50: Chapter 50 Extreme Medication Feeding, Sword Intent Awakens

As Lu Hu let out this roar, the heavenly secret jade slip in Lu Changyuan's Sea of Consciousness lit up to its absolute limit at the exact same moment.

The Jade Slip's direction was clear and sharp—pointing directly into the depths of the tallest, most chaotic, and most dead-end-looking cluster of reefs ahead.

"Follow me!"

Without a shred of hesitation, Lu Changyuan turned and rushed toward the deepest part.

Behind them was Demon General Fuhai and hundreds of elite sea demons, while their left and right were narrow paths tightly locked in by fog and reefs; only the sliver of hope pointed to by the Jade Slip was worth gambling on.

Gamble wrong, and they die.

Gamble right, and they might still not survive immediately.

But at a time like this, there was simply no third path.

The crowd followed him, pressing inward all the way, their feet stepping on nothing but slippery reefs and narrow crevices carved out by seawater over the years. Several times, sea demons tried to use their familiarity with the water to flank them from the side and rear, but they were firmly blocked by Leng Feng and a few elite Foundation Establishment Cultivators. Still, the encirclement continued to tighten bit by bit.

The space where they could stand grew smaller and smaller.

From barely being able to spread out and face the enemy at first, they were later forced to squeeze into a single file along the reef ridge, chest to back. If anyone was half a step too slow, the people behind would be completely blocked in place.

The deeper they went, the stranger the sound of the wind became.

It felt as if the entire sea of fog was slowly rotating around a certain point, and even the sound of the waves crashing against the Reef Wall became hollow.

The next moment, Lu Changyuan, who was at the very front, suddenly paused.

There was no path ahead.

No, to be precise, it wasn't that there was no path.

Rather, in the center of the entire reef cluster, a massive deep crater had been violently smashed out by something.

The edge of the crater was filled with freshly cracked black stones, and the surrounding Reef Walls looked as if they had been violently shattered by a meteor. Even the seawater was swirling rapidly at the crater's edge, pouring inside. What was even more bizarre was that despite such a massive disturbance, not a single ordinary Yao Beast nearby dared to approach, as if they had all been repelled by a higher-level aura.

Lu Changyuan's heart skipped a beat.

He had found it.

He practically glided to the edge of the crater in a single step.

Then, he saw the white figure at the bottom of the crater.

It was a woman.

Her white clothes had long been soaked in blood, and half of her sleeve was shredded. Yet even so, it could not hide her otherworldly grace, which was so cold it felt almost unreal. She lay quietly among the rubble at the bottom of the crater, like a world-class sword broken into the mud. Though her aura was so weak it could fade at any moment, a lingering, fierce sharpness remained, making people dare not look directly at her.

There were wounds on her brow, shoulder, and lower abdomen.

The most severe wound had almost completely pierced through her entire right ribcage and abdomen.

And lingering within that wound was not just the emptiness left after the collapse of spiritual power, but also an extremely sinister and troublesome foreign killing intent. Like countless tiny iron needles, it kept drilling deep into her Meridians and Dantian.

A Golden Core Sword Immortal.

Even though she was injured to such an extent, Lu Changyuan could tell at a single glance.

Because this level of sharpness and pressure was simply not something a Foundation Establishment Cultivator could fake.

But precisely because he understood, he knew all the more how perilous the current situation was.

She wasn't dead yet.

But she was close.

And behind them, Demon General Fuhai had clearly also sensed the anomaly here.

Leading its remaining forces, it smashed through the last few narrow paths. When it caught sight of the white-clothed figure at the bottom of the crater from afar, its pupils shrank violently. It might not know exactly who this woman was, but its instincts told it that Lu Changyuan's gamble in rushing here was definitely not for some ordinary Opportunity.

Thus, in the next instant, the killing intent in its eyes grew even stronger.

"Kill them!"

"Mince that woman to pieces along with them!"

The elite sea demons immediately lunged forward frantically once more.

Stepping onto the narrowest section of the reef ridge outside the crater's edge, Lu Hu turned and slashed down a sea demon that had lunged first, roaring hoarsely, "Form a formation! Do not let any of them down into the crater!"

Leng Feng said nothing, directly guarding the other side.

Shi Jian and the other elite Foundation Establishment Cultivators tightly held the narrowest footholds, using the reef ridge as a wall to block the swarming sea demons outside the crater.

But everyone knew that this blocking could not last long.

They had too few people.

While the opposition was Demon General Fuhai plus hundreds of elites.

Not to mention that Demon General Fuhai's main body had not yet truly lunged forward.

Lu Changyuan could no longer worry about them.

Leaping down to the bottom of the crater, he knelt beside the white-clothed woman. He first felt her neck, then checked her Qi Sea, and his face instantly darkened further.

Her aura was dissipating too quickly.

Inside her body, a foreign killing intent was still entangled with her Golden Core Origin.

Ordinary Spirit Pills wouldn't be able to suppress it at all.

They might not even be able to buy her another half an hour.

The only thing that could still pull her back from the brink of death was this last lotus seed of the nine-leaf world-purifying lotus.

