Chapter 38: Underwater Scheme [2]
It was an arrangement from a thousand years ago. If it wasn't there, it would be fair to say it had disappeared long ago.
Gardner was right. There was no sign of anyone around.
No, there was an instructor, but it didn't matter.
Even if he jumped into the lake, they would think he was trying to catch fish, not that he was trying to obtain spirit medicine.
Aint jumped into the lake, tearing the breath scroll he had obtained in advance.
A bottom rough with stones and pebbles, faintly rising muddy dust, fish swimming in all directions.
To him, it was just a peaceful lake. It seemed so ordinary that he couldn't believe the spirit herb arranged by the first Emperor could be there.
'Is it really there?'
'Of course not.'