"Gurgle gurgle~"
After choking on several mouthfuls of water, Xu Xiaoshou finally pulled the Saint Emperor Dragon Scale from his mouth. Then he forced himself to steady his emotions and remain calm.
"Fell into the water..."
He opened his eyes, but everything before him was blurry and stinging.
Yet the image transmitted by "Perception" made him realize that he had not merely fallen into water. Perhaps it was... the sea! A boundless ocean whose depths could not even be seen! "There can't possibly be a sea of this scale beneath Solitary Sound Cliff. This is definitely Water Ghost's doing—perhaps he summoned it himself."
He judged that, despite falling from a great height and slamming into the water's surface, he had not been injured.
On the contrary, the water's surface had shattered beneath the impact, then surged back around him as though carrying fury, dragging his body ever downward... Xu Xiaoshou tried to resist.
But it was useless.
Beneath the Forbidden Law Barrier, his spiritual essence was like a pool of useless stagnant water. Apart from sending out powerless ripples, he could not control his body and shoot back toward the surface.
"You bastard, didn't you say there was an opportunity? Why are you blasting me into the deep sea?" Xu Xiaoshou felt utterly speechless.
Had he not judged that Water Ghost had no intention of harming him, he would have activated the Vanishing Art while falling off the cliff.
If his body did not vanish, Xu Xiaoshou had planned to smash through a few trees during his fall, then roll along some boulders and into some dark mountain cave, thereby obtaining an unparalleled secret art.
Yet not a single one of those carefully laid plans came true.
He had plunged straight into the deep sea beneath Solitary Sound Cliff! "If