Chapter 23

Half an hour later.

Lu Changsheng was still fighting bloody battles in the rat tide, as if he didn't know fatigue.

However, if things continued like this, the situation wouldn't be too optimistic.

His physical strength was not infinite; if it was exhausted again, it would be very dangerous.

Just at this moment, he suddenly sensed a moist breath coming from ahead.

"It's an underground dark river!"

Finding life in a desperate situation, Lu Changsheng was full of excitement.

These ground rats couldn't dive, and he had just awakened the Underwater Breathing talent, which was enough to get rid of the other party.

"Kill, kill..."

Lu Changsheng waved his giant claws crazily, killing the massive ground rats blocking his path, and rushed toward the direction of the water vapor.

At this moment, he didn't hold back and fired with full power.

A large number of ground rats were killed, leaving a long trail of corpses on the ground.

The entire cave was filled with wailing sounds.

Before long.

Lu Changsheng killed his way to the side of an underground dark river.

"Splash, splash, splash..."

This river was several zhang wide, leading to an unknown pitch-black area, and the water flow was quite turbulent.

The surrounding soil was very loose under the erosion of water vapor.

Seeing such a dark river, Lu Changsheng was happy inwardly; he kicked his legs hard, swept away the many ground rats in front, and then plunged into the river water suddenly.

"Sizzle..."

Seeing this, the ground rat army on the riverbank all stopped, their eyes full of fear.

Seeing Lu Changsheng escape, they also wandered on the bank for a long time without leaving.

"Hiss... so cold."

Just as he rushed into the water, the cold river water made Lu Changsheng's spirit stir.

He carefully examined his surroundings; everywhere was dim, and some unknown water plants brushed against his body at the bottom of the river.

A sweet smell came to his nose and mouth.

This was the smell of spring water.

Quite magically, Lu Changsheng opened his mouth and didn't feel any discomfort, as if he were born to adapt to the bottom of the water.

The talent skill Underwater Breathing had automatically lit up.

At the same time, his own physical strength was slowly being consumed.

According to this speed, he could stay underwater for at most an hour or so.

"This is simply a divine skill."

Lu Changsheng was quite amazed.

Then he waved his limbs rapidly and swam toward the unknown area ahead.

After the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea.

In an underground dark river.

"Eh... something's up?"

Lu Changsheng suddenly sensed a familiar fragrance coming from not far ahead, making his spirit stir.

After this body underwent Beast King level metamorphosis, his sense of smell greatly improved; even miles away, he could clearly sense the strange fragrance emitted by spiritual herbs.

Then he didn't think much and accelerated to swim toward the direction of the fragrance.

Before long, he arrived beside a dark trench at the bottom of the river.

Looking closely.

He saw a small grass emitting a blue luster growing in the silt at the bottom of the river, and a faint fragrance wafted out.

This small grass was several inches high and had five leaves, looking very magical.

"Another spiritual herb."

He immediately rushed forward and touched the leaves of the spiritual herb with his claws.

"Detected a fifty-year-old Ice Spirit Grass, do you want to collect it?"

A crisp prompt sound rang out again.

"Collect."

Lu Changsheng recited silently.

After a moment, the Ice Spirit Grass in front of him disappeared completely and entered his system space.

Getting a spiritual herb in a short time made him quite happy.

"It seems there are many good things in this dark river."

Lu Changsheng thought while swimming forward.

He prepared to explore carefully again; those ground rats on the shore were still squatting, refusing to give up.

Anyway, those ground rat armies didn't dare to dive into the water to chase him, and going ashore now was undoubtedly asking for trouble.

Moreover, this underground dark river was very wide, and the exit must be a large river or a waterfall lake; as long as he could find the lake, he could easily get rid of that group of ground rats.

Time passed gradually.

Half an hour later.

Lu Changsheng sensed the strange fragrance of spiritual herbs again and hurriedly swam over. When he arrived at the strange fragrance, he couldn't help but brighten his eyes.

