SWDnovel Chapter 66 A Hidden Paradise
Chapter 66 A Hidden Paradise
Concealed by the inky black water, this action went undetected.
Through the tiny snail shell, he could clearly see the underwater scene.
Above the water, all was still and lifeless, a chilling atmosphere pervaded the air, and life was scarce. Beneath the surface, however, lay a different, thriving world.
The bottom of the pool was covered with a thick layer of silt, which was rich in humus and locked in spiritual energy.
On the silt, countless emerald green aquatic plants grow, swaying gently with the current.
Now, Li Ya not only wants to capture the black carp and the giant salamander, but he also wants to bring the thick silt at the bottom of the pool into the cave.
This is top-quality stuff; it's perfect for growing dragon tooth rice.
Looking at the schools of black carp swimming around and the extremely wary giant salamanders, a brilliant idea instantly popped into my head.
The clam spirit can manipulate water flow; if she were to use this water flow to interfere with the black carp and the giant salamander...
Wouldn't it be simple and convenient for me to open up the cave myself and suck them into the Spirit Pivot Cave with lightning speed?
"Lingpei, when you get out of that icy pool, just use your innate abilities to slow down the black carp's swimming speed, understand?"
"I understand!"
"good!"
Immediately, Li Ya had a sudden thought and sent her out of the cave.
As soon as she touched the cold pool, she seemed to adapt perfectly, like a dragon entering the sea.
Lingpei's gaze locked onto three black carp swimming together in front of her, each about the size of an adult's thigh.
They surged upwards toward the lure, then swam back down to the bottom after impact.
Ling Pei's hands flashed with spiritual light, and the black carp's body seemed to be held by a pair of invisible hands, and its desperate struggles were in vain.
Li Ya's mind stirred slightly, and a crack large enough for passage immediately appeared beneath the black carp.
The next moment, the three struggling black carp, along with the surrounding pool water, were all swallowed by the crack.
Within the Ling Shu Cave, a mass of water appeared out of thin air and then fell into the large lake that Li Ya had prepared long ago.
After the three black carp fell into the lake, they thrashed about wildly, constantly rummaging through the soil at the bottom of the lake.
"It seems that this black carp has never lived under strong light before, and it is somewhat stressed when it is in this environment."
Li Ya quickly manipulated the Dawnlight Crimson Gold Wheel to slowly extinguish it.
In this way, the restless black carp gradually calmed down and buried itself in the soil at the bottom of the lake.
Seeing that this method worked, Li Ya began to capture them on a large scale, and the number of black carp at the bottom of the pool decreased one by one, all of them becoming the private property of Li Ya's cave.
An hour later, he summoned Lingpei back, and without saying much, directly selected a bottle of body-cleansing pills from a pile of pills.
Under Ling Pei's surprised gaze, Li Ya handed the pill to him.
Ignoring her reaction, he continued to focus his attention on the icy pool.
"Ling Shu wouldn't make baseless accusations, so why hasn't the giant salamander appeared yet?"
"Perhaps it has already appeared, but its concealment methods are too astounding for me to detect."
As Li Ya stopped moving, the bottom of the pool returned to calm. The cultivator was also a very patient angler. Even after so much time had passed, he was still able to sit quietly in this dangerous place.
He was quite content inside the cave and didn't mind waiting with them.
Until an even more icy stream flowed into the cold pool.
Following the direction of the water flow, a rock-like object began to move.
As it moved, a hole the size of a human head suddenly appeared.
It turned out that this thing had blocked the cave with its body.
Li Ya carefully compared the illustrations and it took him a long time to confirm that this was indeed the Mo Yuan Giant Salamander, but it had lived for a very long time and its skin had turned into rock-like scales.
"If we were to fight each other underwater, this giant salamander would probably swallow me whole."
It wasn't that Li Ya was being unduly modest, but this guy was over two zhang long and had a stone-like skin that couldn't be cut open without a sharp weapon.
With just a slight twitch of its tail, it propelled its entire body forward.
This giant salamander seems to be highly intelligent; the disappearance of so many black carp earlier had already made it wary.
Instead of touching the bait, it flicked its tail and slammed it hard onto the lure with tremendous force.
Under this immense force, the bait instantly turned into countless fragments. It opened its mouth and inhaled, and the pool water mixed with the fragments rushed into its mouth.
