Traveling through the Immortal Realm: Starting from Becoming a Top-Level Furnace Cauldron

Chapter 277: The Remains of the Mermaid King

[Ding! Side quest detected [Shark King Ruins]]

[Mission Details: Host, please seize the mermaid pearl and collect the thousand-year-old mermaid blood]

[Mission Reward: 88 Civilization Value]

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As the system prompt sounded, Lu Yuguan descended to the bottom of the sea with everyone else.

"Junior Brother Lu, I'll carry you down."

Wen Lanfeng stretched out a red silk to wrap up Lu Yuguan and brought him into the entrance of the ruins.

After Lu Yuguan stood firm, he looked around and saw that the other three sects that were arguing just now had all come to the door without exception.

"Everyone, now that the remains of the Shark King have been revealed, why not go in and explore?"

Qi Wei smiled.

"You are too polite, Saint Son," said the female cultivator from the Shadow Sect. "The Xuanyu Sect is powerful, so naturally your sect will take the lead."

The Manwu Sect and the Shuoyue Sect also had an expression of wanting to sit back and enjoy the fruits of others' labor.

"shameless."

Lu Yuguan muttered.

Qi Wei smoothed the corner of his clothes and said softly, "Since everyone has said so, it is difficult for this Saint Son to refuse..."

Before he finished speaking, Qi Wei pulled off the bone bell from his waist and gently shook it towards the giant coral door.

Ding……

As a clear sound rang out, the huge coral gate of the Mermaid King's ruins slowly opened, and a faint blue fluorescence seeped out from the crack of the door, like countless pairs of eyes peeping at everyone.

"Just opened it like that?!"

Lu Yuguan said in surprise.

Wen Lanfeng smiled and said, "The bone bell in Saint Qi Wei's hand is a sacred object bestowed by the Sect Master. It can break restrictions with the user's thoughts. It's very convenient."

Lu Yuguan nodded thoughtfully.

Qi Wei turned his head and looked at him: "Junior Brother Lu, the light at the bottom of the sea is dim, ordinary flames will not work, you have to rely on your best."

Lu Yuguan understood what he meant, and fire leaped from his fingertips, illuminating his entire body.

"Spiritual fire?"

The female cultivator from Shuoyue Sect was surprised.

"Huh, you haven't seen it before?" Wen Lanfeng said proudly, "Our junior brother is an alchemist with spiritual power at the Guiyi realm!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the other three sects gasped.

The spiritual power of the Return to One Realm...

Alchemist...

No matter which identity is put forward, it is enough to become a hot commodity that all sects will compete for.

The female cultivator from the Shuoyue Sect looked at Lu Yuguan and said gently, "My handsome boy, the Xuanyu Sect has many disciples, and the cultivation resources distributed to them are scarce."

"If you come to my Shuoyue Sect, I will definitely not let you suffer any loss."

Lu Yuguan shook his head: "Forget it, your sect can't even tolerate hot pot, I also suffered in the past."

The female cultivator from the Shuoyue Sect's face darkened.

Wen Lanfeng hugged Lu Yuguan tightly from behind: "That's right, besides, doesn't your sect only recruit female cultivators? Don't try to take advantage of our junior brother."

"What does it matter?" the Shuoyue Sect female cultivator snorted. "Rules are dead, but people are alive. The worst that can happen is... it's over."

Lu Yuguan only felt a phantom pain.

"Stop talking nonsense," said the strong man from the Barbarian Martial Sect, "Hurry in, I can't wait any longer."

Pan Yin hissed and spat out his snake tongue: "What are you yelling about? You are taking advantage of our Xuanyu Sect, so just stay here and stay."

The strong man wanted to get angry, but when he saw Pan Yin's scaly snake tail, he immediately lost his temper.

Seeing this, Qi Wei continued, "Everyone, this is all the Xuanyu Sect can do."

"As for whether or not one can seize the Mermaid Pearl, it all depends on their own abilities."

The other three sects nodded, probably agreeing with his statement.

Lu Yuguan raised his mind to fire, and saw many mermaid reliefs hanging on the lintel. They held tridents in their hands, with their fish tails coiled into strange runes, as if warning invaders.

"This rune... is a sea ritual curse," Wen Lanfeng stroked the relief with his fingertips, the maple leaf mark between his eyebrows burning. "If you force your way in, it might trigger a tsunami."

Qi Wei looked at Pan Yin and put his hands together: "Fellow Daoist Pan, it's up to you from now on."

