God's Gift

Chapter 543 Undersea Cliff

Fang Ziang's legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground. Hearing the door open, he thought Yu Youyou had come out, and hope immediately ignited in his eyes.

His eyes lit up, and he looked up with pleading eyes, only to see Lu Keming with a cold face first.

Fang Ziang exclaimed in surprise, "Lu Keming, you're finally awake!"

Lu Keming ignored him and strode onto the deck. His gaze swept over the burning cabins around him and finally settled on the dark star in the sky.

"What's going on now?" Fang Ziang scratched his head in confusion, looked at Yu Youyou who followed closely behind, quickly stood up, and followed her step by step:

"Dark Star really caught up with us. Yu Youyou, how did you guess that its true form was here?"

Yu Youyou stopped and gazed at Lu Keming's retreating figure, then whispered:

"It's not a guess."

"Not a guess?" Fang Ziang was about to ask further when he saw Lu Keming suddenly spread his dragon wings, nimbly dodging the fireballs falling from the sky, and rushing straight towards Dark Star like an arrow released from a bow.

Fang Ziang was startled by the commotion, his words caught in his throat, and he stared blankly at Lu Keming who was soaring into the sky.

Dark Star was searching for Yu Youyou's whereabouts when he was caught off guard and grabbed by Lu Keming, who rushed over and dragged him down to the seabed.

Dark Star's panicked voice echoed in the air: "Lu Keming! You mad dog, let me go!"

With a loud bang, towering waves erupted from the sea, and two figures, entangled, disappeared together on the surface of the water.

Fang Zi'ang clung to the gunwale, staring wide-eyed at the rippling sea. After waiting for a long time without seeing Lu Keming emerge from the water, he spoke incredulously:

"Is he out of his mind? What's he doing running into the sea? He can't breathe underwater..."

Before they could finish speaking, the ocean suddenly surged with enormous waves that crashed towards them.

"No, come again?"

Fang Ziang thought this was another giant wave like the one he encountered five days ago. He turned to look at Yu Youyou, only to see her slowly moving her hands, as if she was controlling something.

Fang Ziang stared at Yu Youyou's hand for a moment, then looked at the giant waves that rose and fell with her movements. Suddenly realizing something, he shouted in terror:

"Yu Youyou, what are you doing? We're going to drown!"

The next moment, the giant wave swallowed the entire ship.

The icy seawater surged in, and Fang Ziang's body was slammed against the deck by the turbulent current. He looked at Yu Youyou, who was still standing there, bubbling away.

"Yu Youyou...you...let me out."

He swam desperately toward Yu Youyou, even though the waves came from her, his reason told him that only Yu Youyou could save him.

The ship continued to sink, and several huge dark shapes gradually appeared in the azure water.

"Yu Youyou, I'm suffocating." Fang Ziang didn't notice the dark figures. He tugged at Yu Youyou's clothes and kept shouting in her ear, as if he was about to suffocate and die at any moment.

"I'm going to drown..."

Yu Youyou ignored him, her gaze deep and fixed on the huge black shadow in the sea.

Fang Ziang, who had been struggling in the seawater for a long time, finally realized: "Wait, why am I not suffocating yet?"

"I can breathe underwater now!"

He stared wide-eyed at Yu Youyou in disbelief.

"Youyou, Fang Ziang!" Ye Li's voice came from above and below the deck. Soon, Ye Li and Shen Minghua appeared on the deck.

Looking at Ye Li and Shen Minghua, who were also unharmed, Fang Ziang exclaimed, "Damn... you guys can breathe underwater too."

"What is that?" Shen Minghua looked at the ocean ahead, and to his astonishment, everyone looked ahead as well.

At the edge of the deep blue sea, a colossal cliff suddenly appears. On the cliff stand several stone statues, each a hundred meters tall.

These stone statues are all different; some resemble birds, some dinosaurs, and some scorpions...

In the middle of them is a dark red meteorite.

Beside the meteorite, a giant fish-shaped stone statue resembling a whale is coiled around it.

Ye Li stared at the fish statue, then abruptly turned to look at Yu Youyou, who had been silent for a long time. Fear filled her eyes, and her voice was hesitant:

"Youyou, that's..."

At this moment, in the seawater above the stone statue, Dark Star finally broke free from Lu Keming's grasp. It quickly headed towards the meteorite in the middle of the stone statue, but Lu Keming pursued it relentlessly and grabbed it back into his claws.

They clashed fiercely in the sea, stirring up turbulent undercurrents. Amidst these currents, Yu Youyou looked back at Ye Li, her deep voice carrying through the water to everyone's ears:

"It is my physical body."

Yu Youyou's words struck everyone like a hammer blow. Ye Li's pupils dilated instantly, her lips trembled, and as she recalled Yu Youyou's actions in searching for the body, all the events in her mind finally connected:

"You've been searching for your body all along."

"So...it was Dark Star that tore them apart?"

"No." Yu Youyou gently shook her head: "It was myself."

Yu Youyou looked at the astonishment and shock in their eyes, her voice extremely calm, as if she were talking about something insignificant, yet it made the hearts of those around her sink:

"At that time, I did not have the power to defeat it."

She looked at the giant fish statue coiled around the meteorite. "Only in this way can I temporarily stop it."

Fang Ziang's lips parted slightly, his mouth forming a shape as if he was about to say something. The icy seawater rushed into his mouth, making him shiver.

"So you've been collecting divine power all along the way, all in order to come back and defeat it."

Yu Youyou nodded: "Yes."

"Then you..." Fang Ziang originally wanted to ask Yu Youyou if she could defeat Dark Star this time, but the words that came out in the end were:

Will you be alright this time?