frightfiction Chapter 372 Lake
Chapter 372 Lake
The three worked together. Jiang Liqian controlled Yiyezhou while dealing with the five-legged scorpion. Gu Anan and Xu Youan also acted very quickly. As they fled farther and farther, the number of five-legged scorpions catching up with them became fewer and fewer. Just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the five-legged scorpions that had been attacking them suddenly stopped, and then one after another, they scrambled to drill underground.
The three of them looked at each other, and all felt uneasy.
Sure enough, after a while, snowflakes began to fall in the desert, and gradually turned into heavy snow so heavy that people could not be seen clearly.
Everywhere I looked, everything turned white.
Xu Youan reacted quickly and set up a fire array around the three of them to isolate the cold air.
But even so, they still felt cold, a cold that even their protective spiritual power could not block.
"Let's walk along the woods to block some of the wind and snow." Jiang Liqian put away the boat and the few of them settled down in the woods.
Xu Youan looked around and his expression became serious.
"Senior Sister, I'm afraid we have to find that treasure quickly and leave this formation. Otherwise, with this fluctuating weather and the five-legged scorpion hiding underground, we'll be in danger at any time. If we run out of energy, we'll be in trouble."
Jiang Li nodded slightly.
She thought so too.
She turned around and held Gu Anan's hand tightly, and asked Xu Youan if he could calculate the position of the array's center more quickly based on the fluctuations of the array.
Xu Youan nodded and said he could give it a try.
If it weren't for his limited cultivation level, it would not be difficult for him to find the center of the formation immediately. The difficulty was that he had to use his cultivation level at the Jindan realm to calculate a formation with such a wide coverage, and there were also precious treasures supporting the formation. Even if he was proficient in this, he might be accidentally attacked by the formation and seriously injured.
But he would not tell his senior sister about these concerns.
Jiang Liqian asked Xu Youan to concentrate on the deduction, while she and Gu Anan stayed around to protect him.
Xu Youan sat down, clasped his hands together and closed his eyes. A silent breeze swirled around him, picking up the rustling pure white falling snow.
After a while, beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.
Jiang Liqian was anxious, but still said, "Junior brother, don't force it. If it doesn't work, we can think of other ways."
Although Gu Anan couldn't stand Xu Youan who always followed Senior Sister Jiang around and called her "Senior Sister" left and right, she would not show her temper when it came to big things.
She shook her golden hammer, thinking that she might as well just smash this weird formation with all her might.
Her master said that sometimes, it’s best not to think too much and just do it.
She was wondering if this was the “sometimes” that Master had mentioned.
"Puff!" Xu Youan suddenly opened his eyes and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Jiang Liqian was shocked and hurried over to support him and stuffed Peiyuan Dan into his mouth.
"Junior brother, what's wrong with you? Is there something wrong?"
Xu Youan shook his head, closed his eyes, and quickly adjusted his breathing. After dissolving the medicinal power, he stood up with the help of Jiang Liqian's arm and pointed eastward: "There is an icy lake behind three small woods. It is the core of this formation. Let's go there quickly."
Without any hesitation, the three of them set off immediately, speeding through the grove.
The howling wind and snow surrounded the woods, and the shrill wailing sounds were like ghosts circling above their heads, shouting about the injustice and resentment in the world.
The distance between the three small woods was not too far, and the few people there were all top-notch among their peers. Even Gu Anan, who had the worst cultivation, did not fall behind, and the three of them quickly reached their destination.
It was a small lake, frozen solid by ice and snow, so people could walk across it without worry. Through the thick ice, you could even see schools of fish trapped below, unable to escape.
Xu Youan calculated again and pointed to the bottom of the lake: "The treasure is at the bottom of the lake. We have to get it out."
Jiang Liqian looked at the frozen lake and wanted to form a formation to melt the lake water with a flame formation, but was stopped by Xu Youan.
"Ordinary flames can't melt so much water in such cold weather. Even if they manage to melt it, it will freeze again immediately. It's useless."
Gu Anan lifted the big golden hammer onto his shoulder: "Then let's smash it through."
Xu Youan didn't refute this time.
This is a method that can save spiritual energy and prevent people from being frozen under the ice after entering the lake and unable to get out.
Jiang Liqian thought about it and felt that it was feasible, but she specifically reminded Gu Anan not to use excessive force and break the treasure, which would cause unnecessary trouble.
Gu Anan pouted, feeling a little aggrieved, but still nodded in agreement.
The three of them separated into three directions and formed a square formation. Gu Anan raised the sledgehammer, Jiang Liqian sacrificed the spirit-suppressing pearl, and Xu Youan summoned the strange fire, while they gathered strength to attack the ice layer.
There was only a loud "bang" and a sharp "cracking" sound on the ice, followed by the lake surface cracking and large pieces of ice sinking downwards.
Seeing this, Jiang Liqian said to Xu Youan and Gu Anan: "Do it again!"
So the three of them attacked the sunken ice surface again.
This time everyone used their full strength, and countless pieces of ice were blown out, with some tiny pieces of ice shooting back at them.
Xu Youan's first reaction was to protect Jiang Liqian, while Jiang Liqian subconsciously wanted to pull Xu Youan and Gu Anan back and away from the range of the flying ice.
Only Gu An'an was young and naive, and she didn't even have time to swing the golden hammer before she was out of danger. She simply thought Jiang Liqian was a good person and a reliable senior sister, and Xu You'an was also okay, but she was too narrow-minded and wanted to monopolize Senior Sister Jiang. She didn't think much about anything else, and she couldn't think of anything else.
"Junior Brother!" Jiang Liqian didn't expect Xu Youan to stand in front of her, and hurried to check if he was injured. Xu Youan stretched out his arms and kicked his legs to show that he was fine.
"It's impossible for senior sister to protect us all the time. I also want to protect senior sister." Xu Youan looked into her eyes and spoke softly word by word.
Jiang Liqian was stunned for a moment. Instead of joy, a dark abyss flashed across her eyes. She pursed her lips, said nothing, and stood up and walked towards the large ice pit they had created.
Looking down from above, apart from the mud at the bottom of the lake, there was nothing special to see.
Jiang Liqian tried to use the power of thunder to shape a flower, and slowly floated down.
The moment the flower made of thunder spiritual power touched the bottom of the lake, the entire surface of the lake shook. Before Jiang Liqian and others could retreat, all the water in the lake evaporated, and Jiang Liqian and the other two fell straight to the bottom of the lake.
Jiang Liqian wanted to use the wind control technique, but strangely, in this instant, she was unable to use her spiritual power. Looking at Xu Youan and Gu Anan, they were the same.
The three of them inevitably fell directly to the bottom of the lake.