Holy body, start with the Five Animal Exercises

240: At the bottom of Xuanwu River, there are strange nematode creaturesA few days later, by the Xuanwu River, Qin Jiang stood on a reef, holding a fishing rod.

Looking at the Xuanwu River, it was called a river, but due to its immense width, it looked almost like a sea.

This Xuanwu River was mysterious, covered by a strange power that isolated his perception.

He had been fishing frequently these past few days, but he only caught river fish, not the ancient artifacts he wanted.

Compared to Uncle Wang, his skills were still much worse.

Putting away the fishing rod, he decided to go down and take a look himself; fishing like this was too inefficient.

Looking at the panel, the total number of Potential Points had already exceeded fifty thousand.

These days, he had asked Holy Master Lingxuan to collect antiques and old items; with a Holy Land master personally giving the order, the efficiency was very high.

However, Lingxuan Immortal City was still too large, and in a few days, less than half the quantity had been collected.

Overall, the total number of Potential Points in Lingxuan Immortal City was around one hundred thousand.

Of course, this was also because Lingxuan Immortal City was one of the oldest immortal cities, which was why there were so many Potential Points.

Other ordinary immortal cities, like Longevity Immortal City, did not have such deep foundations.

However, on average, an immortal city had about eighty thousand, and all the immortal cities combined would be close to six million.

If the divine cities of various sects were included, the total number should exceed ten million.

After collecting the Potential Points here in Lingxuan Immortal City, he would head to that Nine Luminaries Immortal King ruin.

At that time, he would visit Exquisite Dao Land in passing to collect some Potential Points, and then he would head to the Emperor Ancestor Dynasty to borrow and read the Immortal King Scripture.

He wondered how this Immortal King Scripture compared to the Tao Te Ching from his previous life.

Without thinking further, he jumped down, plunging into the water with a splash.

“Damn! Someone jumped into the river!”

“Quick! Quick! Memory stone! Memory stone! This is going to be a headline!”

In the Xuanwu River, Qin Jiang’s figure sank. After descending about a hundred meters, the surrounding fish gradually grew from less than a meter to nearly three to five meters, and their bodies began to show carnivorous characteristics.

When he dove to about seven hundred meters, sunlight could barely reach down, and giant carnivorous fish nearly thirty meters long swam around.

But strangely, although their size was enormous, exceeding some Demon King levels, they themselves had no wisdom to speak of.

Moreover, in terms of strength, they were far inferior to Demon Kings, or even some herbivorous Great demons.

However, he also discovered that although the forms of these strange fish were bizarre and different from each other...

...they shared the same characteristic: a red scale grew at the center of their brows, and from the center of the scale grew a red silk thread that constantly twisted its body.

This reminded him of those Skull Insects in the Nine Luminaries Immortal King ruins, which also had similar red silk-like worms growing on them.

No, they couldn’t be called bugs; these red silk threads were not living organisms but were part of these strange fish.

After hesitating for a moment, he casually caught several thousand strange fish, compressed them, and put them into a different dimension.

The surrounding waters were cleared, and he continued to dive downward.

After descending another three thousand meters, the surroundings were deathly silent and pitch black. Occasionally, giant snake-like creatures over a hundred meters long swam through the darkness.

With a casual grab, spatial power surged, compressing a strange snake to the size of an earthworm.

Unsurprisingly, this strange snake also had a red silk thread at the center of its brows, twisting unconsciously.

It was hard to imagine that a large river within an immortal city would actually have such a deep riverbed.

And it was also inhabited by all sorts of strange and illogical creatures.

The most wonderful part was that there were actually natural Formations at the bottom of the water, which even ordinary Grand Sages of Array Dao might not be able to see through.

If not for the fact that he still possessed power comparable to the Immortal Lord level, he might have found it difficult to go deep into these waters.

Suddenly, his gaze turned toward a certain spot below, where a faint light shimmered with a slight fluorescent blue.

Diving toward the location of the light, he soon saw the appearance of the light source.

It was an underwater altar, covered by a blue light that isolated the river water.

Continuing to descend, just as he was about to arrive, the surrounding river water suddenly surged, and a bloody maw lunged at him.

Sharp teeth were like bone needles as thick as fingers, densely packed and pale white. A scarlet bifurcated tongue looked somewhat enchanting under the blue light.

In the next moment, Qin Jiang raised his hand and slightly clenched his fist, and the terrifying giant monster was compressed to the size of an earthworm.

It was a Flood dragon with a pair of dragon horns. The red silk thread at the center of its brows twisted, and all its black scales had red silk thread patterns. At first glance, it looked like a small snake entangled in a red silk net.

Qin Jiang looked at the Flood dragon in his hand. Its body exceeded a thousand meters, and its aura was very strong, almost reaching the level of a Middle Stage True Immortal.

Its size corresponded to its strength, far beyond those strange fish and snakes in the upper waters.

He stared at those silk threads; they were throbbing like living things and did not seem to be one with the Flood dragon.

After careful investigation, he found that these red silk threads were not just covering the surface; there were even densely packed red silk threads inside the Flood dragon’s body, and its brain was completely wrapped in red lines.

This was completely a corpse controlled by red lines.

No, calling it a corpse wasn’t quite accurate. This Flood dragon still maintained all the characteristics of a living creature, and even its physical instincts still existed, it had just lost its self-awareness.

From an animal level, it was still alive.

But this was precisely what was most confusing. It couldn’t be called control; this Flood dragon was acting on instinct.

But it clearly wasn’t symbiosis either; these red lines suppressed the Immortal Sense that the Flood dragon should have developed.

After a moment of contemplation, he put away the Flood dragon and entered the fluorescent blue light barrier.

Landing on the altar, he looked at the statue on it. It was about ten meters high, a humanoid statue, holding a tortoise shell in its left hand and a snake coiled on its right arm.

Walking closer, he placed his right hand on it. A cold current flowed into his body, and at the same time, the altar began to vibrate violently.

He ignored it and released his power to forcibly suppress the altar until, after a few breaths, he withdrew his hand, and the altar stopped vibrating.

Looking at the panel: [Potential Points: 92520.6]

He had gained nearly forty thousand Potential Points. He didn’t know what this altar was used for in ancient times, or what the identity of this statue was.

“Swish!”

An azure light flashed, and a figure appeared in front of the altar, hand on the hilt of the sword at his waist, Saint Lord Level pressure fully revealed.

However, the moment he saw Qin Jiang clearly, all the pressure instantly vanished, and he let out a long sigh of relief.

“So it is the Immortal Lord.” Holy Master Lingxuan spoke.

“Holy Master, what is the meaning of this?” Qin Jiang asked.

Holy Master Lingxuan did not speak but took out a piece of tortoise shell from his bosom and poured immortal power into it. Immediately, the azure light flared, illuminating the surrounding waters.

“Immortal Lord, please look.”

Qin Jiang looked outside the altar. The surrounding waters were surrounded by Flood dragons with pale eyes, almost filling all the waters.

The weakest among them was comparable to a True God, and several of them even emitted dragon might comparable to the Half-step Saint Lord Level.

In the gaps between these Flood dragons, worms like red silk threads twisted their bodies, looking extremely disgusting.

He looked closely and saw that these Nematodes were not individual entities but were connected to these Flood dragons, growing out of the red lines on the scales.