Chapter Eighty-Five: The Bottom of the Dragon Pool
In the following days, Ji Yan would challenge once a day, which was also the maximum frequency that the emperor could allow, so Ji Yan was beaten again and again beyond recognition, but the next day he would still continue to challenge like an immortal Xiaoqiang, and he failed fourteen times in a row, and finally came back with an improvement from one minute to three minutes, he didn't feel anything, because in his opinion, there was no difference between one minute and three minutes, but that Emperor Fu did have some different evaluations, and in the fourteen battles, he could capture the way the Thunder Emperor fought and extended the time by two times, which was enough to make anyone proud, just because the target of that battle is the Emperor of the Ages.
"Alas, three minutes, as a man, I only lasted three minutes, and the time was indeed a little shorter. Ji Yan said in a self-deprecating manner.
Today he didn't challenge again, the continuous challenges made his spirit break a little, and most importantly, today is the day when the dragon Chiyuan opens.
Ji Yan took Felena and the little princess to meet several academy lecturers, and then came to the main hall where he had been treated before.
The quota has been set, Ji Yan and the little princess are the two places in the academy, and the Xia family accounts for two places, namely Xia Qingyu and one of her clan brothers named Xia Qingfeng, in addition, the remaining three places are accounted for by the major families who came to visit before.
"This-there are women in it, isn't it possible to take a bath together?" Ji Yan muttered.
"The dragon pond abyss will only be opened once a year, it is said that it can nourish the body and soul of the cultivator, and it has the meaning of turning into a dragon, and some people can also be transformed because of this, and stimulate the potential of the human body to a certain extent. In the past, the annual quota would usually be allocated by the major families just after the end of each opening trial, but this time, our academy came here to occupy two places for nothing, and we also paid a lot of things, of course, it was all worth it. Mr. Fu looked at the two of them and said.
"As for the other three people from Jeju's three major families, the Lu family, the Ma family, and the Xu family. β
Mr. Fu dragged out a long tone, and then looked at Ji Yan.
"Xu's?" Ji Yan looked at Mr. Fu's gaze and pondered, "Could it be that the Xu family is hiding the sword?"
"Yes, it's the Xu Feng you defeated at the beginning, it's just that this time it's his brother who came, and the realm is much stronger than many. β
"Sure enough, the road is narrow, who would have thought that the Xu family would still have power in Jeju. β
"The Xu family is not worried, in Dongtu, there is no place where they dare not reason with the academy. Mr. Fu stood with his hands behind his back, and his body invisibly exuded a strong might, not only for his own cultivation, but also for the invincible faith given by the academy to everyone.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Hualong Chiyuan is the important place of my Xia family, the rest of you, please rest here for a while. Xia Yuanchuan did not come forward, and it was his brother Xia Yuanshan who received everyone at this moment.
Ji Yan and his entourage of seven people, four men and three women, under the leadership of Xia Yuanshan, entered the depths of the Xia family's mansion, and finally, stopped in front of a door that carved countless incantations, Xia Yuanshan silently recited a few words, the door opened, a light flashed, he motioned for a few people to go in, Xia Qingyu and Xia Qingfeng took the lead to enter, and they were obviously familiar with the way in their own homes, and the remaining few people also entered.
The light flashed, Ji Yan stepped out, but he didn't expect to step on the soft grass, what caught his eye was a scenery of birds singing and flowers, and here he could clearly feel that the vitality of heaven and earth was much richer than the outside world, and it was definitely a blessed land.
"The fan just now should be a small isolation circle or a teleportation circle or something, I didn't expect that the Xia family not only has excellent medical skills, but also someone is well versed in formations. Ji Yan thought secretly.
They followed Xia Yuanchuan all the way, and after a while, they saw two old men in front of them, a man and a woman, both sitting on rocking chairs, squeaking and shaking, looking like two ordinary rich men resting in their own homes.
"Yuanchuan has seen two clan elders-" Xia Yuanchuan respectfully bowed to a junior.
