Cold.
Fucking freezing.
That was Jiang Qiao's first sensation after the lake water swallowed him.
The bone-piercing cold was like countless needles stabbing in through every pore, piercing his skin, muscles, bones, all the way into the deepest part of his marrow.
His consciousness nearly froze solid in that instant.
His thoughts became sluggish, and his body felt numb, out of sync with his brain.
"Fuck!"
"Looks like I got sucked beneath the lake."
He was not panicking.
Dual Pupils opened in the darkness, grayish-blue radiance welling up from their depths like two cold lamps lighting up in the deep sea.
Ever since he obtained Blue Eyes, the color of his pupils had changed somewhat.
From their original gray tone, they had become a blend of gray and blue.
Dual Pupils activated.
His vision returned.
The first thing he saw was an endless expanse of water.
The cyan lake water was so dark it was suffocating. No matter whether he looked ahead, behind, left, right, up, or down, all he could see was water. There was nothing else.
No shore, for instance.
No lakebed, either.
He could not see either of them at all.
He was likely suspended in the lake's deep waters, dragged by some force and constantly sinking farther down.
"This water has strength."
Jiang Qiao tried to stop himself, even trying to float upward.
The resistance was enormous.
He could not do it at all.
And as soon as he exerted himself, the previously normal lake water around him suddenly turned viscous, as though he were paddling through syrup. Once he relaxed, however, the water returned to normal.
That was not all.
He also felt a sense of separation from the supernatural power within him, as if a pane of glass had been placed over it.
"Well,