Chapter 94

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Chapter 94: Frozen Sea

The Frozen Sea was just southeast of the Northlands. Changyi and Ji Yunhe arrived at the coast in no time, accompanied by Luo Jinsang and Qu Xiaoxing.

Qu Xiaoxing had wanted to see Ji Yunhe ever since Changyi brought her to the north, but he never got the chance until now.

He was not as bold as Luo Jinsang, nor did he have the support of someone like Qing Ji, so he just quietly waited. When news came that she had convinced the demon master army into joining the north, he was beyond excited. But...

Unexpectedly, she died...

And then was sealed at the bottom of the lake.

Qu Xiaoxing regretted not following in the footsteps of Luo Jinsang and shamelessly forced his way into the island courtyard.

But fate never ceased to surprise. Just as he had completely given up on the thought of ever seeing Ji Yunhe again, natural disaster hit and the jiaoren was seen with a nine tailed fox demon. He saved the city, and she saved him.

Qu Xiaoxing immediately found Luo Jinsang and made it in time to join their little expedition. He finally got to see Ji Yunhe again.

Except now she was in a coma.

"Take good care of her here, I'll go down into the sea to get the lingzhi."

There were no beaches here, only cliffs and jagged rocks. The water was over thirty feet below them, forever in a waveless, frozen state.

This was the only sea belonging to the northern realm, but it had no value and no use. The only reason people knew about it was because of the legendary deep sea lingzhi that grew inside.

Qu Xiaoxing and Luo Jinsang watched over Ji Yunhe inside a small, broken down hut by the cliff. Luo Jinsang cushioned Ji Yunhe's head with her lap and blew air at her to help relieve some of the burning. Qu Xiaoxing looked at Ji Yunhe then looked at the distant jiaoren, and said with a bit of concern, "Jinsang, I heard there are monsters guarding the sea lingzhi, do you think the jiaoren will have any problems going down there?"

"Does he look like he'll run into problems?"

Qu Xiaoxing choked back the rest of his words. The jiaoren looked like he was just going fishing for a snack.

But everyone knew of the lingzhi here in the frozen sea, and its amazing medicinal properties… Yet no one dared to come harvest them...

"I am still a little worried..."

Luo Jinsang now also felt a bit of his stress. She turned and looked at the jiaoren standing over the cliff.

His robe flew in the wind.

Luo Jinsang thought for a moment and said, "He is a jiaoren, he came from the sea. Plus people say jiaoren are the most powerful demons of the underwater world, so he should be fine..."

Qu Xiaoxing was not convinced. "But his tail..."

Standing on the cliff, Changyi heard every word they said.

He looked at the frozen sea down below. Although the seawater was under a thick layer of ice, the salty scent of the ocean was something he was all too familiar with.

He thought he would never go back again...

He was a jiaoren who had lost his tail, and no longer qualified to answer to the sea's calling. But for Ji Yunhe, he had to go back.

Changyi took a deep breath and leaped down. Several ice spears formed in front of him and broke open the frozen surface, allowing him to dive in.

The cold water felt both familiar and strange against his skin, and he subconsciously looked at his legs. The tail that had allowed him to come and go freely was no more. Ice blue eyes closed gently, and when they opened again, all of his hesitation disappeared. His body shot into the darkness like an arrow.

The deeper he went, the darker it grew. Then suddenly, a whole new world appeared before him.

The fine sand under his feet was white, the reef was black, and the colorful algae growing around emitted a faint light that illuminated everything.

Aside from the tail that had been lost, all the senses in his body told him -- he belonged here.

But his heart resisted the calling and desired for the shore.

He wandered around in the bottom of the sea, looking for traces of the sea lingzhi. The deeper he walked, the emptier it became. When he approached an area where even seaweed no longer grew, he felt an undercurrent with a hint of something unusual. He followed it until a faint light appeared.

He walked toward the faint light until he could see the outline of a lingzhi. But before his hand could touch it, a huge tentacle swept through, generating a wave that washed Changyi back several feet.

Not having a fishtail was truly an inconvenience here.

He looked at the sea demon that had interfered...

A row of ten eyes blinked at him from behind the sea lingzhi, and giant tentacles swayed back and forth. "A tail split jiaoren of royal blood, idiotic to the extreme..."

The voice was low with a soundwave that boomed and trembled across the floor of the sea.

Changyi calmly formed a seal in his hands then pulled out a three foot long ice sword between his palms. He pointed it at the sea demon.

"Get out of my way."

The tentacles danced chaotically. "You abandoned this world when you gave up your tail. How dare a traitor hope to still take anything belonging to the sea?!"

With a hissing roar, the tentacles viciously threw themselves at Changyi.

The ice sword flipped in the dark, and a pair of blue eyes glowed behind the blade...

...

The ice above the frozen surface was

suddenly torn apart by a turbulence washing up from deep within the sea. Huge waves wrapped in ice smashed against the cliff and rumbled the earth, soaking everyone waiting on top.

Qu Xiaoxing and Luo Jinsang were stunned by the sudden disturbance, they had no idea what happened down below. Luo Jinsang was holding Ji Yunhe and could not move, so Qu Xiaoxing bravely went to the edge of the cliff to check on the situation. He looked down and saw a giant tentacle emerging from the thrashing waves.

"Ahhhhhhh!" Qu Xiaoxing shrieked in fear as he tumbled backward. "Monster! A giant sea monster!"

Before he crawled even two steps, the pink tentacle landed in front of him with a thud. It twisted and writhed, but... only half there?

It had been sliced off?

Qu Xiaoxing fell to the ground again and stared at the tentacle when the sound of footsteps approached him from behind. He turned around and saw the jiaoren standing there, dripping wet and wringing out water from his silver hair. His hand held a shimmering lingzhi.

"Sea lingzhi!" Qu Xiaoxing exclaimed excitedly. The jiaoren ignored him and walked to Ji Yunhe. Qu Xiaoxing pointed at the tentacle still twisting around in front of him and asked, "What is this thing again?"

"Dinner," Changyi replied. "Calamari."

Qu Xiaoxing's face twitched. That tentacle was almost twice as thick as him...

This jiaoren… was perhaps a thousand times more frightening in the sea...

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