"What's up?"
Chen Xuan asked.
Dugu Rou explained, "In the Yellow Springs realm, besides being careful of the Yellow Springs water and the spirits here, we also need to be especially wary of the native inhabitants of this world."
"Indigenous?"
Chen Xuan was slightly taken aback.
Before entering this place, he had heard some things about the natives of the Third Pass.
It is said that they were some primitive people who ate raw meat and drank blood.
However, he didn't care much.
"Yes, it's said that the local inhabitants hunt down those of us who venture onto the Emperor's Road."
“In the last Imperial Road, some of our Yin-Yang Realm members were hunted down by the natives.”
"The weapons they carried were quite special; they seemed capable of breaking through any defense. In any case, many of the participants in the Imperial Road event avoided them."
Dugu Rou explained, "Back then, the Yellow Springs water was also yellow, but it wasn't as murky as it is now. You could see clearly within a hundred meters with the naked eye."
"I guess the Yellow Spring water might gradually become clear within a year. A year is roughly the time it takes for people to pass the first and second trials."
"However, we came in a little too early. The Yellow Springs hadn't had time to clear up before we entered."
"I'm not making this up. In our Yin-Yang realm, the Yellow Springs in the underworld becomes clear for a period of time every 360 million years. This is recorded."
Upon hearing this, Chen Xuan showed a look of surprise.
He had never heard of that before.
Neither the Eastern Emperor nor the Fengdu Emperor mentioned it to him.
But upon further reflection, it becomes clear that what they saw was perhaps the clear waters of the Yellow Springs.
They just didn't expect that Chen Xuan would reach the third level in just fifty days, before the water even had a chance to become clear.
"Let them be natives, we won't provoke them, and they shouldn't provoke us either."
Chen Xuan waved his hand, seemingly unconcerned; he was only interested in the Eye of the Underworld.
We'll see if this Eye of the Underworld can reveal his past and present lives.
They continued downstream.
The water was getting heavier, but it didn't have much of an impact on their strength.
During this time, they were ambushed by some monsters.
The strongest spirits have even reached the level of emperors.
I have no idea how these spirits came into being.
At the same time, Chen Xuan became increasingly aware that the Yellow Springs Water held many secrets.
"Is that a spider lily?"
Before long, they saw a rock in the water, and on top of the rock was a bright red flower with three petals.
Chen Xuan had seen the red spider lily with his own eyes, so he naturally knew what it looked like.
When it blooms, it is a dazzling red.
And in the instant it withers, it turns into a dazzling purple!
"Looks like we're in luck; we've found a red spider lily so quickly."
Chen Xuan smiled and prepared to pick the fruit.
"Something's not right. Aren't the spider lilies only found in the deepest part of the world? We're swimming very fast, but we haven't even gotten close to the Eye of the Underworld yet. It's said that spider lilies only grow near the Eye of the Underworld."
A strange look appeared on Dugu Rou's face.
Who cares?
Chen Xuan didn't think too much about it. Anyway, he knew nothing about this place and had no experience. He had to figure it out on his own.
Now that we've seen the red spider lily, we certainly won't miss it.
After all, there were only thirteen of these flowers in an entire era of the Yin-Yang Realm, and they were basically snatched up as soon as they appeared.
The spider lily in the Yin-Yang realm does not grow on its own in the Yellow Springs, but rather floats over from the end of the Yellow Springs River.
Clearly, it drifted from the source of the Yellow Springs River to the boundary between Yin and Yang; only one blooms like it every hundred million years.
Chen Xuan came to the rock, grabbed it with his big hand, and prepared to collect the spider lily. He was thinking of giving it to Nangong Wan when he got back. Didn't she like to study all kinds of rare and exotic plants?
This thing can be used to refine elixirs or poisons, since the red spider lily is inherently a creature that can be both righteous and evil.
call out!
However, just as Chen Xuan's large hand reached out to grab the spider lily...
Suddenly, an arrow pierced through the Yellow Springs water, tearing open a vacuum, and the arrow flew past.
With a soft "poof," it pierced straight through Chen Xuan's palm in an instant!
His hand, which reached for the spider lily, was pierced by an arrow, the arrow deeply embedded in his palm.
"Chen Xuan?!"
Dugu Rou was immediately taken aback. How could there be arrows here?
Weren't they the first people to arrive at the source of the Yellow Springs?
Could it be that there is someone just as powerful as Chen Xuan following closely behind, who has also reached the third level?
As the arrow pierced Chen Xuan's palm, blood oozed from the wound.
When the wound came into contact with the Yellow Springs water, Chen Xuan instantly felt as if a thousand arrows were piercing his heart.
He felt unprecedented pain in the area where he was injured.
This pain is worse than having his hand cut off!
Furthermore, Chen Xuan felt as if a hundred claws were scratching at his heart!
The Yellow Spring Water seemed to want to use the wound to severely erode Chen Xuan's body, making him lose his ability to defend himself, and finally melt his body into corpse water!
"Huh? You ambushed me?"
Chen Xuan frowned.
He never expected that he would be ambushed the moment he reached out to pick the flower.
Who exactly did this?
Chen Xuan looked in the direction from which the arrow had been shot.
Then, a group of people slowly walked over.
As they drew closer, Chen Xuan's vision gradually became clearer.
There were over a hundred people, all with bronze skin and various strange tattoos.
They were all men, barefoot, with only animal skins covering their lower bodies, and each of them carried a longbow.
Behind him, he carried a quiver filled with arrows.
They look like cavemen!
"They are natives of this world!"
Dugu Rou exclaimed in surprise, never expecting that she had just mentioned this to Chen Xuan and now she had actually seen the indigenous people.
Of course, this group of indigenous people is not the same group that went into the water from the shore earlier.
That other tribe had no tattoos and included both men and women, while this tribe was all men.
They are one of the many tribes in this world tribal alliance, and they arrived relatively early.
"Boss, your idea is really effective. Placing the spider lilies in a conspicuous place will surely attract greedy outsiders to pick them, just like fish smelling bait!"
The natives' eyes gleamed, and they looked at Chen Xuan as if he were their prey.
They celebrated with great enthusiasm while communicating in their local language. Chen Xuan and the others couldn't understand it, but they could sense the meaning of what they were saying through their divine sense.
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