After hearing this, the two old men opened their eyes, glanced at each other kindly, and then looked at the young people behind him and said, "These are the young people who came to the trial this year?"
"Yes, the two clan elders, the rules for this year are still the same, and the rest will be handed over to the two of you. Xia Yuanshan briefly explained a few words, and then retreated to the small hut on the side.
"Alright, you little ones come with me, too. The seven of them were divided into two groups, three girls followed the old woman, and four men followed the old man, and while walking, they passed through a few strange trees and a few boulders, and finally, they saw a few pools that were steaming cold, no more, no less, just seven.
"Men go to the four on the left, women go to the three on the right, don't look at your eyes if I find out, if I find out, I will cut off your eyeballs and give the old man a drink." The old man looked at Ji Yan and said.
"A man's mouth, a deceitful ghost, you old man can't speak reliably, what's the use of picking out their eyeballs if they see it, it's not the girl's reputation that is lost, it's just outsiders, there is our own girl here." After speaking, he looked at Xia Qingyu very dotingly.
"Hahaha, old woman, you really don't leave us any face, so it's still the old rules. β
"Naturally, it's still the old rules. β
After the two finished speaking, they made a few strange gestures in their hands, and at the same time, a white wall used as a dividing line from the middle, separating the two areas of men and women.
"Xiao Xia, help me take care of this little girl later. Ji Yan looked at Xia and whispered, then pointed to the little princess beside him and said.
When the latter heard it, he seemed to dislike the title of Xiao Xia very much, and secretly thought that the two of us were not familiar to this point, so he instinctively rolled his eyes and glared at him, but he also took the little girl's hand, even if he agreed.
However, in Ji Yan's opinion, the little girl rolling her eyes is too cute, maybe this is Aiwu and Wu.
The three little girls followed the old woman through the white wall to the three pools on the right, and the old man asked them to choose one of the remaining four pools.
"Longyuan Seven Pools, there is no essential difference, the same source and the same stream, but the personal fate and talent are different, and the things that can be comprehended are also different, before going down, I want to tell you clearly, these pools are very deep, I don't know how deep they are, the further down, maybe the more benefits you can get, but the same cold will also be heavier, and there have been cases of death in the past, so I want to remind you - do what you can. β
"This jade slip, crush it when you can't hold on, and it will be teleported directly to the shore, and I can also sense your position. After the old man finished speaking, no one handed out a jade slip, the size of mahjong, with runes engraved on it that he couldn't understand.
"Alright, feel free to do so. After the old man finished speaking, he conjured up a rocking chair out of nowhere, and lay on it, rocking leisurely.
The four pools are of similar size, about ten meters in a circle, and the adjacent spacing is only twenty meters, just now Ji Yan looked at the order of the pools, and found that they were a little familiar, but he didn't remember where they were familiar for a while, so he walked to the one closest to him, but someone arrived one step ahead of him.
"I know you, your name is Ji Yan, more than a year ago, it was you who injured my brother. The man turned to look at Ji Yan and said, "My name is Xu Zhiyuan, Xu Feng's second brother." β
"The road is narrow. Ji Yan sighed secretly. "I fought a fair battle with Xu Feng and won by luck, I don't know what your opinion is. β
"My younger brother is the most outstanding person in the family with the best talent in cultivation, I thought that he entered the academy is a sure thing, but I didn't expect that in the end, it was for you to pick up the cheap, and in the end even the divine soul vision was almost abolished, but you should not have thought that my younger brother did not fall because of this calamity, but after this catastrophe, he broke through the life and death calamity, and became a master of the life and death realm, and he thought that it would be much better than those in the academy. Xu Zhiyuan looked at Ji Yan, saying that he was ashamed, but there was no expression on his face.
"What the hell do you want to say?" Ji Yan felt a little noisy as he listened to what the other party said.
