The fourth realm.
Another deep dark night falls.
In a corner of the Cenji Mountains, a group of dark ghosts led by Jinyang gathered at the edge of the Black Water Pond, staring blankly at the calm water surface with strange expressions.
In the dark night of the netherworld, only practitioners like them can see the surrounding scenes.
For mortals who have not embarked on the path of spiritual practice, it is difficult to distinguish the things around them in such a deep darkness without the help of lights or other light sources.
Because Jinyang gave the order, the dark ghosts did not light the lights, and a group of people like ghosts scattered around the pond.
However, after waiting for a long time, Ouyang Duanhai and Pang Jian did not emerge from the dark pool.
Neither of them had reached the marrow cleansing stage, and neither of them had the ability to breathe underwater for a long time.
"It looks like, whether we turn on the lights or not, they won't show up on their own initiative."
"Perhaps, they have already turned into bones underwater."
"… "
Everyone talked to each other, keeping their voices low for fear of being heard by the two people underwater.
The masked man, whose patience was almost exhausted, said to Jinyang, "We have tried it before. After throwing the corpses into the pond, all the flesh and blood melted away quickly. They shouldn't be able to hold out for that long. Are we just going to keep wasting time like this?"
In order to verify Jinyang's statement, they brought the bodies of the brothers Zhang Heng and Zhang Hu, as well as several war horses that had been poisoned, and threw them into the black water pool and then pulled them down.
It was the same experience as Jinyang, just up and down, and when pulled out, only bones were left.
The flesh and blood has been completely corroded.
They immediately knew that the water in the pond was strange, because when they first inspected the Black Water Pond, Jinyang had clearly been to the place where the dead bones were, and some of them had also touched the water.
The water in the lake at that time was not highly corrosive or toxic, so they did not experience any abnormalities.
Even though he had a safe experience, after a "cicada wing sword" entered the water and changed, Jinyang still dared to rashly test the water with his left hand, which turned into a pile of white bones.
"My intuition tells me that the young hunter named Pang Jian and Ouyang Duanhai were not corroded by the lake water."
Under the dark night, Jinyang's voice was filled with coldness and murderousness, letting everyone present know that he was really angry this time.
"How do they breathe underwater?"
Another dark ghost leader who was standing next to the giant silver silk net said curiously.
"I also want to know why! I also want to know why Pang Jian's arm bones and sternum are as hard as iron and even my cicada wing sword can't cut them off!" Jinyang shouted.
“Hiss!”
The people near the pond suddenly heard the sound of a python swimming, so they turned their heads to look.
Hong Tai, the person in charge of this operation, rode the black and white python and came to the crowd with a bitter face. He sighed, "The kid from the Zhou family escaped."
He gave a brief explanation, saying that Zhou Qingchen had more than just the Heart-Protecting Mirror in his hands, and that he could always use the magic treasure to avoid his killing moves.
Finally, Zhou Qingchen fled to the muddy stream, jumped into the river, and swam to an unknown place.
The river had experienced a violent storm a while ago, and the water was too muddy. He couldn't see Zhou Qingchen's movements under the river, so he returned after searching in vain.
"Our situation is similar. A hunter named Pang Jian, and a man who is neither human nor ghost, Ouyang Duanhai, are both hiding under the Black Water Pond and their lives or deaths are unknown." The masked leader of the Tongmai Realm immediately explained the situation here.
"The water in the Black Water Pond has actually undergone a strange change. Can it even corrode flesh and blood?"
Hong Tai was obviously a little shocked. He rode the big python to the pond, patted the python under him, and ordered: "Show me what's wrong with the water!"
The python he tamed came to the front of the dark pool of water. Its green eyes emitted a strange light and it lightly tapped the water with its tongue.
"laugh!"
A little smoke came out of the python's tongue, and fear suddenly appeared in its cold snake eyes.
Hongtai suddenly lost his color.
He immediately got off the python, went to the snake's head, put his ear close to the smoking mouth of the python, and put on a listening posture.
"Dark Anaconda! There is a dark anaconda hidden at the bottom of the black water pool!"
Hong Tai screamed and took a few steps back anxiously, fearing that the "dark anaconda" he was talking about would suddenly rush out.
There were more than a dozen dark ghost monks surrounding the Black Water Pond, but most of them, including two leaders in the Tongmai Realm, had no idea what the "Dark Giant Anaconda" was.
Only Jin Yang was stunned for a moment, then suddenly reacted and said in surprise: "Impossible! There is no way that the Dark Anaconda can use its own power to step into the world we live in from the fifth realm of eternal darkness!"
"An alien from the fifth realm?!"
The two dark ghost leaders finally understood the origin of the "dark giant anaconda" mentioned by Hongtai and Jinyang.
Below them, in the fifth realm, is a land of eternal darkness.
According to legend, all life that can survive in the fifth realm is full of unimaginable evil and terror.
The fifth realm and the fourth realm have always been in a state of separation, and almost no life form from the fourth realm dares to enter the fifth realm.
Not to mention the practitioners from the fourth realm, even the great cultivators from the third and second realms would not easily get involved.
Same.
The terrifying alien creatures active in the fifth realm seem unable to break out and escape from that world of unknown magnitude.
