Meng Chao took a deep breath.
He slipped into the murky spring water.
Wrapped in both Spirit Magnetic Material and a Spirit Energy Shield, his mass seemed to become immense, his density incredibly high.
He sank into the silt at the bottom like a scale weight plunging into cream.
Very soon, at the bottom of the spring more than ten meters down, Meng Chao found traces of water from the Underground River gushing out from beneath the mud.
Judging from the fragmented rock layers and the cracks that had yet to be weathered or eroded,
this spring should have formed only recently.
A few months ago, this underground river should have been deeper within the rock layers. Its channel had been enclosed by dense stone, preventing the intense radiation and highly polluting substances in the water from seeping through the rock and contaminating the surrounding land.
But once this Underground River secretly flowed farther away, or branched into dozens or even hundreds of underground streams, allowing the intense radiation and pollutants to break down and dilute as much as possible,
even experts with Fiery Eyes and Golden Gaze might not have spotted anything strange upstream.
However, an earthquake of moderate scale had occurred here ten days or half a month ago.
Back then, Meng Chao and Lü Siya had joined forces to prevent the massive eruption of the Red Radiance Jade Mine.
Although they had reduced the intensity of the instant explosion by ninety percent,
a vast amount of Spiritual Energy had become trapped in the rock layers and soil around the mine, slowly releasing over the following three to five years.
This had caused abnormalities in the Spirit Magnetic Environment, with aftershocks large and small occurring without end.
Although such aftershocks would not have much impact on humans,
they