Chapter 528: 528: Hall of Water’s Trial (13)
It took a while and finally the last one to accept the trial was none other than Xia Baiyu’s group who had temporarily merged with Tan Bingyu’s group. Now the group had not only increased their numbers but also their strength. They stood at the stoneboard and the bored stone mermaid who was ignoring everyone had finally moved her head to look at this group.
The Stone Mermaid had spoken, "Your group composition is a bit too much for the Intermediate Trial. Hoho~ I guess this means you want to do the Major Trial. Well~ with this group it is not a bad try. I guess that one will suffer a bit this time~ especially with this kid in your group."
No one expected the stone mermaid who eliminated the failed trial takers from the Minor Trial to speak to them. However, when they saw her stare at Yue Huashui who looked at her innocently they realized that this group is under surveillance.
"Little one, do you want to become the heir of the Water God?" The Stone Mermaid asked.
Everyone looked at Yue Huashui who could barely understand anything but honestly say his desires.
"No. I am only here to gather food for my siblings. It just happens that I am good in water compared to them." Yue Huashui said. "Moreover, I don’t need to get stronger. I have Mom and Uncle Shen protecting us. Can your Water God defeat them?"
This question left the stone mermaid flabbergasted and even the rest of them didn’t expect this kind of answer. They all move their heads to look collectively at Shen Jueyang who was seated beside Yue Xuexia acting like her servant and the latter with expressionless face but can feel her helplessness at the man’s action and choose to let it be.
The stone mermaid shivered when her eyes landed at the Immortal Sun Emperor and calmed down when looking at the Moon Goddess who didn’t feel that strong but she suddenly coughed blood when she met her eyes which flashed with slight crimson. That split second was enough to injure her soul a bit.
It wasn’t only the cultivators around the stone mermaid who were shocked. Even the gods, goddesses and divinities watching from the main altar were dumbfounded. They all noticed that bit of crimson flash within her silver eyes.
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At the Main altar...
Multiple Gods, Goddesses and Divinities were speechless.
"..."
"W-What the... the hell is that?!" The Wind God exclaimed.
All of the sudden the Water God’s face turned pale and almost couldn’t move. The Shura God had pulled out his soul before it was devoured when using the Stone Mermaid’s eyes to look at the Moon Goddess.
Gasp!
The Shura God said, "You’ve stared too long. You’ve almost gotten devoured by her. She had no full control over it and it was done instinctively."
The God of Shura stared at the appearance of Yue Xuexia and he couldn’t hide the excitement on his face. We were staring at her as if he had found the most perfect being to become his heir.
The God of Water said, "Lord Shura, she is already the God of the Moon. She can’t become your successor!"
"You must be blind. Do you not see what kind of Physique she possesses? I am not talking about her Yin Moon Physique or her Lightning God’s Physique. There is something else in her. An extremely rare physique that allows her to inherit multiple Laws of Dao. Haha~ The Yin and Yang Divine Physique!" The Shura God said. "I finally found it. My Successor! But... It’s not yet... Not yet time."
The last sentence was unspoken by the Shura God. His discovery of someone worthy of a successor is once in a lifetime. After all, there is hardly anyone who can retain their sanity in the middle of cruelty and carnage. The type who can adapt to both ruthlessness and rationality. The one who is willing to kill many without going crazy. Someone that is also called Demon despite being a God.
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Back to the Hall of Water
The Stone Mermaid who was terrified after meeting the eyes of the Moon Goddess felt like even though this Goddess is young, she is just as dangerous as the man beside her. The only difference is that the man looks down on you for being weak while the woman seeks to see through your soul and judge you for what you have done in all your life. She felt embarrassed as the question of the boy remained unanswered. She actually didn’t know if her god could defeat those two fiends.
She chose to change the subject almost immediately after wiping the blood at the corner of her lips and said, "The God of Water is undefeated in water bodies."
"Can he control the sea then?" Yue Huashui asked.
This retort made the Stone Mermaid question her life. Whether she had been uneducated for not being able to answer the boy’s questions or something is wrong with her mind for not being able to give answers.
The Stone Mermaid ignores the little boy and then gives the group their trials and has them recorded. Upon seeing that Yue Huashui had wanted to grab her with the intention of pestering her, she instinctively controlled the water and threw them all in.
"Haha~ I will send you just in. No need for thanks~" said the Stone Mermaid.
The group had already swallowed a fake Water Evading pearls before they were thrown into the sea. It seems that among the rewards this was added as something disposable and necessary for the intermediate and major trials.
A real Water Evading Pearl only needs to be refined for it to gain an owner but this takes long to achieve and the next trials had already been announced. Thus, fake Water Evading Pearls were distributed to those who had successfully completed the Minor Trial. The fake ones are no different from candies without taste.
Within the water, the group who was thrown inside couldn’t help but look at the boy who was shouting a complaint.
The sentient blue lotus flower spirit, Yue Huashui said, "I am not done talking yet! Talk about being rude! Hmp!"
’I think the Stone Mermaid wishes you were a mute instead,’ everyone’s collective thoughts.
Tan Bingyu stopped the boy, Yue Huashui from swimming back to the surface and held his hand.
She said, "Alright Shuishui, think about the trials first. We have to find the Mermaid Clan’s Territory first."
"I know where it is! I and Xia-ge found it when we were looking for pearls!" Yue Huashui said.
Everyone looked at Xia Baiyu who nodded his head as if giving proof to the little guy’s words.
Xia Baiyu said, "Follow me. I will lead the way. Shuishui, Bubbles please~"
Pouting. "Can’t you adults just swim by yourself?" Yue Huashui, the sentient blue lotus flower spirit said with a complaining tone.
Despite his words, he still created huge bubbles and let everyone in. The bubbles were controlled by the boy as it moved underwater unhindered as if they were riding a car.
Monk Hu Gu said, "This is neat. No need to go swimming."
"No wonder Benefactor Xia and Benefactor Yue found lots of pearls. With this bubble moving around in water is no different than walking into the land," said Monk Hu Ren.
"Well~ we moved here from there and got in too deep and got a glance of the Mermaid Clan’s Territory. We didn’t dare to approach as I felt there would be danger at that time and the time for the Minor Trial was about to end. We can only resurface and submit what we had gathered," said Xia Baiyu.
Xing Suiri spoke, "However, I couldn’t understand why there is a need to gather as much as water evading pearls for the Minor Trial."
"Everything had a reason," said Xia Baiyu, acting mysterious as they just saw him move his fingers in calculation.
Xing Suiri also wanted to calculate but he didn’t want to be targeted by the Divine Punishment for recklessly using divination. He isn’t Xia Baiyu who can hardly get punished for his divination. He had tried asking his master why Xia Baiyu doesn’t suffer Divine Punishment much every time he divines things. Only when the information he had divine involves the truth of this world that even Xia Baiyu cannot escape from punishment. As for other divination, heaven was turning a blind eye on this guy.
Yue Huashui controlled his bubbles and went to the direction where Xia Baiyu had pointed and the route significantly made them sink deeper into the water basin. The area gets darker as they descend to the depths of the water basin. Finally at one of the deep areas of this place, they saw a huge glowing coral.
The sight was amazing adding some mermaids swimming around it. There is also a huge clam gate blocking the path with two male mermaids in half armor holding a spear in their hands.
The two gatekeepers blocked them at the gates and crossed their spear in front of the clam gates.
"Other races are forbidden to enter. Please pay with pearls for the toll fee." The two male mermaids at the gates said.