CHAPTER 683: CHAPTER 422 SEARCH!

"Ice Toad, Eight-winged Centipede, Mo Flood Dragon, Ying Li, Fire Eyed Water Ape, Mountain Turtle, Silver Hair Crab, Jiao Whale, Golden Python!"

"In Nanyue Lake, there are a total of nine Innate Beast Kings that I know of, counting myself, there are exactly ten."

"Each Innate Beast King possesses divine skills."

"I’m not clear about their exact strength, but underwater, the power of these Water Beast Kings is imaginable. Even an ordinary First-Rank Beast King may be able to suppress a Second-Rank God General!"

Wang Zhengyi introduced the Beast Kings in Nanyue Lake to Yan Chuan and Chen Ze.

Unlike the Beast Kings on land, the aquatic alien beasts have an innate advantage in water, while Yan Chuan and the others, being not skilled in water, significantly lose strength once submerged, making it difficult to compete.

But this time, there is a peculiar scenario in the battle for the ’Fire Bud Crystal’—

"The ’Moth Vine’ grows on the Lake Heart Island at the lakebed. Though underwater, thousands of vines form a water curtain to block the lake water, making the island feel like solid ground."

"Therefore, on that Lake Heart Island, Moth Island, you all have an advantage over the aquatic Beast Kings."

It’s this advantage that gives Yan Chuan, Chen Ze, Wang Zhengyi and others a chance.

Otherwise—

"If it were a straightforward underwater fight and scramble, don’t even think about it!"

Wang Zhengyi felt a wave of relief.

However, the disadvantage of ’not being skilled in water’ still exists—

"Entering and exiting!"

"Moth Island is deep within the lake, to enter one must dive down and pass through the water. To exit, one must ascend, also passing through water."

"I’ve measured it, from the lake surface to the top of Moth Island is a total of 390 zhang, it can be considered a vast natural moat."

"Whether diving or ascending, it takes a considerable amount of time. During this process, especially when ascending after grabbing the ’Fire Bud Crystal’, one will inevitably face attacks from the Water Beast Kings, that’s the real peril!"

Nanyue Lake is very deep.

Yan Chuan remembers that the deepest lake in his past life was ’Lake Baikal’, with an average depth of 744 meters and maximum depth of 1642 meters, while Nanyue Lake has an average depth of around 1000 meters, the deepest point unknown, but ’Moth Island’ is at a depth of 1300 meters.

Underwater!

meters!

"Tricky!"

Yan Chuan understands the difficulty.

Submerge.

Resurface.

This is the most perilous.

Among them, ’resurfacing’ is at least ten times more dangerous than ’submerging’.

How to break through?

"Almost forgot!"

Yan Chuan smacked his forehead: "There’s the Star Stone!"

With the Star Stone!

No need to resurface!

After grabbing the treasure, simply take advantage of a gap to directly shuttle through the Star Gate and leave, who cares about the Water Beast Kings?

But—

"No."

Wang Zhengyi shook his head: "To summon a Star Gate through the Star Stone, one must be out of combat, when the primordial qi is calm. Not to mention ’Moth Island’ is small, and whether there is a chance to summon the ’Star Gate’ during intense fighting, just on ’Moth Island’, the ’Moth Vine’ continuously absorbs fire energy, grows, and condenses the ’Fire Bud Crystal’. Not to mention on the island, even dozens of zhang away from ’Moth Island’, there are disturbances."

Star Stone?

Absolutely not possible!

"This—"

Yan Chuan frowned.

This is troublesome.

Excluding the ’Star Stone’, relying only on one’s own martial arts—

"Nine Yang Divine Skill"?

"Divine Light Scripture"?

"Wave Riding Micro Steps"?

"Six Meridian Divine Sword"?

"Holy Fire Order Divine Skill"?

No way!

In water, these absolute skills are completely useless.

Then he thought—

"If only I had kept that ’Water Uncle Tian Wu’ from before, forcibly enhanced it once, maybe it could still be of some use."

’Water Uncle Tian Wu’ is far more adept in underwater combat than Yan Chuan’s ’Jiazi Tai Sui’ and Chen Ze’s ’Three Heads and Six Arms’, increasing combat power underwater.

The Fourth-Rank ’Water Uncle Tian Wu’ is not enough.

But enhancing it to the Fifth-rank might make a difference.

However, a gentleman knows what he can and cannot do, and since Jiujiang Institute had accepted Cheng Fengxiao, and Zhou Shun treated Cheng Fengxiao favorably, Yan Chuan had no reason to seize the treasure of Jiujiang Institute and harm Zhou Shun’s disciple.

No point in considering ’Water Uncle Tian Wu’.

"’Jiazi Tai Sui’ underwater is just okay."

"Perhaps."

Yan Chuan looked at Chen Ze, this time it might heavily depend on Chen Ze and ’Three Heads and Six Arms’ for great assistance.

...

Chen Ze equipped with ’Three Heads and Six Arms’, his combat power is tremendous, it’s the first trump card for this journey.

But it’s still not enough.

Yan Chuan meticulously counted his own treasures—

Fifth-rank: Star Stone, Jiazi Tai Sui, Gathering Treasure Basin.

Fourth-rank: None.

Third-rank: White Horn Trumpet, Vajra Pet.

Additionally, with the strengthening of Chen Ze’s ’Three Heads and Six Arms’, all six enhancement slots from "Treasure Rock" are utilized here.

Among them—

’Star Stone’ for shuttling, storage, suppression, its abilities are powerful.

’Jiazi Tai Sui’ for war, reconnaissance, indispensable.

’Gathering Treasure Basin’ generates 100 jin of Essence Stone interest daily, 3000 a month, 36,000 jin a year, this sort of ’something from nothing’ treasure can’t be missing.

’White Horn Trumpet’ though only Third-rank, Yan Chuan plans to tour Hunxi Territory for martial arts lectures, each department and army potentially has thousands of people, without the White Horn Trumpet it’s impossible to lecture, this also can’t be discarded.

Chen Ze’s ’Three Heads and Six Arms’ is needless to say, it’s the strongest combat strength, can’t be reduced in the short term.

After calculating, only a ’Vajra Pet’ can be replaced—

"Single target attack."

"Too many restrictions."

"No lethality."

"Rank too low."

’Vajra Pet’ has too many shortcomings, already unable to keep up with Yan Chuan’s pace, can be eliminated, thus freeing up a spot.

Yan Chuan looked at Wang Zhengyi: "Old Wang, apart from the ’Peace Token’, do you have any other exotic treasures on you?"

The ’Peace Token’ is a Fourth-rank exotic treasure, which displayed great power during the Cang Mountain Sword Discussion, earning Yan Chuan Team seven days to rest and recuperate, a key contributor to Yan Chuan Team winning the First Tier Arena Master Award.

But the ’Fourth-rank Peace Token’ is not quite enough in the Innate Realm.

Wang Zhengyi possesses both water and land avatars, perhaps he still hides even more extraordinary exotic treasures—