Bai Sha put away the Hell Mud and turned to Duan Chong. She opened her mouth and unleashed a Water Dragon Burst, sending a column of water blasting toward him.
Already critically injured, Duan Chong had no way to dodge Bai Sha’s attack. He could only watch helplessly as the thick water column surged toward him. With a final unwilling scream, his body was blasted through, and he died on the spot.
Having swiftly and decisively dealt with the two, Bai Sha immediately went to Duan Chong’s side.
“A Storage Artifact?”
Bai Sha noticed a silver-white ring floating near Duan Chong’s corpse. It looked very delicate.
She retrieved the ring with her pectoral fin and channeled Demonic Power into it to inspect its contents.
A book titled Sea God Heart Scripture. It appeared to be the cultivation art of that Sea God Sect.
Various bottles and jars, but they were all empty. They seemed to have originally contained some pills, which had already been consumed.
There were also some spare clothes and other miscellaneous items.
The most obvious item was a peculiar key.
Bai Sha took the key out.
It was a very large key, almost as tall as an adult human. Its entire body was a watery blue, looking very much like a piece of art. Bai Sha could sense a very rich aura of the sea emanating from it.
“Could this be the key to opening the Sea Spirit Ruins?”
Bai Sha speculated.
In any case, she first stored the key in her Moon Spirit Pearl. Of course, she didn’t forget the Sea God Heart Scripture either. There was no need to keep the other items.
As for the ring-shaped Storage Artifact, she could give it away or sell it later.
Then Bai Sha went to Jiang Tianya’s corpse.
As Jiang Tianya died, two objects floated away from his body.
One of them was a Storage Artifact, also in the shape of a ring.
Humans seem to favor ring-shaped Storage Artifacts, while Demons prefer spherical ones…
Bai Sha looked at the other item.
It was a Magical Tool. On the surface, it looked like a small flag that could be held in one hand. The flag’s face was green, embroidered with white patterns.
Bai Sha grasped the flagpole with her pectoral fin and channeled Demonic Power to briefly feel it. She immediately knew how to use this Magical Tool.
She waved the small flag. Instantly, Wind Blades shot out with her motion, slicing into the nearby stone wall in rapid succession. They carved mark after mark into the rock, shaking loose many stone fragments that fell down.
This was a Qi Condensation-level Magical Tool.
For a cultivator skilled in wind manipulation, this tool would offer some amplification effects. For Bai Sha, however, it was not a suitable tool.
Regardless, Bai Sha still stored it in the Moon Spirit Pearl. Then she checked Jiang Tianya’s Storage Artifact.
Inside Jiang Tianya’s Storage Artifact, there were considerably more items.
A cultivation art book called Azure Wind Art.
A bottle of Spirit Restoration Pills for restoring Spiritual Power, containing twelve pills remaining. Unfortunately, they could only restore Spiritual Power and were useless for Demons who used Demonic Power.
Various miscellaneous Spiritual Materials that seemed to have some value, such as a few Luminous Sea Pearls for illumination.
Even more miscellaneous items: clothes, unofficial history novels, daily necessities, and more.
Bai Sha stored the useful things in her Moon Spirit Pearl and discarded the useless ones.
After checking her spoils, Bai Sha felt a wave of pain course through her body.
It was the sensation of having one’s head fall off. She knew this was the price of using the Hell Mud kicking in. Fortunately, she only felt the pain without suffering actual harm, so she just had to endure it for a moment.
Next, it was time to go to the Sea Spirit Ruins.
…
Bai Sha had already learned the location of the Sea Spirit Ruins through the Chat Section in her previous life. In this life, she simply needed to head straight there.
After traveling for several hours, Bai Sha finally arrived at her destination.
This was a very deep region of the Eastern Sea. No light existed here; the environment was exceptionally dark. Even ordinary fish shoals wouldn’t live here. Seabed plants also struggled to grow, leaving the area barren everywhere.
Jiang Tianya’s Storage Artifact had contained a few Luminous Sea Pearls. Bai Sha now took one out to emit light, dispelling the surrounding darkness and giving herself a certain range of visibility.
Gradually, Bai Sha found a stone tablet.
It was a stone tablet situated among a Boulder Pile, extremely inconspicuous. Coupled with the pitch-black surroundings, if one wasn’t deliberately searching for it, they could pass by a hundred times without ever noticing this tablet’s existence.
Two words were inscribed on the tablet: Sea Spirit.
Bai Sha knew this was very likely what she was looking for. However, after circling the tablet twice, she still couldn’t figure out anything significant.
After thinking for a moment, she simply took out the human-sized key.
The moment Bai Sha retrieved the key, the stone tablet before her abruptly lit up. The two characters “Sea Spirit” on it blazed with brilliance, instantly dispersing the darkness in all directions.
Bai Sha was startled, but quickly her attention was captured by the changes before her eyes.
The two brightly lit characters “Sea Spirit” on the tablet now floated out from the stone surface, then merged together, forming a water-blue keyhole that presented itself before her.
Bai Sha looked at the keyhole, then at the key. Without further hesitation, she inserted the key into the keyhole.
As the key entered, it automatically turned a full circle without Bai Sha needing to do anything else. Immediately after, a water-blue door materialized before her eyes and opened automatically. Inside, a water-blue corridor was revealed, tinged with a somewhat mystical quality.
If it were any other cultivator or Demon, they would inevitably hesitate when faced with such a situation. Bai Sha, however, needed no hesitation whatsoever.
She entered directly.
After entering the corridor, Bai Sha noticed the seawater was completely cut off outside. She paid it no mind. Sliding quickly across the corridor floor on her pectoral fins, she soon passed through and arrived at a small room.
It was a dreamlike room. The ceiling, floor, and walls were all water-blue, looking crystalline and translucent.
Ahead of her, a small table sat in the room.
Bai Sha’s gaze immediately fell upon the table, where she saw a fist-sized, exceptionally crystalline spherical object.
“Sea Spirit Pearl…”
Bai Sha murmured aloud.
A Sea Spirit Pearl was said to be a marvelous treasure formed from the convergence of the ocean’s spiritual energy, born anywhere within the sea. It could be used for artifact refinement, as an array formation material, and naturally, as a Dao Foundation for Foundation Establishment.
Sea Spirit Pearls were also graded. The lowest quality Sea Spirit Pearl could at least serve as a Mid-Grade Dao Foundation.
The Sea Spirit Pearl before Bai Sha had directly reached the Supreme Dao Foundation grade.
Even Bai Sha, at this moment, felt her heart filled with delight. She stepped forward and picked up the Sea Spirit Pearl, feeling that no matter how she looked at it, it seemed exceptionally dear to her.
