"Didn't you think anyone would notice you in the crowd? I've followed you all the way here, and you're still hiding this hand."

Wang Yu looked around.

"Since I followed you into the cave and came out again, this place has changed to me, although it has rained on the second floor, but the temperature and humidity are completely different from before, what do I think." Wang Yu looked at Xu Xiao, "This is all the third layer, I guessed correctly, right?"

"You guessed it, this is the third layer." Xu Xiao didn't deny it, he stood where he was generously, just secretly put away the map, and then looked at Wang Yu.

"I can't think of it." Wang Yu sighed, "Do you still have a way to avoid the gatekeepers?"

Then Wang Yu continued, "Did you find out about this in the Linglong Tower, or—" Wang Yu restrained his smile and looked at Wang Yu with a serious face, "I knew it in advance."

Xu Xiao did not answer this question directly, but asked Wang Yu rhetorically, "If you had the key to the ninth layer and could directly win the victory, would you share it with others?"

"I don't think I will either." Wang Yu shook his shoulders, "But I don't think I'm so lucky, so it's better to follow everyone."

"But didn't you come along?" Xu Xiao asked rhetorically.

"I can't see it, Xu Xiao, when did you become so sharp-toothed?" Wang Yu said with a smile, "Was you beaten up by Wei Changming?"

"You!" Xu Xiaogang wanted to do it, but when he thought of what his brother had explained before, he held back his temper, stopped paying attention to Wang Yu, and turned around.

"If you like it, keep following."

Xu Xiao glanced at the sky, then jumped into the lake.

When Wei Changming saw Wang Yu and wanted to continue to follow, he remembered that on the stone wall and next to the lake, a few bones were drawn.

Wang Yu is no better than Xu Xiao, Xu Xiao knows the hidden secret, Wang Yu is just following behind.

Wei Changming was worried that Wang Yu's life would be in danger if he jumped off rashly, so he said, "Wait!"

Wang Yu hurriedly stopped when he heard the sound, and Wang Yu didn't expect that in addition to himself and Xu Xiao, there was a third person here.

Wang Yu looked around vigilantly.

"Who is it? Come out of here!"

"Let's go." Wei Changming patted Xiao Yu on the side, and then the two walked out of the bushes.

Wang Yu, who heard the sound, turned his head and saw the two of them.

"Wei Changming? Li Yu? Why are you here?"

"It's a long story." Wei Changming smiled bitterly, "But I don't recommend you to go into the water."

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In the time that followed, Wei Changming told what happened to him and Xiao Yu on the second layer.

"Judging by your description, the place where we left the second floor should be the same." Wang Yu said.

Wei Changming nodded.

"And as you say." Wang Yu pondered, "Did you happen to find the second path and wait for Xu Xiao here at the same time?"

"That's right." Wei Changming continued, "I think that Xu Xiao obviously knew all of this and came here with a purpose. His risky entry into the water proves that he is confident in finding the next level."

"But if he knows the second path, he can take the first step, so why pretend to defeat the Dryad King with us?"

"Maybe it's to hide people's eyes, or maybe it's to test the strength of the Dryad King guarding the pass."

"Anyway." Wei Changming looked at the bottom of the lake, "Since Xu Xiao has gone to this lake, it proves that our guess is not wrong, there is a secret at the bottom of the lake."

"You're right." Wang Yu nodded and agreed with Wei Changming's words.

As the three of them pondered, the rain gradually became lighter.

"But there's no way to do it and wait any longer." Wang Yu was a little anxious, "Could it be that we watched Xu Xiao enter the next layer, and we waited here until the big army came up?"

"Why don't we go down together?" Wei Changming proposed a compromise solution.

"Even if there's danger down there, everyone can take care of each other."

"I think so." Wang Yu nodded.

"Then let's hurry down!" Xiao Yu couldn't wait for a long time.

If Brother Wei hadn't stopped him, he would have gone into the water an hour ago.

"Huh! Wait for us." Seeing that Xiao Yu was already eager to try, Wei Changming hurriedly followed, and Wang Yu also followed.

"Poof!"

The three jumped into the water one after another.

At the bottom of the lake, due to the dim vision and the inability to breathe through their mouths, the three of them simply gave up probing with the naked eye and directly released their spiritual sense, so that the range that could be explored was much wider at once.

After confirming the location of their companions with their spiritual powers, the three of them explored the things in the lake in a triangular shape, east of the bottom of the lake.

The lake was not lifeless, and from time to time a few fish would swim by, but now, the three of them had no interest in studying the fish, so they just let them swim by.

Suddenly, Xiao Yu seemed to have discovered something and stopped, and the other two saw that Xiao Yu was not moving, so they quickly stopped swimming and looked in the direction of Xiao Yu.

I saw Xiao Yu pointing under him with his finger, and then swam down, and Wei Changming and Wang Yu followed when they saw this.

It wasn't until his feet stepped on the mud and sand at the bottom of the lake that Xiao Yu stopped.

