The calm black water pool attracted many gazes, and several were approaching rapidly.
Pang Jian, who was underwater, only knew that the "Cicada Wing Sword" lost all its spirituality and magic when it entered the water.
He didn't know that when he dived underwater again to explore the mysterious black water of Jinyang, one of his hands was corroded by the pool water.
After taking a breath, Pang Jian continued to observe the "Cicada Wing Sword" hovering above his head. He continued to endure the agony, waiting for a miracle to happen, hoping to avoid this massacre from the dark ghost.
Time passes by every second.
Pang Jian, who is good at swimming, can hold his breath for a long time. He can see the whistling "Cicada Wing Sword" appearing everywhere underwater.
Before he knew it, the blood from the gaping wound on his hand had stopped flowing.
The bright luster released by the phoenix bone seemed to be slowly shrinking, and the area it could illuminate was getting smaller and smaller.
"I wonder if I can practice the Hutian Yangqi Jue underwater..."
With this thought in mind, beside the phoenix bone whose light was gradually dimming, he tried to clear his mind of all the distracting thoughts.
He no longer wandered around the phoenix bone, allowing his body to slowly sink and quietly enter a state of meditation and concentration.
He was visualizing the spiritual sea in his Dantian, and suddenly he noticed the slightly strange blue-black "spiritual pot" reappear, naturally absorbing the available power nearby.
Gradually, he discovered that within the dark and icy water, there was an extremely strange power that was surging towards the "Spirit Pot" in his Dantian.
This power hidden in the black water has a distinct acidic and toxic nature, and seems to be able to corrode all flesh and blood.
He was immediately startled.
Just when he was about to stop practicing the "Hutian Yangqi Jue", he discovered that the first wisp of sour and poisonous energy that escaped into the dark blue "Spirit Pot" was actually removing the "cotton wool"-like dregs and filth from his spiritual sea.
Moreover, the speed and efficiency this time far exceeded the "Xuanyin Power" within the gray-white rock.
There was nothing wrong with the small world within his spiritual sea just because he absorbed a trace of sour and poisonous energy.
"This can also be absorbed? Can it cleanse the filth in the Spiritual Sea?"
Pang Jian felt incredible and secretly marveled at the magic of "Hutian Yangqi Jue", so he let his body continue to sink and kept the blue-black "Spirit Pot" running.
He soon made a new discovery.
When he remained calm and focused, practicing the "Hutian Yangqi Jue", his two arms and the pores in his chest area were able to absorb... air from the cold black water.
Only then did he realize that there was air in the water, but ordinary people could not breathe it through their mouths and noses.
Why is he suddenly able to do it
Why was his absorption of air from the water limited to his arms and chest
He suddenly remembered how his arms were as hard as iron, how his strength suddenly surged when he was attacked by the Dark Ghost Monk, and the scene in his dream where countless phoenixes were flying in his bones.
With many distracting thoughts in his mind, he was forced to stop practicing the "Hutian Yangqi Jue" and suddenly woke up.
He once again forced himself to calm down, re-entering a state of meditation and concentration, continuing to practice the "Hutian Yangqi Jue", while his body continued to sink.
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"Jinyang!"
Outside the pond, the two dark ghost leaders were screaming.
Watching Pang Jian slowly sink to the bottom of the pool, the small piece of bright white light around the phoenix bone slowly converged, and Jinyang's originally handsome face was filled with sinisterness and mania.
He turned around suddenly.
A strange scene of a lifelike blood-red phoenix dancing gracefully in front of Ouyang Duanhai's chest suddenly came into his eyes.
“Swoosh! Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!”
Patrolling the surface of the pool, those "cicada wing swords" used to stare at Pang Jian were summoned back by Jinyang like silver lightning, ready to deal with the alien in front of them.
But he soon discovered that Ouyang Duanhai, who had lost his intelligence and had dull eyes, was not coming towards him.
Before the remaining "Cicada Wing Swords" reached Jinyang's head, Ouyang Duanhai, who had killed many dark ghost monks and absorbed their blood and flesh essence with his blood-colored feathers, suddenly jumped high and then jumped into the black water pool with a "plop".
Jinyang was on high alert, with only his left hand left as white bones. He was about to make hand gestures to activate the talisman, but found that Ouyang Duanhai ignored him.
Jinyang was stunned.
Ouyang Duanhai, who entered the water, had a body like dried bones, which was suddenly covered by sticky blood.
He only appeared in the black water for a moment before he was completely submerged by the water and could no longer be seen.
"He was not corroded or dissolved. He did not dissolve!"
Holding up his fleshless left hand, Jin Yang felt extremely frustrated and uncomfortable. Staring at the place where Ouyang Duanhai disappeared, he shouted hysterically: "A young man named Pang Jian, and this crazy alien, they were not dissolved by the black water!"
At this time, the two dark ghost leaders in the Tongmai realm, who were anxious to rescue him, finally arrived one after another.
"Jinyang, your hand?"
The man with the golden mask saw his raised skeletal left hand and screamed in horror: "I told you long ago that you shouldn't show up and get involved in this! What should we do? How are we going to explain this to the leader when we get back?"
What he was afraid of was the leader's blame. Thinking of the leader's cruel methods, he was already shuddering with fear before he even returned.
"We have a way to make flesh out of bones."
Jin Yang took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down. He stopped wasting words on this matter and said in a deep voice, "The black pool of water is strange. It has a strange power that corrodes flesh and blood. I was deceived by it by mistake."
