Chapter 181 Si Ye Emerges from Seclusion
Sang Luo felt a faint unease in her heart, but she couldn't get any definite answers from Su Bo or the other beastmen.
A few days later, new news arrived.
“Queen, the sea area is likely to be turbulent recently. According to His Majesty's wishes, we will send you out to sea.”
Sang Luo took a heavy bite of the spiritual fruit, feeling an indescribable bitterness. Then, she stood up, walked forward, and looked at the messenger with a stern gaze, her voice resounding, “You're all hiding things from me. I know this is his intention, but since I am the Queen of the South Sea and Aze's partner, how can I leave with peace of mind if everything is kept from me from beginning to end?”
“It's not that we intentionally kept it from you, but we were afraid that Your Highness would worry.”
Seeing that he couldn't hide it any longer, the beastman had no choice but to say, “The Eye of Guixu has been extremely unstable recently. His Majesty has decided to completely seal off the South Sea, preventing anyone from entering or leaving. If Your Highness does not leave, I'm afraid you won't be able to leave the South Sea again for ten years.”
“Where is Lou Xian Yue now?”
“His Majesty is… at the Abyss Graveyard. The Eye of Guixu is located in a corner of the Abyss Graveyard, which holds the efforts left by the past Sea Kings and Emperors to suppress the Eye of Guixu.” The beastman lowered his head respectfully and said, “Your Highness, please don't worry too much. The seal of the Eye of Guixu will slowly loosen, as it has in the past. It's not a major event. It needs to be repaired every hundred years, and it just so happens that it's the cycle of a hundred years.”
“Guarding the Eye of Guixu is also the destiny of every Sea King. During this time, His Majesty will expend a lot of energy, and he cannot be interrupted or disturbed by external forces… His Majesty is indeed unable to spare the time to return. He asked us to bring a message to Your Highness, that he is well, please do not worry.”
Sang Luo touched her belly and sighed, “I can stay here and wait for him.”
“His Majesty specifically instructed us to escort you back. He said that he would come to see you in person after a while.”
“Then, before I leave, can I see him at the Deep Sea Graveyard?”
“I'm afraid not. The South Sea will be completely sealed off tomorrow. Oh, right, His Majesty also said that you can take the Little Highness with you.”
In the end, Sang Luo left the sea area. She did not take Little Lan An with her. He was still in his infancy, and the deep-sea environment was more suitable for his life.
She did not return to the Eastern Continent immediately but stayed near the coast, where she captured a residual trace of demonic energy.
This demonic energy was extremely strange, not quite the same as the demonic beasts she had encountered before, exuding an indescribable dangerous death aura, and also emitting a faint rotten stench…
Sang Luo came to a nearby tribe to find the source.
“I was attacked by a demonic beast, please save me!”
Not far away, a female beastman covered in blood cried out for help, her lower body seemingly bitten off by some wild beast.
Seeing her pitiful state, Sang Luo took out a healing pill from her space and walked over to give it to her.
As she approached, the female suddenly grabbed Sang Luo's hand tightly. Immediately afterward, “her” features became distorted and grotesque, and her hand turned into a pool of foul-smelling pus.
Sang Luo's right hand felt a burning pain. Her eyes flashed sharply, and she conjured a folding fan with her other hand, transforming it into a blade. She chopped off the female's hand on the ground, and with another flash of the blade, the ugly head rolled a dozen meters away.
The monster's corpse quickly turned into a pool of white bone and bloody water. A wisp of demonic energy dissipated, attracting countless flies and insects, which devoured it frantically. The scene was extremely disgusting.
Another group of monsters emerged from the forest.
Why call them monsters? These things were not beastmen, nor were they like demonic beasts, but rather like corpses that had been refined.
There were as many as several hundred of them!
Sang Luo was shocked to find that her hand was emitting wisps of black demonic energy, and her skin was beginning to fester at a speed visible to the naked eye, even spreading rapidly up her arm from the wound.
