Chapter 336: Section 123: Feathered Snake Spirit?!
The ship ghost discovered a massive amount of Soul Crystals, almost entirely covering Zi Di’s layer, resembling a rich array of burial offerings.
Although he had sensed the presence of Soul Crystals before, they were separated by many layers. The first layer was the Green Jade Gold Coffin itself, the second layer was an Array, and the third layer was the core cabin.
Thus, the ship ghost initially thought there were only a few Soul Crystals; he never expected their actual number to be so substantial!
“As long as I absorb these Soul Crystals, I can fully recover and regain Silver Level combat power.”
“I am saved!”
The ship ghost plunged into the coffin and began absorbing the Soul Crystals voraciously.
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During this process, he did not show himself. The Fishman youth was engaged in intense combat and completely unaware that the Soul Crystals inside the coffin were rapidly depleting.
The Tower Spirit had deactivated the Array and also did not detect this anomaly.
The ship ghost’s strength began to recover swiftly.
However, a dozen seconds later, the Fishman youth was thrown back, slamming into the Green Jade Gold Coffin and spitting out a large mouthful of fresh blood.
The Divine Light on Mei Lan had dimmed more than before, weakening as it contended with the cold shadow claw monster.
The youth fought with difficulty, his strong willpower supporting him up to his limits.
A cold shadow claw monster silently approached another layer of the Green Jade Gold Coffin, stealthily leaped, and was about to claw open the youth’s head.
The Fishman youth felt dizzy and did not notice the fatal attack.
“Damn it!”
The ship ghost specter had been closely observing the situation.
He couldn’t let the Fishman youth be defeated; if the latter died, the Goddess Mei Lan might awaken immediately, which would be a disaster for the ship ghost.
The ship ghost had no choice but to act. Reluctantly parting from the Soul Crystals, his entire spectral body pounced into the cold shadow claw monster.
The cold shadow claw monster was immediately affected, a wild force of Undead wreaking havoc inside it, slowing its movements instantly.
He bought critical time; the Fishman youth finally reacted, performed a forward roll to dodge the claw aimed at the back of his head, and got back up to continue fighting.
The ship ghost specter floated out again.
“I can’t hold on any longer…”
To stop the cold shadow claw monster, he had made an extreme effort.
Though adversarial with the Fishman youth, the situation forced him to fight desperately!
The cold shadow claw monster was of the Golden Level, and the ship ghost, once Silver Level, had weakened after death. Despite absorbing some Soul Crystals, he was still no match for the cold shadow claw monster.
Had the cold shadow claw monster not been bent solely on killing the Fishman youth and lacked intelligence, the ship ghost specter would certainly have been targeted by the cold energy within it and obliterated.
The ship ghost’s condition was extremely dire; he could hardly maintain his form, looking like a dissipating flame.
Seeing the Fishman youth entangled again with the cold shadow claw monster, he immediately plunged back into the Green Jade Gold Coffin.
However, this time, after absorbing a bit of the Soul Crystals, he quickly stopped automatically.
“It’s not working!”
“My current state is too weak; the power of the Soul Crystals exceeds my capacity to withstand and consume.”
In the terms of herbalists, it was a case of being too weak to benefit from nourishment.
But at this time, although the ship ghost felt downhearted, he was not panicked.
He had anticipated this situation and had a contingency plan prepared.
That was to enter the body of the girl in front of him, Zi Di, devour her soul, and take over!
“My soul, having been trained in Undead Magic, is much stronger than a Black Iron Mage.”
“Even now very weak, I can still use my soul’s devouring instinct to consume her.”
“Hehehe, being placed here by the Fishman Divine Son, this girl must be very important to him!”
“I’ll start by killing your most important person as a ‘thank you’ to you.”
With overwhelming murderous intent, the spectral ship ghost quickly sank into Zi Di.
The next moment, he immersed himself into a deep and dark space.
“What’s going on?”
“Is this the Realm of the Soul?”
“A Black Iron Mage can construct a Realm of the Soul?”
“I see!”
The ship ghost’s eyes suddenly lit up as he spotted Zi Di’s soul.
The girl’s soul was curled up, with her eyes closed tightly. She was sleeping but showed a face filled with confusion, fear, and despair, appearing utterly vulnerable like an infant.
The ship ghost burst into laughter, diving down, about to devour Zi Di’s soul.
But the next moment, he experienced an intense chill down his spine!
“Strange… Her Realm of the Soul is too vast, and… there seems to be another presence here!”
He suddenly looked up.
In the next instant, the ship ghost was horrified almost to the point of losing his form!
He saw an immense green snake.
The snake’s body was so huge, with the spectral ship ghost compared to it, he was like an ant gazing up at a blue whale!
The green snake was colossal and emitted a divine aura, boundless and commanding.
The ship ghost, as if completely frozen, stuttered, “Feathered, Feathered Snake God?!”
The Fishman youth was severely injured.
Despite having the Goddess Mei Lan as a weapon and armor, he was merely Silver Level and thus suffered many wounds in combat.
His wounds had turned a frosty blue-purple, with cold seeping from them into his limbs, slowing his movements even more.
His physical ability had completely drained, and he was merely persisting on willpower.
Squelch.
A soft sound, as a disfigured cold shadow claw monster viciously plunged its claw into the Fishman youth’s waist.
The Fishman youth immediately knelt, the cold surging within him, preventing him from standing.
“Damn it!”
Just as the young Fishman thought he was going to die, the chilling claw monster suddenly dissipated.
Not just that, even the chilling giant that had been tormenting the Deep Sea Monster Fish vanished like the wind.
