Chapter 78: Underwater Garden
Before he could catch the dragon-scaled fruit, Yu Nianzhen felt a piercing pain in his wrist.
Blood spurted out, but he didn’t care about it.
Instead, he gritted his teeth and grabbed the mature dragon-scaled fruit
However, he did not relax after grabbing the fruit.
When the fruit was in his hand, he jumped backwards and turned to his left.
"This fellow Taoist is quite cruel to himself." A young man said as he looked at Yu Nianzhen.
The man had a dagger in his right hand and a mocking smile on his lips.
"Talking is useless."
Yu Nianzhen deposited the dragon-scaled fruit into his storage ring and held his sword in his right hand.
At the same time, he circulated his qi to close the wound on his left wrist.
"Drifting wind sword." He swung his sword, and twelve wind blades rushed toward the man.
Normally, Yu Nianzhen would feel out his opponent before choosing the best way to attack.
However, this method was not practical in his current situation.
The only way to deal with a group of enemies was to use a powerful move to cut down the numbers.
Even if the move couldn’t kill all the enemies, it would kill a few and serve as a warning for the rest.
As expected, the young man reacted as soon as the wind blades approached.
He was fast, but the blades were faster.
Before he could take more than a step, twelve blades arrived at his neck and smoothly pierced through.
However, the attack did not end there.
Although it had weakened, it continued toward the cultivators close to the dragon-scaled herb tree.
A moment later, the remaining wind blades attacked five more cultivators before they lost power.
"Who else wants to challenge me?" Yu Nianzhen shouted.
This was the first time he killed someone, but he found it wasn’t as difficult as he expected.
As a modern person, Yu Nianzhen was used to rules.
He didn’t always follow them, but he wasn’t a wanton murderer.
Because of this, he thought it would be a little difficult to kill a person.
However, once he did, he realised that neither his mind nor heart were affected.
Maybe it was because of the transmigration or something else, but all he felt was indifference.
"Forget it." Someone shouted.
At this time, the gathered cultivators chose to give up.
It wasn’t because they feared Yu Nianzhen, it was because fighting wasn’t necessary.
For the moment, it was best to figure out a way to enter the underwater garden.
"Are you okay?"
Yu Nianzhen turned to Jiang Yue as soon as the others left the area.
"I am good. How about you?"
"Good."
As he spoke, Yu Nianzhen pulled out the dragon-scaled herb tree.
He threw it into the jade box, and to his surprise, the soil rose up and dragged it in.
When he saw this, Yu Nianzhen couldn’t help but be hopeful.
If the dragon-scaled fruit could grow in the jade box, they would have an endless supply of dragon-scaled fruits.
The jade box could accelerate growth using spirit stones.
With that, Yu Nianzhen could grow dragon-scaled fruits with better ages.
If he was lucky, he would be able to grow a ten thousand years old dragon-scaled fruit.
This kind of fruit could be refined into body tempering pills that were effective on qi transformation realm cultivators.
"Is your wrist really okay?"
A frown marred Yu Nianzhen’s face as he looked at Jiang Yue’s wrist that was previously caught by an opponent’s whip.
"Now that I think about it, it’s a little painful."
"Is it?"
Yu Nianzhen immediately removed a pill from his storage ring.
"Take this pill first."
Jiang Yue looked at the pill, but didn’t take it.
Instead, his lips curled upwards, and his eyes were filled with mischief.
"There is a better way to relieve the pain."
Yu Nianzhen was taken aback when he heard the words, and then he saw Jiang Yue’s wrist close to his face.
For a moment, he didn’t understand what was going on, but he soon got it.
With a helpless shake of his head, he returned the pill to his storage ring and then grabbed Jiang Yue’s hand.
A moment later, he placed a kiss on the inside of the wrist, which made Jiang Yue shiver.
"You are naughty." Yu Nianzhen said.
"Don’t you like that I am naughty?"
Jiang Yue chuckled and took back his arm.
His face was a little flushed, and he was in a good mood.
"Let’s go and check out the underwater garden." He said and led the way.
The two stepped onto the lake and walked to the centre.
"You two..., do you dare to come here?" Someone gritted their teeth as soon as they saw Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue.
"Why wouldn’t we dare?" Jiang Yue sneered.
"Wait until we leave the underwater garden."
The person jumped into the dark hole, leaving the two alone.
"A fight may break out underwater."
Yu Nianzhen knew that the other cultivators would not give up easily.
As soon as all the underwater herbs were collected, a fight would break out.
At that time, it wouldn’t just be them against everyone else.
It would be everyone against everyone.
In the end, everyone was in the secret realm for resources.
If they could, no one wanted to give up any resources.
"We will cross that bridge when we come to it."
After that, the two stood across from each other.
From their position, they could barely make out a formation at the bottom of the dark hole.
The formation radiated blue light and occasionally, a brilliant red would stain the blue light.
However, the red was momentary.
After a moment, the red would be expelled from the blue, and the lake water would turn a little bloodier.
"Can you make out anything?" Yu Nianzhen asked.
Two weeks before the secret realm opened, Jiang Yue had redeemed a formations book from the inner sect martial hall.
Although two weeks was not a long time, it was enough for Jiang Yue to cover the basics.
Compared to Yu Nianzhen, he was a little more proficient in formations.
"It looks like a water boundary formation."
Jiang Yue frowned as he said this.
He could make out the outermost part of the formation, but he felt that the formation couldn’t be so simple.
After all, the water boundary array didn’t have the power to kill.
If that was the case, a more dangerous formation should be inlaid within the water boundary array.
"Let’s go in."
After determining that they couldn’t learn more from standing there, Yu Nianzhen was very decisive.
He held Jiang Yue’s hand and pulled him to jump into the dark hole.
"Fifty metres deep." Jiang Yue exclaimed when they landed in the garden.
From the surface, the lake didn’t look deep.
However, when they jumped into the dark hole, the two realised that they were mistaken.
"The situation doesn’t look good."
Yu Nianzhen was alert as soon as he landed in the underwater garden.
Because of that, he was able to determine the situation with a single glance.
"En." Jiang Yue also understood the situation.
Now that they were within the water boundary array, Jiang Yue could clearly tell the arrays in the underwater garden.
"A water attack array has been combined with the water boundary."
When he saw it, Jiang Yue felt it was brilliant.
Unlike the four turns array, this combined formation was more than ten times more powerful.
This was because it not only combined attack and defence, but was placed in water.
For as long as there was water in the lake, the array could repair, and strengthen itself.
Most importantly, if one was not careful when breaking the array, they would be counterattacked by the formation.
If they chose not to break the array, the array would automatically release attacks at intervals.
"How long can you hold your breath?" Jiang Yue suddenly asked.
"I should be able to hold on for at least two hours."
"I am about the same."
Although they were cultivators, they were only at the origin forging realm.
They could hold their breath for a long time, but they still needed to breathe.
This meant that they needed to break the formation, collect the herbs, and leave the underwater garden within two hours.
"Speaking of herbs..."
Jiang Yue looked around, and Yu Nianzhen followed him to do the same.
"The underwater garden covers the whole lake bottom."
From where they stood, the two could see other cultivators in random places in the garden.
In this way, they didn’t have to fight for the time being since everyone was focused on breaking the formation and collecting the herbs.
"Is that blue dawn bamboo?"
Jiang Yue was extremely excited when he saw a herb that was growing one metre away.
The herb was three metres tall and looked like normal bamboo.
However, it had a special characteristic.
At dawn, it would glow a startling blue for a short while.
If it was picked at that time, its effect would be half a point better than when picked at other times.
