Chapter Seventy-Seven: Falling into the Water

  Suddenly, the ground shook violently and a buzzing noise reached my ears.

  "Look quickly! There is a huge whirlpool ahead!" The disciples were both excited and tense.

  A whirlpool spinning rapidly, shining with colorful rays, penetrating heaven and earth, magnificent yet mysterious.

  Wang Qi raised his head and gazed at the whirlpool, shouting loudly: "All disciples listen to orders, jump into the whirlpool one by one in teams!"

  Soon it was Luoyu's turn, she jumped into the whirlpool, her mind went blank, the sky and earth spun around, then she heard a loud splash, her body felt cool, and she found herself falling into the water!

  Water?

  Luo Yu's face turned pale, and in an instant, she activated the Ling Can Fa Yi. With a single slap of her hand on the water surface, she borrowed the force to jump into mid-air.

  "Slap!", a thick alligator tail struck towards Luoyu's waist, silver light flashing, the law robe neutralized this attack, with a splash, Luoyu dove into the water once again.

  The water is clear and sparkling, with aquatic plants swaying gently. Apart from this large and black alligator, there seems to be no other danger.

  The crocodile swung its tail, swam to Luo Yu's front, opened its big mouth, with a height of two or three meters, sharp teeth flashing with sharp light, and was about to bite over.

  Luoyu's face sank, and he took out the Golden Hoop Rod. Seizing the moment when the alligator bit down, he thrust the rod into its jaws. With a cracking sound, the Golden Hoop Rod was inserted deep into the alligator's mouth, causing blood to gush out. The pain made the black alligator thrash about, whipping its tail and sending up a ten-meter-high wave that startled the entire lake surface.

  Concentrating her spiritual energy in her hands and feet, Luo Yu darted through the water like an arrow, instantly leaving the black alligator behind. A faint sound reached her ears, and if she hadn't been paying attention to the movements in the water, she wouldn't have made this discovery.

  Luoyu's hair stood on end as he exerted his spiritual power, isolating himself from the surroundings and swimming towards the shore without a care.

  A loud, crackling sound came, and Luo Yu was surrounded by a group of silver-backed, red-bellied small fish, their mouths open wide, bigger than their bodies, ferociously tearing at Luo Yu's law robe and light canopy. The silver light gradually dimmed, and it seemed that the defense of the law robe was about to be broken through.

  It seems that the red-bellied piranha was not deceived after all, Luo Yu sighed quietly. Fortunately, most of the piranhas went to surround and attack the wounded and bleeding black caiman, otherwise she wouldn't have had time to sigh.

  Luoyu scattered a large batch of symbols, although weakened by being in the water, still managed to kill his way out.

  The smell of blood triggers the ferocity of red-bellied piranhas, their eyes turn bright red, and they make a hissing sound with their mouths to gather companions for support.

  Luoyu triggered the earth shield, gold shield and water shield, more than a dozen layers of protection stacked one after another, and she charged into the school of fish. The protective shields shattered layer by layer, and a red-bellied piranha darted to her leg, just about to bite her calf. With a splash, Luoyu kicked off the lake bottom and flipped herself onto the shore. In the nick of time, she finally swam to the water's edge.

  She was just one step away from being bitten off a piece of flesh, the fish swarm attacked, and it's hard to say whether she could make it ashore, what an extremely thrilling scene!

  Splashing sounds echoed, a dozen red-bellied piranhas leaped into the air, Luo Yu's eyes narrowed, and she unleashed a burst of fireball symbols. With a whooshing sound, fierce flames erupted, and the piranhas let out pained squeaks, falling one after another, emitting a charred smell, before being beheaded by Luo Yu's golden blades.

  The fish in the water stared blankly at their dying companions, gnashing their teeth and screaming loudly. Their tails struck the water's surface violently, sending waves crashing onto the shore. Seeing the people on the shore repairing the spirit light that flashed, all the waves were blocked outside. The school of fish turned around with a huff, swimming rapidly towards the center of the lake to go to the black alligator and share a portion of its food.

