A magical journey of a sharp-tongued woman and a goofy man

The sea breeze, carrying a salty, fishy smell, swept over the rocks. Ye Shuli staggered to her feet, the spirit pearl trembling violently between her fingers.

Jiang Ye suddenly grabbed her wrist and rolled her to the left. Three poisoned steel nails grazed her ear and embedded themselves in the rocks behind her. The shattered rocks drew blood from Ye Shuli's cheek.

"Seven at twelve o'clock, five at three o'clock." Jiang Ye ground his back teeth, the broken sword gleaming with a Klein blue light as it rested across his chest. "And there are three peak Spirit Masters hidden in the clouds above."

Ye Shuli wiped the blood from her nose with her sleeve, and the binary star system floating on the surface of the Spirit Pearl suddenly collapsed into a Möbius strip.

She pressed the spirit pearl into the birthmark on her collarbone, and the star-like patterns instantly spread along the blood vessels to her fingertips: "There's a break in the spiritual energy in the southeast Xun position. I'll tear open the gap later, and you'll finish it off."

Twenty-three black-robed cultivators rode the waves, the leader of whom had crisscrossing centipede-like scars on his face.

He blew a piercing whistle from his bone flute, and hundreds of half-rotten fish-man corpses immediately floated to the surface of the sea.

Ye Shuli's pupils contracted—these were the cursed creatures they had eliminated three days ago.

"Psionic Resonance!" Jiang Ye suddenly flung out his broken sword, the Klein Blue Poison on the blade colliding with the stardust at Ye Shuli's fingertips, creating an arc of blazing white light.

The seven merman corpses that were the first to rush in vaporized in mid-air, and the shockwave from the explosion knocked over three black-robed men wielding crossbows.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ye Shuli made a hand seal, and the star map and topological patterns of the spiritual pearl projected from her birthmark imprinted a sixty-four hexagram array on the damp ground.

The moment the Zhen trigram symbol lit up, the seashells on the entire mudflat suddenly floated into blades, piercing the five enemies who were trying to launch a sneak attack into a sieve.

"Beware of illusions!" Jiang Ye suddenly pulled Ye Shuli back, and asphalt-like substances seeped from the ground where the two had been standing, solidifying into their own reflections.

The spirit orb in Ye Shuli's mirror image suddenly appeared as a blood-red double helix, blasting a scarlet beam of light towards the heart of her real body.

Ye Shuli bit her tongue and spat out a mist of blood. The blood droplets condensed into a miniature Hetu (River Diagram) under the pull of star sand.

The moment the mirror attack struck the blood map, the real spirit orb burst forth from her birthmark, unleashing a waterfall of silver light. The twelve water tornadoes reversed direction, sweeping the three casters into the sky.

Suddenly, the centipede-scarred leader crushed the bone whistle in his neck, and black lines instantly appeared on the whites of all the black-robed men's eyes.

Ye Shuli felt the spiritual bead in her palm suddenly become scalding hot, and the double-helix star sand began to uncontrollably transcribe some kind of ancient rune.

As she realized the similarity between the runes and the Moonrise Valley teleportation array, Jiang Ye's broken sword had already cleaved two puppet corpses in two, and Klein Blue Toxin was retrogradely eroding the controller along the puppet's neural synapses.

"The waterspout at Kan position will dissipate in thirty seconds!" Ye Shuli embedded the spirit pearl into the beach, and the star-like sand patterns multiplied wildly along the tide line.

When the sixty-fourth rune lit up, the entire sea area suddenly experienced the pressure of a ten-thousand-meter deep ocean, and the five black-robed men exploded and died on the spot.

The centipede scar leader suddenly slit his wrist, and black blood drew an upside-down skull lighthouse in the air.

Ye Shuli's birthmark suddenly intensified its burning pain, and cracks appeared on the surface of the spirit pearl that were exactly the same as the projection.

Jiang Ye's broken sword trembled like a dragon's roar at this moment, and Klein Blue Poison condensed into a solid sword aura and slashed towards the core of the blood array.

A cylindrical thunderstorm suddenly descended at the horizon, blasting the remaining cursed creatures into charred remains.

