activa-t Chapter 182: Shark Lantern
Chapter 182: Shark Lantern
After eliminating all the monsters in the tunnel, most of the spiritual power in their dantians was consumed.
He swallowed a few spiritual pills before continuing forward.
The corridor, which was originally so long that it seemed to have no end, suddenly had a door a hundred meters away. It was a huge door carved from a whole piece of bluestone, and on it was carved a mermaid sitting on a shell with her eyes closed.
The mermaid's tail fell outside the shell, with a circle of flame-like patterns surrounding her, and she held a candle in her hands.
Several people stood in front of the giant door vigilantly, and before they could reach out to push it, the giant door opened by itself.
The first thing that caught my eye was a huge statue, whose face was similar to the mermaid carved on the door, except that its eyes were open.
What he held in his hand was no longer a candle, but a deep blue spirit bead that seemed to contain the ocean.
The room behind the giant gate was not big, and there were two eternal lamps lit every one meter. The smell was particularly pleasant, completely different from the smell in the corridor.
Several people walked into the house and looked at the dozen or so eternally burning lamps emitting white and blue light. They all thought of the mermaid lanterns!
The mermaid lantern is an oil lamp made from mermaid oil refined by mermaids. It can last for thousands of years and has a unique fragrance. Occasionally smelling it can lift one's spirits and is beneficial for the cultivator to cultivate his mind.
Smelling it for a long time will evoke the darkness in people's hearts and the greed in human nature, and easily breed inner demons.
Mermaid lanterns have been coveted by monks since ancient times, but a mermaid can only make ten.
So a shark lantern can be sold at a sky-high price!
Therefore, a special profession has emerged in the world of immortal cultivation: the mermaid hunter.
Most of the mermaid hunters have cultivation level above the Nascent Soul stage and are very good at water. The mermaids of the Xuanling Continent gather in the East China Sea, so most of the mermaid hunters are also cultivators from the East China Sea.
Because mermaids have difficulty reproducing and human cultivators hunt them without limit, the mermaids in Xuanling Continent became extinct thousands of years ago.
If the hundred eternal lamps here were taken out, they would surely attract monks to scramble for them.
It's not just the cultivators in this world, the cultivators in the upper world are the same.
Jiang Baimo came from the upper realm and knew that the mermaids in the upper realm became extinct earlier than those in the Xuanling Continent.
Thousands of years ago, many monks from the upper realm were willing to risk being punished by heaven to come to the lower realm to hunt mermaids.
Jiang Baimo also recognized the statue in this room.
It is the king of the mermaid clan, Luo Ling.
Thousands of years ago, monks from the upper realm hunted the last batch of mermaids and used them to make hundreds of mermaid lanterns. Luo Ling was the last one.
However, something unexpected happened while refining Luo Ling. Luo Ling's lover sacrificed himself to the refining furnace and passed all his cultivation to Luo Ling, causing Luo Ling to revert to her original form when she was halfway through the refining process, and her strength increased greatly.
After disappearing with the hundred mermaid lanterns that they had just refined, the cultivators from the upper realm searched for the whereabouts of Luo Ling and the mermaid lanterns for nearly a thousand years, but they never expected that Luo Ling and the mermaid lanterns were hiding in such a secret realm in the lower realm.
Jiang Baimo looked at the statue of Luo Ling in the middle. The bead in Luo Ling's hand was the heart of the mermaid, also Luo Ling's mermaid bead.
The mermaid pearl is here, and Luo Lingding must be here too.
Thinking of how Luo Ling had killed dozens of immortals after returning to her ancestral state, Jiang Baimo's eyes became more vigilant.
But if Luo Lingruo is still alive, why would she hide in the secret realm for thousands of years?
Jiang Baimo became suspicious and walked around the entire house, but didn't find anything unusual.
The only eye-catching thing in the whole room was the statue of Luo Ling in the center. Jiang Baimo looked up and squinted at the statue's face.
I just felt that the statue was carved so vividly that the pair of sapphire-like eyes seemed to be shining.