  But in a moment, the black caiman's struggles became slower and slower. Before it sank into the water, the red-bellied piranhas swarmed up, some tearing at the black caiman's limbs, others diving under its belly to gnaw, and still others leaping onto its back, their triangular teeth biting down, instantly cracking open the black caiman's hard shell. Crunch, crunch, crunch... In an instant, a three-meter-long black caiman was dismembered, and finally even its skeleton was swallowed into the fish's abdomen.

  When the red-bellied piranha swam to the front of the Golden Hoop Rod, Luo Yu hastily pulled out her divine sense, and with a splash of water, the Golden Hoop Rod jumped out of the water and flew in front of Luo Yu, who caught it in one hand.

  If it weren't for the Golden Hoop Rod, Luo Yu would have left Red Lake long ago.

  Not bad, this is the Red Lake that makes fellow disciples tremble with fear. Last time the secret realm opened, I don't know how many people died in this quiet and beautiful lake water.

  Luo Yu reacted quickly, and as soon as she fell into the water, she suspected that this was indeed Red Lake. After encountering the black alligator, she didn't entangle with it, but instead focused on escaping to the shore. Although she had also practiced her body, she didn't dare say that she was tougher than the black alligator, and besides, even the black alligator had ended up buried in the fish's belly.

  These thousands of red-bellied piranhas, only the size of a palm, with the highest cultivation being no more than three stages, had sharp teeth and could bite through anything, including spiritual energy. If Luo Yu hadn't acted quickly, there might have been another soul lost in the lake.

  She took a last look at the calm and peaceful lake surface, then turned around and headed north.

  Twenty miles north of Red Lake, you can find the Seven Star Flower used to refine the Zhugidun Pill. This is a spiritual medicine that our sect has been collecting for generations.

  A secret realm with an area of tens of thousands of miles, more than a thousand people scattered among them, like fish entering the sea, without stirring up much splash.

  Everyone fell into the secret realm in different locations. Luo Yu walked for half a time without seeing a cultivator, but instead encountered many demonic beasts.

  This is the outer periphery of the secret realm, and the level of the demonic beasts are all below four stages. As long as you're careful, there won't be too much danger.

  Luoyu's goal was not the demon beast, nor the spiritual medicine, but the elusive heavenly treasure. Since she had no clues about the treasure, she thought of completing the task assigned by her sect first, which was to collect and refine the fifteen spiritual medicines needed for the foundation-building pill. Perhaps, in the process, she would encounter the heavenly treasure.

  It's not that Luo Yu is greedy, but rather being forced by the internal space, although it's said that no preparation of treasures for building foundation is needed, however it will be very difficult to encounter a place like Qing Huang Secret Realm in the future, so she might as well prepare the treasures needed for advancing to Golden Dan period. Although she still doesn't know what kind of treasures are required for advancing to Golden Dan period, thinking about it, they should all revolve around the five elements, finding related materials and storing them away would be good.

  As for how to take it out? Luo Yu hehe smiled twice, with the inner space in her body, wouldn't it be easy to block the sect's probing gaze?

  Thinking of the space, Luo Yu let out a sigh. The spiritual medicine that had been planted five years ago was now gone. Due to the last extraction of spatial spiritual energy, the space had been sealed off. By the time it reopened, those dozen or so spiritual medicines had long since lost their vitality.

  Considering the limited space and lack of time to accelerate its effects, if spiritual energy needs to be extracted in the future, the spiritual grass planted within will wither and die, wasting spiritual stones and energy. From then on, Luo Yu lost interest in cultivating spiritual medicine, treating it as a flawed backup package for spiritual energy.

  As soon as Luo Yu saw the demonic beast from afar, she would hold her breath and carefully avoid it. If she couldn't avoid it, Luo Yu would use the Golden Hoop Rod to severely beat it, if it knew its place then she would let it off, but if it didn't change its evil ways then she would kill it with one rod strike, skin and dismember it, put it into a mid-grade storage bag, preparing to hand it over to the sect.