Cultivating Disciples to Breakthrough

Whoosh-!

In the end, Chu Yang didn’t have to wait for long, as a small black fish soon jumped out of the water. Tackling one of the nascent soul realm cultivators and causing him to lose his footing and fall into the pitch-black water-

”Ah!?”

Splash~

Before even getting the chance to cry out for help from the others, he was dragged down below the surface. Not emerging again, as the rest of the cultivators could only helplessly look at each other for a short moment before continuing forward with a far more nervous expression on their faces. Understanding that the creatures lurking beneath the surface had already noticed them and begun to target them.

”How is that black fish grotesque? It just looks like a slightly larger than normal black fish…”

Watching all of this playing out from a safe distance, Chu Yang couldn’t help tilting his head in confusion as he wondered how such a simple looking black fish was grotesque, but he soon got his answer as another black fish jumped out of the water to knock a second Nascent Soul Realm into the pitch-black water.

However, as this Nascent Soul Realm cultivator had been prepared, he managed to skill fully dodge out of the, but it was at that moment that the body of the black fish suddenly twisted before parts of its body broke open and countless small tentacles that then grabbed onto the Nascent Soul Realm cultivator emerged before dragging him into the water.

If Xuan Hao had been present, he would have almost immediately realized that this creature was related to the Dao of Corruption, but Chu Yang, having no idea about the Dao of Corruption, could only nod his head in agreement with the earlier descriptions of the creatures below the water being grotesque.

Though, he did find it troublesome that he would also have to cross over the river if he wanted to leave the secret realm. After all, it was deadly to someone in the Soul Ascension Realm, so it would definitely not be safe for him to recklessly cross it.

With that in mind, Chu Yang turned his attention towards the only structure present at the cliffside, a large stone tower of sorts that was slightly leaning over the edge. Looking like it was about to plummet into the water below at any moment.

This tower was also the ruin that had been mentioned by the group of cultivators from the Demon Mountain City and also where they had apparently found the name Dead Spirit Canyon in the past.

Although, from their conversations, it seemed like they didn’t find anything of value inside the stone tower.

Even then, Chu Yang wanted to take a look for himself before he intended to try and cross the thousand-kilometer-wide river.

So, without caring about the group of cultivators trying their hardest to cross the river at the moment, Chu Yang began looking through the stone tower. Searching for anything that the people who had come before him might have overlooked. Feeling curious if he could possibly find another way to cross the dead spirit lake.

In the end, a little over a day ended up flying by, as the cultivators trying to cross the river had long since disappeared from sight.

”Finally! Found something!”

It was just at this moment, that Chu Yang let out an overjoyed cry, as he looked down at a small inscription barely visible inside the small reception room located at the base of the stone tower.

Even though he was unfamiliar with formation symbols, he at least recognized the formation symbols below him as belonging to some kind of ancient teleportation formation, something that his master had taught him about before he left for his journey so he could better ensure his own safety in case he encountered something similar to what Mui had encountered inside the mystic realm.

”An ancient teleportation formation… I wonder where it’s connected to…” Muttering this to himself as he looked down at what turned out to be an ancient teleportation formation, Chu Yang could not help glancing out across the pitch-black river churning violently below him.

Given the location of the ancient teleportation formation right next to such a violent river, he guessed that it might have been created to more easily move around in the past.

So, without a second thought, he decided to inject his qi into the ancient teleportation formation to try and activate it.

Even if it didn’t end up leading to the other side of the unnaturally large river, he at least guessed that it should lead him to somewhere better than where he currently was.

Rumble~

And so, along with a slight rumble, the ancient formation activated before Chu Yang disappeared from his original location inside the stone tower-

Rumble-!

Followed by which a far more violent tremor seemed to rush through the structure of the stone tower before it seemed to lose its strength.

Splash! Splash! Splash!

Plummeting into the depths of the water below the next second, as the single activation of the ancient teleportation formation seemed to take up what little energy had remained in the ancient formations keeping the tower standing for countless years…

”Huh? This is… The stone tower? No, it’s different…”

At the same time, Chu Yang opened both of his eyes in a completely different stone tower that was in a far better state than the previous one.

Of course, after making sure that he was save and nothing had gone wrong, he left the tower and went out to inspect the place he had ended up at.

Not taking long to realize that he had ended up in some kind of small city that had long since been abandoned, but more importantly, he saw the familiar pitch black water directly behind the stone tower… And in the distance, he could even spot the barely visible figures of the group of cultivators from the Demon Mountain City who had traversed the deadly waters for the past two days at this point in time.