Chapter 15: Chapter 15: West Lake · Carp Essence
West Lake has been recorded in the "Forest History" many times, so it has beautiful mountains and waters, outstanding people, and a place of great talent. During the Song Dynasty, a white snake found its immortal fate here and became immortal by crossing the tribulation under the Lei Feng Pagoda. A lucky carp was illuminated by the Buddha's light and developed spiritual intelligence into a monster. When Lin Shaotang met it, it was nearly nine hundred years old and only built its foundation. I don't know if it has made progress now.
Lin Keqing's purpose today is to take the West Lake Spring. In the place where West Lake wild pearls are abundant, she sensed a faint spiritual energy overflowing. If she looked with her eyes, she would think it was the neon lights by the water's edge.
With a stroke of the invisible spatial blade, a gap opened and instantly closed in the mud more than ten meters deep, and Lin Keqing had already entered the barrier.
The underwater world seems to be a secret realm of another dimension, like the East China Sea in Journey to the West. At first glance, there is no end to it, only a vast sea of clouds can be seen. The spiritual energy of gold, red, green, and blue intertwine, emitting a rainbow of colorful rays. The radiance lingers, and the smoke waves are misty. Lin Keqing feels that he may have entered a fairyland, and his heart cannot help but flutter and shake. It takes a while for him to regain his senses.
The only light source underwater comes from a small colorful crystal palace, filled with sparkling treasures. The walls are adorned with countless colorful pearls, each the size of a fist, shining brightly and luxurious.
According to Lin Shaotang's notes, the Crystal Palace is underwater, but it is unclear how deep the water is. It looks like it is suspended in the air, with strange shaped aquatic creatures swimming upstream and downstream. Although the shapes are strange, they are only slightly larger than normal and have not yet transformed into the shape of shrimp and crab generals. The colors are rich and colorful, with each swing of the fish tail creating circles of colorful ripples, like colorful fireworks blooming in the sky and sparkling stars.
Lin Keqing's invisibility barrier enveloped her like a transparent eggshell, making it impossible for the aquarium to detect her breath. The spring of West Lake is located under the Crystal Palace and is also the source of the Crystal Palace's spiritual energy.
She smoothly dived down to the bottom of the Crystal Palace along the source of spiritual light. A basketball sized crystal clear green spring was embedded below the Crystal Palace, shining brightly. The clear spring water gurgled out with a soft light, sacred and pure.
In ancient mythology, from the ocean to deep wells, water sources with springs were guarded by the Dragon King. But in reality, there are not so many dragon clans. Nowadays, there are even fewer spiritual springs like West Lake. In the end, the West Lake springs have also been polluted, so they cannot survive. Following her is a good way out.
With this thought in mind, she took out the yellow wooden gourd and aimed it at the spring. Just as she was about to inhale, she saw the spring blink. She thought she was dazzled and was stunned for a moment. A golden stream of water shot at her like a sharp arrow. She was startled and dodged, only to see that the source of the stream was a huge truck like golden fish mouth with white borders.
When Fish Mouth saw that one arrow failed, another came. The two arrows not only had fast speed, but also turned around and chased after Lin Keqing without letting go. As a result, she felt a bit embarrassed. Her hands spread out and a barrier was formed. The Nali arrow hit an invisible barrier, almost shaking Lin Keqing's head. With the help of the arrow, he retreated one zhang and his spiritual power turned into an invisible blade cutting towards the carp spirit. When the carp spirit sensed something, it was too late. Its head fell down, its golden red tail facing up, and it used its solid fish back to catch the move.
Lin Keqing's empty blade was just thunder and rain, stirring wildly in the smoke waves. In fact, it couldn't even cut through the fish scales. The real killing move was an invisible spiritual needle. After the carp spirit carried the empty blade, its head throbbed with pain. Little did it know that it had fallen for the cunning human thief again. The beautiful golden red fish scales dimmed, like an ordinary golden carp, with its belly facing up.
The little carp couldn't bear it when they saw their ancestor flip their belly. They eagerly spat water arrows at Lin Keqing, but unfortunately, their cultivation was not up to par. Clusters of water droplets the size of peanuts sprayed out, which looked more like spitting.
Lin Keqing used two consecutive moves to exhaust the boss's strength, causing his head to faint and his ears to make a loud noise. He stabbed two of his arms to boost his spirits and wiped out tens of thousands of aquatic creatures and over a hundred species of fish in the Crystal Palace in one gourd. From now on, he no longer worries about not having safe and reliable wild fish to eat, leaving only the unconscious carp spirit and the protected spring by the barrier.
Just say it, why is this spring placed there so openly? It turns out there is a barrier set up.
In fact, the Carp Spirit is also puzzled. In the past, there were people who didn't have long eyes and couldn't even find the door, so they could only walk away in shame. When they arrived, they opened the crystal palace barrier and even went straight to the spring. If it hadn't discovered it early, maybe it would have really helped her.
Lin Keqing happily circled around the spring twice. She didn't understand the formation, and the more she looked at it, the more familiar she felt. She touched the green light curtain with her hand, and surprisingly passed through it directly. She couldn't help but be surprised, "Oh, no wonder this is the barrier set by Senior Lin Shaotang
The inheritance of the Lin family is not arranged according to the genealogy like other families. When Lin Shaotang disappeared, she was not married and it is unknown which elder she was, so she had to be referred to as the senior like her ancestors in previous generations.
This formation is very advanced, so we have to wait for the Carp Spirit to wake up. It is truly a fairy that has lived for hundreds of years. Its divine consciousness was injured and it woke up in less than ten minutes. When it saw the empty Crystal Palace, tears glistened in its eyes.
Don't ask why there are still tears in the water, Lin Keqing just saw it.
The carp spirit is a practitioner of Buddhism, and Lin Keqing has little resistance to the tears of such fairies. He feels like he has committed a serious crime, so his voice softened a bit. "I am a member of the Lin family," he said
The carp spirit immediately stopped shedding tears, blinked its round black eyes, and its large tail gently swept back and forth, creating a colorful halo like smoke and clouds, indicating that it was very uneasy inside.
Lin Keqing saw its curled eyelashes and double eyelids, and the corners of her mouth twitched. This fish spirit seemed to be a female.
It moved its mouth and its voice sounded like a tinkling spring, appearing in Lin Keqing's mind: "Which Lin
Lin Shaotang's Lin, I am his descendant
Tears welled up in the eyes of the squid spirit again, this time not like the tears of sadness just now, but lines of heartbroken tears, crying out, "He's married
That heartbroken look was as if a man he liked had a wife and a child came to steal from her.
I don't know either, he's missing
The carp spirit blinked its beautiful double eyelids and looked deeply at Lin Keqing, arrogantly bowing its face and muttering, "You don't look like him." As it spoke, it began to cry again, "The last time he came to see me, he said there was a war outside and he wanted to join the army. His cultivation is so low that he's not delivering food to others
These words were secretly learned from humans underwater.