Chapter 337: Section 124: Zi Di Awakens (Part 1)
The Fishman youth knew nothing about the Feathered Snake spirit.
After placing the Mei Lan Goddess in the Green Jade Gold Coffin, he gave the command, “Tower Spirit, activate the Jade Liquid Array.”
The scene of healing Zi Di reoccurred, with mana rapidly depleting from the mana pool of the Deep Sea Monster Fish, sketching a three-dimensional Alchemy Array in mid-air.
The Array radiated light, brilliantly dazzling.
At the heart of the Array naturally lay the Green Jade Gold Coffin, and swiftly, a layer of green jade liquid materialized within the coffining.
The jade liquid rose swiftly, multiplying continually until it covered the Mei Lan Goddess.
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Mei Lan’s previously furrowed brow gradually smoothed out, and her scratches and bruises also dissipated quickly under the effect of the jade liquid.
Having received treatment, her eyelashes no longer trembled slightly as before, and her breath also calmed and steadied.
Seeing this, the Fishman youth exhaled a breath of turbid air and relaxed slightly, “Good, my attempt has been successful!”
At the moment the Fishman placed Mei Lan into the coffin, the ship ghost was cold all over, at a complete loss.
But after a few breaths, the ghost had not heard the roar of a deity, “Eh?”
He bravely lifted his eyes and saw that the expression of the Mei Lan Goddess within the coffin seemed relieved.
“This Array is quite powerful! It can use the Green Jade Gold Coffin without relying on divine power. Of course, it can’t fully harness the power of this Divine Artifact.”
The ghost sincerely admired, and just then, the coffin began to shake, and at the same time, the expression of Mei Lan shifted from relaxation to tension and anger.
“What’s happening?” the ship ghost’s heart quivered fiercely.
“What’s happening?” The Fishman youth was also very puzzled, “Tower Spirit?”
The Tower Spirit gave no response.
The Fishman youth was not surprised; the Tower Spirit had been damaged quite a bit since moving from Mysterious Monster Island and worked sporadically. Moreover, the youth’s access was very limited.
The coffin shook violently, the shaking amplitude increasing.
The Fishman youth instinctively braced the coffin with his hands, uncertain, “Could it be that the Alchemy Array has been damaged somehow?”
The ghost fell into endless fear, “It’s awakening, coming out, coming out!”
The Mei Lan Goddess was about to awaken!
What was more terrifying, a second divine soul might emerge from the body of the girl separated from the coffin.
“It’s over!”
“I’m doomed!!”
When the ghost was resigned, the shaking of the coffin suddenly stopped and once again became calm.
The ghost: …
The Fishman youth breathed a sigh of relief, although he hadn’t identified the cause, the current sign was clearly a good one.
The form of the ghost dissipated a bit more.
This was too torturous!
No, too torturous for a ghost.
The ghost was full of resentment in his heart—always in limbo, if death was coming, at least let it be quick.
But the Green Jade Gold Coffin did indeed calm down.
“Strange, so strange…”
“Mei Lan has not awakened, and the Feathered Snake spirit has not appeared?”
The ghost glanced at the Green Jade Gold Coffin and then turned his attention to the girl, Zi Di.
Both were completely still.
A thought struck like lightning through the ghost’s mind.
He shivered all over, entertaining a possibility, “Could it be…”
“The Feathered Snake spirit didn’t stay in the girl’s Spiritual Space but remained hidden in the Green Jade Gold Coffin?”
“This Fishman Divine Son putting Mei Lan in the coffin caused a confrontation between the Feathered Snake soul and the Mei Lan soul?”
“And after these two divine souls competed, they found each other difficult to deal with and entered into a standoff?”
The more the ghost pondered, the higher the possibility seemed.
Thinking about it, Zi Di was just at Black Iron Level, and even if her Spiritual Space was vast, it wasn’t safe for a divine spirit to hide in. Only tucked away within a Divine Artifact would be secretive and stable.
“The Feathered Snake God had long perished, and the Mei Lan God was almost in the same state, the strengths of their souls being very close. Precisely because of this, they ended up in a standoff. The violent shaking and quick stabilization of the Green Jade Gold Coffin just now were due to this reason!”
After understanding, the ghost almost broke out in a cold sweat.
“That was too close!”
“This Fishman really stepped in luck, unwittingly neutralizing the great risks of these two deities.”
“Wait, in that case, doesn’t that mean the girl is…”
The ghost became excited.
He thought hard and finally grasped the key issue.
No choice, his current state was too poor, he couldn’t even keep his form stable, like a candle flickering in the wind.
Even prolonged thinking could hasten his demise.
He was weakened to the extreme, verging on unconsciousness. The Soul Crystal was unusable, he could only devour the spirits of others to overcome this life-and-death threshold.
