Although this kind of deep mountain treasure hunt, even in the mouths of those Jianghu people, is considered an old cliché that no one would believe, Mo Zi Chen's heart at this time seemed to have a hint of trust in this little guy's performance. After hesitating for a moment, he took off his outer clothes and followed Tiao Tiao as they jumped into the water pond together.

  That day she had gone to the bottom of the Shui Tan and even reached the deepest spring. However, the pressure there was extremely high, and she was bounced back by the huge pressure several times when she dived down. This time was no exception, and she couldn't dive a step further after reaching the spring.

  Tiao Tiao entered the water pool, but it seemed to be like a fish in water. It looked like it was a land animal, but in the water, it swam up and down, even more agile than fish, making Mo Zi Chen click her tongue in wonder. Indeed, the world is vast, and there's nothing strange that doesn't exist. Such a spiritual beast, she had never seen before.

  She tried twice more, and the pressure seemed even greater than the first two days. Mo Zi Chen gradually felt a little short of breath, glanced at Tiao Tiao, and was about to turn back.

  With one front paw supporting its cheek, this little beast was actually in the midst of human-like contemplation. Suddenly, with a swift motion, it plunged into the spring's depths, like an arrow shot from a bowstring, and instantly disappeared into the swirling water bubbles.

  Mo Zi Chen let out a soft "ah" and hastily covered her mouth, almost losing her breath. She stretched out her hand to grab something, but there was nothing to grasp, not even a shadow. At this moment, she suddenly felt the temperature of the surrounding spring water rapidly rising. Originally, only that one eye-spring was bubbling up bubbles, now the entire pool was almost entirely emitting air bubbles, just like a large pot of boiling water.

  An extremely intense burning sensation, instantly came from all sides, Mo Zi Chen felt as if she was in a furnace. At this moment, she only felt that the temperature of the hot spring water was tens of times hotter than ordinary boiling water!

  She couldn't help but cry out in her heart: You little scamp, you've gone and gotten me killed this time!

  In an instant, she didn't even react, why was she in such a hot spring and her skin wasn't scalded, still smooth as jade, and her mind remained clear.

  She just wanted to dive up, but at this time the spring eye was like a reversal of what she had seen before. A huge suction force emerged from the spring eye, like an invisible giant hand, pulling her down incessantly. In the blink of an eye, her entire body had sunk into the spring eye. And she didn't see what happened on the surface of the pool water.

  Just as she was dragged into the well, a five-colored light suddenly flew in from the sky, and with a flash of light, a man wearing a white robe appeared in front of the water pool. His long gown had patterns of pale blue clouds printed on it, making him look profound and unfathomable, like being in a vast and mysterious universe. He was extremely tall, with a head of dense black hair hanging behind his back, his facial features were sharp and angular, like they were carved by a knife, and his dark eyes seemed like the deepest starry sea. He stood here casually, but gave people a sense of not belonging, as if he didn't blend into nature, but instead, he suppressed this land completely. No matter how majestic the mountains and waters were, they couldn't take away his aura.

  At this moment, the dozens of square meters of water pool are constantly emitting extremely thick heat. The rolling hot waves rushed towards me, causing the temperature of the entire valley to rise several times in an instant. All the trees withered and died in a short period of time, the rocks on the ground were scorched red, as if there was a volcano under the ground, which would erupt at any moment.

  The man fell on the ground, his brow furrowed, "Indeed it is the Xuan Yue Purple Toad, I'm afraid it has already been full for 9,000 years and will break out of the earth!"

  As if to confirm his words, the ground suddenly shook violently and rapidly, and cracks began to appear on the surface. Countless heat waves flowed out of these fissures without stopping.

  The man's right hand rose, and a white light burst out from his palm. A mark then appeared on the rock wall behind him. He raised two fingers of his left hand and shouted "Suppress!" As soon as he spoke, his entire body transformed into a red light that shot straight down towards the ground, disappearing in an instant.

  After he disappeared, the originally turbulent land also slowly calmed down, but this seemed to be only a superficial calmness. Underneath the ground, however, an even more turbulent undercurrent was brewing than before.

  A moment later, a dark red light flew down from the sky and landed where the man had been standing. If Mo Zi Chen were still there, he would have cried out in surprise.

  The newcomer was none other than the Taoist priest with the surname Zhang.

  His face was filled with ecstatic joy, and he burst out laughing: "I knew it all along! A place that can produce the Dry Sky Yin Yang Grass must be a treasure land. It seems that there is a fire of Taiyin at the bottom of the earth that is about to erupt. Could it be the Xuan Yue Purple Toad?" He reflexively raised his head to look up at the sky, which was now shrouded in clouds and mist, despite being post-meridiem when the sun should have been high in the sky.

  His face showed even more surprise, and he muttered to himself: "I don't know how many years this purple toad has been around? If it's full of three thousand years, it can produce the Xuanji Dan. As long as I have the Xuanji Dan in my hand, I can break through the long-closed Qi-refining realm. Let alone build a foundation, even if I form a Golden Elixir later on, it's not impossible."

  He gritted his teeth: "If I had discovered this place a few days earlier, how could the heavenly phenomenon have been seen by outsiders? Fortunately, this place is remote and should be unknown to others..."

  His words had barely fallen when he saw the mark carved by the man on the stone wall earlier.

  That mark is extremely clear, as if it were a green gas that pierced the nine heavens. Under the green gas, vaguely visible are nine mountain peaks of varying sizes, which seem extremely mysterious and unpredictable with just simple brushstrokes.

  The Taoist was taken aback: "Is it the Jiuhua Xianzong?"

  When he said these four words, his voice unconsciously lowered, as if this name was an extremely frightening thing for him.

  His face was complex and unclear, pacing back and forth on the ground, muttering to himself: "The Jiuhua Sect is spread across the four seas and nine provinces, this place should belong to the Taihua branch. However, I heard that the sect leader of Taihua was killed in a great war decades ago and no one has been able to inherit the position since then. Inside Jiuhua, they are still arguing about it until now, and there is no news about any big shot from Mount Taihua traveling recently, let alone coming to such a remote place. Is he just a junior disciple?"