, nearly cleaving her in two.
Upon closer inspection, the figure that had unleashed the sword light gradually dissipated, leaving only an afterimage.
The merman used his powerful sword strike to cleave through the water, then used an unknown, incredibly fast movement technique to move forward, following closely behind the sword's edge. The healing water behind him practically propelled him forward, making his speed absurd.
Zhong Ming sensed something was wrong, but unfortunately he had nothing left to use. At the critical moment, the heavily injured Hidden Wolf Army cultivator suddenly opened his eyes.
The gleam that burst forth told the merman, "Oh no, this guy is faking his death."
His injury was less severe than expected.
The Hidden Wolf warrior finally smiled, a mixture of ecstatic joy at "You finally... finally fell for it!" and contempt that thought, "You'll become the most insignificant line on my kill list."
With a wave of his hand, the five broken sword fragments that had fallen to the ground and were already in pieces suddenly pierced through the merman's body under his control.
"Goodbye."
He wasn't saying this to the merman, but to the sword that had been with him for so long.
This precious water-attribute sword completed its mission, breaking into five pieces that pierced different parts of the merman's body before exploding with a roar.
The merman noticed it; he could even sense the heat and turbulent spiritual energy before the fragments exploded.
He frantically tried to remove the fragments, but the hard scales became the culprits that hindered him. He couldn't cut open his own body for a while, and in the end, he could only stare helplessly, swim forward a few times, trying to get closer to the other party to perish together or make him afraid to continue the self-destruction due to the distance.
He became a dazzling firework in the sea.