"What I want to say is that since he has broken through life and death, as a disciple of the academy, you must not be able to come forward to kill you, and let me, who is my elder brother, really happen to be able to fight with you in the same realm, and it is difficult for the gentlemen who want to come to the academy to say anything. β
"Hehe-" Ji Yan smiled helplessly: "After talking for a long time, you still want to kill me, the Xu family's hearts are too small, Mr. Pang is right, it's really difficult to become a big deal." β
"You're looking for deathβ" Xu Zhiyuan pointed to the sword, and was about to make a move, but was interrupted by a voice.
"Why are you so unruly, Xiaoshan didn't tell me when he came?Hualong Chiyuan forbids fighting, otherwise, the old man will have to invite him out-" The old man was still lazily lying on the rocking chair and shaking comfortably, not even bothering to look at them. Perhaps feeling a little impatient, he waved his fan, and the four people who had been standing on the shore fell into the pool like water dogs.
"Shhhhhh Ji Yan who fell into the water couldn't help but shudder, the pool water was cold and skull, but it was refreshing, and under careful induction, it seemed that he could still calm his mind, and at the same time felt that his soul was refreshed, just like a long drought and a rainstorm, and it was really wonderful to meet his old acquaintance in another country.
After a while, Ji Yan felt that the feeling of being overwhelmed had subsided, and he remembered that the old man had said just now that the further down the better, so he slowly sank down. In the same way, he remembered that the old man had said that the deeper the place, the more dangerous it was, so he just sneaked down little by little.
The ten-meter-square pool is surrounded by smooth stone walls, and there is no inch on the black stone wall, not even a piece of moss is long, Ji Yan didn't have time to think about it, and when he dive to a depth of more than ten meters, he actually saw a name on the stone wall - Xia Yu.
"Who is Xia Yu? is also a disciple of the Xia family who came here for trials in the past?" Ji Yan was puzzled in his heart, shook his head, and continued to dive, and then, every other distance, he would find a person's name, from less to more, at most densely packed, when he dived to sixty meters, the name gradually decreased, which also aroused Ji Yan's competitiveness, he already understood that these names must be left by those who understand the trial, and the deeper they dive, the more they represent their own strength and gain, which can't help but arouse Ji Yan's competitiveness.
At a depth of sixty meters, he already felt a chill and began to invade the divine soul, and due to the poor light, it was pitch black all around, which inexplicably added a bit of terrifying atmosphere.
"Phew-labor and management are all cultivators now, where can they be afraid of the dark, and they can't make people laugh off their big teeth when they spread it. β
Seventy meters, the Dao Sutra began to operate, continuously absorbing the vitality in the water and providing oxygen.
A hundred meters, Haoran was upright, and the silver-white light also provided him with a vision, bringing a glimmer of light in this dark space, and at the same time, he hadn't seen a person's name for a while.
Thinking that this 100 meters is not the highest record, Ji Yan has a clear understanding of his cultivation, the vast world, thousands of cultivators, how many geniuses in the sky throughout the ages, only 100 meters, he has not yet reached the limit, not to mention some strange people.
Sure enough, at a depth of about one hundred and twenty meters, Ji Yan saw names, and there were several. And at this moment, he also found creatures in the water, a few small - loaches.
"There are loaches in such a deep place. Ji Yan was speechless, and at the same time stretched out his hand to grab it, but the loach's body was indeed extremely agile, and he turned around and avoided Ji Yan's claws.
"Hey, labor and management don't believe it, and they can't catch your little thing. The tip of his right finger flickered, and a purple lightning, as small as a swimming dragon, instantly passed through the loach's body, and the silver-white loach suddenly turned into a little starlight and scattered in the water.
"Isn't it an entity?" Ji Yan was shocked and directly defeated the loach, indicating that the other party was a spirit body, without a physical body, could it be a natural spirit creature bred in the water?
He laughed heavily, and at the same time, the lightning in his hand disappeared, and in its place was a circular black hole, which was also his divine soul vision, which could devour all things.
The two silver loaches were swallowed by the black hole, and he could clearly feel that his divine soul had been strengthened, and his divine sense could probe farther, which made him more and more excited, and he couldn't wait to dive deeper, as if he had forgotten the old man's instructions.
