When Earth Awakened, I Became a Sword Saintess

Chapter 172 : The Aquatic Lu

172: The Aquatic Lu

Night in Lingdu. A typhoon had made landfall, and a torrential downpour swept the city. The trees on the streets swayed as if they had gone limp.

The roads around the Lingdu Source Martial Academy were already cordoned off.

The Lingdu Source Martial Academy's Medic Department Affiliated Source Martial Hospital, located in the southwest corner of the Academy, was usually sparsely populated. Tonight, however, it was brightly lit.

Ambulances with flashing lights and police cars clearing the way were everywhere outside the hospital.

A camouflaged military helicopter swayed as it landed in the high winds.

Chen Qian'ning, dressed in a black short-skirt uniform with her hair coiled up, paid no mind to an umbrella. She stepped out of the helicopter, her high heels splashing through the rain-soaked ground like a rushing current, and strode quickly toward the hospital building, followed by a group of people.

With such a major incident having occurred at the Academy, she had been urgently recalled from a northern military zone; otherwise, it would have been difficult to handle the current situation.

She passed through soldiers and armed guards carrying loaded rifles and some reporters with special credentials gathered there. After showing her identification, she entered the hospital building.

The rain-soaked short skirt was a darker color, its wrinkles clinging tightly to her round, full buttocks. Water droplets trickled down her stockings from time to time.

"Teacher Chen." At this moment, Hua Qianyuan and Lu Yingluo were guarding the lobby.

"Is there any news of Yuyin?" Hua Qianyuan asked, running over eagerly, her eyes looking at Chen Qian'ning with anticipation.

Chen Qian'ning's hair and mature, pretty face were speckled with rain. She shared Hua Qianyuan's concern and shook her head helplessly.

"For now... there isn't any."

Hearing this, the look in Hua Qianyuan's eyes dimmed with obvious disappointment.

"What's the situation here?" Chen Qian'ning asked.

"The entire third floor is filled with injured Academy personnel, but... many of them..." Hua Qianyuan didn't know how to phrase it.

"I know." Chen Qian'ning's gaze was heavy and somber.

"Teacher Jiang Xue was taken away for questioning. She was injured herself but still ran around everywhere to save the students, yet they just took her away..." Hua Qianyuan said with a frown, a helpless look in her eyes.

Chen Qian'ning also sighed helplessly. "Don't worry, that's just a necessary routine investigation. She'll be fine. When something like this happens, it's nothing she could have changed."

This incident was too big. The most gifted generation of the Lingdu Source Martial Academy was almost completely wiped out. The impact and blow to the entire Source Martial Academy world, and even to the entire Huaxia Nation, were immense.

The major disaster of the ambush by Alien Tribes in the Prison Abyss during this training exercise resulted in the deaths of thirty-seven Academy trainees, five teachers, five fourth-year graduates, and five professional Source Martial Practitioners. Twenty-six were severely injured, and nearly everyone had minor injuries; this, of course, didn't count the casualties from the subsequent battle between the Grandmasters leading the reinforcements and the Alien Tribes.

Of this generation's Academy elites, Liu Xing, Jiang Da, Yuwen Wenhong, and many others were severely injured.

Shenwu, Wang Tieshu, Wang Xuezhang, Qin Feizhen, Wang Yin, and others were killed in action.

Five young Academy teachers, including Chen Siguo, were killed in action.

The three most top-tier geniuses of the Academy, Xia Yuyin, Lan Lianyue, and Hua Yuanjing, were missing in action during the battle. More than a dozen other students were also missing. Judging by the situation at the time, the chances of these students surviving were very slim. Moreover, the other side of the Two Realms Gate had been captured by the Alien Tribes, which reduced their probability of survival to almost zero. Even if they were lucky enough to survive, how could students, newly arrived in the Prison Abyss, possibly survive alone in the perilous Prison Abyss for a long period of time?

Given such a tragic event, no matter how much responsibility Jiang Xue bore, it was considered normal for her to be taken away for questioning.

"Let's go see the injured first," Chen Qian'ning said.

