Chapter 33: The Lake Bottom Scare
After Chen Nan returned to the inn from the Divine Wind Academy, he quickly packed up his things and left there before staying in another inn.
The day after he left, the Eastern Phoenix and the Little Princess led six or seven beautiful young girls to break into that inn. These people surrounded the room where Chen Nan originally stayed and then cast magic, lightning, wind blades, and flames raged wildly, and the house collapsed in an instant.
The inn's owner and the fellows were trembling in fear, not knowing why these students from the Divine Wind Academy were so angry.
When the Eastern Phoenix realized that there was no one in the house, her face turned blue with anger as she asked the little princess, ''Little Trouble didn't you say that he lives here''
Hearing the words 'Little Trouble', the little princess said unhappily, ''Don't call me Little Trouble, I hate that name. He did live here before, who knew that this guy was actually so cunning that he escaped first.''
The few girls beside her smiled at his words, the little princess's name was too personalized, besides, it was already famous. A girl said: "Little Trouble are you afraid that your brother will be beaten up, send him a letter in advance, let him escape"
The little princess screamed: ''That scum is not my brother, I hate that guy, otherwise I wouldn't have come with sister Phoenix to clean him up. Also, my name is not Little Trouble, you guys can call me Miss Sister."
To the chagrin of the little princess all the girls laughed petulantly, one of them laughed, "Only sixteen years old and you want to be a sister to someone huh, I think Little Trouble is very nice, besides anyone in the academy knows your name, you can't change it even if you want to."
The ladies did not discover Chen Nan and could only helplessly compensate the innkeeper a certain amount of gold coins before withdrawing.
In the afternoon of that day, when Chen Nan came here to 'observe the enemy', after seeing the scene in front of him, he couldn't help but wipe away a cold sweat and said, "Women are really scary, fortunately I had the foresight."
The white moon was in the sky, and the clear light was spreading.
The watery moonlight made the entire Sin City hazy, and from afar it looked like it was draped in a light veil.
It was a quiet night, but Chen Nan did not have the slightest desire to sleep, he pushed the door and gently leapt onto the roof, he spread the cool mat on top of the tiles, and then lay down on it to look up at the moonlight.
On this full moon night, there was a vague feeling of uneasiness in his heart, he had always been convinced of this spiritual sense of his, at the beginning he thought that something sinister was going to happen, but as time went by, he dismissed that speculation.
Instead of a feeling of uneasiness, it is more like a tremor from the heart, if anything, Chen Nan felt that there is something calling him, it is that kind of call and his heart resonated, making him feel unsettled.
As time passed, that call became stronger and stronger, and he was surprised to find that a faint glow emanated from his body, exuding a divine aura.
This was by no means the golden true qi that came out through his body when his family's Xuan Gong was in operation, instead it was similar to the faint holy light emanating from the Ancient God's hand bone, this holy light made Chen Nan feel soothed all over his body, but it was increasingly difficult for his heart to calm down.
At this time, he had clearly sensed the call, and it was from the direction of the north of the city, the direction of the Divine Battle Ruins!
Chen Nan felt his heart was in turmoil, his body was actually emitting a mysterious 'holy light', his intuition told him that this holy light was exactly the same as the light emitted by the Divine Bone, he vaguely felt that this seemed to be related to his resurrection from the ancient Divine Demon Graveyard.
An hour passed, and after a fierce struggle in Chen Nan's heart, it was difficult for him to endure it any longer, so he rose up and rushed in the direction of the north of the city.
When he activated his family's Xuan Gong, he realized that the "Holy Light" on his body had disappeared, but the indistinct call still lingered in his heart.
After leaving the city, Chen Nan stepped into the mountain forest, which was very quiet at this time, with only the occasional cries of the night birds, the night breeze gently rustling, and the fragrance of flowers and grasses permeating the forest.
He carefully sensed the silk call and darted through the mountains, the birds and beasts inhabiting the forest were scared away by him from time to time.
Half an hour later, Chen Nan arrived at the Divine Battle Ruins, where he slowed his pace. Originally, this place was sparsely populated, but recently, due to the rumors of the God's Hand, the nearby thirty-mile radius would be infested with cultivators every day, and it was only at night that this place was the most peaceful.
Chen Nan climbed over a mountain peak that had been broken by the Ancient God and arrived at the valley of the dried up lake, the river had been diverted and the original lake had turned into a low valley.
There were no tall forests in the valley, only some low shrubs and flowers. The call that made Chen Nan feel uneasy originated from here, he stood motionless in the center of the valley, letting go of his body and mind, integrating himself into this piece of heaven and earth, and once again, the holy light emanated from his body.
