How could a 'monster' without a human form suddenly turn into a girl? Ye Fan couldn't fathom it.

Upon closer inspection of the girl, she wasn't wearing any clothes, but her body was covered in a thick layer of blue material that concealed her skin. Her face was yellowish-white like a human's, closer to Caucasian, yet with oriental features. The light under the sea was dim, making it hard to discern her features.

She lived in the sea, but she had distinct limbs, with no fish-like characteristics. As for her previous form, Ye Fan couldn't tell if it was her disguise or her second form.

"You... you evil people, for hurting the sacred relic, I am going to get justice from you!"

The girl looked angry, holding the fragment of the blue crystal, ready to fight Ye Fan and the others desperately.

Meanwhile, a crack in the earth's crust behind Ye Fan was rapidly closing. Ye Fan knew that if he didn't leave, he would have to break through the crust to escape. Yet, if he did leave, even if the crust closed, the girl, in her quest for revenge, might break it herself. Either way, an earthquake and tsunami seemed inevitable.

"Junior brother, it seems we must retreat," said Elder Wu. "Why don't you go first? I'll try to open a gap in the crust. With my cultivation, I can do it delicately without causing too much damage."

Elder Wu meant to withstand the girl's attack, allowing Ye Fan to take Li Zhaojun and Min Shang to safety. As for Song Zhao and Song Xian, the uncle and nephew with malicious intent, there was no need to worry about their frozen state.

However, Ye Fan sensed that with Elder Wu's cultivation, he was no match for the girl in this subterranean world. Though she appeared innocent, like a naive girl, her cultivation was terrifying, potentially reaching the Transcendance Tribulation Stage.

"No, we leave together!" Ye Fan said resolutely.

Li Zhaojun and Min Shang exchanged a glance and nodded to Ye Fan. Their meaning was simple: if Ye Fan wasn't leaving, then neither were they. Even if it meant dying in the subterranean world, they would fight alongside Ye Fan.

The blue guardian girl opposite them was already harnessing powerful spiritual energy, preparing to kill those who disturbed the peace of the depths.

The flow of spiritual energy caused a disturbance in the deep ocean, as the girl's energy was supremely yin and cold. The sea around her began to freeze.

"Who would have thought such a secret kingdom hid in the depths of the sea, with a cultivator of such level," Ye Fan frowned, witnessing everything. He felt that they might not leave the sea safely and could end up frozen, only to thaw centuries later.

But just as the sea around the girl began to churn and freeze, the blue crystal fragment she held slipped from her hand.

Like a girl who lost her beloved toy, she wanted to chase after it, but the blue crystal swiftly moved towards Ye Fan.

In distress, the girl cried, "Don't go..."

She tried to use spiritual energy to catch it, but it repelled her energy. The blue crystal, however, quickly approached Ye Fan, and the girl, afraid to confront Ye Fan and his companions directly, only watched the crystal with sorrowful eyes from a distance. "Why did you leave me?"

Ye Fan, one of the involved parties, didn't understand what had happened either.

The blue crystal seemed alive, as though it possessed perception. It circled Ye Fan without a trace of malice, like a blue pixie.

Ye Fan reached out his hand, and the blue crystal settled on his palm. Its light intensified, echoing with a blue glow from the gourd in Ye Fan's storage bracelet.

"Junior brother, what is happening?" Even Elder Wu was curious, observing Ye Fan.

Ye Fan shook his head, "I don't know either, but I feel... a spiritual communication with it."

The blue guardian girl's surrounding spiritual energy dissipated. She cried, "You... give it back to me."

Ye Fan realized the girl seemed to regard the blue crystal as her life. Her existence's meaning was cultivating under its protection and guarding it. When intruders came with ill intent toward it, she would do anything to kill them. But seeing the crystal preferring Ye Fan over her left her feeling betrayed, like a lover turned away.

"Miss, it came here on its own," Ye Fan explained. "I didn't do anything to it."

"I know, but give it back," the girl cried.

Faced with a capricious girl, Ye Fan was at a loss. She had been intent on killing them but was now earnestly upset and crying.

Ye Fan asked, "Must you have this one small fragment from such a huge crystal?"

"Give it back..." The girl said nothing else, merely pleaded tearfully for Ye Fan to return it.

At that moment, with a loud "bang," the crack in the sea bottom's crust sealed entirely. Ye Fan understood that to surface again, he must break through the crust, not difficult for him, but the coastal people would suffer the tsunami's devastation.

Ye Fan said, "Don't cry, I'll give it back to you!"

Ye Fan forcefully pushed the blue crystal back towards the girl, but it flew only a short distance before returning to Ye Fan. It circled him again before playfully settling on his shoulder, burrowing beneath his collar like a mischievous sprite.

"Hee hee hee..." A clear, cheerful sound came, like laughter, and Ye Fan distinctly heard it emanating from the blue crystal fragment.

Startled, Ye Fan wondered if the blue crystal had consciousness.

"Miss, you saw it too. It's not that I won't return it; it chose to come here," Ye Fan said. "If you want to take it, come and get it yourself. I won't harm you!"

"Really?" The crying girl seemed both doubtful and hopeful.

Ye Fan wouldn't deceive an innocent girl, especially since the girl only intended to protect the blue crystal without malice towards him. Ye Fan replied, "Come forward."

Elder Wu cautioned, "Junior brother, be careful. What if she is feigning?"

"She won't, I trust her..." Ye Fan confidently replied, "because I see her pure, unblemished heart."

The girl mockingly wiped her tears, though her tears had long faded into the sea. Her supremely yin and cold body made her tears freeze into crystals.

She cautiously swam towards Ye Fan. When she reached him, Li Zhaojun and Min Shang were tense, fearing the girl might harm Ye Fan.

But the girl merely extended her hand, placing her slender fingers on Ye Fan's shoulder, trying to coax the blue crystal back, yet it seemed reluctant to recognize the girl as its owner, hiding in Ye Fan's collar with trepidation.

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