He saw a spiritual grass with nine leaves growing on a riverbed.

The whole spiritual grass emitted a light red luster, very different from the previous one.

It looked like the spiritual energy was clearly more abundant.

Lu Changsheng immediately swam over and placed his claws on the spiritual grass.

"Detected a hundred-year-old Ice Spirit Grass, do you want to collect it?"

The system prompt sound rang out again.

Lu Changsheng was happy inwardly; sure enough, as he expected, this spiritual herb was more mature, with a hundred years of age.

"Collect."

After a moment, the Ice Spirit Grass fell into the system space, making him very satisfied.

With his first move, he had a harvest of two, which made him look forward to the subsequent exploration even more.

Seeing that there was still more than an hour underwater, he wasn't in a hurry and prepared to explore for a while longer.

There must be some more Ice Spirit Grass in this dark river.

For the next period of time, Lu Changsheng swam along this underground dark river, and his harvest was quite a lot, discovering several spiritual herbs of fifty years again.

There were also many that were not old enough, so he didn't choose to collect them all, just occasionally collecting some.

Now he wasn't short of silver for the time being, and secondly, it wasn't very safe to sell a large number of spiritual herbs.

If he was targeted by some strong people, it would be a loss that outweighed the gain.

He had always been very cautious.

Time passed in Lu Changsheng's exploration.

Another stick of incense later.

Lu Changsheng collected another fifty-year-old Ice Spirit Grass and was about to leave when a whistling sound suddenly came from ahead.

He turned his head to look and saw a group of pitch-black strange fish rushing toward him in groups, their momentum very fierce.

Each strange fish was the size of a palm, with sharp teeth full of its mouth.

In the blink of an eye, a group of strange fish surrounded Lu Changsheng.

And they began to gnaw at his scales crazily.

"What the hell is this?"

Lu Changsheng's expression was shocked.

"Sizzle..."

With bursts of harsh screeching sounds, Lu Changsheng felt his scales itching; he hurriedly used both hands to block his head and some fragile parts, then immediately swam toward the shore.

With the strength of his scales, there were actually some abnormal feelings, which clearly showed that these strange fish had a stronger gnawing ability than the ground rats.

Lu Changsheng swam toward the shore desperately, trying to get rid of the other party.

A group of strange fish bit directly onto his body.

A moment later, when Lu Changsheng's physical strength was about to be exhausted, he suddenly saw a protruding giant rock ahead.

He hurriedly jumped up.

There were still more than ten strange fish hanging on his body, which were brought out of the bottom of the water together.

They were jumping around on the stone platform.

These strange fish looked a bit like piranhas, looking very cruel.

He hadn't expected there to be such creatures at the bottom of the river; no wonder he had been swimming for so long without discovering other exotic beasts.

Then Lu Changsheng stretched out his sharp claws, slaughtered these piranhas one by one, and then rested quietly on the shore to recover his physical strength.

He couldn't go underwater for the time being, and there were a large number of ground rats wandering on the shore, just waiting for him to go up.

Lu Changsheng prepared to wait for the piranha group to leave before carefully going underwater to explore.

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The next day, early morning, the morning sun rose.

Changping County.

After Lu Changsheng got up early to wash, he began to open the system space.

He took out all the spiritual herbs inside and placed them on the stone platform in the courtyard.

Large and small spiritual herbs were piled together, and the fragrance wafted in all directions.

Lu Changsheng took a deep breath, as if even his spirit was boosted a lot.

These spiritual herbs were all obtained from this exploration of Cangyun Mountain; although he experienced some dangers, the harvest was not bad.

"Detected unknown energy source, do you want to absorb it?"

"Absorb."

Lu Changsheng recited silently.

Then he opened the panel to check the Source Energy Points.

Source Energy Points: 38.

Looking at the number in front of him, he had a happy face.

Another big harvest; with these Source Energy Points, his own cultivation could go a step further.

He couldn't wait to know what the next realm of the Iron Cloth Shirt was.

(End of chapter)