The moonlight was like water, all the music was silent, a luminous silhouette stood alone in the center of the valley.
At this moment Chen Nan's mind was ethereal, his eyes were closed yet he was able to feel every blade of grass and tree in the vicinity. He saw two birds sleeping with their necks crossed on a tree, he saw a mountain mouse poking its head out of its hole, and he saw a wild fox watching him vigilantly in the dark.
Though he was closing his eyes, the nearby scenery really came into his mind, and in the extreme stillness he merged into this heaven and earth, and everything in the vicinity was able to be sensed by him.
Finally, he discovered the source of the call, which came from under his feet, a faint fluctuation came from the ground, and in a trance, he seemed to hear a woman's cry: "I want to see the light of day again"!
Chen Nan woke up with a start, when he carefully captured that wispy voice again there was no sound, only a fluctuation that came into his heart if nothing else.
''Underground that fluctuation actually came from underground,'' he said to himself as he lowered his head.
Chen Nan pulled out the long knife behind his back, set his whole body strength in the blade, in the moonlight haze, the long knife glows with dazzling light, like a round of sunshine as bright and dazzling, he forcefully slashed down to the ground.
"Boom"
With a loud bang, sand and rocks flew up, and a huge crack appeared in the middle of the valley. Suddenly a clear spring rushed out of the crack more than two meters above the ground surface, and refreshing splashes of water sprinkled down to the ground from the air.
Chen Nan was startled and hastily retreated, however what surprised him even more was still behind.
The huge crack that he had cleaved out with his long knife was slowly expanding, the nearby soil layer was sinking downwards, an earthquake seemed to have occurred in the valley, and the entire surface of the ground began to vibrate, Chen Nan was shocked, and quickly ran towards the outside of the valley.
He stood at the edge of the valley and looked at the changes within the valley in surprise. The entire valley was slowly breaking up, a crisscross of cracks appeared in the valley, the shattered soil layer continuously collapsed downwards, and spring water continuously gushed out of the surface from those cracks.
Chen Nan carefully observed under the surface of the ground is actually broken rock layer, broken rock layer five feet below is actually an underground lake. The power of his sword broke open a gap for the underground lake, causing the water below to surge up, causing the nearby broken rock layer and soil to collapse, causing a chain reaction, causing the broken rock layer above the underground lake to completely shatter and collapse.
In just a few moments, the dry lake valley turned into a lake, and the water level continued to grow, the birds and beasts inhabiting nearby fled in panic.
Chen Nan looked not far from the diverted river has been clear, the underground lake must be in the river diverted thousands of years after the formation of the river, the river must have a culvert and the underground lake connected.
Half an hour later, the water level in the lake is not rising, slowly calmed down, a beautiful small lake appeared in the original valley. The lake was as flat as a mirror, the moonlight was like water, the breeze was mixed with the fragrance of the silk wildflowers gently flicked, in this moment the mountains and forests were peaceful and ethereal.
A thrill ran through Chen Nan's heart as the call originated from the bottom of the lake
The deepest part of the lake exuded a holy light, and that faint light could be seen dimly as if it was coming from a piece of white jade. He knew that it was the left hand of the Ancient God that many cultivators had been searching for days, and the call to him must be the mysterious treasure in the left hand of the Ancient God!
How deep was the small lake Chen Nan could not visually measure, he did not know if he could safely dive to the bottom of the lake. The mysterious object in the Ancient God's hand was indeed appealing, but the dark and lightless bottom of the lake made him feel a hint of danger, making him not dare to jump into the lake easily.
He threw a boulder into the lake, and the boulder splashed a large amount of water, sending up layers of ripples, but there was no movement in the lake. He is still a little uneasy, want to catch a nearby mountain beast cast into the lake, but just now the lake valley broken stone layer sinking when the huge noise has long scared away the nearby birds and beasts, he turned around without the slightest gain.
Looking at the dark bottom of the lake, Chen Nan hesitated for a moment, and finally he took off his coat, and took off his long knife and placed it on the ground, and he jumped into the lake with two cold and shining daggers in his hands.
The lake water was incredibly cold, the light in the lake was very dim, he could only vaguely see the scenery within three or four feet, fortunately, the God Bone at the bottom of the lake was emitting a faint glow, giving him a clear target.
Chen Nan endeavored to dive down, and soon he arrived at the junction of the original lake valley and the underground lake. The water was already six feet deep by this point, and although he had felt some pressure, his body wasn't in any serious trouble.
After entering the underground lake he vaguely saw the nearby scenery, this was actually an underground cave, filled with stalactites, stalagmites, stone pillars, stone flowers, stone mantles, stone waterfalls, and other karst accumulations, in a thousand shapes and sizes, magnificent and magical.
