Chapter 113: The Secret at the Bottom of the River!

  It was time to set off, and Xia Lin raised his head, looking ahead.

  It seems there's nothing to worry about, as for now, there is still only one road ahead.

  As soon as he stepped out, Xia Lin suddenly felt a chill run down his spine, and the cold air sent shivers down his back. Snowflakes fell from the sky, making him feel like he had entered winter ahead of time.

  After walking for about a mile, Xia Lin stopped and looked down at his feet. About one meter below, he saw something strange.

  A worn-out iron piece, looking like something fell off from a certain shield.

  "What is this thing?"

  Xia's eyebrows slightly furrowed as he sensed the hardness of the ice plain, and his right fist suddenly struck down!

  "Boom!"

  Ice cubes burst and splashed everywhere.

  The hardness of the ice plain was extremely strong, but because of this, it seemed even more fragile. Xia Lin's fist almost pierced through five meters of ice plain in an instant, which was somewhat unexpected.

  The power of three stages and five segments is actually so powerful!

  However, it was precisely this powerful blow that made Xia Lin discover a strange thing - the old iron piece did not sink into the river water. Under the five-meter-deep ice, there was turbulent river water, and when the iron piece fell into the water, it bounced out and landed on top of the ice.

  "What's going on." Xia Lin narrowed his eyes.

  "It seems... this thing is coming on purpose?"

  Xia Lin tried to grab the iron piece, and as expected, the ice surface shattered instantly. A fish monster burst out of the ice and charged at Xia Lin with incredible speed!

  "Get out!"

  Xia Lin kicked out without hesitation, directly kicking the fish monster onto the ice field.

  "Boom!"

  "Boom!"

  Xia Lin charged forward directly, fist after fist attacking the fish monster. The fish monster's body was quite large, but Xia Lin had already understood its strength long ago - Condensed Sea Peak!

  If in water, Xia Lin would naturally be wary of him and wouldn't engage with him at all. But now...

  "Fierce Flame Tiger Fist!"

  The final blow of the fierce tiger fist blasted on the fish monster's body, directly knocking it out.

  This is also Xia Lin's greatest achievement since entering Huang Quan Secret Realm.

  "Hmm, its skin is really thick. This fish monster seems to be much stronger than before." Xia Lin rubbed his somewhat numb fist and picked up the old iron piece from the ice field. As soon as he touched it, he suddenly understood.

  Mystic Treasure Fragment!

  On this icy expanse, it's actually a shard of Xuanbao!

  "Something doesn't feel right." Xia Lin thought to himself.

  As soon as you enter, it's the Yellow Spring Road, where all kinds of spiritual herbs and dangers are filled... Each spiritual herb is like an endless temptation, leading many warriors to the brink of death.

  And at this time, on this ice field, it seems like the same scene again.

  Innumerable hidden treasures or treasure fragments in the ice field. Next to each one, there are also some even more powerful fish monsters!

  If the fish monster on the Yellow Spring Road was attracted by the spirit of the spiritual grass, then it would not make sense here. All this... seems to be a human arrangement, as if someone is manipulating everything behind the scenes.

  "Is it a trial left from many years ago... or is someone manipulating now?"

  Shaking his head, Xia Lin gave up on the second obviously absurd idea and joked. Everything in the Yellow Spring Secret Realm was mysterious, even the rivers were just pawns, if someone was really controlling it, at least they would be a divine realm! But if it was indeed a divine realm, he estimated that one slap could kill all of them, let alone mess with these messy things.

  "Let's just try... we'll know as we go."

  Xia Lin finished speaking and continued to move forward. As expected, after a while, he discovered some other fragments of the mysterious treasure. Every time they passed through a certain area, they would find another piece of the treasure sealed in ice... along with monsters!

  The monsters here seem even more powerful, but unfortunately, for Xia Lin who has improved his strength. Here is the best platform to exert one's strength.

  One punch after another, these fish monsters were easily blown up.

  Just like the Yellow Spring Road, the ice field was filled with fragments of Xuan Bao everywhere. After walking for a while, Xia Lin stopped on an ice field.

  Under the ice sheet, a two-inch sword tip lay there, with its blade exposed, and even through the thick ice, one could feel its power.

  "Is this... a piece of a weapon?"

  If that's true, then it would be worth more than a defensive-type Mystic Shard, because even if a weapon-type Mystic Shard is broken, it still has some value.

  "Boom!"

  Xia Lin's fist shattered the ice, and he picked up the fragments of his weapon.

  Splash!

  A very short sword tip, don't know from what kind of sword it broke off, cold light flashing, feels extremely icy to the touch.

  Xia Lin Zheng was studying carefully when suddenly the sword tip in his hand plunged downwards, almost dragging him down with it.

  "Stop right there!"

  Xia Lin's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he grasped the sword tip, completely disregarding its sharpness, directly pulling it into his hand! A massive, strange force surged from the sword tip, seemingly trying to rush downwards with all its might, but facing Xia Lin's current strength, which was comparable to that of a Returner, it could only be forcibly held back.

