He steadied himself in the water. Rather than rush deeper, he focused his attention and sensed the conditions within the pool.
Above and below, the pool was steeped in astonishing dead silence.
While diving, if not for the rippling water around him, Su Shi'er would have almost thought himself suspended in the void.
But now that he had stopped moving and calmed his mind,
Su Shi'er quickly detected countless exceedingly faint currents hidden beneath the pool's seemingly deathly still waters.
It was these currents that had cleverly formed a Natural Formation.
Without anyone realizing it, they could be trapped within.
"What an ingenious Natural Formation. It used the power of nature as its foundation, arising naturally without leaving the slightest trace. It truly caught people off guard, impossible to guard against."
"In terms of power, such a formation would be nothing much outside, aside from its ingenuity. Even a Qi Refining Stage cultivator, once strong enough, could surely find a way to break it."
"But... in a place like Heavenly Absolute Peak's Demon Dragon Pool, it is deadly to any cultivator or mortal who comes here!"
"If the formation in this deep pool was formed by the natural environment, that would be one thing. But if it was arranged by someone... then just how profound must that person's mastery of formations be?"
"Could it be... that the peak Nascent Soul Stage cultivator who died in Demon Dragon Pool before was killed under this formation's influence?"
Su Shi'er sighed inwardly.
He had always possessed considerable attainments in the Dao of formations. He saw through the formation in the water clearly and understood its true terror.
Thinking of the Nascent Soul cultivator who had perished in Demon Dragon Pool earlier, he vaguely formed a conjecture.
Without sufficient mastery of formations, once trapped