Chapter 134: Chapter 132: Mysterious Waters

Su Qing took this opportunity to walk around the area.

The snake seemed to be waiting for the small tree in the center to bear fruit.

Right now, the small tree was only flowering. It seemed it would be a while before it could bear fruit.

Su Qing returned to where the two women were sitting cross-legged.

He looked at the Cold Nether Snake. ’I could probably take its Essence Blood.’

For some, refining it might grant them a bit of bloodline power.

But Su Qing had no desire to use it. ’Bloodline? As long as I can synthesize, any powerful bloodline is within my grasp.’

Besides, he already had so many different physiques, he couldn’t care less about this weak bloodline.

Xu Ningying recovered.

Jiang Yao also recovered quickly.

However, both of their faces were deathly pale.

"Su Qing, do you have any Blazing Pills?"

"Yes, Blazing Pills," Jiang Yao also nodded.

Blazing Pills were very cheap, usually two for one Spirit Stone.

"What’s wrong? Did you not expel the cold venom from your bodies?" Su Qing asked, puzzled.

"That’s right. We only suppressed it," said Xu Ningying.

Jiang Yao nodded in agreement.

"What a hassle!"

Su Qing shook his head and sighed, then pointed his index finger in their direction.

"Five Thunders Technique, Departing Fire Thunder."

Two thread-like bolts of lightning shot out instantly.

They struck the two women.

The pair shuddered a few times as if electrocuted.

"Why did you shock us!" Xu Ningying said uncomfortably, having just been zapped.

"No need for elixirs. Take a look, both of you. The cold venom is gone."

Only then did Xu Ningying realize—the cold venom in her body had vanished!

The same was true for Jiang Yao.

"A Thunder Technique! It’s actually a Thunder Technique."

"Senior Sister Xu, Su... who on earth is he?" Jiang Yao asked, completely bewildered. Although she had just been shocked, her cold venom was gone.

Her curiosity about Su Qing was piqued.

"Don’t worry about him. Just know that he’s very powerful."

’He probably doesn’t even care about this snake.’ Xu Ningying didn’t dwell on it. She picked up her sword and got up, preparing to harvest the snake’s materials.

Snake scales, snake fangs, snake eyes...

After she was done, Xu Ningying walked toward where the Cold Nether Snake had been guarding.

"That little tree doesn’t have any fruit."

Su Qing said, pointing toward the small tree.

"It’s a Spirit Plant!"

"It’s a shame there are no Spirit Fruits."

"And I don’t know how to transplant a Spirit Plant."

Xu Ningying said regretfully, while Jiang Yao looked over curiously.

"Senior Sister Xu, you don’t know how to transplant a Spirit Plant?" Jiang Yao asked, surprised.

"Moving it is easy, but it’s very likely to die after being transplanted."

"Besides, are you going to carry this Spirit Plant around while we’re treasure hunting?" Xu Ningying retorted.

Realization dawned on Jiang Yao. "Then didn’t we get injured for nothing? We didn’t get anything."

"We just have to keep looking."

"A Spirit Plant without Spirit Fruits isn’t worth many Spirit Stones. At most, you could sell it to an Alchemy Master."

Su Qing looked around and said, "In that case, let’s leave this place for now."

"Okay!"

This whole area was a swamp.

Su Qing appeared indifferent to the small tree.

No, it would be more accurate to say he was indifferent for now.

’I can move the small tree into my Pocket World, but I want to synthesize it first.’

But with Xu Ningying and Jiang Yao here, he would have to wait. When he had time later and no one was around, Su Qing would come back for the tree.

’If it can be kept alive, great. If not, there’s nothing I can do about it.’

Su Qing and the two women walked for a long time.

Then, ahead of them, was nothing but water.

That’s right. The water before them defied physics, forming a high wall that stood in their path.

The water didn’t flow out. Su Qing even tried reaching out to touch it.

His hand passed right through it.

"This must be the real location of the Small Secret Realm."

It was Xu Ningying’s first time seeing such a thing, and she also reached out to touch it.

Jiang Yao did the same.

"This is truly magical."

"But it’s so dark. I can’t see what’s in the water. I’m a little scared."

After seeing this spectacular sight, Jiang Yao was a little hesitant to continue exploring the Secret Realm.

