Chapter 53: Water Not Belonging to the Douluo World

Zhou Yi mobilized the Spiritual Power within his body to gather in his left eye. Instantly, the divine patterns in his left pupil flashed, silver light flared, and a small mass of water condensed out of thin air one meter in front of him. This water was colorless and odorless, and its temperature was perfectly normal.

"Something's not right. This is just ordinary water, impossible! If it were ordinary water, how could it consume so much of my Spiritual Power? There must be something I haven't discovered!"

Saying this, Zhou Yi refused to give up and used various objects to touch this mass of water, hoping for effects like corrosion to appear. However, this water really seemed to be just ordinary water; any object that came into contact with it remained completely undamaged.

While Zhou Yi was still struggling with this mass of water, on the other side, Jin Ling and Zhu Zhuqing had also woken up one after another. As soon as they woke up, they saw Zhou Yi and Yingxue beside him. Jin Ling was one thing, but the first time Zhu Zhuqing saw Yingxue, she was deeply stunned. It was her first time seeing such a gentle, tranquil, and fairy-like woman.

However, since Zhou Yi was beside her, it meant this woman was not an enemy. Before she could even open her mouth to ask, Yingxue took the initiative to introduce herself.

"Hello, successor of the Moon God. I am the Nine-Colored Deer who resides here. You can just call me Yingxue. Here are some fruits and spring water from nearby, please~"

"Hello, my name is Zhu Zhuqing. Thank you for your help." Zhu Zhuqing was also clever; after hearing what she said, she understood that this person was a Soul Beast, and she looked like a very peace-loving Soul Beast.

Seeing that Zhu Zhuqing had woken up, Zhou Yi decided not to struggle with that mass of water for the time being and took a large bottle to store it. However, upon storing it, he discovered something: the density of this water was abnormal, being lighter than normal water of the same volume. But this was useless, wasn't it? Wasn't it still no different from ordinary water?

Zhou Yi could only stop worrying about it and study it later. Then, he began to communicate with Zhu Zhuqing and Yingxue. Zhu Zhuqing also realized that they had arrived on another Continent. This discovery left her at a loss, especially since she didn't know if she could find a route back to the Douluo Continent.

Before long, the voice of the Moon God's trials began to sound.

"Moon God Nine Trials, third trial: Enter the Yue Zhi Hu and fuse two types of power to evolve them into Taiyin Power. Time limit: three months."

"Taiyin Six Trials, third trial: Enter the Yue Zhi Hu and fuse two types of power to evolve them into Taiyin Power. Time limit: three months."

"Taiyin Three Trials, third trial: Enter the Yue Zhi Hu and fuse two types of power to evolve them into Taiyin Power. Time limit: three months."

After everyone communicated with each other, they discovered that everyone's tasks were actually the same, which made Zhou Yi unable to help but complain.

"Everyone is the same, that's really perfunctory. But this stage doesn't have any difficulty either; just evolve by relying on some kind of energy in the Yue Zhi Hu. It's just a waste of time."

In the blink of an eye, more than two months had passed. The two types of power within the three of them had completely evolved into Taiyin Power, not only retaining their previous abilities but also doubling the cultivation speed of several people, and the coldness was even more intense than before.

The physical fitness of several people had also become stronger. Zhu Zhuqing's physical fitness had clearly reached the limit of a Soul King; if she were to get another soul bone and add a Soul Ring, she could directly reach the level of a Soul Emperor. Zhou Yi's single-arm strength had turned into the strength of four elephants, and Jin Ling's body strength was already comparable to a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.

In the last few days, Zhou Yi even couldn't help but run to the nearby Ri Zhi Hu. Unfortunately, other than feeling extreme scorching heat, he gained no other effects, and he couldn't endure this heat for long before he couldn't take it anymore.

