Chapter 140 (1/2)
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Chapter 140
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A huge hole remained where the lake used to be. Within it was a gigantic array, currently glowing a deep maroon. No one would have noticed it underneath the lakewater.
Li Chengfeng did not know that this lake was named 'Heavenly Saint Lake', though before its activation by the jade token (so it would migrate to the cave ceiling), it was named 'Ultimate Saint Lake'. Just one word made all the difference.
The lakewater of Heavenly Saint Lake was extremely useful in pill concocting. Even the resurrection pill she made required it for maximum effectiveness. However, if it was contaminated by this array underneath, it turned from an elixir to the world's deadliest poison.
If one did not have a pa.s.s, even the greatest cultivator would be swallowed by the lakewater, their skin and bones corroded quickly into nothing!
After all the lakewater flowed up to reveal the array, Grand Senior Sister looked at Li Chengfeng with a solemn expression. “Run as fast as you can later!”
“Why?”
She looked at him. “You can run slower if you wish to die!” Then, she waved a hand and he felt a huge force shoving him into the hole.
He had just landed when the array lit up from its dim maroon to a bright red. There was a dull boom and a ray of light shot out of its centre. Very quickly, the ray of light extended throughout the patterns of the array.
He could barely react in time when a gust of wind brushed past him. It was Grand Senior Sister, sprinting past him as she yelled, “RUN!”
He instinctively ran after her but it wasn't a full sprint yet. He yelled, “WHY ARE WE RUNNING?”
He had just asked the question when he heard the sound of water droplets behind. He looked up to see ripples forming on the initially still water surface above, then droplets of water slowly dripping down.
When the first drop of water touched his shoulder, it sizzled and burned a hole in his clothes!
He quickly reached over to tear the piece of clothing off and tossed it away so the water would not seep down to his skin.
It had just been one second but his shoulder was already blackened. His vision doubled as stinging pain flared up and almost knocked him unconscious.
What the heck was that?!
He clenched his teeth and quickly took out the dagger he used for self-defense, ruthlessly cutting into his shoulder. With just one action, he sliced off a chunk of his skin along with flesh. The chunk of flesh landed on the ground and withered into a puddle of black water, releasing a rotten stench.
Li Chengfeng did not know that this was one of the deadliest water spells in the world, as powerful as Zhan Qitian's killer move- Dragon Flames Wave. Both of them were known as the ultimate fire and water combo.
As long as the flames from Zhan Qitian's Dragon Flames Wave touched you, its Qi would enter your body and react intensely with the body's True Yuan. It would slowly eat up a person's True Yuan and life force, in the end causing the person to wither and die.
The lakewater of Ultimate Saint Lake worked the same way. One drop was enough to trigger a severe decaying effect, especially if it touched the flesh of any living thing. The entire chunk of flesh would wither and turn into poison water, quickly spreading across the body until the person died!
Being an experienced swindler in the streets, although he was not familiar with things of the cultivation world, he was familiar enough with street battles to react quickly at the brink of death.
His reaction had saved his life!
While the Dragon Flames could be removed from the body through a special technique, Ultimate Saint water could not be extracted. The only way to overcome it was to severe off the infected region!