One hundred and fifty meters, three names were found again, Lu Yuan, Qu Chong, and Yu Shuang. At the same time, several carp were swimming in the water, and Ji Yan spent a lot of time devouring them again.
One hundred and eighty meters. There are only two names, Yuan Fang and Xiao Yu. Several water snakes spit out their cores, looked at Ji Yan, and actually took the initiative to attack him, which scared him into a cold sweat, but fortunately, this creature didn't seem to have any attack power, so it was devoured by him again.
One hundred and ninety meters, Ji Yan felt that he had reached the limit, and at a distance of ten meters, he felt as if he had run 10,000 meters with a mountain on his back.
"Make up a whole number, how can it be two hundred. He cheered himself up.
Feeling the pressure brought by the surrounding water and the unknown chill in the water, he sneaked down little by little, and his whole body was already covered by Haoran righteousness, I have to say that the benefits and effects of the origin earth qi are beyond imagination, if it was before, I was afraid that he would dive fifty meters at most.
He summoned the black broken sword, embedded it in the crack of the stone, and sneaked down little by little, and finally, he saw a line of large characters like iron and silver hooksβI smiled at the sky with my horizontal sword.
The font is chic, eclectic, and the pen is heavy, it doesn't seem like a person with a sword, it should be a swordsman, judging by the handwriting and Ji Yan. From the font, Ji Yan could even feel the arrogance of the other party who was fearless and dared to swing his sword to the sky.
"It's really a warrior. Ji Yan praised that it was already the limit for others to just write their names, but the other party actually wrote seven big characters, and they wrote so chic and free, it seemed that they did not do their best. It's just that the other party doesn't dive anymore.
Inadvertently, Ji Yan reached out and touched the water below, which seemed to be obstructed by a transparent diaphragm.
It's strange why you can't dive anymore when you're not at the bottom of the pool. Is it an enchantment?
Looking at the dark space below, Ji Yan felt that something must be wrong. Time was running out, and he couldn't help but remember that he still had a magic eye.
The things of the imperial road must be extraordinary, after communicating with the emperor Fu, Ji Yan got a reply, simple use will not affect the mind, so he summoned the magic eye, floating in the center of the eyebrows, with divine sense control, a magical scene appeared in his mind, he seemed to have three eyes, and the third eye saw exceptionally clearly, without a trace of obstacles, so he has since run most of the yuan power into the demon eye.
"Magic in the world-" This is a trick he has realized by using it simply, a crimson light pierces through the transparent diaphragm, and looks at the dark underwater, the underwater space is no longer ten meters square, but boundless, like the bottom of the sea, Ji Yan saw that a behemoth was lying in wait at the bottom, as high as a mountain, stretching for dozens of miles.
"This, what kind of monster is this, could it be that it is another demon emperor. "Squeezing the female assassin is almost sluggish, such a huge body, he didn't even dare to think about it before, after seeing the Demon Emperor, he realized that there is such a behemoth in the world, but the length of this monster is indeed a bit exaggerated.
"No, it seems to be molting?" Ji Yan turned his magic eye, and saw that this behemoth actually had six claws, and felt so weird, and after careful observation, he found that it was actually molting, and the first half of the two claws had faded, so it looked like six claws, but after careful observation, he found that two claws were weak and weak in the water, and the inside was empty, and he saw the clue at the moment.
"The body is slender like a snake, the belly has four claws, the face is hideous, the head has horns like a deer, and the body is covered with scales, it, it, it's-dragon?" Ji Yan was about to stutter excitedly, and at the same time, two huge rays of light shot towards Ji Yan.
"Is this, its eyes?"
The eyes the size of a house emitted light, shaking so much that he could barely open his eyes, Ji Yan instinctively took out the jade slip he carried with him, and then crushed it without hesitation.
Ji Yan disappeared out of thin air, and the giant beast also closed its eyes, and the depths of the bottom of the pool fell into darkness again.