When the Lake Shattered the Realm of the Heavenly Man, Treading the Waves and Riding the Wind

"Don't come over!"

Little Niu stood at the lakeshore and shouted at the people on the boat.

Just then, Yin Feng returned from relieving himself and heard the shout.

"Little Niu, what are you yelling ab—"

He had only spoken halfway when he realized that Little Niu had actually run to the water's edge.

"Little Niu, come back! Who told you to go near the shore?"

Yin Feng barked harshly as he hurried forward.

The instant his voice fell, the corner of his eye caught something strange on the surface of the lake.

The water in that area was a deep, murky color, as though something beneath it were churning.

Then, faint tremors began to ripple through the earth beneath his feet.

"Not good!"

Yin Feng's expression changed. Instinct told him that danger was approaching.

He had no time to think. With a single stride, he lunged forward and tackled Little Niu to the ground.

Almost at that exact moment—

Pop~

Deep in the heart of the lake, a tiny whirlpool appeared silently, without warning.

The next moment—

BOOM!

A thunderous explosion erupted.

The lake surface seemed to have been struck by a falling boulder. A violent force hurled the water into the sky, while the thin ice atop the lake shattered into fragments that filled the heavens.

A colossal sunken crater suddenly formed around the spot where Chen Duan had entered the water moments ago. It was as though the lake had opened a gigantic maw, and one could even vaguely glimpse the mud at the bottom.

Then the waves surged, sweeping outward in every direction with the crater at their center.

Yin Feng and Little Niu bore the brunt of it and were drenched like drowned rats.

The boat not far away fared even worse. Like a leaf