Inside the underwater cavern.
"That is..."
Just as Jiang Ning rose to leave, his gaze suddenly sharpened.
In the small puddle ahead, he saw faint gleams of silver starlight.
He then raised a hand and beckoned.
Puff! Puff! Puff—
The gravel in the puddle was instantly swept up by an invisible force and shot in all directions.
Then—
A soot-black stone the size of a pigeon's egg flew from the bottom of the puddle into his hand.
The moment the stone landed in his palm, an icy chill pierced to the bone, seeping deep into his marrow.
That sensation immediately felt familiar to Jiang Ning.
It was the water from that puddle just now.
Realizing this, Jiang Ning turned the soot-black stone over in his hand.
Looking closely, he saw flashes of silver starlight flickering now and then within the black stone.
That was precisely why he had noticed this soot-black stone beneath the puddle.
Watching the silver starlight flash within the stone, Jiang Ning could not help thinking of the special water he had just refined.
That water within water had contained silver radiance. Even submerged in water, it had remained gathered rather than dispersing, and it had been incomparably cold.
"Could it be..." Jiang Ning's eyes widened slightly.
A possibility came to him—the source of the water within water he had supposedly devoured.
A heavenly treasure like this had to have an origin, a reason for existing.
It could not have gathered here out of thin air.
His gaze turned sharp as light as he stared at the soot-black stone in his hand.
"Was it because of this?" Jiang Ning muttered inwardly.
Judging from the similarities now revealed, the water within water he had absorbed and refined might have originated from this tiny black stone that chilled him