"Teacher Chen, this way." Hua Qianyuan led Chen Qian'ning down a corridor leading to the emergency wards.

"Yuyin, she'll be all right."

"She'll definitely be all right!" Lu Yingluo, who had been leaning against a corner of the deserted hospital service desk, said with her head lowered.

"Student Yingluo?" As Yuyin's good friend, Chen Qian'ning naturally recognized her.

"Yuyin, she must still be alive, she must, no matter where she is!" Lu Yingluo looked up, the pupils behind her glasses emitting a sorrowful yet incredibly determined glint.

"You don't have to ask me how I know. I just know she must still be alive!" Lu Yingluo said excitedly, quite unlike her usual calm and intellectual self.

"...I... believe too." Chen Qian'ning's eyes glistened with moisture. She nodded firmly, stepped forward, and hugged Lu Yingluo. "Teacher believes too."

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In the Prison Abyss, it was also night, but the weather was clear and cloudless. The night wind, carrying abundant Primordial Energy, flowed from the great mountains into this Night Plains.

Xia Yuyin had changed back into her fairy attire and felt much more at ease. After all, some Alien Beasts here were actually interested in the female body, which made her need to be even more vigilant.

She stood on the slope of "her territory," gazing at her surroundings.

At night, sometimes one could see more clearly. Xia Yuyin noticed that about seven or eight li in a certain direction, purple energy was rising into the night sky.

"Purple energy, that's just what I need."

However, this should be beyond the original territory of that large bird Alien Beast. Xia Yuyin carefully went to investigate that night and discovered it was a small lake surrounded by an ancient tree forest. In the middle of the lake was a small island, and the purple energy was emanating from this island.

At this time, the lake water was black, reflecting the night sky, and mist shrouded its surface. It was late at night, and the situation was unclear. Xia Yuyin didn't dare to enter the water rashly, so she temporarily returned.

Early the next morning, she came here again.

Today, she was prepared to enter the water, so she came wearing only a set of black underwear. After all, Xia Yuyin had brought several sets of underwear. She chose black this time, not because she thought it was seductive; after all, who was there to seduce in the wilds of the Prison Abyss?

The reason she didn't consider white was because white becomes transparent when wet... Having been a girl for so long, Xia Yuyin was still aware of this.

On her skin, as white as snow and jade, leather straps were tied, holding her longsword on her back. When she exercised her body at the Academy, she often swam. With her physical strength, even without using Primordial Energy, she could easily swim at a world-record pace in various strokes, of course, that was relative to her old world.

After observing her surroundings and finding nothing unusual, Xia Yuyin leaped into the water.

Xia Yuyin's arms and legs were long, and her posture was graceful and coordinated. Naturally, she swam quickly, but certain parts of her body also created significant drag; otherwise, she might have been even faster.

About halfway across the cold, clear lake, Xia Yuyin suddenly felt a strong wave of Primordial Energy coming from underwater. Her perception of Primordial Energy in water was not very good, and by now it was already very close to her.

Countless bubbles rose from underwater, and an undercurrent surged.

Boom!

A huge, fat black shadow heavily collided with Xia Yuyin's lower abdomen and long legs, sending her flying out of the water. She soared for more than ten meters before crashing back into the water and sinking.

Xia Yuyin opened her eyes underwater. The impact had been a bit much for her to take, but she wasn't injured. She only saw, dozens of meters away in the lake water, a huge, fish-like yet not-fish Alien Beast swimming toward her.

It was a bizarre aquatic Alien Beast, as large as a manatee, with the head of an ox, the body of a fish, the tail of a snake, and translucent, faintly glowing fins. It possessed the Mid-Stage of Purple Domain Realm strength.

It was a Lu! Xia Yuyin had seen this type of demon spirit wandering the streets of Lingdu at night and had even drawn a few Lu pieces in the God-Devouring Chess, but feeling they were not very useful, she had later sold them all.

While not very useful in the God-Devouring Chess, encountering this Mid-Stage of Purple Domain Realm aquatic Alien Beast in the water was not easy to deal with.