Episode 54: Underground Dark River

  Took a taxi to the sales office of Ocean Garden, found Guan Yue Xiao Ni and got all the keys to Shanheju, then Li Yan immediately rushed to Shanheju without stopping.

  Without lingering in the luxurious villa, he locked the doors and windows tightly, and released the Black Wind Leopard cub. This Black Wind Leopard was indeed a mid-level spiritual beast, as after just a few days, not only had its injuries fully recovered, but it had also grown bigger and stronger by several times.

  Li Yan compared it to the vampire Nalan Mei he had encountered before, and for now, Heifeng's power was enough to tear Nalan Mei into pieces.

  In the room, a simple array was set up, and Heifeng was instructed to take good care of his physical body. Immediately afterwards, Li Yan lay down on the luxurious big bed in the room, and in an instant, his primordial spirit escaped, passing through walls and directly arriving at the backyard. Not far away, a clear pond with a diameter of about ten zhang appeared before his eyes.

  "The eye of the earth hole is right here." The vast and majestic primordial spirit flashed and fluctuated, ignoring the lotus flowers and aquatic plants that had already begun to grow, and instantly discovered the hidden secret waterway in this pool of water. With a sudden movement, he leaped into the pool.

  Acquired the innate spiritual energy, now Li Yan's primordial spirit has made great progress. With the protection of the sword, as soon as he moves his mind, the surrounding water flow automatically splits open, forming a true vacuum of about one meter in diameter, encircling and protecting his body, and heading straight down into the water. To say nothing of this pond being not large, but there are extremely many fish in the water, and even several have exceeded one meter, truly astonishing.

  The pond wasn't very deep, only about ten meters or so in depth. However, Li Yan's spirit was scattered and he quickly found himself beside a large underwater rock, where he discovered a big hole. The hole wasn't particularly large, but it seemed bottomless, like a terrifying giant mouth waiting to swallow him whole.

  The edge of the cave entrance still had some fish rubbing marks left behind, smooth and shiny, it seemed that there were not many fish coming in and out here every day. The cave was not big, with a diameter of only about one meter, but for Li Yan to enter, it was already more than enough.

  Looking at the dark and deep underwater cave, Li Yan didn't have a shred of fear. As a wandering immortal, even if it was the underworld's hell, he had been there many times before. Different planets, different underworld hells, all sorts of fears, he had seen too many already.

  Some things, having seen them many times, naturally no longer fear speaking of them.

  The cave is very long, extending at least several hundred meters into the darkness. The deeper you go, the greater the resistance of the water, and only Li Yan could make it in; anyone else would be unable to enter.

  After turning several corners, the scene in front of Li Yan suddenly changed, revealing a very spacious underground space, an underground dark river stretching into the distance. Moreover, this underground space was not pitch black, but was illuminated as if it were daytime.

  The place where the dragon beast resides, is a place of calm and tranquility! In an instant, Li Yan couldn't help but take a deep breath in secret, from this moment on, he hid his own aura, after all, his scattered immortal aura was too sensitive, if he startled the dragon beast, it wouldn't be a good thing.

  Although an adult dragon beast is enough to compare with the three scattered immortals, however, it's clear that this dragon beast in the underground dark river has not reached this level, otherwise, it would have already flowed into the ocean and become a dragon.

  Standing at the edge of the underground dark river, looking around, but seeing that on the entire dynamic wall of the underground dark river, some strange crystal stones are clearly visible. Although there is no spiritual energy fluctuation, they can emit light in the darkness, illuminating this underground space brightly. Through this light, it is clear to see that several large groups of strange and colorful small fish are swimming back and forth in the river water, their bodies flashing with a strange glow.

  At this moment, Li Yan was in a tributary of the underground dark river, which was about ten meters wide. Looking around, there was a hazy mist that obscured his view, making it impossible to see the end. Although Li Yan had already used his divine sense to detect it and vaguely knew that the underground dark river might be very large, he was still surprised by its actual size.

  Taking a deep breath, Li Yan walked forward and soon saw several stone pillars as thick as meters standing in the middle of the dark river. The top of the underground space seemed to be supported by these pillars, like it was holding up this vast underground space.

  These massive stone pillars, after years of water erosion, have numerous honeycombed holes, and with the occasional gusts of wind, white droplets of water fall onto the surface, adding a touch of color to this quiet underground river.

  Of course, don't get any wrong ideas, everyone. This is just altered underground stone icicle, not some kind of rare treasure or anything like that. Naturally, there's no special effect from drinking it, at most it'll just give you diarrhea for a day or two, and as for poisoning, that's unlikely.

  Further ahead, the underground dark river seemed to have widened a lot, but the water flow had become shallower. The land area along the shore had increased, and what was presented before Li Yan's eyes was a vast underwater sandy beach. From afar, Li Yan saw some creatures the size of washbasins roaming about on the sandy beach. As he got closer, he could see clearly that they were actually crabs.

  However, the heads of these crabs are also somewhat too big. The small ones are about the size of an adult's fist, and the slightly larger ones are roughly the same size as a washbasin. There are even bigger ones that can be as large as a table. If placed outside, they would inevitably be mistaken for monsters.

  This thing has a full set of iron armor and great strength. If it were an ordinary person, it would be difficult to deal with. However, for Li Yan, these things are just ordinary underwater creatures that have absorbed some dragon beast aura and transformed. With just one wave of his hand, he can kill thousands or tens of thousands, so they cannot pose any threat to him at all.

  Yuanshen virtualization, light and easy to pass through the beach, Li Yan continued to move forward, in the dark river, many underwater creatures have mutated, some of which are huge, simply astonishing, but for Li Yan, they were just insignificant things.

  "Huh? Longxi grass!" After walking for a long time, finally, Li Yan's eyes lit up, and on the rocky shore, several dark red fine grass-like plants suddenly appeared before his eyes.

  Longxi Grass: A legendary place where dragon beasts grow, a type of grass that absorbs the breath of dragon beasts and undergoes mutation, can be used as medicine or poison, with extraordinary effects, belonging to low-grade spiritual grass.

  Unlike ginseng and yellow essence which can only be considered spiritual herbs after they have aged, dragon's breath grass is born as a spiritual herb but will forever remain a low-grade spiritual herb.

  In the past, Li Yan and Li Da would naturally look down on such low-grade spiritual grass. However, now that they have returned once more and fallen onto this Earth where spiritual energy is greatly depleted, even low-grade spiritual grass has suddenly become somewhat precious.

  With these dragon's breath grass, he only needs to combine some hundred-year-old medicinal materials to refine a batch of dragon's breath pills. As long as there is a breath left in the body, these dragon's breath pills have the effect of prolonging life for 100 days. However, unfortunately, it only works when taking the first pill.

  However, this is enough. If in a hundred days' time, with Li Daxian's ability, he still can't find a way to save people, then it also means that the other party is destined to be unsavable.

  With a happy smile, he picked off half of the Longxi Cao from the stone wall and transplanted it into his own Xumi space. As for the rest, Li Yan let it grow freely here.

  Cultivators value the harmony between heaven and humanity, and when it comes to opportunities, taking half and leaving half is enough. As the saying goes, "Nothing should be taken to extremes, for going too far will inevitably lead to an early end to one's luck." This is exactly what this principle means.

  He scooped up the icy river water at his feet and poured it over the Longxi grass on the stone wall, then Li Yan continued to move forward once again.