Chapter 3: Terror at the bottom of the lake

After returning to the inn from the kamikaze academy, Chen Nan quickly packed up his things and left there, and then stayed in another inn.

The day after he left, the Oriental Phoenix and the little princess led six or seven beautiful maidens into the inn. These people surrounded the room where Chen Nan used to live and cast magic one after another, lightning, wind blades, and flames...... The madness raged, and the house collapsed in an instant.

The innkeeper and his fellows trembled with fear, wondering why these students of the Kamikaze Academy were so angry.

When Dongfang Phoenix found that there was no one in the house, her face turned blue with anger, and she asked the little princess, "Little trouble, didn't you say that he lives here?"

Hearing the word "little trouble", the little princess said unhappily, "Don't call me little trouble, I hate this name. He did live here before, who knew that this guy was so cunning that he actually escaped first. 」

When the girls next to them heard this, they all smiled, the name of the little princess is too individual, and she is already famous. A girl said, "Little trouble, are you afraid that your brother will be beaten, so send him a letter in advance and let him escape?"

The little princess screamed, "That scum is not my brother, I hate that guy to death, otherwise I wouldn't have cleaned him up with Sister Phoenix." Also, I don't call me a little trouble, you can call me little sister. 」

To the chagrin of the little princess, all the girls laughed, and one of them laughed, "You want to be a sister to someone else when you're only sixteen? 」

The women didn't find Chennan, so they could only reluctantly compensate the innkeeper for a certain amount of gold coins and evacuate.

In the afternoon of the same day, when Chen Nan came here to "observe the enemy's situation", after seeing the scene in front of him, he couldn't help but wipe a cold sweat and said, "Women are really terrible, but fortunately I have foresight. 」

The moon is in the sky, and the clear light is spreading.

The moonlight like water hazy the entire Sin City looked like a veil from afar.

In the dead of night, Chen Nan did not feel the slightest sleep, he pushed the door out, jumped lightly on the roof, he spread the mat on the tiles, and then lay on it to look up at the moon.

On this full moon night, there was a faint sense of unease in his heart, and he had always believed in this sense of his own, and at first he thought that something dangerous was coming, but as time went on he dismissed that suspicion.

It wasn't so much a feeling of uneasiness as a tremor from his heart, and if Mural Chennan felt something calling him, it was that call that resonated with his heart, making him feel unrelenting.

As time passed, that call became stronger and stronger, and he was surprised to find that there was a faint light emitting from his body, exuding a divine aura.

This was by no means the golden true qi that came out of his body when his family heirloom Xuan Gong was running, but it was similar to the faint holy light emitted by the hand bones of the ancient gods, this holy light made Chen Nan feel extremely comfortable, but his heart became more and more difficult 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 War Ruins!

Chennan felt very confused in his heart, his body actually emitted a mysterious "holy light", and his intuition told him that this holy light was exactly the same as the light emitted by the divine bones, and he vaguely felt that this seemed to be related to his resurrection from the ancient god and demon cemetery.

An hour passed, and after a fierce struggle in Chennan's heart, he couldn't bear it anymore, so he got up and rushed to the north of the city.

When he carried the family heirloom Xuangong, he found that the "holy light" on his body had disappeared, but the call that was still lingering in his heart.

After leaving the city, Chennan walked into the mountain forest, at this time the mountain is very quiet, only the night birds occasionally chirp, the night breeze gently blows, and the fragrance of flowers and plants permeates the forest.

He carefully sensed the call, and walked quickly through the mountains, and the birds and beasts inhabiting the forest were frightened away by him from time to time.

Half an hour later, Chennan came to the Divine War Ruins, where he slowed down. Originally, this place was inaccessible, but recently, due to rumors of the divine hand, there would be cultivators in a radius of thirty miles nearby every day, and it was only at night that it was the most peaceful here.

Chennan climbed over the peaks that had been broken by the ancient gods and came to the dry valley of the lake, where the river had been diverted and the original lake had become a low valley.

There are no tall trees in the valley, only a few low shrubs and flowers. It was here that Chen Nan felt the call of restlessness, he stood motionless in the middle of the valley, letting go of his body and mind, merging himself into this world, and the light of holiness once again radiated from his body.

The moonlight is like water, and there is silence, and a glowing figure stands alone in the middle of the valley.

