The icy seawater brought waves of chill to Lin Xiao. The underwater currents flowed past him, feeling as if something was gently brushing against his cheek, bringing a slight itchy sensation.
Lin Xiao suddenly opened his eyes. What met his gaze was no longer the vast sea. A gentle breeze blew in from somewhere unknown, and the chill he had just felt seemed to come from it.
Beside him was a cluster of Higanbana flowers. Their narrow petals were lightly grazing his body.
Letting out a soft breath, Lin Xiao stood up and looked around at the familiar place surrounding him.
How many times had this been?
Lin Xiao had somewhat lost count.
During the spirit ascension ceremony, and when he went to the merfolk territory to steal the Ocean Heart and was attacked... it seemed that whenever he suffered an attack he couldn't withstand, his consciousness would fall into this place.
His gaze swept across the surroundings, looking at this space that bore some resemblance to his spiritual sea. In the past, when he came here, his cultivation wasn't high enough to sense exactly what this place was.
But now, he could faintly feel that this world had its own unique rules. Just like how his martial soul could absorb other remnant souls, this was a world specially created for his own soul.
It was like a world belonging solely to Lin Xiao after death, and also like a crevice between life and death.
Perhaps it was because of his own death attribute, or perhaps because of his special martial soul, that allowed him, in that instant, to have the possibility of crawling back from the world of death.
With a sense of familiarity, Lin Xiao walked forward along the sea of flowers at his feet. Countless murmurs reached his ears.
These people might be familiar to him, might have crossed paths with him once, or might be strangers, but they were all people who had once died near Lin Xiao. All those voices were urging him to stay in this peaceful place.
Lin Xiao would occasionally turn his head to look at those familiar or unfamiliar faces, but his feet never stopped moving.
His cultivation now was far beyond what it used to be. He knew that the murmurs in his ears did not come from those flickering figures, but from the call of death itself.
Whether through temptation or intimidation, it was using all kinds of methods to make Lin Xiao completely sink into death.
Lightly raising his hand, he dispersed the surrounding remnant shadows. Lin Xiao's pace beneath his feet grew faster and faster.
His consciousness had arrived here; the situation outside was probably even worse. He absolutely could not stay here any longer.
Before long, just like the previous times, a gurgling stream soon appeared ahead of him. Lin Xiao lowered his head to look into the water and saw the reflection of his own figure on the surface. Suddenly, he took a small step back.
It was himself, but not entirely his current self. That figure was quietly watching him. Without speaking, it was as if they were connected by heart, and he "heard" what he wanted to say.
"Why do you reject me?"
The reflection in the water remained calm, its tone showing no change at all. But in Lin Xiao's eyes, that face grew increasingly terrifying. The suffocating feeling from his previous life at the brink of death completely enveloped him. Looking at the other shore so close at hand, his footsteps beneath him hesitated and could not cross over.
Below the sea surface, the Sea Princess and her daughter had already swum toward the spot where Lin Xiao had fallen into the water.
They had also heard the conversation between the Spirit Monarch and Lin Xiao, but neither had expected the Spirit Monarch to be so powerful. One moment, the Evil Emperor was powerless to resist under Lin Xiao's attack, and the next instant, he had been struck down into the sea.
"Mom—"
Liya's face was full of anxiety. Although the Sea Princess did not like humans, Lin Xiao had after all, saved Liya. Moreover, he was someone valued by the Sea God Island's guardian. She still examined Lin Xiao's body.
"Mom, how is he?"
"His body hasn't suffered too much damage." As the Sea Princess spoke, she slightly raised her head and looked toward the sky through the sea surface, as if seeing through the Evil Emperor's body to the essence of the Spirit Monarch within.
"That Spirit Monarch is like us, should be more skilled in spiritual attacks, but his attacks are far stronger than ours."
In mid-air, Chen Haisheng glanced at Lin Xiao, who had fallen into the sea, then suddenly turned his head back. Soul rings shone around him as he raised both hands, as if lifting the entire sea above his head, and then pressed it down toward the Spirit Monarch.
However, the Spirit Monarch merely controlled the Evil Emperor's single eye to glance slightly from the air and did not make any resistance.
The seawater fell, and towering waves slapped against the Evil Emperor's body. The tentacles on its body rapidly weathered like a coastline eroded by seawater, then turned into mud and sand, merging into the ocean.
"This body was never mine to begin with. You should stop your useless attacks."
Before the waves could settle, the Spirit Monarch's voice rang out faintly, "Perfect, I've taken a liking to another body. Here, this form should allow me to blend into your world better."
"Let me see what your world truly looks like."
As the words fell, the Evil Emperor's body suddenly went limp. The body, which already had few tentacles left, completely lost all signs of life and fell toward the sea, splashing up a huge spray of water.
Only a large eyeball floated up and drilled downward toward the sea surface.
Below the sea surface, Liya was anxiously watching the unconscious Lin Xiao. Suddenly thinking of something, she took out a sparkling golden pearl.
"Liya!" The Sea Princess's expression changed slightly as she lightly shouted.
"Mom, he saved me back then. If it weren't for him, you might not be able to see me now."
Hearing this, the Sea Princess was stunned for a moment, then let out a long sigh and no longer stopped Liya's actions.
However, even after several pearls entered Lin Xiao's body, his consciousness showed no signs of recovering. Seeing Liya's anxious expression, the Sea Princess sighed softly and stepped forward to help as well.
But this situation did not last long. A violent fluctuation suddenly came from the sea. The Sea Princess turned her head to look and saw a huge eyeball staring fixedly at her.
Their three eyes met. Even the Sea Princess, who specialized in spiritual power and had lived for six hundred thousand years, felt the world spinning. Just from that one glance, she fell behind in the spiritual power clash.
"Hmph—"
A rather disdainful voice came from the eyeball. The Spirit Monarch's consciousness resided within it, completely ignoring the Sea Princess and Liya, and headed straight toward Lin Xiao.
Just a moment ago, the Spirit Monarch had thought he could directly finish off Lin Xiao, but at the last moment, his attack seemed to have been blocked by something.
Others did not know the specific situation, but the Spirit Monarch himself was clear that the attack just now had not fully landed on Lin Xiao. He was definitely still alive.
And this also sparked quite a bit of interest in him. After all, there weren't many who could block that strike of his. Even in the abyssal plane he came from, aside from the one above him, no one could defend against this move of his.
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