Pan Yin slapped the sand impatiently, his dark green scales gleaming faintly. "I only agreed to lead the way, but I didn't say I'd be a laborer."

He scanned Lu Yuguan with his pupils, and Xinzi suddenly said, "But... if this kid is willing to let me take a bite——"

"Dream on!" Wen Lanfeng's red silk thread pierced Pan Yin's throat. "If you dare to talk nonsense again, I'll dig out your snake gallbladder first!"

During the stalemate, the female cultivator from the Shadow Sect suddenly threw out three iron nails.

The moment the poisoned hidden weapon hit the door lintel, the mermaid's eye sockets suddenly glowed red, and the entire sea area shook violently.

"Damn it! Why are they attacking for no reason?" Qi Weiyue wrapped his wide white sleeves around Lu Yuguan and quickly retreated. "It's too late to fly out! Everyone, hold your breath!—"

As they were talking, a crack suddenly appeared in the sand beneath their feet.

Lu Yuguan staggered back, only to see countless green vines emerging from the cracks, grabbing his ankles and dragging him down violently.

Wen Lanfeng's maple leaf dart came whistling, cutting through the vines as the ground collapsed.

"The thing under my feet... is alive!"

Lu Yuguan was shocked.

Qi Wei's bone bell was crushed by the vines. Lu Yuguan watched Wen Lanfeng disappear behind the coral wall, while he was being carried by the vines and falling into the abyss.

"Gululu..."

The fishy and salty sea water poured in from all directions, choking Lu Yuguan so much that he couldn't open his eyes.

He tried his best to activate the fire of his mind, but found that his mental power was suppressed by some strange magnetic field.

Two blue lanterns lit up in the darkness, and a three-headed dragon emerged from the waves, its rotten scales filled with the skeletons of monks.

The dragon head on the far left suddenly spoke, its voice like an old woman.

"Those who trespass will be killed—"

Lu Yuguan reached for the Qiankun bag at his waist, but his fingertips touched the sticky snake tail.

Pan Yin had already tangled up behind him without him noticing, his pupils shrunk into thin lines. "Boy, let me take a bite, and I'll save your life."

"dream!"

Lu Yuguan smeared spicy oil on the snake scales with his backhand, and Pan Yin screamed and broke free.

The three-headed dragon took the opportunity to pounce, and the right head spewed out dark green poisonous mist, turning the corals into pus wherever it passed.

Lu Yuguan thought quickly and took out the hot pot base bag and threw it at the dragon's eye.

Swish!

The spicy red oil diffused in the sea water, and the dragon shook its head wildly in pain.

Lu Yuguan took the opportunity to swim towards the glowing place, but crashed into a blood-red coral forest.

Each coral branch was hung with a translucent mermaid corpse. They held harps in their arms, but what flowed from their fingertips was not music, but sticky blood.

Ding--

The moment the blood drop fell to the ground, the scene in front of Lu Yuguan suddenly changed.

He actually returned to the kitchen of Qianhua Lao in Kyoto. Li Chonglin, whose stomach had been ripped open, was lying on the chopping board, and the dragon-patterned sword was stuck in the chopping board, buzzing and weeping blood.

Qi Wei's sneer could be heard from outside the illusion: "The furnace cauldron should accept its fate. Why drag others down?"

"Damn it, this is not suitable for children!!!"

Lu Yuguan bit his tongue, and the severe pain tore through the illusion.

The dome of the ruins began to leak water, and the thousand-year-old corals were unable to withstand the pressure and were collapsing layer by layer.

Boom! …

The entire ruins suddenly tilted, and Lu Yuguan and Jiaozhu slid into the cracked abyss together.

"Boy, catch me!"

Pan Yin shouted, and the snake's tail wrapped around his waist, while the poisoned dagger of the female cultivator from the Shadow Sect was pressed against his throat.

As the three parties pulled each other, the blood coral forest collapsed completely, and Qi Wei's water blade and Man Wuzong's meteor hammer attacked at the same time.

The moonlight on the seabed distorted at this moment, and all the fighters were sucked towards the altar where the mermaid pearl was.

"It's the Shark Pearl!"

Lu Yuguan groped for the altar groove in the chaos.

The moment the mermaid pearl was picked up, the entire ocean was filled with the sad mermaid songs, and the ruins began to self-destruct.

"catch me!"

The moment Wen Lanfeng wrapped around Lu Yuguan, a golden harp rose from the depths of the altar.

The true soul of the Mermaid King has awakened.