Chapter 634: Leaving Charming Blue’s Divine Domain
The Star Annihilation Ray plunged deep into the Mother Nest’s core. Its residual force was immense, causing waves to surge and the Deep Sea Monster Fish to rock violently.
The fishman youngster, trapped within the prayer chamber, was severely disrupted. His focus scattered, forcing him to disengage.
“What's happening?!” He snapped his eyes open, only then realizing the cataclysmic shift.
After summoning the tower spirit, he immediately grasped the external situation.
"Two saint level foes have found their way here. Zhou Zhang is being held back by one of them!"
“Her deception divine spell proves ineffective against peers of equal standing.”
Cang Xu's eyes widened as he stared intently at the ravine before him.
The ravine had been carved by the Five Pointed Star Annihilation Ray just moments ago, mere half a step away from him.
Fortunately, though this battle skill possessed immense power, it was highly focused and concentrated, achieving formidable penetrating capability. Thus, despite his proximity, Cang Xu remained unharmed.
His body was unscathed, but his mind reeled from the violent shockwave.
"That's a saint level battle skill! If I'd been grazed, I'd have been vaporized on the spot!”
Just moments ago, Cang Xu had witnessed several unlucky souls getting caught in the beam's edge, instantly vaporized.
Had Cang Xu not been an undead being, he would have been drenched in cold sweat by now.
Even so, the lingering terror caused his soul to tremble and flicker uncontrollably.
“No!” Cang Xu whipped his head around, staring at the Ocean Mother Nest pierced by the beam. His earlier fear was instantly overshadowed by intense worry.
“The Lord Commander is in there.”
“Lord Commander, you absolutely must not come to harm!”
From the day they arrived on Mystifying Monster Island until this very moment, Cang Xu's loyalty to the young commander had undergone a qualitative transformation through countless events, becoming profoundly resilient and deep-rooted.
Though renowned for his composure, Cang Xu now lost his bearings, instinctively dashing toward the Ocean Mother Nest.
But in the next instant, a thunderous roar erupted from within the nest!
Boom!
A colossal sea beast smashed through the mountain wall and burst forth.
It was an octopus, its entire body snow-white, emanating a fierce, surging aura of the saint level.
It was none other than the saint beast, Snow Pear Octopus.
A circular wound gaped in its body, blood gushing freely.
The Five Pointed Star Annihilation Ray had struck it directly, rousing it from its slumber.
This saint level magic beast had been specifically stationed here by the Charming Blue Goddess to serve as a guardian. Now that the Ocean Mother Nest had been destroyed and it had been ambushed, its fury boiled over. It was determined to break out and strangle the culprit on the spot!
Qian Xing's aura was completely unmasked, and the Snow Pear Octopus immediately detected him. Stirring up tens of thousands of tons of seawater, it charged forward, causing the earth to shake and mountains to tremble wherever it passed.
Seeing a saint level sea beast hurtling toward him, Qian Xing naturally didn't want to clash head-on and quickly dodged.
But in the next instant, he was enveloped by divine magic. His senses were deceived: long distances shrank, short ones stretched; straight lines became curves, curves turned into straight lines.
Outwardly, the nearby valley walls seemed distant, while distant mountain ranges appeared close at hand.
He swam through the water, convinced he was moving in a straight line, yet in reality, he was navigating a series of intricate curves.
He was like a headless fly, crashing into things left and right.
Divine spell - Chaotic Deception: Distance.
Divine spell - Chaotic Deception: Direction.
“Damn it!” Qian Xing realized he'd been hit, but it was already too late.
The Snow Pear Octopus' tentacles lashed out like giant flesh whips, slamming him like a soccer ball into the mountain wall. He was driven five or six meters deep!
A saint beast entrusted with important duties by the Charming Blue Goddess naturally possessed power far surpassing ordinary saint beasts.
Cang Xu was swept far back by the massive wave created by the Snow Pear Octopus' advance, tumbling and rolling several times on the ground before finally coming to a halt.
He was covered in dust and dirt, looking utterly disheveled.
The churning water stirred up silt from the seabed, obscuring visibility. The vast majority of the believers screamed in terror, swimming wildly in all directions.
Taking advantage of the chaos, Cang Xu charged directly into the Ocean Mother Nest.
Several clever believers made the same choice as Cang Xu.
But they couldn't see the Deep Sea Monster Fish, which was cloaked by the Deceptive Disguise spell and Anti-investigation and Prophecy spell. Upon entering the nest, Cang Xu immediately spotted the Deep Sea Monster Fish..
Seeing the vessel intact, he breathed a huge sigh of relief.
Meanwhile, the fishman youngster also snapped into action.
Witnessing the nest breached and the saint beast charging in to smash an even larger hole through its walls, he immediately dispatched the alchemy puppet to retrieve Cang Xu.
Cang Xu's own entry saved the fishman youngster considerable effort.
The alchemy puppet, naturally imbued with the Deceptive Disguise spell and Anti-investigation and Prophecy spell, smoothly retrieved Cang Xu in plain sight.
Upon rushing back to the Deep Sea Monster Fish, Cang Xu found no trace of the fishman youngster.
The tower spirit relayed the fishman youngster's message to Cang Xu.
Only then did Cang Xu realize that drastic changes weren't confined to this location, the big guy was also under siege by an earth elemental army, facing imminent peril!
The fishman youngster's monitoring had been interrupted. Now, Cang Xu must resume surveillance, ready to intervene at any moment and rescue the big guy with all his might.
“Of all times!” Cang Xu sighed deeply.
