Chapter 46: Dragon! (1/2)
Chapter 46: Dragon!
Translator: NinetalesEditor: Fish Creek
Qin Mu stretched out his hand to grab one and carefully took a bite. It had a spicy flavor which was spicier than Butcher’s strong alcohols. In his stomach, there was a burning feeling, causing his vital qi to be abnormally active.
Circulating his vital qi, he actually felt a medicinal energy similar to the Vitality Reinforcement Pill which could raise his vital qi cultivation, however it didn’t have as much effect as Vitality Reinforcement Pill.
”Is this creature plant or animal?”
Qin Mu grabbed a few more and saw these creatures had no eyes, limbs or orifice. They need to use their whisker-like tentacles to absorb nutrients from the moss, thus he can’t determine whether they are plant or animal.
He only ate one while Hu Ling’er continued hopping around and eating to its content.
Walking deeper down, the air became cooler. Not knowing how far they went, they could hear the sound of trickling sound of water. There was a small and clear stream coming out the mountain wall. There were a few huge fish without any eyes living in the pool at the end of the stream. The few huge fish were also giving off a fluorescent glow. If they wanted to cross over, they would have to pass through the pool to get to the other side.
”These huge fish are very fierce, they will pounce towards any sound they hear and they are very powerful!”
Hu Ling’er whispered, ”I shall throw the pebble over to distract the fish and we shall take the chance to rush over!” Once she had told Qin Mu her plan, she grabbed a pebble with her paw and forcefully threw it far away.
When the stone hit the wall, the few huge fish without eyes leaped out of the water and wiggled their tails in midair. Their four fins opened up like four wide wings and pounced towards the location of the sound!
”Now!”
Hu Ling’er guided Qin Mu and ran towards the other side of the pool. In the hurry, the youth heard a few crunching sounds and saw the weird fish colliding onto the wall and bit out a few huge holes in the wall with their ferocious mouths!
The exceptionally hard mountain rocks were like tofu in their mouths. If they bit into a human, the aftermath would be too horrible to contemplate!
As the human and fox ran to the other end of the pool, the few weird fish heard the sound of footsteps and flapped their fins to turn their direction, rushing towards them!
”Follow me, young master!”
Hu Ling’er rushed into the passage at the other end of the pool in an instant and Qin Mu followed. The passage wasn’t wide so the few huge fish couldn’t fly and had to use their four fins as legs to run after Qin Mu and the little fox in the passage!
”Are these still fish?”
Qin Mu’s scalp turned numb and quickly followed behind Hu Ling’er. The weird fish chased after them for a distance and returned back into the pool to hide after they couldn’t catch up to them.
Qin Mu let out a sigh of relief. The path in front of them gradually became wider and soon they had entered a trumpet shape cave. Suddenly the sunlight on crystalline waves shone down on him, making him look upwards and be stunned.
On top of his head, waves and waves of water flowed by. He could see schools of fishes swimming above him and even a huge golden turtle. There a huge fish that was like a small boat and also large-sized river beast.
A huge fish became excited when it saw Qin Mu and the little fox, making it open its ferocious mouth to pounce on them. However, it collided into an invisible water wall and bounced backward.
The huge fish shook its head in bewilderment and swam away.
”Surging River… This is the bottom of the Surging River!”
Qin Mu had a strange expression, ”The Surging River is right on top of us yet the water is not flooding this place up…”
Looking forward, his heart tremored. One by one the dragon pillars appeared in front of him. Each of the dragon pillars was gigantic and dozens of yards tall. Standing tall under the river, the top of the dragon pillars was in contact of the river. The floor beneath their feet was paved out with white marbles. As the pavement extended out forward, there was a community of palaces just three hundred yards ahead between the two rows of dragon pillars.
The dragon pillars surrounded the community of palaces and withhold the river water from flooding in here.
However, many palaces had already fallen. Some huge change must have happened here causing this place to turn into ruins.
Hu Ling’er hopped around and stopped before the ruins of a palace. Qin Mu saw a mottled wall painting on a wall that was half collapsed. It was a painting of a dragon head elder inviting his guests to a banquet. The dragon head elder’s guests were all strange creatures. There was a tortoise back old man, a snake tail woman, monk and also human.
Crash.
A pillar collapsed and nearly crushed Qin Mu and the little fox.
Hu Ling’er came to a huge hall which was already half collapsed and said, ”This was where I found the ancient books.”
Qin Mu walked closer. In the dilapidated hall, Qin Mu saw a hidden stone chamber built into the wall. The stone door had already collapsed. That was why the chamber was discovered by Hu Ling’er.