The three mermen were extremely furious about Shen Qing's escape. They lunged towards her direction, flailing their limbs wildly.
"Little disciple, swim faster!!"
Ling Zhou's voice sounded even more urgent than Shen Qing's. He sounded so panicked as if he was the one being chased.
Wu Wang had already swum forward with all his might. Carrying Shen Qing in the water would inevitably slow them down a bit.
Shen Qing gritted her teeth. The oncoming water hit her face, mixed with some shell fragments in the water, causing some minor injuries to her cheeks.
The wounds on her body were still bleeding. Smelling the blood, the mermen's bloodthirsty beast nature was completely aroused.
The warehouse door was in sight. Shen Qing was overjoyed. Just as she was about to rush in, she heard the sound of a fight coming from the ninth floor. At the same time, a familiar voice came.
"Shen Qing, is that you? Come here and save me!!"
It was Li Xian's voice!
Had Li Xian come out so soon?
Shen Qing didn't care about anything else and quickly swam towards the ninth floor. But as soon as she entered the ninth floor, the sound of the fight disappeared instantly.
The entire ninth floor was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Only the sound of flowing water echoed in Shen Qing's ears.
But the three mermen didn't follow her when she entered the ninth floor. Shen Qing had no choice but to brace herself and look at the dark corridor in front of her.
"Little disciple, was that really Li Xian's voice just now?"
Ling Zhou's question made Shen Qing doubt herself for a moment. She thought that all the mermen on the ninth floor had woken up and Li Xian, who had just left seclusion, had run into them.
But as soon as she came up and the sounds disappeared, Shen Qing knew she had been deceived.
But if she went back to the eighth floor now, she would have to face the three ferocious mermen. Shen Qing wasn't confident that she could defeat them without harming them.
If she wanted to deal with the three mermen, she would have to use some extreme methods. But Shen Qing didn't want to hurt the people of the same clan as Li Xian.
Moreover, these mermen didn't become like this voluntarily. They were controlled by secret techniques and gradually mutated.
So if there was any other way, Shen Qing didn't want to kill them.
"Shen Qing, I'm in so much pain..."
"Shen Qing... I'm up ahead. Come and save me."
"Come here."
...
Shen Qing stared expressionlessly into the depths of the corridor. Li Xian's voice kept coming, full of resentment, as if blaming Shen Qing for not coming to save him earlier.
"The case is solved. It definitely isn't Li Xian."
Without saying a word, Shen Qing took out more than twenty explosive talismans from her storage bag, clenched them in her hand, and swam towards the eighth floor.
"Little disciple, what are you doing?"
A sneer appeared on Shen Qing's lips. "I can still tell the difference between fighting three mermen and a group of mermen. He just wants to deceive me over there. I'm just not going."
Hearing this, Ling Zhou nodded in agreement. "Sure enough, you're my little disciple. You're so smart."
Seeing Shen Qing turn around to leave, the voice stopped. After a moment of silence, a figure gradually walked out of the dark corridor.
Li Xian was covered in blood. His black hair had turned silver-white. One of his amber eyes had been gouged out. He staggered towards Shen Qing, reaching out his hand as he walked, with a pleading look on his face. "Shen Qing, why are you leaving? Why don't you come and save me?"
Seeing this, Shen Qing wasn't the least bit moved. She rolled her eyes and walked down the stairs.
Seeing Shen Qing turn around and leave without mercy, the "Li Xian" behind him broke down in a hurry and shouted, "Wait! Why are you walking away the more I call you???"
Shen Qing turned around, looking a bit impatient. "You're the one behind those three mermen, aren't you? Who on earth are you?"
The "Li Xian" wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, straightened his body, and slowly walked out of the darkness. "Shen Qing, don't you really recognize who I am?"
Shen Qing frowned. This Li Xian in front of her was exactly the same as the real Li Xian, whether it was in terms of aura, spiritual power, or figure. If it weren't for his actions just now, Shen Qing would have thought that Li Xian had really come out of the inheritance land.
"You're pretending to be Li Xian to deceive me over there. What on earth do you want?"
"Hehe, am I pretending?"
The "Li Xian" sneered and twirled the sword in his hand in front of Shen Qing. "Who am I? I'm Li Xian. Li Xian is me."
Shen Qing pursed her lips tightly and spread out her divine sense to try to detect if he had used a disguise technique or eaten a disguise pill. If a technique was used, a person's appearance would change, but their spiritual power and aura wouldn't.
"Little disciple, even I can't tell the difference between the person in front of me and Li Xian. The only possibility is that Li Xian has been usurped."
Shen Qing tightly grasped Wu Wang in her hand, and her face became solemn.
If Li Xian's body had been usurped by another ghost, his soul would either be sleeping in his body at best or have left his body at worst.
If too much time passed, his soul would dissipate and he would never be able to enter the cycle of reincarnation again.
"Who on earth are you, a great expert, to usurp the body of a little Nascent Soul stage cultivator?"
"Are you the clan leader of the merman clan, the saintess, or someone else from the merman clan?"
Shen Qing thought for a while. The most likely possibility was that the soul of a merman had usurped Li Xian.
After all, the merman palace was full of the wronged souls of mermen.
"Hahaha!"
"Sure enough, you're a person with great fortune. You can always turn danger into safety. I'm borrowing Li Xian's body to meet you this time. I really do have something to say to you."
"But before that, I hope you can guess my real identity."
Shen Qing looked cold and didn't want to play riddles with him. She just said an answer directly. "You burned yourself to death under the moon, and your physical body was destroyed. Only your soul would be wandering in the merman palace. Are you the clan leader of the merman palace?"
The "Li Xian" shrugged, neither confirming nor denying.
"Since you've made a guess, then if you say I'm the clan leader, I'm the clan leader."
As he said this, the "Li Xian" slowly walked in front of Shen Qing. All the wounds on his body disappeared instantly.
He walked around Shen Qing twice, then stood still in front of her and nodded in satisfaction. "You have a spiritual bone and a rare ice spiritual root. That's really good."
Shen Qing was extremely uncomfortable with this kind of scrutinizing gaze. Before in the forbidden area, Han Ze had also seen through that she had a spiritual bone at a glance. And the soul that had usurped Li Xian's body could also see through it at a glance.
This at least showed that their cultivation was definitely not low.
Although he was using Li Xian's body, his behavior and eyes were completely different from Li Xian's. Shen Qing looked at this different Li Xian in front of her and felt that everything was very strange.
"Senior. You should know that the soul of the usurped person is in danger. I just want to know what you want to do before you're willing to leave Li Xian's body?"
There was a half-smile in the "Li Xian"'s eyes. He stared at Shen Qing intently, and a playful smile curled up on his lips. "I do have something for you to help with."
"Come with me."