Do not die

When leaving the hiding place and approaching the center of the open sea, Meng Zhou was neither in the real world nor in the real world, but turned into water and merged with this sea.

——As early as when he was building his foundation, Meng Zhou had cultivated the "body of vortex water" and obtained the talent of turning into water. Now, this talent has become a part of the five elements of the body.

When he uses it, he can do it more freely.

In this state, although the speed will be slightly slower, the concealment is undoubtedly the highest.

Moreover, this also gives him a keener insight into this sea.

Some abnormalities that are difficult to detect in other states are easier to discern in this state.

In this way, Meng Zhou, who turned into water, sank while approaching the center of the open sea.

…

When he first entered, except for feeling that the spiritual energy became thicker, Meng Zhou did not notice anything more special.

But when he came to the center of this open sea and dived deep into the seabed, Meng Zhou felt that the water around him was becoming heavier and heavier.

That is, the density was getting higher and higher.

If it weren't for the fact that the "water" that Meng Zhou "transformed into water" could also be flexibly adjusted according to the changes in his mind, just this one change, his self-proclaimed secret way of infiltration might have caused abnormal movements in this sea area.

——The water with lower density was restless in the upper layer closer to the sea surface, and it was desperately drilling down. This was the biggest abnormality.

Fortunately, Meng Zhou's changes were flexible enough, and he had been quietly changing his state according to the changes in the water environment around him, so he did not cause any abnormalities.

Meng Zhou, who turned into water, continued to sink.

Gradually, Meng Zhou's heart began to become a little uncertain.

"Is this really a 'bottomless pit' under the sea?"

"But don't those ancient books say that this is the passage to the 'Starry Sky Lake'?"

Meng Zhou suddenly thought of another possibility.

"Is it possible that the passage leading to the 'Xingxiu Tianchi' and sinking down along this passage to reach the 'Xingxiu Tianchi' are not the same thing?!"

"Perhaps, this passage is like the corridor before entering the room of the 'Xingxiu Tianchi'.

You can't enter the room by walking along the corridor.

You need to stop at the right place in the corridor and open the door with the right key to really enter the room."

When this thought came to his mind, Meng Zhou realized that perhaps this was the correct process to enter the "room".

And the information about the "Xingxiu Tianchi" that Kou Chong saw in the library hall only told him where the correct "corridor" was. As for the correct "house number" and the "key" to open the door, he didn't have any of them.

"Trouble."

At this moment, Meng Zhou, who had turned into water, had stopped sinking and was suspended in a water area with no light above and no bottom below, empty and boundless, and in a trance with no top or bottom.

After realizing where the problem was, the first thought that came to Meng Zhou's mind was to let Kou Chong, who was adjusting his state of mind, go to the library hall again, thinking that the vast collection of books there could give him a clear answer.

But soon, Meng Zhou rejected this idea himself.

The key is still time.

Before this operation, Meng Zhou drew a line for himself. Regardless of whether there was any gain, this exploration must be completed within half a month.

Even with the reminder of "Zheng Bo", it took Kou Chong about a year to get the current understanding of "Xingxiu Tianchi" from the vast collection of books.

Therefore, unless "Zheng Bo" secretly helps to open the "luck hang", otherwise, this method basically does not work.

Moreover, doing so also means that the stumbling block he set for "Zheng Bo" is invalid.

Because he secretly stumbled and pulled his legs, "Zheng Bo's" plan that was temporarily stopped will continue to move forward.

This is even more unacceptable to Meng Zhou.

"The library hall can't be relied on. It seems... I can only rely on myself."

Meng Zhou had such an awareness in his heart, and his thinking became active.

It seemed that in the next moment, or it seemed that a long time had passed, an idea emerged in Meng Zhou's mind.

"What's the point of just guessing here? We must first conduct a full investigation. Have you even forgotten this basic principle?!"

After having such an awareness in his heart, Meng Zhou, who had originally turned into water and was suspended in the water, moved again.