Due to the disturbance of the three of them, the schools of fish that existed at the bottom of the lake also quickly dispersed, revealing the bones hidden in the fish.

"Did you find anything?" Wang Yu asked with spiritual power.

"The fish doesn't look like it's been dead for long, and the flesh hasn't been eaten yet." Xiao Yu looked at the remains of a spirit fish in front of him.

"Wait, look!" Wei Changming suddenly discovered that there was a sword mark on the spirit bone of this wreckage, and the spiritual power could still be faintly felt.

"Before this fish died, it was wounded by a sword move, and it was badly wounded to the bone." Wei Changming explained, and then asked Wang Yu and Xiao Yu with his spiritual sense.

"Does Xu Xiao use a sword?"

"I don't know, I don't know him." Wang Yu replied.

"Me too." Xiao Yu also answered the same way.

"No, Wei Changming." Wang Yu looked at Wei Changming, "You should know him the most among the three of us, the news that you seriously injured Xu Xiao in one move in the martial arts arena before has spread all over the sky, how could you not know."

"Uh, you said a move, Xu Xiaotuo was big at that time, and he didn't make a move, let alone take out a weapon." Wei Changming replied, "I'm not sure if he uses a sword or not."

"Think of it as his sword." Xiao Yu was at ease, "It doesn't look like there are other people at the bottom of this lake."

"Then why did he kill the fish?" Wang Yu pondered, "Could it be that this fish is the key? Or is this fish not long enough to bite him?"

Wei Changming looked at the school of fish swimming above.

"But if it's aggressive, why haven't we been attacked yet, I feel pretty safe."

"Why don't we kill one too?" Wang Yu asked.

"Why are you so cruel! What a pitiful fish!" Xiao Yu said dissatisfiedly.

"How do you explain that?" Wang Yu looked at the corpse, "Xu Xiao just has nothing to do, just take the sword and wave it casually."

"Okay, don't fight, the bottom of the lake is so big, we haven't finished searching yet." Wei Changming stopped the two who wanted to quarrel and set off again.

"Let's go, look ahead."

Seeing that Wei Changming began to swim, the two stopped arguing and followed.

After swimming for a while, suddenly in front of the three of them, there was a slight glow under a rocky reef.

Although it is not bright, it is very clear in the dim water of the lake.

When he got closer, Wei Changming found that this was actually a small night pearl.

"Why is there such a thing at the bottom of the lake?" Wei Changming was puzzled.

Xiao Yu liked this shiny thing very much, picked it up and put it on his chest.

"It's lit up around here

Some."

Wei Changming searched under the rocky reef for a long time, but found no traces of other organs or array eyes, so he had to continue the search.

Searching all the way, the three of them found nothing special, and searched all the way to the west of the bottom of the lake.

Before they knew it, the three of them had searched the bottom of the entire lake.

After the last attempt to explore the lake wall in vain, Wei Changming held his breath and pointed to it, meaning that it was time to go up, and the other two nodded, and then the three of them went upstream together.

"Poof!" The action of the three of them out of the water splashed and swam ashore.

Except for Xiao Yu who harvested a night pearl, this trip can only be regarded as a futile.

"Strange, what about Xu Xiaoren?" After steaming the water on his body with spiritual power, Wang Yu was a little puzzled, "How could it disappear at the bottom of the lake."

"Could it be that we're missing something?" Wei Changming frowned, carefully recalling the experiences of the three of them at the bottom of the lake, wanting to find something unusual.

"There's not a single big fish at the bottom of the lake." Xiao Yu said casually, "I thought everything on this level was as big as that giant."

"Wait!" Wei Changming seemed to be inspired and looked at Xiao Yu.

"You're right, Xiao Yu."

"Huh? Did I say anything?" Xiao Yu was puzzled.

"Did we see a fin sticking out of the water on the stone wall earlier?"

"yes, what's wrong?"

"The fins we saw on the stone wall were not small, and if the person who painted this mural was not mistaken, according to the ratio of the giant to the fins, we should not have been able to find this behemoth."

"Don't talk about big fish, the bottom of the lake is full of fry, and there are no ones the size of my arm." Wang Yu said.

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Just when Wei Changming wanted to continue thinking.

Suddenly, the three of them felt several spiritual power fluctuations coming from behind, and after a while, the spiritual power was gathering more and more, and they also heard a low roar resounding through the mountains and forests.

At the same time, the three of them also heard the shouts of many people.

Wei Changming looked at the sky, at this time, the sun had set, the twilight had passed, and the night had quietly arrived.

Only a faint moonlight remained on the entire third floor.

"So fast?"

Wei Changming estimated the time, and at this time, it was only a day since he passed through the third layer from the second layer.

In this way, it took the vanguard less than a day to defeat the second layer of gatekeepers.

Aside from the loss of personnel and the environmental factors caused by the heavy rain on the second floor that had been put on hold for half a day, the time for the large army to pass through the second floor was even faster than that of the first floor.

Wei Changming looked at the lake that he couldn't figure out, and then turned his head to look at the location of the mountains behind him.

"Looks like we're going to get through with everyone."