Lu Changyuan did not hesitate in the slightest.

From the moment the Jade Slip lit up, he had actually already decided the destination of this lotus seed.

But when the moment actually arrived and his fingers touched the cold jade box, he still felt an almost instinctive pang of heartache.

Because this was no ordinary treasure.

This was a divine medicine capable of refining one's Foundation, forcibly raising one's Realm, and practically serving as a second life in his hands.

Now, however, he had to feed it to a stranger he had never met before.

Was it worth it?

Of course it was.

Lu Changyuan knew this better than anyone.

So he did not let himself hesitate at all.

With a snap, the cold jade box opened, and the jade-white lotus seed instantly emitted a faint but extremely pure white light. As soon as the light appeared, even the surging blood qi and killing intent at the bottom of the crater seemed to be slightly cleansed and weakened.

But at that very same moment, a deafening boom echoed from outside the crater.

Demon General Fuhai had finally lunged forward in person.

It had lost one main tentacle, but the remaining seven were still as thick as giant pillars. When they slammed down furiously, the entire Reef Wall shook. The temporary defensive line formed by Lu Hu and the others was nearly shattered in a single blow, and Shi Jian let out a muffled groan, blood immediately spilling from the corner of his mouth.

"Master!"

Lu Hu gritted his teeth to withstand the second strike, his voice growing hoarse from the sheer exertion. "Hurry!"

Lu Changyuan stopped looking outside the crater.

Supporting the white-clothed woman with one hand, he used his other hand to bring the lotus seed directly to her lips.

But her breath was too weak; she didn't even have the strength to swallow on her own.

Lu Changyuan's eyes darkened. With a slight tremor of his fingertips, he used his true essence to dissolve the lotus seed into a semi-liquid state, then forced it into her mouth. Immediately after, he poured his own true essence unreservedly into her Meridians line by line, helping her dissolve the medicine's power and suppress the dying flame of her life.

Boom!

As soon as the medicinal power of the lotus seed entered her body, the woman's aura, which had been so weak it was almost extinguished, finally fluctuated.

But it was not enough.

The nine-leaf world-purifying lotus was indeed overbearing, but her injuries were too severe, and the foreign killing intent inside her was too ferocious. If no external force helped her forcibly clear the first path for the medicine, more than half of the lotus seed's power might be wasted in vain.

Lu Changyuan gritted his teeth, directly pressing his index and middle fingers three inches above her heart, sending his true essence rushing along the most dangerous, injured meridian.

A sharp pain rebounded from his fingertips all the way back to his own Dantian.

This was not healing an ordinary Cultivator.

Rather, it was forcibly nudging the Origin of a Golden Core Sword Immortal that was on the verge of shattering.

With the slightest carelessness, he himself could be severely injured by the backlash of her remaining Sword Intent and killing intent.

Yet, Lu Changyuan held on.

However, the situation outside the crater was already on the verge of collapse.

The reef ridge under the feet of Lu Hu and the others was not wide to begin with. Now, with hundreds of sea demons crashing against it one after another, it was covered in blood almost everywhere. Leng Feng's left shoulder was pierced on the spot by a poisonous spine, yet as if he couldn't feel it, he backhanded a sword strike to slice off half of that sea demon's head. Shi Jian was holding the very front, his shield cracked, yet he was still using his body to block the gap.

But the most terrifying of all was still Demon General Fuhai.

It had clearly also realized that Lu Changyuan was saving someone, making it increasingly irritable. After several failed charges, it actually retreated half a zhang, curling its remaining tentacles together to concentrate all its power into its sharpest bone spur.

That bone spur was already long.

Now, infused with demon power, it actually surged in length by another section, its entire body emitting a spine-chilling, pale white glow.

As soon as Lu Hu saw that thing, his face changed.

"Block it!"

Almost everyone lunged forward at the same time.

But it was already too late.

Demon General Fuhai paid no more attention to the Cultivators blocking the path along the crater's edge. Instead, it twisted its demonic body, aiming its sharpest bone spur at the two at the bottom of the crater, letting out a screeching laugh.

"This general will send you on your way together first!"

In the next instant, the bone spur tore through the air and descended.

The air itself seemed to be violently torn open.

On Lu Changyuan's side, he had just pushed the medicinal power of the lotus seed past the first barrier of her heart Meridians at the most critical moment. He didn't even have time to look up; he could only instinctively shield the white-clothed woman with one hand while swinging his sword back to parry with the other.

But he knew very well in his heart.

He couldn't fully block this strike.

The next moment, the bone spur was right before his eyes.

And at this very instant, where life and death hung by a thread, the eyelashes of the white-clothed woman in Lu Changyuan's arms, whose eyes had been tightly shut, suddenly trembled ever so slightly.

Immediately after, her eyes, stained with faint traces of blood, suddenly snapped open.

In that instant, there were no collapsing mountains or roaring tsunamis.

Nor was there any earth-shattering boom.

There was only a terrifying Sword Intent, cold to the extreme and sharp to the extreme, as if it could slice the very sky in two, quietly rising from the bottom of the crater.

And then, it surged violently into the heavens.