At this moment, Chen Nan's heart was extremely ethereal, and he could feel the grass and trees nearby even though his eyes were closed. He saw two birds sleeping on a tree, he saw a mouse, he saw a wild fox watching him vigilantly......

Although he was closing his eyes, the nearby scenery really came into his mind, and in the extreme silence he blended into this world, and everything near him could be sensed by him.

At last he finally discovered the source of the call, which came from under his feet, and a faint fluctuation came from the ground, and in a trance he seemed to hear a woman's cry: "I...... Want...... Heavy...... See...... Sky...... Daily ......"

Chen Nan woke up suddenly, and when he carefully captured the ethereal sound, there was no sound, only the fluctuation that came into his heart.

"Underground...... That ripple is coming from underground!" he muttered to himself, looking down.

Chen Nan pulled out the long knife behind his back, and concentrated all his strength on the blade, in the hazy moonlight, the long knife glowed with dazzling light, like a round of bright sun, and he slashed down to the ground with force.

"Boom"

With a loud bang, sand and gravel flew up, and a huge crack appeared in the middle of the valley. Suddenly, a clear spring burst out of the crack and was more than two meters above the surface, and the clear water splashed from the sky to the ground.

Chen Nan was startled and hurriedly retreated, but what surprised him even more was still behind.

The huge crack that he had slashed with his long knife was slowly expanding, and the soil layer nearby was collapsing downward, and it seemed that there was an earthquake in the valley, and the entire surface began to shake, and Tatsunan was taken aback and ran quickly out of the valley.

He stood at the edge of the valley and watched in amazement at the changes in the valley. The valley was slowly crumbling, criss-crossing fissures appearing in the valley, the crumbling soil collapsing downward, and springs gushing out of the surface from those cracks.

After careful observation, Chen Nan found that under the surface of the earth was a fault rock layer, and five feet below the fault rock layer turned out to be an underground lake. With a single sword, he opened a gap in the underground lake, causing the water below to gush up, causing the nearby fault rock layer and soil to collapse with it, causing a chain reaction that completely shattered and collapsed the fault layer above the underground lake.

In a short period of time, the dry valley turned into a lake, and the water level continued to rise, and the birds and beasts inhabiting nearby fled in panic.

Chen Nan looked at the river that was diverted not far away, and it was already clear that the underground lake must have been formed thousands of years after the river was diverted, and the river must have a hidden channel to communicate with the underground lake.

Half an hour later, the water level in the lake stopped rising, slowly calmed down, and a beautiful small lake appeared in the original valley. The lake is as flat as a mirror, the moon is like water, the breeze is mixed with the fragrance of wild flowers, and the mountains and forests are quiet and beautiful at this moment.

Chen Nan's heart was excited, and the call came from the bottom of the lake!

The deepest part of the lake emitted a holy glow, and dimly it could be seen that the faint light seemed to emanate 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 for many days, and it must be the mysterious treasure in the left hand of the ancient god that called him here!

Chen Nan couldn't tell how deep the lake was, and he didn't know if he would be able to sneak to the bottom of the lake safely. The mysterious object in the hands of the old god was indeed attractive, but the darkness of the lake made him feel a hint of danger, and he did not dare to jump into the lake easily.

He threw a boulder into the lake, and the boulder made a large splash and ripples, but there was no movement in the lake. He was still a little uneasy, and wanted to catch a mountain beast nearby and throw it into the lake, but the huge noise when the lake valley fault layer sank just now had already frightened away the nearby birds and beasts, and he turned around without the slightest gain.

Looking at the bottom of the dark lake, Chen Nan hesitated for a moment, and finally he took off his coat, took off the long knife and put it on the ground, and jumped into the lake with two cold daggers in his hands.

The water of the lake was extremely cold, and the light in the lake was very dim, and he could only vaguely see the scenery within three or four zhang, but fortunately, the divine bones at the bottom of the lake were exuding a faint light, so that he had a clear goal.

Chennan tried to dive, and soon he came to the junction of the original lake valley and the underground lake. The water was already six feet deep here, and although he was already feeling some pressure, his body was fine.

After entering the underground lake, he vaguely saw the nearby scenery, which turned out to be an underground karst cave, which was full of stalactites, stalagmites, stone pillars, stone flowers, stone mantles, stone waterfalls and other karst accumulations, which were magnificent and magical.

