Chapter 280: Bluewave city 12.

"You really have forgotten."

Mo Yuxin replied calmly.

"Then tell me."

The creature opened its mouth.

Before it could speak, the entire chamber exploded.

A white sword light came through the wall.

The attack was fast enough to kill an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator instantly.

Mo Yuxin raised one hand.

The sword light stopped.

It hovered less than an inch from her palm.

The city lord’s expression changed.

He had not sensed the attacker.

Su Yubing had.

"There are people outside."

"More than people."

Mo Yuxin flicked her finger.

The sword light shattered.

A scream came from the corridor.

Then dozens of figures rushed into the chamber.

They wore white robes marked with a silver wave pattern.

The leading woman looked to be around thirty. Her cultivation was at late Golden Core, and she held a long sword that was trembling slightly after being struck by Mo Yuxin’s finger.

Behind her were more than twenty cultivators.

Several were Foundation Establishment.

A few were Golden Core.

And one old man standing at the back had the aura of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

The woman pointed at Su Yubing.

"Take her."

The old city lord shouted.

"No!"

The woman ignored him.

"The prophecy has awakened. The Sea God has chosen her. The Sacred Tide Sect will escort her to the eastern altar."

Mo Yuxin looked at her for three seconds.

Then she asked quietly,

"And who gave you permission to touch my wife?"

The woman froze.

The word wife sounded particularly strange in the ancient chamber.

Su Yubing’s lips curved.

She stepped closer to Mo Yuxin and deliberately wrapped both hands around her arm.

"My wife is right."

The woman looked between them.

"You are married?"

"Very happily."

Su Yubing said it with a completely straight face.

Mo Yuxin’s heart warmed.

The old city lord seemed to be reconsidering every decision that had led to this evening.

The Sacred Tide Sect cultivators exchanged looks.

The Nascent Soul old man finally stepped forward.

"Senior, this concerns the fate of the Southern Continent. Please don’t interfere."

Mo Yuxin smiled.

"You have misunderstood."

The old man frowned.

"What?"

"I am not interfering."

Mo Yuxin pulled Su Yubing gently behind her.

"I am protecting my wife."

The old man looked displeased.

"Senior, do not force us to become enemies."

"I don’t think you have a choice."

The old man drew his sword.

Mo Yuxin sighed.

"Why is it always like this?"

Su Yubing whispered from behind her,

"Because you look too approachable."

Mo Yuxin glanced at her.

"I do?"

"Sometimes."

"You are the only person who gets to say that."

Su Yubing smiled.

Then the battle began.

It was not much of a battle.

Mo Yuxin stepped forward.

She did not release any obvious pressure.

She merely lifted one finger and drew a small circle in the air.

Every sword in the chamber broke.

Not shattered.

Broke.

The metal simply separated in the middle as if it had been cut by an invisible thread.

Every cultivator froze.

The Nascent Soul old man’s pupils shrank.

"What realm are you?"

Mo Yuxin tilted her head.

"Nascent Soul."

Nobody believed her.

She smiled innocently.

"You asked."

The old man took one step backward.

The ancient sea beast gave a deep rumbling laugh.

"Interesting."

Mo Yuxin looked up at it.

"You are enjoying this."

"Very much."

"Then help us."

The creature blinked.

"I am bound to the seal."

"Can you break it?"

"No."

"Can I?"

The creature’s six eyes focused on her.

"Yes."

Su Yubing immediately frowned.

"Don’t."

Mo Yuxin looked back.

Su Yubing shook her head.

"We came here to travel. I don’t want you touching some ancient cursed formation without understanding it."

Mo Yuxin smiled.

"Then I won’t."

She turned toward the beast.

"Explain everything first."

The beast laughed again.

"You really are different from before."

"Stop saying that."

"Then perhaps you should remember."

The creature lowered its head.

And it told them the history of the city.

Eight hundred years ago, Bluewave City had not been a city at all.

It had been a fishing settlement built around an ancient sea altar.

The altar had existed for thousands of years before humans arrived.

Beneath it slept a creature called the Deep Sea Guardian.

It was not a god.

It was not a demon.

It was a guardian left behind by an ancient civilization that had disappeared before the current cultivation world had formed.

Its task was simple.

Guard the southern sea passage.

The passage was not a normal route through the ocean.

It was a gateway to another region of the world, a place known in old records as the Abyssal Court.

The Abyssal Court had once been ruled by an immortal emperor.

The emperor disappeared.

His empire collapsed.

The gateway was sealed.

And the seal needed two people.

One carried the emperor’s blood.

The other carried the emperor’s sword.

The woman in the prophecy was the first.

The sword keeper was the second.

Su Yubing slowly looked at Mo Yuxin.

Mo Yuxin stared back.

"You are telling me that my wife is somehow connected to an ancient immortal emperor."

The beast nodded.

"Yes."

"And I am a sword keeper."

"Yes."

"We have never heard of any of this."

"The seal erased the memories of those who passed through it."

Su Yubing frowned.

"Then why do I feel like I know your voice?"

The beast looked at her.

"Because you have met me before."

Silence.

Su Yubing’s expression changed.

"When?"

"Long ago."

"How long?"

"Before your current birth."

Mo Yuxin stepped closer to Su Yubing.

"We don’t care who she was before."

The beast looked at her.

Mo Yuxin continued.

"She is Su Yubing now. She is my wife. That matters more."

Su Yubing’s eyes softened.

She reached for Mo Yuxin’s sleeve.

"Yuxin."

"Hmm?"

"I love you."

Mo Yuxin smiled.

"I know."

"You should say it back."

"I love you too."

The city lord stared at them as if they had forgotten there was a gigantic ancient beast in the room.

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TO BE CONTINUED.