Dead Ends Ahead and Behind?

"Miss Hu, searching like this on the lake's surface will yield no results!" Inside the spirit boat, now missing one enormous eyeball, Yang Yiguan advised her with a bitter smile.

"Exactly. If we keep wandering aimlessly across Myriad Spirits Lake and run into that Single Tail Crab King again, how many of us will be left?" Shadow Blade Shao Mo's voice carried a trace of sorrow, but even more fear.

When they had encountered the Single Tail Crab King earlier, Bian You and Ma Yue had died outright, leaving not even bone fragments behind. If the Single Tail Crab King had not swallowed Ye Zhen and inexplicably left afterward, no one knew how many more of them would have died.

But Hu Qingtong was stubbornly insisting on searching the lake's surface, and Lan Shuiqiao, the Hundred Poisons Venerable with the greatest prestige, had not stopped her. For the moment, the two of them could only follow Hu Qingtong's wishes and make a round of the lake.

Yet every moment they spent on the lake's surface left their hearts lodged in their throats. The earlier encounter with the Single Tail Crab King had terrified them out of their wits.

They had already searched the lake's surface for nearly two hours. Dusk was approaching, and if they could not reach shore before nightfall, Myriad Spirits Lake would become even more dangerous and terrifying at night. They all turned their gazes toward Lan Shuiqiao, the Hundred Poisons Venerable.

"Qingtong, they are right! There is no hope in searching like this! It has already been two hours. Even a Palace Opening Realm King could not survive in the waters of Myriad Spirits Lake for so long!"

To everyone's surprise, the Hundred Poisons Venerable Lan Shuiqiao was remarkably gentle toward Hu Qingtong, unlike her overbearing