Water as Black as Lapis Lazuli

Boom—!

As if to confirm Jiang Han's jinx, a thunderous roar, extremely muffled, exploded directly in the abyss beneath his feet.

Followed by.

It's sizzling!It's sizzling!

That wasn't the sound of rushing water at all, but the corrosive sound of strong acid being poured onto a red-hot iron plate!

Jiang Han felt the rocks beneath his feet suddenly tremble.

A nauseating, fishy stench, mixed with that strange, exotic fragrance, instantly filled my nostrils.

The smell was like a hundred dead fish rotting in a sewer and then being cooked in oil over a raging fire, making your head spin.

Jiang Han's stomach convulsed, his throat tightened, and he almost vomited bile. Tears streamed down his face from the spiciness.

"Cough cough! What's that smell?!"

He covered his mouth and nose and looked down.

The underground river water, which had been boiling just moments before, had now turned pitch black.

The water level rose at an alarming speed, as if an invisible hand had given it a hard push from the bottom of the water.

"Jiang Han! Run!"

In the earphones, Gu Changfeng's voice was almost distorted, a hoarse roar.

"That's not water! That's Yin Sha Liquid! It's the liquefied corpse energy accumulated over five hundred years!"

"Don't touch it! Even a slight touch will cause the skin to fester and become a fest!"

It was so loud it made your scalp tingle and your whole body break out in goosebumps like popcorn.

This isn't water; it's clearly the corpse-dissolving soup brewed by the King of Hell!

Anyone who gets on it will turn into a pile of mud, leaving not even a bone fragment. It's even more vicious than sulfuric acid!

"Damn it! I knew this imperial seal was too hot to handle!"

Jiang Han cursed, without needing Gu Changfeng to remind him.

Because the black waves had already crashed against the edge of the stone platform where he had just stood.

sizzle-

The moment the hard granite came into contact with the black water, it emitted a puff of white smoke and dissolved rapidly like foam.

run!

Without any hesitation, Jiang Han turned around and ran wildly uphill.

The Qilin bloodline within him seemed to sense a tremendous crisis, roaring wildly in his veins, and the tattoo on his back was burning hot like a branding iron.

Whoosh!

A loud bang came from behind.

The stone platform inscribed with scriptures was completely swallowed by the black water, leaving not even a trace.

The black waves, like a pack of hungry beasts, climbed wildly up the rock wall, biting tightly at Jiang Han's heels.

"Huff... huff..."

Jiang Han's breathing was heavy as an ox, and his heart was pounding like a drum.

My muscles were taut like steel wires about to snap, and sweat mixed with dust streamed into my eyes, stinging painfully.

Every step felt like dancing on a knife's edge; my thighs and calves cramped up, my lungs were panting like bellows, and my throat tasted like blood and rust.

This isn't an adventure, it's a race against death!

The road ahead grew narrower and narrower; it was the original plank road, which had fallen into disrepair over the years and was now teetering on the verge of collapse amidst the tremors.

Click!

A plank of wood underfoot suddenly broke.

Jiang Han lost his footing and his body sank downwards.

Below him was churning black corpse water, less than half a meter from the soles of his shoes!

The pungent, sour smell hit me right in the head.

"rise!"

Jiang Han roared and gripped a crack in the rock wall with one hand.

He squeezed his fingers so hard that his knuckles turned white, and he even drew blood.

But he couldn't feel any pain at all.

With a sudden burst of strength from his waist and abdomen, he pulled himself back from the brink of death like a gecko, and flipped himself onto a higher rock.

"Is this the opportunity you were talking about?"

As Jiang Han climbed up using both hands and feet, he sneered at the air, his voice filled with a ruthless edge.

"That old scoundrel Liu Bowen is going to melt down everyone who comes in and bury them with him!"

The viewers in the live stream were already terrified.

That misstep just now almost stopped the hearts of hundreds of millions of people.

A large group of people in front of the screen screamed in fright, and their phones fell to the ground with a clatter.

A guy was eating instant noodles when his hand slipped, and the scalding hot soup spilled all over his crotch.

He jumped up from the spot, clutching his groin and grimacing; the scalding pain was unbelievable.

"Holy crap! This water's poisoned!"

"The stone has melted? What if someone fell in..."

"Stop talking! I can picture it!"

"Jiang Shen, run! Don't look back!"

"This isn't a live stream, it's a live escape sequence!"

Jiang Han didn't have time to read the comments.

He had climbed to the highest point of the cave.

Above that, there's a solid rock dome, and no more path.

And below.

The black liquid from the corpses had submerged everything; the once spacious underground cavern had now become a vast black ocean.

On the water's surface floated countless white bubbles, along with the once arrogant Earth-Patterned Corpse Turtle.

The giant tortoise was now huddled inside its shell, drifting with the current, and dared not touch the strange black water, relying solely on its shell to withstand the onslaught.

"No way out?"

Jiang Han leaned against the cold rock wall, his hand tightly gripping the black gold ancient sword.

He looked down at the rising black water, which was less than five meters away from his position.

At this rate, he will be submerged in two minutes at most.

A desperate situation.

A true dead end.

There was no way forward, and a sea of ​​corpses behind.

The air was so thick it felt like paste, making the chests of everyone doing the live stream feel stuffy.

The surroundings were eerily quiet, with the only sound being the gurgling of the deadly black water rising.

Each sound was like a death knell tolling in my ears, making my head throb with pain; it felt like the Grim Reaper's scythe was already at my neck.

"Jiang Han..."

In the earphones, Gu Changfeng's voice was filled with despair and helplessness.

"I'm sorry...we've hurt you..."

"If it weren't for this imperial seal..."

"Shut up."

Jiang Han suddenly interrupted him.

His voice was calm, so calm it was almost frightening.

He pulled a flattened cigarette out of his pocket, put it in his mouth without lighting it, and just left it there.

Those golden eyes narrowed slightly in the darkness, gleaming with an almost insane light.

"Old man Gu, you've got one thing wrong."

Jiang Han looked at the churning black water below, and a wicked smile suddenly appeared on his lips.

"The water isn't rising to drown me."

"It's for... bringing up what's below."

The voice just fell.

Gumbling—

A muffled sound of a bubble bursting was particularly clear amidst the clamor of the water.

Followed by.

Glug! Glug! Glug!

The previously churning and boiling black water suddenly became eerily quiet.

It was like the calm before the storm.

Then.

Countless bubbles, each the size of a millstone, rose from the bottom of the water.

The bubbles weren't transparent; they had dark red streaks of blood on them.

Each bursting bubble released a strong, fishy stench.

"They're here."

Jiang Han exhaled the smoke from his mouth, gripped the knife with both hands, and crouched slightly, assuming a hunting posture.

He twisted his neck left and right, making a "crackling" sound, and rotated his wrist twice, his joints vibrating.

He spat a mouthful of bloody saliva onto the ground, his eyes blazing with madness, his murderous aura thicker than the black water. Since there was no way out, he might as well go for it!

"The person in question... doesn't want me to leave."

The moment he finished speaking.

Beneath the surface, a massive, suffocating shadow is rapidly rising.

The shadow was so large that it almost covered the entire width of the underground lake.

The originally dark water surface now faintly glowed with a dark golden light.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

That was the sound of a heartbeat.

It wasn't Jiang Han's heartbeat.

It was the heartbeat of that enormous creature underwater!

Each jump made the rocks beneath Jiang Han's feet tremble and made the eardrums of hundreds of millions of viewers in the live broadcast room buzz.