Yet beneath the water, the mountain extended down more than twenty zhang!
There was no need to actually dive underwater to enter Dafushan Mountain, however.
Many naturally formed caves dotted the mountain.
Entering through those caves allowed one to travel through the passages within the mountain. Cui Jiuyang was walking through just such a cave.
Of Dafushan Mountain's Seventy-Two Caves, the demons in several dozen had already been wiped out during the successive battles against Divine Path Heaven.
Now, only the demons of the twelve stronger caves remained unscathed within the mountain.
Of those, the demons from three caves were surrounding Divine Path Heaven's people on the summit.
Thus, inside the enormous mountain, only the demons of nine caves remained.
Cui Jiuyang hurried along the winding passages inside the mountain toward the aura of The Eight Extremes he sensed.
The passages crisscrossed like a maze, and the demons were scattered. Even after traveling swiftly for a long time, he only occasionally encountered one or two.
Those he encountered were generally only lesser demons assigned to stand guard or patrol the passages.
Before they could even make out Cui Jiuyang's appearance, he casually dispatched them, wiping them out without a sound.
Finally, after descending all the way to the bottom of the mountain, to what seemed to be its very core, Cui Jiuyang arrived before an exceptionally solid rock wall.
He could clearly sense the aura of The Eight Extremes behind this wall!
Yet after examining the area, he could find no entrance or passage leading through it.
Cui Jiuyang patiently searched the passages and caves around the wall several more times, examining everything carefully.
In the end, he had to conclude that there truly was no other route to the space behind the wall.
Seeing the expression on Cui Jiuyang's