Ji Ziyue froze at his words, her pretty face flushing slightly as she muttered in a low voice, "Then forget it!"
As for drinking the pool water, that went without saying. She did not share the peculiar hobby of certain people on Earth and naturally had no interest in Jade Pool Fairy's bathwater.
Seeing Ji Ziyue's reaction, Lin Yu and the group members could not help but burst into laughter.
"Not going is the right choice!"
Lin Yu laughed heartily and swept his sleeve. Streams of pool water surged upward in reverse, blasting apart the mist and revealing hundreds of long-haired female corpses densely packed across the lakebed.
Every one of those corpses carried an extraordinary aura. They wore plain white garments, their black hair hanging loose.
Though their flesh still retained a faint sheen, they had long since lost all vitality, leaving behind only stiffness and deathly silence.
The sight made Ji Ziyue's skin crawl and her scalp go numb.
"H-how are there so many corpses?!"
"This was a holy land personally chosen by Queen Mother of the West."
Ye Fan sighed softly. "If they had not faced a crisis that nearly wiped them out, why would Yaochi's descendants have abandoned their old home and fled to their present holy land?"
"So the truth behind Yaochi's great calamity lies beneath this pool?"
"All I can say is that it is possible."
"..."
Ji Ziyue swallowed and hurriedly said, "Then let's not stay here any longer. We should continue on and find the Daoist Scripture left behind by Queen Mother of the West!"
Lin Yu exchanged a glance with Ye Fan. The latter nodded, indicating that he too had no desire to investigate what lay beneath the pool just yet.
After a brief moment of thought, Lin Yu nodded and