  "What a thing." Xia Lin's eyebrows furrowed slightly, just now that one move, was his own body cultivated to the extreme, if it were an ordinary martial artist, they would probably die without knowing how. Such a sharp sword tip, suddenly slashing down from his hand, even if it were a martial artist in the Returning to Origin realm, if they didn't instantly burst out with their Xuan Qi, there was only one outcome: death.

  Only Xia Lin, who had cultivated his physical body and possessed a terrifying defensive power that reached the third stage of the fifth rank, was able to barely hold back the sword tip, leaving only a few white marks on his hand that were squeezed out.

  "What's attracting it under the river water?" Xia Lin looked into the depths of the river, seemingly nothing out of the ordinary, no!

  Xia's eyes suddenly widened, and in the river water directly below the sword tip, there seemed to be ripples that were almost imperceptible, which couldn't be seen clearly in the turbulent flow.

  He tried moving the sword tip to the right, and indeed, that ripple moved slightly to the right again.

  "The ripples on the river's surface... indicate that something is emerging, following the tip of the sword... " Xia Lin's eyes flashed with a cold light, and his other hand slid along the underside of the sword tip, but came into contact with something.

  Invisible, yet existing like a thin thread. Only connected at the tip of the sword, straight into the riverbed.

  "What's so strange about the water in this Yellow Spring River?" Xia Lin became even more puzzled, and actually learned to set up an ambush! Taking advantage of everyone's treasure-hunting mentality, he tied thin threads on the fragments of the sword. In an instant, he would either kill the warrior or drag him into the river.

  "Why don't we pull it out and take a look?"

  Xia Lin let out a cold hum, grasped the sword tip with his right hand and suddenly exerted force. The thin line instantly tightened. Although it couldn't be seen, the buzzing sound could be heard, even the river water slightly trembled, allowing Xia Lin to see the fluctuations of this thin line.

  The strange force under the river seemed to sense the crisis as well and exerted itself even more, as if trying to pull Xia Lin into the water.

  "Get out!"

  Blood and energy shook. Xia Lin's right arm burst forth with full force.

  "Boom!"

  The thin line was reeled back in, coiling around his hand, circling down, and in an instant five or six meters of the thin line were reeled back. The thing at the bottom of the river seemed to have touched something, losing its explosive force from earlier, and directly going limp. He was pulled by Xia Lin to run.

  "Received!"

  Ten meters, twenty meters, fifty meters...

  The thread was pulled tighter and longer, leaving Xia Lin shocked. The water of the Yellow Spring River was actually this deep?

  One hundred meters!

  Here!

  Xia's eyes flashed with a hint of brightness, and in an instant, she pulled out something from the water.

  "Boom!"

  The water's surface suddenly burst open with a loud crash, and the Yellow Spring River water shot up into the sky. A huge creature, straight and upright, exploded out of the water and crashed onto the ice surface again.

  Xia Ling took a closer look and found it was a yellow fish monster.

  Completely different from the blue fish monster before. This yellow fish monster seems to imply that its identity is not ordinary.

  The yellow fish monster was shaken to the point of being dazed and confused, swaying back and forth on the ice surface before coming to its senses. It stared at Xia Lin with a mixture of shock and fear, clearly never having imagined that this human could possess such immense power!

  "It's interesting, it's not just a mindless killing monster, but also thinks. It seems that these mysterious treasures are indeed its trap." Xia thought to himself.

  "Hiss——"

  The yellow fish monster looked around four times and seemed to know that something was wrong. It let out a shrill cry and ran towards the river surface.

  Can you run away?

  Xia's figure flashed and he chased after it.

  However, at this moment, countless sound waves surged out from underground, directly penetrating the ice surface and rushing into the sky. A barrier composed of Huangquan River water blocked Xia Lin's path to death.

  "It's indeed no ordinary fish monster."

  Summer arrived in his eyes with an even more joyful color, blood and energy surged forward, one punch blasted open the river water, taking advantage of the opportunity to rush past.

  Although the devouring power of blood and energy can't overcome the terror of corrosion from the river water, their confrontation can still buy him a thread of time.

  "Hiss——"

  The yellow fish monster let out a scream, apparently never expecting Xia Lin to charge over. It didn't fight like the green fish monster with its life on the line, instead it turned around and ran! Its speed was extremely fast.

  "Want to run? Fierce Flame Tiger Fist!"

  Xia's body burst forth with explosive force, leaping into the air, and striking down with a single fist!

  The yellow fish monster's huge eyes showed a look of panic, and its body trembled. A defensive shield made of river water suddenly appeared around its body, protecting it.

  "Boom!"

  The fierce flame tiger fist struck the defense shield, blood and energy splashing everywhere. The defense shield shook for a moment before shattering directly!

  A deafening explosion, the thin river water defense cover burst after, unexpectedly turned into countless river water impact out, when Xia Lin reacted, the yellow fish monster had disappeared without a trace.

  "This move is quite formidable, and the yellow fish monster actually hid in the river water to escape. However, with my current strength, that previous blow would not have been easy to withstand even if I had blocked it!"

  Xia Lin calmly analyzed that as the river water gradually flowed into the Huangquan River through the ditch, he saw a yellow token left on the ice surface.

  Pick up the token, on which there is a strange-looking fish monster, I don't know what it means.

  P.S: The third update is complete!

  Guys, I didn't have a monthly bus pass yesterday!

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