God of Pets

Chapter 282 Extreme Yin Water
More and more giant Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms appeared in everyone's sight, and many of the millennia-old Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms, as big as millstones, made people's eyes widen.

Mei Qingta seemed to have other ideas, his gaze not lingering on the Ganoderma lucidum for long, but instead urging the team to proceed according to plan.

Without his orders, no one dared to pick up the Ganoderma lucidum mushrooms; they could only continue forward.

When the first team, consisting of the two soldiers from the Mo Qilin Camp who were leading the way, was blocked by a river, they had no choice but to return and report.

A shallow stream blocked their path, but that wasn't the real reason they stopped and returned to report. The real reason they came back was because there was a small, short horse by the river.

"It's just a spirit, we can just kill it." Mei Qingta said this even though she knew there must be a reason behind it.

The soldier who returned to report replied, "We tried to use our pet to kill the pony, but the pony leaped across the stream and ran to the other side. Our pet chased after it across the river, but died in the stream, and its body was washed away."

"Are there other mysterious spirits in the stream?" Mei Qingta asked.

"No." The soldier shook his head.

"What secret technique did Xiao Ma use?" Mei Qingta asked again.

"No, not either." The soldier shook his head again.

"Then how did your pet die?" Mei Qingta asked coldly.

"That's why I came back to report, because I don't know how I died," the soldier replied sincerely.

Everyone originally thought that Mei Qingta would reprimand the soldier for not fulfilling his reconnaissance duty, or give him a severe dressing down.

However, Mei Qingta did not do that. After scanning everyone with his gaze, he called out by name: "Battalion Commander Chen, Battalion Commander Bai, Battalion Commander Zhu, Battalion Commander Jiang, you will come with me to see what secrets that stream holds. The rest of you stay put and be on guard."

The group that was originally in the third team followed Mei Qingta past the second team and arrived near the stream.

Sure enough, from afar, you could see a short horse, less than a meter tall, drinking water by the stream. Although it was short, its body proportions were not out of place. Its legs and hooves were very strong, and its body was round and plump.

Its coat was milky white, and its fur, as smooth as silk, was so shiny that it reflected the sunlight.

If this horse were bigger, it would surely be an incomparably magnificent steed. Unfortunately, it is too small; its size is probably only suitable for a child to ride.

Upon seeing the pony, Chen immediately recognized it as one of the eight ponies that had taken him to Zhixian Castle the previous night.

"It really wasn't a dream," Chen Guan thought to himself.

The little horse sensed their arrival, glanced up at them, and then surprisingly lowered its head to continue leisurely drinking water.

It was supposed to be drinking water, but it looked more like it was playing in the water. The water it drank would spray out as soon as it raised its head.

"They really don't take us seriously!" Zhu Hongzhi said with a strange expression as he looked at the pony.

After gazing at the pony for a moment, Mei Qingta stopped paying attention to it and turned her gaze to the stream.

The stream is neither wide nor deep, only about ten meters wide in total. The water is crystal clear, and the depth is estimated to be about one meter. The water flows out from a cave in the mountain wall on the left side of the valley and flows into a cave in the mountain wall on the right side.

The group looked at it carefully for a while, but they still couldn't figure out what was wrong with the crystal-clear stream.

"Can any of you see anything wrong with this stream?" Mei Qingta asked the group after observing for a while.

The group looked at each other, none of them able to see anything wrong.

Chen Guan gazed at the stream, lost in thought.

"Has Battalion Commander Chen figured anything out?" Mei Qingta called out Chen Guan's name, seemingly having noticed something.

Chen Guan pondered for a moment and said, "The water in this stream looks like the water of the River of the Underworld."

“The Yellow Springs River is at least tens of miles away from here, and its flow direction is different from this stream. Could it be the same river?” Zhu Hongzhi said after judging the direction.

Mei Qingta ignored Zhu Hongzhi, glanced at Chen Guan, and continued, "That's right, the water in this stream is indeed the Yellow Springs River. If I'm not mistaken, this is an underground river formed by the Yellow Springs River through underground caves, which flows into this place and forms this stream."

"Do you have any flying pets?" Mei Qingta asked the soldier beside her.

"Yes." This soldier was originally a scout, and he carried a Red Claw Pigeon Mystic Spirit. Although its level was not high and its combat ability was not good, the ability to fly at high altitudes was one of the essential Mystic Spirits for a scout.

Mei Qingta ordered the soldiers to release red-clawed pigeons across the stream. However, as soon as the pigeons reached the top of the stream, they seemed to lose their souls and plunged into the water. They were carried by the stream into the cave on the right and quickly disappeared from sight.

Everyone was shocked. They couldn't figure out how the red-clawed pigeon died, or even why it fell from the sky.

"It really is the Yellow Springs River water flowing from the underground river," Mei Qingta said with absolute certainty this time.

"How did you figure that out?" Zhu Hongzhi asked, puzzled.

Mei Qingta was very patient now, looking at the stream and explaining: "The Yellow Springs River is not only in the Beiman Mountain Secret Realm, but there are actually many other secret realms with similar rivers. Their water quality and characteristics are very similar in many ways, and they are even named the Yellow Springs River."

"Someone once tested the Yellow Springs River water from different secret realms and found that the composition and function of these rivers were extremely similar. Some even speculated that these secret realms are actually connected and located on the same enormous landmass, just in different locations."

"Because the areas of secret realms developed by humans are too small, they are unable to reach the location of another secret realm through this land, which is why they mistakenly believe that different secret realms are separate spaces."

"Of course, this is just a guess and a hypothesis, and it has not been confirmed. However, in recent decades, more and more people have come to believe that the existence of the Yellow Springs River is one of the important conditions supporting this hypothesis. They believe that the Yellow Springs River is a super river flowing through this land, and the Yellow Springs Rivers in different secret realms are just its tributaries."

Upon hearing this, Chen Guan recalled that when they were in the blessed land of Pingdu Mountain, there was indeed a river named after the Yellow Springs, and he and Xiu Yingmei had drifted on that river for a while.

Looking back now, the Yellow Springs River and the Yellow Springs River in the blessed land of Beiman Mountain do have similar water quality, but there are still some differences.

At least within that River of the Underworld, there are almost no powerful mystical spirits, let alone beings like the Eight Great Kings.

Mei Qingta continued, "The Yellow Springs River has a unique characteristic. If it is an open river, it is fine. However, if it flows into an underground river, it will be contaminated with extremely yin energy. Any creature that comes into contact with the Yellow Springs River water in the underground river will be invaded by the extremely yin energy, and its spiritual consciousness will be damaged, making it like a soulless walking corpse."

(End of this chapter)