Chapter Eighteen: The Battle Underwater

  Seven desert pythons were wandering along the river, but they never found Xiao Yu's figure. However, being land-dwelling creatures, they didn't dare to enter the water and eventually dispersed slowly after a while.

  Xiao Yu floated on the water's surface, watching as the seven desert sand snakes gradually disappeared into the distance. He let out a sigh of relief, fortunately these desert sand snakes seemed to be unable to swim, if they had chased after him, he would have been done for.

  He took a glance at his own HP, still having 35% left, Xiao Yu was stunned for a moment. Earlier when he jumped into the water, his HP was only at 23%, and he hadn't eaten anything like bread to recover it. How did his HP recover so quickly?

  "Could it be the effect of the Dark Holy Spring?" Xiao Yu discovered that his health was recovering at an extremely fast rate, and he hadn't expected that soaking in the Dark Holy Spring would have such an effect. It seemed that from now on, he should soak more often.

  Xiao Yu rolled over in the river and then dove headfirst into the water.

  Let's wait for the blood to recover to full value before going ashore, Xiao Yu thought. He didn't know what it was like at the bottom of the water, so he dove in and his vision turned pitch black. He could only vaguely see some shadows of the underwater scene through the sunlight that filtered down from above.

  A black shadow was rapidly approaching Xiao Yu's direction, causing Xiao Yu's heart to skip a beat.

  "What is that thing?" Xiao Yu tried hard to see clearly the shadow, but the surrounding view was too dark, Xiao Yu couldn't see it at all.

  It was like a fish, this black shadow was very large, about the same size as Xiao Yu, and it approached Xiao Yu like a dark cloud. Xiao Yu was certain that this must be a monster from the bottom of the water.

  The dark shadow moved extremely fast and pounced towards Xiao Yu.

  If Xiao Yu returned to the water's surface, he would only become a target for attack. He could only engage in a fierce battle with that fish in the water. The dagger in Xiao Yu's hand stabbed forward, stabbing towards that black shadow.

  Due to the resistance of the river water, Xiao Yu Ming clearly felt that his striking force was much weaker than usual.

  Xiao Yu's thrust attack hit its target, and a thick, dark liquid gushed out, which should be its blood.

  Blacktooth fish: fifth grade.

  It's just an ordinary fifth-level monster, Xiao Yuxin felt slightly relieved.

  Due to the relatively close distance, Xiao Yu finally saw the whole appearance of that black-toothed fish. The fish was about the same size as Xiao Yu, with sharp serrations on its body, like a sharp dagger, and it was extremely hard.

  Fighting in the water, Xiao Yu was still very unaccustomed to it. The dagger flew up and down, and he began to roll around with the black-toothed fish in the water. Since he couldn't use Backstab or Reverse Backstab underwater, he could only use Bone Strip. However, the water was too dark, making it hard to even see the enemy's appearance, let alone land a hit, making using Bone Strip very difficult.

  Xiao Yu could only rely on his dagger to fight against the black-toothed fish, which had high attack power but low blood volume. With the Dark Holy Spring's healing effect on Xiao Yu, he was barely able to hold his own with around 50% of his remaining blood volume.

  In the darkness, Xiao Yu saw a pair of dimly lit eyes emitting a faint glow. Eyes weren't meant to be evil, but thinking this, Xiao Yu's right hand turned his dagger and stabbed it fiercely into one of Hei Chi Yu's eyes.

  The dagger stabbed into one of the eyes, and Xiao Yu swiftly slashed downwards. Due to the softness of the bone around the black-toothed fish's eye socket, Xiao Yu easily opened up a deep gash, pulling out the dagger. In the darkness, a bloody smell wafted through the air, caused by the black-toothed fish's blood.

  System: Bone Peeling skill completion 98%, dealing 98% skill damage.

  The black-toothed fish was rolling and struggling in the water, with blood constantly gushing out.

  Taking advantage of the Black Toothed Fish's constant struggling, Xiao Yu's right hand dagger continuously attacked the Black Toothed Fish, while his left hand occasionally supplemented with one or two strikes. After a few seconds, the Black Toothed Fish stopped struggling and slowly sank downwards.

  Finally got rid of the black-toothed fish, Xiao Yu let out a sigh of relief, wondering if there was anything else that would explode.

  The fish is dead and should be floating up, but this guy is sinking down instead.

  Having stayed underwater for so long, Xiao Yu was a bit oxygen-deprived and swam up to the surface to catch his breath.

  To pick up the items dropped by Hei Chi Yu, Xiao Yu dived down again to search for the items at the bottom of the water. The place where Hei Chi Yu sank had a dagger that had been dropped, which was a white outfit. In addition, there were thirty copper coins.

  Xiao Yu put away his things and was about to swim back to the surface when some lights appeared in the darkness ahead.

  "What is that?" Xiao Yu was puzzled and swam forward, getting closer to the source of light. As he approached, he saw the object more clearly.

  This was a somewhat old-fashioned trunk, quietly lying in the aquatic plants at the bottom of the water, and the metal texture on the outside of the trunk made it reflect some light, which allowed Xiao Yu to discover its existence.

  "It's a treasure chest!" Xiao Yu exclaimed, a surge of wild joy rushing up his head.

  When outdoors, you often encounter treasure chests and the like. The boxes are divided into two types: locked and unlocked. Locked boxes are specially prepared for thieves, and opening them can yield some pretty good items.

  "It would be great if the treasure chest in this fifth-level strange zone could produce a green suit of the same level." Xiao Yu thought, just about to swim over there, when he suddenly discovered that a large patch of black shadow was covering this way, blocking more than half of the light coming from the water surface.

  "It's a school of black-toothed fish!" Xiao Yu saw the scene in front of him and his heart was chilled. Looking at the scale of the black-toothed fish, he estimated that there were hundreds of them. If they chased him, he would be finished. Xiao Yu didn't want to become fish food, so he didn't dare stay in place and quickly swam towards the surface of the water.

  The black-toothed fish swarm discovered Xiao Yu, and rushed towards him in a flash.

  Xiao Yu quickly accelerated his swimming speed, a black-toothed fish caught up with Xiao Yu and pounced on him.

  If he were bitten by a black-toothed fish, then in just a short while, Xiao Yu would be done for.

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