This time, Li Ya didn't hold back, but opened the cave entrance to a size twice the length of the giant salamander.
The sudden appearance of the void instantly created a vortex.
This giant salamander has extremely keen senses. It instantly sensed something was wrong, and its massive body twisted violently, using its four fins to try to resist the current and escape.
Lingpei then unleashed her full power, and the water above the giant salamander's head suddenly pressed down.
"Master, he's about to use his supernatural powers!"
Upon hearing this, Li Ya decisively expanded the cave, and no matter how hard the giant salamander struggled, its body surging with water, it still could not break free.
The next instant, the enormous body, along with the surrounding water, was swallowed up by the cave and vanished into the darkness.
The cultivators on the shore finally realized something was wrong; in that instant, the water level dropped by three or four zhang (approximately 10-13 meters).
"What's going on? Something's wrong, run!"
He ignored the thick fishing rod and dashed off far away.
After a long while, he appeared from the other side, staring silently at the cold pool.
After the giant salamander fell into the cave, it sank to the bottom of the lake instantly and remained motionless.
Li Ya didn't even bother to look at him; the thick silt at the bottom of the lake was a treasure in his eyes.
The gap in the cave was opened to be one finger's width.
It gathers all the fertile soil and water in the places it passes through into the cave, truly scraping the earth three feet deep.
After thoroughly looting the Blackwater Pool, Li Ya did not leave.
When the giant salamander swam just now, water was flowing from the small hole that was exposed, and it was chillingly cold. This shows that the coldness of this black pool did not come from upstream, but flowed out from this small hole.
These black carp and giant salamanders don't seem like they could be raised in this deep pool. The secret to their existence probably lies in this small cave.
Without the slightest hesitation, Li Ya manipulated the Fangcun Snail, moving it slowly against the direction of the water flow into the cave entrance.
The cave entrance was extremely deep, winding and meandering. The further you went in, the more violent the water pressure became, and the more rapid the current became.
The once calm and still black water has now become turbulent and turbulent, with countless undercurrents and whirlpools, and extremely strong tearing force.
At the same time, the black water was mixed with a chilling aura.
Aside from this string of bad news, what excited Li Ya was that the deeper he went, the purer and richer the spiritual energy became.
Li Ya traveled along, stopping frequently. If he encountered any spirit creatures along the way, he would open his cave, and taking advantage of the narrow entrance, the spirit creatures had nowhere to escape and all walked right into his trap.
They ventured deeper and deeper, passing through countless bends and hidden currents, the surrounding underground environment constantly changing. Fortunately, the Spiritual Pivot recorded everything in detail; otherwise, it would have been easy to enter but difficult to leave.
"I refuse to believe that any other cultivator could possibly enter this place!"
The deeper one goes, the more the originally smooth and moist underground river walls gradually become rugged and strange, resembling not the texture of rocks, but rather the texture of flesh and blood.
After traveling for an unknown amount of time, a ray of warm, soft light finally pierced through the darkness at the end of the road, standing out starkly against the black water.
Fangcunlu suddenly accelerated, going against the current, and after traveling several miles, the view suddenly opened up.
At the end of this underground river passage was a large lake with a waterfall tens of meters high on it.
He only realized it after he surfaced.
It turned out to be an extremely vast and enormous cavern.
The entire cave is a masterpiece of nature, a work of art that could not have been created by human hands.
The cave ceiling is extremely high, hidden in the misty spiritual energy, making it difficult to see its entirety.
The cave is vast and boundless, with an underground river flowing through it. The river water rushes down from the waterfall and transforms into a sacred lake underground.
"This...this is earth milk!"
The walls of the cave are covered with thousands of stalactites of varying lengths.
Several of the stalactites were pure white and translucent, faintly shimmering with a warm, spiritual light. Drops of spiritual milk slowly dripped from the tips of the stones and fell into the spiritual lake below.
"What a waste!"
These drops of earth milk are all formed from the condensed spiritual energy of the earth's veins. They are precious treasures that can cleanse the marrow and meridians, purify turbid energy, and enrich the foundation of one's Dao.
All of this earth's milk dissolved into the lake water, nurturing countless aquatic creatures within it.
This sacred lake is teeming with spiritual creatures, far surpassing all other waterways along its course.
Thousands of spirit fish swam back and forth in groups, each one brimming with spiritual energy.