Chapter 42: Mandarin Ducks Playing in the Water
Beside the underground river, Han Shuangjiang stood up, her eyes firm, revealing the stubbornness of her personality.
She had said that she would help Chu Huaixu obtain an opportunity.
You say I am your key, then fine, I will help you open this stone door!
Chu Huaixu looked at her easily breaking through the fifth meridian, and he was extremely envious.
“System, upgrade me too! Upgrade me, damn it!”
He couldn’t do it because he lacked [Cultivation Technique Experience Points].
The two looked at each other, and he understood her gaze.
Chu Huaixu had no choice but to sigh and say, “Alright then.”
This game companion had her own professional habits. When she was on duty, how could she let her bosses take risks?
But logically speaking, ordinary secret realm trials shouldn’t be able to stop the protagonist of the world.
Not to mention, being protected by a woman felt quite good.
“Be careful with everything,” he reminded her.
“Okay.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Han Shuangjiang plunged into the water.
Leaving Chu Huaixu by the river to sigh with emotion. As expected of the great female protagonist in “The Borrowed Sword” who was single-mindedly “doing business,” she was not the least bit hesitant.
The water-repelling pearl given by Liu Tianfeng coincidentally showed its value again at this moment.
This “great ice block” did not get wet, revealing her slender and astonishing curves.
Everything happened as Chu Huaixu expected. The moment she entered the water, the magic array was activated.
The two stone walls on either side no longer hung in the air; they truly fell, blocking the slowly flowing water.
This way, it was no longer an underground river.
It had become a huge pool of water.
There were four fist-sized holes in the water. Chu Huaixu had been staring at them, suspecting they were some kind of mechanism or something to coordinate with the array.
Han Shuangjiang, who had entered the water, was also paying attention.
However, these four holes showed no abnormalities for the time being.
The next moment, the magic array in the water was activated!
Some water currents were wrapped with spiritual power, like water blades!
They suddenly all rushed towards Han Shuangjiang.
With her cultivation at the Meridian-Opening Stage, she could not evade at all!
Because there were too many water blades.
The water blades came from all directions. Han Shuangjiang couldn’t swim to the other side in time.
The barrier of the water-repelling pearl could only perform simple water-repelling functions and was quickly broken by these water blades.
Han Shuangjiang’s body was instantly covered and soaked by the water. The water blades directly cut through her clothes and her fair skin, leaving one bloody mark after another in the water.
In pain, she almost sank directly.
Chu Huaixu’s eyes narrowed, and he immediately intended to do something.
However, Han Shuangjiang spoke at this moment, “It’s okay, I can swim to the other side.”
It was strange to say, these water blades didn’t seem to strike too hard.
The extent they could reach was only to cut the skin, leaving a shallow bloody mark.
Even so, there were too many water blades!
They came from all directions in the water, and they were continuously increasing!
As Han Shuangjiang swam, she dodged some, but she still sustained seven or eight wounds.
The four holes underwater made a rumbling sound at this moment.
Immediately after, a large amount of dark green liquid overflowed from the holes.
Chu Huaixu’s pupils contracted, and he cursed inwardly that it was not good.
The sudden surge of liquid of this color would startle anyone.
He was standing next to a hole and observing carefully.
After the liquid appeared, he quickly smelled a peculiar odor.
“Is this… a medicinal smell?”
“Is it a spiritual medicine?”
“Dark green, and this slightly familiar smell… This is body-tempering liquid!” He immediately realized.
Body-tempering liquid is used for medicinal baths.
Cultivators who follow the path of body refining torment their physical bodies fiercely every day.
After tormenting themselves, they would soak in body-tempering liquid.
The torn and bleeding areas would quickly recover, which could achieve good healing effects and a very weak effect of strengthening the physique.
Chu Huaixu smelled the strong scent and judged it to be excellent body-tempering liquid, which also had scar-removing effects.
Don’t forget, this instance is the “Pill King’s Token,” and this senior is an official disciple of the Pill King! A true alchemist!
The entire pool quickly changed color.
After Han Shuangjiang’s wounds were soaked by the body-tempering liquid, they began to recover rapidly.
Chu Huaixu glanced up at the stone door on the opposite bank, a bad premonition rising in his heart.
He guessed that even if Han Shuangjiang swam to the opposite bank, the transparent barrier there would still stop her, and she wouldn’t be able to get ashore!
Because the person who designed this trial wanted you to keep getting injured in this pool and then keep recovering.
To cut one wound after another on you, then heal them, and then continue to cut again!
“Damn it, you pervert!” Chu Huaixu looked at the stone door on the opposite bank and couldn’t help but curse in his heart.
The fifty-meter distance could be quickly swum by cultivators at the Meridian-Opening Stage with their physical fitness.
The situation developed as Chu Huaixu predicted; the transparent barrier on the opposite bank was still there.
Han Shuangjiang, immersed in the water, could not get ashore at all, being firmly blocked by this barrier.
She raised her hand and punched at the barrier, but only a semi-transparent ripple appeared in the air, unable to shake it in the slightest.
She frowned, a few strands of wet hair sticking to her forehead, and couldn’t help but let out a muffled groan.
Because the number of water blades was still increasing.
Some wounds were recovering quickly, but new wounds were also appearing.
Han Shuangjiang tried to climb upwards, to climb over the barrier and leave the pool, but this barrier was like a profound power, and she couldn’t do it at all.
This meant that her body would inevitably be in the water.
“It’s probably going to take a period of hard resistance. When the time is up, the trial will end,” this was Chu Huaixu’s guess.
Admittedly, this was a very perverted design.
Even if you prepared a raft in advance within your storage token, it would be useless.
Because if no one enters the water, the magic array will not be activated, and the countdown will not begin.
And cultivators at the Meridian-Opening Stage, lacking spiritual power in their bodies, cannot drive magic treasures.
“Some robes made from heavenly materials and earthly treasures do not rely on spiritual power to drive and also have defensive properties. Water blades of this level would not be effective and would not cause any damage.”
“But with this pervert’s design, I strongly suspect that if there’s no bleeding, this array will not be continuously driven!”
“Because only after Han Shuangjiang bled did the second array activate, and the body-tempering liquid began to flow out!”
“The key now is whether the person this design is testing is the pervert I think he is, whether the countdown really starts after getting injured, and whether there is a countdown at all!”
After all, this was just his guess. Perhaps the purpose of this level was not this, but to make you react intelligently in a moment of crisis and find other ways to break through?
But it didn’t matter, I’ll know once I get into the water!
In this novice-level instance, the system would most likely provide hints!
In the pool, the water blades began to multiply.
The next wave of water blades was going to double.
Moreover, the most suffocating thing was that you couldn’t be sure how many more waves there would be or how many times they would double.
Han Shuangjiang was a stubborn person and had her own principles.
Her teeth were clenched tightly at this moment, enduring the pain in her body.
The wounds were indeed not deep, but there were too many injured places.
A wound on her arm healed, and another one appeared.
Her thigh was even more severe.
Her clothes had already been torn a bit ragged by the water blades.
A portion of her fair skin was thus exposed.
In this situation, she gritted her teeth and shouted, “I-I’m fine! Help me find a way to break through together!”
Still pretending to be strong.
“Stay there!” Chu Huaixu called out loudly.
After speaking, he leaped down!
