"I can still hold on." Liou Yuan glanced at the vacuum cover of the Treading Flowing Waves, feeling that it wasn’t much of a problem.
Even if this Flowing Wave water cover broke, the pressure at the bottom of the lake was not an issue for Liou Yuan, whose physical body was strong.
The only worry was whether Pan Yang could withstand it.
He looked back at the latter, Pan Yang closely followed three body lengths behind him, spiritual light glistening on the surface of his body.
He had already used spiritual power to isolate the water pressure.
In the monts when Liou Yuan was looking back at him, Pan Yang had already moved from behind to the front of Liou Yuan, his face resolute as he said, "Keep moving forward!"
For this opportunity for Foundation Establishnt, he had spent all his savings, taking a desperate gamble, with no way back.
Liou Yuan said nothing, following closely behind Pan Yang.
anwhile, the purple evil light occasionally flashed deep within his pupils, vigilant of his surroundings.
In this dark environnt, ordinary cultivators would struggle to see, but his spiritual eyes caused no obstruction to his sight.
They descended another thousand ters.
The water cover around Liou Yuan’s body was almost being compressed into a narrow, elliptical shape, barely protecting his body from being soaked by the lake water.
Pan Yang’s face, anwhile, flushed red; solely relying on spiritual power made it hard to withstand the water pressure.
At this depth, no signs of life were left, and even the fish swimming in the water couldn’t reach here.
The good news was, they finally saw the bottom.
The silt at the lake bottom had been compressed by the water pressure to a hardness comparable to stone.
Liou Yuan’s feet touched down on it, feeling as if he were stepping on the bluestone pavent in the city.
"At this depth, it’s hard for anyone below late-stage Qi Cultivation to reach," Liou Yuan sighed.
No ordinary Star Evil would be able to move at this water depth.
He had previously worried that the Foundation Establishnt cave might have been discovered beforehand, but it seed to be unnecessary concern.
"We’re almost there." Pan Yang’s voice tily echoed in Liou Yuan’s ear; it was clear he was struggling greatly.
"Over there!" Pan Yang pointed in a direction at the lake bottom.
Liou Yuan followed his finger’s direction.
He saw a shocking scene.
In the water-pressure-smoothed lake bottom, there was an unexpectedly long underwater crevice, imprinted like a ravine at the lake’s bottom.
Liou Yuan gazed down, unable to see the end at all.
The water pressure here was already so strong, it was unthinkable what the pressure there would be like.
"If it weren’t for my Water Acupoint, I wouldn’t dare go in."
Liou Yuan muttered, not pausing in his actions, grabbing Pan Yang, who was moving sluggishly, and shooting towards the crevice.
During this process, Pan Yang didn’t hide his thods anymore, taking out a jade pendant to activate.
A layer of brown defensive barrier rose imdiately around his body.
"dium-grade magical artifact." Liou Yuan glanced at the barrier, roughly estimating the quality of Pan Yang’s defensive magical artifact.
Since Pan Yang had defensive asures, Liou Yuan could also act without worry.
Relying on the convenience of the Stepping Wave Body Skill in water, even while dragging soone, he didn’t slow down much, swimming through the water like a fish, and drilling into the crevice.
Continuing to dive another five hundred ters or so.
The vacuum water cover of his Treading Flowing Waves could no longer hold, breaking with a sudden pop under the pressure.
Liou Yuan had to mobilize his blood energy to envelop his body.
Pan Yang’s defensive barrier was also pressed flat.
Both wore solemn expressions, neither ntioning leaving.
Another two hundred ters passed.
In the dark, silent ravine, Liou Yuan caught sight of a hint of milky white halo.
"We’ve finally arrived!" Liou Yuan felt relieved; if they hadn’t arrived, he would have been daunted.
As they drew closer, Liou Yuan saw the source of the light clearly.
It was so palm-sized shells embedded in the rock wall of the crevice.
"This is the place!" Pan Yang spoke at the right mont, freeing himself from Liou Yuan’s grip.
He then took out a map, searching around the shell light source.
Eventually, he pressed his palm on one shell and applied light pressure.
Boom! A crack opened at the bottom of the crevice, revealing a small array soaked in the water.
The array was less than a zhang in length and width, just enough to accommodate five or six people standing at once.
The array appeared extrely old, with the lake water already etching visible marks on the inscribed array disc.
Had it not been for the faint glow emitted by the array’s patterns, Liou Yuan would have thought it was eroded away by ti.
Liou Yuan didn’t hesitate and grabbed Pan Yang, standing together on the array, asking, "Brother Pan Yang, is this array the channel to the cave mansion?"
Pan Yang nodded repeatedly, unable to speak anymore.
Then, holding the map, he studied around the array and eventually found a groove at the bottom of the array disc.
Without thinking, he poured out more than ten star stones, appearing pained, and stuffed them into the groove.
Star stones not only aid in cultivation but are also the energy core for maintaining and activating arrays.
However, those dozen or so star stones didn’t seem enough.
Liou Yuan only felt the array’s light slightly strengthening, without showing signs of activation.
"This is frustrating, charging us a damn entrance fee!" he muttered with a pained look, opening his storage bag and tipping out over twenty star stones he had on him.
All of these were the cultivation resources the sect had distributed in the past months, all of which were here now.
Dumping them into the array groove at once, Liou Yuan and Pan Yang stared at each other, praying the array would activate, muttering constantly, "That’s a full thirty star stones now; if it’s still not enough, we might have to go back to Lingjun County for a while."
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