Down.

Up.

Front and back.

Meng Zhou spent five days to travel around the empty sea area with a radius of thousands of miles on the east side of Lingming Island.

He found a very magical place.

Before entering the "funnel deep hole" in the central sea area that existed in the simulation in his mind, although this empty sea area also showed some special places, overall, everything was still relatively normal.

But after entering the range of the "funnel deep hole", to be more specific, it should be within a radius of 200 miles from the center of the empty sea area, things suddenly became strange.

When he was not too deep and could still feel the dim light of the sun shining through the deep waters, everything was relatively normal.

If he moved forward, backward, left, and right, he could successfully reach other areas of this empty sea.

But when he could no longer feel the light from the sun, things suddenly became strange after passing this depth.

If he moves forward, back, left, or right, he has the illusion that he has not moved at all and has stayed in the same place. It also seems that there is no end in any direction, and no matter how he moves, he can't get out of the boundaries of this special water area.

In such an illusion, the sense of direction such as front, back, left, and right will quickly become confused and blurred, until the sense of front, back, left, and right is completely blurred at the perceptual level.

What is blurred is not only "front, back, left and right", but also "up and down".

When Meng Zhou lost the precise sense of "up and down" due to random attempts, he really felt panicked in his heart.

At that time, he was really in a situation of "no bounds, no top, no bottom".

If he couldn't find the right way to get out of trouble, he might be trapped and die in this situation.

Fortunately, such a thing did not really happen.

Meng Zhou calmed down and soon developed a special feeling in a certain direction.

There are invisible, tangible, tangible "chains" shooting from that direction and connecting to myself.

The other end of the "chain" is connected to one big demon of different shapes.

The other end of one of the "chains" is connected to the monkey demon contracted by Kou Chong;

There is another one, and the other end is connected to Fan Ling’s contracted Earthly Magic Turtle;

There is also a "chain" at the other end, connected to the contracted spirit snake of Cao Bin, the deputy master of the Observation Hall;

…

The existence of these "chains" provides a clear "directional anchor" for Meng Zhou in this situation.

He no longer needs to worry about "where is up". He only needs to move forward along the direction of the chain connection, close the distance between each other, and naturally escape from the strange environment and return to the normal open sea. middle.

After mastering the correct entry and exit methods and discovering the specialness of this water area, Meng Zhou realized that the "Xingxiu Tianchi" was probably directly related to this anomaly.

The strange phenomenon created by this water area also gave Meng Zhou a very familiar feeling in his heart.

It seemed like I had seen a similar environment before.

Meng Zhou, who was thinking in his mind, soon had the answer.

"Realm of Death!"

Meng Zhou immediately thought of his first experience entering the "Realm of Death" and what he gained from his exploration.

——The realm of death is not unique to the giant wilderness. The Hongze Wasteland and the Furnace Wasteland both have "realms of death".

Moreover, its performance in these two domains is exactly the same as the "Realm of Death" in the Juye Wilderness.

From this, Meng Zhou could basically determine that the "Realm of Death" in the other five desolate realms that he had not entered yet should behave in the same way.

…

Before the truth of the "Realm of Death" was discovered, the feeling of never reaching the end was so similar to the feeling created by this special water environment of "boundless, no top, no bottom"!

However, the scenario created by the latter is more difficult to break.

The "Realm of Death" at least still has the unchanging, solidified wave-like earth as a "hint".

If you have the ability to remember all the "waves", and when you encounter them again, you can definitely make a judgment: "I have seen this wave."

Or being able to ensure that you always walk in a straight line during a journey of tens of thousands of miles and discover the markers you left behind, can also decipher the secrets of the "Realm of Death".

In comparison, this water environment is undoubtedly more dangerous.

In this water environment with no ripples and "no boundaries, no top, no bottom" in his perception, he could not find any useful clues about the environment itself.

"so far so good."

Meng Zhou felt very lucky. He had never expected that those Tai Sui bodies could produce such unexpected miraculous effects.

