We looked at each other and thought to ourselves, does this mean we should go into the water?

"I can see that my lung capacity and swimming skills have improved this time. I can participate in the Olympics when I go back." Liu Sa sighed.

I said, "Stop complaining and get ready."

We are all ready, except for the diving equipment that we have not given to Monk Que.

The monk sat on the bank and did not move: "The young monk is not good at water, so I leave it all to you." Then he took a short stick from the side and said, "All donors, go to the water to lure the monster up. I, Lao Sun, will give me a stick."

kill him."

"Do you think you are a fool?" I couldn't complain to him. It was a fact that I didn't bring enough diving equipment anyway. "Let's go down and take a look first. After all, we didn't bring professional oxygen bottles, and we won't be able to dive for long."

"Bye~"

"Bless you..."

The four of us came to the shore. The water seemed not deep and crystal clear, but after holding my breath and jumping into the water, I suddenly had the illusion that I had entered another world for an instant.

The situation down here is completely different from what I saw on the shore.

The water bottom I saw on the shore was nothing more than swimming fish, aquatic plants, and broken pebbles floating underwater. It looked like an ordinary river, and I thought the water bottom was not deep, and I had to walk down even to enter the water.

But after diving one or two meters underwater, everything I saw changed.

This water is not an ordinary river, it is clearly a Cave Sky Water Mansion that is not inferior to the True Sea Eye Dragon Palace.

That doesn't seem to be accurate.

Most of the things that appear underwater should not be aquatic plants that exist in the water.

Let me briefly describe the scene I saw.

Buried at the bottom of the Wushan Water Gorge is a vast forest.

Yes, it is a real forest.

Moreover, the trees submerged under the water are all hundreds of years tall. They are all towering trees, and there are many varieties. There are all kinds of pines, cypresses, willows and poplars. Not only that, there are also lush flowers and plants under the water. It does not look like they have been soaked in the water for many years.

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If it weren't for the silent water around us that prevented us from breathing like normal, and the buoyancy around us, we would have really thought we had entered an underwater rainforest world.

The river water in this canyon is like a partition, or a door.

What I saw above the river was just an ordinary, clear river.

No one is too bored to wear a wetsuit and dive underwater.

But once we dived underwater and passed through the partition, we had an insight into the real underwater world of Wushan.

I gave a gesture to Erpang and the others, and they nodded in response, and then started to float up.

After all, we don’t have breathing equipment. Although our lung capacity has been exercised along the way, we still have to go back to the shore to get some air just to be on the safe side.

Seeing us emerging from the water, Monk Jiuque showed a smile full of meaning: "Amitabha, what did you donors see?"

We looked at each other, and finally I spoke: "The woods, no, should be a complete world. Except for the absence of living things, there are all kinds of trees, flowers and plants."

"That's right. It seems we have found the right place." Monk Luo Que said and began to take off his clothes.

Revealing a body of gnarled muscles: "This is the Wushan Wonderland that was ruled by the Wushan Goddess in the past. However, once the Wushan Goddess died, there was no one to guard the Qutang Gorge, so the fairyland here was swallowed underwater."

"What are you going to do?" I saw him taking off his clothes and thought he was going to do something immoral.

Monk Luo Que touched his bald head and said, "Of course I'll go into the water."

"Going into the water? Just like that? You don't wear a wetsuit? The water is very deep down there. Can you withstand the water pressure?"

"Don't worry." Monk Luoque patted his chest and said, "Be strong."

Then he plunged into the water. After a while, the water surface was bubbling and bubbling, but he didn't come up.

We looked at each other and thought to ourselves that he might not have drowned down there.

So I hurried into the water to take a look, and ended up breaking through a water gate and found Monk Que standing on the grass at the bottom of the water.

We thought to ourselves, is there air underground in this water house?

So I swam deeper, and sure enough, there was another thin film of water vapor at the top of the tallest tree. After passing through that thin film, the buoyancy of the water disappeared immediately.

It was replaced by the weightless feeling of rapid falling caused by gravity.