Here Cinnan's heart jumped as he felt that danger was approaching him, but the water was so dark and hazy that it was hard to find anything unusual.
The Ancient God's severed left hand did not sink to the bottom of the lake, but hung above a piece of stone flower that was more than ten feet high from the bottom of the lake, and the fluctuation that drew him out of the City of Sin came from precisely there.
Chen Nan struggled to dive downward, and when he was less than half a zhang away from the Ancient God's hand bone, he felt a chill run through his body, and through the light emitted from the God's bone he could see the scene at the bottom of the lake.
The original lake valley fell above those rock layers, soil and rocks were crawling with water snakes, there were more water snakes swimming outward from those soil and rocks, countless water snakes were dancing at the bottom of the lake, like chaotic grasses in a dense mass.
The scene in the water made Chen Nan's heart tremble with fear, although he knew that the water snakes would not actively attack people, but if he accidentally swam into the group of water snakes the consequences were unimaginable.
The cave was about five feet deep, and when he carefully swam to the stone flower, he already felt a great pressure.
The divine bone was emitting a faint glow, which looked a little weird at the bottom of the pitch-black lake. On the white jade hand bone was twisted a thin line that was as transparent as silk, and on the thin line was wearing a thumb-sized jade wish, crystalline and radiant, it was obvious that it was an extremely precious jade, and there was not the slightest trace of carving on it, as if it were made in heaven.
Chen Nan gently took down the jade ruyi from the God Bone and hung it on his neck, he could hardly suppress the excitement in his heart, the mysterious jade that the two Ancient Gods had sacrificed their lives to fight for had actually landed in his hands.
He wanted to take the divine bone together, but thought that everyone learned that the Ancient God's relics were with it, if he was found to have found this divine bone, then he would face a never-ending pursuit, so he didn't move it.
It was at this moment that an intensely disturbing feeling struck his heart, he felt a great sense of crisis.
At this instant Chen Nan realized that the lake water above his head was fluctuating, he hurriedly raised his head to watch, only to see a water monster that looked like a fish but not a fish and a snake but not a snake quickly and swiftly attacking towards him like an arrow, the water monster was about one zhang long, with a one-horned head and a serpentine body with a fish's tail, and it was biting at him with its bloody mouth open.
Chen Nan hurriedly dodged to the side, the sharp sword-like teeth of the water monster brushed against him, but its snake-like body wrapped around his waist and abdomen at once.
This was the first time he had ever fought in water, but it didn't affect his ability to play. His left hand dagger stabbed at the huge mouth of the water monster that had swung back, while his right hand dagger in then viciously chopped at the snake's body that was wrapped around him.
Blood and water surged, both of Chen Nan's daggers inflicted fatal damage to the water monster, his left hand dagger stabbed deeply into the water monster's palate, while his right hand dagger chopped off its torso, the blood and water caused his eyes to blur for a while. The water monster twisted violently and sank towards the bottom of the lake, and in the blink of an eye it was submerged by the water snake.
He didn't dare to stay and hurriedly swam upstream. But at this time next to a clump of stalactites behind the reappearance of a water monster, this water monster has a bucket group thin, three feet long, looks to be much more ferocious than the one just now, in the darkness of the lake bottom water monster's eyes such as lamps like a bright, but it looks like penetrating Sen Sen's coldness.
Chen Nan did not feel like acting rashly, holding his twin daggers and gazing at it coldly.
The water monster did not charge at him, but opened its bloody mouth and spat out an electric light, although he avoided the electric light, but the water was conductive everywhere, the powerful electric current made his body numb, and he lost the ability to act in a split second.
The water monster twisted its snake body, and its grown tail fiercely lashed at Chen Nan's body, jerking him out horizontally in the water for a distance of three feet. Fresh blood gushed out from his mouth, as he was unable to utilize his energy to resist, this vigorous whip caused him to suffer serious internal injuries.
The intense pain between his chest and abdomen caused his paralyzed body to regain consciousness, and he was just about to move when he suddenly realized that there were another four or five water monsters that were more than three zhang long that were darting towards this place from a distance.
Chen Nan felt his scalp tingle, one such water monster was already difficult for him to deal with, so many of them were simply without any hope of victory.
His mouth was overflowing with blood, his body was motionless, several water monsters smelled the blood and rushed towards him, all of them opened their bloody mouths, revealing their white teeth, scary and terrifying.
When the bloody mouths of the water monsters were about to touch Chen Nan's body, he quickly sank down and lightning-like swung out two daggers, blood gushed wildly, and the two water monsters were seriously injured.
