Free Web NovelChapter 1541: Chapter 1541: Trapped
After figuring it out, her mood improved a lot. The expression on her face looked much better.
Bao Bao cautiously tried to flatter the master as it spoke.
Qi Wen could also talk to it again now. The atmosphere instantly became much more harmonious.
Gu Ersheng was still sulking on the side while Qi Wen and Bao Bao chatted happily. Neither of them paid any attention to him, which made him even more depressed and foul‑tempered.
"Master, Master, look, aren’t those coral over there beautiful?"
"They are. You even know what coral are?"
"Why wouldn’t I know? I know lots of things."
"Let’s go over and collect some. I’ll take them back for my mom. She should like these."
"Since Master’s mom is so wonderful, of course she’ll like pretty things."
"What kind of logic is that?" As she spoke, she had already entered the Coral Group.
Qi Wen sensed danger and tried to retreat at top speed, but she simply wasn’t given the chance.
She felt herself circling around and around inside the Coral Group, but no matter what, she couldn’t get out.
"Bao Bao, Gu Ersheng."
No matter how she shouted, there was no response.
Qi Wen tried desperately to calm herself down, but it was useless. She was in a complete panic, nervous and flustered.
She knew this wouldn’t do. She forced herself to stop moving, muttering nonstop, "This should be an Array. So what? I count as an Array Master too."
Narrowing her eyes, she examined her surroundings. The coral around her seemed to be spinning constantly, and when she looked again, they seemed not to move at all.
She tried to recall all the Array Maps she had seen before. She had never seen anything like this.
She picked a direction and used every Breaking Array method she knew, but it was still useless.
Was she really going to be trapped here? The Spiritual Pearl in her body was spinning constantly.
She took several deep breaths before she finally calmed down quite a bit.
Since she couldn’t unravel the Array, then she’d just break it by force.
Her Lifebound Sword appeared. She used it very rarely, mainly because the Lifebound Sword was simply too eye‑catching. That water‑blue color, anyone could see at a glance it was a treasure. She couldn’t even get it to hide its aura, so she generally didn’t use it. This time Qi Wen was truly anxious.
No matter what interface she’d been in, she had never encountered danger like this.
She unleashed the Green Water Sword Technique, hacking away with a single fixed target in mind.
She didn’t see any effect, but this was the only method she had right now.
She swung her sword nonstop for a full two hours. A smile finally appeared on her face. It was working after all.
She sped up again. As long as there was a change, that was good.
Another hour passed, and the coral ahead broke apart.
Qi Wen shot out in an instant. She did rush out, but this was definitely not where she had been just now. Though it was still all seawater, this place felt completely different from before.
She called out to Gu Ersheng and Bao Bao again and finally heard Bao Bao’s response. Because it was an Artifact Spirit and its main body was with Qi Wen, she summoned Bao Bao over.
Gu Ersheng was attached to Bao Bao’s body, so he came along with it.
"Girl, how are you?"
"I’m fine."
Gu Ersheng felt extremely guilty inside. How could he have been childish enough to get mad at this girl? He had really been scared just now.
Seeing that she was fine now, he finally relaxed. No matter where they were, as long as they were together, it didn’t matter. There was nothing they couldn’t solve.
"You two both go back. Where is this place? Let’s not get separated again."
Bao Bao returned to the space. Gu Ersheng also entered Qi Wen’s Sea of Consciousness.
She put away her Lifebound Sword and switched back to the one she used often in the past, then sped forward.
The Water Spirit Power here was extremely dense. There was no way there wouldn’t be any living creatures. Only by finding them could she figure out where this place actually was.
Qi Wen’s speed was extremely fast. She felt like she had been flying for three hours already and still hadn’t discovered anything at all.
This was highly unreasonable. She knew the seabed covered a vast area, but at this speed, to go three hours without seeing a single living thing was abnormal.
She knew she had to keep moving forward, whether it was the right direction or not, otherwise she’d have even less idea of where she was.
She flew for another two hours, and her Divine Sense picked up a building.
There should be living creatures where there were buildings. Whatever they were, even if they were dangerous, at least it would prove she wasn’t alone here.
A quarter of an hour later, she reached the building and stopped to look. It seemed to be a palace, and it looked quite luxurious and magnificent.
Could something like this really exist at the bottom of the sea?
Whatever. She had to break into even a dragon’s pool or a tiger’s den.
Sword in hand, she came to the gate and tried to push the door open with her Divine Sense, but no matter what, it wouldn’t budge.
She tried pushing it by hand and, unexpectedly, it swung open. What kind of restriction was this? Did it mean only living beings could enter?
Once inside, she saw many paintings on the walls.
"Could this area be where some Human Cultivator lived? Otherwise how could there be paintings?" She started from the left and looked all the way around. She didn’t know how long it took, but she eventually finished viewing all the paintings in the entire palace.
They basically told the story of a human who was framed and ended up here. Because there was no way out, he searched for decades and still couldn’t find an exit, so in the end he simply settled down and lived here.
Later he slowly turned fishlike, even growing gills. When he finally realized what he had become, he lost the courage to go on living.
So he carved all these paintings inside the palace, hoping that one day someone would discover this place and know what had happened here.
Qi Wen was depressed now. If there was no exit, how was she supposed to leave? How worried would her family be about her?
"You couldn’t get out, but I definitely will." she said to herself.
There was nothing else in the castle. Qi Wen called Gu Ersheng out.
He took a turn around as well. "There’s absolutely no way there’s no way out."
He was afraid Qi Wen’s mentality would collapse. In truth, he and his wife had spoiled this girl too much.
"I know. Since I could get in, I can definitely get out. Even if I can’t find an exit, I’ll just focus on Cultivation. Once I reach Divinity Transformation, I’ll be able to tear open the void and get out anyway."
Gu Ersheng finally relaxed. This girl wasn’t just forcing herself to say these things. That was good.
"Right. Your Cultivation speed is extremely fast. You’ll definitely make it."
Gu Ersheng wanted to say that if it really came down to it, there was still him. But the price he’d have to pay was a bit too high.
Qi Wen didn’t like it here. She felt it was too oppressive, so she left; she had to go out and look around at least.
Over on Su Yuanyuan’s side, she and her two sons had gone to several places with strong incense offerings and found nothing at all.
They all knew it was impossible that there were only those three Demons.
The three of them were in the space. "Mom, do you think they might be hiding in some Cultivation Family?" Qi Xuan asked.
"If that’s the case, the scope would be extremely large. They haven’t found anything for so many years; it’s unrealistic to expect them to investigate themselves."
"If only there were something that could detect Demons. That would make things a lot easier."
"Even if we could detect them, it’d still be a problem if our cultivation isn’t high enough to deal with them."
Su Yuanyuan listened to her two sons discussing the matter. She was also thinking hard about what method they could use.
