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Chapter 1111 - Chapter 1111 Chapter 405 The Pond with Flowing Water

Chapter 1111: Chapter 405: The Pond with Flowing Water Chapter 1111: Chapter 405: The Pond with Flowing Water The pool water could drown the tears at the corners of her eyes but couldn’t erase the regret in her heart. Possessing the unique Retractive Breath Technique and Mimicry Technique, this infiltration into the Xiang Residence should have been foolproof.

Yet, due to her own negligence, the two of them had ended up in such a dangerous situation. If the same mistake had been made by someone else, her uncle Yun Quan would certainly prioritize the mission and would never act to expose his identity.

“I shouldn’t have dodged at that moment; I should have just collided head-on with the Red-eyed Evil Dragon.”

As Xiu’er sank into the water, consumed with extreme regret, she couldn’t help but think that if time could be rewound, she would rather have thrown herself at the dragon and died than become a burden now. After all, she had never been much use to the Yun Clan. Perhaps her mother pushing her into the Spirit World Passage all those years ago was a mistake.

The pool water cut off all contact with the outside world and her five senses, complying with the force that had sent her into the water to sink to the bottom, where time seemed to suddenly stand still.

In her blurred vision, the images of her father and mother appeared. Over twenty years had passed, and the faces she thought she would never forget were now only blurry outlines. No matter how hard Xiu’er tried to open her eyes, she could not see their faces clearly. All she could see were her parents opening their arms, as if to embrace her.

Xiu’er truly wished she could throw herself into the arms of those images, but she couldn’t. Her life had been bought back with her uncle Yun Quan’s own. From now on, she no longer had the right to be weak.

With her left hand clutching the Jade Box tightly and her right palm opening, the colorful Immortal Cloud Whisk Soul wafted out to form webbed hands. With a gentle stroke, Xiu’er plunged into the depths of the pool like an arrow, kicking up a large cloud of silt.

Dozens of Yun Clan hands reached out, groping at the bottom of the pool until they found the connecting drain. They activated the mechanism, opened the exit, and the strong spiral suction quickly drew her into the waterway.

Meanwhile, by the lotus pond, Yun Quan, having completed his last words, advanced unflinchingly towards the Red-eyed Evil Dragon. His formerly noble courage, in the eyes of Duan Longcheng, was just a joke; and even in the eyes of the crimson dragon, it was ridicule and mockery.

Everyone knew that both the Dragon and the Phoenix kinds possessed innate supernatural powers of unpredictable might.

The reason Duan Longcheng did not follow the traditions of the Evil King Palace and opted for Mimicry Technique in Soul Casting was because the supernatural powers of the Yellow Dragon Remnant Soul were too tempting, known as: Soul Stunning!

In a battle with the Red-eyed Evil Dragon, most beast souls and human souls would see a significant reduction in power, often retaining only thirty percent of their original effect, which was considered exceptional.

This was the main reason why the Red-eyed Evil Dragon appeared so formidable. For ordinary warriors using Mimicry Technique for Soul Casting, the joint use of the body and soul could only be deployed as a trump card, fearing the injury to their precious soul while fighting. They could never do as Duan Longcheng did, using it as a primary offensive tactic.

Yun Quan’s self-detonation of his soul might have been a formidable offensive tactic under other circumstances, but against Duan Longcheng’s Red-eyed Evil Dragon, it was like rushing headlong towards a cliff–it was a road to certain death!

As soon as his blood-tinted soul appeared, it was subdued by the red dragon’s gaze, trembling uncontrollably. Yun Quan, in disbelief, spat out blood, wanting to control his soul again, but found the gaping maw of the Red-eyed Evil Dragon right before his eyes, and then darkness suddenly enveloped everything.

The Red-eyed Evil Dragon had swallowed Yun Quan whole, and the dragon, having not yet had its fill, twisted its body and plunged into the lotus pond, intent on capturing the other person who had feigned death at the bottom of the pool until now.

But the instant the dragon entered the pool, Duan Longcheng’s expression on the shore changed, and he said to Xiang Ange, “This pond has running water!?”

In his urgent tone, there was surprise and blame. After all, in general, the lotus ponds in family courtyards were artificially excavated and contained still water, which in plain terms was just a large pit that was filled with water, with some aquatic plants and live fish added. In the end, it was still an enclosed space.

Yet seeing Xiang Ange remain calm and unrushed, Duan Longcheng naturally didn’t think to look elsewhere, because in his view, he had already handled the difficult part with Yun Quan.

Wasn’t dealing with a mere girl a matter of ease? However, as the evil dragon plunged to the bottom of the pond, it discovered a vortex that served as a water outlet, and the girl was nowhere to be seen.

Always confident of victory, Xiang Ange couldn’t help but lose a bit of his composure upon hearing Duan Longcheng’s words; he turned his head and harshly barked at someone who looked like a housekeeper, “Where does this pond lead to?”

The Xiang Residence, formerly the Yun Residence, had simply had its inhabitants entirely cleared out and replaced with members of the Xiang Family. The housekeeper was an old servant who had followed Xiang Ange for decades and had finally risen to the position of head steward of the household. He usually had the final say within the residence, but now, faced with the master’s interrogation, his legs shook uncontrollably.

Trembling, he knelt down, the old housekeeper bowed his head and said with a quivering voice, “Old… Old servant does not know.”

Entrusting the management of the entire household to a servant of humble origin was a widely celebrated tale in the Xiang Residence, but the cost of this tale made Xiang Ange unable to help furrowing his brow in annoyance.

As the head steward of the residence, he was ignorant of the fact that the pond was fed by living water, which was laughably shameful.

However, Xiang Ange could not handle the old servant immediately in front of outsiders, so he turned around and gave orders to the armored soldiers in the residence, “All troops, prepare to enter…”

“No need.”

Before he could finish the word “water,” Duan Longcheng interrupted, “Once the evil dragon emerges, it will definitely bring the girl back. She overheard our secret meeting, there is no way she’d be left alive!”

The Dragon Clan is naturally excellent in water, and even though they have transformed into soul bodies, their affinity for water is undiminished. The silver dragon scales breathe in and out as they enter the water, and the evil dragon swimming excitedly in the lotus pond rushes out following the trail and scent once it discovers the waterway, with astonishing speed.

Competing in speed against the Dragon Clan in the water is an extremely sorrowful story indeed.

As for Xiu’er, caught up in the swirling current, she was unaware of this fact, simply shielding her body with a cloud screen, silent, letting the current pull her into an unknown waterway.

This dark and lengthy water channel was an essential part of Chaochang’s drainage system, a marvel praised by countless foresighted members of the Human Race. Beyond being a major feat in the Minor Spiritual Realm, the next marvels were these water channels.

The current carried the girl from one waterway to another, with her seemingly random drift following a strict pattern, eventually expelling Xiu’er into a main water channel.

Holding the jade box, Xiu’er grabbed onto something in the water channel to steady herself, because the path ahead required her to stop drifting aimlessly.

With a swing of her palm, she pushed aside the dirty water falling from above; a red cloud formed beneath Xiu’er’s feet, pulling her upwards through the waterway.

“Hurry, hurry up!”

The continuously reinforced Spiritual Power caused the red glow spewing from the cloud to stretch into a long line within the waterway, and the reason for Xiu’er’s urgency was that within the drainage system, it was impossible to open a Spirit World Passage; the system itself was a part of the solidified Spirit Realm. Only a few distinct waterway entrances could connect to the other half of the Spirit Realm.