Ye Li, who fell into the sea, was in great pain all over. In order to resist the attack of the tentacles just now, he instinctively used his hands to bear the main damage. Now the bones in his arms were almost completely shattered. He couldn't even lift them up, and couldn't draw talismans.
"Ye Li, didn't I tell you not to show off? Now you're in trouble!"
The voice of Tunri sounded in Ye Li's mind, and it was a little annoyed with Ye Li.
It knew that Ye Li went into the sea for Dongfang Caiyi. After living together with humans for countless years, it naturally knew that humans have never been absolutely rational animals.
Therefore, Tunri did not object to Ye Li going to save Dongfang Caiyi, but it thought that if Ye Li wanted to save Dongfang Caiyi, he should rescue Dongfang Caiyi directly instead of helping him rescue people in a dangerous place.
With Ye Li's own abilities, he would not have fallen into such a crisis. He put himself in danger purely for the sake of saving Dongfang Caiyi.
Ye Li himself knew that this crisis was difficult to resolve. His hands were almost disabled and he couldn't even draw a talisman. Now he could do nothing except swimming with his feet.
He has not yet removed the gold-cast state on his body, in order to ensure that he has enough ability to fight.
Using all his strength, Ye Li tried to swim towards the water surface. Only when he reached the water surface would he be least affected by the water current. Under the water, the suction force of the vortex was extremely strong.
At this time, he had also seen clearly the true forms of those tentacles, which were indeed several giant octopus-shaped monsters from under the water.
Those octopus-shaped monsters also saw Ye Li, but did not continue to attack him, as if killing Ye Li was not their purpose.
Ye Li looked at these tentacles, which rolled down several people from the sea surface and then threw them towards the vortex. These people had almost no ability to struggle and were swallowed up by the vortex and disappeared in an instant.
Ye Li was still trying to swim towards the sea surface. When it saw that Ye Li had not lost the ability to escape, a huge tentacle rolled towards him again and wrapped him up.
A force greater than Ye Li's only managed to tie him up, and the powerful pressure almost crushed Ye Li's body.
The air that Ye Li had been holding in his lungs was almost completely squeezed out of his body. Fortunately, he still maintained the secret gold casting technique, which prevented him from having his bones crushed by the tentacles.
However, at this point, he was completely unable to escape from danger. The tentacle that bound him dragged him with great force and quickly threw him towards the vortex.
The moment the tentacles let go of Ye Li, Ye Li only felt a powerful pulling force, dragging him into the vortex.
No matter how much Ye Li struggled and kicked his legs, he was unable to resist the suction force of the vortex.
Around the huge whirlpool, the force of the water flow was incredibly strong. Ye Li felt as if he had become a leaf and could only move with the flow.
Ye Li originally wanted to rely on his understanding of the power of water, follow the pulling force of the vortex, and find a way to take advantage of the momentum and break out of the vortex.
However, this vortex was different from the vortex in the pool he encountered in the ruins. The vortex in front of him was more than several miles wide. Compared with the vortex, his power was too small.
As he was pulled deeper and deeper into the vortex, the pulling force on his body continued to grow. The closer he got to the center of the vortex, the more he was unable to break free from the constraints of the surrounding forces.
The huge whirlpool seemed to be a millstone, and the water flow constantly squeezed and ground Ye Li's body.
Fortunately, the gold-casting power in Ye Li's body had not disappeared, and he was able to withstand the huge pressure of the vortex for a moment. Although his body was in severe pain, Ye Li did not die.
However, as he was continued to be pulled deeper into the water by the vortex, the surrounding pressure began to increase continuously, and the speed of the water flow around Ye Li also began to increase, pushing Ye Li to drill towards the center of the vortex.
Ye Li felt that the pressure he was under was not only from his body, but also from his soul.
An inexplicable force emanated from the center of the vortex, and Ye Li began to feel that his soul was also under tremendous grinding pressure.
With no other choice, he could only gather his spiritual power and push against the pressure around his soul, attempting to bear the pressure with his spiritual power.
At the beginning, the pressure was so great that he could still bear it with his spiritual power, but as he went deeper, the pressure became greater and greater, and Ye Li's spiritual power could no longer support it.
“Boom!”
A muffled sound came from Ye Li's mind, and his spiritual power was finally squeezed and exploded. The huge pressure began to act directly on Ye Li's soul.
An unimaginable pain came from his soul, and Ye Li felt that his soul was beginning to crack.
He finally experienced for once the feeling of his opponent's soul being shattered when he attacked him with the Soul-Walking Talisman. This kind of pain was truly unbearable.
In comparison, even the pain in his body, which began to crack under the pressure, could not compare to the pain in his soul.
Ye Li was falling towards the depths of the vortex, and he had no idea how deep the vortex was. He had now reached an area where there was no light at all. It was pitch black all around, and there was nothing but the cold water.
The pressure on his body and soul continued to increase, with no end in sight.
Ye Li felt like his head was about to explode. The cracks in his soul were getting more and more, and it felt like he was about to shatter completely.
Ye Li's consciousness also began to gradually dissipate, and the gold-casting state on his body would also disappear. Once the gold-casting state disappeared, Ye Li's body would gradually shatter under the pressure.
Of course, his soul might be shattered before his body, and he might die without even knowing it.
Faintly, Ye Li felt that the elixir in his dantian suddenly moved, a purple light lit up, and an inexplicable force was output from the elixir and then poured into his body.
His flesh, which had already begun to break, gradually healed under the nourishment of this power, and its strength increased accordingly.
"Forget it. I didn't expect you to be in such a dead end. It seems I can only help you."
Suddenly, an old, ancient and profound voice sounded from Ye Li's elixir. Ye Li felt that the voice was somewhat familiar, as if it was the mysterious voice that appeared when he awakened his natal talisman.
Before he could react, Ye Li felt a stream of purple air pouring into his sea of consciousness. His spiritual power immediately recovered, merged with the purple air, then rushed towards his soul and protected it.
With the protection of these two forces, Ye Li's body and soul began to become stable, but Ye Li could also feel that his spiritual power and the innate energy in his body were gradually decreasing.