Chapter 258

【Forging successful!】

【Obtained Gill-Qi Mask (top-tier Silver)】

【After wearing it, you gain the ability to breathe underwater.】

【There are requirements for water quality; if the water area has too many impurities or toxins, it cannot extract oxygen from water molecules.】

The effect was passable.

"Success is success."

"However... the mental energy consumed to combine and forge equipment is a bit too much, isn't it..."

Su Ming muttered.

He was somewhat shocked that the mental energy consumed to formally forge equipment was actually several times more than 【Extraction Technique】.

It seemed that one must never forge equipment in combat, otherwise, it would be courting death.

Only 【Extraction Technique】, the skill for creating temporary weapons, could barely be used in combat.

Life-style professions were indeed life-style professions.

Using them in combat was indeed not feasible; the consumption was too great.

After Su Ming put on the mask, he immediately felt that the sound of his own breathing had changed.

Furthermore, his lungs trembled faintly.

The air he inhaled carried a bloody smell of beast materials.

He didn't have high requirements; as long as it worked, it was fine.

"Preparations are complete, I can go in!"

"Shi Shi item, here I come."

He raised his hand and waved, returning all his swords to their scabbards.

Subsequently, he dove straight down.

He leaped into the ice cave.

Diving underwater, he immediately felt the bone-chilling ice water envelop his entire body!

It was as if countless steel needles had pierced through every one of Su Ming's pores.

The temperature underwater had reached at least tens of degrees below zero.

Ordinary class-changers would simply not be able to hold on for more than a few minutes in this environment before dying.

Fortunately, Su Ming's physique attribute was very high, so he wouldn't die immediately.

But he wouldn't be able to hold on for several hours either.

If it were normal water, it would have frozen long ago at this temperature.

But the water quality in this dungeon was special, and its physical properties were also different from those on Blue Star.

Therefore, it hadn't frozen at this temperature.

The ice surface above was extremely thick, blocking out the sunlight.

It was extremely oppressive underwater.

Su Ming moved toward the depths as much as possible.

In the ice water, he could still see many traces of bloody water.

These traces of blood were left behind by Wang Yanghui when he was injured earlier, and they actually provided Su Ming with a direction.

Because the temperature was too low and the water flow was quiet and inactive, these bloodstains hadn't been washed away too much.

Following the bloodstains should be correct.

Su Ming dove slowly.

He felt the speed was too slow, so he simply raised his hand and clenched it.

Whoosh!

The Moluo Sword in his personal space floated out.

Using the sword-controlling skill, he manipulated this sword to fly in front of Su Ming, rotating as it moved forward.

This was Su Ming's heaviest sword.

The heavier it was, the more it could stir up the water flow, forming a small vortex.

This sword paved the way ahead.

Su Ming was able to move forward easily without having to bear the full pressure of the water.

Su Ming followed closely behind his sword, diving all the way.

Actually, he could grab the sword hilt with his hand and let the sword carry his body; that way, he could dash forward dozens of meters in an instant.

However, the consumption of mental energy for this was immense!

Being able to use it for just an instant was his limit!

Because the sword-controlling skill, theoretically speaking, hadn't reached the level where it could carry Su Ming's own body yet.

It was like how you couldn't pull your own hair to lift yourself up.

The sword-controlling skill was the same.

This skill needed to be raised to a very high realm before it could possibly carry oneself to move or fly.

What Su Ming could do at present was to briefly drive the blade to step on it, with his feet resting on it, and stay for a short while.

He also often used this move to change his orientation in mid-air.

But wanting to maintain it for a long time was very difficult.

To save mental energy, Su Ming decided to move forward slowly.

Anyway, he had a mask, so he could breathe underwater.

Su Ming swam in the water, neither fast nor slow.

He held his breath for 5 minutes and felt he was reaching his limit.

"Let's try the effect of this mask."

He thought to himself.

Subsequently, he began to breathe underwater with his lungs.

Exhale... inhale...

Splash, splash, splash.

Bubbles surged.

It worked!

This mask could really breathe underwater.

However, the conversion rate for air was a bit low.

Breathing was very heavy and laborious.

Because this water area wasn't clean; it was full of frozen mutated monster fish.

Su Ming had seen many schools of mutated fish along the way.

Many fish were highly poisonous, gradually causing the water here to become contaminated with toxicity.

So Su Ming found it very laborious to breathe.

But he didn't have high requirements; as long as he could breathe, it was fine.

After a few minutes, Su Ming arrived at the end of Wang Yanghui's bloodstains.

In the dark underwater, he had to activate his Eye of Insight to barely see clearly.

But... Su Ming didn't discover any clues about the Shi Shi item.

It was empty here!

There was only the quiet water flow around.

It was pitch black underwater; if not for the Eye of Insight, Su Ming wouldn't even be able to see the road ahead.

"What's going on? Did I find the wrong place?"

Su Ming's heart was filled with shock.

There was absolutely no trace of an Shi Shi item here.

"Where exactly did I go wrong?"

His brows were tightly furrowed, and he felt some worry in his heart.

He used the Eye of Insight to scan the surroundings.

In the water area, it was plain and unremarkable, with nothing unusual. ===== CHAPTER 260 =====