Qin He was intrigued and immediately decided to go take a look.
Wang Tie Zhu and Lamborghini also clamored to come along. After cleansing the corpses and counting the fires, they handed the corpse-burning matter over to Ma Fei.
Then, led by Little Sable, the group of humans and beasts soon arrived at the City Moat.
Looking from the riverbank toward the Imperial City, Qin He could not help but marvel once more at the City Moat's breadth.
How was this a river? It was practically a great river.
Even a fast boat would likely need the time it took to burn one incense stick to cross it.
As for the water, there was even less need to mention it. Green waves rippled across its surface, while its depths were unfathomable.
Little Sable knew the way well and leaped straight into the water.
Seeing this, Qin He activated the Water Repelling Technique and entered the river with the two beasts.
The river was dark and deep. As they headed toward its center, the depth steadily increased. They descended for nearly half the time it took to burn an incense stick, completely passing through the Still Water Layer.
The so-called Still Water Layer referred to a stratum that formed once a river reached a certain depth. Unlike the surging waters above, the water at the bottom gradually became stagnant.
It appeared only in rivers that were exceedingly, exceedingly deep.
Below the Still Water Layer, the river water ceased flowing altogether, utterly still, like a dust-sealed space unchanged since antiquity.
Only when something fell from above or broke into it would the stillness be disturbed.
Such a Still Water Layer existed in the depths of the Great Jing Kingdom Imperial City's City Moat.
After passing through the Still Water Layer, a hazy