"We checked the water in the pond not long ago and found nothing unusual?" another leader in the Tongmai Realm asked in confusion.
“The past was the past, and the present is the present.”
Jin Yang took a glove from the leader wearing a golden mask and put it on. He bared his teeth and said, "Perhaps, we overlooked some details last time."
The two dark ghost leaders at the Tongmai realm looked at the dark pool of water, not knowing whether it was really like that.
The leader who dropped the giant silver net looked at his subordinates dragging the giant net and pulling Ning Yao all the way over, and said coldly: "It seems that I need to interrogate her."
“They didn’t lie.”
Jin Yang's face was cold, and he snorted before saying, "There are some things that Zhang Heng didn't tell you, but he explained them clearly to Hong Tai. The first phoenix bone they encountered earlier did have terrifying vines that sprang out from the cracks in the ground, attacking and killing the people of the Shangguan family and then eating them."
"And the reason why I care about that hunter is because Zhang Heng told me that the Blood Moon's Eye of Brand chose him!"
Of course, he knew the inside story that the two leaders were unaware of, but he had no intention of explaining it to them.
"What should we do next?"
When the two heard that this was true and looked at the cracks in the ground, they suddenly started to worry again.
"Only practitioners who have reached the Marrow Cleansing Realm, after shedding their mortal bodies, can breathe underwater through the pores of their skin. The boy named Pang Jian has been underwater for a long time. I don't know if he sank to the bottom of the pool after death, or..."
Jinyang frowned, looked at the dark water with a gloomy face, and said, "Wait and see!"
The two had no choice but to wait patiently.
However, neither Pang Jian nor the insane Ouyang Duanhai emerged from the water.
"Han Duping escaped!"
Outside the valley, the shouting of a dark ghost practitioner was suddenly heard.
When the masked leader rushed to the Black Water Pond because he was worried about something happening in Jinyang, the defense there naturally became much more lax, and Han Duping was able to take the opportunity to escape.
"Don't worry about him, he's just a guy who knows how to survey arrays. He's not that important."
Jinyang stopped the two men from chasing him.
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When they spoke.
A hazy blood shadow slowly emerged from the leaves of the ancient tree where Jinyang had been hiding before. She disappeared into the dense leaves, gazing at the black water pond and Jinyang and others who were discussing something from afar.
No one noticed her presence.
“There are more than just phoenix bones at the bottom of the pool. As far as I know, the refining and formation of each drop of phoenix marrow requires a huge accumulation of blood and flesh.” She murmured softly.
She had already arrived at the brutal battlefield and was in no hurry to go deeper into the black water pool, because there was no suitable cover around the pool, and it was not very convenient for her to hide.
"This drop of phoenix marrow is unusual. I don't know what foreign object it was able to gather enough surging blood and flesh energy."
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Deep in the black water pool.
Pang Jian, immersed in cultivation, let his body slowly sink, concentrating on absorbing the acidic and toxic energy from the icy water.
An indescribable sense of satisfaction gradually grew in his heart, and he felt a power that could only be described as majestic!
The vast energy was swallowed up by the dark blue "Spirit Pot" like a giant whale sucking water, quickly washing away the filth and dregs in his spiritual sea.
He absorbed the "Xuanyin power" bit by bit, but at this moment in the pool of water, he seemed to be wandering in a vast ocean of energy!
He didn't know that when he was practicing the "Hutian Yangqi Jue" in the lake water, the water around him gradually became transparent.
When the acidic and poisonous power in the water was absorbed by him with the "Spirit Pot", he was like a bright light source, purifying the darkness in the water.
After a long time, he felt solid ground under his feet and opened his eyes underwater.
He was surprised to find that the water at the bottom of the pool where he was was actually clear and transparent, no longer as dark as ink.
He lowered his head and looked at what was under his feet, and saw an olive green scale.
His eyes moved around, and soon he saw some oval black spots. He continued to look... and found the thick body of a python!
Pang Jian was horrified.
He had seen countless pythons during his years of hunting in the Ceji Mountains, but he had never seen a python this big!
The leader of the dark ghosts, Hong Tai, rode a python with black and white patterns, which was just a small earthworm compared to the giant python at the bottom of the pool.
This giant python is now wrapped around the phoenix bone that has been pierced into the bottom of the pool, as if trying to twist or push the phoenix bone down.
The flesh on its tail had long since disappeared, leaving only the huge snake bones like the spine, weakly slapping the ground at the bottom of the pool.
When the snake bones hit the ground under the water, it seemed powerless, but it still caused an earthquake at the bottom of the pool.
It was because it whipped the ground with its winding snake tail that caused the major earthquake around the Black Water Pond, and it was also because of its frantic struggle that the earth outside became full of gullies.
Looking directly downward from Pang Jian's perspective, he could only see the snake's body coiled around the phoenix bone. The snake bones, without skin and flesh, kept hitting the stone ground at the bottom of the pool.
Pang Jian was shocked by it, and in a trance he left the phoenix bone area and moved to the side to look at it again.
Soon, Pang Jian saw a huge python head with its jaws against the bottom of the pool.
A huge and sharp phoenix bone, like a spear holding up the sky, pierced through the python's head and nailed it to the bottom of the pool.
Its huge head could not move, and no matter how it twisted its tail and body, it could not escape the stabbing of the phoenix bone.
In a trance, Pang Jian seemed to see a huge phoenix bone falling from the sky. When it landed on the Black Water Pond, it stabbed and killed a giant python lurking at the bottom of the pond along its head.
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(End of this chapter)