The water was still, without a single ripple.
The quiet atmosphere gave Zhou Fan and the others a vague sense that something was wrong.
The spiritual energy here was the densest in the entire Secret Realm. This was clearly its core.
"Look, isn't there something in the middle of the lake?" Duan Fei suddenly raised a hand and pointed toward the center.
The others looked where he was pointing and could just make out something in the middle of the lake.
It vaguely resembled a crystal.
But the stone was hundreds of meters from shore, too far away to see clearly.
"I'll go take a look. Stay here and don't do anything rash. The Beast King should be nearby," Zhou Fan said.
This was the very heart of the Secret Realm. If the Beast King wasn't here, where else could he be?
Perhaps the Beast King was lurking somewhere in the shadows, waiting to ambush them.
"Old Zhou, be careful."
"Don't worry."
With that, Zhou Fan leaped onto the water, stood directly on its surface, and walked toward the Crystal Pillar in the middle of the lake.
He soon reached the Crystal Pillar.
It was a blue Crystal Pillar, with only half a meter protruding above the surface. The rest extended deep into the lake.
"Such dense water-type spiritual energy. It's not quite the same as a Spirit Stone." Zhou Fan's Sharingan could clearly see the vast amount of water-type spiritual energy contained within the Crystal Pillar.
Just as he was about to examine it further, several columns of water suddenly rose around the Crystal Pillar and blasted toward him!
Zhou Fan reacted swiftly, immediately retreating to dodge them.
Boom!
Columns of water rose one after another in a fierce barrage.
Zhou Fan had no choice but to retreat to