Crack, crack…
A massive amount of spatial walls cracked, deepened immediately and collapsed one after another.
Zhao Ya was spitting blood incessantly.
He had reached his limit.
In fact, he had been enduring a bombardment from the incarnation of the divine and the High Priest all along.
He originally intended to directly target the Goddess Mei Lan, while using himself to restrain the divine incarnation and the High Priest, but he never expected the Fishman youth to hold out for so long!
Zhao Ya had invested most of his energy in dealing with the Deep Sea Monster Fish, but to no avail!
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…
Accompanied by the rupture of the spatial walls, massive amounts of seawater rushed in. In just a few breaths, the small holes in the spatial walls were blown into even larger gaps.
“We’re saved!”
“Quick, get out!!”
The trapped Fishmen and pirates were overjoyed; some sprinted toward the ruptured spatial walls, others rushed to their own ships.
The Divine Officers of the Charming Blue Divine Sect, the devout Believers, and members of the Justice Pirate Group, led by Cang Xu, approached the Deep Sea Monster Fish.
Through the huge hole in the belly of the Deep Sea Monster Fish, the collapsed Fishman youth saw the changes on the battlefield.
He felt extremely relieved.
It had been a close call just moments before. Had it been a few seconds later, he would have faced death.
“Tower Spirit, quickly repair the breach in the hull and assist the crew of this ship.”
After issuing this hurried command, the Fishman youth heard a soft “hm.”
It was as if he had been struck by an electric shock; his heart nearly leapt out of his throat.
That pained moan had come from Goddess Mei Lan.
When the youth looked at the Goddess again, he immediately noticed numerous abrasions and wear on her body. Her brow was furrowed, her eyelashes trembling—she seemed about to awaken!
“No, she must not awake.”
“But… what to do?!”
The youth couldn’t help but panic at this moment.
He didn’t have a High Priest by his side to soothe the Goddess, and he himself was just an impostor as a Divine Son.
Suddenly, a glimmer of an idea flashed through the youth’s mind.
“Put the Goddess into the Green Jade Gold Coffin to repair her divine body.”
Though he had no assurance, the situation was urgent and he had to act regardless.
“I’m doomed!” the ship ghost mourned in his heart.
In Zi Di’s Spiritual Space, the ship ghost looked up at the Feathered Snake God’s vast divine spirit, which loomed large overhead, giving him a strong sense of shock and suffocation.
It took a while for the ship ghost to come to grips with the situation, seeing the Feathered Snake God’s silent, dull-eyed divine spirit.
His practice involved the Undead sect, and he was also a Desecration Priest, profoundly skilled with spirits.
He quickly grasped the sequence of events.
“This girl’s spirit has suffered severe damage; there are signs of her being forcibly awakened by Undead Magic, likely the doing of a fellow apprentice of mine.”
“To save the girl’s spirit, she was placed in the Green Jade Gold Coffin to absorb a Soul Crystal and recover her spirit.”
“However, they failed to realize that the divine spirit of the Feathered Snake was also hidden inside the Green Jade Gold Coffin!”
“The Soul Crystal was largely expended, seemingly absorbed by the girl’s spirit, but in actuality, it was intercepted by the Feathered Snake God.”
“The Green Jade Gold Coffin… it’s rumored that the Feathered Snake God could resurrect in this coffin.”
The ship ghost gradually calmed down, thinking more and more.
“The divine spirit of the Feathered Snake God isn’t complete; it’s missing a pair of wings, currently only a serpent body exists.”
“Perhaps, the coffin contains its wings!”
“According to the Feathered Snake God’s plan, Its divine spirit is hidden in the coffin, continually receiving faith to form divine power, slowly recuperating.”
“But the Charming Blue Divine Sect was struck so hard, It received very little faith.”
“Soul Crystals are very beneficial to It; It thus created a Spiritual Space, hiding in the girl’s Spiritual Space, intercepting Soul Crystals to continuously recover itself!”
When Feathered Snake God was healthy, there was no Undead sect. You Can stole the secrets of the divine, studied the Soul Skill, and ultimately created the Undead sect. Soul Crystals, a specialty of the Undead sect, are effectively potent for the Feathered Snake God’s divine spirit, not surprisingly.
“That Fishman intended to save this girl by setting up a Soul Crystal absorption Array, targeted only at the girl.”
“So, the divine spirit of the Feathered Snake had to create a Spiritual Space and hide in it to benefit from the Array!”
The ship ghost felt overwhelmed!
Self-rescue was too difficult.
He got stuck again.
He had to devour the girl’s spirit, which would certainly awaken the Feathered Snake God’s divine spirit. The divine spirit wouldn’t let him do so, as preserving the girl’s spirit was key to its covert recuperation!
“What exactly is this group up to, not enough with provoking one god, they provoke a second one! Are they courting death?!”
The ship ghost was utterly speechless at the Fishman youth and Cang Xu’s group.
“This is too hard!”
Right now, the ship ghost wanted to leave, but couldn’t. His state was too weak.
“Had I known this, why did I block that chilling claw monster? Let that Fishman die, just hurry up and die!”
With a chest full of grief and despair, the ship ghost exited Zi Di’s Spiritual Space and observed the external battle situation once more.
“Oh my God!”
“Don’t, don’t do it!”
The next moment, he screamed.
But unfortunately, his current state of existence meant the Fishman youth couldn’t hear him.
The Fishman youth took Zi Di out of the coffin, then placed Goddess Mei Lan inside.
“It’s over!!” The ship ghost’s vision darkened, his unstable ghostly body about to collapse.