Daoist Qingshan nodded.
I spoke up:
"Then I'll go down and scout it out first. I'll check the depth and see if there's anything unusual.
If I find anything, we can all go down together."
When Master heard that, he nodded.
"That works too. Xiao Jiang, be careful."
"Understood, Master!"
With that, I set down my luggage, took off my clothes and pants, and, carrying only Evil-Slaying Flowing Cloud, plunged headfirst into the icy lake without fear.
The water inside the frozen lake was bone-chillingly cold.
The lake was also quite deep. After entering it, I quickly dove downward...
Five meters, ten meters, twenty meters, thirty meters...
The depth of the lake exceeded all expectations. When I had dived roughly eighty meters down, I discovered that there was an even larger area beneath the water.
With the Nether Path Heavenly Eye activated, I could still see quite far underwater.
The darkness below could not obstruct my vision.
Combined with the lake's clear water, I found that at a depth of eighty meters, I had entered a massive underwater karst cave shaped like the belly of a gourd.
The cave below was extremely spacious.
Even farther down, there seemed to be some kind of structure.
I swept my gaze over it, hesitated no longer, then turned and continued swimming downward.
When I descended into the ninety-meter range, I found that a giant Buddha had been built against one side of the rock wall below.
That was right, a massive underwater stone Buddha.
The stone Buddha was enormous, standing against the underwater rock wall.
I looked it over from top to bottom. It was eighty or ninety meters tall, perhaps even somewhat larger than the Lecheng Giant Buddha.
Moreover, this giant Buddha was rather eerie. It was not kind or solemn, but