畅想听

What did it find in this black lake?

Song Shuhang looked at his aching arm, a bad feeling arising in his heart.

A cultivator’s gut feeling was often quite accurate.

The appraisal information was transmitted to his mind.

[Mutated Beast that contains the information of the Heavenly Emperor, Venerable Emperor, and Tyrannical Song. The resurrection information of the Heavenly Emperor, Venerable Emperor, and Tyrannical Song are clashing in the body of the water beast. This is an incredible occurrence.]

Song Shuhang: “…”

Every time the mutated water beast changed, the information about it would be immediately updated and sent to him through the secret appraisal technique.

If the mutated water beast were to fart, take a nap, or drink water, would that also trigger the ?Secret Appraisal Technique??

Song Shuhang said, distressed, “The ?Secret Appraisal Technique? is not evolving in a good direction. If these real-time updates are not handled properly, I could die.”

If the updates could not be stopped manually, and he ended up appraising a ball today, a strand of hair tomorrow, and a ghost the day after that…

Then, even if he was not doing anything and just laying on his bed, he could be receiving countless real-time updates of balls, hairs, and ghosts, and end up bleeding uncontrollably due to the price of the appraisal.

But then again, the fact that the mutated water beast was able to store the conflicting resurrection information of the Heavenly Emperor, Venerable Emperor, and himself was indeed beyond his expectations.

Pavilion Master Chu’s strand of hair asked, “Are you okay?”

“I’m just in a little bit of pain. As long as the appraisal technique stops sending me updates… I should be fine.” Song Shuhang glanced at his arm. The wound on his arm had healed, and there wasn’t even a scar left.

Pavilion Master Chu’s strand of hair said, “I’ll take you ashore first.”

Afterward, Pavilion Master Chu’s strand of hair started to spin like a propeller, bringing Song Shuhang back to shore.

Song Shuhang: “…”

It turned out that Pavilion Master Chu’s strand of hair gave him the ability to move on the Z-axis freely.

??????

After they got back to shore, Sixteen stepped forward and helped up Shuhang. “Shuhang, you were talking about the water beast just now, right? Is the water beast related to the Scholarly Sage?”

Song Shuhang nodded. Then, he told everyone about the water beast’s origin and its mutation process.

Upon hearing this, Senior White became interested. “So, the water beast is an ornamental pet raised by the Scholarly Sage…”

“I did not get a good look at the water beast, but Pavilion Master Chu said that it looked ugly. The water beast has mutated from generation to generation, so it should no longer look like the original pet,” Song Shuhang guessed.

After thinking for a while, Senior White said, “Forget it then, our time is almost up. We should leave this resurrection space first.”

Song Shuhang said, “Sure.”

Sixteen turned to look at Skylark and called out, “Senior Skylark, Senior Thrice Reckless, we’re heading out.”

Skylark nodded and pulled her hand out of the black lake.

She had been trying to instill spiritual energy into the black lake, wanting to see if there would be any new changes in the resurrection formation if she did so. She wondered if there was some secret that the Scholarly Sage had left deep in the black lake.

However, it seemed like everything related to the Scholarly Sage had been wiped clean.

After getting up, Skylark looked at her wrist and said curiously, “If I drop some of my blood into the lake, do you guys think something would happen?”

Scanning things with one’s mental energy scan and pouring spiritual energy into items were basic operations that all cultivators were familiar with, but after these two basic operations came “blood dripping.”

A cultivator’s blood contained a part of their self, and it could sometimes lead to unexpected surprises in cases mental energy scanning or spiritual energy proved useless.

“Well, something will definitely happen,” Song Shuhang said. “For example, there will be a giant turtle in the lake competing with the mutated water beast for the status of lord of the lake.”

If Senior Skylark did drip her blood into the lake, the mutated water beast might end up swallowing her blood, which would cause his secret appraisal technique to send him another update.

Then, the mutated water beast could end up being swallowed by a giant turtle of disaster, and another update would come.

When he thought of this possibility, his brain started hurting.

Skylark smiled awkwardly when she heard this and gave up on the idea.

??????

Next to them, Senior White took out a stack of the wooden body’s branches and began to carve them. He made one small-black-room-breaking disposable flying sword after the other, handing one out to everyone.

Song Shuhang asked, “Senior White, where is the destination of these disposable flying swords?”

After a moment of thought, Senior White said, “To Earth’s moon in the main world. I’m going to set up a new immortal cave there to carry out my Beast Realm fishing plan. Right, Shuhang, you’ve already reached the Seventh Stage Realm, so it’s time for you to officially set up your own immortal cave.”

“I don’t need an immortal cave. I have my Inner World. Also, the scholarly faction gave me a small immortal cave before,” replied Song Shuhang. When he mentioned the Inner World, he switched to secret sound transmission.

“An immortal cave is directly related to the reputation of a cultivator. Since you’re going to attend the Spirit River Su Clan’s annual meeting this December, you will need a formal immortal cave to back you up. You better not embarrass the fellow daoists in the group. As for the immortal cave that the scholarly faction gifted you, that’s too small. It might be enough as a vacation or rest house, but it is not suitable for your current status,” Senior White said. “When the time comes, I will help you carve out a piece of land on the moon. You can learn from me and set up an immortal cave that suits your status.”

Senior White made a good point.

Song Shuhang smiled and said, “At that time, I will trouble Senior White to teach me how to set up an immortal cave.”

“It’s actually very simple to set up an immortal cave. First, come up with a name for the cave, and then make a hole in the plot of land you’ve chosen. For example…” Senior White’s eyes blurred as he spoke.

Sixteen shouted, “Oh no…!”

“Don’t panic!” Song Shuhang stepped forward, activated his three top-tier body-tempering cultivation techniques, and reached out to support Senior White.

“Boom~”

Song Shuhang managed to stop Senior White, but his body was driven into the ground by the powerful force.

The entire space shook, and the black lake churned.

The water beast in the lake was frightened and jumped out of the water.

The water beast was an ugly yet cute creature that resembled a blobfish. It had scales on its abdomen and a thick hand covered in fur on each side.

These hairy hands were what had grabbed Song Shuhang’s thigh earlier.

Coincidentally, the eyes of the mutated water beast met Song Shuhang’s eyes.

“Heh, I didn’t think that you would come out of the water on your own…” Song Shuhang chuckled.

Then, his left eye lit up.

He thought that he would leave this space without ever getting to meet the water beast, but Senior White’s sudden fall caused the mutated beast to jump out of the lake.

Naturally, he wasn’t going to let go of this opportunity and would let the water beast experience what his left eye could do.

Seeing Song Shuhang’s left eye light up, the ugly yet cute water beast let out a cry of terror.

The fear engraved in its genes was triggered.

Meanwhile, inside it, the resurrection data belonging to the Heavenly Emperor, Venerable Emperor, and Song Shuhang became active.

A battle between the different source data broke out!