But he must speak boldly: "I originally wanted to check the upside down lake. Doesn't Huanzong plan to ambush us here? Give them a chance!"
His calmness and calmness inspired those around him. But Bai Ziqi knew that the difficulty of digging a hole this time was much more difficult than before. If he was not careful, there was a high possibility that he would fall into the sand.
God Miaozhan has made it clear that the large-scale magical "time trick" used to protect the fleet cannot be repeated in a short time. In the illusion of others, it is obviously difficult for the gods to use their divine power.
If the Topsy-turvy Sea raises another tsunami, or some large-scale magical power that is difficult to control manually, Bai Ziqi's fleet may suffer heavy losses.
Before this situation occurs, he must lead his men to land on Silver Pearl Island as soon as possible to prevent the opponent from slowing down and launching another big move.
Huan Zong has the last resort of Huan Zong, and Bai Ziqi also has urgency that Bai Ziqi cannot describe.
The upside-down lake that opened the reef has turned into a large irregular polygonal bay. Of course the fleet wants to dock nearby. There are stone beaches all along the lake. The pebbles are white in color and the lake bed has a gentle slope, making it suitable for berthing.
The characteristic here is silence. As soon as the fleet sails in, it feels like entering Longtan. There is no noise around, even the wind has calmed down, and there is only the gurgling sound of paddling.
Despite the blessing of the spell, the ship still moved slower and slower, as if it was dragging a heavy weight underneath.
Standing on the side of the ship and looking down, the water surface is sparkling and nothing strange can be seen. However, if you switch the perspective to below the water surface and shine a light, the scene in front of you will definitely make everyone's hair stand on end:
The bottom of every big ship, below the water line, is crawling!
If you look carefully, you will see that they are not water plants, but densely packed monsters.
Some are like humans, some are not like humans, some have three eyes, some have two gills, some are like humans but have pointed ears and bald heads, some have dark blue skin and are covered with fish scales...
In short, the appearance is very abstract, but without exception they are ugly.
No matter who encounters them in the deep water, it will be like having a nightmare.
These things are shuttled back and forth on the bottom of the lake, with more and more numbers, and the ones attached to the bottom of the ship are getting denser and denser. For example, Bai Ziqi's main ship even has two thick layers attached to the bottom.
In order to compete for a little space, they even fight with each other.
The ship originally had multiple protective formations, which did not allow them to run rampant like this. Unfortunately, just after receiving several rounds of baptism of great magical powers from the Fantasy Sect, the formations were basically destroyed. There was no time to replenish them, and these monsters did not attack, so the people on the ship actually
Not aware of anything.
But they were all lying on the bottom of the boat, making the boat very heavy.
General Luodian ordered his men: "Have someone go to the bottom of the ship to see if there is anything slowing down the ship."
The Luodian people were mainly land soldiers, and few knew how to swim. The unlucky ones who were selected had no choice but to swim in the water.
Then he left and never came back.
While everyone was waiting, there was movement at the sterns of the last two large ships:
The water monster quietly climbed up along the hull of the boat. A sentry happened to be worried and walked to the stern of the boat to release the water. While untying his belt, he looked down and suddenly met a pair of big copper bell eyes!
"Ah..." He was startled, and just as he was about to draw the knife, he was dragged down.
But the sound alarmed the companions after all. As soon as they drew their weapons, they saw monsters one after another emerging from the stern of the ship. They were strange, ferocious and ugly, rushing up like a tide.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" The warning bell rang on one ship after another, because the water monsters launched an attack almost at the same time.
Of the fourteen large ships, not a single one was left behind, all were visited by water monsters.
The warriors brought by Tiangong are all well-trained soldiers. They are very brave and can chop off a monster's head with just one move of the sword. The individual combat power of these monsters is indeed not as good as them, but the number is outrageous!
They climbed up from the water along the hull, like an army of ants rushing towards their prey, densely packed and endless!
Each large ship has hundreds of soldiers, but it can pack thousands of water monsters into it!
Each warrior can cut off one head, five heads, or even thirty heads, but can he cut off a hundred heads?
It is said that the number of ants bites the elephant to death, and this is the most vivid portrayal.
In less than a quarter of an hour since the war started, dozens of soldiers were exposed when they were besieged, and were accidentally dragged down, and then——
Then it was shattered to pieces, and even the screams could not last more than seven or eight breaths.
The worst thing is that he was not dead for a while, but watched his belly being opened, his intestines, liver and stomach being torn out, becoming a living meat for monsters to fight for!
"Gather the deck, don't be left alone!" the generals roared one after another, "Form up a formation to deal with them!"
Five magicians on a large ship worked together to cast spells and released more than ten fire crows. Their bodies were covered in flames and steaming. As long as they flew around the ship, countless water monsters were ignited by the real fire and fell into the water screaming.
Every time they fly around, they can clear out a large wave of monsters.
But the problem is that the water monsters are not afraid of death. They come one after another and cannot kill them all.
Could it be that the bottom of the upside-down lake is directly connected to hell, so that monsters can be transported to the ship in a steady stream?
Bai Ziqi's ship received special attention from the water monster. Other ships had a thousand ships, but his ship had a base of two thousand. However, his defense force was the strongest. As long as everyone gathered their defenses, the monster would not be able to break through.