Damn it, as long as she was touched by these things, her skin would instantly ulcerate. She didn't know if she would be assimilated into these monsters…
The monsters swarmed up.
Divine fire descended from the sky, and wails echoed everywhere.
A few stragglers tried to sneak attack Sang Luo from behind, but they were kicked dozens of meters away by the newcomer. She looked at the red-haired youth who landed on the ground, “A-Ye?”
“Luo Luo, don't be afraid, I'm here.”
Si Ye dealt with the monsters very quickly, suggesting that it was not the first time he had encountered them.
After he burned all the monsters to ashes, he hurriedly walked forward, took Sang Luo's hand, and frowned deeply when he saw the pus and blood on her hand. “Why are you so careless?” He immediately led her to a clear lake, immersed her hand in the water, washed away the yellow pus and blood from her skin, and took out a special wound medicine from his space to bandage her.
The stinging and swelling sensation in her palm quickly subsided.
Si Ye took off his blue robe and draped it over Sang Luo's shoulders. He carefully examined her again to make sure there were no other wounds before he breathed a sigh of relief. He reached out and rubbed her face, whispering, “Why did you come to such a dangerous place?”
“Shouldn't I be asking you that? Weren't you undergoing tribulation?”
“I… I finished the tribulation!”
Seeing that his aura was strong and powerful, Sang Luo knew that he had successfully passed the tribulation and advanced to the Emperor rank.
“Didn't you say you'd come find me after you finished the tribulation? Counting the days, it should have been more than a month since you finished the tribulation.”
“I… I went back to the Phoenix Palace to find you, but at that time, you and Fei Yuan were still…” Si Ye's handsome face darkened, and he became angry again.
Sang Luo suddenly thought of something, quickly shut her mouth, and her face turned slightly red, “That…”
Seeing her guilty look, Si Ye became even more annoyed, “I shouldn't have come back.”
After he finished the tribulation, he went back to find her as soon as possible, but he ran into the two of them being affectionate. Si Ye was almost angered to death. He left on a long journey to temper himself, and he accidentally discovered the aura of many demonic beasts, so he tracked them all the way and killed many of them.
Just now, Si Ye sensed Sang Luo's aura and thought it was an illusion. When he arrived, he happened to witness the dangerous scene from the beginning.
Fortunately, he was nearby, otherwise, he couldn't imagine what would have happened to her.
Sang Luo pulled him to sit by the river and kissed him on the cheek, “I went back to the clan land a while ago to see Little Zhenzhen. She can walk now, jumping around lively. Fei Yuan also showed me a portrait of you when you were a child. You and your daughter look almost exactly alike except for the fur color.”
Si Ye put his arm around her, looked at her delicate face, and his expression softened a little, “After I left the Phoenix Palace, I also went back to the clan land. My mother used to wish I would come back every day, but now she's almost kicking me out, fearing that I'll steal Zhenzhen away.”
“I heard from the Beast Mother that you took Zhenzhen away without a word last time. The entire Bi'an clan thought that an enemy had infiltrated and stolen the child. They searched for more than half a month before you sent a message to tell them that the child was fine.” Sang Luo looked at his rebellious and handsome face and smiled, “I can't believe that you were afraid of heights when you were a child.”
“…Did that old phoenix Fei Yuan tell you that again?” Si Ye's face turned slightly red, “I'm not afraid anymore!”
“Haha, Fei Yuan said that it was thanks to him throwing you off the hill a few times that he helped you overcome your fear of heights.”
“He told you that the cliff nearly ten thousand meters high was a small hill?”
Si Ye still felt itchy with hatred when he thought about it. That old phoenix, seeing that he hadn't transformed into a phoenix body for a long time, seemed to have gone mad and threw him off a ten-thousand-meter cliff. If he didn't transform into a phoenix body, he would die.
“By the way, what exactly are these monsters? They look like demonic beasts, but not quite, and they're much more disgusting than demonic beasts.” Sang Luo asked him after stifling her laughter.
Second update, there will be more updates tonight, babies can watch tomorrow.
