Su Ze watched the scene and immediately revealed a cruel smile.
As his voice rang out, Su Er, who had been guarding him, moved. He reached out across the air and seized the incoming flying sword, pinning it in place.
With a single thought, he sent the sword shooting back even faster than it had come.
A muffled groan soon sounded from the distance.
Su Er soared into the sky, his figure turning into an after-image that vanished from the deck in an instant.
“Little friend Xia An, you have already been wounded by this seat and locked onto by my divine sense. This time you cannot fly away even if you grow wings!”
Su Er’s icy voice echoed across the entire sea.
“Su family! You rob and plunder, slaughter the innocent. Are you not afraid that one day heaven will punish you?!”
A female cultivator roared in fury, sending waves surging as she frantically evaded Su Er’s pursuit.
“What a foolish woman!”
“We cultivate immortality. Where is there any heaven left?”
“If there is one, it is my Su family!”
Su Ze laughed loudly. With a flip of his hand a long sword appeared. He sneered viciously. “Xia An, if you still refuse to show yourself, I will chop your brother into a human stick!”
“You dare!!”
Xia An’s angry shout rang out. Yet Su Ze did not hesitate and swung his sword. Xia Ning’s left arm, still bound to the wooden stake, was severed and sent flying!
“Ah——!!”
Xia Ning screamed. His whole face turned deathly pale, but he still roared, “Little sister, don’t worry about me! Run!!”
“What they want is our family’s talisman inheritance. The Water-Avoiding Pearl must never fall into their hands, or even in death I will never rest in peace!”
“Run! Don’t mind me!!”
“Xia Ning, even facing death you still dare defy this young master!”
Su Ze flew into a rage. His gaze turned ice-cold, his voice dropping low. “Originally this young master planned to spare your life. After all, no one on the entire Three Saints Island understands talisman crafting better than you. But since you are so eager to die…”
“Then this young master will grant your wish!”
“Don’t worry. I won’t let you die easily. I will slice you apart bit by bit until you are nothing but a human stick. Then I will capture your sister Xia An and let you watch us enjoy ourselves!”
“Hahahaha…!!”
Talisman inheritance?
Mo Fan, who had been watching the drama unfold, suddenly brightened.
One of the reasons he was heading to the Divine Domain this time was precisely to obtain the method for crafting voice-transmission talismans.
Since this Xia Ning understood talisman crafting, did he also know how to make voice-transmission talismans?
At this thought, Mo Fan’s eyes lit up.
Xia Ning absolutely could not die!
Just as he prepared to intervene and save Xia Ning, a beam of sword light suddenly poured down from where Su Ze stood!
Buzz——
Almost simultaneously, a glowing shield appeared around Su Ze’s body and blocked the sword light.
Although the shield stopped the attack, the force still sent Su Ze flying.
The beautiful woman who had been leashed by Su Ze was instantly shredded into a pulp of blood and flesh by that sword strike, gore splattering everywhere.
“Heh! So you couldn’t hold back after all?”
Su Ze landed, rolled awkwardly across the deck, yet a brilliant smile spread across his face.
Following that sword light, a column of water erupted from beneath the deck. A blue-clad figure appeared in Mo Fan’s sight.
It was a young woman in tight blue warrior garb. Her jet-black hair was tied high in a ponytail. She held a sword in both hands, her bearing valiant and heroic, instantly catching Mo Fan’s eye.
This was the first woman he had seen in this world dressed in such a distinctive style. It was completely different from the usual attire, yet it carried its own unique beauty.
She appeared to be only sixteen or seventeen. A heroic spirit shone between her brows. With sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, her features were sharp and clear. Her tall figure was wrapped in form-fitting robes that accentuated every curve, making her extraordinarily striking.
The moment she appeared, she swung her sword at the cultivator who was raising his blade to carve Xia Ning.
That cultivator sensed the danger, lifted his blade to parry, and simultaneously activated a talisman. A glowing shield instantly formed around him.
Slash!
Yet with a single downward stroke from the woman, the shield was cleaved apart. The blade in the cultivator’s hand split in two. A line of blood appeared at the centre of his forehead, running down his nose, lips, and chin…
Boom!
The next instant, the cultivator exploded, his body torn in half. Organs and intestines spilled across the deck.
“Big brother, Xia An is late. I’ll get you out of here right now!”
After killing the cultivator, the woman raised her hand and severed the ropes binding Xia Ning.
“Why did you come to save me?”
“Leave now!”
“Leave!!”
Xia Ning showed no gratitude at being rescued. He roared at Xia An, his eyes filled with despair.
“Big brother, only the two of us remain of the Xia family. How could I abandon you?”
“Even if I die, I must get you out!”
Xia An’s eyes were red, tears welling up. She stepped forward to support Xia Ning and flee.
Clap, clap, clap…!
At that moment, the sound of applause rang out.
“What a touching display of sibling love!”
“It truly brings tears to the eyes. If we were in Penglai Sacred City, this young master would definitely reward you handsomely!”
“Unfortunately… you chose to oppose this young master. Not only is there no reward, you will both leave your lives here!”
Su Ze’s cold laughter followed. He snapped his fingers and said softly, “Surround them!”
In the next instant, more than ten Su family cultivators pounced forward like starving tigers and tightly encircled the Xia siblings.
“Kill!”
Xia An growled. Her long sword swept out fiercely, slashing towards the oncoming cultivators.
The cultivators responded by unleashing water-based spells that crashed towards Xia An like a storm.
Water arrows, water blades, and water spheres crisscrossed the air in an impenetrable net of deadly force.
Xia An showed no fear. Her sword moved like gale-force winds and sudden rain, ferocious and unrelenting as she clashed fiercely with the crowd.
Her sword qi was sharp and piercing. Every stroke carried the howl of splitting wind. Sparks of water flew wherever her sword met their spells.
At the same time, Mo Fan suddenly felt the ship lighten beneath his feet. The entire vessel began to shake violently before slowly rising into the air!
It was Su Er. He had enveloped the whole ship with his immense mana and was lifting it clear of the sea.
“Xia An, this seat has raised the entire ship out of the water and sealed the vessel with mana. Even if you use the Water-Avoiding Pearl now, you cannot escape my grasp!”
“Hand over the Water-Avoiding Pearl obediently, and this seat may spare your life!”
Above the ship, Su Er hovered in the air, his right hand raised in a supporting gesture, powerful Core Formation aura radiating from him.
“You want the Water-Avoiding Pearl? Only if you let my brother and me go free. Otherwise the Su family will never get it, not in a lifetime!”
Xia An shattered a spear condensed from water with one sword stroke, lifted her head towards Su Er, and stared at him with unyielding defiance.
“Ridiculous!”
“Out on the open ocean, that Water-Avoiding Pearl lets you hide your form, and this seat could do nothing to you. But now you have no path of escape!”
“Once this seat kills you, the pearl will naturally be found on your corpse!”
Su Er laughed coldly.
“Is that so?”
“Do you think I would be naive enough to keep the Water-Avoiding Pearl on my person and just wait for death?”
“If that were true, why haven’t you attacked and killed me already?”
Xia An snorted, then turned to look at Su Ze nearby and declared in a deep voice, “I have already hidden the Water-Avoiding Pearl in the vast sea using a secret method. Without my guidance, you will never find it!”
“If you want the pearl, release my brother and me first. Otherwise there is nothing to discuss!”
