Chapter 884: Chapter 214: Water Spirit
Fang Che tightly closed his mouth, bubbles escaping from his nostrils, leaving him speechless.
It was supposed to be a secret realm, so why did he fall into a body of water? And it was quite deep.
Mr. Fang was strapped with a sword and a blade, each weighing over hundreds of pounds, like lead weights dragging him uncontrollably to the bottom.
Fang Che was mentally counting while continuously trying to circulate his spiritual power.
All the way down, he sank quietly without struggle.
When Fang Che counted to six hundred twenty-three, finally... he felt something under his feet.
Had he reached the bottom?
Fang Che looked down, only to see a bright, massive fish tail, as large as a rich family’s front door, slap him hard in the face.
Whoosh!
Fang Che was slapped dozens of meters away by the tail, and using that force, he ascended seventeen or eighteen meters before continuing to sink.
"What the hell..."
Fang Che touched his face, which was a bit numb from the slap, utterly speechless.
His toes must have hit the big fish’s back when he sank, startling it, and as it fled, its tail coincidentally hit him in the face?
The fish had fled in such a direction that it was no longer visible, yet Fang Che was still somewhat shocked.
That fish was huge!
Conservatively speaking, it must weigh two or three thousand pounds, and the most amazing part is, damn, it looks like a freshwater fish?
It should be delicious.
Fang Che continued sinking with bubbling sounds.
No choice, his Dan Tian spiritual power seemed completely sealed, unable to activate any strength.
"This is a thousand feet deep, right? Damn, there’s still such a big fish, and it’s bottomless here... how is this place so different from the outside world..."
"If my Dan Tian remains sealed like this, it’s hard to even go up... if I made it into this ghost-like Yin Yang Realm, only to end up drowning without doing anything, that’s not just unfair, it would become the biggest joke through the ages..."
Fang Che’s mind wandered aimlessly.
After an unknown length of time, he finally lightly touched the bottom.
As expected, there was no silt, only massive rocks covered in aquatic plants.
When he opened his eyes, he saw the entire expanse of green lake water stretching to the horizon.
It looked like a giant piece of top-tier jade, indescribably beautiful.
In this underwater environment, there was a faint glow, and numerous unnameable small fish darted about the bottom.
Bang bang bang...
A massive school of millions of small fish swarmed towards him, bumping into Fang Che.
The bumping made Fang Che’s forehead echo with thumps.
Fang Che opened his mouth and actually caught one, biting it fiercely, and broke the little fish in half, chewing the lower half in his mouth, causing threads of bloody water to seep from his mouth.
The other half was snatched away by the little fish the moment it broke, swarming over it.
In the blink of an eye, that half of the fish turned into a clean fish bone.
"What the..." Fang Che was taken aback.
Damn, these fish are actually carnivorous.
Quickly spitting out what was in his mouth.
The million little fish surrounded Fang Che, completely obscuring his vision, and each little mouth was biting at him.
But Fang Che’s body was almost like steel now, these little fish couldn’t bite through it. Even though he couldn’t use spiritual power currently, he was not something these fish could deal with.
Fang Che grabbed handful after handful, crushing countless little fish, which drifted in the water and were immediately devoured by the other fish.
As Fang Che killed more and more, the little fish gathered around the new corpses, and Fang Che’s eyes finally saw something again.
He didn’t know which direction was the shore, so he used the sword in one hand and the blade in the other to walk continuously toward one direction on the lakebed.
With persistent attempts, his Dan Tian’s spiritual power finally showed slight signs of loosening, easing a lot of the pressure he felt.
Solved the inner breath issue.
Fang Che felt relieved, at least he wouldn’t suffocate in the water.
He chose a stable, massive rock at the lakebed to use as leverage and accidentally discovered a cluster of emerald green leaves on one side, with small forehand-sized bright red fruits on top.
"Could it be a treasure?"
Fang Che snatched it up, uprooting six pieces of this green grass, each with two small red fruits. He clutched them tightly in his hand.
No matter if it was useful or not, it wasn’t easy coming down here, and following the "never return empty-handed" principle, Fang Che uprooted them altogether.
He held it in his left hand, and then, gathering spiritual power for an hour, swung his long blade, whoosh!
A huge bubble of foam rose.
Fang Che slashed his sword hard against a rock, and the strong rebound force launched him upwards.
In the water, he moved like an arrow shooting straight up to the sky.
Faster than the dust rising beneath the rock, in an instant, he lost sight of the lakebed.
Originally, using the Netherworld was most suitable for this, but his divine sense hadn’t yet recovered, preventing that.
However, using the Nether Monarch Blade was the same.
