89: Chapter 89 Underwater
There was not a single gap.
Bearing the spherical light barrier, Ji Yebai continued to sink.
His eyes were lowered, and he did not look outside.
The scene outside the light barrier was simply hair-raising.
Wriggling snake bodies coiled toward Ji Yebai one after another.
In just a moment, dozens of giant pythons coiled around him.
Snake saliva and mucus dripped down continuously.
Ji Yebai increased his output of Internal Energy and continued to squeeze downward.
It was an indescribable scene; Ji Yebai, bearing the light barrier, sank into the mass of writhing flesh-worms.
Sinking.
Constantly sinking.
When Ji Yebai passed through the seven-meter-high layer of flesh-worms, even his Dao Heart, which was tougher than steel, showed obvious fluctuations.
With a thought from Ji Yebai, the light barrier suddenly shrank.
Ji Yebai took the opportunity to sink to the bottom of the water.
At the bottom of the fissure, there was a layer of water.
And it was not just water.
At the bottom of the large fissure, there was another gap about one person wide.
At this moment.
Ji Yebai dove directly into this gap.
This gap, which was barely wide enough for a person, blocked the hundreds and thousands of giant pythons above.
The gap below was narrow and covered with sharp gravel and rocks.
It was easy to get scratched if one wasn't careful.
However, this was of no concern to Ji Yebai.
Under the scan of his Divine Sense, he saw these things clearly.
In Ji Yebai's Divine Sense.
Fifty meters below the gap, there was a huge hollow.
The hollow seemed to be connected to an underground river, filling the entire space with water.
The water in the large fissure of the Snake Valley above was overflowing from here.
Splash!
With a sway, Ji Yebai suddenly broke free from the narrow gap and rushed into the hollow.
The space suddenly opened up.
In the pitch-black water, Five Elements Internal Energy surged from Ji Yebai's body, and he instantly began to shine brilliantly.
The darkness immediately faded away.
Ji Yebai stared intently downward, his body sinking.
As the light from Ji Yebai's body shone, the situation at the bottom of the water became clearly visible.
At the bottom of the water, a stone wall was emitting a smooth, silvery-white metallic color, as if it were newly produced stainless steel.
This was not what Ji Yebai was focused on.
His gaze was entirely fixed in front of that metal wall.
A skeleton, clearly human, was holding a golden longsword, having pierced through its own chest from the front.
Behind it, there was also a humanoid skeleton.
The golden longsword had pierced into the metal wall, hanging both of them on it.
Ji Yebai did not know when this had happened, but judging from the surrounding environment, a long time must have passed.
The part of the human skeleton touching the ground had already petrified.
However, even so, it was hard to hide the extraordinary nature of this skeleton.
It was pure white and translucent, like high-quality jade.
Ji Yebai landed in front of the skeleton, but he did not rashly reach out to touch it.
This scene.
It looked like a mutual destruction.
Ji Yebai investigated what had happened here back then.
Clearly, the human was no match and had ultimately used the longsword to pierce their own chest, pinning the creature behind them to death.
His gaze shifted backward, falling onto the humanoid creature's skeleton.
Ji Yebai frowned.
Ji Yebai was very familiar with human skeletal structure, a necessary skill for a martial artist.
This was why he called it a humanoid creature.
Looking at this creature, its body size was about the same as an ordinary person.
However, its skeleton was much simpler.
The chest cavity was a single plate of bone, not human ribs.
The leg bones were thick and made of multiple folded bones stacked together.
"What kind of creature is this!?"
Ji Yebai's gaze fell on the skull of this skeleton, and he couldn't help but speak out.
The skull was actually... a crystal skull!!!
"This is definitely not human!!!"
Ji Yebai's expression turned serious.
Human bones could not grow like this.
The growth of organisms cannot be separated from environmental constraints.
The Earth's environment would not allow for the growth of bones with this structure.
After all, Ji Yebai was a university graduate and had studied martial arts essentials and medical literature for many years.
He also had some insights into the relationship between the environment and organisms.
The skeletal structure before him could not have formed on Earth.
It was nothing else but insufficient gravity!!!
Only in a high-gravity environment could such a skeletal structure evolve.
"High gravity..."
Ji Yebai frowned, his expression grave: "An extraterrestrial creature!?"
His gaze was fixed on the scene before him.
He fell silent.
Originally, when Ji Yebai's Divine Sense scanned this place, he hadn't paid much attention to it.
After all, separated by more than fifty meters of soil and water, his Divine Sense was greatly weakened.
What had shocked him before was that golden longsword!
The golden longsword was extremely sharp and emitted a strong aura of metal-attribute energy.
But he hadn't expected that after actually entering, he would see such a scene.
It truly surprised Ji Yebai!
"Then, what is this metal wall that is nothingness in my Divine Sense!?"
Ji Yebai slowly approached and carefully examined the metal wall before him.
It was very smooth; even with Ji Yebai's current vision, he could not see any unevenness.
The entire metal wall seemed to be one piece, and even the longsword that emitted Five Elements metal energy was faintly corroded.
Yet this wall showed no signs of damage at all.
If not for the gap where the golden longsword had pierced it, one would likely not see a single scratch.
Ji Yebai examined the metal wall before him.
It was surrounded by rocks on all sides, with only the side facing the water exposed.
"Could it be that thing!?"
Ji Yebai's eyes flashed.
He even began to feel a sense of anticipation.
He reached out and grasped at the Void Realm!
Rip!
A sharp sound spread through the water.
The golden longsword was pulled out inch by inch by Ji Yebai.
To be honest, even with Ji Yebai's strength, it was extremely arduous to pull it out.
Ji Yebai's Internal Energy surged, wrapping around the two skeletons, slowly moving them away and placing them in the distance.
"Your turn!"
Ji Yebai shifted his gaze to the silvery-white metal wall.
Five Elements Internal Energy surged out, spreading wildly along the front.
Ji Yebai slowly pressed forward.
A huge, colorful palm appeared.
Boom!!
The stone wall shook, and ripples spread through the water.
Immediately after, Ji Yebai continued to apply force, his Internal Energy surging wildly, and the stone wall shattered even more violently.
Crash!
Ji Yebai erupted, and his violent Internal Energy instantly blasted the stone wall open.
In an instant, turbidity spread everywhere.
Ji Yebai retreated, avoiding the mudflow.
He waited for a full ten minutes before the turbidity finally subsided slightly.
In the muddy yellow water, a huge silvery-white object appeared faintly.
Ji Yebai flicked his hand, and his Internal Energy formed a vortex, clearing away the turbidity.
In an instant!
A strange object came into view.
Silvery-white, as if made of one piece!
The metallic luster made the entire object appear extraordinary.
The oval shape made Ji Yebai's breath stop instantly.
"Holy crap! It really is this thing!!!"
Ji Yebai was shocked beyond measure.