Chapter 540: 540: Hall of Nature
At the main altar, all the gods and goddesses were watching the trail takers at the Hall of the Water God. After the powerful group gave up on the inheritance trial another group of Yuanying Cultivators made a team and accepted in. However, in the end they failed and died in this hall. Even their Huashen Realm Cultivator guardian failed to save them.
The Wind God said, "Your hall killed too many! How can the other halls find a suitable successor with you acting like this!?"
"You better do something about this situation? There are still a lot of us who haven’t found an heir!" The Sea God and the other divinities complained.
The Water God looked angry and retorted, "My trials are not beyond means! Who made them so weak that they couldn’t even defeat a damn snake!"
"That damn snake of yours is about to offend someone he shouldn’t have. Do you have any plans to save it?" The Earth Goddess commented.
Snort!
"Leave him be. I will just promote one of those fishes (mermaids) as a guardian of my hall."
Then they watch as the huge water dragon stares at the other side of the hall which suddenly transformed into a sea area by the Sea God’s help and swam in that direction with murderous intent. The divinities at the main altar couldn’t help but watch closely at how the Immortal Sun Emperor and the Moon Goddess will handle such a situation.
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In the middle of the sea, Yue Xuexia and the others were still fishing when they suddenly felt a huge wave coming over to their side. Upon seeing this wave, Tan Bingyu stood before it and instantly froze it while Xue Renxue broke it down.
Xue Renxue said, "There are too many waves. Is that inheritance trial not done yet?"
"Maybe, they are done. There is no other cultivator’s presence from the other side," said Tan Bingyu as she peered in the other direction of the water area.
Shen Jueyang stares at the ice bucket full of large seafood though most of it are sea monsters that are edible.
He asked, "Gramps, you guys fished too much. Let’s go back and start cooking."
"What are you complaining about brat? Xue’er hasn’t caught one yet!" said Grandpa Xia.
Beside them, Yue Xuexia is laying on a beach bench napping at the end of her feet with a fishing rod left alone to fish. Once something takes a bite only then would Yue Xuexia make a move. She is a lazy salted fish. Unless necessary she won’t make any move.
He mumbles, "There is not even one Huashen realm beast in this sea. How can this rod find one?"
Shen Jueyang shut up when he heard Grandpa Xia’s retort and also thinks that Yue Xuexia wouldn’t like it if she can’t catch anything worthy with how much this fishing rod was refined. Before it could only catch the golden core realm beast. Now it was only targeting the beast at the Huashen realm.
All of the sudden the turbulence in the sea was different from before. A smile suddenly appeared on Shen Jueyang’s lips as he saw Yue Xuexia’s fishing rod which was silent all day suddenly move. Obviously, it found one target that fits its taste.
After a while the quiet fishing rod of Yue Xuexia started moving. The old ones on the ship were all excited.
Grandpa Tan said, "Mistress! Your fishing rod is moving!"
"Xue’er! Hurry and fish out your fish!" Grandpa Xia said.
Grandma Su covered her mouth and said, "How come the whole ship was shaking when it’s only a fish?"
Tan Bingyu and Xue Renxue focused on keeping the ice bucket and ice ship intact. The impact of the fishing rod’s movement was causing cracks all over the ice ship and they were mending it every time a crack spreads.
Shen Jueyang woke up the napping Moon Goddess, "Xue’er, your fish had come~"
Yawns~
"What kind of stupid fish caught this silly rod?" She grabbed her fish rod and all pressure had landed onto her body making the ice ship stop shaking.
Regardless of the vigorousness of the caught prey by the fishing rod, Yue Xuexia held it effortlessly. She has max level strength stat after all. She peered down the sea and saw what kind of monster was caught on it.
