Chapter 489 - The Strange Sludge (1/2)

The water was cold. When Chen Jin tested the water temperature with his fingers, he knew that there was no way he could enter the water with his current level of cultivation.

Feeling helpless, Chen Jin could only go to the base at Haierfa again.

Due to the multiple breakouts of interstellar war, the base was mostly producing interstellar warships, and the submarines had not been updated for a long time. Although it was a relatively outdated product, it was still far ahead of the submarines on Earth from the same time. Without thinking too much, Chen Jin collected two or three submarines into his storage ring and returned to the pool.

He put the submarine in the pool and boarded it with the robots. The cabin hatch was closed and the submarine sank into the depths of the water.

A buzzing sound arose and the submarine descended. At first, everything was still. There was no sign of movement in the water except for the sound of the submarine. However, as time went by, some fish-shaped spirit beasts appeared in the surrounding water. Spirit beasts who lived in this sort of environment possessed frightening levels of physical strength. They slapped the submarine with their bodies until it swayed, but Chen Jin was not surprised by this. After all, the ultimate neutrinos had covered the entire pool of water. These fish-like monsters were within his expectations. He simply sent a few naga robots at the Yuanying phase of cultivation to kill them.

The submarine moved on, and the water became increasingly terrifying. The water pressure was getting higher and higher. The water also possessed a characteristic–it had a wisp of corrosive spiritual energy. If the submarine was not a purely technological product without any trace of spiritual energy, this water alone would corrode the submarine until rusty spots could be seen.

Before long, Chen Jin’s submarine finally reached the limits of the area covered by the ultimate neutrinos.

If he continued to go further down, even the ultimate neutrino would lose its effectiveness.

However, in this final area covered by the ultimate neutrinos was a tangle of vines that had seemingly withered away. This climbing plant was stuck onto the rocky side of the pool at an oblique angle. When the submarine turned its headlights towards the plant, it even reflected a metallic glare. But Chen Jin knew that if a climbing plant could remain uncorroded in such a place, then this was certainly not an ordinary plant.

Chen Jin controlled the submarine’s working arm and grabbed the roots of the plant back to the submarine. Chen Jin looked at the tree roots in front of him, he had never seen this thing. This was extremely hard and very tough. One might think that it was made of steel. Then Chen Jin looked at the cut-off area of the vine and saw its bark and fibers, it was the root of a plant. It seemed that he would not be able to get a clear understanding of its uses for the time being.

After diving for so long to pick up something useless, Chen Jin could not help but feel depressed. But he thought about it again, he was the only one who could dive to such a deep place. It would be impossible for others. Of those who were able to enter the Zone of Trials, there was not one of them with a cultivation beyond the Foundation phase. Who else besides him could go so deep?

The area further down was not covered by the ultimate neutrinos, but he had already dived so far into the pool, it would be a pity to just return. It was better to go on and see what’s below.

After this, Chen Jin descended deeper into the water. The water in the pool gradually turned pitch black, even as it remained just as bone-piercingly cold. The effects of the corrosive spiritual power grew scarier. Even if it was a successful cultivator fell into the pool, his strength would also disappear, and he would quickly sink and die.

Chen Jin even dared to conclude that no one had come to this place except himself. After all, when this water came into contact with something with spiritual power, it would corrode a person until there was nothing left. Unless that person was an immortal, which meant that all the magic power in his body had been converted into immortal power. Only then would he have nothing to fear from this water.

However, this mattered not to Chen Jin. The submarine did not have one iota of spiritual energy, so the water had no corrosive effect on the submarine at all.

As the submarine got deeper, the buzzing sound of the engine became faint and indistinct. It felt weird. Just what kind of special characteristic did this water have that it could even swallow sound?

The submarines produced by the base could travel at a speed of 2,000 or 3,000 kilometers per hour. This speed was usually more than sufficient, but Chen Jin had sat in the submarine as it traveled for an hour before reaching the bottom of the pool.