The ship ghost no longer hesitated and floated tremblingly into the girl’s body, entering once again into her Realm of the Soul.
Soon, the ghostly ship ghost again found the girl’s soul, still curled up and sleeping soundly.
“The Feathered Snake God’s soul really isn’t here…”
“I’m about to give out…”
The ship ghost felt he was nearly losing consciousness.
He mustered all his strength and slowly floated up to the edge of the girl’s soul, now nothing more than a ghostly core resembling a wisp of breath.
“But it doesn’t matter, as long as I touch this soul, even if I pass out next, I can consume it by instinct!”
“This is the beauty of practicing Undead Magic, haha!”
“What’s even better is that this girl has been comatose all along, so when I devour her soul, I’ll surely go undetected.”
“No, Old Zhong might notice… if he enters this Spiritual Space…”
“But in my current state, alas, there is no other way, I can only take a gamble.”
“Ah, such a delectable soul…”
With a gentle sigh, the ghostly ship ghost officially made contact with the girl Zi Di’s soul.
“Ah—!”
In the next moment, the ship ghost screamed in agony.
“How can this be?!” He discovered to his utter horror that instead of consuming the girl, he was being consumed by her.
“This familiar aura fluctuation, and this instinct…”
“She, she’s also practiced Undead Magic!!”
“No, no!”
“Undead Mages are hunted by almost all forces, they are not tolerated by the world. How could she happen to have practiced this spell?!”
“I so hate this, I can’t accept it!”
“I just can’t accept it!!”
Amidst his agonizing cries, the ghostly ship ghost was completely devoured by the girl’s soul, vanishing into obscurity.
In the end, his own path to salvation brought him the true fatal blow!
Zi Di’s eyelids twitched slightly.
The Fishman youth caught his breath for a long while, recovering his strength.
He was unaware that on the level of the soul, a heart-pounding struggle had taken place.
After temporarily settling Mei Lan’s godhood, the Fishman youth immediately helped the Tower Spirit repair the breach in the Deep Sea Monster Fish.
The Deep Sea Monster Fish was equipped with Alchemy Puppets for repairs.
Although the hole was large, emergency repairs had managed to patch it up roughly.
The sea had flooded the space, but the Deep Sea Monster Fish was not leaking. However, the repaired area had very weak defensive power and needed focused protection.
The Fishman youth returned to the Captain’s Cabin and began operating the Alchemy Ship to rescue others scattered about.
This subspace continued to collapse, making it quite easy for the youth to bring Cang Xu, Zong Ge, and others back on board.
On another front, the showdown between Zhao Ya and the incarnate deity and the High Priest was reaching its climax.
Under Zhao Ya’s aggressive offense, the High Priest was utterly vanquished, leaving behind nothing but an empty shell of a divine throne.
And facing the High Priest’s last-ditch counterattack, Zhao Ya paid a heavy toll.
Seizing the moment, the divine incarnation struck at the spatial wall, forcibly opening a crack in front of the Deep Sea Monster Fish.
“He’s helping us! Let’s get out of here!” Cang Xu, seeing this, immediately suggested to the Fishman youth.
Taking a deep breath, the Fishman youth steered the Monster Fish out of the immense rupture, narrowly brushing past the divine incarnation.
A multitude of Fishman, pirates, Naga, and others also took advantage of this opening, braving the violent currents to escape outside.
Seeing the Deep Sea Monster Fish departing, Zhao Ya, despite being exhausted, attacked the divine incarnation once more.
The divine incarnation could only abandon the opening and engage in fierce combat with Zhao Ya.
Without the divine incarnation’s support, the sole exit to the outside world began to shrink rapidly until it sealed completely.
Such a high-level battle was not something the Justice Pirate Group could directly interfere with.
Upon leaving the subspace, the Deep Sea Monster Fish plunged into the boundless sea.
Under the Fishman youth’s orders, the Alchemy Submarine went full throttle, activating its maximum speed, to quickly leave the deep sea area.
“We made it out!” the members of the Justice Pirate Group cheered.
The Dragon-man youth returned to the Core Cabin to check on the situation.
Seeing the Mei Lan Goddess in the coffin, he had a complicated expression: “The Pearl Bubble has been completely exhausted.”
“The Mermaid’s Fairy Tale hasn’t received a replenishment of Divine Power, but this shouldn’t be considered a failure.”
“Because we’ve brought back the Mei Lan Goddess directly…”
Seeing the Goddess’s body unharmed, the Dragon-man youth reached into the coffin, intending to lift her out to replace her with Zi Di.
“Don’t do that!” a voice suddenly rang out.
Startled, then overjoyed, the youth exclaimed, “Zi Di, you’re awake!”