Repugnant Gateway

Chapter 654 – The Next Test of Sanjiangkou

Sanjiangkou

In order to avoid others, An Zheng could only choose to enter the water. The Three Rivers Estuary was the place where the three rivers converged. It was unknown just how deep the water was. Someone once threw a one-meter-long stone ox into the river, trying to find out how deep the water was. However, the rope was brought into the river by the stone ox. The boatman, who wore a good diving suit, leaped into the air and dived down to catch up with the boatman. However, he was unable to find any rope when his breath was exhausted.

An Zheng brought the Water Avoiding Pearl and entered the reeds by the river, causing the river to move out of the way, as though they were opening uathway to the bottom of the river. An Zheng had already been to Sanjiang Estuary before, and was amazed at the width of the river, the ferocity of the water flow. He had looked through the records there, but there was no detailed explanation about Sanjiang Estuary. There were only a few sentences on the map. It was said that a thousand years ago, there was a torrential rain that continuously fell for several months. The people could not bear the suffering and had nowhere to run. The three large river paths changed. It was unknown just how many commoners had been drowned and then converged here.

Later on, when the Great Xi Empire was established and had a powerful nation, the most dangerous places in the Sanjiangkou were built with river embankments that stretched for hundreds of miles.

An Zheng kept walking forward but there was no Mercury within ten meters of him. It was as if a huge bubble had surrounded him, preventing him from letting even a drop of water fall. The reason for entering the water, was that the river was too deep, and the river could cut him off from inspecting the Cultivation Power he had comprehended, so as to not be discovered. Secondly, he had always been curious about just how deep Sanjiangkou was.

An Zheng calculated that in this world, even though he had sunk for at least five minutes, he still could not see the bottom of the river. One could imagine how cruel and fierce that flood was. How many of the people who had once lived here had been destroyed and devoured?

The deeper he went, the bigger the fish swimming in the water became. Reaching a depth of sixty to seventy meters, An Zheng was already extremely shocked in his heart. Fifty to sixty meters deep was nothing in the sea, but it was jusiver. A few metres down again, An Zheng actually encountered a huge fish that was six or seven metres long. No one knew what kind of fish it was, but its head looked like it was made of green steel and it was extremely hard. When it swam, it would open its mouth and move forward, and the fish and prawns would be devoured one after another.

Such a big fish, yet it was not a demon beast. It was just because there was no natural enemy, it had existed for an unknown amount of time. It was too big, so it was incomparably vicious. When this thing saw An Zheng falling down from above, it actually opened its mouth and rushed towards it fiercely, and bounced off the protective barrier formed by the Water Avoidance Beads. It seemed to be in pain from the collision, but it was still unwilling to give up.

An Zheng recited how difficult it was to store all these treasures, and didn’t kill it. He only used the Cultivation Power to shake it off, and then used it to take away the big fishes that were in pain.

At least ten more meters down, it was already pitch black as if night had descended. It was almost impossible to see one’s own fingers in front of the other. From time to time, one could see a few fish emitting a faint white light swimming past. The fish was not very big and was almost transparent. When it emitted light, all of its internal organs could be seen.

Moreover, these small fish looked as if they had no eyes, and they did not know how to survive by hunting.

A few more meters down, An Zheng felt that this place was enough. After all, he was not releasing all of his power, but rather, to isolate the aura he was using to fuse with the Orthodox Pure Yang and the power of lightning. This depth was already close tundred meters, and looking down, there seemed to be no end to it.

Over the past thousand years, the three rivers had converged here. They continuously washed over the riverbed, making it lower and lower. Aundred meters or so, the water below was no longer obvious.

Finally, under the light of the Water Repelling Pearl, An Zheng seemed to be able to see the riverbank. Both of his feet landed on something that seemed to be a large stone, and after stepping on it, it was actually extremely hard. This large stone seemed to havadius of more than ten meters. Who knew how many times it went down. It was so huge and heavy. Who knew how it managed to reach the bottom?

Just when An Zheng thought that he was at the bottom of the river, preparing to fuse two different types of powers with the stone, it suddenly moved. An Zheng’s heart skipped a beat and floated backwards. That thing actually had a huge hole opened up in its mouth that looked likeerless beast, ready to bite An Zheng.

Only after getting far away did An Zheng clearly see what kind of stone it was. It was clearly a gigantic clam that caused one’s heart to palpitate. It was so ridiculously big that it opened its clam shell and tried to pinch An Zheng. It was also at that moment that An Zheng noticed that inside the clam, there was actually a pearl that was emitting an extremely bright light. In the riverbed that was as dark as night, it was actually able to light itself up, shining brightly inside the clam.

An Zheng reached out and grabbed, and a wave of vast power broke through the water, and the moment the big clam closed its jaws, it grabbed the fist-sized bead out. The bead was light purple, smooth and round without a single flaw. Although he didn’t feel that he had the ability yet, judging from the size and quality of the bead, it was worth its price. Even in the Da Xi palace, it would be hard to find a pearl as big as an adult’s fist.

There were many mussels pearls in the Great Xixi Imperial Palace that were used for decoration. Most of them came from the southeastern coast and were picked up by people who went deep into the sea on ships and found them in the sea near some small islands. However, it was not uncommon for beads to exceed the size of a fist, but river beads were different.

