Lin Huang frowned as he looked at the green pool of water in front of him.
It took the Spectre more than 40 minutes to dive to the bottom of the pool. This meant that the pool was deep.
Although he had gotten a diving equipment from Xue Jie when he participated in the Reserve Hunter assessment, Lin Huang felt that he would not be able to dive so deep even if he wore it. He could not breathe in the water. Moreover, his body that was only iron-level rank-1 might not be able to withstand the water pressure.
After some thought, Lin Huang finally came up with a solution. He could use the Provisional Transformation Card to become the Spectre.
As long as he transformed into the Spectre that was only a spirit, he could penetrate through the physical layer and dive to the bottom of the pool.
"I still have five Provisional Transformation Cards. One of them can last me for a whole day. Even if I don't go back and forth on the same day, I'll only need to use two of them." Lin Huang thought that he should have enough Provisional Transformation Cards. He then took out a Provisional Transformation Card.
"Transform into the Spectre." Lin Huang crushed the card and selected the monster that he wanted to transform into.
After the card was crushed, it turned into a white stream of light and entered Lin Huang's body. Soon, his body began to change. Within a few seconds, he turned into a grey shadow that looked exactly like the Spectre that he had summoned.
After recalling Bai back into his body, Lin Huang instructed the Spectre, "Lead the way, I'll go down with you."
Looking at the Spectre floating to the center of the pool and slowly sinking into the water, Lin Huang followed it anxiously.
Although he knew that he would not be affected by the water in his current state, he could not help but feel uneasy.
After successfully sinking to the bottom of the pool, Lin Huang did not feel any resistance. He could only vaguely feel that the temperature of the surrounding environment had dropped slightly.
As he followed the Spectre, the pool water did not pose any obstacle to him. It was no different from floating in the air. Moreover, Lin Huang realized that he did not even need to breathe or have a heartbeat when he was in the state of transformation. As he continued to sink, he became more familiar with his new body.
After spending more than ten minutes, Phantom brought Lin Huang to the bottom of the pool. Only then did Lin Huang realize that the area at the bottom of the pool was much larger than what he could see from above.
After reaching the bottom of the pool, Gui Ying pointed in a direction and then floated in that direction with Lin Huang.
Lin Huang floated behind Phantom for another five to six minutes before he finally saw an underground cave that was slanted downward. There was a constant undercurrent flowing into it.
"Let's go in and have a look," Lin Huang ordered Phantom.
Phantom immediately sank into it, and Lin Huang immediately followed suit.
This underground cave was very long. Lin Huang followed the ghostly shadow for nearly half an hour before reaching the other end of the cave.
When he came out from the other end, he found himself in an underground river.
After emerging from the river, Lin Huang discovered that he was in an underground world.
Next to the underground river was a piece of solid ground. There were countless stalactites above his head, and they were about ten meters above the ground.
In this huge underground world, there were caves everywhere, and Lin Huang did not know where to go.
Coming out from the water, Lin Huang recalled Phantom and summoned Bai again.
Bai's attack range was the furthest, and its ability was ranked second among all of Lin Huang's summoning beasts, right after Charcoal. Its body was suitable for the journey, and it was the best candidate for this exploration.
Although he knew that it was impossible for Leng Yuexin and the rest's scent to linger after being washed by the river, Lin Huang still activated his Blood Hunt skill. He wanted to see if he could find any clues. Even if it was just a little, it would be better than having no clue at all.
After the skill was activated, indeed, Lin Huang did not smell Leng Yuexin and Li Yanxing. However, a strong smell of blood entered his nose. Along with the smell of blood, there was an unfamiliar smell. It smelled like the fragrance of plants, but it made one's heart skip a beat.
Lin Huang frowned, but his expression could not be seen in his current form. The strange feeling made him feel uneasy.
After some hesitation, he decided to head to the source of the smell to find out what it was. Currently, it was the only clue that could lead him to Leng Yuexin.
"This way …" Lin Huang pointed in a direction. Bai nodded and began to explore in front. Lin Huang followed immediately.
In the complicated underground cave, Lin Huang and Bai took seven to eight turns and walked for close to an hour before they finally arrived at their destination.
"Slow down, we're almost there. Be careful," Lin Huang said to Bai.
Bai slowed down after receiving the order.
After ten minutes, Lin Huang saw a light coming from the front. At a turn, he popped his head out and looked at the source of the light.
It was a gigantic cave that was at least 100 meters high. There was a translucent light blue monster floating in mid-air in the middle of the cave.
The light blue source of light in the cave came from it.
The monster looked like a deep-sea jellyfish on earth. To be exact, it looked like a deep-sea jellyfish that had gone bad. Not only was its body enlarged, there were countless eyes of different colors on its umbrella-shaped body. Some of them were closed while some of them were open. Where the eyes were closed, there were spots of different colors.
The tentacles below fluttered casually in the air, like the skirt of a woman fluttering in the wind in midsummer.
Lin Huang could instantly tell that it was a Transcendent monster. The monster's aura was even more powerful than the Undead Black Snake that he encountered earlier. The terrifying aura that he picked up through Blood Hunt belonged to this monster. The smell of blood came from the direction where the Transcendent monster was.
Lin Huang activated Boundless Vision and looked around the Transcendent monster. Other than a few puddles of blood on the ground, he did not see Leng Yuexin and the rest.
"Could they have been eaten?" Just when Lin Huang thought about it, the Transcendent monster seemed to have sensed something. A light blue tentacle shot towards the entrance of the cave that Lin Huang was at at lightning speed.
Lin Huang immediately recalled Bai and took a step forward, entering the cave.
The light blue tentacle almost grazed his back as it went through the cave. After exploring the cave for a while, it quickly retracted its tentacle.
Realizing that it could not find anything, the Transcendent monster did not think much of it. It thought that it was just being too sensitive.
Lin Huang broke out in cold sweat. If he had been a second slower, he would have been crushed into pieces by the Transcendent monster. The attack of a Transcendent was effective against a spirit type monster. He did not dare to look in the direction of the Transcendent monster anymore.
"Leng Yuexin and the rest should still be alive. If they were dead, Xiao Hei would have notified me that the mission has failed. The puddles of blood just now were left behind by them because they entered the underground world as well. So, there are only two possibilities. One is that they have been hidden by this monster somewhere else, and the other is that they have already escaped … "
"However, if they have escaped successfully, the description on the mission card should not have asked me to find Leng Yuexin and bring her back to Carefree City. This means that Leng Yuexin must have met with some trouble, so the first possibility is more likely. However, there's another possibility. They managed to escape from the battle but were severely injured and could not leave Wangyou Forest on their own … "
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