The calm gray-blue surface lay like a pool of stagnant water, with scarcely a ripple.
The distant waterside pavilion cast its light and shadows onto the water, yet they seemed to fall into an abyss, without a glimmer reflected back...
Wang Ba felt none of the cold of the surrounding water. His fish eyes quietly broke the surface as he gazed toward that distant light.
Beneath the pavilion's eaves hung a faintly visible plaque bearing the words "Origin Study."
Yet a trace of hesitation arose in his heart:
The Lord of the Boundary Sea... he should be in that pavilion too, shouldn't he?
Could someone like him detect my presence?
And if the honored guests in that pavilion are all Immortals, as Master's Wife said, shouldn't they be able to detect me too?
Then why haven't they dragged me out? Or have they long since noticed me and simply never cared?
Just as a person who knew there were ants beneath their feet would not deliberately seek out a particular ant.
Perhaps, in their eyes, he was no different from an ant.
Then something stirred in his heart, and he recalled what Li Yuehua had said earlier.
All the True Spirit fish in this region of the Boundary Sea Origin were already dead. In other words, everything here was lifeless, and he now looked like a True Spirit fish too. Perhaps that was precisely why he had managed to pass off a fish eye as a pearl.
At this thought, he considered for a moment, then slowly sank into the water. Swimming gently, he soon saw a fish with utterly vacant eyes drifting slowly past in the distance before swimming deeper.
It was clearly another True Spirit fish like him.
Recalling that True Spirit fish's movements, Wang Ba pondered briefly,