"If it weren't for them, wouldn't I really be trapped and die here?... Not necessarily... eh."

Meng Zhou suddenly thought that he actually had another solution to this dilemma.

Jump out of reality and enter the real world.

But as soon as he thought of this, Meng Zhou's mind got stuck again.

Because he thought of the "Realm of Death", the solid reality that made him unable to enter.

"Isn't it the same in the real world here?"

Just as he was thinking this, Meng Zhou suddenly thought: "Go and see the real world."

——Compared to other times, Meng Zhou acted more adventurous at this moment. It was not that he was drifting, but that he understood his current situation very well.

If he didn't want to be trapped in the current situation, if he wanted to continue to make progress, there were some risks that he had to take, there was no way to avoid them!

The "Xingxiu Tianchi" in front of us is the most unavoidable level.

…

He did whatever he thought of. Meng Zhou didn't even change his form. As he turned into water, he skillfully entered the mode of transitioning from the real world to the real world.

There was no "iron plate" and no harsh backhand.

This made Meng Zhouti feel a little relieved.

But soon, Meng Zhou became confused and confused.

"Hey, why didn't you move?!"

According to his experience of entering and exiting the real world countless times, if he successfully enters the real world from the real world at this moment, then he should have got rid of the strange water environment, and only his "lonely" ball of water is suspended in the real world. That's right.

But the real situation is not like this.

After transforming into water, he was still in the familiar and strange water environment, and everything around him remained unchanged from before he entered the real world.

Meng Zhou's first reaction was that his attempt to enter the real world had failed.

Although this peculiar water environment is not like the "Realm of Death" in the Outer Worlds, which directly condenses the reality within the range into a whole, it achieves the same effect - making it impossible to enter this place. area of ​​reality.

at this time.

Meng Zhou suddenly let out a sigh of relief in his heart.

Because he felt the vague, dim light again, shining from a certain direction.

Meng Zhou was no stranger to this experience.

When entering this strange water environment from the normal open sea, the critical point of change is when the light above the sea completely disappears.

The vague and dim light shining from one direction forms another clear "directional anchor", and the sense of direction that was confused and blurred by the special water environment becomes clear again.

People subconsciously think like this: "That's the water there, and that's the exit."

And just when Meng Zhou instinctively felt this way, his own "directional anchor" pulled him back fiercely.

"wrong!"

Meng Zhou clearly felt that the "invisible chains" connecting him to the Tai Sui bodies distributed throughout the Xingxiu Sea did not come from the same direction as the faint and dim light he felt at this moment.

But it comes from two completely opposite directions!

Meng Zhou was surprised at first, and then suddenly became happy.

"I see!"

At this moment, Meng Zhou felt like he was enlightened and suddenly realized.

Meng Zhou, who turned into water, did not hesitate at all and "floated up" in the direction of the dim light.

In the process of "floating up", Meng Zhou clearly felt that the water around him was getting heavier and denser.

Such a situation that went against common sense did not make Meng Zhou feel any emotion in his heart.

Meng Zhou had a feeling that this "density difference" was the last "wall" in front of him.

It is impossible to break in by force, and it will lead to terrible consequences.

Meng Zhou did not force his way in, but in the process of constantly "floating up", he calmly adjusted his "water density" by continuously compressing his own volume. Then, his ball of water floated naturally. Go up.

As he continued to "surface", the dim light he initially felt became brighter and brighter.

at some point.

When Meng Zhou saw the bright skylight again, he suddenly found that he was floating on the water.

And his own "water density" has also reached its highest level.

It looks like a ball of water, but is actually like a ball of mercury.

At this moment, Meng Zhou was not paying attention to himself, but was immersed in a kind of enlightenment.

"This is Xingxiu Tianchi!"

"This is what those ancient books call the 'sea within the sea'!"

"A 'sea' that exists in the real world and connects the real world with the real world!" (End of this chapter)