(Heartfelt thanks to World's End Ballad, Dragon God Descending to the Mortal World, Sometimes I'm a Man, Yan Ai Ai, Qiao Naisheng, and Lei Xiang for their tips!)
Warm water came into direct contact with Noah's skin, making his muddled mind, thrown into disarray by the sudden inability to breathe, start working again. He hurriedly planted his feet downward.
Fortunately, the water here did not seem very deep. Noah immediately found the bottom and used it to push himself toward the surface.
Splash—!
Amid the sound of water, Noah finally emerged from the warm pool and drew breath again.
"Eek—!"
At the same time, a wave of screams rang through the entire space.
The screams were incredibly loud.
Though they were remarkably uniform, the differences in their voices could still be heard, proving that the loud, synchronized shrieks had not come from a single person.
Moreover, they were unmistakably female voices.
Hearing those deafening screams, Noah felt a bad premonition rise in his heart.
He immediately opened his eyes and took in everything before him.
The sight that entered Noah's eyes next left this young man, who had cultivated his character since childhood, completely dumbfounded.
Before Noah was an incomparably vast bathhouse.
More accurately, it was a gigantic bathhouse like the private royal baths of some palace.
Besides pools of various sizes and colors, the bathhouse even featured enormous trees and natural rock formations. The walls, pillars, and other interior decorations made from cut stone were exquisite and dignified, extravagantly luxurious.
What was more, the stone sculptures around each pool that sprayed water inside looked as though they had been cast from gold, dazzlingly exquisite beyond compare.
Anyone who saw such a bathhouse would have the same thought.
—Extravagant.
It was simply too extravagant.
But that was not the most