Mountains and rivers are waiting for you to return

Chapter 162: Deep Underground Lake
The ancestral python?

It must be the one-eyed giant snake they just encountered. It sounds like it should be very rare and rarely encountered by other people.

When the Silver Sparkling Water Jade was mentioned, Pei Nai did not respond. After all, this was the resource of the Valley Kingdom. Even if they discovered it together, the ownership belonged to the Valley Kingdom.

"Let's go, the dark layer is very safe." said Grandma Axun.

Her left hand kept touching the stone wall at the same height as the dent, leading them deeper into the wall.

After walking for a while, everyone was walking calmly, but an accident happened.

Grandma Axun suddenly let out a low cry and stopped, her voice filled with fear from the bottom of her bones.

Such a long period of darkness and anxiety can indeed drive people crazy, but this does not include Grandma Axun, who has been in the lower realm for many years. She has long been accustomed to this situation.

"What's wrong, mother-in-law?" Pei Nai quickly reached out to check on her.

My mother-in-law was trembling all over and collapsed to the ground. She held her head and said, "I smell his scent, it's his scent!"

"Whose smell is this?" Pei Nai squatted down and supported her.

The mother-in-law's voice was almost hoarse, "Yue Cang, the Wu clan's god."

Pei Nai understood instantly that this was the reason why Grandma Xun was frightened.

It is engraved on the body and soul, and the fear of the abuser has become a subconscious habit.

But why is it Yue Cang's smell?

She didn't bother to investigate further, and just thought that the taste was similar, or that some of the Wu people had already reached the dark layer.

Pei Nai put his hands on Grandma Axun's shoulders and comforted her: "Grandma, cheer up, I need you to take me to find Wei Daihua. There are tens of thousands of lives in danger. We are almost there, and we can't waste time!"

Grandma Axun was still wrapped in fear and her body continued to show stress reactions.

Damn it, what on earth did Yue Cang do to them? Pei Nai thought.

She hugged Grandma Axun and said, "I'm here, and I won't let him hurt you. I promise you."

Hearing this, Grandma Axun held her hand and gradually calmed down.

Everyone waited silently for her to recover. After a while, Grandma Xun stood up and said, "Let's go. The entrance to the 21st area should not be far from here."

Sure enough, after they walked for a while, they vaguely turned a few corners and suddenly a faint blue glowing entrance appeared on the ground in the distance.

As they got closer, Pei Nai could see clearly that there was an underground lake mixed with uniform light water.

The lake water is clear and blue, and looks dreamy and unreal under the uniform light on both sides.

The uniform water does not mix with the lake water. Most of it slides down the stone wall and has its own flow trajectory.

Therefore, when they enter this underground lake to swim, they will not be burned or harmed by the uniform water.

The pieces of the Hun tree kept by the Tail Dai Grass and the Valley Kingdom are deep in the underground lake of the 21st domain. Diving from there, you can reach a secret garden.

It is not flooded. On the contrary, due to its special environment and humid air, many rare plants grow there.

That secret place is the deepest part of the meteorite that humans can currently reach.

Pei Nai had already prepared to get his clothes soaked, but Grandma Xun asked them to wait for a moment and turned to the side leaning against the wall. After a few simple movements, the sound of a mechanism being activated was heard from there.

The water waves rose and fell, and the faint light was reflected on the dark stone walls, forming mottled shadows.

With the help of the dim light from the underground lake, Pei Nai saw the gold and stone cabinet in front of Grandma Xun.

"You also installed a storage cabinet here?" Pei Nai was stunned.

Grandma Axun took out four packages from the cabinet and threw three of them to them one by one. "You need to prepare a lot of tools to go down to this lake, and your clothes must not get wet, otherwise the fishy smell will attract alien monsters when you return to the upper level. Put on this." Pei Nai opened the things that Grandma Axun threw to her.

This material is like cloth and leather, with a surface as smooth as silk, a grayish white color all over, and a hard feeling when touched with fingers.

Combined with what Grandma Xun just said, Pei Nai reacted and asked, "Can this thing block the entry of water?"

"Yes, this is made of the fish skin shed by the 21st domain parrot fish. Put your legs in, pull it to the head, and tie the belt tightly." Grandma Axun explained to them.

It was the first time that Pei Nai heard about waterproof clothing and she was shocked.

After they put on the fish-skin clothes, Grandma Axun pulled the round bag behind Pei Nai's head to the front for her and covered her hair. The edge of the fish skin was tightly attached to her skin, leaving no gap, leaving only a small face the size of a palm exposed.

"Follow me closely and don't fall behind, otherwise we will get separated. There are all kinds of alien creatures in this lake, some of which are extremely vicious and like to hunt and kill humans. Be careful and you can fight back when necessary." Grandma Axun handed them three sharp iron forks and instructed.

Hunting humans?

Pei Nai couldn't imagine what kind of underwater creature this was. It sounded like it had intelligence.

After Grandma Axun finished speaking, she waded through the shallow water and entered the waterway.

In the dim light, Da Xian wanted to reach out and scratch Pei Nai's nose, but Pei Nai dodged nimbly.

"Good boy, you really have bad intentions!" Pei Nai glared at him.

Da Xian raised the corner of his mouth slightly and said with a smile: "My evil plot is known to the whole world, isn't it?"

Pei Nai lowered her eyes, seeming a little hesitant, and her reaction surprised Da Xian.

Then, Pei Nai suddenly hooked his hand and called him over, as if he had something to say.

Da Xian took two steps closer and stretched his head over, but saw Pei Nai's expression change, revealing a bit of cunning, and then he raised his leg and kicked him down.

Daxian fell into the water, a little dazed.

But Pei Nai also quickly entered the water, urged him to breathe, and when he was ready, pushed him away.

Pei Nai stayed at the end of the team, and in front of Daxian were his guards.

Everyone held their breath and swam forward in the circular channel filled with water, their vision filled with the clear blue water.

After swimming through two corridors, Grandma Axun suddenly turned around, made a gesture to Pei Nai and the others to keep quiet, and turned around to swim to another fork.

Pei Nai passed the gap beside Daxian and saw many strange and deformed fishmen standing in the waterway opposite.

Their bodies glowed green, but the surface of their skin was pitted and hideous, with scales in many places. Almost every one of them had multiple limbs and fins growing at irregular intervals.

At this moment, they closed their eyes, stood stiffly in place, as if they were dormant.

Pei Nai didn't dare to stay and followed Grandma Xun and the others quickly into another passage.

It wasn't long before they reached the end of the waterway maze.

Going out from here, there is a huge and boundless underground lake in front of you.

The water is clear and evenly illuminated, so you can see hundreds of meters away at a glance, but despite this, the lake is still bottomless.

In such a deep blue underground lake, water of uniform light flows, like a distant galaxy leading to the boundless bright universe, shining brightly in the sky.

Grandma Axun, Daxian and others were in it, as if they were cruising in the air.

Pei Nai looked at the rare sight before him, but suddenly felt something was wrong.

She subconsciously turned around, but saw that the waterway behind her was filled with those strange and deformed fishmen, who were grinning at her eerily.

(End of this chapter)