580: Chapter 579: Quicksand Treasure Hunt 6 580: Chapter 579: Quicksand Treasure Hunt 6 Yin Qingsi retraced her steps thirty miles upstream and felt as if she had found the place.
Although it was a hundred meters deep, the water was filled with all kinds of mysterious auras, including demonic power, the fluctuation of spiritual machines, and the rotation of Five Elements Power.
It was her own ability that got her here, but the cultivators in this area were here by chance.
Human cultivators responsible for the nearby waters were converging here; adding up those from the Qin Sect and the Yue Sect, there were more than a dozen, all in the Natural Realm.
No one was dull enough not to have noticed the anomaly by now.
She carefully slowed down, pondering which method to use to approach the hiding place of the Water Spirit Pearl, but after much thought, she couldn’t find a feasible solution.
The place was narrow, and the density of cultivation creatures was high; at her current realm, everything was nonsense!
She sensed a circle with a radius of ten miles ahead, where various auras were mixed, and humans and demons were indistinguishable from each other, yet there were no obvious signs of fighting.
To enter or not to enter?
That was the question.
But the three little water demons didn’t have as many thoughts as she did.
They couldn’t yet comprehend what the Water Spirit Pearl was.
Little Shrimp, “Why aren’t we moving forward anymore?”
Little Crab, “Our ancestor is right ahead!”
Little Turtle, “So many ancestors, how do we share one treasure?”
But Yin Qingsi’s attention shifted to another direction, towards that cultivator from the Yue Sect who had been advancing side by side with her.
What would he choose?
She didn’t know, but her three little partners did.
Little Shrimp, “The big black fish will definitely go in!
It loves excitement the most.”
Little Crab, “Wanwan is naturally inclined to take advantage of things, always ready to squeeze through any gap.”
Little Turtle, “The sow is a born thief; it wouldn’t care about how dangerous the things ahead are.
As long as there’s a benefit, it would risk even its life.”
The three little creatures made a ruckus, using their far-from-mature worldview to speculate about the world, which was amusing; but was naïveté necessarily wrong?
In her perception, the small group paused for a moment, probably no more than ten breaths’ time, and then continued forward as if oblivious to the possibility that there could be powerful Great Demons ahead that they couldn’t handle.
A thought struck Yin Qingsi, and in an instant, she figured it out.
Yes, what was there to fear?
Just like how they from the Qin Yue Sects feared these great water demons causing havoc in Flowing Sand River, destroying fields and houses, weren’t these great water demons equally afraid of them humans exterminating them?
It was essentially a situation of mutual deterrence, which meant that, if they ended up facing each other head-on, they would probably just pretend not to see each other, right?
Until the Water Spirit Pearl appeared, that would be another story.
With a wry smile, she shook her head.
Who was this fellow from the Yue Sect?
His clear understanding of the situation actually surpassed hers?
Without hesitation, she led the three little creatures into the inner circle, “This place is very chaotic; how about you wait for me outside?”
All three little creatures shook their heads together, “No, we want the ancestor to remember us.”
Yin Qingsi had no other option, when these guys got stubborn, reason was impossible to get through.
She had only recently entered the circle when she ran head-on into a Golden Core Great Demon.
It didn’t conceal its cultivation strength at all, as if displaying its might and reminding her who really owned this territory.
Yin Qingsi’s expression remained unchanged.
Now that she had understood the causality behind the whole affair, all of this was just fleeting clouds to her.
Indeed, as she swam forwards unfazed, the Golden Core Water Demon spat out a string of bubbles and did nothing to her.
This was a game, just as Yin Qingsi wouldn’t harm the three little ones, the Great Demon also wouldn’t touch a human Tongtian Realm cultivator.
That’s because there were human Golden Core Cultivators on the shore, and even further away at the Mountain Gate, there were even ancestors in the Nascent Transformation stage.
Before finding the Water Spirit Pearl, all creatures would hold back.
Fighting would only let the Water Spirit Pearl slip away with the water, and searching for it again in the tens of thousands of miles of Flowing Sand River would be difficult, even for Nascent Transformation ancients.
With her heart set, she began to calm down and focus all her attention on how to find the Water Spirit Pearl.
This was a test of Water Element power, where humans excelled in theory and the Demon Clan relied on instinct, each with their own strengths, competing to see who would be one step faster.
In the time that followed in this narrow underwater space, she met many people, a lot of big and small Water Demons, several Yue Sect cultivators, and of course, a few of her own sect brothers.
She also obtained much information from these fellow sect members.
They had been searching here for several days to no avail.
The Water Spirit Pearl was still missing, and the number of Cultivation Creatures was only growing.
It was foreseeable that there would be even more in the future.
A ten-li radius area had become the treasure hunting ground for all these people.
Yin Qingsi could feel some indescribable Water Element Power fluctuation, but she just couldn’t grasp its exact source.
It seemed so close yet so far away, and she knew this was the true power of the Water Element Pearl.
She used all sorts of methods she could think of to search, including her most proficient Xuan Water Wave, but the three little ones with her grew impatient.
The little shrimp asked, “Have you lost something?”
The little crab inquired, “Seems like you’re not the only one who’s lost something?”
The little turtle wondered, “What’s lost?
Yin Qingsi had no choice but to explain, “Yes, everyone’s searching for a treasure, even more precious than the treasures I’ve shown before.
If you find it, your ancestors will definitely reward you, making you a Demon among Demons.”
The three little ones seemed to understand but did not.
Nonetheless, they also started to pay attention to the riverbed, even if they didn’t know what it actually was.
This was a peculiar scene; within the pitch-black depths where one couldn’t see their own hands, hundreds of Cultivation Creatures were slowly moving along the riverbed, some even burrowing into it.
There was little communication and even less contact among them, like a group of ghosts under the water.
Days passed this way, and the Water Spirit Pearl was still nowhere to be found.
However, more and more human cultivators kept arriving, and even those who were slow to catch on eventually sensed the anomaly here.
Yin Qingsi was not the least bit impatient.
She knew that being anxious wouldn’t solve anything, and continuing to search this way might not either.
She was someone who had a full understanding of her own capabilities.
If this path was impassable, might there be other ways?
When one path was blocked, she wouldn’t force herself down it.
But the question remained—where was the other path?
As she searched aimlessly, she suddenly felt the three little ones next to her tense up.
Extending her Divine Sense, she realized that not far ahead, there were three young Demons circling in a spot.
A black fish spirit, a Water Snake Spirit, and a porcine dragon—all small Demons yet to reach the Tongxuan stage.
She instantly understood why the three little ones were afraid; they weren’t afraid of those great Demon ancestors because those ancients wouldn’t even consider them worth noticing.
Rather, it was these same-realm small Demons that were the true threat to them.
So the question was, if the three young Demons were still there, where was the Yue Sect cultivator?