As Ye Shuli staggered to grab the Spirit Pearl, she discovered that the centipede leader had disappeared into the thinning mist, leaving only a severed finger with a jade pendant soaking in blood.

A cylindrical thunderstorm suddenly descended at the horizon, blasting the remaining cursed creatures into charred remains.

As Ye Shuli staggered to grab the Spirit Pearl, she discovered that the centipede leader had disappeared into the thinning mist, leaving only a severed finger with a jade pendant soaking in blood.

The blood suddenly rippled strangely, and in that instant, the hairs on the back of Ye Shuli's neck stood on end, and the centipede scar leader emerged from the shadows beneath her feet.

A putrid bone flute was pressed against her throat, while another scaly hand reached for the spirit pearl at her collarbone.

"Watch out!" Jiang Ye's broken blade grazed Ye Shuli's ear.

The moment the blade struck the bone flute and sparks flew, Ye Shuli pressed two fingers together on the birthmark.

The stardust pattern suddenly contracted into a fine grid, forming a semi-transparent barrier on the surface of the spirit pearl.

The leader's fingertips struck the barrier with a metallic scraping sound, and dark purple arcs of electricity exploded along the scales.

A hole instantly appeared in Ye Shuli's sleeve, and a burning pain shot through her exposed wrist.

Jiang Ye spun around and covered Ye Shuli's mouth and nose with his outer robe, while the broken sword drew a dark blue arc and slashed towards the leader's neck.

The blade's energy twisted upon contact with the scales, reflecting back and tearing a bloody gash in his left shoulder.

A metallic taste rose in his throat, and Jiang Ye staggered half a step, the broken knife carving a three-meter-long trench in the ground.

"The psionic resonance has failed?" Ye Shuli noticed the inverted scale pattern appearing on the leader's neck, and the birthmark suddenly emitted a needle-like warning.

She pulled Jiang Ye back quickly, and the sand where they had been standing had solidified into sharp black crystal clusters.

The centipede scar leader let out a strange laugh like an owl, and the bone flute played two sharp notes.

The scattered black crystal clusters suddenly exploded, forming a net of countless fine, hair-like poison needles.

Jiang Ye tore off his waist seal and threw it into the air. Klein Blue Toxin expanded into an umbrella-shaped barrier when it encountered the wind.

Amidst the clanging sound of poisoned needles striking the barrier, Ye Shuli seized this fleeting opening.

She bit her fingertip and drew a fragmented Zhen trigram on the surface of the spirit pearl. The stardust pattern suddenly detached from her skin and formed a rapidly rotating star ring around the two of them.

"Thirty degrees southeast!" Jiang Ye suddenly shouted.

The broken blade flew out of his hand and precisely pierced the gap in the rotating star ring.

The moment Klein Blue toxin collided with the stardust, the resulting shockwave pulverized all the poison needles.

The centipede scar leader's sinister smile froze on his face.

Suddenly, the scales on his neck cracked, and dark green blood splattered onto the sand, making a corrosive hissing sound.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ye Shuli pressed the spirit pearl onto Jiang Ye's wound, and the stardust carrying silvery-white spiritual energy seeped into his flesh.

"Are you crazy?"

"Healing me at a time like this!" Jiang Ye reached out to push her away, but his movements were restrained by an even fiercer flow of stardust.

He saw that blood was seeping from the birthmark on Ye Shuli's collarbone, and the star-like pattern was three times dimmer than usual.

The chieftain's bone flute suddenly emitted a loud bang.

The remaining black-robed figures twitched as they rose like marionettes, their eyes completely filled with black mist.

Their limbs were twisted into reverse joints, and their fingernails grew into sharp blades as they surrounded them from different directions.

Jiang Ye gripped the broken knife that had sunk into the sand with his other hand. The lingering warmth of the hilt made his pupils shrink slightly—a sign that the poison was about to run out.

He wiped the blood off his face and suddenly gave a nonchalant smile: "Let's take a gamble."

As usual, I get three and you get seven.

"I entrust the southeast Xun position to you." Ye Shuli embedded the spirit pearl into the center of the star ring, and the blood beads from the birthmark suddenly floated into an array.

