Chapter Twenty: The Bizarre Land

  "What is Undead Lake?"

  Ye Han furrowed his brow and opened his mouth to speak.

  "That is, that is the relic of death. One of the forbidden zones of the Gura Mountains." The human warrior Monica, even in a hypnotic state, still looked terrified when mentioning the Undead Lake.

  Then, in Ye Han's question-and-answer session, he gained a deeper understanding of this so-called 'Undying Lake'!

  In the Wanjie Mountains, in such a vast area, it can be said that there are ravines and dangers everywhere, ordinary people dare not venture deep into it. In addition to various hidden dangers, there are also various restricted areas that even human strongmen do not dare to enter.

  And the Dead Lake is one of the most dangerous and mysterious areas among them. It is known as the most unimaginable strange place in the Hulunbuir Mountains. Even if you are not a familiar old hand with the mountains, you would not know that this place exists.

  It's just that this undead lake is too strange. It seems to be movable, and no one can figure out its exact location, because such a vast body of water is like a floating weed, mysteriously appearing and disappearing, seemingly never fixed in one place.

  Someone once found it on the east side of the Luojia Mountains, but it quickly disappeared. When it was discovered again next time, it had moved to the west side of the Luojia Mountains. Moreover, the surface of the Dead Lake is ordinary and calm, but there is not a single life in the vast lake water, not even a thread of algae, let alone fish or shrimp. The whole lake is like a pool of dead water, seemingly clear but actually suffocatingly dull. However, the entire lake water is paradoxically filled with an enormous amount of life energy that is hard to imagine.

  What's even stranger is that people who enter it often die under unnatural circumstances. There have even been instances where the carcasses of powerful magical beasts beyond 9th level were found in the lake water, only to quickly sink to the bottom. Moreover, the water in the lake cannot be taken away; someone once tried to scoop up some of the lake water from the Undead Lake into a container and bring it back, but after just a few steps, the water in the container mysteriously disappeared, returning to the Undead Lake in an extremely eerie manner.

  This is the real origin of its claim to be 'immortal', saying that it is immortal, in fact, it is simply an unimaginable strange place. Some people have speculated that the lake water is actually alive, but no one dares to believe such nonsense.

  However, it has been several hundred years since anyone last found any trace of this dead lake.

  It was unexpected that the black-clad man, who had been plundering and killing in the Luojia mountain range, would accidentally enter this area. He discovered the traces of the Undead Lake, which had disappeared for nearly a hundred years, and the blue crystal filled with life energy was brought from the Undead Lake.

  Only the blue crystal formed by the lake water of Undead Lake has such abundant life energy.

  However, the number of this blue crystal is also extremely small, and it can only be produced around the Dead Lake. Monica and others have only found a small amount. In the Luliang Mountains for so long, they have almost used up all of them. The one Ye Han found was their last remaining blue crystal.

  Fortunately, they drew a map and prepared to venture into it again, searching for the whereabouts of these blue crystals.

  This crystal, which contains a vast amount of life energy, is extremely beneficial for both the beastmen's martial arts and human's Qi cultivation. Moreover, in times of need, it can be used as a sacred medicine to save lives and heal wounds. It is an extremely precious treasure wherever it is taken.

  Ye Han was overjoyed upon hearing this, for this Life Crystal was not only a precious treasure to others, but also crucial to the growth of the Dan Qi mechanism in his body. Therefore, no matter how strange and terrifying the Undead Lake region might be, he had to enter it to take a look, perhaps gaining great benefits.

  They searched for the beast skin map drawn by human warrior Monica and left alone without paying attention to him.

  Affected by Yehan's soul mask's hypnotic power, this Monica probably won't wake up for a while.

  As for whether he can survive in this forest full of crises, that depends on his luck.

  While the Dead Lake's whereabouts were uncertain, Ye Han wanted to find it before it disappeared, so he had to put in more effort.

  ……

  Three days later.

  Ye Han stood on a low slope of gravel, looking down at the vast inland lake in front of him, and couldn't help but mutter to himself.

  "Is this the Undead Lake? I've finally found it."

  What lay before his eyes, however, was a vast expanse of blue water, glistening in the sunlight, extremely calm, but its size was beyond his imagination. It's hard to imagine how such a large lake could mysteriously disappear and reappear in the Luojia mountain range? And how it could move freely? This is indeed a mind-boggling, unimaginable question.

  In the following days, Ye Han was active in the area around Undead Lake.

  It's just like the information Ye Han got from Monica, that blue crystal containing huge life energy is only produced in the surrounding areas of the Undead Lake, and it's unknown how it was formed. Moreover, the discovered areas are not all the same, some are in the grass, some are in the stone crevices, and even some are in the soil underground.

  This undoubtedly increased the difficulty of finding them, wanting to find a blue crystal the size of a fingernail in such a vast area is like looking for a needle in a haystack. This was also one of the reasons why Monica and others mistakenly entered it but did not find a few life crystals.

  However, for some unknown reason, the subtle energy hidden in Ye Han's heart was extremely sensitive to the energy fluctuations of this life crystal. As long as it approached within a range of less than ten meters from his body, that subtle energy would immediately become excited.

  This greatly increased Ye Han's efficiency, and in less than three days, he had already collected a small bag full of blue life crystals.

  This harvest, if taken out and used outside, would be unimaginably valuable, but now it has all gone into Ye Han's own pocket. Of course, he couldn't use these things to exchange for wealth or money, but instead used them to nourish the Qi mechanism formed by that thread of Ba Dan in his body.

  In the following days, one day, two days, three days, four days...

  Ye Han spent his days quietly cultivating, not daring to get too close to the Dead Water Lake. He stopped at a mountain pass not far away. With the supply of blue crystals, the thread of Qi in his body grew at an unprecedented speed. After merging with most of the blue crystals, that thread had grown into a small blue dragon about the size of a toothpick, coiled in his heart and emitting massive life fluctuations.

  This made Ye Han's mood even more invigorated, because with the enhancement of that aura, he felt that his stagnant internal family fist, Xingyiquan, had loosened up, and even his physical quality and inner war spirit had increased.

  Everything seems so calm. But every time the dead of night arrives, Ye Han always feels a little frightened and his heart racing. He always feels as if there is something unimaginably enormous watching him. However, radiating out spiritual energy to scan around, he finds nothing.

  Until the ninth day's dusk, the night of the full moon...