……
Leng Zhuxin was also looking at the statue in the center. It was only after Jiang Baimo told her that she knew the statue was of Luo Ling. But for some reason, Leng Zhuxin always felt that the statue was not simple.
There is also the mermaid lantern, which is recorded in the world of immortal cultivation as being able to help cultivators in their practice. Then what are those monsters outside?
Could those monsters and the candles on both sides of the cave also be Jiao Lanterns, set up by Jiao Lantern and Luo Ling to protect this room?
She looked deeply at the statue in front of her, her eyes almost only focused on the mermaid pearl in the statue's hand.
The mermaid pearl emitted a soft light, and there seemed to be waves flowing inside, tempting the monk to take it off, and the pair of sapphire-like eyes seemed to fall on Leng Zhuxin.
There was wind in the room, Leng Zhuxin could feel it, but the shark lantern inside did not sway at all.
No one dared to touch the mermaid lanterns. Gu Wangchen and Su Fanzhen saw Leng Zhuxin and the other person standing in front of the statue for a long time without moving, so they walked over and stood next to Leng Zhuxin. Following Leng Zhuxin and the other person's line of sight, they looked into the statue's eyes.
Those vivid eyes made them feel as if they were looking into Luo Ling's eyes.
Gu Wangchen couldn't help but take a few steps forward and reached his hand upwards, as if he was obsessed.
Then, a beautiful song came from nowhere, and the mermaid pearl in the statue's hand flashed a few times. Starting from the fingers holding the statue, the outer rock shell began to peel off, revealing the creamy skin.
It was a hand as white as snow, with slender fingers and round and shiny nails, but it looked pale and bloodless.
There are faintly visible light blue fish scales on the back of the hand, as pale as painted decorations, shimmering with light.
This scene should have made several people alert, but after the singing came, they seemed to be wrapped in bubbles and had no reaction to the outside world.
The singing was still going on, and the shark lantern in the house finally began to sway, with thin streams of smoke floating out of the shark lantern, and the statue finally shattered into pieces.
Yinsheng, who was in the Han Yusuo space, called out to Leng Zhuxin anxiously, trying to wake Leng Zhuxin from the mermaid's singing.
But after the mermaid lanterns swayed, the singing of mermaids suddenly came from all directions. Although the voices were different, they were all beautiful and enchanting.
Yinsheng is a soul body, and the effect it can produce is really minimal.
Bingbing and Xiaohan were also extremely anxious, and kept shouting "Master!" in their sea of consciousness.
Leng Zhuxin could hear it but couldn't react. She could only walk towards the statue woodenly.
In desperation, Bingbing bit Leng Zhuxin's wrist hard. A sharp pain came from the wrist, but it only made Leng Zhuxin sober for a moment, and then he was confused by the singing again.
Xiaohan wanted to use his vines to block Leng Zhuxin's ears, hoping to isolate Leng Zhuxin from the singing.
However, the mermaid's singing directly affects the soul and cannot be stopped by this method.
Seeing that Leng Zhuxin and the others were getting closer and closer to the statue, Xiaohan sent out vines to stop the four of them, and at the same time vigilantly grew a vine ball to wrap Leng Zhuxin.
Controlled by the mermaid's singing, they kept swinging their fists at Xiaohan's vines, but because they didn't use their spiritual power, they only smashed their hands into a bloody mess, without causing any harm to Xiaohan.
The mermaid's singing was still ringing, and it was getting louder and louder, even trying to invade the consciousness of several people.
At the moment when the singing touched Leng Zhuxin's sea of consciousness, Leng Zhuxin's sea of consciousness suddenly lit up with an ice-blue light, and a transparent light shield protected Leng Zhuxin's sea of consciousness.
A chill spread across Leng Zhuxin's sea of consciousness, causing Leng Zhuxin, who was influenced by Jiao Ge, to feel the chill.
The mermaid song was still playing, and Leng Zhuxin began to slowly regain consciousness as a wave of icy coldness rose from his sea of consciousness.
Xiaohan and Bingbing breathed a sigh of relief when they noticed that Leng Zhuxin's consciousness was recovering, and their hearts finally settled down a little.