# 1392
Chapter 1393: You Can Save Them, Right?
The blade sliced into Tang Yusheng's back, clashing against something like steel with a faint tremor.
Lin Qiye, who had manifested from nothingness, frowned. His form dissolved into a streak of night, rapidly retreating hundreds of meters to evade the sweeping Sky-Piercer Halberd.
A dark red slash had already appeared on Tang Yusheng's back!
While the sharpness of 【White Slash】 couldn't compare to Ame-no-Murakumo, it was certainly not far off—one strike could cleave through a small mountain. But slashed across Tang Yusheng's body, it could only leave such a shallow wound, enough to prove just how monstrous his physical constitution truly was.
Of course, Lin Qiye could have used Ame-no-Murakumo instead of 【White Slash】, but this was merely a training session. Using that sword against a former Commander-in-Chief of the Night Watch would have been excessive.
"Hm?"
Tang Yusheng seemed not to have expected to be injured. His expression shifted slightly with surprise.
He forcefully pulled the fist embedded in An Qingyu's body free, swung a leg in a whip kick that sent her crashing down from the sky. A roaring water dragon surged from the seabed, swallowed An Qingyu whole, then vanished into the churning sea.
He slowly turned his head, gazing at Lin Qiye in the distance—his chest deeply caved in, face pale.
Until now, Tang Yusheng had held nothing back. Every punch and kick carried genuine force. That initial blow, while not directly lethal to Lin Qiye, would have caused severe injury with ease. Yet he never imagined that after taking that punch, Lin Qiye could still move freely.
Lin Qiye, who had eaten the Peaches of Immortality and undergone the blessing of national fortune, possessed a physique far more robust than he had imagined.
Tang Yusheng gripped the Sky-Piercer Halberd and drew an arc through the air before him. A terrifying pressure descended upon the sea's surface.
Lin Qiye felt the seawater beneath his feet begin to violently tremor and churn. Then, as if the sky and sea had rotated and displaced, a surges of powerful, thick water came crashing down from the air, enveloping him and dragging him helplessly upward into the sky!
The water behaved as if alive, frantically compressing the Lin Qiye at its center. A faint redness crept into his eyes. In merely a second, the water pressure on his skin's surface was sufficient to crush a large submarine!
Lin Qiye clenched his teeth, pushed the 【White Slash】 from its sheath with his fingertips, and dissolved into nothingness, attempting to escape this mass of high-pressure water.
But no matter which direction he advanced, Tang Yusheng seemed to see through him, covering the surrounding area with more water currents. Soon, Lin Qiye's duration of invisibility expired, his form forced back into reality. A mass of high-pressure water precisely engulfed his body.
Within the flowing water, Tang Yusheng's reflection appeared—the white-robed figure above this sea region, like a king of these waters.
Lin Qiye was trapped within endless seawater, unable to escape in any direction. Just as he was about to activate 【Final King's Symphony】, that white-robed figure directly teleported to the water surrounding him.
Tang Yusheng calmly gazed at Lin Qiye and slowly raised his fist…
A rain of fists descended upon Lin Qiye like a storm. Cracking sensations rang out from all over his body. Amidst the intense pain, a death threat he hadn't felt in a long time welled up in his heart!
BANG—!
With a kick from Tang Yusheng, Lin Qiye came crashing down from the aerial ocean into the actual sea.
His body slowly sank into the deep water. The sensation of suffocation and the throbbing pain from head to toe gradually eroded Lin Qiye's consciousness. Faintly, he heard Cao Yuan's嘿嘿 sound, Baili Pangpang's万物缴械, An Qingyu's voice calling out repeatedly, but they soon faded from his ears…
Eventually, his consciousness fell into Chaos, and he completely lost consciousness.
…
Time unknown.
Tang Yusheng, one hand carrying the Sky-Piercer Halberd and the other dragging the black coffin, stepped across snow-white waves back to the eastern side of the Island.
As his foot touched the island's shore, a giant wave rolled four unconscious figures onto the beach.
Li Kengqiang sat on the shore, glancing at the four critically injured figures and couldn't help clicking his tongue:
"You really are ruthless…"
Tang Yusheng raised an eyebrow. "Didn't you tell me to go all out so they could feel the threat of death?"
"…"
"You can save them… right?" Tang Yusheng asked with some心虚.
"…" Li Kengqiang swept his gaze over the four figures on the ground, helplessly waving his hand. "Forget it, forget it… leave them to me."
Li Kengqiang hoisted the black coffin onto his shoulder, dragging two people with each hand, and slowly walked toward the island's interior…
…
Great Xia Territorial Waters.
Several hundred li from the National Fortune Dragon's Eye.
Above the endless sea, a figure stood suspended in mid-air, gripping a map of Great Xia, eyes narrowed slightly.
It was an elderly man nearly seventy years old. Though his back was hunched, those deep, penetrating eyes gleamed with faint light, like a pair of dim stars in the night sky, narrowed into slits, as if lost in thought.
Had Lin Qiye been present, he would have recognized that this old man's features bore a striking resemblance to Yue Huai he had encountered not long ago in the 【Virtual Reconstruction】 world… He was Yue Huai—the creator of the Church of the Ancient Gods, the sole remaining "Evil God" of the most ancient lineage, forty-plus years after the Huaihai Catastrophe.
In Yue Huai's hand, the map marked nearly all the dragon vein locations throughout Great Xia, connected by red strokes like dragons prostrated across the vast land… And at the terminus of countless red lines, a circle was heavily drawn on an empty patch of sea, as if something of extreme importance lay there.
"The Dragon's Eye… is somewhere nearby." Yue Huai murmured to himself.
"Should we act directly?" A voice emerged from beneath his feet. Within the churning waters, a massive shadow's outline flickered in and out of view.
"No." Yue Huai果断 stated. "Back when the Egyptian Gods attempted to curse Great Xia's dragon veins, Great Xia conversely severed three-tenths of their own national fortune in retaliation. This shows that Great Xia's dragon veins are being guarded… Our task is to determine who exactly is guarding this place. We cannot expose ourselves."
"When the Egyptian Gods cursed Great Xia's dragon veins, the Heavenly Court had yet to be rebuilt, so the guardian here couldn't be a Great Xia deity… In that case, what do we have to fear?" Another massive shadow rose from the sea. "Yue Huai, as the agent of that Lord, your胆子 is too small."
"That's right. We've been潜伏 within Great Xia for so many years, all for the sake of a surprise attack. Such a perfect opportunity is right before us—if we miss it, it'll be a tremendous pity." A third massive shadow rose in succession.
Yue Huai's brow furrowed slightly. He coldly hmphed and tucked the map into his chest:
"I don't care how long you've been潜伏 in Great Xia or how strong you are… Since that one appointed me to command this operation, you will follow my arrangements. Great Xia's national fortune is no trivial matter. Without the certainty of a lethal strike, we absolutely cannot act. Do you understand?"