Chapter 611

Even with the vision granted by this strange flower, underwater was still not a world that could be seen at a glance. Rugged and dark stone clusters and grass forests, he didn't know when the end would be. Now he had a sense of direction, but he still didn't know where to go.

Seeing Pei Ye was floating slowly under the rock, and suddenly said: "Little cat, have you noticed that the water here is flowing toward us."

The black cat nodded.

Actually, it was even earlier. From the moment they crashed through the Merman crowd's blockade, the black Chi transformed into a cat shape and shrank back into Seeing Pei Ye's embrace, and the trend of the water already had some weak disturbances and echoes, which were ripples caused by the flow rushing into the stillness.

It was from there that they went further inward, and the water at the bottom of the lake was no longer stable. Even if they floated quietly without swimming, they could feel the weak water flow brushing against their exposed skin.

For all creatures entering here, it was a gentle counter-current.

"So, Mermen cannot enter such a water flow... they gather outside, just carefully pushing forward," Seeing Pei Ye said. "Here, for them, it is also a piece of unknown depth."

So they reported such notes every day, calling this matter "All Scales Gnawing the Gate," recording the progress of the day—"saw two flowers," "chiseled in three zhang," and so on.

"The way they chisel in is probably finding and then removing this kind of flower," the black cat said suddenly.

"Hm?"

"Look." The black cat pointed with its claw. On the stone wall not far away, a fairy-like Luoshen Wood Peach was quietly blooming there, and the transparent silk on the stem represented that it was an object with an owner.

"This kind of flower blooms in the counter-current, affecting the balance and five senses of the Mermen. It is a prohibition grown from this land," the black cat said. "Relying on these two things, it politely refuses the entry of all creatures—look, we only walked a hundred or eighty zhang, and even the small fish have become scarce."

These firefly-like tiny creatures couldn't understand that chaotic direction meant it was not allowed to approach. After they swam in, they might never be able to leave again in their lives.

"But these Mermen don't dare to approach, so what do they rely on to remove them?" Seeing Pei Ye said.

"People."

"... People?"

"Think about it, Mermen don't need to take shark-pearl powder to enter here."

"..." Seeing Pei Ye nodded slowly.

They rushed into this unknown forbidden area in their recklessness, while those Mermen outside cooperated with humans to advance and explore alternately, searching for some kind of "road" and "pathway" in the depth.

"You tell me, what kind of place is this?" Seeing Pei Ye whispered.

"That would probably have to be asked to Yu Siche," the black cat said. "This is exactly his painstaking goal. When he transported Mermen for the first time nine years ago, he probably arrived here... He naturally knows what he is looking for."

"But he hasn't succeeded yet, what has he been doing for these nine years?" Seeing Pei Ye muttered.

The black cat did not answer, saying: "He has come in."

"Coming toward us?"

"No, wandering in the shallow area."

After losing the pursuit of the Mermen, this purple-robed Grand Eunuch seemed to have indeed lost track of their whereabouts... Seeing Pei Ye was thinking silently when he suddenly perceived the disturbance of a large piece of water flow here for the first time. He subconsciously twisted his head to look, only to see a vigilant searching face turning out from behind a large rock.

The person was wearing black leather water gear, with a pair of water-splitting daggers tucked at his waist. The moment they faced each other, a pair of yellow pupils had locked onto him.

This person blew a sharp whistle for the first time. The water whistle had obviously been held in his teeth all along.

Then he immediately drew the water-splitting daggers from his waist, twisted his waist to adjust to a posture suitable for fighting, and kicked off the rock to pounce on Seeing Pei Ye.

This agility was beyond Seeing Pei Ye's expectations. He could clearly see that this person had absolutely not enjoyed the gift of Luoshen, but he achieved underwater activity through a series of other means—underwater strange martial arts cultivated in water-adjacent sects since childhood, a lithe body accustomed to floating for many years, and eyes that achieved night vision through some secret technique... These people were obviously the real consumers of shark-pearl powder.

Seeing Pei Ye just never expected them to come so deep and so fast.

He twisted his sword horizontally, blocking the water-splitting dagger that pierced through. The moment they collided, Seeing Pei Ye immediately showed a lag in strength—this person was actually a genuine Eighth Life!

The moment he got this information, the opponent twisted his waist with all his might, and the double daggers crossed and exerted force on the sword, intending to twist the youth's sword down.

This skilled exertion of force penetrated the whole body, showing years of underwater kung fu. To be honest, this person would not be an opponent weaker than Chen Renzhong.

Seeing Pei Ye released his sword at this point. Between the two exchanges of force, he knew he couldn't get into a contest of strength in the water with him. After losing his sword, he raised his hand and gripped a piece of vermilion fire, smashing it onto the opponent's face with a roaring, fierce flame!