It is worth mentioning that when he dived into the deeper parts of the lake, he discovered a large amount of mysterious metal ores at the bottom. These metal minerals looked extraordinary at first glance, each shining with glazed colors, either cold or scorching. At the intersection of the two parts of the lake bottom, there was even an Yin-Yang Essence born with strange Dao patterns engraved on it. Zhou Yi's eyes went straight looking at it. Just as he was preparing to take it all, the Dragon Pearl flew out of his dantian on its own, and in the blink of an eye, it ate all these immortal gold materials before slowly returning to his dantian.

Zhou Yi was so angry that he cursed loudly. One must know that materials that could be favored by the Dragon Pearl could definitely be considered immortal gold, the kind of which there were only a few pieces on this entire planet. If he had kept a few pieces for artifact refining, they would have been divine artifacts in the future. Unfortunately, it had consumed them all. Now he could only hope that it would develop intelligence as soon as possible and transform into an innate spiritual treasure.

For the rest of the time, he could only continue to study that bottle of water. He really didn't believe that the water he had spent so much Spiritual Power to create was just ordinary water. However, after such a toss, he really discovered the essence of this water.

That day happened to be the third day after he completed the third trial. He took out the bottle of water to observe as usual. Just then, a leaf fell onto the water. Strangely, the fallen leaf did not float on the water but sank directly to the bottom of the bottle.

"Hmm? Could this be?"

Seeing this scene, Zhou Yi had some guesses. He plucked a piece of fluff from Jin Ling's neck and gently dropped it. Sure enough, even the extremely light fluff sank to the bottom of the bottle in the blink of an eye. Afterward, he experimented with various extremely light objects, and without exception, none of them could float on it. Moreover, he also discovered that it wasn't that this water couldn't corrode or decompose objects, but that the decomposition was too slow to be seen in a short time. However, for small items like leaves and fluff, one could clearly see them being slowly decomposed.

Now he finally understood; this was clearly Weak Water, or what one might call Three Thousand Weak Water.

Weak Water, where even a goose feather cannot float, and one cannot cross. The *Classic of Mountains and Seas* records: "North of Kunlun there is water, its power cannot support a mustard seed, hence it is named Weak Water." Above the Weak Water, a domain forms on its own; goose feathers do not float, and immortals and Buddhas find it hard to cross. No matter how high one's Daoist cultivation is, if one dares to cross the Weak Water, there is only one outcome: to sink into the Weak Water, be decomposed and melted by the Weak Water, and become a part of the Weak Water.

However, for the current Zhou Yi, it was a bit of a chicken rib. The main thing was that the amount of Weak Water he could mobilize now was too little. Such a small amount of Weak Water was useless for dealing with people. He could only make some with his left eye every day and wait for it to accumulate over time.

But this Moon God, where did she get this thing? This Weak Water shouldn't be a specialty of the Douluo Continent, right?

"Zhu Zhuqing has completed the Moon God Nine Trials, third trial. Reward: Moon God Set torso bone."

"Zhou Yi has completed the Taiyin Six Trials, third trial. Reward: one God-Bestowed Soul Ring."

"Jin Ling has completed the Taiyin Three Trials, third trial. Reward: ten thousand years of soul power cultivation."

As the three beams of light descended, the three of them obtained their own rewards in turn. Zhu Zhuqing began to absorb the soul bone, while the Moon mark on Jin Ling's head dissipated, proving that it had completed all the trials.

As for Zhou Yi, he held the mass of light in his hand but was not in a hurry to absorb it. Instead, he came to the Moon God statue and asked:

"Moon God, will this God-Bestowed Soul Ring grant me the soul skill I want based on my thoughts?"

Zhou Yi didn't dare to absorb it rashly. He had already considered what his fourth Soul Ring would be. If the attributes of the ring she gave were wrong, where would he go to cry?

"...... Yes."

Hearing this answer, he felt relieved. Moreover, the God-Bestowed Soul Ring would automatically match the age based on physical fitness. As long as the attributes were correct, it was much better than hunting one himself. Besides, he couldn't bring himself to kill a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast that had developed intelligence.