Chapter 6 Ji Ning Enters the Water to Battle the Winged Serpent

Ji Ning only felt the passage of time and space shift, and then everything settled into calm.

"Hmm?" Ji Ning looked at this dark lair passageway. This was the place he had been teleported into earlier, and he couldn't help but smile.

This encounter had indeed been a narrow escape from death.

But he had come out alive, and his strength was much greater than before.

"The next time I enter, I'll need to refine this talisman." Ji Ning flipped his hand, and a rough talisman appeared in his palm. On the talisman was the god-demon character 'Right'. Ji Ning had tried to refine it, but his innate true essence couldn't penetrate it at all. It seemed he would have to wait until he became a Zifu cultivator.

"Right?" Ji Ning murmured to himself. "Why is there a 'right' character on this talisman? I wonder what its origin is."

Then Ji Ning put the talisman away without further thought. With a flicker of movement, he transformed into a light breeze and swiftly flew out of the lair passageway.

...

A hut had been built by the banks of Serpentwing Lake, where Ji Yichuan and his wife were staying.

Yuchi Xue was sitting silently by the lake, holding a cup of steaming hot water, drinking slowly.

"Xue'er, Xue'er!" Suddenly, an excited shout came from inside the hut. Yuchi Xue turned to look. Ji Yichuan, who had been as cold as an iceberg in the past, rushed out with a face full of excitement and joy. There were water stains on his chest, and a faint smell of wine lingered.

Seeing her husband like this, Yuchi Xue had a premonition and quickly asked, "What's wrong?"

"I sensed it," Ji Yichuan said quickly. "I sensed the jade sword. The jade sword is completely unharmed! Earlier, Ji Ning must have suddenly entered some hidden place, a small space, a small world, or some ancient formation. Now he has come out of that hidden place alive."

Ruins were opportunities, but they also represented great danger! Ji Ning hadn't come out for over a month, and the couple had grown increasingly worried and anxious.

Yuchi Xue closed her eyes, and two streams of tears flowed down. She murmured to herself, "Thank heaven and earth, thank heaven and earth."

"He's at the center of Serpentwing Lake now, probably on the island," Ji Yichuan said quickly.

"Let's go see him," Yuchi Xue stood up.

"Mm." Ji Yichuan hadn't lost his composure like this in a long time. Even when he learned that his son had broken through to become an innate lifeform, he hadn't been this excited. He took his wife's hand and stepped directly onto the lake water, walking as if on flat ground, turning into a wisp of green smoke and quickly heading into the distance.

The Greenflame Bird couldn't wait here forever; it was Ji Honghua's spirit beast! These days, Ji Yichuan and Yuchi Xue had been living by the lakeshore, and the Greenflame Bird had long since returned.

Suddenly—

"Great demon Serpentwing, I, Ji Ning, am here again! Come out!" A loud shout spread in all directions, also reaching the ears of Ji Yichuan and his wife, who were walking on the lake surface.

"Ning'er?" Yuchi Xue couldn't help but smile. "Sure enough, as soon as he came out of that hidden ruin, he immediately went to provoke the great demon Serpentwing again."

Ji Yichuan nodded. "Ji Ning became an innate through the 'Crimsonbright Diagram of the Nine Heavens,' so he wasn't too far behind the great demon Serpentwing to begin with. This time, he might have gained something in that hidden ruin... Now that I can sense his location, there's no need to worry."

"Mm." Yuchi Xue also nodded.

They kept walking.

Soon...

"Look!" Ji Yichuan pointed into the distance. In the distance, the lake water parted to both sides, and a young boy stepped directly onto the lakebed, walking toward the bottom. "That kid actually split the water and walked straight to the lakebed."

"He went to the lakebed?" Yuchi Xue was startled.

Ji Yichuan shook his head. "No need to worry. You've watched Ji Ning grow up. Don't you know his personality? If he weren't confident, would he go down?"

"Mm." Yuchi Xue nodded.

"Let's go over there, on the lake surface," Ji Yichuan said. "I'll keep sensing the situation at the lakebed. If anything seems wrong, I'll go down immediately."

...

"Great demon Serpentwing, I, Ji Ning, am here again! Come out!" After shouting on the lake surface and seeing no sign of the great demon Serpentwing for a long time, Ji Ning made a prompt decision. Using his ability to control water and fire, he began to manipulate the waters of Serpentwing Lake beside him.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh~~~

The lake water was suddenly pushed apart to both sides by an invisible hand, revealing a water passage.

Ji Ning stepped directly onto the lake water and walked toward the bottom. As he went deeper, the water pressure increased. Ji Ning directly formed a circular underwater passage about three zhang in diameter and walked inside it.