The pressure of the Xuan fire on the Pulse Realm was quite great, so the opponent immediately abandoned his weapon and raised his hand. The flexible underwater kung fu was refined in unloading force. Raising his palm and elbow to lean and send, he let the heavy punch pass—without a sword, the youth's hand skills were indeed difficult to enter the first-class ranks.

But Seeing Pei Ye didn't intend to exchange blows with him either. Now he enjoyed amazing flexibility in the water. He backhanded and buckled his shoulder, and with the other hand, he framed his elbow and exerted force to break it, locking his entire arm. Then he tilted his chin to dodge a kick that rose to the sky, and whispered: "Pulling Silk."

The Eighth Life's reaction was as fast as lightning, and a veteran of the Jianghu was also much smarter than a Merman. In an instant, he twisted his body to protect himself, not sparing his thick Qi at all.

However, the water-splitting daggers he had just abandoned had become a fatal foreshadowing. The youth was as if he had a sword in his hand even without one. Especially after changing to the Jade Tiger, he hooked his fingers together, and the Jade Tiger with a drifting trajectory hit the pair of Emei daggers with two crisp "clangs." In an instant, the weapon turned into three mysterious streams of light.

One pierced his left leg, one nailed into his right arm, and then the vermilion jade color smeared onto the Jade Tiger sword blade, cutting into the soft and rotten Qi, severing his throat in an instant.

Seeing Pei Ye received the sword and released his hand, letting the still-twitching corpse fall. He raised his arm to look. In just one exchange, a large piece of blue and purple had been slapped out on his arm, and the old injury on his shoulder had also cracked a small piece.

He dealt with the injury, and the black cat said: "Do you know what they have been doing for nine years now?"

The opponent's infiltration here was indeed deeper than Seeing Pei Ye expected, and the means were more than Seeing Pei Ye expected. It was imaginable that when they first arrived here, the opponent began to hunt them down, and even entered here earlier than him, seeking to block him in front.

"I hope this place can be bigger... let us drag it out more," Seeing Pei Ye sighed lightly, looking at the scaly flower mark on his wrist, which was already somewhat faint.

"Where is Yu Siche?" he bent down and searched the corpse quickly, only getting some basic lighting and hooking tools.

There was another note that was waterproof, on which a reminder-like sentence was written: "Stop when entering the counter-current for three hundred zhang."

"Chasing this way."

"Let's detour," Seeing Pei Ye said.

He circled an arc and went deeper again. Although the note was written like that, with a strong enemy behind, he naturally couldn't stop at three hundred zhang. He pushed deeper with all his might. After about a quarter of an hour, the environment indeed began to change. He gave a light "Eh" and said: "Little cat, don't you feel that the terrain is getting higher and higher."

The black cat did not speak. Actually, it wasn't that the terrain was getting higher, but that the counter-current they were in seemed to be lifted up. It was water rising toward the high place ahead.

Seeing Pei Ye didn't know how to describe this feeling, but this was indeed water within water. He couldn't see its boundaries and origins, but when it pulled up high, the small schools of fish followed upstream, and the water grass also grew upward, as if taking the whole ecology away from the ground. Seeing Pei Ye also began to feel a feeling of being lifted up involuntarily.

This wonderful feeling was like climbing a mountain, but Seeing Pei Ye was indeed swimming and climbing a mountain for the first time... The surroundings became quieter and quieter. Those Mermen and humans seemed never to have reached here.

He came to the "top of the mountain," and then the upstream stopped, and the trend began to go downward again—but the direction of the water flow had never changed. Now it was still flowing toward him from bottom to top, seemingly having a distant source.

But it was at this moment that the black cat frowned.

"What's wrong?"

"... Yu Siche's speed, seems a bit slow."

"Hm?"

"From the exchange with that person just now until now, his distance hasn't pulled closer to us much," the black cat frowned. "Does the underwater have such a big impact on him?"

Seeing Pei Ye was stunned for a moment, his heart shrinking: "What is your Chi fire hanging on?"

"... Inside the robe, you mean..."

"Run!" Seeing Pei Ye immediately swam downstream.

Going downstream against the current, Seeing Pei Ye exerted all his strength to sweep in the water. In dozens of breaths, he completed this fall and came to a flat "valley" again. There were no rugged and dense stone forests here, nor were there long, swaying water grass clusters.

What grew on the ground were short and shallow grass buds, spreading all over the ground tenderly, and small schools of fish shuttled among them, just like emerald insects jumping up to forage.

This should have been a beautiful strange scene, but Seeing Pei Ye stopped his steps when he walked here, slowly gripping his sword and pursing his lips.

A tall, cold-faced white-haired eunuch had already stood on this plain. The wide golden-purple robe was gone. He only wore white inner robes, and the dark yellow pupils were probably the same secret method as the person just met. The well-maintained white hair floated forward under the brushing of the water flow.

He held a heavy iron-colored large spear in his hand.

"I really want to kill you a bit," Yu Siche whispered, his yellow pupils staring at him, "You actually dare... to go deep here."