As the stardust and blood beads merged into a pale gold color, the entire beach of shell fragments suddenly trembled and floated into the air.

The moment the seven puppets pounced at the same time, Jiang Ye used the rocks to leap into the air.

The broken blade sliced ​​through his palm, and a rain of blood mixed with Klein Blue toxin fell precisely onto the puppet's head.

A corrosive sound accompanied by a burning stench exploded, and the claws of the three puppets froze half an inch from Ye Shuli's throat.

Ye Shuli's star ring completed its final trajectory at this moment.

The suspended seashell fragments suddenly changed direction, carrying stardust as they pierced the back of the puppet's neck.

When the last shell was driven into the sand at the feet of the centipede leader, all the puppets exploded into black mist at the same time.

"Now!" Jiang Ye suddenly swung out the bronze compass from his waist.

The moment the object struck the star ring, the cracks on the surface of the spirit pearl suddenly burst forth with silver light.

Ye Shuli felt a tearing pain coming from the birthmark, and the silver beam of light followed the trajectory of the stardust and went straight for the leader's brow.

The centipede scar leader retreated seven steps, his dark green blood congealing into a shield in front of him.

Amidst the deafening roar of the beam colliding with the blood shield, he suddenly crushed the bone fragment hidden in his palm.

The space suddenly twisted into a vortex, and the remaining black-robed figures were sucked into it like marionettes.

"Don't let him..." Jiang Ye's warning was torn apart by the sea breeze.

The centipede scar leader's last glance at the spirit pearl was like a poisoned hook, before he turned into black mist and dissipated into the gradually calming waves.

Ye Shuli staggered and knelt on the damp sand, pale golden liquid seeping from the cracks on the surface of the spirit pearl.

Jiang Ye's broken sword clattered to the ground, and the blood gushing from the wound on his left shoulder had already soaked half of his clothes.

"You've been poisoned." Ye Shuli tore open his corroded sleeve, her pupils suddenly contracting.

The blood vessels around the wound were an ominous purplish-black color, spreading towards the heart at a visible speed.

Jiang Ye forced a smile, but coughed up blood: "I won't die... cough cough... that old thing's scales..." Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly collapsed, his head hitting the rocks hard.

Ye Shuli pressed the spirit pearl against his chest, and the stardust patterns traveled wildly along his blood vessels.

The moment the pale golden liquid seeped into the wound, Jiang Ye suddenly bent over and spat out black blood.

The contaminated blood splashed onto the sand, corroding it and creating honeycomb-like pits.

"Hold on!" Ye Shuli bit her tongue, and drops of blood mixed with spiritual energy dripped onto the surface of the spirit orb.

The cracks suddenly expanded into a spiderweb pattern, while the silvery-white light grew even more intense.

When the seventh drop of blood seeped into the spirit pearl, Jiang Ye's wound finally stopped festering, and his breathing gradually stabilized.

As dusk fell, the last wisp of black mist dissipated in the sea breeze.

Ye Shuli dragged the unconscious Jiang Ye behind a sheltered rock, her trembling fingertips tracing the cracks on the surface of the spirit pearl.

The stardust pattern is slowly repairing the cracks, but at a rate more than ten times slower than usual.

Amidst the rising and falling tides, she touched the severed finger soaking in blood.

Through the crack in the jade pendant, half of a broken family crest was faintly visible—it was exactly the same totem that had been seen at the Tsukimi Valley altar three days ago.

Ye Shuli was suddenly awakened by the sound of the waves at midnight.

The spirit pearl in his arms was covered in frost, and Jiang Ye's body temperature was dropping rapidly.

She was about to activate the star sand when she discovered that the spiritual energy circulation at the birthmark was sluggish, as if she were stuck in a quagmire.

Three hundred meters away, seven eerie green lanterns quietly emerged from the sea.

Those were not the lights of fishing boats, but the eyes of some enormous creature rising and falling with the tide.

The salty sea breeze carried the smell of rust, and Ye Shuli touched the newly formed black crystal clusters in the crevices of the reef—exactly the same as the poison crystals created by the daytime attackers.