Chapter 48: A Feint Attack
The Saintess preliminaries ended, and, as expected, the three Saintess Candidates all made it into the top sixteen.
The other selected members were mostly the predicted elite seeds. Those with high-rank spirit beasts, like Lei Ji, had stable rankings.
She had fully revealed her high-rank spirit beast during the preliminaries: the weapon-type, Dance of Thunder.
The Dance of Thunder resembled a folding fan, capable of unleashing devastating lightning with a flick of the wrist.
Meanwhile, Gong Lianyue completed her study of the Lost Scroll, making, as was typical, no progress whatsoever.
The Sea Concubine Palace higher-ups considered this to be perfectly normal. The Lost Scroll didn’t care about talent or spirit beasts. Who knew, maybe it was actually a pervert attracted to certain body types~~
After resting for a few days, she asked Shui Qinghou for 1000 contribution points for spending money and bought ten more Life Fruits.
The final round of the Saintess ceremony officially began.
Inside a Sea Halberd Behemoth, the blue-haired, teardrop-eyed girl sat with her legs folded, sensing the silver Steel Moon within her soul core.
After finishing her study of the Lost Scroll, she had immediately researched it, only to find that the Ice Shield Palace’s progress on this page seemed to be even less than her own…
They had spent centuries just to extract the five characters [Heavenly Full Cold Moon of]. Of course, they could be deliberately withholding information.
After all, once the next character [Steel] was revealed, everyone could deduce the rest of the title based on the Cold Court’s progress, revealing the type of page it was.
The Cold Court, possessing a page from the same scroll, had already deciphered more than ten characters, revealing the title of their page:
[Flower Moon Chapter of the Heavenly Full Cold Moon]
Shui Qinghou had warned her that the people of the Cold Court were schemers and wouldn’t reveal their true progress.
Although a dozen characters seemed like a lot, unlike the Ice Shield Palace, which was busy defending the Sea Region’s borders, they were researching day and night. Their actual progress might be fifty or sixty characters.
They used the carefully chosen word “deciphering,” claiming to be deciphering the scroll for the entire Sea Region.
If Gong Lianyue hadn’t extracted eight characters herself, she might have actually believed them.
The characters on the scroll itself were meaningless. Only the Spirit Master who extracted them experienced any changes, like the Steel Moon currently residing within her soul core.
Otherwise, why wouldn’t they just make thousands of copies for everyone to study…?
However, the Cold Court had provided one crucial piece of information: based on the characters they had deciphered, the Lost Scroll, Heavenly Full Cold Moon, contained a total of ten chapters. The Ice Shield Palace’s Steel Moon Chapter and the Cold Court’s Flower Moon Chapter were just two of them. The remaining eight were still lost.
“Whew~~~~”
Gong Lianyue exhaled a stream of cold air, a strange glint in her teardrop eyes.
After several days of study, she had discovered the Steel Moon’s function: it could temper her soul and will.
The heavy aura of steel made it incredibly difficult to channel her spirit energy, like wearing invisible shackles. But it was like weight training for her soul core, constantly honing it, making it stronger, more resilient, and longer-lasting.
In just a few days, her soul core’s resilience had greatly improved. She might even be able to extract two characters at once next time she entered the scroll’s world.
With the double resilience of her Dual Soul Body, her speed of deciphering the scroll was practically cheating, surpassing the Cold Court’s centuries of progress in just a few days.
The Steel Moon Chapter, tempering the will, making one’s spirit energy as heavy as steel.
She wondered what the Flower Moon Chapter could do…
[All Sea Concubine Palace members, prepare yourselves. We are about to enter the Wind Valley.]
The sudden telepathic message from her teacher startled Gong Lianyue. What?
They had only been traveling for ten minutes. They hadn’t even left the Sea Concubine Palace’s territory, right? How could they have bypassed the Ice Shield Palace and reached the Wind Valley already?
It took three days for a Sea Halberd Behemoth to travel from the Sea Concubine Palace to the Ice Shield Palace!
Suddenly realizing something, Gong Lianyue’s surprise turned to a strange feeling.
Meanwhile, the giant whale swimming swiftly across the ocean suddenly stopped.
A hundred meters ahead, a massive, deep blue eyeball emerged from the sea, the swirling water patterns on its surface resembling the entrance to the Sea Abyss Secret Realm.
The Sea Region’s unique technology—an extra-large secret realm teleportation node.
By entering a secret realm through one entrance and exiting through another, they could instantly travel to a different location.
The Sea Concubine Palace hadn’t mentioned using this method. They must have been trying to prevent leaks.
The Storm Realm would never have guessed that the Sea Concubine Palace would use secret realm teleportation to bypass a three-day journey. This method was usually reserved for emergency reinforcements and consumed a massive amount of spirit crystals. It was incredibly extravagant…
The Storm Realm must still be preparing for a battle in three or four days. This surprise attack would surely catch them off guard.
If there was a spy, they must be panicking right now.
Having relayed false information, they might have inadvertently caused heavy casualties in the Storm Realm.
Whoosh!
With a flash of blinding light from the deep blue vortex, the massive Sea Halberd Behemoth was sucked in and vanished from the ocean’s surface.
The vortex gradually dissipated, the churning waves calming down.
When the behemoth reappeared, it was at the very front lines of the Ice Shield Palace—the Wind Valley!
“Ah, this…”
“This is… a feint attack!!”
This time, not only the enemy but even the Sea Concubine Palace members had been deceived.
After the attack on Fallen Whale Island, the Sea Concubine Palace had become incredibly cautious!!!
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