Su Ru ignored the people around her, clutched the Water-Avoiding Pearl, and leaped straight into Jade Water Pool.
True Person Shuiyue waited anxiously at the pool's edge for Su Ru to come back up.
But even when night had deepened, neither Su Ru nor Luo Yunji had appeared. Xiao Yicai couldn't put his mind at ease, so he sent several disciples who were good swimmers down into Jade Water Pool to search for them.
One after another, Azure Cloud disciples who had cultivated the new version of the Taiji Mystic Purity Dao and gained the Heavenly Heart of Water entered the pool. Every one of them disappeared without a trace. Not a single one came back up.
Xiao Yicai was so tense that his whole body broke out in a fine layer of cold sweat. Shuiyue and the other peak leaders watched the surface of Bibo Pool with furrowed brows, their gazes seeming to pierce right through it as they tried to see what was happening beneath the water.
The Small World wasn't something one could put away or bring out at will.
Bibo Pool's unusual geography made it impossible for Luo Yunji to place the Small World wherever he pleased. When Su Ru arrived at the bottom of the pool with the Water-Avoiding Pearl, she saw the Spirit Venerable running in circles around the enormous ball of light, occasionally spitting out blue Water Essence that flowed into the Small World and the pool around it.
Luo Yunji was sitting cross-legged on a relatively flat rock at the bottom of the pool, his hands clasped above his head as he continued to hold up the enormous ball of light. A pale red liquid surrounded him. Su Ru took a closer look and realized it was blood seeping from his seven