Just as the atmosphere on Snake Staff Mountain grew increasingly tense, Xue Fuyao and the other two arrived at a mist-shrouded marsh.
"This place is..."
As Xue Fuyao looked at the lake before her, a fragment of memory stirred in her mind.
"What are you spacing out for? Aren't we going to keep fleecing them?"
Seeing Xue Fuyao staring blankly at a lake, Jimo Xiubai could not help asking.
"There's something beneath this water," Xue Fuyao said with certainty.
Hearing this, Jimo Xiubai looked at the lake. Only after a long while did he frown and say, "Isn't this just an ordinary little lake? It doesn't even have a proper name. What could possibly be in it?"
They had encountered countless lakes like this along the way.
"I'm going down to take a look."
With that, Xue Fuyao leaped straight into the water, sending up an enormous splash. Seeing this, Jimo Xiubai prepared to jump in after her, but just as he leaped, Jimo Yunqi caught him by the back of his collar.
"Don't make trouble."
Jimo Xiubai struggled twice in Jimo Yunqi's grasp and protested, "I was going down to help."
Jimo Yunqi mercilessly exposed him. "You can't even swim. Were you going to help by drinking all the water?"
Meanwhile, after Xue Fuyao entered the water, she found that the area beneath the surface was far larger than it appeared from above. After descending for an unknown length of time, her feet finally touched the ground again.
The water around her was somewhat murky, and there was not even the shadow of a single fish. And this ground...
Xue Fuyao crouched down and gently rubbed her fingers over the ground. The marks on it did not look as though they had been naturally worn into it by flowing