Chapter 215 - 82: Dragon Bloodline (Part 2)
Yue Jinghua breathed softly through the narrow slits that had appeared at both sides of her ears, resembling the gills of a fish, which flapped open and closed as she dived deeper with each kick.
She was now at a depth of nearly fifty zhang in the sea, and what facilitated her smooth descent was not the breath-holding method of the Demon Clan as Jue Shang had instructed, but a special Spiritual Treasure she applied.
A dim blue pearl, which Yue Jinghua was currently holding in her mouth, was none other than the Mermaid Blue Pearl she had obtained after killing Lihua Xue in Dan Demon Tomb earlier.
Yue Jinghua had also dived using the method taught by Jue Shang, but soon she discovered that this breath-holding technique could only take her down forty or fifty zhang at most, making it impossible to enter the deep-sea areas, let alone the location of the Undersea Windmill Workshop at a depth of three hundred zhang.
On the contrary, this Mermaid Blue Pearl that Yue Jinghua carefully treasured proved to be very useful at a critical time.
Although it was unclear how Lihua Xue came by this Mermaid Blue Pearl, the most likely possibility was that it was crafted by her so-called Thousand-Handed Yama uncle.
The Mermaid Blue Pearl, formed from the tears of a centennial merfolk, could heal wounds when applied externally, and when held in the mouth, it could help a person grow "Mimetic Gills" in the deep sea, allowing one to breathe freely no matter how deep they went.
However, there was a significant drawback to the Mermaid Blue Pearl: once it was held in the mouth, one would be unable to use Dark Techniques, otherwise the seawater would rush in and choke the person to death.
After emerging from the Thousand Swords and Ten Thousand Intentions Formation, Yue Jinghua began holding the Jiao Lan Pearl in her mouth, observing the situation from the deep to the shallow exile sea on the seabed.
To her disappointment, she quickly found out that part of what Jue Shang said was true—the upper sky and the bottom of the Senluo Sea were impossible to fly over or traverse.
She once used a Fourth-level Dark Pill as bait to lure the Gold Eater Worm into the high sky, but as the creature flew up, it encountered an invisible gas and was struck so hard it saw stars and nearly fell into the sea to be drowned, lamenting its fate.
Unable to fly, Yue Jinghua attempted to probe the range of nearby seas; the area where Jue Shang was imprisoned extended about ten sea miles in both directions.