Lin Xiaodong took off his coat, plopped into the water.
The river is not wide, and the current is not large, but it cuts deeply into the bottom of the valley, several meters deep. The water is bitingly cold, and the bottom is soft sand. There are aquatic plants dancing with the current, and occasionally there are a few shiny ones, which are almost covered with water.
Transparent river shrimp swim by.
Swimming to the bottom of the river, Lin Xiaodong put his head down and checked inch by inch. There were aquatic plants everywhere on the river bed, but the medicinal materials he wanted were not there.
Lin Xiaodong dived for a while, came up for air, wiped his face, and said: "The water here is still not deep enough, there is nothing underwater."
Bai Yuquan raised his eyebrows in surprise: "Logically speaking, there shouldn't be. There are so many rare herbs on the shore, why is there nothing in the river?"
Lin Xiaodong blinked: "We have to find a deeper place."
Bai Yuquan nodded: "Generally speaking, the places where the river turns are deeper. You can look up and down."
Lin Xiaodong got out of the water and walked downstream.
After walking for a while, the river suddenly turned nearly ninety degrees. The river here turned green and stood still.
"This is it."
Lin Xiaodong nodded, took a deep breath, and jumped into the water again.
The river surface here is wider than before. There is a small whirlpool in the middle of the bend. The river water is more turbid. When you open your eyes, it looks dim.
After sinking for a long time, I finally saw the bottom of the river. It was a piece of mud. The water here was colder than before. Normal aquatic plants could not survive, and the river bed was bare.
Lin Xiaodong had a hunch that he had found the right place and thought: This is how it is possible to find extremely cold herbs in places where ordinary aquatic plants cannot grow.
While paddling, I looked around, stirring up the water at the bottom of the river and stirring up patches of sand. I swam for a long time, but I didn't see a single blade of grass.
"Grrrrrr!"
Lin Xiaodong was looking around attentively when he suddenly heard the sound of bubbles and the sound of water flowing.
"Um?"
Lin Xiaodong hurriedly raised his head to look, pushing aside the muddy water, and saw a mudslide rolling up against the river bed not far away. Pieces of dim muddy water hit him like torpedoes.
Lin Xiaodong hurriedly paddled and kicked his legs, and hid aside. He saw the muddy water swimming next to Lin Xiaodong. Lin Xiaodong looked sideways and vaguely saw a fish tail exposed in the muddy water.
"That's how it should be. In a bitter and cold place, there must be something supernatural!"
Lin Xiaodong floated in the water and looked back at the rolling muddy water.
The mud at the bottom of the entire river bed was lifted up, as if a sandstorm had blown up underwater, completely blocking the field of vision. Lin Xiaodong was alert, waving his hands and retreating.
After walking a few steps, sure enough, like a bullet, a silver light suddenly flew out of the muddy water. Lin Xiaodong took a closer look and saw that it was a silver fish about the same size as a human body. Its silver scales shone with metallic luster and its eyes were round and blood red.
With eyes full of teeth like steel knives, he rushed towards Lin Xiaodong at full speed.
"Good guy!"
Lin Xiaodong exclaimed and hid to the side again. The silver fish jumped into the air. Unexpectedly, with a flick of its tail, it turned a 90-degree turn, adjusted its direction, and bumped into Lin Xiaodong again.
Lin Xiaodong was shocked. He was surprised that the silverbait was so flexible. He could only kick off his legs and swim upstream. He secretly screamed in his heart: The water is the home of this silverbait. I didn't even bring a weapon into the water. How could I fight against the silverbait?
The fish flicked its tail, chased after him, opened its mouth and bit Lin Xiaodong's mouth.
When Lin Xiaodong saw this, he flicked his hand and a small flame flew out. He said to himself: It is bitterly cold here and it is underwater. Even the power of the hell fire is greatly reduced, but even so, it is expected to burn a fish to death.
Not difficult.
Teng! A small flame as big as a fist walked in the water, bounced on the silver fish, and instantly turned into a fireball the size of a round table, almost covering the whole body of the silver fish.
Lin Xiaodong breathed a sigh of relief and continued to surface. He lowered his head to check, but was startled when he saw that the underwater flames were extinguished and the silver fish's scales were shining with silver light. It was full of energy and was opening its bloody mouth to bite him on the leg.
go.
This thing is not afraid of fire! Lin Xiaodong was shocked. With a flick of his hand, several vines popped out and wrapped around the silver fish. There was only a click sound, and the teeth like meat grinders bit the vines into several sections without any resistance.
But at least it gave Lin Xiaodong a chance to breathe. In the blink of an eye, he had reached the water surface, jumped to the shore with a splash, and was still frightened: This is not an ordinary silverbait, this is a spiritual beast! Otherwise, it would be impossible to withstand the fire! Lin Xiaodong again
Worry and joy: Spiritual animals can grow here, which means there must be rare herbs under the water. The silverfish eats the herbs to create a climate.
But this fish is here, how can I collect medicine?
With one hand pinching his waist and the other scratching his head, Lin Xiaodong thought hard about how to deal with the whitebait, and thought: This whitebait grows in this extremely cold place, and it should be resistant to cold but not heat. I want to keep the fire burning on it.
Can be effective.
But then I thought: This place is full of yin and yang, and it is underwater. Water and fire are inherently incompatible, and whitebait is the home. If I burn it with fire, it will cost a lot of mana.
After much deliberation, there was no other way. Lin Xiaodong was heartbroken and gritted his teeth and said: "Lan Ruo risked his life to save me. If I am not willing to use any strength to save her, then what kind of man am I?"
After saying that, he took a deep breath and plunged into the water again.
Lin Xiaodong did not dive very deep this time, fearing that he would not be able to get up, so he stopped at half the depth of the water, flicked his fingers around like magic bullets, and released many fireballs into the water.
The water was dim and the bright fireball was walking back and forth in the water, which was extremely conspicuous.
Soon, there was movement under the water, and a piece of muddy water was stirred up, in which a silver shadow swam quickly.
Lin Xiaodong looked down and secretly rejoiced: Fortunately, this fish has silver scales, otherwise it would not be visible underwater.
The whitebait came, Lin Xiaodong put his hands together to activate his magic power, and heard a roar and a pillar of fire flying towards the whitebait.
Silverbait is quite intelligent, and seems to know that the fire is nothing more than thunder and rain, so it doesn't hide and just hits it.
But this time, the pillar of fire was stronger than before, causing the river water to bubble and the flames enveloped the body of the whitebait, suddenly burning off many of its scales.
The whitebait was in pain, its powerful tail trembled like an electric shock, turned around, and swam far away.
Lin Xiaodong looked at the scales floating in the water and knew that the plan was effective, so he chased after him.
The whitebait swam far away, a cold light shone on its body, and its burned scales grew back sixteen times faster.
Lin Xiaodong was at a distance and couldn't see clearly what happened, but he saw the silver light coming from the silver fish. He couldn't help but widen his eyes and exclaimed in his heart: This beast has developed a lot of skills! It has grown again.
The scaled whitebait was full of energy. He flicked his tail and turned his head, opening his mouth and spitting out a water arrow.