The fishman youngster had also entrusted him with a crucial task: to pilot the Deep Sea Monster Fish and depart this place swiftly.
"Sigh, I wanted to stay here for a bit longer."
"To think such an unexpected situation would occur..."
"We've been exposed. It's no longer safe here. The Charming Blue Church lacks the strength to hold this place, and the Mother Nest has been destroyed. We truly cannot linger here!"
“Then let's go.”
Cang Xu entered the cockpit, took command, and steered the ship away.
Other matters, like Jian Gui, Ba Qi, and so on, were cast aside.
“Xiao Guai, you absolutely must not come to harm!”
"Be alive... you must still be alive!
The fishman youngster's heart burned with anxiety. He cast the divine spell [Believer Perception], then activated [Divine Power Channel] to reconnect with the big guy.
Meanwhile, on the Magnet Archipelago battlefield, the situation for Da Dou and his group had grown even more perilous.
Suppressed by the earthen divine light, their movements slowed to a crawl. They could only rely on defensive battle skill to withstand the siege of the earth elementals.
The fishman youngster had a grim expression: "Even if I use Divine Descent, the big guy will have gold level combat strength at most."
"Earlier, he was able to kill the gold level Earth Elemental Chieftain because of the Deceptive Disguise spell."
“But now, with Tu Ji and the Main Earth Elemental God watching, how effective would that spell be?”
“Using it would be like confessing our weakness.”
With Charming Blue Goddess gravely wounded and in deep slumber, the fishman youngster had gained profound insight into the Charming Blue Church's situation through the divine spell [Believer Perception].
He knew that rashly using the Charming Blue divine spell under these circumstances wouldn't make the enemy fear and retreat but would instead provoke them into even stronger offensive desires.
“But even so, I must save Xiao Guai's life!”
“No matter how troublesome the aftermath, we must get through this immediate crisis first.”
Despite this resolve, the fishman youngster still faced an unsolvable problem.
His hands tightened slightly as he gripped the Charming Blue divine artifact, Mermaid Fairy Tale.
Earlier, within the earth elemental lair, the statue of the Main Earth Elemental God had served as the most obvious target for casting spells. But now, with the Main Earth Elemental God's gaze fixed upon him, the fishman youngster didn't know where to cast his Deceptive Disguise spell, even if he wanted to use it.
Just as the fishman youngster stood bewildered and at a loss, a Charming Blue divine revelation suddenly descended, landing upon him.
The revelation offered him an unconventional choice, causing the fishman youngster's eyes to light up.
After a moment's hesitation, the fishman youngster sprang into action!
Divine spell - Divine Artifact Mastery.
This was an active divine art; its effects only manifested upon casting.
Its effect was powerful yet unadorned: the mastery of divine artifacts!
And at that moment, the fishman youngster held in his hands the very artifact: [Mermaid Fairy Tale].
Divine spell - Deceptive Scheming.
Divine spell - Distortion Filter.
The overlapping use of these two divine spells not only swiftly covered the battlefield but also began to corrode the divine script formation beneath the ground.
Chk, chk, chk…
A series of faint, light sounds continuously emanated from the divine artifact [Mermaid Fairy Tale].
With each soft crack, a pearl-like bubble within the shell-shaped artifact shattered, vanishing into nothingness.
A powerful force of deception erupted in silence.
In that instant, the fishman youngster realized: “That's it. For a god to focus their gaze, they need a focal point of faith.”
“These focal points can be believers or divine statues.”
“And right now, the Main Earth Elemental God relies on that vast divine script formation laid out beneath the ground!”
“By using my deception divine spell to corrode the formation now, I might indirectly deceive the Main Earth Elemental God.”
As for the likelihood of this success, the fishman youngster had no idea.
After all, his cultivation was far too low, merely gold level.
The Main Earth Elemental God, however, was the sovereign of an entire pantheon. Even among all the gods, he was undeniably first-rate.
Even if Charming Blue Goddess recovered to Her peak state, She would still be merely a minor god, incomparable to the Main Earth Elemental God.
The rapid depletion of pearl bubbles within the divine artifact [Mermaid Fairy Tale] clearly demonstrated how difficult it was to deceive a Main God!
“But even if there's only a sliver of hope, I'll do everything to save Xiao Guai...”
The fishman youngster was lost in thought when suddenly, his body and mind shook violently, and darkness engulfed his vision.
When he opened his eyes again, he had broken free from his previous state, severing his connection with the big guy once more.
“What's going on?”
“What happened this time?”
The fishman youngster hurriedly scanned his surroundings.
Cang Xu was piloting the Deep Sea Monster Fish, having just departed the Ocean Mother Nest and entered the White Hair Trench.
Under the combined effects of the Deceptive Disguise spell and Anti-investigation and Prophecy spell, the Deep Sea Monster Fish sailed through the gaping hole in plain sight, yet no one noticed.
Contrary to the fishman youngster's fears, it faced no fierce assault.
Yet in the next instant, a bolt of lightning struck his mind as the fishman youngster grasped the reason.
“It's the Charming Blue Divine Domain!”
“By leaving the divine domain, I severed the connection.”
“Within the divine domain, the Charming Blue divine spells receive unimaginable amplification.” Once I leave the divine domain, casting divine spells on my own yields nowhere near the same effect."
The fishman youngster tried it immediately, his heart sinking: “On my own, I can barely sense Xiao Guai, I can't even establish the Divine Power Channel!”
“I must return. I have to stay within the Charming Blue Divine Domain to save Xiao Guai!”