Xiao Jianren puffed out his chest and said proudly, "What storms hasn't our master weathered? This little shallow pool is no challenge for him."
“Blackwater Pool is quite deep,” Zhang Zitong corrected. “However, I think he will most likely return empty-handed. Our people have already searched the water several times before, and if they had any clues, they would have found them already.”
"That's not necessarily true..." Although Xiao Jianren was speaking up for his boss, he didn't have much confidence. In fact, he had been following this case for a long time and had absolutely no clue whatsoever.
If it weren't for the bizarre fact that a top-ranking embroidered maid had drowned in the pool, he might have thought it was an accident.
At this moment, using the Blue Fly's ability, Zuan formed a water bubble around his body and looked around in the black water pool.
There were quite a few plants and fish in the pool, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary; it didn't appear to have been contaminated by any evil spirits.
The only thing worth noting is that the water in the pool is exceptionally cold, but it's normal for the water in such a deep pool to be a bit cool, especially since it's the middle of the night.
He searched around for a while, but found nothing unusual, so he continued.
He had unknowingly sunk nearly a hundred meters, and his brows furrowed. This pool was far too deep.
For ordinary practitioners, unless they are aquatic, it is already quite difficult to dive this deep.
After diving another hundred meters, Zuan finally reached the bottom of the pool. There was no light here. Zuan took out a luminous pearl for illumination. With the help of the faint light, he found that the bottom of the pool was full of mud and sand. There were no plants in sight. Occasionally, some animal skeletons were exposed from the mud and sand. The whole place felt desolate and lifeless.
It's normal for such a place to have such a scene. After observing for a while and finding nothing unusual, Zuan floated up.
He thought that in his previous life he could only see this underwater world in documentaries on TV, but he never thought he would be able to experience it in person.
Thinking of all those documentaries from his past life, his face suddenly stiffened, and he abruptly stopped, staring sharply at the ground.
He finally realized that something was wrong. In the documentaries from his previous life, even in the deepest ocean, there were creatures on the seabed, including all kinds of strange fish and bone-eating insects.
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This pool is only a few hundred meters deep, yet there's not a trace of life at the bottom. This is abnormal!
He sank back to the bottom of the water, pressed his hand on the soil, and stretched out his air mechanism to explore the underground.
His expression suddenly changed. There was another space underground. Although it was called the bottom of a pool, it was more like a disguise created using a sophisticated array.
Just then, a large hand suddenly reached out from the soil and grabbed at his neck.
The skin on its arm was bluish-gray with bulging veins, exuding an aura of death. It resembled a human hand, but it could not possibly be a human hand. How could a human hand be covered with such dense scales?
Zuan was also startled and hurriedly dodged back, but his hand grasped at empty air. However, Zuan persisted and continued to reach out.
Zuan's eyes turned cold, a chilling glint flashed in the dark pool, and the large, bluish-gray hand was severed.
The arm seemed startled and instantly retracted into the ground.
Zuan frowned as he looked at the severed hand. No blood flowed out; instead, the entire severed hand turned into a wisp of bluish-black smoke and vanished.
"Huh?" Just as Zu An was surprised, more than a dozen large hands suddenly emerged from the ground and surrounded him from all directions, leaving him no room to dodge. If he was not careful, he would be strangled by the net formed by these intertwined arms.
Since we can't avoid it, we won't try!
A flash of sword light, and those thick, hard arms were sliced into several pieces by an unparalleled sword aura.
A scream rang out from underground. The sound was extremely shrill and seemed to have a certain impact on people's minds. However, Zu An's soul was now stable, so he was naturally not afraid.
Without hesitation, he soared into the sky and thrust his sword into the ground. With the help of the Blue Duck's abilities, his movements in the water were not affected at all.
As his longsword plunged into the ground, blue runes appeared, indicating that the formation set up there was taking effect.
However, it crumbled in front of the Tai'a sword in almost an instant.
The silt disappeared, replaced by a vast, empty space, which was clearly the true bottom of the pool.
"Immortal, spare me! Immortal, spare me!" At this moment, a short voice knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy. He had no choice but to beg for mercy. In the instant of the fight, he realized that he was no match for the sword. Moreover, why did the sword in front of him exude such a terrifying aura, as if it could destroy him at any moment?
Zuan was somewhat surprised. He had thought that there was some huge thing hidden inside all those thick, muscular hands, but he never expected them to be so thin and small.
The key thing is that his appearance is really strange. His mouth is as pointed as a bird's, his body is as thin as a monkey, and he has something like a tortoise shell on his back.
His appearance is very similar to that of the kappa from Japanese folklore.
"What are you?" Zuan asked directly.
"I am a small turtle in this black pool. I used to live a peaceful life, but hundreds of years ago, a stroke of luck opened my mind, and that's when I began to cultivate in this pool," the monster replied respectfully.
"Turtle?" Zuan was somewhat surprised. Having lived in this world for a long time, he knew that the demon race and monsters were different. The demon race had a nobler bloodline, and if nothing unexpected happened, they could naturally transform into human form.
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