Chapter 1284 - 649
Boss Kun watched as the three people disappeared from sight and sighed softly, saying: "We should set off too, but where is the next path from here?"
This sandbank is less than a hundred feet long, with no roads ahead and no one knowing where the next entrance to the underground palace is.
He pondered out loud: "There are no roads around here, could it be in the water?"
Fourth immediately shook his head: "According to the investigation by the little ghosts, there is no place at the bottom of the water that looks like an entrance to the underground palace. But I always feel that there is something unusual."
Of course, it’s unusual. Could the underground palace end abruptly here with no head or tail? It doesn’t make sense. Everyone had a hunch that they hadn’t yet reached the core position of the underground palace.
Ning Xiaoxian’s eyes turned, and suddenly said: "Since this underground lake is fresh water, did your little ghosts see where the water source is?"
Fourth shivered and exclaimed: "You’re right, no wonder there’s always a feeling of something being overlooked. After the little ghosts went underwater, they indeed didn’t see the source of the water flow!"
If such an underground inner lake is fresh water, it at least proves there is a stable source of water supplement. But this place is really eerie, where exactly is the entrance for the incoming fresh water? Yuan Hou, who had been silent all the while, spoke up: "Could it be blocked by something?"
With the investigation by the little ghosts, only simple feedback information can be obtained, and it is naturally not as detailed as seeing with the human eye. Should we all go underwater to explore for a bit? While a few people were hesitating, Changtian, who had been staring at the center of the lake, suddenly said: "Why not let those few give us the way?"
Boss Kun gave him a strange look, suddenly understood: "No wonder this person didn’t stop Han Chunlin from leaving, it turns out they intend to let them pioneer the way." With a wave of Changtian’s hand, a Water Mirror rapidly condensed in the air before them, showing the scene under the water.
They first saw Aji, then Han Chunlin.
Now the three have been underwater for quite a while. If they want to leave, they certainly need to find the entrance underwater.
Aji and the three of them were holding a Water Manipulation Technique in their hands. The spell was not for Water Avoidance, but to make them as fast as fish in the water, speeding them up a little. Aji’s foot was injured. After taking Ning Xiaoxian’s elixir, he hadn’t felt intense pain, but after going underwater and moving his limbs, the wound began to bleed again, with bright blood seeping into the water. At the same time, his physical strength was somewhat lagging, causing him to fall behind the other two.
The water wasn’t as pitch-black as they thought. Instead, water plants occasionally emitted a faint glow, lighting the water like a starry, moonless night, dim but not pitch dark, so he could see Han Chunlin gesture to him to catch up and then turned to continue swimming forward.
Getting lost in the water with companions is a dangerous thing. Aji gritted his teeth and sped up.
Fourth’s little ghosts had already figured out the direction of the water flow. All they had to do was swim against the current, so the direction of the three was clear. Although this water area wasn’t small, it did have an end.
Han Chunlin surfaced for air and submerged again, following the direction of the water flow straight to the lakeshore.
Yet he didn’t see the entrance.
He irritably looked around, only to find dark stone walls on all sides - there was no obvious underground entrance anywhere.
Huh, what’s that?
Something seemed faintly below, tightly clinging to the stone wall. He gestured to his side, and another Heavenly Master understood, diving down to scrutinize it. The man dared not be complacent, gripping a longsword, which was surrounded by runes swirling around his body, evidently protective body technique.
At this time, Aji was also swimming closer.
A muffled noise suddenly echoed beside the three: "Splash——!" The sound, like the evening bell and morning drum, was vast and profound, but heard in this water more than ten fathoms deep, it felt indescribably eerie and unsettling. Aji, being shrewd, didn’t intend to understand what it was, and immediately turned and swam back.
Following the first sound, came the second, then the third... essentially from slow to fast, from strong to weak, with increasingly short intervals, yet heard in the ear became more rhythmic, like, like——
Aji felt as if a big stone weighed his heart down: "This sound, why does it resemble a heartbeat so much?! How strong would the monster be to emit a heartbeat-like noise so far?"
At the shore, Changtian also gently gasped. His previously indifferent expression finally changed. He no longer focused on the Water Mirror but turned to look into the lake, his gaze precisely directed at Han Chunlin, Aji, and the location of the monster in the water, as if he were seeing through the shadowy waves stretching hundreds of fathoms, to the very bottom.