The next day, Shen Gong Yuandong led Wu Dalang quietly to the edge of the Ice Dragon Peak ice lake. After finding a deserted spot, they began pondering how to get into the water.
"Master, perhaps we should forget it." Wu Dalang frowned. "There were quite a few Yaochi female cultivators patrolling along the way. This place is a vital resource-mining site for the Yaochi Holy Land... There are probably experts guarding it too. If a conflict breaks out, it'll be hard to clean up."
The dignified young master of the Shen Gong family had come to the Yaochi Holy Land to secretly mine resources. If this matter blew up, neither family would come out looking good, right?
"It's fine. My great-grandfather has my back!"
"..." Wu Dalang sighed and continued, "But the water in this ice lake seems to contain a trace of power that can freeze the soul. The deeper one dives, the stronger its effect will probably become. Those Yaochi female cultivators must have some special technique for entering the water to mine..."
"It's fine. My great-grandfather once gave me a Water-Dividing Pearl. It can part all the waters under heaven!"
Shen Gong Yuandong then took out a green round pearl about the size of a goose egg. When he waved it near the lake, the water astonishingly split open on its own, forming a gap.
Wu Dalang opened his mouth. He feared that no matter what advice he offered, Shen Gong Yuandong would simply bring up that great-grandfather of his... Still, that person truly was a legend of the Alliance—oh, no, a legend of the human race.
He had even managed to persuade the dignified Sky Dragon King of the Sky Dragon Holy Land to defect from the Demon Realm and enter Kunlun under amnesty... Was