Underwater Dragon Palace

The imagined sensation of drowning never came. The moment they entered the vortex, a gentle yet vast force of water spirit energy wrapped around them. It was as though they had been immersed in warm liquid, yet they could breathe freely.

As far as the eye could see stretched a deep yet luminous blue passage. Its walls were not made of flowing water, but condensed from dense water spirit energy. Glimmering lights flowed across them, and faint phantoms of all manner of aquatic creatures swam within, lifelike in every detail.

The passage seemed to be extending at tremendous speed, yet they felt no obvious sensation of movement. All around was silent, save for the faint hum brought by the flow of water spirit energy.

Bi Qiong followed closely behind Xu Yuan, curiously studying this wondrous passage. She could sense that the passage itself was an exceedingly profound water-escape formation—or perhaps a natural water-vein passage. The laws of water contained within far surpassed her understanding.

After roughly the time it took to drink a cup of tea, the blue light ahead suddenly flared. A slight pushing force came from behind them, and with a sway of their bodies, the two had already left the passage.

The scene before them suddenly opened up.

They stood within an indescribably magnificent underwater world.

Above their heads was not dark water, but a "sky" that rippled with soft radiance like a vast dome. The light came from countless luminous pearls, corals, and some strange self-glowing aquatic algae embedded in the "dome" and the surrounding rock walls.

Refracted through the rippling water, the light took on a dreamlike seven-colored sheen. It was not dim in the slightest; rather, it resembled twilight on land, tranquil and splendid.

Beneath their feet lay a smooth, level road that seemed