In this instant he felt a powerful electric current disable him once again, while a giant tail viciously smacked him. His body quickly fell towards the bottom of the lake, looking at the grass-like water snakes at the bottom of the lake, Chen Nan was scared out of his wits.
A sharp pain once again brought his body back to consciousness, more than a dozen water snakes had already bitten him, Chen Nan felt a numbness at the place where he was bitten, and this paralyzing feeling was rapidly spreading to all parts of his body.
He knew that he had been hit by a severe poison, he forcefully operated his Xuan Gong while spitting out blood, a layer of faint golden light emanated from Chen Nan's body and shook off the water snakes that bit him, but then countless water snakes wriggled and buried him underneath.
At this moment, no matter if his arms or between his hands and feet were crawling with water snakes, Chen Nan's body couldn't help but raise a small layer of goosebumps. Although they could no longer harm him due to the blockage of his body-protecting true qi, a gust of coldness still rose in his heart.
Through the dense water snakes, Chen Nan saw several water monsters hissing and biting the two injured water monsters, blood gushing wildly, while a dozen or so more water monsters swam there, and a dozen or so pairs of monstrous eyes as bright as lamps in the darkness coldly electrified, causing his heart to palpitate.
In a short moment, the two injured and bleeding water monsters were ripped apart and eaten by their companions, not even a single bone was left. Chen Nan felt a chill as he watched, this was truly a world of the weak and the strong, weakness meant death.
Although those water monsters constantly surveyed the bottom of the lake, but in the face of the dense, tens of thousands of wriggling water snakes, they could only retreat.
After a long time, the bottom of the lake returned to calm, Chen Nan's family Xuan Gong had been flowing non-stop, he had already drained the toxins from his body, but the serious internal injuries could not be healed in a short period of time. He slowly bent his knees and squatted to the ground, and then his feet stomped hard on the ground, and his body quickly rushed upwards like a golden arrow.
A dozen water monsters sensed the strong fluctuations in the water and quickly chased after him. Chen Nan was secretly anxious in his heart as he aimed the two daggers at his shoulders, preparing to stab himself before his body lost consciousness and use the pain to regain consciousness. At the same time, he operated his Xuan Gong to the limit, causing his body protection true qi to fill the surface of his body.
The powerful electric current came at him again, the moment Chen Nan sensed the current, he gently stabbed the dagger into his shoulder, the current wasn't as violent as he had imagined, and he knew that the Body Protecting True Qi emanating from his family's Xuan Gong had played a role.
The pain in his shoulder, coupled with the effect of the Body Protecting True Qi, Chen Nan did not lose his mobility this time, but the speed of the water monsters was far faster than him, a few water monsters chased after him in the blink of an eye, and opened their bloody mouths to bite at him.
Chen Nan had no choice but to turn back and fight with the several water monsters at close range, two sword qi inspired from the two daggers pierced through the bodies of two water monsters, causing their blood to gush wildly. However, he was also lashed solidly by the giant tail of a water monster, causing him to feel like his tendons and bones were about to break.
Fortunately, he was jerked upwards, and the powerful force caused him to quickly rush out of the underground lake, and the injured water monster was once again surrounded by his companions, leaving no bones or flesh left in the blink of an eye.
When Chen Nan was only one foot away from the lake, the water monster had trailed again, he threw the two daggers out with force, and vaguely he saw blood gushing. The water monsters seemed to know that he was about to escape from the lake, this time they no longer attacked their injured companions and rushed towards him.
In this moment of life and death, Chen Nan stimulated every bit of strength within his body, at this moment, his body's golden light flourished, like a blazing fire, the lake water around him boiled up, his body quickly rushed out of the water like a golden arrow, and fell towards the shore not far away.
The moment his body touched the ground, Chen Nan was deflated, with no more half strength in his body, he gasped for air and greedily breathed in the fresh air.
If it was usual, he could have stayed underwater for half a day without having to change his breath, but today, he had been injured repeatedly in the life and death danger, coupled with the constant strenuous exercise, he had exhausted his energy prematurely, causing him to almost choke on the water.
It was only after a long time that Cinnan was able to catch his breath as he staggered to his feet.
"There's such a perverted water monster at the bottom of the lake, if I hadn't escaped quickly, I'm afraid I would have become an immortal this time."
The lake had already regained its calmness, the God Bone was emitting a faint light at the bottom of the dark lake, and those water monsters had long since disappeared without a trace.
"XXXX even caused me to mutilate my own body" Chen Nan cursed while bandaging the wounds on both shoulders.
He rested by the lake for a while before picking up his tunic and long sword from the ground and rushing towards Sin City.
