Chapter 660: Lin Ruoxi in Danger

Chapter 660: Chapter 660: Lin Ruoxi in Danger

Cheng Yuan’s face fell in alarm. He pushed his Celestial Witch True Essence to its limits, roaring inwardly!

"Celestial Witch Nine Extremes—Duan Jiang!"

SWISH!

Cheng Yuan slashed out with a fierce blade aura!

To Cheng Yuan’s frustration, Duan Jiang—an attack powerful enough to cleave a great river—seemed insignificant before the vastness of the ocean.

The seawater parted to form a trench only a dozen meters long before it was swallowed up again.

The fierce Blade Qi, weakened by the seawater, struck the sharks dead-on but failed to kill them both.

One shark was sliced in two by the unrivaled Blade Qi, but the other only sustained a deep gash on its body, revealing the bone beneath.

The surviving shark, reeling from the pain, went into a frenzy, charging at Cheng Yuan with reckless abandon.

Cheng Yuan was incredibly frustrated.

On land, Cheng Yuan could have easily finished off the crazed shark.

But here, he was in the ocean.

That last Duan Jiang attack had nearly depleted his oxygen. Cheng Yuan could only break the surface, gasping for air as he watched helplessly while the shark closed in.

"Shark!! Everybody run!!!"

A sharp-eyed tourist spotted the fin rapidly approaching. Scared out of his wits, he screamed at the top of his lungs.

In an instant, the tourists erupted into chaos, scrambling frantically toward the shore.

They wished their parents had given them two more legs.

Only Lin Ruoxi didn’t flee. Instead, her face tense, she stared at the approaching fin, because it was heading right where Cheng Yuan had gone underwater.

’Is the shark’s target Cheng Yuan?’

Lin Ruoxi was terribly nervous. She yelled, "Cheng Yuan, there’s a shark! Get away from it!"

Shouting, Lin Ruoxi began to paddle frantically through the water, heading straight for Cheng Yuan.

Cheng Yuan yelled, "Ruoxi, stay back! I can handle this beast!"

With that, Cheng Yuan took a deep breath and dove back into the water. An intensely bright white light burst from his fingertips as he activated Six Swords Unite of the Six Meridian Divine Sword!

SWOOSH!

A beam of light, so intense it was almost solid, shot out and struck the shark square in the head.

SQUELCH!

The shark’s head was pierced through, and its Life Force was extinguished in an instant.

Plumes of blood gushed out, staining the surface of the water.

Ten meters away, Lin Ruoxi saw the large patch of blood suddenly appear on the water’s surface. Her heart leaped into her throat.

’Did something happen to Cheng Yuan?’

Lin Ruoxi quickly dunked her head underwater, straining her eyes to see toward the source of the blood.

Soon, she saw that Cheng Yuan was perfectly fine, while the shark was sinking deeper.

Lin Ruoxi breathed a small sigh of relief.

’Thank goodness, Cheng Yuan won!’

’Cheng Yuan killed the shark!’

SPLASH. Lin Ruoxi’s head broke the surface.

The next second, the color drained from Lin Ruoxi’s face.

A wave!

A wave, a full three meters high, was bearing down on her!

BAM!

Lin Ruoxi’s delicate frame was sent flying by the wave, the lifebuoy in her hand knocked clean away.

Before Lin Ruoxi could even get her bearings, the undertow sucked her into the deep.

With Cheng Yuan by her side, Lin Ruoxi’s swimming had improved dramatically.

But now, without Cheng Yuan, she was panicking. Her mind went blank, as if it had short-circuited.

She had no idea what to do.

All the swimming techniques she had just learned flew right out of her head.

GAK!

Lin Ruoxi choked on a mouthful of seawater.

The mouthful of water nearly made her pass out. Her arms and legs flailed uselessly.

But her body kept sinking, completely out of her control.

Dazedly, Lin Ruoxi turned her head, looking in Cheng Yuan’s direction.

At that moment, Cheng Yuan, still unaware of Lin Ruoxi’s peril, was swimming swiftly toward the other drowning girl.

He quickly reached the girl’s side and grabbed her arm.

The girl’s consciousness was already fading. Unaware that someone was saving her, she would grab onto anything as her last lifeline.

The girl grabbed Cheng Yuan’s arm, clung to him, and desperately tried to use him as leverage to climb upward.

She even tried to push his head underwater.

Of course, the girl’s actions were all unconscious.

She was acting on pure instinct, just trying to breathe.

Her efforts paid off.

Her head finally broke the surface, and she gasped in a breath of fresh air.

Meanwhile, the girl’s frantic struggle nearly caused Cheng Yuan to choke.

Cheng Yuan suddenly recalled the many news reports he’d read about rescuers being drowned by the very people they were trying to save.

’If I were a normal person,’ he thought, ’I’d probably be drowned by her too.’

Fortunately for him, he was no ordinary person.

Cheng Yuan circulated his Celestial Witch True Essence. With a slight tremor of his body, he shook the girl off, then grabbed her by the hair and began towing her toward the shore.

After getting the girl to the shore, Cheng Yuan scanned the water, searching for Lin Ruoxi.

But to his surprise, even after activating his Double Pupil, which greatly expanded his field of vision, he couldn’t find her.

A knot of anxiety formed in Cheng Yuan’s stomach.

’Ruoxi... she’s not in trouble, is she?’

Cheng Yuan activated the second form of his Double Pupil and finally located Lin Ruoxi, who had been dragged into the deep.

Her condition was critical. She was already three meters deep and had clearly swallowed a lot of seawater.

Cheng Yuan’s heart sank with terror.

He was consumed by regret.

’I should have taken Ruoxi to shore first before saving that other person!’

If anything happened to her, he would never forgive himself.

Cheng Yuan shot through the water toward the depths, roaring, "Ruoxi! Hold on! I’m coming to save you!"

His swimming speed was incredible, but it still wasn’t fast enough for him.

’Faster! Faster!’

Cheng Yuan knew that every second he delayed put Lin Ruoxi in greater danger.

At that moment, Lin Ruoxi, her stomach full of water, was on the brink of death.

’I can’t accept this!’

’I really can’t!’

’I finally found someone who loves me and cherishes me!’

’I finally found a man of great character, one capable of helping me build a financial empire!’

’I finally found a man who could help me return to the Lin Family with my head held high!’

’I don’t want to die like this!’

This intense, defiant refusal to die filled Lin Ruoxi, causing her to erupt with infinite life potential in her near-death state.

A single, crystalline tear slid from her eyelid. But instead of dissolving into the seawater, it transformed into a lustrous pearl and sank slowly to the seabed.

Lin Ruoxi felt a burning, bloated pressure in her lungs.

BOOM!!

It was as if something inside her lungs had just exploded.

Suddenly, the seawater in her lungs no longer stung. Instead, it felt gentle, as if it were communicating with them.

A bizarre sensation came over Lin Ruoxi. It felt... as if she could breathe underwater.

Deciding to test the feeling, Lin Ruoxi cautiously inhaled a small amount of seawater.

She didn’t choke at all. The seawater felt incredibly gentle as it washed through her lungs, flushing out all the impurities and phlegm.

Her lungs became spotlessly clean.

Like the lungs of a newborn baby.

It was as if Lin Ruoxi had become an infant again, and the ocean had become her mother’s womb.

It was warm and filled with Life Force.