Wood dragged Yang Qing along, sinking straight toward the bottom of the Lake.
Although Yang Qing now wore the Black Tortoise Heavy Armor and could move freely underwater, being dragged along backward was hardly pleasant or comfortable.
But Wood, whom the Black Tortoise Heavy Armor had chosen, possessed considerable strength despite his muddled mind. Yang Qing repeatedly reached back and tugged at Wood's hand, yet could not halt his own movement.
Fortunately, by then they had already reached the depths of the Lake.
The bottom of the Lake here differed from what they had seen earlier upon entering the Immortal Thunder Underground Palace. Not a blade of grass grew around that palace, and the lake water was murky. It was clearly no welcoming place.
Now, however, Yang Qing saw that the water surrounding him had not grown murkier. Instead, it was incomparably clear, as though he had entered an entirely new world.
Everything before him filled Yang Qing with wonder.
He looked at the crystal-clear lake water ahead, then back at the waters they had come through. To his surprise, compared with the mirror-clear stretch before him, the water behind them was practically a filthy mud pit.
"I never imagined there would be a place like this at the bottom of the Lake."
Yang Qing looked behind him, then ahead again. He could see clearly that these had to be two different places.
Moreover, the clear and turbid waters were as sharply divided as two distinct rivers, as though an invisible chasm separated them and kept either from disturbing the other.
Bu Er and Jiang Zhizhou, who had followed close behind Yang Qing and Wood, were also startled the moment they stepped into this stretch of water.
Was there actually a whole other world down here?
Wood, who had dragged