"It's that Ji Ning."

"It's him."

Some water-dwelling minor demons at the lakebed saw the human youth walking in an underwater passage in the distance and immediately went to report.

In the lair at the lakebed.

The great demon Serpentwing had already transformed into human form and was sitting on a chair, suppressing his anger. "That Ji Ning came to provoke me a month ago, and now he's here again! The lake is vast; who knows if there are innate lifeforms hiding somewhere? Knowing you have a trap, would I fall for it?"

"Great king! Great king!"

"Great king."

Three water-dwelling minor demons rushed in.

"What is it?" The great demon Serpentwing let out a low growl.

The leading shrimp demon among the three minor demons quickly reported, "Great king, that Ji Ning suddenly parted the water and walked straight toward the lakebed."

"He entered the lakebed?" The great demon Serpentwing stood up abruptly, then asked, "He parted the water? How did he part it?"

"He didn't use innate true essence, and we didn't see anything. The water just parted on its own," the shrimp demon quickly said.

The great demon Serpentwing said in surprise, "No wonder this Ji Ning dares to provoke me like this. So his divine body training has reached the innate level, and he can control water. I wonder what technique he's practicing. Whatever, when I went to West Prefecture City, he was still a后天. Even if he's broken through to innate now, he's only at the early innate lifeform stage!"

"And he dares to enter the lakebed!" The great demon Serpentwing's narrow eyes flashed with murderous intent. "You truly have no way to hell but you barge in. I, Serpentwing, will naturally oblige you and send you to the eighteenth level of hell."

The great demon Serpentwing immediately charged out of his lair.

If it were on the lake surface, the great demon Serpentwing would worry about an ambush. But at the lakebed, that was his territory. A human's strength would be reduced to less than ten percent. Even Ji Yichuan coming in... could at most injure him.

"This Ji Ning is so foolish and arrogant. Right, he's just an eleven-year-old brat. When his strength increases, he thinks he's a peerless genius and looks down on everyone. You killed my son Chimang, and this time I will definitely kill you." The great demon Serpentwing, as soon as he rushed out of the lair, transformed into a huge winged serpent and swiftly swam over.

"Indeed!"

The great demon Serpentwing suddenly stopped and looked into the distance. In the distance, close to the lakebed, a cylindrical underwater passage was extending, and a young boy was strolling inside.

"He really did come to the lakebed." The great demon Serpentwing's crimson vertical pupils were full of murderous intent. "He's truly seeking death."

Whoosh~~~

He swiftly swam over.

...

Ji Ning held the Northriver sword in his hand, stepping on the water and walking on the lakebed of Serpentwing Lake. Wherever he passed, the lake water naturally formed a passage.

"Hmm?" Ji Ning saw a huge black shadow approaching from afar.

"The great demon Serpentwing!" Ji Ning immediately recognized it. As the huge black shadow drew near, the ferocious serpent head became clearer, and its crimson eyes were staring at Ji Ning with anger.

"Ji Ning!" The great demon Serpentwing let out a roar, and the sound carried over. "You killed my son, and today, I will make you pay with your life!"

Ji Ning shouted, "Old demon, you have slaughtered thousands of humans and even killed Chuncao. Today, I will personally slay you!"

The root of everything!

So many people had died, Chuncao had died—the root of everything was the enmity between himself and this Serpentwing.

"Haha, you slay me? You little brat, you really overestimate yourself. Coming to this lakebed... once you come here, if you want to return to the lake surface, you'll have to wait for your next life." The old serpent demon was quite confident. "Your father has wounded me several times, and now I'll let him know the pain of losing a son!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the old serpent demon suddenly lunged, charging straight into the underwater passage Ji Ning had created.

"Whoosh!" Instead, a serpent tail was the first to钻入 the underwater passage, sweeping toward Ji Ning with great force. The speed and power of this tail were far beyond that of the Kongqing serpent demon.

"As expected of a great demon at the innate perfection level." Ji Ning was startled. In terms of speed alone, the great demon Serpentwing at the late innate lifeform stage had actually been slightly inferior to the Kongqing serpent demon, but in strength, he was absolutely superior. Now, even his weak point, speed, surpassed the Kongqing serpent demon by a large margin.

As for his strength, which was already an advantage, it had reached an extremely terrifying level.

"Old demon, die!" Ji Ning executed the Windwing Evasion technique, turning into a hazy wisp of smoke. Even faster than the great demon Serpentwing's tail lash, he directly leaped onto the serpent's body.

"Roar~~~" The great demon Serpentwing turned his head, opened his stinking mouth wide, and directly tried to swallow Ji Ning.

Ji Ning held the Northriver sword with both hands, leaped up, and thrust directly at the serpent's head.