The No.1 Undercover in the Immortal World-Chapter 387 - 377: The Water is Deep, The Fire is Hot
While the Flower Fairy was worried about Lin Yun, Lin Yun was actually giving her master artificial respiration.
Below the whirlpool, Lin Yun retracted Xiao Qing into his Dantian. After all, she was of no use outside, and it was better to circulate Spiritual Energy inside the Dantian in case of emergency.
The descent into the sea was somewhat lengthy, although Lin Yun could feel that their descent was fast, perhaps because the distance was too great!
Moreover, this spinning around made Jiang Chenyu dizzy, and she vomited with a wah. Fortunately, they were in the sea, and it washed away quickly, but Lin Yun’s subtle move to hug her a little higher up still made Jiang Chenyu withdraw into herself.
In front of Lin Yun, she had no face left to lose.
What’s the big deal about vomiting?
A minor issue.
Jiang Chenyu found that she had learned to console herself, and maybe this was what growing up was about!
As is well known, water pressure underwater increases with depth.
Even in the Cultivation World, the laws of science still exist.
Jiang Chenyu gradually began to feel discomfort, and Lin Yun had no choice but to consume Spiritual Power, constantly reinforcing her shield. But soon, Lin Yun also felt discomfort, and the consumption of Spiritual Power grew more and more.
The deep sea truly wasn’t a place for humans to easily venture into unless one had some powerful artifact or, like Lin Yun, extraordinary endurance. Otherwise, one would have to consider their own strength.
Lin Yun lost track of time in the water, while the Flower Fairy and the Snow Maiden began to wait in tacit agreement above the sea.
At that moment, a small female servant hurried over and was utterly bewildered.
Hey, where’s my master?
How come he’s disappeared again?
Last time Lin Yun entered the Great Mist Secret Realm, Hu Yuling was just as puzzled. If not for the principle that the servant dies with their master, she really would have thought Lin Yun had died.
And now, in such a short span of time, Lin Yun had done it again.
What now?
And so, two days passed by.
Lin Yun and Jiang Chenyu didn’t know how long it had been, but in any case, a significant portion of the Spiritual Liquid inside Lin Yun had been consumed.
Jiang Chenyu was shocked by Lin Yun’s endurance.
In the deep sea, where Spiritual Energy was chaotic, he could continuously maintain a water shield without a break.
Not to mention whether the Spiritual Power was sufficient, the consumption of mental power wasn’t minor either.
Too strong!
As they descended more slowly, the sunless seabed, for some reason, suddenly had a faint light, allowing Lin Yun to see that they were sinking between two continents.
This must be the ocean trench!
Lin Yun had never thought his state of mind would be so good; at such a time, he still had the interest to study geography!
From the trench and down, Lin Yun felt the pressure on his body increase several times over. Within his Dantian, the Qi Sea, vast as an ocean, was evaporating at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This was the first time Lin Yun had encountered such a situation, and then, a bead inside Lin Yun responded.
It was the Moon Water Spirit Pearl within the Chaos Pearl.
With a thought, Lin Yun released the Moon Water Spirit Pearl from the Chaos Pearl. The Moon Water Spirit Pearl emitted a bubble, wrapping Lin Yun and Jiang Chenyu inside, and the consumption of Lin Yun’s Spiritual Liquid instantly stopped.
Inside the bubble, Lin Yun could even speak.
"This will do!"
The Moon Water Spirit Pearl, which had been idle since he got it, responded at a crucial moment to save their lives, and Lin Yun gave it a thumbs up.
Jiang Chenyu looked around in amazement at the world under the sea, the dim light allowing her to see the scenery at the bottom of the sea.
She propped her hands against the bubble, like a child visiting an aquarium for the first time.
"Look, there’s a fish, so ugly!"
Jiang Chenyu pointed at a weird-looking fish, and suddenly, a tentacle flashed by, and the fish disappeared without a trace.
Jiang Chenyu clung to Lin Yun like a koala, frightened.
In the darkness of the deep sea, terrifying predators were hidden.
Lin Yun didn’t know the strength of this predator, nor did he know if he could defeat it; in any case, caution was the priority.
Luckily, he might have some backing, for as they descended, they experienced no attacks at all, and some deep-sea fish completely ignored them as if they didn’t exist.
"How deep have we dived?"
Jiang Chenyu was getting a bit bored. This endless sinking with no day or night was bearable only now inside the bubble where she had the chance to speak a few words; before, she had nearly died of boredom.
Lin Yun slowly replied, "My pulse beats once every breath (which counts as a second), and it has beaten one hundred and eighty thousand times, which means it has been over two days. At the beginning, we sank about five zhang in one breath, continuing for seventy thousand breaths. For an equal duration, we sank three zhang per breath, and now, we’re moving at one zhang per breath. So, we’re roughly fifty-eight thousand zhang from the surface."
With one zhang being equivalent to three meters, they were now one million seven hundred forty thousand meters deep, and they still hadn’t reached the bottom.
Lin Yun felt a shiver thinking about it, while Jiang Chenyu asked in confusion, "You actually counted your heartbeats?"
"Hmm, I had nothing better to do," Lin Yun said.
In truth, it was Little Gold who counted.
Little Gold was Lin Yun’s last resort, which conveniently also served as a timer when there was nothing else to do.
