A water dragon, as its name suggested, was a hurricane in the water.
It was said to come and go without a trace. Once it appeared, it could overturn rivers and churn seas, its terrifying might beyond any ordinary strength to withstand.
Even someone as skilled in martial arts as Pei Buji could only look on in alarm at the strange phenomenon suddenly rising in the water.
No sooner had Pei Buji spoken than the four of them watched the water dragon close in on them. With a bang, it slammed into the Spirit Jade passage.
"Good thing this Spirit Jade is blocking it, or we..." Bu Er had still felt uneasy when Yang Qing told him earlier that Spirit Jade feared neither fire nor water. Now, seeing the water dragon strike it without shaking the passage in the slightest, he was delighted.
Unfortunately, he had barely finished half his cheerful remark when faint cracking sounds came from the roof of the Spirit Jade passage, which Yang Qing had said feared neither fire nor water.
"This is bad. The passage is going to crack!"
Jiang Zhizhou glanced up at the Spirit Jade overhead, exchanged a look with Bu Er, then grabbed Yang Qing beside him and darted toward the other end of the passage.
If this underwater passage broke, the four of them would be trapped in the water, never to escape.
Seeing Jiang Zhizhou move, Pei Buji naturally darted after him.
But fast as they were, they still could not outrun the water dragon's destructive force.
They had only darted a few yards ahead when the roof of the underwater passage built from Spirit Jade shattered completely.
Along with the broken jade came the raging waters of the Nether Lake, swept in by the water dragon.
Even though Jiang