CHAPTER 281: CHAPTER 145 UNDERGROUND LAKE

"I’ll go down and take a look." With just a tight white outfit and no need to take it off, Li Xiu directly plunged into the pool.

The pool water was bone-chilling cold, but fortunately, Li Xiu possessed the Ice Heart talent and the Ice Ashes skill, enabling him to not only be immune to the icy damage but also transform it into his own strength.

The pool water was extremely cold, yet Li Xiu felt as if an endless stream of warmth was pouring into his body, making his stamina increasingly abundant.

The water got darker as it went deeper, but with the Dark Mirror, the darker it was, the clearer he could see. The water was clear enough to see very clearly, although not too far.

He dived over ten meters down, still hadn’t reached the bottom, nor had he found that insect-like Demon Spirit.

Fortunately, there were no other Demon Spirits appearing either, Li Xiu held his breath and continued diving down.

In his previous Magic Armor Master training, he could free dive over a hundred meters; now his physical condition far surpassed before, so it wasn’t a big problem.

The pool didn’t look big from above, but it seemed like an inverted bowl, growing wider as it went deeper.

Initially, Li Xiu intended to dive along the edge of the pool, but after several dozen meters, he realized that the stone walls were no longer visible around him; it was essentially a vast underground lake.

Li Xiu dared not let the light energy on his body burst forth, fearing that any lurking Demon Spirits in the underground lake would be alerted.

After diving over fifty meters, he still hadn’t seen the Locust Demon Spirit, and was considering whether to give up when he suddenly noticed a faint blue glow flickering in the water below.

Though the water was very clean, the distance was too far to see clearly, making the faint blue light appear blurry and indistinct.

Li Xiu roughly estimated the position of the blue light; it was likely over a hundred meters down.

Feeling that the oxygen in his body was still abundant, Li Xiu hesitated for a moment before continuing to dive deeper.

The further down he went, the colder the water got, but Li Xiu felt more comfortable, surprisingly without any feeling of oxygen deficiency.

However, Li Xiu still missed Chu Jun a bit; if he were here, there would be no need for troublesome water diving.

As the distance to the blue light became closer, Li Xiu finally saw clearly that indeed, the glow was emanating from the Locust Demon Spirit.

The Locust Demon Spirit was lying on some object that emitted a very faint phosphorescence, which was so weak that it became unclear from a distance.

Curiously, Li Xiu dove a bit deeper, finally seeing clearly what the Locust Demon Spirit was lying on.

It was a phosphorescent stone about the size of a human head, and that creature was lying on it, gnawing frantically.

"Did that creature come down here just to chew on the stone?" Li Xiu came closer to examine the stone carefully.

The stone was irregularly shaped, seemingly a natural stone without any processing.

On the outside, a portion was covered with a black stony shell, and the part emitting faint phosphorescence appeared to be gnawed out by the Locust Demon Spirit.

It was desperately gnawing on the stone, but the stone seemed incredibly hard; it was unclear how long it had been gnawing, but it left only some nearly negligible faint marks on the stone that looked like white jade.

Li Xiu was astonished; that creature could effortlessly crush those hard crystal containers like biting into candy, its sharp teeth were evidently extraordinary.

This stone it couldn’t gnaw through; its hardness was indeed extraordinary.

Li Xiu looked around, hoping to find more stones like this at the bottom of the underground lake, but he saw none.

The lake bed was all fine sand, extremely flat without any protrusions.

"Could this stone not originally belong to this underground lake?" Li Xiu wondered to himself, "I wonder which creature dropped this Demon Spirit here, could it be just to find this stone?"

But upon closer thought, it didn’t make sense; if it was truly to find this stone, it would be inappropriate to send this creature that would eat everything; once it eats the stone, how could it retrieve it?

The Locust Demon Spirit kept gnawing the stone, but it was unable to chew through, remaining the same after a long time.

Li Xiu’s stomach surprisingly started to growl with hunger, but he quickly realized that it wasn’t his stomach being hungry; it was the hunger for gemstones.

"Could it be that this stone is also a gemstone?" Li Xiu was surprised.

It was the first time he felt hunger towards something in the Land of Trial; only gemstones from the Human World had ever caused such a feeling before.

Even Demon Cores wouldn’t trigger such hunger.

In reality, although the Demon Spirit in his body continuously consumed Demon Cores, it never had any special feelings towards them.

Li Xiu glanced at that Locust Demon Spirit, gritted his teeth, and swam towards it.

As Li Xiu got closer to the Locust Demon Spirit, it immediately became alert, turned its head towards Li Xiu with its eerie greenish eyes.

"Hey, little darling, you’re the best, let me take a look at that stone," Li Xiu extended his hand slowly towards it.

But just as Li Xiu was nearing, the wings of the Locust Demon Spirit suddenly flared up like a mother cat protecting her kitten.

Its wings buzzed violently, causing the surrounding water currents to rush swiftly, turning into a whirlpool that swept Li Xiu’s body away.

Li Xiu felt as if he had been thrown into a washing machine, his body tumbling and spinning with the water current.