Mysterious Lake

"Yes, this mansion should be the place where 'Laughing Face Thief' left his treasures, Xiao Yi said with assurance.

"Then let's go inside and see what's there, Jiang Chen said, and then they slowly, with caution, entered the mansion.

Both of them entered the mansion, which was quite big, and because for hundreds of years nobody had come here, everything was covered in dust.

They searched the whole mansion; there were no other traps or anything of value, just a plain old deserted mansion. Seeing this, both of them were in trouble as to what to do.

Then Jiang Chen did not suppress but directly used his divine sense to cover the entire mansion and look at every corner of it. But when Xiao Yi felt the divine sense of Jiang Chen, his mind was blown away with shock because he could feel the difference between their strengths. Even a spirit master would not have such a strong divine sense.

"This person must have hidden his strength; his strength is definitely in the spirit master realm, and it is not an ordinary early spirit master. He is definitely not a youngster; he is definitely an old man who must have practiced some technique to make himself look young."

"What a weird old man who likes to behave like young martial artists; hopefully this old monster did not snap and attacks him," senior Xiao Yi thought, and he guarded against Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen did not notice the change in senior Xiao Yi as he was still trying to find the hidden treasure, and a moment later he seemed to notice something "What's that".

He noticed that behind one wall there seemed to be a hidden cave that seemed to be covered with a formation.

Then Jiang Chen quickly moved and came in front of the wall; senior Xiao Yi also followed him and came there.

Without saying anything, Jiang Chen blasted the wall, and the hidden cave that was covered with formation can now be seen.

"It looks like a peak of an early third-rank formation, which has strong defence; it will be difficult to break this formation," senior Xiao Yi said as he examined the formation.

"It's alright; just stand on the other side". Jiang Chen said this, and then a slaughter sword intent appeared, and then a large number of sword qi appeared in front of him and directly attacked the formation. The formation in front of the sword qi was like paper and was directly destroyed, breaking the formation.

Senior Xiao Yi was too stunned to speak; even the third-layer spirit master realm could not destroy the formation this easily. "What level of strength has this person reached" .

"Let's go" Jiang Chen did not care about the shocked expression and then walked inside the cave. senior Xiao Yi also snapped back to reality and then quickly followed him.

As they entered the cave, they saw that it was filled with numerous things, like weapons, armour, pills, and many other things. but they did not immediately touch anything, as there can still be traps.

Jiang Chen observed them with his divine sense many times to check if there were any problems, but he did not find anything, so he finally moved and took an armour, surprised to find that it was a low-level third-rank armour. And there are almost 100 such armours here.

Not only the armour he checked, but other weapons like swords and spears were also of low third rank, and five of them even reached middle third rank.

Other side senior Xiao Yi directly looked at the books left here and quickly opened them. Looking at them, a smile appeared in his eyes as they were books in third-rank formation, which he needed.

Jiang Chen also glanced at the books. There were many different kinds of books; whether it is alchemy, martial arts, or cultivation technique, everything is there. "This laughing thief was really amazing; the amount of things he collected is enough to create a new clan, and not many families in the entire spiritual kingdom will have such a deep background".

He also noticed that the cave seemed to be quite long and seemed to lead somewhere, so they walked more to see what was at the end of it or where it led. After walking for a few kilometres, they finally saw the end, as bright sunlight could be seen from far away.

But what they saw was quite surprising, as they seemed to have arrived in some valley in the thousand beast forests, and at the centre there seemed to be a small lake that was shining brightly with crystal clear water and emitting large heaven and earth qi, making this place look like some kind of paradise.

Both of them looked at the lake, as they both felt that it was not an ordinary lake. "Senior, do you know anything about this lake? Jiang Chen asked.

"I did not know; it was also my first time seeing such a scene," senior Xiao Yi said with a surprised expression.

"Then let's take a look from a close distance; what is special about this lake? Jiang Chen said, and then both came near the lake, but the closer they came, the more heaven spirit qi they felt. The increase in heaven was so great that it was almost reaching the level of the training room at the trial site.

"Why is so much heaven and earth qi generated from this lake? Is there something inside the lake, or is this lake some kind of heaven and earth treasure?" Jiang Chen was thinking while moving.

As they came near, Jiang Chen used his divine sense to see inside the lake, but something surprising happened: for some reason, his divine sense could not penetrate the water as some kind of barrier blocked his divine sense. "Weird, what is this lake" .