The water was pitch-black, and the Secret Realm was already very dark to begin with.

It was almost impossible to see inside the water.

"Why haven’t we seen the other two? Could they have gone into this water?" Xu Ningying voiced a question.

"It’s possible," Su Qing said flatly.

The water was ice-cold and soared up to the "sky" of the Small Secret Realm.

Su Qing figured there had to be some kind of treasure or ruins inside.

Otherwise, it wouldn’t be a natural phenomenon.

"Should we go in? I only have three Water-Resistant Pills left."

"I only have two. I don’t know if that’s enough."

Su Qing didn’t have any Water-Resistant Pills, but he didn’t need them at all.

Under normal circumstances, his Magical Power was practically inexhaustible.

"Do you two want to go in? If so, we’ll go together. I don’t need a Water-Resistant Pill."

Jiang Yao, having gradually come to understand Su Qing’s strength, didn’t ask any more questions.

"Then let’s go in and take a look. If we run into danger, we’ll retreat. Fighting in water is disadvantageous for us."

"Okay."

"Just manage the duration of your Water-Resistant Pills."

Su Qing said no more.

Su Qing felt he had to go inside the water and see.

’What if I actually find some treasure?’

They entered the water and began to swim.

After swimming for a short while, however, Su Qing grew impatient and used his Magical Power to part the water in front of him, propelling himself forward.

It was more convenient that way.

But Xu Ningying and Jiang Yao were different. They were reluctant to use their Magical Power to move forward.

Only after entering the water did they realize just how vast it was.

Su Qing could clearly feel a strange phenomenon in the water.

In one particular direction, the water pressure increased dramatically the further he went, even when moving horizontally.

Gradually, fish began to appear.

Su Qing saw many types of fish.

About an hour passed. There was still nothing of value ahead.

Behind him, Xu Ningying signaled that she was heading back.

Jiang Yao did the same.

Su Qing, however, chose to continue forward.

After watching them swim back...

Su Qing accelerated.

He directly parted the current, using his Magical Power to advance rapidly.

At this speed, five minutes of travel was equivalent to the previous hour.

Su Qing pushed forward frantically.

...until he encountered a mangled corpse in the water ahead.

Numerous fish were biting and sucking at it.

’The clothes on this corpse... is this the man?’ Su Qing frowned, looking at the tattered body. It seemed like more than half of it had been bitten off at once, from the side.

Half the body was gone, with only a little flesh remaining.

It was a truly unpleasant sight, especially since Su Qing was still in the water.

SWOOSH—

BANG—

A huge shadow shot in from the side in a swift sneak attack. In the next moment, its massive mouth was propped open, its lower jaw held back by Su Qing’s foot and its upper jaw held up by his single hand.

’Damn, what a huge turtle.’

"Blade of Wholeness, go!"

The Magical Treasure from Su Qing’s Dantian shot out, entering through the turtle’s mouth and piercing it through, killing it instantly.

Its jaws lost the strength to bite down.

Its head alone was seven or eight meters wide.

’What is this thing?’ Su Qing only knew that despite its size, the turtle hadn’t reached the strength of Foundation Establishment.

At most, it had the power of a Qi Cultivation High Tier.

If it had ambushed that male cultivator, it could have indeed taken a fatal bite out of him.

Its teeth were quite sharp.

’It’s huge. I’ll just store this turtle away for now.’ Su Qing directly put the giant turtle away.

The turtle shell was massive, over ten meters long and wide, and about six meters high.

It took up nearly a third of the space in his Storage Ring.

’Where’s Shangguan Muling? The male cultivator died, but could Shangguan Muling still be alive?’ Su Qing didn’t understand.

He could only keep pressing forward, toward the area of increasing water pressure.

’The water pressure here... even a Qi Cultivation High Tier would have trouble withstanding it for long.’

Su Qing grew more and more curious about what his final destination would be.

Gradually, Su Qing’s Blade of Wholeness became stained with more and more blood.

Because the number of Demon Beasts here had increased.

All of them were at the Qi Cultivation High Tier.

’I might as well take out the Ice God’s Protection.’

Su Qing thought for a moment, then took out the Ice God’s Protection and placed it on himself. A high-tier Talisman like this was naturally waterproof.

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