"Indeed, the formation that previously could block my divine sense is truly extraordinary..."

Mu Jinyu said softly, then stepped across the plaza, slowly ascending to the front of the Sea God Altar.

"Show me your true face, Mount Lu!"

Mu Jinyu's eyes gleamed with a sharp light as he stood with his hands behind his back, his divine sense slowly invading the life-sized Mermaid statue!

"Buzz!"

"Sizzle!"

As Mu Jinyu's divine sense penetrated into the statue, he immediately saw a deep blue light orb flickering with radiance inside!

"Boom!!"

While Mu Jinyu was gazing at this blue light, the light appeared to notice the signs of foreign invasion and exploded abruptly!

The sky filled with dazzling blue light flickered incessantly, Mu Jinyu felt as though he was an ant standing on a leaf, amidst a furious sea, feeling helpless, as if he might be torn apart by the ocean at any moment!

"Squeak!"

At this moment, a peerless beauty of a mermaid appeared in the raging sea; her lower half showcased a magnificent tail, scales gleaming with nine colors, while the skin of her upper body was tender and snowy white like milk. Her beautiful face bore cold and proud purple eyes, with deep blue hair cascading down to her waist and hips, gently floating as she moved.

She wore a crown indicating her extraordinary status and held a trident similar yet distinctly different from the previous mermaid.

"Die!"

The Sea God issued a cold shout, stepping on the waves towards Mu Jinyu, who was weakened, waving the trident that gleamed coldly as it stabbed rapidly toward him!

"Ha!"

At the critical moment, Mu Jinyu's gaze focused, breaking free from the helpless feeling, then raised his hand to confront the incoming sharpness.

"Bang!"

Immediately, Qi Force erupted, the ocean exploded, and pillars of water shot up to the sky!

"Clang!"

"Clang!!"

"Boom!!"

Mu Jinyu remained composed, continuously raising his hand to battle the Mermaid Sea God, finally delivering a powerful blow that sent the trident flying, then advanced swiftly, seizing the thin, swan-like neck with a grip, and with a "crack," twisted it!

"Boom!!"

The vast, perilous raging sea dissipated instantly.

The blue world in front of Mu Jinyu gradually faded, returning to the view of the Sea God Altar.

"Click-click-click..."

As Mu Jinyu withdrew his divine sense and the Sea God Spirit Sacrifice was annihilated, this Sea God statue sculpted from an unknown material started to crack.

Soon, the mermaid sculpture proudly standing with a trident was covered with cracks, seemingly about to explode thoroughly the next second.

Yet in the end, it remained unbroken.

Mu Jinyu noticed that after battling and finally defeating the Sea God Spirit Sacrifice, the Three-Leaf Youlian in his body began to shimmer with a mysterious glow again.

"Drop!"

Quickly, the Three-Leaf Youlian accumulated a deep blue droplet, which then fell into Mu Jinyu's Dantian.

"Hmm, it's not a black droplet?"

Seeing this within himself, Mu Jinyu immediately understood that his previous guess was correct.

The black droplet formed by swallowing the black mist didn't mean the Three-Leaf Youlian can only condense black droplets by consuming other spiritual objects.

The current deep blue droplet was clearly condensed by devouring the Sea God Spirit Sacrifice.

Yet what special function could this deep blue droplet have?

Just as Mu Jinyu was about to test the effects of the deep blue droplet, a booming sound shook him out of his Early Fourth Layer Hedao Realm cultivation, ignited by the droplet falling into his Dantian.

"Buzz!"

The cyan Golden Core floating within his Dantian slightly spun, absorbing the deep blue droplet, and Mu Jinyu's cultivation advanced to the Mid Fourth Layer Hedao Realm!

"I can't believe my cultivation broke through!"

Witnessing this occurrence, Mu Jinyu couldn't help but feel thrilled.

Now he finally understood how the Rugens utilized Yu Shenfeng's essence blood for Sea God worship to reach such heights in their cultivation.

Indeed, the Sea God Altar truly possesses such effects.

However, they performed sacrifices to the Sea God for favor in contrast, while he obliterated the Sea God Spirit Sacrifice, using it as Spiritual Medicine to elevate his cultivation!

"Drop!"

"Drop!"

Then, the Three-Leaf Youlian consecutively let drop several deep blue droplets.

Mu Jinyu counted, absorbing a total of thirteen droplets.

His cultivation thereby progressed from Mid Fourth Layer Hedao Realm, edging towards the Fifth Layer Hedao Realm.

Mu Jinyu felt greatly pleased, unexpectedly making such gains while searching for Yu Shenfeng.

This journey was undoubtedly worthwhile!

"Click-click-click..."

"Buzz..."

Right at this moment, an intense sound of a door opening suddenly echoed.

Immersed in elation, whilst hoping for more deep blue droplets from the Three-Leaf Youlian, Mu Jinyu listened to the noise, lifting his head to look.

He saw the large red lacquer doors at the back of the altar slowly pushing open, as if someone was going to emerge.

"Hmm?"

Mu Jinyu's eyes narrowed, his joyful expression calmed, turning serious.

He pondered, could there be someone inside this palace?

Or perhaps, the most crucial aspect of this Sea God Palace isn't the altar but what's within the palace? Or is the Sea God Altar meant to restrain something from escaping within the palace?

Hence, the Rugens didn't dare to venture inside recklessly, only performed rituals at the altar, and now, after unintentionally damaging the altar, causing the restraint to collapse, something within is finally attempting to escape?

Mu Jinyu speculated but felt no fear.

Though his expression became slightly more cautious.

"Boom!"

Finally, the red lacquer doors opened.

Within, Mu Jinyu saw over a dozen pale blue mermaids like the Sea God Spirit Sacrifice, seemingly ethereal and appearing more like soul bodies...

"Swoosh!"

They moved stiffly and slowly, yet holding identical colored weapons—be it sword, knife, spear, or bow—launching an attack on Mu Jinyu.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

Mu Jinyu formed the Fist Seal, forcefully resisting, but couldn't shatter the incoming arrows, instead feeling a sharp pain in his head.

"These are actually soul-based attacks?!"

Mu Jinyu's expression subtly changed, realizing the situation became tricky.

Until now, he acquired a single magic treasure defending against soul attacks, which was destroyed later, and never found a Cultivation Technique enhancing the soul.

Thus, the soul aspect has been his weakness.

Indeed, with the mystical Little Tree in his Sea of Consciousness, he currently had no worries, yet Mu Jinyu wasn't certain if the mystical Little Tree would remain permanently, so he continuously sought to patch up this weak point.

Unfortunately, had no success.

Currently enduring these mermaids' soul attacks, defense became challenging, had the mystical Little Tree not been present, retreat would be his only option, but with the Little Tree, likely it'd deal with them.

"Buzz!"

Sure enough, as Mu Jinyu felt head pain and slight soul damage, the mystical Little Tree slightly shook its leaves, then scattered sparkling light, nurturing his soul.

Subsequently, the mystical Little Tree seemed to be incensed, extending a branch from Mu Jinyu's Sea of Consciousness, like divine lightning, instantly wiping out the advancing dozen Mermaid Ghosts.

Moreover, it absorbed their divine soul power, converting it to nourishment, consuming some itself, and using another portion to nurture Mu Jinyu's soul.

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