Unsheathed

After leaving the small path that led to the Lion Garden, they walked past a small lake that had a large patch of lush reeds. After taking a turn, they could then take a fork road and enter an official road that led to the capital of the Azure Phoenix Nation. Upon exiting the path that took them by the lush reeds, however, what they saw was an ox-drawn carriage with several travel-worn passengers.

The ox-drawn carriage had just entered the small fork road off the official road, and this was a small road that was both narrow and bumpy. The carriage jumped up and down as a result, and the man in azure sitting at the back was almost thrown off the carriage as a result. He was shaken silly, and it was as if his entire body were almost about to fall apart.

The person driving the ox carriage was a young boy who looked like a scholarly attendant, and he had most likely been urged by his master to hurry up the entire time. He was probably at an age where he was more prone to being careless as well, and this was in addition to the fact that he was quite a novice at driving ox carriages.

As a result, the ox giddily sprinted onto the small road without a care in the world. Unexpectedly, there was a group of people walking out from the small road accompanied by lush reeds that led to nowhere but the Lion Garden. Not only that, but the person walking in front was actually a little girl who was holding a hiking pole and happily skipping forward. As such, would the ox-drawn carriage not cause a fatal result if it rammed into the little girl?

The young scholarly attendant was extremely flustered, and the man in azure sitting behind him was even more alarmed. The former flailed around in an attempt to fix the situation, while the latter shouted loudly in warning. And thus, Pei Qian opened her eyes wide and stared at the ox-drawn carriage violently swinging back and forth as the old ox sprinted forward and dragged the two idiots straight into the lake filled with reeds.

In reality, Pei Qian had dashed out of the way right from the very beginning, and she was already standing on a dense thicket of reeds. In other words, she would have been safe even if the ox-drawn carriage had continued to charge forward on its original trajectory. It definitely wouldn't have struck her.

In any case, people were diving into the lake to go swimming this early in the morning? Or perhaps they were two immortals, and the ox could actually drag the carriage across the surface of the water? Perhaps it could exude an extraordinary immortal aura? After all, hadn't she also ridden a yellow earth bull before? It was indeed very mysterious, and she had felt very safe and stable on its back even when it had climbed mountains and crossed rivers.

However, this didn't appear to be the situation right now, and the man in azure and the young scholarly attendant were both screaming in shock as the ox-drawn carriage crashed into the lake with a loud plop. Water splashed everywhere, and they quickly disappeared without a trace.

Pei Qian shuffled over and looked down the small path that had been bulldozed through the reeds by the ox-drawn carriage. However, there was nothing to see, as the ox-drawn carriage had directly charged into the water.

Pei Qian pinched her chin and fell deep into thought. She had heard about something called a water-repelling jewel before, and immortals from the mountains could easily enter rivers and seas to hunt flood dragons if they possessed this treasure. Wading through the water would be like walking on dry land.

Zhu Lian and Shi Rou rushed over to rescue the two people and the ox.