She commented, "An Eel ka? This thing is delicious when grilled with soy sauce, butter and cheese~"
Controlling the fishing rod, Yue Xuexia haul her huge catch and the caught prey flipped out of the sea, the ice ship almost turned over as well but everyone on the ship including the ones on the shore was staring at the sea dragon who was terrorizing the Yuanying Trial Takers before not caught by a fishing rod and was pulled out of the sea by the Moon Goddess.
Yue Xuexia said, "Jueyang, help me kill it. Hit its head!"
Shen Jueyang followed her instruction and jumped off the ice ship giving the sea dragon a light punch on its head. It died instantly when its skull broke into pieces and it died without even being able to struggle. The refined fishing rod of Yue Xuexia had the effect of binding and paralysis. Once caught the prey can only struggle for a while but once it was out of water, the paralysis would strike and it wouldn’t be able to fight back.
SPLASH!
Soaking in sea water, Yue Xuexia happily stared at such a huge prey. This seems to be the largest sea eel she saw in her life.
Yue Xuexia commented, "Well~ it’s large enough for everyone to eat. Jueyang put it in the ice bucket."
"Alright~" Shen Jueyang said as he lifted the dead sea dragon from the sea and threw it into the ice bucket which almost sank with the weight of the sea dragon.
Thankfully, the ice couple adjusted the size of the ice bucket to fit the dragon inside.
Yue Xuexia said, "Nice catch! That seems enough! Let’s go back to the shore!"
Except for the Immortal Sun Emperor with a doting smile on his face while staring at the Moon Goddess, the rest were dumbfounded. After all, that Sea Dragon which was called Eel by Yue Xuexia is clearly a real Huashen Realm Demonic Beast. Not only is it intelligent, it was also supposed to be unparalleled in water. How come when it comes to the Moon Goddess, the scene didn’t end up like the battle of the gods, but instead an ordinary fisherman, fishing a huge catch.
Confused at everyone’s silence, Yue Xuexia with a frown said, "What’s wrong? Let’s go back to land and start cooking."
This scene was also witnessed by the divinities waiting at the main altar. They were also speechless thinking how ridiculous the scene is yet undeniably a show of power from the Moon Goddess.
The God of Light commented, "It seems that despite her low cultivation realm, her strength exceeded what we can feel from her."
"She looks so cool!!!" The Wind God exclaimed and the other divinities couldn’t help but be amazed as well.
Then the Shura God asked the Water God, "Do you still want revenge?"
"...Nevermind. Let it be. I don’t want to get cooked by her!" The Water God said whose original form is a whale.
When Yue Xuexia and the others returned to the shore everyone helped with the preparation of the ingredients. Under Yue Xuexia’s supervision, all sea monsters that were caught were cleaned, skinned, descaled and cut. A few huge pots and grilling equipment were also made on the spot. Under Yue Xuexia’s spirit, all of the meals were made so everybody could eat it. However, they would be stopped by a senior when they had reached the limit to avoid exploding from overnourishment of the spirit food.
There is a collective breakthrough within the crowd and even the Huashen Cultivators made progress with their cultivation after eating Yue Xuexia’s cooking. The Water God let them stay in his hall until they all fully digested their meals before teleporting them to the next hall waiting for them.
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Everyone had reverted to their original ancient robes before they were transferred into the next hall. The next hall is unexpectedly a forest area. A huge forest area with towering trees, grasses and flowers. Everything in this hall is a hundred times larger than they are. The same feeling an ant would when facing a human.
The eerie feeling of being in the same position of thumbelina made everyone nervous. If not for the composure of the Huashen Seniors with them most of these Yuanying cultivators might break down from just being thrown to this place.
Rumbles~
Followed by the shaking of the ground and cracks on it, two pillar stone towers grew out from the land and appeared before them. Well,Well it wasn’t towering at the trees and other things in this hall but tall enough for the cultivators to look up and read the announcement on it. This time a stone golem appeared behind the stone towers but its size made it look like these two pillars are different from stone under its control.
The stone golem spoke, {I am Growler, the host for this hall. Welcome to the Hall of Nature.}