"Can we still go back?"
All of a sudden, Jiang Chenyu looked up, only to see darkness above her.
She realized what it meant to fall into the abyss.
It was just too deep. Perhaps even the ancient sages could not have come to such a place, and probably only the Immortal Gods could achieve this feat.
In that moment, Jiang Chenyu suddenly felt a greater reverence for the world.
The ultimate ideal of a cultivator is to achieve boundless freedom and carefree existence. If heaven stands in my way, I will defy it.
But now, Jiang Chenyu suddenly realized that compared to the forces of heaven and earth, cultivators were no different from ants.
This wasn’t because she had lost her cultivation level and became more sensitive, even in her prime, coming to this place would have been a matter of life or death.
Such was the mighty power of heaven and earth, and the fact that life could exist in such a place made Jiang Chenyu marvel at the creator’s magic.
"Don’t worry, we will get back home,"
Lin Yun comforted Jiang Chenyu. Seeing him so calm and composed, she realized his bearing now held a special charm.
Her heartbeat quickened.
Suddenly, she thought to herself that even if they couldn’t make it back, dying together with Lin Yun in this ocean might not be so bad after all.
Of course, that was just a thought.
The whims of a young girl’s heart often dream of romance without much thought to anything else.
A five-hundred-year-old girl, still very innocent and naive.
Their descent speed inside the bubble was also very slow. Having no other choice, Lin Yun made Little Gold count bubbles for another day. As for Lin Yun himself, bored, he could only fish around idly.
"You shouldn’t be fooling around like this..."
As the fish being touched, Jiang Chenyu weakly protested. When her resistance proved futile, she would coquettishly utter a few words to assert her will to resist.
The process of her resistance was enough. Whether she was secretly enjoying it was something others need not know.
Had it not been for staying alert to potential dangers, Lin Yun might have even fallen asleep.
On the fourth day underwater, Lin Yun finally saw something different.
He saw a city gate.
No way, a city gate millions of meters under the deep sea?
Moreover, the gate wasn’t collapsed; it stood erect.
The light was just bright enough for Lin Yun to see the city gate and the vague outlines of buildings in the distance.
"Could this be an ancient civilization?"
Lin Yun was astonished.
Even in the Cultivation World, the thrill of such an archaeological find still excited him.
Jiang Chenyu was no exception, no one could witness such a scene without excitement.
Above that city gate hung a placard with three ancient characters.
"Southern Heavenly Gate."
No way, could this be a fallen Heavenly Court?
At the moment, Lin Yun’s imagination ran wild with scenarios of battles among immortal gods, the Heavenly Court’s fall, and a primordial world shattered, leaving behind this small realm.
The daydream could be turned into a novel. However, his attention was soon drawn to a small wooden carving outside the gate.
It was a carving of a woman with the head of a human and the body of a serpent, lying just outside the city gate. This was the statue he had seen in his dream, although he hadn’t dreamed of anything as grand as this city!
Lin Yun and Jiang Chenyu had reached the bottom, but the bubble hadn’t popped yet. Pushing the bubble, Lin Yun moved towards the statue while the Moon Water Spirit Pearl inside him suddenly issued a warning.
Do not approach, danger.
That was the general message.
Lin Yun laughed then, thinking it as if avoiding this object would prevent danger. If I don’t pick it up, who knows where the next tsunami will hit, believe it or not...
Ignoring the warning from the Moon Water Spirit Pearl, Lin Yun went over and picked up the statue.
It was at that moment that he could finally see the features of the woman with the human face and serpent body clearly.
In that instant, Lin Yun felt his mind being struck.
He didn’t know how to describe the woman, other than as perfect.
The first time he saw Lin Yu, he was stunned by her beauty, but after seeing this statue, he thought that if Lin Yu ranked second in beauty, only she could be the first.
The statue’s eyes were not open, and even just being a mere statue, it had captivated Lin Yun’s mind so much, he couldn’t begin to imagine how beautiful the real person might be...
Lin Yun suddenly remembered the story of the Investiture of the Gods, how King Zhou developed lustful thoughts upon seeing a statue of Nuwa.
What am I but King Zhou himself?
Soon after Lin Yun picked up the statue, many bubbles began to emerge from the seabed.
Lin Yun immediately sensed trouble and hastily grabbed Jiang Chenyu’s hand. The next second, a massive amount of magma spewed from the seabed. Although the magma quickly solidified into rock, more and more magma continued to erupt.
What’s the "Ice and Fire Dual Realm" anyway?
This was it!
The intense heat ignited everything on the seabed, and Lin Yun felt the terrifying temperature. Powerful updrafts pushed him and Jiang Chenyu towards the surface, but Lin Yun regretfully glanced back at the vast complex of palaces.
Too hasty!
I should have explored inside the Southern Heavenly Gate before picking up the statue.
All these palaces, gone!
What does a volcanic eruption on the ocean floor look like?
This time Lin Yun got a real eye-opener.
Magma shot up toward the sky, cooled by the seawater in parts, but the seawater too grew hot from the magma.
Lin Yun and Jiang Chenyu experienced what it truly means to be in "hot water".
Moreover, the collision of water and fire, along with the underwater earthquake, sent tremendous shockwaves barreling toward Lin Yun...
