Chapter 3166 – Beneath the Ancient Well
Jiang Chen was puzzled, but he had no way of finding out. At the very least, the cowherd’s sudden disappearance made Jiang Chen’s heart sink to the bottom. Should he believe what he had said or not? The bottomless ancient well in front of him had become Jiang Chen’s only way forward. Was the Medicine Buddha’s Spirit Spring really in there?
Had that cowherd been fake from the very beginning? And what about that Yao Hongchen? Was he real, or an illusion?
Jiang Chen’s head was full of questions now, but there was no one to answer them for him. In the blink of an eye, the black clouds and mist in the sky also vanished without a trace. Jiang Chen shook his head. Was the cowherd’s existence an illusion, or real?
“Holy sh*t! All these spirit herbs were eaten by that Fire Qilin?”
A cry of alarm rang out. Jiang Chen turned around abruptly. It was none other than Yao Hongchen. Yao Hongchen’s appearance made Jiang Chen sure that everything just now had not been an illusion, and Fire Qilin was still here too.
“The cowherd left, so now you can come in here too?”
Jiang Chen asked.
“What cowherd? What are you talking about?”
Yao Hongchen frowned deeply and looked at Jiang Chen. If he had not forced him out of here, these medicinal ingredients definitely would not have been squandered by that Fire Qilin. It was simply a criminal waste of heaven’s gifts.
He actually did not know about the cowherd?
Jiang Chen grew more and more curious, and more and more puzzled. Just what kind of place was this illusory realm of the Great Thunderclap Temple? And where had that cowherd gone? That had also become an unsolved mystery.
“What a wastrel. This Fire Qilin didn’t even die from overeating. How infuriating.”
Yao Hongchen was so angry his whole body trembled. So many precious immortal herbs and spirit medicines had all been destroyed by Fire Qilin. Some had been eaten, some had been ruined, and some had been rooted up and not even eaten at all. In Yao Hongchen’s eyes, every single immortal herb and spirit medicine was extremely precious.
Yao Hongchen could not help clutching his head and crying bitterly. Not a single plant in this herb garden, which could be called a treasure trove, had been spared.
If he had been able to take them back to refine pills, who knew how many divine-grade pills he could have made. But now, it had all been wasted. And it would have been one thing if a person had eaten them, but they had actually been eaten by a divine beast…
Yao Hongchen could not help beating his chest and stamping his feet, burning with rage. But he was no match for Jiang Chen and could do nothing at all.
“Do you know about the Medicine Buddha’s Spirit Spring?”
Jiang Chen looked at Yao Hongchen and asked.
“You know about the Medicine Buddha’s Spirit Spring too?”
Yao Hongchen looked at Jiang Chen. He had not expected that he too had come looking for the Medicine Buddha’s Spirit Spring. So many immortal herbs and spirit medicines had been destroyed, yet he looked completely calm. Unfortunately, Yao Hongchen himself was so frustrated he could fall ill.
“The Medicine Buddha’s Spirit Spring is rumored to be beneath the ancient well of the Lapis Lazuli Medicine Buddha.”
Yao Hongchen looked at Jiang Chen, his face grave, because he knew getting the Medicine Buddha’s Spirit Spring was not that simple. The Medicine Buddha’s Spirit Spring was guarded by a divine beast, and it was beneath the ancient well. Taking it would be harder than hard. Yao Hongchen was also very torn inside. With his strength alone, he was not very confident.
“So you weren’t lying to me after all. How about we join forces? Once we get the Medicine Buddha’s Spirit Spring, we split it half and half.”
Jiang Chen said flatly. He did not know much about the Medicine Buddha’s Spirit Spring, and the cowherd had vanished without a trace. If he rashly went beneath the ancient well alone, there might be some danger. So joining forces with Yao Hongchen now was the safest choice.
“You really mean that?”
Yao Hongchen looked at Jiang Chen half in doubt.
“I’m only taking the Medicine Buddha’s Spirit Spring to save someone. There should be quite a lot of the Medicine Buddha’s Spirit Spring under this ancient well. I have no use for that much. And if you run, I can’t kill you anyway.”
Jiang Chen said seriously.
Yao Hongchen nodded. What Jiang Chen said was true. Although Jiang Chen was stronger than him, if Yao Hongchen wanted to leave, Jiang Chen certainly could not stop him. And if the two of them went into the ancient well together now, perhaps there would be more hope.
“All right! Then I’ll trust you once.”
Yao Hongchen said in a deep voice.
“In that case, let’s go. I won’t stop until I get the Medicine Buddha’s Spirit Spring.”
Jiang Chen said in a deep voice.
Yao Hongchen glanced at Jiang Chen. This guy was quite determined. But how could the Medicine Buddha’s Spirit Spring be so easy to get? The Medicine Buddha’s Spirit Spring was in the ancient well in front of the Lapis Lazuli Medicine Buddha’s gate. His master had told him that. And there was a divine beast guarding the ancient well. It was extremely dangerous. Going down there to get the Medicine Buddha’s Spirit Spring meant a narrow escape from death at best.
At the very moment the two of them entered the ancient well, a white-clad figure with fluttering robes quietly arrived outside the three thatched huts.
The water in the ancient well was clear and transparent, but one could only see a hundred zhang down. It was rumored that the Medicine Buddha’s Spirit Spring was at the spring eye, one hundred and eight thousand zhang below the ancient well. Even Jiang Chen’s Emperor Realm soul could not reach deep enough to see. At this moment, he and Yao Hongchen could only go deeper together and slowly find out.
The water in the ancient well was quite cool. But when Jiang Chen dove past ten thousand zhang, he felt enormous pressure, because the water temperature was dropping sharply. Although it could not threaten them for the time being, if they kept diving, the cold would probably increase drastically.
Sure enough, when the two of them dove twenty thousand zhang below the ancient well, even Yao Hongchen could not help shivering.
Thirty thousand zhang…
Forty thousand zhang…
Fifty thousand zhang…
One hundred thousand zhang…
At that moment, Yao Hongchen already needed a great deal of Divine Origin Strength to drive away the extreme cold beneath the ancient well. Jiang Chen, however, did not feel much at all, because the Cold River Stone in his hand kept devouring the extreme cold in his body, letting him move as freely as if there were no one around. Even Yao Hongchen was extremely surprised by this. This guy was truly too strange. Such terrifying extreme cold, and he did not seem to be affected at all.
Beneath the ancient well, the area was endlessly vast, but neither Jiang Chen nor Yao Hongchen had any mind to explore it. They headed straight for where the Medicine Buddha’s Spirit Spring was, one hundred and eight thousand zhang underground. That was their final destination.
Enduring the extremely terrifying cold, Yao Hongchen felt that his strength was greatly reduced. He could probably only bring out half his usual strength. All around was clear and transparent, and there was nothing in the water. As the saying goes, when water is too clear, there are no fish. It was indeed very true.
One hundred and eight thousand zhang!
Jiang Chen finally reached the bottom of the ancient well. In the cracks of the rocks under the water, there were three green lotus flowers in full bloom. In each lotus was a lump of snow-white ice. The extreme cold in that ice made both Jiang Chen and Yao Hongchen catch their breath. Even with the Cold River Stone in hand, Jiang Chen could deeply feel that terrifying cold air, which seemed able to freeze even a person’s soul completely.