Here Chennan's heart jumped, he felt that danger was approaching him, but the water was dark and hazy, and it was difficult to find anything abnormal.

The old god's severed left hand did not sink to the bottom of the lake, but hung on a stone flower more than a foot high from the bottom of the lake, and it was from there that the waves that drew him out of Sin City came from.

Chen Nan struggled to dive down, and when he was less than half a foot away from the ancient god's hand bone, he felt a chill in his body, and with the light from the god bone, he could see the scene at the bottom of the lake.

The rock formations and soil and rocks that fell from the lake valley were crawling with water snakes, and more water snakes swam out from the soil and rocks, and countless water snakes danced at the bottom of the lake, dense like grass.

Although he knew that the water snake would not take the initiative to attack people, if he accidentally swam into the group of water snakes, the consequences were unimaginable.

The cave was about five feet deep, and when he cautiously swam to the stone flower, he already felt a great deal of pressure.

The divine bones emitted a faint glow, and it looked a little strange at the bottom of the dark lake. The white jade hand bone is wound with a thin thread as transparent as silk, and the thin line wears a thumb-sized jade Ruyi, which is crystal bright and dazzling, and it is the best treasure jade at a glance, without the slightest trace of carving, as if it is natural.

Chen Nan gently took the jade Ruyi from the divine bone, and then hung it around his neck, he couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, the mysterious jade jade that the two ancient gods sacrificed their lives to fight for actually fell into his hands.

He wanted to take the bone with him, but he didn't touch it because he thought that everyone knew that the ancient god relic was with it, and if someone found out that he had found it, he would face a never-ending hunt.

At this moment, a strong feeling of uneasiness hit his heart, and he felt a great sense of crisis.

At this moment, Chen Nan noticed that the lake above his head fluctuated, he hurriedly looked up, only to see a water monster that looked like a fish but not a fish, like a snake and not a snake, like an arrow quickly and quickly attacked him, the water monster was about a zhang long, with a single horn on its head and a fish tail on its snake body, and it was biting him with its mouth open.

Chennan hurriedly flashed to the side, and the sharp teeth of the water monster brushed past him, but its snake-like body suddenly wrapped around his waist and abdomen.

It was his first time fighting in the water, but that didn't stop him. The dagger in his left hand stabbed at the giant mouth of the water monster that came back from him, and the dagger in his right hand slashed at the snake body wrapped around him.

Blood surged, Chennan's two daggers caused fatal damage to the water monster, his left hand dagger pierced deep into the water monster's palate, and the right hand dagger cut off its body, the blood made his eyes blur. The monster writhed violently and sank to the bottom of the lake, and in the blink of an eye, it was drowned by the water snake.

He did not dare to stay and hurried upstream. But at this moment, a water monster appeared again behind a cluster of stone stalactites next to it, this water monster has a thin bucket group, three feet long, and looks much more ferocious than the one just now, and the eyes of the water monster at the bottom of the dark lake are as bright as lights, but it looks like a forest chill.

Chen Nan didn't feel rash, and looked at it coldly with a pair of daggers in his hand.

The water monster did not rush towards him, but opened its bloody mouth and spit out a ray of electric light, although he avoided the electric light, but the water was full of conductive electricity, and the strong current made his whole body numb, and in an instant he lost the ability to move.

The water monster twisted the snake's body, and its long tail slammed into Chennan's body, pulling him out of the water three feet horizontally. Blood poured out of his mouth, and with no strength he could resist, the thrashing inflicted severe internal injuries on him.

The sharp pain in his chest and abdomen caused his paralyzed body to regain consciousness, and he was about to move, when he suddenly noticed that four or five other water monsters more than three feet long were swimming rapidly towards him from a distance.

Chen Nan felt his scalp tingle, one such water monster was already difficult for him to deal with, and there was no hope of defeating so many of them.

Blood was spilling out of his mouth, his body was motionless, and several water monsters smelled the smell of blood and rushed towards him quickly, all with their bloody mouths open, showing their white teeth, which was extremely terrifying.

When the blood basin of several water monsters was about to touch Chennan's body, he quickly sank down, and swung out two daggers like lightning, blood surging wildly, and the two water monsters were seriously injured.

