Spirit Tree

'Should he dive inside the lake, but it can be dangerous as he cannot tell what is deep inside; there can be powerful beasts or something dangerous. This lake could be like the story 'The Woodcutter and the Goddess. Should he drop an axe in the lake to check, and then maybe the goddess will come out with three better axes? Any way, everything is possible in this world. " Let's try this," he said, and then an axe of early third rank that he picked from before appeared in his hands that he threw in the lake.

Seeing this scene, senior Xiao Yi looked and felt muddled. 'Why is he throwing such a good axe in the lake? He was full of questions, but he did not ask them.

A few moments passed, and no goddess came out of the lake. "Guess there is no goddess in the lake. Jiang Chen felt a bit disappointed.

On the other side, senior Xiao Yi was mumbling, "What goddess, is this person's mental health alright? At that moment, a thought came to his mind: he would not throw me into the lake, right? Thinking this, he was a little nervous and moved a little away from him.

He took a bowl of water from the lake and carefully examined it, but it was just normal water. But because of the heaven and earth qi, this water can relieve fatigue or pain for body-refining martial artists. It looks like he needed to go down in the lake, as there seems to be no other way to know.

"I am going to dive inside this lake; senior should guard this and let some beasts come near the lake." With that, Jiang Chen jumped into the lake.

As an innate martial artist, he can hold his breath for hours, so it is not much of a problem even if he is underwater. Inside the lake, he felt the heaven and earth qi even more, and there were many fish that, because of the heaven and earth qi, had become spirit fish, and he wanted to catch them as they would surely taste good, but he did not and dived deeper to find that the lake is quite deep, and after a few moments, he seems to have found the reason for the anamoly of this lake.

He saw an enormous tree in the deepest part of the lake, as its long branches and vines covered thousands of metres, and three bright purple-coloured fruits were hanging on this enormous tree.

Jiang Chen looked at the fruits and could not tell what they were, as he really did not have knowledge about different heaven and earth treasures. He swam and quickly came close to the tree, but suddenly one vine moved, and quickly, like a giant snake, it attacked Jiang Chen, which surprised him, but without any other thoughts, he quickly dodged the attack of the vine.

As he was underwater in this lake, his divine sense seemed obstructed; he did not notice that the tree was alive, but now there was no time to think, as this time not many but dozens of vines attacked him. He quickly moved. Even though he was in water, his mobility did not decrease much, but he had to be careful of so many vines, as they could easily strangle him to death.

He dodged quickly and did not leave immediately, as he did not want to leave empty-handed, so he moved with extreme speed, dodging many vine attacks, and came quickly close to one of the fruits that was hanging on this tree and took it without a second thought.

The moment he took the fruit, the tree seemed to be shaking, or more accurately, waking up, and thousands of vines started to move, and an aura that surpassed the realm of the spirit master was released by that tree. "F**k!" seeing this, Jiang Chen could not help but curse," Damn, this tree surpassed the spirit master realm!" .

Without holding anything back, he swam with all his might to the shore of this lake. As he was swimming, he noticed that behind this tree there was a small entrance, and he could actually see the gate. But now he did not have the necessary strength to see what was inside, so he did not think about it and swam quickly to the shore.

Outside at the shore of the lake, senior Xiao Yi was waiting for Jiang Chen's return, but at that moment he noticed a disturbance in the lake, and then the earth started to shake. "What is happening?" as he could not understand why such a tremor was occurring.

Then a figure quickly emerged from the water and shouted, "Run towards the cave." Hearing this, Senior Xiao Yi, without much thought, ran towards the cave with full might, and Jiang Chen also ran towards the cave.

A few seconds later, from the river, numerous huge vines started to emerge, which both Jiang Chen and senior Xiao Yi noticed from far away, but they did not stop and quickly reached the entrance of the cave, where they noticed that the vines were not coming for them. "Safe", Jiang Chen heaved a sigh of relief.

Senior Xiao Yi could not help but ask "What was that ". To which Jiang Chen replied "I did not know, as it seems to be sleeping before and protecting something ".

"Anyway, it seems to have reached the king's realm, so it is better for us to stay away". Hearing this, senior Xiao Yi was even shocked as Jiang Chen managed to survive and run away from it.

And then they slowly returned to the laughing thief's mansion, and now was the time to divide all the treasure here truthfully, but Senior Xiao Yi knows his strength, and he did not help in anything, so Jiang Chen might not give him anything, or he might even kill him to silence any witness.

Senior Xiao Yi was apprehensive at this point, and Jiang Chen looked at him and could tell by his pale face what he was thinking. "Don't worry, senior, I would not do anything to you, and I can even give you a better formation inheritance than here," Jiang Chen said with a smile.