The Journey of Immortal Cultivation-Chapter 586 - 335: The Lake_2

Ning Xiaoxian only took away the Catfish Demon. She stood aside, maintaining the formation just a moment ago, ready to fend off any reinforcements from the cave, but to everyone’s surprise, it was silent throughout, and not even a small fish swam out. Recollecting the silence of the Lake God, and the Lake God’s Token losing its colorful radiance, they could only think of one reason—the Lake God had already died quietly.

The Fish Demon’s cave was certainly filled with water too. Fighting in these conditions is nothing like on land; many of Ning Xiaoxian’s techniques were useless here, so Tu Jin took the lead and entered without hesitation.

This underwater cave was spacious enough to fit four carriages side by side. Such a natural cavern couldn’t possibly exist under a lake, so the area was evidently expanded by carving. Someone with rich combat experience, like Tu Jin, could infer the size of this Lake God from the size of the cave. "It must be at least seven or eight Zhang long, not slender like an eel, but of a broad and swollen shape," he pointed to the stone walls, "There are several impact marks here, clearly, this ’Lake God’ was impulsive and extremely powerful."

With this judgment, the likelihood of the Lake God no longer being in this world increased even more. Otherwise, they would have already been warmly ’greeted’ by this hot-tempered Lake God as they calmly walked into its Cave Mansion.

The group passed through the winding underwater corridors, eventually arriving at an incredibly large cavern. The place was no smaller than an indoor standard soccer field; it was hard to imagine the sheer amount of effort the Lake God must have expended to create such a vast space.

However, this question was destined to remain unanswered. After fish species cultivate into demons, they unlock a certain level of spiritual intelligence, which was evident from the fact that the Lake God had made a contract with Xinghuang Village. The underwater Cave Mansion also had a lot of embellishments. The stone walls were polished extremely smooth and then embedded with fist-sized Luminous Pearls, illuminating the vast space with a clear yet gentle light. There was even a small sandy area within the cave, with sand as fine as white jade – it was a mystery where the Lake God had obtained such white sand.

The sandy area was planted with clusters of corals, each lucid and distinctively colorful, shimmering with dreamlike hues under the pearl light. In the past, she had only seen such resplendent corals in scenic documentaries and never imagined that she would see them with her own eyes one day.

On the white sand, there was also a type of long and coarse aquatic plant growing abundantly. Ning Xiaoxian knew that many demons referred to this plant as ’sandpaper grass’, a beloved item for gargantuan fish and turtle demons. They cherished it as residing and rolling within these plants could rub off dead skin and parasites such as blood-sucking snails, oysters, and Balanidae. The Water Clan might possess mighty magic, but they certainly detested these parasites with a deep-rooted itchiness.

Now, lying silently amid the sandpaper grass was a gigantic body, gently rolling with the water waves, obviously having been dead for quite some time. Ning Xiaoxian did not rashly approach to flip it over since enveloping the body were dozens of lazily drifting green spheres. 𝓯𝓻𝒆𝙚𝒘𝓮𝙗𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝒍.𝙘𝓸𝙢

At a glance, she recognized that these spheres were Plague Seeds.

Tu Jin swam forward without masking his presence or sound of water. The area had been quiet for a long time, and his actions immediately startled the Plague Seeds. Hesitating briefly in the water, they all rushed towards him!

He did not evade but casually formed the Water Dragon Skill, immediately solidifying a water dragon swirl in front of him. The vortex looked just like a land tornado, and when the green spheres passed within range of the water dragon swirl, they were sucked in without remainder, the effect resembling that of a tumble dryer...

Ning Xiaoxian extended her hand to collect these Plague Seeds, then slowly approached to inspect the body.

It was an enormous fish. Tu Jin’s earlier assessment wasn’t wrong; it was at least ten meters long (over thirty meters), about the same size as a blue whale on Earth, with a body as bulky as a mountain, appearing nearly as cumbersome as a giant whale. However, when she saw the head of the huge fish, she couldn’t be sure it was a fish.

It actually had the face of a human male, with bushy eyebrows and eyes, even sporting sideburns on its cheeks! As Ning Xiaoxian flipped it over, she locked eyes with a pair of eyes, filled with anger and fear. Even though she prided herself on her bravery, in that instant, she was so frightened that she retreated several steps. It was no wonder, after all, anyone would be terrified by eyes larger than car wheels staring at them like that.

In life, its scales must have been iridescent, but after death, they had turned dark and dull. Ning Xiaoxian casually pried off a fish scale to weigh in her hand, finding it identical to the one worshipped in Xinghuang Village in terms of shape and texture.

As expected, this must be the Lake God worshipped by the people of Xinghuang Village. Changtian then nonchalantly remarked, "This is a Chi Ru, a very rare species of fish, existing since ancient times, but not very powerful, yet very beloved by mortals. Mr. Yan’s book, which he lent me, has a record, ’Shaped like a fish but with a human face, its voice resembling that of mandarin ducks, eating it prevents illness’; eating its flesh, mortals would not fall sick."

Not falling sick? That would be wonderful. If such a fish still existed in Huaxia today, then cancer, leukemia, and the like would no longer be intractable diseases. She sighed softly.

However, Chi Ru is not a fish species that easily grows large. It must have lived for seven or eight hundred years to reach such a size and achieved the Great Success Stage of cultivation. Despite being dead for unknown days and soaked in water, its body was still uncorroded and lifelike. Tu Jin, the autopsy expert, performed his duty meticulously, stepping forward for an examination and then began to report a series of findings: (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome to Qidian (qidian.com) to cast recommendation tickets, Monthly Tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.com.)