Chapter 253: Sneaking into the Tianhe

Su Chen and Nezha turned into two streams of light, speeding straight toward the direction of the Tianhe.

The two soon flew out of the Taiyin Star and arrived at the edge of the Tianhe.

The Tianhe, spanning above the Nine Heavens, connected to the Zhou Tian stars.

Its water was unfathomable, each drop generated by star power and Nine Heavens clear energy, mixed with weak water; ordinary immortals who touched it would instantly be crushed by its gravity and turned into powder.

Above the Tianhe, stars dotted, as if countless shattered stars had fallen into it, fixed by some mysterious power, forming a vast and magnificent scene.

"Haven't been here for a long time." Nezha looked at the Tianhe in front of him; ever since Li Jing presided over the Tianhe Water Navy, he didn't like coming here.

"The Tianhe Water Navy camp is ahead." Nezha pointed to a group of buildings deep in the Tianhe, where immortal light swirled, and flags could be vaguely seen fluttering.

Su Chen's heart stirred; he knew that the next action, Nezha would be the key.

"Third Prince, everything is entrusted to you." Su Chen arched his hands, his tone sincere.

"Hey, why be polite!" Nezha waved his big hand, a smile appearing on his face, "Rest assured, I guarantee I will drag my father away, leaving him no time to care about other things. You take the opportunity to go in, find your treasure, and get out quickly, don't get caught by the Tianhe Water Navy."

After speaking, Nezha's figure instantly turned into a stream of light, heading straight for the Tianhe Water Navy camp.

Su Chen looked at Nezha's receding back, feeling moved in his heart.

Although Nezha was jumpy in temperament, he acted extremely decisively, and he was righteous to his friends.

With him going to contain Li Jing, his action of sneaking into the Tianhe would be much smoother.

He collected his mind; at this moment, he was wearing silver armor, holding a long halberd, his aura ordinary, no different from an ordinary Heavenly Soldier.

This was the transformation technique taught by Monkey Brother; with his current cultivation, unless a Semi-Sage was face-to-face, no one could see his true form.

"Next, it depends on my luck." Su Chen muttered in his heart, his figure swayed, and he sneaked into the Tianhe silently.

The Tianhe was ten thousand feet deep, with undercurrents surging.

Su Chen followed the water pulse map given by Marshal Tianpeng, carefully diving downward.

He could feel that the deeper he went, the greater the gravity in the water, and even his Taiyi Jin Xian peak-level physical body felt a trace of pressure.

Everything around was silent, only the sound of water flowing echoed in his ears.

Su Chen's perception was severely suppressed by the Tianhe water pressure, and his spiritual sense could only probe about a thousand feet around, so he could only rely on Tianpeng's water pulse map to distinguish direction.

The depths of the Tianhe were full of crises; if he was not careful, he would be swept into the undercurrents and fall into a place of eternal damnation.

Su Chen dived down carefully all the way; in the depths of the Tianhe, the light became darker and darker, and the water flow around became more and more turbulent.

And the weak water contained in the Tianhe water became more and more.

Weak water, a very special kind of true water in the Three Realms, known as "goose feathers do not float, immortals find it hard to cross."

Its water quality was special, able to dissolve all things, and even the magic power of immortals would be corroded by it.

Su Chen held his breath, carefully avoiding those weak water whirlpools.

He could feel that the immortal essence on his body was constantly being eroded by the weak water in the Tianhe.

If it weren't for the fact that he was already a Taiyi Jin Xian with a vigorous Hunyuan Jin Dan magic power, I fear an ordinary Taiyi cultivator would not be able to support finding the Flawless Heavenly Crystal.

"Flawless Heavenly Crystal, it is at the core of the weak water source." Su Chen muttered Tianpeng's words in his heart, continuing to go deeper, the water pressure around becoming greater and greater.

Su Chen's physical body silently operated the "Thirty-Six Axes of Heavenly Gang" method to resist the water pressure.

"This Tianhe is indeed dangerous." Su Chen sighed in his heart, also full of gratitude for Marshal Tianpeng's guidance.

The Tianhe was not a single water flow, but intertwined by countless water pulses.

If he didn't have the water pulse map in hand, bumping around in this Tianhe without a clear goal, he wouldn't know when it would be possible to find the Flawless Heavenly Crystal.

Su Chen relied on Marshal Tianpeng's water pulse map to shuttle through the intricate waterways.

He continued to go deeper, the water flow around becoming slower and slower, but the weak water contained in it became stronger and stronger.

"According to the water pulse map, I have approached a source of weak water."

Su Chen's heart stirred; he could feel that the Water-attribute origin power around had become extremely rich, as if condensed into substance.

He stopped and carefully observed the environment around him.

This was a huge water abyss formed by the Tianhe water, with black rock walls on all sides, and only a huge water column in the center, gushing out from below, leading straight to the bottomless abyss below.

The water column was crystal clear, emitting a faint silver light, as if composed of countless tiny stars.

This was a source of weak water in the Tianhe, and also the place where the Flawless Heavenly Crystal was most likely to be born.

Su Chen was excited in his heart, but did not relax at all.

He knew that the more such a place, the more dangerous it was.

He scattered his spiritual sense; here his spiritual sense was severely suppressed, and the range he could clearly perceive was already less than five hundred feet.

Suddenly, he felt a trace of abnormality.

Below the water column, there seemed to be a weak energy fluctuation, out of place with the Water-attribute origin power around.

This energy fluctuation was extremely hidden; if Su Chen's spiritual sense were not powerful, I fear he would not be able to detect

"What is this?" Su Chen felt suspicious in his heart; he cautiously approached the source of the energy fluctuation.

The closer he got, the clearer that energy fluctuation became.

This was not the power of the Tianhe; it was being generated by a cultivator below.

Su Chen thought to himself that it was bad; someone had beaten him to it!

He accelerated, suppressed his aura, and dived down in the direction from which the energy fluctuation originated.

Soon, he detected that the source of the energy fluctuation was right ahead. Su Chen concealed his figure, arrived behind a massive rock in the abyss, and looked toward the source of the energy fluctuation.

He saw a figure hovering there in the abyss where the water column was gushing out.

It was a woman dressed in white palace attire, with a graceful figure; her face was shrouded in a faint white light, making it impossible to see clearly.

She held a jade ruyi in her hand, facing the water eye beneath the water column, seemingly casting some kind of spell.

Su Chen's heart sank; he had indeed been beaten to it.

This woman was clearly also here to search for the Flawless Heavenly Crystal, and her actions suggested she had already discovered its trail.

Her figure was graceful, her face shrouded in white light, and the jade ruyi in her hand emitted a soft spiritual glow, slowly drawing out the power from deep within the water eye.

"Could this person be one of Wang Mu's?" Chang Xi had mentioned that Wang Mu valued this Flawless Heavenly Crystal quite highly.

And the woman before him moved with practiced ease, clearly not her first time here, and the jade ruyi in her hand resonated faintly with the Tianhe's water veins, clearly a treasure refined specifically for harvesting the Flawless Heavenly Crystal.