Chapter 262 - The Shared Power Between Them (1)
The man popped the LSO's water breathing gum into his mouth and then found his body suddenly adapting to his water environment. Similar to what he used before when Setsuko and him dove for the Gigantic Koi Demons Eggs, he could breathe underwater.
Now where was his weapon—the creature gracefully rushed at him and didn't give him much time to choose.
Li Yang forced qi out of his feet and redirected his position quickly.
He didn't even have the frame of mind or time to care about the other passengers that went down along with him. Where was the System's screen? What was his Skill—?
A sudden jolt of power waved and ebbed through his body and invigorated him. He didn't feel anything like this before except for the time that he used up 30,000 Charm Points to use the A-Stellar Pack before.
When he looked up into the waters, he met the Nian serpent's eyes and felt a wave of both subtle thoughts and emotions come at him. Li Yang opened his mouth and tried to say something—and found nothing but bubbles quickly coming out of his voice.
There were no words to it that he could make out at all from the set-go and yet it came to his mind almost coherently. As if there was a telepathic nature to it that stemmed beyond immediate language.
Right before it could have attacked him, the Nian beast ended up stopping mid-rush as if hesitating, but then immediately came forward regardless.
Whatever Li Yang had said didn't make it stop at all.
There was no use to it—and it threw another water ball attack at him. It came too quickly for him to dodge or swim away from.
Instead, the only option was to strengthen out and weather through it. Now that he could see it clearly for himself, the ball of water was condensed and seemed to have a bright white light within it.
Li Yang realized that it was not ordinary water at all but something that the creature may have created within its internal system. Cultivator or not, that was immense power that came from the center of the beast's own spiritual core.
He started to muster up qi and threw it on as a defense—the ball came and hit him directly. Or it would have done so, if it weren't for the waters all around him redirecting it and throwing it back at the creature.
The Nian's beast eyes widened at its own attack thrown back at him.
It knocked the beast several hundred meters away as it crashed back against the waters.
Li Yang blinked and tried to look around him. He thought he only used up his qi to layer on his defenses but the water moved along with him. That was the exact moment that the System came back on.
[ Congratulations! You Have Activated (2) Special Skills From Your Harem Members! ]
Treasure the Undine Umbrage and the Mind and Emotion Connection that came from your dearly beloved women! These Skills will last for ten minutes only and can be leveled up as you increase your relationship with respective members.
Enjoy!
Li Yang blinked at the words.
However, he didn't have any time to ponder about it anymore. The creature was coming back at him more angered than before—Li Yang could feel the underlying rage within the creature's powerful movements.
Li Yang glanced in his immediate vicinity and saw the rest of the people still underwater—he first ended up giving them a hand while taking the opportunity to drift away from the serpent. His movements were now fluid and faster in the water than he had ever thought possible.
The waters coiled and moved around him.
Doing anything that an Undine might have been capable of within its natural environments.
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Narissa might have chosen the Sirenic Voice for Li Yang to use it to soothe or quell his opponents. It was something that she used often to stop people from doing anything that she didn't like and to also have them do favors for her.
… And yet, she was a tad worried.
"Great peril…" Narissa muttered underneath her breath. She hoped she made the right choice of making Li Yang use her natural Undine abilities—even if the man was on land, there had to be enough water source for him to attack, right?
Well, that wasn't exactly what came on her mind first.
There was the fact that water naturally had healing tendencies so that would have also helped recover any injuries that he might have had in the onset of any troubles or fight. Naarissa hated to admit it aloud, but she was more concerned of him not getting injured or recovering from them.
"What are you muttering about, Blue Fish?" Taiga raised a brow at her. She was now back on the rug and was making sure that she wasn't wagging her tail around like the last time.
Instead, Taiga was eating her popcorn and drinking her soda happily.
Narissa wondered if now was the right time to tell Taiga about the circumstances about Li Yang. Yet she was pretty damn sure that this feisty feline would just end up attempting to go out and find Li Yang.
She checked out the man's coordinates through the System and realized that he was too far away for Taiga to chase after him, so making the Tigress Spirit worried would be useless right?
There was a lot to consider at this moment and it was making her head hurt.
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In a distant realm beyond that was currently conceivable for any human space travel alone—a white haired fox goddess now sat at the charred forest all by herself.
Remnants of a temple were burning behind her, long gone since that day that changed everything. There was no one left behind, except for herself.
But even that was also questionable in itself.
Her gaze was focused on the screen that was hovering in front of her.
This was the only bit of hope that she could hold on to.