At this moment, he felt the powerful current once again make him lose the ability to move, and at the same time, a giant tail struck him fiercely. His body quickly fell to the bottom of the lake, looking at the grass-like water snake at the bottom of the lake, Chen Nan was so frightened that his soul was scared.

A sharp pain made his body regain consciousness again, more than a dozen water snakes had already bitten him, and Chen Nan felt a numbness in the place where he was bitten, and this paralyzing feeling was rapidly spreading to all parts of his body.

He knew that he was poisoned, he vomited blood while forcibly operating the Xuan Gong, and a faint golden light came out from Chen Nan's body, shaking off the water snakes that bit him, but then countless water snakes wriggled and buried him underneath.

At this time, both his arms and his hands and feet were crawling with water snakes, and Chen Nan's body couldn't help but have a layer of small bumps. Although they could no longer hurt him with the True Qi of the Body Protector, a chill still rose in his heart.

Through the dense water snakes, Chen Nan saw several water monsters were biting the two injured water monsters, blood gushing wildly, and at the same time, more than a dozen water monsters swam there, and more than a dozen pairs of strange eyes as bright as lights in the darkness were cold and lightning, which made people palpitate.

In just a moment, the two wounded and bleeding water monsters were torn apart and eaten by their companions, and not even a single bone remained. Chen Nan felt a chill when he saw it, this is really a world where the weak eat the strong, and weakness means death.

Although those water monsters kept looking at the bottom of the lake, they had no choice but to retreat in the face of the dense tens of thousands of wriggling water snakes.

After a long time, the bottom of the lake returned to calm, and the Xuangong of Chennan's family has been circulating, and he has already expelled the toxins in his body, but the serious internal injuries cannot be healed in a short time. He slowly squatted on the ground with his knees bent, and then kicked his feet the ground, and his body rushed upwards like a golden arrow.

A dozen water monsters felt the strong fluctuations in the water and quickly chased after him. Chennan was secretly anxious in his heart, and he aimed two daggers at his shoulders, ready to stab himself before his body lost consciousness, and use the pain to regain consciousness. At the same time, he ran the Xuan Gong to the limit, so that the true qi of the body protection was filled on the surface of the body.

The powerful current hit him again, Chen Nan gently stabbed the dagger into his shoulder the moment he sensed the current, the current was not as violent as he imagined, he knew that the true qi of the body protection emitted by the family Xuangong played a certain role.

The pain in his shoulder, coupled with the effect of protecting his body's true qi, Chen Nan did not lose his ability to move this time, but the speed of the water monster was much faster than him, and several water monsters chased after him in the blink of an eye, opening their huge mouths and biting him.

Chen Nan had no choice but to turn around and fight a few water monsters at close range, and two sword qi were inspired by the two daggers, piercing the bodies of the two water monsters, causing their blood to surge. But he was also struck by the giant tail of a water monster, which made him feel like his muscles and bones were about to break.

Thankfully, he was pumped upwards, and the force caused him to quickly rush out of the underground lake, and the wounded water monster was once again besieged by his companions, leaving no flesh and bones left in the blink of an eye.

When Chennan was only a foot away from the lake, the water monster had already followed, and he threw the two daggers out with great force, and vaguely he saw blood surging out. The monster seemed to know that he was about to flee out of the lake, and this time it stopped attacking its injured companions and rushed towards him in unison.

At this moment of life and death, Chen Nan activated every bit of strength in his body, and at this time, his body was golden and prosperous, like a raging flame, the lake around him boiled, and his body quickly rushed out of the water like a golden arrow, falling to the shore not far away.

The moment his body touched the ground, Chen Nan collapsed, and there was no longer half of the strength in his body, he gasped for breath, greedily breathing in the fresh air.

In normal times, he could stay underwater for half a day without breathing, but today he was repeatedly injured in the danger of life and death, coupled with continuous strenuous exercise, he ran out of energy prematurely, making him almost choke on water.

It took a long time for Chen Nan to regain his breath, and he staggered to his feet.

"There is 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 returned to calm, and the bones of the gods shone faintly at the bottom of the dark lake, and the water monsters were long gone.

「xxxx...... I actually hurt myself......" Chennan cursed as he bandaged the wounds on his shoulders.

He rested by the lake for a while, then picked up his coat and knife from the ground and hurried to Sin City.