If the "Dark Anaconda" was a foreign creature from the fifth realm, it would be impossible for it to leave and sneak into Beiqi in the fourth realm, hiding in a black pool in the Cenji Mountains.
"I heard from the leader that the dark giant anacondas that appear in the fifth realm are at least level four fierce beasts or spiritual beasts."
Even someone as strong as Hong Tai was already hesitating.
…
In the dense bushes.
The enchanting blood-colored shadow, which was hazy in sight, also changed color slightly when it saw the python raised by Hong Tai passing through the water of the pond and confirming the existence of a "dark giant anaconda" at the bottom of the pond.
"A snake grows into a python, a python grows into an anaconda, an anaconda grows into a dragon, and a dragon grows into a dragon. The dark giant anaconda should not be able to rush out of the terrifying fifth realm, and it is impossible for it to hide in the black water pool for no reason."
"Unless someone brought it up here and raised it... in the Black Water Pond."
She was in a dignified mood and looked at the black water pool with deep eyes, and her expression gradually became solemn.
She thought that after gradually recovering her strength, she would be the strongest in the Silent Mountains, so she always appeared calm.
But if someone could enter the fifth realm, which is considered a forbidden area even by gods and ghosts, and capture a "dark anaconda" alive and keep it in a black water pool.
Then, the power possessed by this person would make her retreat even if she recovered to her peak!
"Who could it be?"
"How could such a shocking figure be hiding in this barren forest?"
The woman who originally wanted to reveal her tracks and force the dark ghosts to explore the bottom of the pool no longer dared to act rashly.
She hid her tracks more and more carefully, secretly preparing herself for the worst and even having to give up the Phoenix Marrow.
…
Bottom of the pool.
When Pang Jian woke up again, he found that the spirit stone he was holding tightly in his hands and the gray-white rock containing the "Xuan Yin power" had turned into fine sand and flew away from his fingers.
From the two spirit stones, a pure spiritual energy of heaven and earth and a powerful mysterious yin force had been absorbed by him.
His Dantian spiritual sea was now filled with many kinds of complex energy, which were still circulating slowly.
Because his realm was not high enough and his spiritual consciousness had not yet condensed, he could not clearly observe the movements of his spiritual sea and could only perceive it vaguely.
He sensed a funnel-shaped vortex appearing in his dantian.
The vortex was in the center of the Dantian, spinning in circles, constantly pulling in all kinds of energy that filled the Dantian.
The mist-like spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the dark acidic and poisonous supernatural powers, and the grayish-white mysterious yin power slowly gathered from all sides of the vortex.
As the funnel-shaped vortex rotates inward in circles, a large amount of energy is refined and extracted over and over again.
The tip of the funnel hung down, receiving the cleansed power from above, condensing it into... spiritual power that he could use.
"So this is what is called practice."
"By turning the energy of different attributes into a tangible existence, you can clearly feel the spiritual power. This wonderful feeling is like extracting power from the vast mist and condensing it into water droplets."
Pang Jian had an epiphany, and he worked harder to gather his strength, practicing without sleep or food.
The spirit stones that Ning Yao gave him in the bamboo basket were quickly used up by him.
Afterwards, he could only obtain spiritual energy and acid and poison abilities from the lake water and continue to refine spiritual power in the small world of Dantian.
This went on for a while.
When Pang Jian woke up again, he found a giant python with its head pierced by the phoenix bone. All the flesh and blood on the python's body had disappeared, leaving only dry bones like the phoenix bone.
Part of the python's bones were still wrapped around the phoenix bones, while the other parts were spread out in a ring at the bottom of the pool.
It seemed to know that it could not escape death, and it accepted its fate and stopped struggling, quietly waiting for death to come and for the flesh and blood on its head to be eaten away.
Pang Jian suddenly discovered that the humanoid monster that was originally far away had become very close without him knowing.
The humanoid monster stood at the tail of the snake bone, its blood-red eyes staring straight at the phoenix bone, its throat gurgling, filled with a bloodthirsty desire.
Pang Jian, feeling a little cold in his heart, frowned, left the python's head, and fell right in front of the giant python.
In this way, between him and the humanoid monster, there was the giant python with a pierced head and the extremely thick phoenix bone.
The python is still being eaten away.
The disappearance of its flesh and blood gradually spread to the skull area, and it looked like it would soon be eaten clean by the phoenix bones.
The giant python, which was in excruciating pain, still had some attachment to this world and wanted to take a last look at the world at the bottom of the pool where it had been imprisoned for many years.
Then, it slowly opened its pair of cold and lifeless python eyes.
The first thing it saw was Pang Jian, and the bronze pendant that was only slightly visible in the gap between Pang Jian’s clothes.
The "Dark Anaconda" that had already accepted its fate and was waiting to die, suddenly showed great fear in the depths of its lifeless eyes, as if it was seeing the great terror that made it tremble again.
It stared at Pang Jian's face, and confusion slowly appeared in its python pupils, which were then filled with overwhelming hatred after a moment.
Knowing that it would die sooner or later, it suddenly gathered its remaining strength and struggled frantically once again.
The snake bone that was wrapped around the phoenix bone suddenly broke away in a circle, and then along with the snake's tail, it created a huge wave at the bottom of the pool and swung towards Pang Jian fiercely.
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