Chinese Martial Arts: My Super Beast Clone

Chapter 99 Deep Pool Underground Cave

Below the pool was an inverted funnel-shaped structure. The deeper one went, the wider the space became. After diving several dozen feet, all light disappeared. Ordinary people couldn't see anything in this environment, but Lin Hai, with his synesthetic talent, could clearly perceive the bottomless depths of the pool.

The silver light was not far below, rapidly moving downstream.

The Earth-Splitter Crocodile Dragon swung its limbs, its thick tail stirring up underwater currents as it chased after the silver light.

Twenty zhang (approximately 33 meters).

Thirty zhang (approximately 33 meters).

As the water pressure increased, Lin Hai felt his eardrums throbbing.

After descending for nearly forty feet, the Earth-Splitting Crocodile Dragon swam to the bottom of the pool. The bottom of the pool was covered with thick silt and exposed pebbles.

After reaching the bottom of the pool, the silver frog, transformed into silver light, did not linger but swam straight towards the stone wall at the edge of the pool.

Lin Hai directed the Earth-Splitting Crocodile Dragon to approach, and they saw a palm-width crack at the bottom of the rock wall. Water was slowly seeping out of the crack.

With a flash of silver light, the tiny silver frog darted into the crevice in the rock and disappeared.

The Earth-Splitter Crocodile swam to the crevice and nudged the rock with its large head. The crevice was too narrow; it couldn't even fit half of its claw inside.

Lin Hai lay on the back of the Earth-Splitting Crocodile Dragon, carefully sensing the scene beyond the crevice in the rocks.

His senses extended along the crack in the stone, and he discovered that it wasn't a dead end. Although it was only about the width of a palm from the outside, after extending a certain distance inward, the interior space suddenly expanded, giving him a feeling of sudden openness.

Lin Hai chuckled and exhaled a string of tiny bubbles underwater.

"You think we're helpless against the diamond crevice?" Lin Hai patted the hard forehead of the Earth-Splitting Crocodile Dragon. "Use the old method."

The Earth-Splitter Crocodile understood perfectly.

Its earth-traveling talent activated. The surrounding hard rocks seemed to turn into soft mud and sand in front of the Crocodile Dragon. The Crocodile Dragon's massive body squeezed directly into the rock strata next to the crevice, forcibly passing through the interior of the rock.

Surrounded by the rock formations, Lin Hai was completely blinded and could only feel the rocks around him being pushed aside by the power of the Crocodile Dragon, producing a faint friction sound.

The crocodile dragon struggled to pry through the rock strata with its limbs, covering a distance of only a dozen meters, when the surrounding resistance suddenly disappeared.

"Splash!"

The crocodile dragon's massive body squeezed out of the rock strata and re-entered the water.

Lin Hai opened his eyes. The space here had suddenly opened up. The narrow crack in the stone had transformed into an underground waterway wide enough for two people. The water flow had noticeably increased, carrying a powerful suction force that pulled the crocodile dragon forward.

Swimming.

At the end of the waterway, a continuous, low rumbling sound came from within. The silver light reappeared, just a dozen meters ahead, rapidly moving forward with the current.

The crocodile dragon swung its tail and rushed out along the waterway.

After passing through a narrow, rocky passage, the view opened up ahead. Here lay a rushing underground river. The river was several meters wide, its waters roaring and surging, the current incredibly swift.

The silver frog leaped into the surging dark river, and its silvery light disappeared into the current.

Without hesitation, the Crocodile Dragon plunged headlong into the main channel of the underground river. The moment it entered, a tremendous force struck it. The Crocodile Dragon's massive body was uncontrollably spun around by the force of the current.

Lin Hai clung tightly to the bone spikes on the crocodile dragon's back, preventing himself from being swept away by the current. The man and the beast were swept into the surging underground waters, involuntarily rushing towards the depths of the dark river.

The river ahead narrowed rapidly, the sound of the water deafening like thunder, and it was unclear where it led.

Lin Hai gripped the back of the Earth-Splitting Crocodile Dragon tightly with both hands. The current of the underground river was like a mad wild horse, and the force of the current was astonishing. The wound that had already scabbed over was torn open again by the current, and the blood that had just spilled out was swept away by the rushing current and disappeared without a trace.

Swept downstream by the undercurrent, Lin Hai held his breath for nearly fifteen minutes.

This was his usual limit for holding his breath, let alone in this state where he needed to constantly fight against the raging water and was extremely physically exhausted, the oxygen in his lungs was being squeezed out at an unprecedented rate.

Lin Hai felt as if there were embers burning in his chest, and a metallic, sweet taste rose from deep in his throat. His eardrums were buzzing from the water pressure, making the sound of the flowing water outside seem muffled and distant.

Just as Lin Hai's consciousness began to waver, the violent force around him suddenly eased, and the speed of the water flow suddenly slowed down.

"Splash!"

The massive body of the Earth-Splitter Crocodile suddenly tumbled upwards, breaking through the water's surface, and its thick forelimbs gripped a huge rock protruding from the water.

Lin Hai poked his head out from the back of the crocodile dragon, opened his mouth, and greedily inhaled large gulps of fresh air into his lungs. The cold air rushed into his burning chest, triggering a violent cough, but he felt it was the most comfortable feeling in the world.

After catching their breath on the rocks for a while, Lin Hai straightened up and looked around at his surroundings.

This is an incredibly large underground cavern.

The cave ceiling is at least several dozen feet above the water, with stalactites of various shapes hanging upside down, some as thick as water vats, others as sharp as spears. Hundreds and thousands of unidentified minerals are embedded in the rough cave walls and the high ceiling. These minerals emit a faint, glowing light; the light is very weak, but their sheer number creates a continuous, hazy glow, illuminating the enclosed underground space like a silent starry sky.

The underground river converges here to form a huge deep pool. The edge of the cave is a large beach made of pebbles and fine sand.

Lin Hai calmed his breathing slightly, his gaze swept across the area, and he quickly locked onto his target.

Just over twenty feet away from them, at the edge of a shallow pool on the beach, a silvery-white light was quietly resting there.

The little silver frog had obviously escaped from the raging torrent. Now, it was resting on a pebble covered in moss.

Directly above its head, at the tip of a huge, upside-down stalactite, drops of clear spring water gathered and then fell with a "plop" into the puddle below, splashing up tiny ripples.

Lin Hai reached out and patted the hard neck of the Earth-Splitting Crocodile Dragon, giving it the command to split up and encircle it.

The Crocodile Dragon let out a very low gurgling sound, and its massive body silently slid into the water. It didn't make a splash, like a piece of driftwood, and circled around to the other side of the pool.

Lin Hai slowed his pace, wading through the knee-deep water, and walked step by step toward the beach.

The man and the beast, one on the left and one on the right, formed a perfect encirclement.

But as they drew closer, Lin Hai's gaze involuntarily shifted away from the silver frog. His eyes turned to the puddle where the silver frog had been.

Four oddly shaped plants grow among the crevices of several scattered pebbles.