Upstream, Falling

The Immovable as a Mountain Curse carved a graceful arc through the surrounding water. The statue tried to reel it back in with the current, but the talisman's own properties rendered it immune to water tainted with evil, and it landed right in front of Luo Yan.

Luo Yan couldn't think of anything else. He lunged forward and seized the talisman. In an instant, the entire temple began to tremble.

Rumble...

Sound waves rippled through the water, and one of the building's structural joints began to loosen.

Then, like cracks spreading through a spiderweb, they rapidly branched out!

Without the talisman holding it in place, the last intact relic at the bottom of the river was about to collapse!

A heavy beam fell from the ceiling and struck the statue's head, breaking through its clay shell and revealing the clay core inside.

The chains, lashing about like tentacles, were struck by falling debris, their deafening clanks and crashes ringing without pause.

The fury in its voice rose to unprecedented heights. A single roar made the eardrums of all three present bleed, while their tainted skin and internal organs began to rot even faster.

At the bottom of this abyss, the tremors were all the more terrifying. Once a gap opened in the temple ceiling, looking up revealed nothing but pure black void.

If the bottom of the river could speak, Luo Yan and the sea demon might have heard Yu Xing shout, "Get out!"

They had the talisman, and the temple was collapsing. If they didn't run now, when would they?

Luo Yan was the first to turn and swim out of the temple. He was the slowest of the three, and couldn't afford to fall behind and become a burden.

The churning current made it impossible for him to