The apocalypse struck, and I became a druid.

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Han Ning was the first to step into the underwater entrance.

Deputy Leader Qian and others followed closely behind, his silver armor gleaming slightly, providing illumination.

Li Qingshui, protected by the crowd, explained with the faint glow of the bone crown on his fish head: "This is a side passage of the ruins, originally a place for the merfolk priests to meditate."

At the end of the passage is a stone gate carved with wave patterns.

Li Qingshui pressed the slippery fish webs against the door.

"Click" sound.

The stone door slid open silently, and a chilling airflow immediately poured out from inside.

"Airflow?" Everyone was surprised.

Keep in mind that this is underwater.

This clearly shows that the interior is not a closed space and should be connected to other places.

Behind the door is a spacious stone hall with walls covered with mottled murals.

Han Ning's gaze lingered on the most eye-catching pattern in the middle.

It was a ferocious, whale-like creature with its head covered in bone spikes, surrounded by kneeling fishmen.

"The totem of the deep-sea god." Li Qingshui's Adam's apple bobbed.

"The murlocs built this ruin to worship it, and other branches of the murloc tribes also participated in its construction."

He pointed to the corner of the mural, where several blurry human figures were moving stones, their clothes looking even more luxurious than the statue of the fishman outside.

Li Qingshui had just stepped into the main hall.

The sound of gravel rolling down came from the passage on the right.

Something is approaching!

Yu Na and Wang Jianshe issued warnings almost simultaneously.

The words haven't finished yet.

Whoosh whoosh!

More than ten dark figures darted out from behind the pillars.

They retain a basic human shape, have five fingers with webbed membranes between them, and their eye sockets are just empty black holes.

All of them were high-ranking merfolk.

"Back off!" Zhao Kai roared.

Having just been promoted to Iron rank, he is now very confident.

The skin has a metallic sheen.

He swung the heavy axe forward with tremendous force!

The silvery-white axe blade shimmered with light and suddenly expanded by a circle, covered with countless gray-iron-colored metals, transforming it into a true giant axe with a handle at least three meters high and an axe blade radius of one meter.

It was just a downward slash.

boom!

A terrifying burst of wind pressure erupted.

A shockwave, visible to the naked eye, surged out.

He cleaved the first two fishmen who pounced in mid-air into several pieces, splattering their foul-smelling blood onto the stone wall.

Deputy Leader Qian's shoulder armor popped out a rotating energy device, and a blazing white beam of light precisely targeted the target.

Liang Shu's spear moved like a silver snake, transforming into countless energy-like silver spear shadows that scattered in all directions.

While everyone was fighting off the fishmen, Li Qingshui was still carefully observing his surroundings.

He suddenly pointed to a black stone portal deep within the main hall:

"That's it. That's the storage room where the treasures are kept. There are restrictions on the door. Kill them and we'll get closer."

"Ow!!"

The group advanced while fighting.

The guards inside the temple were actually weaker than those at the entrance, and were likely some "civilian" murlocs.

Of course, it's more likely that Han Ning and his group's strength increased significantly after absorbing a wave of crystals, especially Old Zhao, who became a vital force at the Black Iron level.

Dealing with these monsters isn't so difficult anymore.

In no time at all, more than a dozen murlocs were wiped out.

To everyone's surprise, none of the merfolk dropped any crystals.

“They are just shells that have offered their souls to the sea god; they have no value whatsoever.” Li Qingshui shook his head as he stood in front of the storage room door.

The surface of the stone gate was covered with water-ripple-like energy patterns, making it look like another barrier.

"Is there a way?" The group leaned against the massive stone gate and looked at Li Qingshui.

"It seems so, but I'm not sure. I'll have to try it."

The gill-like structures on the head of the Li Qingshui fish open and close slightly, emitting a rapid hissing sound.

He stretched out his finger and pressed it against the black stone door covered with wave-like patterns.

The moment the fingertips touched the stone door, a deep blue energy ripple suddenly spread across the surface of the door.

"It is an energy seal set up by ancient merman priests, and it can only be broken by a specific method."