After losing her pillar, the clam was furious even when it was in pain as it chased after An Zheng. The opening and closing looked extremely horrifying. It was as if there waair of giant dentures chasing after them.

An Zheng was not willing to casually injure its life, so he continuously avoided it a few times before heading off into the distance. After losing the light from the pearl, the big clam could not find any trace of An Zheng, and slowly sank down, remaining as motionless as a stone.

After An Zheng avoided the big clam, he walked forward a bit, until he finally stepped on the fine sand beneath his feet. The terrifying power of the Water Repelling Pearl was that even the river sand at the bottom of the river had been soaked for who knew how many years. As long as one entered the range of the Water Repelling Pearl, the water would be completely cleaned out as if it had been dry for many days.

An Zheng curiously squatted and picked up some sand from the river. This river was extremely fine, and was not as coarse as it had been in the past. The sand was so dry that even if he rubbed it with his hand, there wasn’t even a little bit of moisture. An Zheng thought that this place was really good, when he looked up, he could no longer see the water surface, but the Water Repelling Pearl could be seen clearly within ten metres. He could basically not see anything from the outside, unless the big fish swam closer to it and the Water Repelling Pearl shone upon it.

The sand was dry and soft, An Zheng sat cross legged on the river sand, calculating the distance between him and the river surface to be at leasundred meters, the distance was like a tens of stories high, it would be shocking just thinking about it. In order to ensure his safety, he decided to follow his own plan and undergo a fusion outside his body. If he succeeded, then when the power of the Orthodox Pure Yang and the power of thunder were perfectly combined, he would be able to use a forbidden technique like the Heavenly Thunder of Nine Suns with ease, and would no longer have to control it meticulously.

Just as An Zheng released his two powers, the Water Repellent Pearl suddenly swayed a little. Soon after, An Zheng saw that at the edge of the light shining from the Water Repellent Pearl, two oily green eyes had suddenly appeared. The eyes were covered by a layer of muslin, but the green light still seeped out. Although it was protected from the water droplets, not all of them were exposed under the light. They were not complete, so after looking for a while, he was able to tell that those sinister eyes … It was actually an enormous water serpent.

Just one head was the size of a millstone, but he had no idea how long it actually was. This thing must have thought that it encountered some heavenly resource that was attracted by the aura. It first bit its mouth and revealed its fangs. With a bang, it collided with the Water Repelling Pearl’s light barrier, causing it to sway unsteadily. It didn’t bite him, but the water snake was obviously angry. It rolled its two meter wide body over and tightly covered the water escape bead’s light cover. His body began to tighten, and the light cover began to crackle.

An Zheng felt a burst of irritation. This thing’s eyes looked creepy, its body was even larger than a dragon’s. He was even greedier as he continuously tightened his body. The water droplets’ barrier could not bear the pressure and made ‘ka ka ka’ sounds.

Humans would always have good intentions. Big fish An Zheng did not kill them, big clams An Zheng did not kill them, but this big water snake was too ferocious. Once it floated onto the surface, who knew how many of the people on top of it would be harmed. He frowned and pointed forward, “I’ll use you to test the power of my fusion of power.”

A deep purple colored ray of light shot out from the tip of An Zheng’s finger, straight up and fast. The Great Water Serpent seemed to have sensed danger, its body quickly shrank, but it was still slower than An Zheng.

The purple light ray was only as thick as a finger, but it quickly pierced through the Water Repelling Pearl’s barrier and entered the water snake’s body. The water snake only felt pain for a moment. To it, the light that was as thick as a finger was like stabbing it with a needle. The moment it was hit, it curled up in fear, but after a moment, it did not have any reaction, it immediately became furious, and pounced towards An Zheng once again.

The corner of An Zheng’s mouth slightly rose as he gently spat out a word... Explode!

Peng!

That millstone-sized snake head suddenly exploded. The purple light had clearly pierced its body, yet it had exploded its head. It was extremely strange. The purple light was actually able to follow the other party’s blood and go straight for his vitals.

“The power has been reduced to the smallest, not bad.”

An Zheng saw the body of the huge snake sink weakly, the water around it immediately becoming a deep red color. The head of the huge snake was gone, and blood was still oozing out of its body. Along with the blood, there was a mass of black shadows that continuously twisted and wailed, along with shrill laughter. The black fog floated outside the Water Repelling Pearl and a pale, expressionless face rolled out from it.

The eyes of these people were staring straight at An Zheng. If their faces were to touch the light barrier, then it would have been fine to look a bit more vicious, but that expressionless appearance made people’s hearts beat even faster.

An Zheng coldly snorted, “A group of parasitic water ghosts actually dare to act presumptuously in front of me?”

He rose to his feet, and golden light shone off of him. Those faces were instantly shredded to pieces by the golden light, and the wails became even louder than before. An Zheng did not want to leave these disgusting things behind, he sprinted forward. Everywhere the golden light passed by, those expressionless faces would turn into terrified expressions. In just a short moment, all the faces had been completely destroyed by the golden light.

After killing those things that looked like human faces, An Zheng noticed that the corpse of the water snake was not taken away by the water flow. Out of curiosity, he continued to walk forward. Then, his expression suddenly changed … The giant serpent’s tail had actually been pierced through by a chain and placed on a huge rock at the bottom of the river.

This water snake, someone was actually here on purpose!