Yin Ze thought it over carefully. Silver Snow's words did make sense. He really should not have neglected their main purpose over a plate. But this underwater world was so vast-where were they supposed to look, and which direction was the right one?
With that thought, Yin Ze walked toward Silver Snow. After only two steps, however, he suddenly felt the ground give way beneath his feet, as though he had broken through something, and the sea sand began pouring downward.
Yin Ze bent low and leaped straight out of his original position.
At first, the collapse covered only a small area. Gradually, as more sea sand poured down, it spread farther and farther, until a huge pit lay exposed.
Yin Ze froze when he saw what lay inside. The pit held not only sand, but countless white bones-human bones.
The commotion on Yin Ze's side naturally drew Silver Snow's attention. He deftly maneuvered his body through the water and drifted over to Yin Ze.
"We heard the villagers say those cultivators never returned, but when we came down last time, we didn't see the bones of any cultivators who had entered the sea. Now it looks as though the currents swept them all here."
Silver Snow also sensed spiritual qi emanating from the various magic treasures inside the pit. That stood to reason. Those buried here were all cultivators, after all, and what cultivator did not carry a few magic treasures for protection?
"Shall we go down and take a look?"
Silver Snow considered it, then nodded. Since both the human bones and the magic treasures had been swept here by the currents, perhaps they really could discover an unexpected windfall.
Yin Ze jumped down first. Silver Snow glanced at the whirlpools that had begun forming again nearby and