Li Qingshui looked pained.

"I have relevant information in my fragmented memories... Give me some time..."

"pay close attention."

Li Qingshui remained silent, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

"This seal is very complicated... Ugh!"

He suddenly let out a painful groan, and his fingers, which were pressed against the door, quickly withdrew as if burned, leaving a charred mark on the fingertips.

"What's wrong?" Feilong asked anxiously.

“The seal has a counterattack mechanism; if the frequency is wrong, it will…” Li Qingshui gasped for breath.

Just then, Wang Jianshe shouted in a low voice, "Something's coming, a lot of it, and it's coming very fast!"

Almost as soon as she finished speaking, a sickening "crack" sound came from the walls on both sides of the passage. Stone slabs slid open, revealing dark openings behind them.

The next second, accompanied by a dense hissing sound that sent chills down your spine, countless strange insects, all black in color, only as thick as a finger, but with ferocious mouthparts like fish heads, surged out of the hole like a tide.

“It’s a sea-devouring worm cultivated by the fish-men’s rituals!” Li Qingshui’s expression changed.

"Stop talking nonsense, you do your research, leave the rest to us." Han Ning patted his shoulder and gave him instructions.

The swarm of insects scraped against the rocky ground, their compound eyes flashing with a bloodthirsty red light, and pounced straight at the group.

Vice Chief Qian, clad in silver armor, aimed the shoulder-mounted cannons at the oncoming swarm of insects, and beams of blazing white energy intertwined to form a barrage of fire.

Crack! Crack!

The strange insects that were struck by the energy beams were charred and carbonized over a large area, their bodies exploding with crackling sounds.

But there were too many of them, and they were extremely agile. Soon, some of them slipped through the net of fire, leaped up, and rushed straight at Zhao Kai, Deputy Leader Qian, and Liang Shu at the front.

Liang Shu thrust her spear swiftly, and with each attack, countless energy spears simultaneously appeared around the spear.

Zhao Kai snorted coldly and swung his giant axe in succession.

Boom boom!

The wind pressure swept across, the ground trembled, gravel flew everywhere, and pools of disgusting insect corpses and slime exploded.

Like the murloc guards inside, they don't drop any monster crystals when they die.

Killing them would be a thankless and exhausting task.

Han Ning and Xue Bing stood on either side, aiming at the area with the highest insect density, and simultaneously extended their palms and claws.

hum!

Terrifying pressure descends.

A large number of strange insects were crushed into minced meat under the heavy pressure, clearing out a large area.

However, the swarm of insects seemed endless, with more strange insects coming from all directions, and some even falling like rain from the gaps at the top.

Just as the disgusting swarm of insects was about to fill the main hall, a clear mechanical sound suddenly came from inside the stone door.

The deep blue light on the entire door dissipated rapidly, like the receding tide.

"It's open!" Li Qingshui staggered backward as if he were exhausted, but Chen Hu caught him.

crunch~

The heavy black stone door slowly opened inward, revealing a crack, from which a surge of abundant energy blew outward.

The moment the door opened, the frantically attacking monstrous insects seemed to be paused, their movements all halting.

Then, as if they had lost their command, they retreated into the holes in the wall with a whoosh and disappeared without a trace, leaving behind only a mess of insect corpses on the ground.

Chapter 239 Terrifying Barrier

All eyes turned to the stone door that was now wide open.

Behind the door lies an even more spacious and secluded hall.

The floor of the main hall is paved with a smooth, dark blue stone that subtly reflects the light source above and exudes a strong aura of energy.

The surrounding walls were no longer the rough rocks outside, but rather a kind of tightly pieced-together light blue stone slab, etched with incomprehensible and complex patterns.

The dome of the main hall is extremely high, hidden in the darkness, supported by thick coral stone pillars that require several people to encircle.

In the very center of the main hall stands an enormous statue!

The statue was nearly ten meters tall, made of a material that resembled jade but was not jade. Its entire body was a deep-sea-like dark blue, covered with blood-red, eerie patterns that looked like dense blood vessels.