"Yaksha!" Bai Ziqi frowned after seeing these monsters clearly.
Isn't this the man-eating monster Yasha that the fishermen call it? Every time the storm wall disappears, they may rush out of the Upside Down Lake to do evil. But this time they are not looking for bad luck on mortals, but on the Celestial Palace team.
Bai Ziqi looked back at the fleet. Every ship was densely packed with water monsters. His main ship had the most, and there was not even a gap to get in outside the defense circle.
A rough estimate is that there are at least 20,000 monsters emerging from the water.
Even the Tiangong team had no choice but to reduce their numbers in the face of them. If this number of water monsters were released on Silver Pearl Island, they would probably eat all the living people to extinction!
There are only about 100,000 civilians on Yinzhu Island in total.
Bai Ziqi heard from fishermen that the most terrifying water monster attack in history was just over 2,000 monsters that came out of the lake together, causing the death of more than 30,000 people on Yinzhu Island!
Why did the number of water monsters out of the lake increase more than ten times as soon as the Tiangong team arrived?
Bai Ziqi became interested and waved to his Bai Weiyi: "Drag that body over here! Yes, just drag it over here."
Bai Wei just killed a seven-foot-tall water monster. This thing looked like a human, with upright legs, green skin and protruding eyes. It had a big mouth that could reach behind the ears and had rows of yellow teeth that turned outwards.
Bai Ziqi put on his gloves and cut it to the end, then performed a thoracotomy and disembowelment. The monster did not bleed, but white foam came out.
He grabbed the muscles on both sides of the knife edge and pushed them apart.
The feeling this time was wrong. It didn't have the firmness and toughness of flesh and blood. Instead, it felt like rotten meat that had been left for more than ten days. It was soft and slippery, with a hole poking through it.
After the monster's chest was opened, everyone was shocked when they saw it:
His internal organs were also foaming, and his abdominal cavity was filled with water.
In just a few breaths, the digestive tract melted away before everyone's eyes, like ice melting into water.
In less than half a cup of tea, the entire monster had melted, leaving no residue behind. The deck was covered with water stains and foam.
However, a thin, shallow gray mist that was invisible to the human eye also rose from the monster's body and drifted away from the boat.
It was unlucky. It was illuminated by the lantern as soon as it appeared. Bai Ziqi pulled out a piece of hair, burned it lightly in the golden fire of the lantern, and threw it towards the gray fog.
With a swish, the hair turned into a thin rope, automatically binding the gray mist.
Gray fog struggled desperately, but to no avail. Bai Ziqi pulled it over to take a look, and then smoked it with a lantern, and the thing's true identity was revealed:
ghost.
He is a dead soul whose whole body is swollen and whose faces are all squeezed together.
Bai Qiqi said as soon as he saw it: "It's a water ghost!"
There is actually a drowned ghost living in Yaksha's body?
Bai Ziqi threw it to the lamp spirit and said, "Here comes another one."
Another water monster was dragged over for autopsy and examination.
The situation is exactly the same, it begins to turn into water as soon as it dies, from the inside to the outside, and in the end nothing is left.
No wonder the people of Yinzhu Island couldn't figure out the structure of these monsters for so many years. Their existence after death was so short that even Bai Ziqi didn't have time to do an autopsy.
In this body, a dead soul also floated.
Bai Ziqi understood and pointed to Yaksha on the boat: "Go!"
The lantern suddenly grew bigger and dragged its long tail around the boat.
Under the golden light, everyone discovered that there was a little gray mist coming out of the bodies of the newly dead Yashas. They rolled over the side of the ship and quickly fell into the bottom of the upside down lake.
Bai Ziqi took off his gloves and shook his head: "What Yaksha? They are all Qianhuan's puppets."
This is not a natural living creature!
So here comes the question, why does Qianhuan release this kind of monster to Yinzhu Island on a regular basis?
Before he could finish his thought, there was an unusual sound of wind coming from above. Then several white guards shouted: "Sir, be careful, water monsters can fly!"
A water monster swooped down from the sail and went straight for Bai Ziqi.
The lantern spirit soared into the sky with a "hoo" sound, turned into a sharp arrow, and pierced through in one fell swoop.
After it fell to the deck, everyone raised their lights and took a look. It actually had bat-like membrane wings on its back. When it climbed to a high place and jumped up, it could glide with the wind.
In an instant, more and more winged water monsters climbed onto the hull. They jumped directly into the gathered soldiers and bit them, trying to tear open the defensive circle.
"The other party releases these things just to consume our power."
Previously, Huan Zong used great supernatural powers to consume the power of the gods, but now he is sending water monsters to kill the Tiangong team with force, a two-pronged approach. Bai Ziqi could not tolerate them, and immediately ordered, "Pass my order, and each ship will present its centering flags!"
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Each ship has the magical power to communicate messages between them. His orders are transmitted immediately, and each ship opens a big white umbrella in the crowded place.
It looks like an oil-paper umbrella, with a pearl embedded in the head and a dozen slender strips of cloth under the umbrella.
When all fourteen white umbrellas were opened, Bai Ziqi ordered again: "Bang the soul-shaking drum."