DipNovel Chapter 25 Underwater Battle
Chapter 25 Underwater Battle
The icy seawater seemed to freeze time, leaving only the hair dancing under the headlamp's light, and the silent, sinister grin on the distorted face deep within the hair.
The Forbidden Woman saw Qin Yuan as her new prey.
Facing this monster alone, Qin Yuan not only did not back down, but a hint of excitement flashed in his eyes. With a slight thought, the knuckles of his ten fingers made a soft cracking sound, and his nails instantly transformed and lengthened, turning into ten short but incredibly sharp claws!
In the seawater, he couldn't control the blood that seeped out and adhered to his claws, preventing it from being diluted by the water. This time, he would rely on pure physical strength and his mutated sharpness to fight in close combat!
Qin Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly, his vertical pupils becoming even longer. He kicked off the water with both legs, his body moving forward instead of backward, and charged towards the clump of hair that was rushing towards him!
Swish!
The sharp claws swept across, creating a string of fine bubbles. The tough, bone-crushing hair of the Forbidden Woman was easily severed and torn apart the moment it touched Qin Yuan's fingernails, as if it had met its nemesis. Large amounts of broken hair drifted helplessly in the water, like lifeless black seaweed.
The Forbidden Woman let out a silent shriek, her twisted face contorting with even more venom. More long hair, like living tentacles, coiled around Qin Yuan from all directions with astonishing speed, attempting to envelop him in a cocoon of hair.
Qin Yuan's body twisted rapidly in the water, his sharp claws forming an impenetrable barrier, constantly severing the hair of anyone who approached. But his space to maneuver was still being rapidly compressed.
Several exceptionally thick strands of hair, like venomous snakes, suddenly wrapped around his wrists and ankles during the gap in his defense! A chilling force surged forth, attempting to drag him toward the Forbidden Woman's true form.
Qin Yuan grunted, his arm and leg muscles tensed instantly, and his transformed power erupted to resist the binding force! At the same time, his free hand shot out like lightning, its sharp claws precisely digging into the roots of the hair wrapped around his wrist, twisting and pulling sharply.
scoff!
His large tuft of hair was forcibly torn off, and he did the same to him, quickly breaking free of the restraints on his limbs.
However, just as he broke free and was preparing to launch another attack, a sharp mental shock pierced his mind like a steel needle.
"Ugh!" Qin Yuan's movements froze. Countless distorted phantoms flashed before his eyes, and he seemed to hear the wails of countless wronged souls. A strong sense of dizziness and nausea washed over him. The alien bloodline within him stirred restlessly, trying to resist this mental invasion, but the effect seemed minimal.
It's that row of stone sculptures!
Qin Yuan suppressed his discomfort and sharply scanned the human-shaped stone sculptures on both sides of the passageway. He noticed that those sculptures, which had previously been gazing into the depths, now seemed to have a faint, phosphorescent glow emanating from their eye sockets!
Especially the stone sculpture in the middle with its eyes half-open and half-closed, the snake-eyebrow bronze fish engraving on its forehead is emitting an extremely subtle spiritual fluctuation, like an amplifier, gathering and spreading the resentment of the forbidden woman and some kind of ancient curse!
This mental attack wasn't directly fatal, but it greatly disrupted his reaction time and judgment! In that brief moment of hesitation, the distorted face of the Forbidden Woman, hidden in her disheveled hair, had already closed to within three meters of him! Countless strands of hair, like venomous snakes ready to pounce, were poised to strike!
In that critical moment, a fierce glint flashed in Qin Yuan's eyes. He couldn't afford to passively defend; he had to destroy the source!
He pretended to be affected by the mental shock again, and his movements showed an obvious flaw. He staggered and retreated to the side and back in a "panic" manner.
The Forbidden Woman fell for it as expected, her long hair surging like waves towards the gap he had opened!
Just as the hair was about to entangle him again, Qin Yuan, who had been frantically retreating, suddenly stopped. Using the strength of his waist and abdomen, he managed to perform a rapid turn in the water, defying all logic! His legs seemed to be spring-loaded, creating a powerful current in the water. His target was not the Forbidden Woman, but the eerie stone sculpture with its eyes half-open and half-closed!
Smash it!
Qin Yuan gave a low shout, and his right leg, having gathered momentum, drew a powerful arc in the water, carrying the strength of his entire body and the momentum of his sprint, and kicked hard into the chest of the stone sculpture.
boom!
Boom—
A muffled, loud bang echoed through the water! The stone sculpture shattered instantly, exploding into countless fragments that scattered in all directions!
The moment the stone carving shattered, the mental shock that had been swirling in Qin Yuan's mind vanished as if its source had been severed, and the phantoms before his eyes and the wailing in his ears abruptly ceased.
With his mind clearing, Qin Yuan's eyes flashed with murderous intent! Using the recoil from kicking the stone sculpture, he darted back like lightning. Taking advantage of the precious moment when the Forbidden Woman was momentarily stunned due to the forced severing of her spiritual connection with the statue, he brought his right hand together, and his mutated claws, like five indestructible drills, plunged fiercely into the center of the Forbidden Woman's distorted face with unstoppable momentum.
puff!
A strange sound, resembling the piercing of rotting leather mixed with the crushing of bones, echoed dully through the seawater.
Qin Yuan's palm sank into the head of the Forbidden Woman at wrist level.
The witch's movements ceased instantly; her flowing hair, as if lifeless, drooped and scattered. The venomous expression on her twisted face froze, and then her entire head began to rapidly turn gray and wither, eventually turning into ashes that dissolved into the surrounding seawater and disappeared. Only some broken, dull hair remained, slowly sinking to the bottom of the sea.
Qin Yuan slowly withdrew his hand, his mutated fingernails returning to normal. He hovered in the water, biting his oxygen mouthpiece and panting slightly, adjusting his breathing rhythm. Although the battle hadn't lasted long, the high-intensity movement underwater and the mental shock had still taken a heavy toll.
His gaze fell on the ruins of the stone sculpture he had kicked. Among the scattered rubble, a bead about the size of a pigeon egg, with a texture as smooth as chalcedony, but shaped like a human eyeball, lay there quietly, emitting a faint energy fluctuation.
Qin Yuan swam over and carefully picked it up. It was cold to the touch, but it no longer had the mental aggression it had before. It seemed that the power that disturbed his mind was triggered by the structure of that special stone carving and the engravings on the snake-browed bronze fish. Now that the stone carving was destroyed, the bead itself seemed peaceful.
interesting.
Qin Yuan thought for a moment and then stored the peculiar eyeball into his system space. Its origin was unknown, but the energy it contained seemed to be related to the spiritual realm; perhaps it would come in handy in the future.
After dealing with the spoils, he didn't linger any longer. Wu Xie and the others had been pulled into the secret door for a while now, and the situation inside was unknown.
He swam to the stone wall that Zhang Qiling had kicked earlier and began to search it carefully, his mind racing with thoughts of mechanisms and secret passages. Soon, he found an extremely well-hidden mechanism in the seam of a seemingly ordinary stone brick, which required a specific angle and force to activate.
This is it!
With a firm resolve, Qin Yuan imitated Zhang Qiling's previous action, gathered all his strength, and kicked the sunken rock!
Rumbling--
The familiar whirring of mechanisms sounded again, and the stone wall in front of us slowly slid open, revealing a dark passage behind it, the destination of which was unknown.
Qin Yuan relaxed his body, no longer resisting the suction from the passage, and willingly let himself be drawn in. The hidden door closed swiftly behind him, once again isolating the dark seawater from the row of eerie stone sculptures in another world.