Ouyang stood beside the Lotus Flower Pond and gazed out. Emerald lotus leaves stretched into the distance, seeming to join the horizon.
Beneath the azure sky lay an endless expanse of lotus leaves.
Pink and white lotus blossoms dotted the greenery, and here and there, withered flowers still bore enormous seedpods.
That feeling just now was almost exactly like being dragged into the Nine Hells. Has my soul left my body again? Puzzled, Ouyang stood beside the Lotus Flower Pond and reached for a seedpod.
He plucked it, peeled it open, and began crunching away.
It tasted bland and watery, not particularly good.
Ouyang chewed, frowned, and spat it out. In the blink of an eye, he turned his attention to the lotus roots beneath the flowers.
The seeds taste lousy, but lotus roots are good!
With that thought, Ouyang rolled up his sleeves and reached down into the pond.
He showed no panic whatsoever at having been dragged into an unfamiliar place.
Panicking would do him no good anyway, and he had already visited the Nine Hells once.
Since he was here, he might as well settle in. That was Ouyang's way of dealing with the world.
What reassured Ouyang even more was that Dongxu Zi, Number One Under Heaven, was sitting right outside.
Never mind that Dongxu Zi was stopping him from slaughtering Hui Zhi right now.
If anything really happened to him, Dongxu Zi could twist the heads off every monk in Buddhism and kick them around like balls!
Having someone backing me up feels fantastic!
The water in the Lotus Flower Pond was unexpectedly shallow. When Ouyang reached down, the water had only just reached his shoulder before his hand touched the mud at the bottom.
He stirred it around and suddenly touched something hard. Delight