The seabed of the Boundless Sea.

Sikong Jiu suddenly froze and said, "The jellyfish's tentacles moved just now, and did you hear the laughter of a little girl? It's creepy."

"Stop trying to fool me."

"It's true!"

Sikong Jiu was anxious.

Ever since he entered the Boundless Sea, the Colossal Jellyfish beast hadn't moved at all, except for digesting the Samsara Sea within.

But just now, a tentacle moved slightly, the very one that The Supreme Emperor entered, and an eerie laughter of a little girl was heard.

Qingfeng Sword pondered, "Are you sure?"

"I swear!"

Sikong Jiu looked at the almost transparent tentacle, but unfortunately, inside it was neither The Supreme Emperor nor the teardrop-mole woman holding a little girl's soul.

Sikong Jiu looked worried.

It turned out that batch of souls had been completely devoured by the jellyfish beast, and now there was another batch.

It's uncertain whether a strand of The Supreme Emperor's soul escaped or faced disaster.

"Why don't you go have a look?" Sikong Jiu suggested.

"Why don't you go in?"

"I am ordered by The Supreme Emperor to guard this monster, not allowing it to leave the Boundless Sea! If I leave, who can take on this responsibility!"

"Me."

"..."

Sikong Jiu was speechless and whispered, "Actually, if I go in, I might just slow down The Supreme Emperor, but you are different…"

"Are you one of Tiangui Yuan Ying's people?"

Qingfeng Sword said leisurely, "Trying to fool me into entering, and meanwhile, doing something to Xu Qingfeng's body."

"???"

Sikong Jiu was too angry to talk to Qingfeng Sword anymore.

Really.

He was too foolish.

He shouldn't have had any expectations from Qingfeng Sword right from the start; this guy's line of thinking isn't normal!

Wait a minute.

This might not even be human...

As Sikong Jiu vented internally.

Inside the jellyfish beast.

Accompanied by laughter, the soul of the little girl in the woman's arms opened her eyes, smiling at Xu Lai.

"Hehe."

The little girl kept laughing.

The teardrop-mole woman's eyes regained their maternal glow and said joyfully, "Nannan, you're awake, you finally woke up."

"Mother, he's a bad person, I'm scared." The little girl pointed to Xu Lai, showing a scared expression.

"Nannan, don't be afraid, I'm here."

The teardrop-mole woman held her daughter tightly, retreating several steps to what she believed was a safe distance, looking wary.

"Do you know what evil deeds the little girl in your arms has done?"

Xu Lai said calmly, "She severed the reincarnation paths of countless souls, her sins are immense."

"Your hands are not necessarily cleaner than mine."

The little girl said pitifully, "The Karmic Tribulation is about to fall, how long can you hold out, why trouble me?"

Xu Lai laughed, "You see, she's not just a six-year-old girl."

"She's my daughter, Nannan!"

The teardrop-mole woman's emotions broke down, yelling hysterically.

Xu Lai's smile faded; he didn't know what the teardrop-mole woman's soul experienced in her previous life nor did he have the time to find out.

But the little girl must be killed quickly.

She is most likely the consciousness created by the jellyfish beast.

"Whoosh—"

Xu Lai suddenly moved.

The teardrop-mole woman stared blankly; Xu Lai's figure suddenly disappeared from her vision. When she realized what had happened, it was already too late.

She saw her daughter in her arms curling up in pain and crying, "Mother, it hurts, it hurts a lot."

The teardrop-mole woman lowered her head, panic appeared on her face as she saw a crack appear between her daughter's brows, her soul's body fainted further.

"No, no!"

The teardrop-mole woman's eyes were filled with tears, wanting to hold her daughter tightly but the harder she tried, the faster her daughter in her arms vanished.

In just two breaths, the little girl's soul disappeared completely.

"Give me back my daughter!"

The teardrop-mole woman's eyes turned blood red, frantically throwing herself at Xu Lai, clearly wanting to avenge her daughter.

Xu Lai looked coldly.

Bear in mind, this strand of his soul cannot exert the full strength of the Emperor Realm.

The beast's consciousness inside the beast body comparable to the Emperor Realm was struck dead by a mere finger from him? How is that possible!

So the jellyfish beast's consciousness most likely fled.

As for the attack of the teardrop-mole woman's soul, not even fifty meters close to Xu Lai, instead with her continuous attack, the soul showed signs of collapsing.

After all, it is an Emperor Realm soul.

Even though Xu Lai deliberately isolated a safe distance, trying to prevent his aura from harming any soul in the Samsara Sea, the invisible pressure was unbearable for the teardrop-mole woman.

"You can't leave, you mustn't leave, give me back my daughter, Nannan... my Nannan!!!"

The teardrop-mole woman's voice rose sharply, piercing enough to almost scatter this strand of Xu Lai's soul, his expression finally becoming grave.

He stooped down.

Stared directly at the teardrop-mole woman, but at that moment she suddenly froze, bowing her head, kneeling on the Bridge of Forgetfulness.

And at this moment.

Countless tentacles suspended above the Samsara Sea simultaneously stopped swinging, turning into one face.

All of them displaying the visage of the teardrop-mole woman!

They continued to shout angrily, "Give me back my daughter, give me back my Nannan…"

Over and over.

Time and again.

The myriad voices within the self-contained world of the jellyfish beast grew increasingly synchronized, ultimately converging into one:

"Give me back my daughter!"

"Puff—"

This strand of Xu Lai's soul directly exploded.

...

...

At the seabed of the Boundless Sea.

Blood seeped from the corner of Xu Lai's mouth, caught by his external form, the sight instantly made Sikong Jiu tense up, and Qingfeng Sword was also fully on guard.

"Hu."

Xu Lai opened his eyes, gently wiped away the blood from the corner of his mouth, and laughed self-deprecatingly.

It turns out.

The problem wasn't with the little girl's soul, but rather with the soul of the teardrop-mole woman.

The final sonic wave was an Emperor Realm-level Divine Sense attack, which his strand of soul simply couldn't withstand.

"Why are you hurt, why didn't the strand of your soul from The Supreme Emperor come out?" Sikong Jiu asked urgently.

"It perished inside."

"..."

Sikong Jiu drew a breath sharply.

Somewhat frustrated, "I told you not to go in, but you wouldn't listen to me, ah! Don't poke, don't poke anymore!!"

After punching dozens of holes, Qingfeng Sword finally let Sikong Jiu off, speaking lazily, "Not getting injured for tens of thousands of years, how does it feel?"

"Not very good."

"Before Ruan Tang came, she asked me to give you a message."

"What did my wife say?"

"I forgot."

"..."

Xu Lai helplessly, "Stop messing around, quickly tell me."

"She deciphered the eleventh to seventeenth Cloud Water Rust Characters, six of them are empty. The only character that isn't empty is a rune, similar to the Cloud Water Rust Characters… I can't record it."

"Why didn't you say it earlier?" Xu Lai rubbed his eyebrow.

"You didn't ask."

Qingfeng Sword said lightly, "Besides, you didn't give me a chance to speak, you just went straight into the jellyfish's body."

"Is it The Supreme Emperor's fault then?"

Sikong Jiu, rubbing the holes in his body, replied in a resentful tone.

"What else."

"Hey!"

Sikong Jiu provokingly, "The Supreme Emperor, how can one treat their master's Emperor Artifact like this? I suggest—"

"Ah! I am the Heavenly Dao, it's sacrilegious to act against the Heavenly Dao... You're doomed; this instrument is ruined! Don't, I, the esteemed lady, was wrong..."