Reborn as a Hatrack in the Mystical Land-Chapter 988 - 106: Deep Sea Adventure (Part 2)

Seeing Jue Xin still hesitating and unable to make a decision, Yue Jinghua reached out and took the Emperor Nan Pearl.

East Nan Emperor, West Nan Emperor.

Back then, Jue Shang first collected the Nanhuang Pearl and then the Emperor Nan Pearl.

In terms of collection difficulty, the Emperor Nan Pearl is obviously much harder to collect than the Nanhuang Pearl. Correspondingly, returning the Emperor Nan Pearl is also much more difficult than the Nanhuang Pearl.

Neither of them knew much about the situation in the Nanbei Sea Trench. Yue Jinghua’s action undoubtedly took on more risks.

Seeing this, Jue Xin hurriedly wanted to exchange the Emperor Nan Pearl with Yue Jinghua.

However, Yue Jinghua already shook her long hair and antennas, emitting a rainbow glow all over her body, and slipped into the east side of the trench.

The trench was bottomless, and soon after Yue Jinghua entered, she disappeared from sight.

Jue Xin sighed with a mix of gratitude and helplessness, flicked her tail, and dived in the opposite direction.

Jue Xin had Jue Shang’s bloodline in her veins, and after entering the West Nan Emperor Shell area, she was used to life around the East Lin Sea, making her much more adaptable to the deep sea compared to Yue Jinghua.

Upon entering the trench, instead of swimming in mid-water, she chose to stick to the trench walls, quickly descending like a gecko.

This way not only prevents enemies from noticing her but also allows her to use the changes in water currents along the trench walls to detect potentially hidden threats around her.

After swimming for a while, Jue Xin encountered no danger, nor did she see the unknown Sea Beast mentioned by Jue Shang in the Shell Book.

Given such circumstances, there are only two possibilities: either the Sea Beast has died or left in the past thousand years.

Or its main activity area is not around the West Nan Emperor Shell.

With that, Jue Xin became more worried about Yue Jinghua’s situation, feeling that any harm to Yue Jinghua would be her fault.

With such thoughts, Jue Xin hastened her search for the West Nan Emperor Shell.

About more than a time later, Jue Xin suddenly saw a glimmer of light before her.

In the dark and unfathomable depths of the trench, an elusive point of light appeared.

In such a trench, a shining light must be the Nanbei Shell.

Jue Xin was delighted, her tail flapping quickly, and she darted toward the light.

Jue Xin guessed correctly, that light point was indeed the dwelling of the West Nan Emperor Shell.

The East Lin Sea was polluted, surrounded by murky waters, yet as the guardian Divine Beasts of East Lin, the two mother shells had not perished. They were merely trapped in the ocean’s deepest parts, awaiting the return of the precious Emperor Nan Pearl.

The mother shell was beautiful; despite being silent in the seawater for a millennium, it still emitted a delicate luster, free from the taint of muddy silt.

Yet, the shell was shut tight, seemingly unwilling to open easily.

Faced with such a scene, Jue Xin remained calm.

She recalled the ancient legends of the Sea Witch clan.

The precious Nanbei Shells are sentient, and they love the Sea Witch’s melodious singing.

Jue Xin slightly parted her cherry-colored lips, allowing beautiful notes and the ancient and touching Sea Witch song to flow from her mouth like trickling water.

Upon hearing the sweet song, the previously motionless mother shell slowly began to change.

The shell, which had been tightly closed, started to tremble and open slowly.

The heavy shell opened wider and wider, revealing a velvet-like pink shell bed.

The shell bed, however, was empty.

The Nanhuang Shell is much gentler than the Emperor Nan Shell, with much less attack power, as was recorded in Jue Shang’s Shell Book.

It seemingly didn’t remember anyone stealing its treasure and opened its scallop-like shell, like a dancer entranced by music, rhythmically moving to Jue Xin’s song.

Jue Xin was overjoyed, yet also more worried about whether Yue Jinghua would be equally fortunate.

Despite the smooth progress, Jue Xin dared not be complacent. She continued singing, her voice melodious and clear, echoing over miles. Carefully, she placed the Nanhuang Pearl back in the West Nan Emperor Shell’s bed.

After placing the Nanhuang Pearl back, the surrounding sea area seemed to shake slightly, as if a match had been struck and then extinguished.

It remained pitch-black around, with no apparent change.

Thinking it must be because the Emperor Nan Pearl had not yet been returned, Jue Xin contemplated, surprised at how smooth the return process was. She wondered how Yue Jinghua was managing to return the Emperor Nan Pearl on the other side of the trench.

Jue Xin swiftly swam toward the other end of the trench, hoping to find Yue Jinghua smoothly.

At that moment, Yue Jinghua was mesmerized by the spectacle before her.

After parting with Jue Xin, Yue Jinghua had been descending along the narrow trench.

At ten thousand meters deep in the sea, the most lethal is the water pressure pressing from all directions.

For a human who dives to such depths, not to mention moving, they would be crushed by the pressure.

The Ghost Mother (Jellyfish) given by Jue Xin to Yue Jinghua was an invertebrate Sea Beast.

It enveloped Yue Jinghua, its tentacles constantly probing the deep sea.

With its assistance, despite having little diving experience, Yue Jinghua descended smoothly.

Soon, she discovered, the eastern trench had winding passages, much like a maze.

From midways down, the terrain inclined southeast, forming a shape like a sea staircase.

After moving forward, Yue Jinghua found at the bottomless depths of the East Sea Trench lay a vast area of sunken ships.

The sunken ship area looked eerie and ghostly, with seaweed floating everywhere.

It resembled an abandoned dock or a port ravaged by war, with broken ships of various sizes, but there were no human or Sea Beast remains aboard.

All were entwined by long-bodied, deep dark green seaweed, hanging eerily in the water like wide, flat kelp.

The ship hulls were covered with rust-colored algae, looking ancient.

When descending, Yue Jinghua heard Jue Xin mention that in the early years, when trade was prosperous around the Nanbei Sea Trench, numerous trading and pearl-collecting ships would appear daily.

These ships clearly bore the markings of merchant ships.

After the incident in East Lin Sea, these merchant ships might have inadvertently strayed into this sea area.

But... this is nearly ten thousand meters deep below the sea surface, why were these merchant ships uniformly stranded here?

Yue Jinghua remained highly alert and found no suspicious signals of any living entity around.

Or maybe, these merchant ships were ambushed by the unknown Sea Beast and dragged to this deep-sea area?

Gazing at the densely growing seaweed, Yue Jinghua chose not to investigate further.