Filial Devotion (1)

Splash!!

Amid the thunderous crash of something striking the water.

Lu Sheng slammed into the deep-blue pool like a cannonball, sending waves more than ten meters high soaring into the air. Riding the acceleration of gravity, he pierced fiercely into the depths like a swimming fish.

At the bottom of the dark, deep-blue pool stood a vast expanse of honeycomb-like black rock walls.

As Lu Sheng descended, he happened to see a corner of clothing flash past one of the honeycomb holes.

Without hesitation, he followed after it and gave chase.

The water at the bottom of the pool was freezing cold. There were barely any fish or aquatic plants to be seen, and most bizarrely, the water in this pool was extremely viscous.

Lu Sheng had initially thought it was not water, but upon careful sensing, he could not tell how this liquid differed from water. Aside from its thickness, the water in this pool was exactly the same as ordinary water.

Even drinking it made no difference.

Glug glug glug. He spat out a string of bubbles and rushed into the honeycomb hole, attempting to hunt down the owner of that fluttering corner of clothing.

Yet the moment he entered the small hole, there was not a trace of anyone visible in the winding, pitch-black tunnel ahead.

The surroundings were dark and silent. Lu Sheng sped through the tunnel, turning one bend after another. His speed was incomparably fast. Though this body possessed no special abilities suited to water, his true body had long comprehended the fundamental laws of water.

With only a slight application of that understanding, he became as fast as the swiftest fish.

After chasing onward for over ten minutes, a faint glimmer suddenly lit up in the darkness ahead. From within the glow came