We fell to the ground one after another, and I felt like my butt was about to be broken into four pieces.

Monk Luo Que pulled me, and then said with a smile on his face: "Isn't this place nice?"

"Okay, it's pretty good, but it feels weird."

"That's natural. This place is full of lifelessness." Monk Luoque and the others stood up from the ground and walked forward slowly.

We went deep into the water forest and after walking a short distance, I seemed to have kicked something with my foot.

When I looked down, I saw writings all over the toes of my shoes, and there were even rotting organs hanging on them.

I was startled at that time, but the monk helped me and said, "Don't get excited, look here."

I followed his direction and saw a mangled rabbit on the ground.

This rabbit looks very strange.

It is like a wax figure, maintaining the running appearance of its life.

It was as if God pressed the pause button for a moment, and then it stayed there until it died.

I accidentally stepped on the belly of this rabbit just now, and all of a sudden I stepped on its body until it was bloody and bloody. Only the head and hind legs were intact.

I checked it, and it seemed that the rabbit's body had become very fragile, like a weathered shell that would break into pieces with just a light touch, like a layer of brittle paper.

This was the case for all the dead animals we later found in the forest. They were all frozen at the moment of their actions, and then turned into empty shells like brittle paper.

The entire forest is like a huge specimen.

This makes our skin crawl.

I'm afraid that what I just felt was wrong was due to this pervasive aura of death.

Finally, we walked through the entire forest, and what appeared in front of us was a stone gate.

This place is a naturally formed grotto. It was carved artificially to form a stone door. It seems that the legendary Ganoderma lucidum is inside.

"How do I open this door?"

Monk Lieque smiled bitterly: "I don't know either. This gate is not in the records of Jialing Kaiwu, and there is no mark of the Ninth Family, the Four Gates, or the Five Buddhas Temple."

"Do you really not know or are you pretending not to know?"

"I don't know." Monk Luoque chuckled, "Don't you, Donor Chen, open the door?"

I suddenly remembered that Shang Qingyun cut my hand when I opened the giant door in Haiyan Dragon Palace.

I looked at my hands and hesitated.

I was afraid that as soon as I cut my palm, the Yanwei Gu would immediately activate. Originally it was just a pain in the skin and flesh, but if it turned into a bone-cutting pain, it wouldn't matter if I hurt myself, and Aunt Qian would suffer more than the loss would be worth it.

"Don't hesitate, don't hesitate. A short-term pain is worse than a long-term pain." Monk Luo Que took my hand and came to the stone door. He gently scratched it with his finger, and a small cut was made on the back of my hand.

Blood dripped on the stone door, but miraculously the Yanwei Gu did not trigger.

"It's just a small pain, not an injury."

The stone door opened with a bang.

As expected, there was a stone room inside. We walked in cautiously, for fear of triggering some mechanism.

But after entering the stone room, I found that there was nothing inside.

It cannot be said that it is empty, at least the stone chamber shows traces of someone's life.

Mattresses woven from vanilla and stone beds carved by humans.

As well as the utensils and tableware used for cooking, they all prove that people have indeed lived here.

"Is she the goddess of Wushan?"

"The goddess also eats and goes to the bathroom?" Er Pang looked at the furnishings here.

"Can you stop saying such things that ruin the atmosphere all the time?" I rolled my eyes at Erpang.

We then split up to explore the stone chamber, and finally I found an incomplete wooden sign near the stone bed. The carvings on this wooden sign must have been unfinished, and were only half-carved.

I could infer several words from this half of the carvings, and finally a word suddenly popped into my head: "Li".

This glyph is very similar to the ritual in oracle bone inscriptions, and it reminds me of witches. The first thing I thought of was the Lingshan Ten Witches, the legendary ten great witches related to West Kunlun.

One of them is called Wu Li.

Then, I found another nameplate carved in wood.

This time, I recognized the words above immediately.

It's "Liu".

It's Senior Liu Sa's surname, and the shape of this plaque is very similar to the amulet he gave me before.
To be continued...