Li Xiu’s body sank rapidly in the water, his body pulled like a sharp arrow breaking through the pool water and rushing downward.
Li Xiu imdiately reached out to grab the Spiritual Mace hanging on his body, but as soon as he moved his arm, sothing wrapped around his wrist, tightly binding both of his hands so they couldn’t move.
Li Xiu gathered Light Energy, attempting to break free from the things restraining his hands and feet, but those things were extraordinarily resilient. The Light Energy surging from the Evil Spirit Token and the Forbidden Spear couldn’t shake off the things entangling him.
The water of Yanbo Pool was much deeper than he had imagined, and his body was pulled downward swiftly for quite a while without reaching the bottom.
However, as he ventured deeper underwater, the luminous mist-like glow began to diminish, as if passing through layers of clouds, and suddenly the surrounding water beca clear, widening his field of vision dramatically.
Under the cloud-like radiance overhead, Li Xiu witnessed a scene he would never forget.
The lakebed stretched endlessly, covered with countless skeletons, and judging by their structure, they seed to be human bones or those of so humanoid creatures.
"Could the story Jiuxiao Yun told be true, did the brutal Emperor really throw countless won’s bodies into Yanbo Pool..." Li Xiu looked around and discovered that the thing entangling his limbs was actually a black lotus-like organism originating from the pool bottom.
Among the bone-laden lakebed, there grew a cluster of black lotus leaves and a black lotus.
The things binding his limbs extended from between the lotus leaves, akin to small vine buds.
Li Xiu’s body was quickly pulled towards the lotus, and as he approached, he realized the lotus was far larger than expected, with its lotus pod harboring nurous eyes rather than seeds, all fixated on Li Xiu.
The black petals of the lotus were covered with fine, hair-like teeth.
No doubt, this lotus was an extrely rare plant-type Demon Spirit, yet it was unclear why, among the four who entered Yanbo Pool, the Black Lotus focused solely on him.
Seeing that he was about to be dragged into the colossal Black Lotus, Li Xiu’s mind sprang into action, and the Fire Lotus Sword automatically sprang from his waist, its blade burning like flas, striking towards the black tendrils binding Li Xiu’s arms.
Unexpectedly, the black tendril gave a fierce tug, directing Li Xiu’s arm towards the Fire Lotus Sword’s blade.
Just as the Fire Lotus Sword was about to slash his arm, it suddenly halted, and as soon as it did, a black ribbon-like thing coiled up, ensnaring the Fire Lotus Sword as well.
Bang!
Li Xiu’s body was pulled to collide within the black lotus, and the petal covered with hair-like teeth imdiately folded over, layering him snugly.
Li Xiu’s heart was gripped with horror, watching as the tooth-laden petals were about to envelop his body; he even saw a strange liquid sared on the petals.
But his limbs were firmly bound, with more black tendrils wrapping around him, rendering him utterly immobile.
Crack!
Just as Li Xiu considered summoning the Jedi Knight, he suddenly saw a crack appear on the heavily layered petals, and from this crack, a purple-black blade light bead through.
"Jing Li!" Li Xiu saw the face erging through the crack and was overjoyed.
When Li Xiu was pulled underwater, Jing Li, who had been closely watching Li Xiu, noticed sothing was amiss and dove down in pursuit.
However, because the Black Lotus had tugged so rapidly, Jing Li couldn’t catch up imdiately, only now finally reaching close to the Black Lotus and slashing its petals open with a blade.
The Black Lotus, hit hard, seed to suffer greatly, its petals opening wide as if in a soundless scream of agony.
Countless black tendrils extended from the surroundings of the lotus leaves, curling towards Jing Li.
Jing Li’s blade flashed repeatedly in his hand, forcibly severing the approaching black tendrils, his blade further slicing the lotus petals apart piece by piece.
Jing Li wielded the Ghost Head Blade, charging forward to cut the black tendrils binding Li Xiu, and at the mont Li Xiu freed himself, the Ghost Head Blade stabbed fiercely into the eye-filled lotus pod.
Strands of purple-black blade light flickered within the lotus pod, and in the next second, the entire lotus along with the pod shattered, breaking into pieces.
A Demon Core fell out of it, which Jing Li grasped and with Li Xiu rushed toward the water’s surface.
After the two burst out from beneath the water, Li Xiu exhaled a long breath of relief, thankful that Jing Li was there; otherwise, this ti would indeed have been quite troubleso.
"Let’s get moving." Li Xiu shouted to Jing Li beside him, continuing to swim forward.
For so reason, Li Xiu still felt that the pool water was uncomfortably hot, and it hadn’t returned to normal despite the black lotus being cut to pieces.
After the previous turmoil, Jing Li stayed close by Li Xiu, constantly vigilant of his situation to prevent a recurrence.
Until all four of them erged from Yanbo Pool, nothing further happened.
Glancing at Yanbo Pool behind him, Li Xiu felt sowhat puzzled, having the uncanny sensation that a pair of eyes within Yanbo Pool was fixated on him.
"What just happened?" Sha Chu inquired, looking at Li Xiu and Jing Li.
"There was a Black Lotus Demon Spirit on the pool bottom, it pulled under but thankfully Jing Li saved in ti." Li Xiu recounted the events.
"Even though we all entered Yanbo Pool together, the Black Lotus targeted only you, it seems to say sothing about your character, better accumulate so good deeds for virtue in the future." Jiuxiao Yun chuckled.
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