School Beauty's Personal Crazy Young Master

Chapter 689: Chapter 765: The Secret at the Bottom of the Lake

The Sky Demon Technique, true to its name.

When it was activated, it was overwhelmingly dominant, possessing the power to pierce Heaven and Earth. The last time Chen Nan used the First Level of Imperial Realm’s cultivation, he not only easily killed the Family Head of Ling who was at the Eighth Layer of Tao, but he also used the Heavenly Reversal Life Stealing to revive the little fox spirit Shi’er who had already stopped breathing.

Although in the end he himself had exhausted his Life Essence and only managed to save his life by consuming the Life Essence Fruit, the demonic might of this set of cultivation techniques was indeed terrifying.

As the Demon Technique operated on its own, continuously devouring the Spiritual Energy in the water, a dark light flourished on Chen Nan’s body, and the sliver of Inner Strength inside him gradually became more robust, transforming from a trickle into a raging river.

”Boom, boom, boom...”

As the Demon Technique accelerated, the Dantian inside Chen Nan’s body started to emit sounds like thunder and lightning, causing the surrounding water to ripple violently.

”Crack...”

The boulders that had been pressing down on Chen Nan suddenly burst apart, turning into countless pieces that shot off in all directions.

And Chen Nan, who was lying at the bottom of the water, gradually began to float upwards, coming to a stop two meters above the lakebed, as if frozen in time, with only the sounds of thunder from his Dantian growing more and more intense.

”Clang!”

The sound of a blade being unsheathed rang out.

The two Holy Artifacts, originally fused with Chen Nan’s right arm and chest, suddenly shot out.

The Heavenly Punishment Demon Sword hovered to the left of Chen Nan, and the Ancient Shield to the right.

”The demonic body is immortal, the Holy Artifacts are everlasting.”

Suddenly, a voice came through, and it was not Chen Nan’s.

This voice was filled with devilish charm, emanating from Chen Nan’s Dantian. It was extremely ancient, as if it had traversed through the barriers of time from the bygone era, causing both Holy Artifacts to tremble at its presence.

The sudden demonic sound from the Dantian was indeed startling.

Following the demonic sound, the two Holy Artifacts floating next to Chen Nan began to spin rapidly around his body.

The spinning speed of the Holy Artifacts became faster and faster, until they were no longer visible to the naked eye. Centered around Chen Nan, a massive vortex formed, and the Spiritual Energy of Heaven and Earth, as if summoned, began to rush into the vortex at high speed.

Dense Demonic Qi enveloped Chen Nan, and the speed at which the Sky Demon Technique operated grew faster and faster, madly swallowing the Spiritual Energy rushing towards it.

Five minutes passed in this manner.

The spinning speed of the two Holy Artifacts gradually slowed down, eventually coming to a halt, and they transformed into two streaks of light that merged into Chen Nan’s body.

Meanwhile, the sound of thunder from his Dantian had calmed down, the Sky Demon Technique also ceased its operation, and there was peace under the water. Chen Nan woke up from his unconsciousness.

”Cough, cough...”

As soon as he took a breath, Chen Nan choked on a mouthful of water.

Instinctually, he immediately held his breath, then released his Protective Gang Qi.

How come I am in the water?

Chen Nan struggled to recall, remembering his life-or-death struggle with Long Zhigang, and the anomaly that occurred in the mountains, resulting in his fall into this underground lake.

Thinking of this, he quickly checked his own body.

Upon inspection, he was pleasantly surprised, yet also astonished. Not only had the knife wound on his chest healed, but his depleted Inner Strength had also recovered. What was even more fortunate was that after striking his body’s major acupoints, his Cultivation Realm had not suffered, still at the Third Level of Taoist Heaven.

Logically speaking, even if one were an unparalleled genius from ancient times, their cultivation would at least drop by an entire Heavenly Layer, if not more, after forcefully unlocking their body’s potential by striking their vital acupoints.

And for those of inferior aptitude, they might even lose their lives as a result.

For someone like myself to not only remain unscathed in cultivation but also have their wounds healed, was nothing short of a miracle, unprecedented.

Chen Nan didn’t know what had happened to him, let alone that it was all due to the Heavenly Reversal Demon Technique; he only knew that he was now unharmed and that it was time to seek vengeance against Long Zhigang and Ye Ruoshui.

”Heaven has not forsaken me, Chen Nan— you two treacherous dogs, just wait for your deaths!”

Chen Nan clenched his fists, ready to burst upward. However, at that moment, something caught the corner of his eye—he noticed a white light flickering not far to his left.

How could there be something glowing under these deep waters?

Furrowing his brows, Chen Nan suppressed the impulse to seek revenge and swam towards the source of the white light.

Powered by his Inner Strength, Chen Nan swam through the water faster than a fish, covering well over a hundred meters before realizing that the white light was still in the distance.

Chen Nan clearly remembered that when the ground collapsed, only about two hundred square meters were affected. If measured as a square, it didn’t even amount to fifty meters; yet now he had moved forward over a hundred meters, and the white light was still at least another two hundred meters away.

Chen Nan felt this was not just a pond, but an underground lake—it might have a small opening, but its belly was vast!

Driven by curiosity, Chen Nan continued swimming forward.

When he was about twenty meters away from the white light, Chen Nan could finally make out its source.

It was actually a skeleton!

A crystal-clear, brilliantly glowing human skeleton!

Every bone shone like white jade, emitting radiance, far from any ordinary bones.

Chen Nan was dumbstruck.

What level of power must this person have possessed in life, to leave behind such a skeleton after death?

Even a master of the Earth Penetration Realm probably couldn’t do this; it must be the remains of a powerful being from the Heavenly Realm, right?

Chen Nan swam closer.

The skeleton was delicate, suggesting it belonged to a female. In its chest was a bronze longsword, entering from the front and exiting through the back—she must have been run through the heart and had her Divine Soul shattered by this one blow.

The bronze Ancient Sword that pierced the chest had corroded, pitted, and barely resembled a sword anymore.

This bronze sword that took down a master of the Heavenly Realm was no common item. However, it had become so corroded that the damage must have taken thousands of years, not just a few decades or centuries.

After thousands of years, the Ancient Bronze Sword had decayed, yet the skeleton of the master remained undamaged.

Chen Nan glanced ahead and his expression changed.

He had been so fixated on the skeleton before him that he hadn’t noticed until now—beyond it, there were other bones, some so decayed they were unrecognizable, others still faintly glowing, though their dim light paled in comparison to this brilliant skeleton.

Chen Nan continued swimming forward, finding more and more bones.

Some were severely decayed, others less so, which clearly had something to do with their former cultivation levels.

But what astonished Chen Nan even more was that all the distinguishable bones were female—there wasn’t a single man’s skeleton among them.

What on earth had happened here thousands of years ago, or perhaps even longer, that led to the demise of so many female experts? Chen Nan’s curiosity grew as he swam forward, hoping to uncover something.