The inner breath circulated, repeating in his body, and the threads of spiritual power in his meridians grew ever stronger.
Fang Che rushed up a hundred meters and then slashed downward with his sword, propelling himself upward again.
After seventy or eighty continuous slashes...
The surface of a calm lake.
Several water birds floated idly, leisurely paddling the clear waves with red feet, elegant and composed.
But...
With a splash!
Fang Che emerged from under one of the water birds.
With a puff, he sprayed a mouthful of water.
This particular water bird was clearly dumbfounded.
As I was swimming well in the water, suddenly something bumped into my soft belly.
It directly pushed me into the air, leaving me bewildered, my wings spread wide before I could react.
After a moment.
I frantically and chaotically stomped my feet hard onto the round object beneath, squawking in shock, and leapt away.
"Scared me to death! What does it feel like to have your belly suddenly propped up... damn... there’s a ghost in the water!"
As soon as the big bird flew up, the surrounding birds immediately swooped up in alarm.
The lake surface instantly became a flurry of white shadows.
Fang Che took a look... oh, what a beautiful scene, turns out it was a flock of swans.
Looking around, he realized he was in a body of water, it should be a lake, with no end in sight in the front, left, or right. Only behind him could the distant shore be vaguely seen.
Fang Che gathered the limited Spiritual Energy he could use and began swimming with both limbs.
Splish splash...
As he stirred up the water’s surface, not far away, large fish continually leaped out of the water.
Plop plop...
It unexpectedly caused a resonance among the fish.
Fang Che swam hard on the surface, and in the distance behind him, countless large fish happily jumped out of the water, falling back with splashes everywhere.
Having great fun.
For a whole hour.
Fang Che reached the shore, biting the water grass he picked from the lake in his mouth, as he found the roots unclean, he simply put the red fruit end in his mouth to hold it.
Climbing up with his hands and feet.
Finally sitting down on a big rock, soaking wet.
Gasping for breath.
When he wanted to take the water grass from his mouth, he found... huh?
Where’s the water grass?
He looked over the water’s surface, finding nothing.
Smacking his lips, he faintly tasted a grassy fragrance in his mouth, only to realize that the water grass and those twelve fruits had melted in his mouth.
Swallowed down.
Now only a few bits of root were left in his mouth, and they continued to dissolve.
His tongue curled it further into his mouth, and instantly, even the roots dissolved.
With a gulp, he swallowed it down.
"What kind of stuff is this... can’t be poison, right?"
Fang Che wasn’t afraid of poison.
He had plenty of Elixir Pills ready in his arms.
Then he felt a cool sensation rising after the water grass dissolved. It merged into his meridians, entered the Dantian. Then there seemed to be a slight change in power.
Fang Che couldn’t say why, but when his sight fell upon the water surface, he suddenly felt an intimate connection with this water, wanting to go down and play. When he scooped up water with his hand, it felt increasingly strange.
Deciding to jump back in with a splash.
Back in the water, the feeling was completely different from before.
Fang Che just felt this water had become part of his body, or his body had melded into the water.
He was free to do anything in the water, even more comfortably and naturally than on land.
With a thought, he swung his arm, and with a rumble, several meters of water surged up with his casual motion, forming a giant wave.
Fang Che was startled.
I hadn’t even used any force yet!
Why did it...
After experimenting a few more times, he suddenly understood.
"Could it be the legendary Water Spirit Grass?"
It’s said that after consuming Water Spirit Grass, one naturally becomes close to water, and regardless of any Jiang rivers and seas, it’s as if being at home.
All waters could be manipulated as if extensions of one’s limbs, controlled with ease.
"But it wasn’t supposed to be this effective..."
Excited, Fang Che experimented with hands, feet, and slight Spiritual Power, using no force at all...
"Great stuff!"
Fang Che was directly thrilled.
"This Yin Yang Realm is such a great place, I came in and got such heaven-defying fruits, with this heaven-defying ability, isn’t any water region now accessible?"
"Amazing!"
"If people from the Yin Shui Palace saw these fruits, they’d likely fight to the death to seize them, but now it’s my gain."
Fang Che thought to himself.
The water below him moved automatically, forming a platform rising above the water, lifting him back onto the rock.
Then the water splashed back into the lake with a crash.
"This ability, I must further explore it, it feels like it will be very useful!"
Fang Che mused, not forgetting that he was here for training. Though he got treasures, others may not leave empty-handed, right?
Fang Che was about to get up.
But when he looked down, he was stunned. His eyes almost popped out of his sockets.
Because...
On the smooth, flat rock before him, from nothing, characters slowly appeared.
It was the rules of the Yin Yang Realm.
And a ring began to slowly manifest from the stone.
