At this moment, in the northern part of the Divine Source Secret Realm, Yuan Ruochu and the other nine sequences of the Yuan Clan had been trying to sense the location of the ancient Yuan Clan monster, but after searching through most of the northern areas, they still found nothing.

At this moment, the ten people continued to search for the location of their ancient freak, and then came to a lake with a huge area. Disciples of many forces from various factions were gathered on the shore and above the lake.

After the ten people arrived at the lake, they silently observed the situation. Then, Yuan Ruochu nodded to Yuan Lingmeng of the eighth sequence. Upon seeing this, Yuan Lingmeng immediately understood Yuan Ruochu's meaning and then went to the location where the crowd was gathered.

"Fellow Daoist, what's going on here? Why are you all gathered here?" Yuan Lingmeng's voice, gentle and ethereal, pleased the fifth-level Reincarnation Realm expert. He turned to Yuan Lingmeng and said, "This is how it is, young lady. Not long ago, this place was discovered by several forbidden prodigies of the Reincarnation Realm. One of these forbidden prodigies is a disciple of the Ancient Origin Holy Land, and his Origin Techniques are extremely powerful. He sensed that there might be top-grade divine Origin Stones beneath this lake, and it might even be primordial true ice. He then went down to investigate with the other forbidden prodigies, but half a day has passed and they haven't returned. Now, several more forbidden prodigies have gone down to investigate, but they still haven't come back."

Then the man took out a wine flask and took a big gulp to moisten his throat before continuing, "Several more groups of geniuses and prodigies went down after that, but none of them have returned. Among them was a divine son of a hidden force, whose talent and genius were unparalleled."

"Such figures have gone down and never come back up, which shows how extremely dangerous it is inside. Everyone present is watching and waiting for an opportunity."

After understanding the situation, Yuan Lingmeng bowed to the fifth-level Reincarnation Realm expert and said, "Thank you for clearing up my doubts, fellow Daoist."

"Of course, you're too kind, young lady," the man replied, returning the greeting.

Then Yuan Lingmeng returned to Yuan Ruochu's side and immediately told Yuan Ruochu the news she had just found out.

Yuan Ruochu pondered for a moment and said, "If there are treasures, we should definitely go and check them out. I want to see what's inside and why the forbidden peerless beings are left down there."

As they spoke, Yuan Ruochu and the nine great sequences flew into the sky, and then the ten people transformed into several beams of light and headed straight down into the lake.

"Someone else has gone down."

"Why are so many people willing to die these days?"

“That person looked familiar; he seemed to be from the first rank of the Yuan Clan.”

The moment these words were spoken, the atmosphere among those present became even more tense. Other forbidden peerless individuals might not be able to enter due to a lack of strength, but this person was the renowned first-ranked member of the Yuan Clan, possessing the fourth-ranked Reincarnation Body with the Three Thousand Physique.

At this moment, everyone began to exchange ideas, their eyes filled with solemnity and greed, preparing to plot something.

After Yuan Ruochu and the nine sequences entered the water, they moved quickly downwards. However, the deeper they went, the greater the water pressure became. Just then, Yuan Ruochu noticed more than a dozen figures ahead and immediately swam up.

"Someone else is coming down. We haven't gone up yet. The people up there think we must have encountered some unknown danger, maybe even that we've perished. So they don't dare to come down. Anyone who dares to come down now must be extremely powerful."

“I also think Brother Zhou is right,” another forbidden prodigy immediately added.

Before long, Yuan Ruochu and the nine great sequences arrived in front of the dozen or so people. Everyone was surprised to see Yuan Ruochu arrive.

"Yuan Ruochu, the first-ranked member of the Yuan Clan?"

"Yuan Ruochu? That reincarnation of the Yuan clan?"

Upon seeing the group, Yuan Ruochu politely asked, "Greetings, everyone. Why have you all gathered here?"

The peerless expert among them cupped his hands and said, "Greetings, Brother Ruochu. It is like this: the further down this lake we go, the greater the water pressure becomes. We are too weak to go any further, so we can only stop here. If we go any further, we may be in danger of losing our lives."

At this moment, Yuan Lingmeng also said to Yuan Ruochu, "Ruochu and the others are probably right. I also feel that the water pressure here is too strong. I can barely resist the water pressure now. If we go any further, I guess I will be just like what they said."

Yuan Ruochu didn't feel any pressure at the moment, after all, his cultivation, talent, and physique were several times stronger than everyone else's. He then said, "You all wait here for me, I'll go see what's down there."

After speaking, Yuan Ruochu continued down into the water. Gradually, she began to feel the pressure at the bottom. She then used her spiritual power to resist the water pressure, but the pressure only increased as she went deeper. At this moment, Yuan Ruochu had no choice but to continue consuming her spiritual power to reach the depths of the water.

Just then, a familiar aura from the depths of the water emanated from the depths of the sea.

"This is... the aura of my Yuan clan bloodline?"

Yuan Ruochu was somewhat delighted at this moment. It was truly a case of unintended consequences leading to unexpected success, or intentional efforts yielding no results. She had searched most of the northern region without finding the location of the Yuan clan's ancient freak. Finally, while searching for treasure, she unexpectedly discovered the location of her own ancient freak.

It then continued to move rapidly towards the bottom of the water, enduring the immense water pressure.

At the deepest part of the water, a stone coffin made of top-grade divine source stone lay quietly. Beneath the coffin was an ancient, giant nine-sided magic array that faintly emitted a pale golden light.

At this moment, Yuan Ruochu had arrived in front of the supreme divine source stone coffin. Looking at this ancient formation, she couldn't help but exclaim, "This ancient freak of our clan is really interesting. He actually uses such a formation to protect himself."

This formation, named the Nine-Breath Combination Array, is an astonishing array created by a supreme emperor of the Yuan Clan. This array can store the user's strongest attack energy in advance, up to eight times. Once activated, each side of the nine-sided array will unleash an attack burst of energy every breath, and by the ninth breath, the ninth side will unleash the sum of the energy from the previous eight attacks.

The cost is that if the nine-sided formation runs out of attack energy after nine breaths, the formation will immediately become ineffective.

"If the nine-sided attack runs out of energy and he still hasn't awakened, who knows what the consequences will be. What a confident guy," only someone with absolute confidence in their own strength would dare to do such a thing.

I recall ancient texts mentioning that those prodigies who awaken in the Divine Source Secret Realm, using top-grade divine source stones to make stone coffins, are unlike other geniuses who are directly buried in the ground. Those geniuses buried in the Divine Source Secret Realm, and those slumbering outside the Divine Source Realm, need to slowly adapt to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth after awakening. This process can take months for some, years for others, or even much longer.

Lying in a stone coffin made of top-grade divine source stone, one only needs a few hours or days to adapt to the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and return to their peak state after awakening. However, the price of this is that they are easily discovered.

If it's still asleep when it's discovered, then it might face certain death.