Although they didn't have much doubt about the Mermaid Queen's words, they still couldn't help but want to give it a try.
After the Mermaid Queen finished speaking, she took two steps back and gave up the open space by the pool.
It was Lotte who wanted to take the teardrop, so he was naturally the first to try.
Lotte walked to the edge of the pool, squatted down and stretched out one hand towards the water.
Because he wanted to test what was special about this tear pool, he did not use any magical channels.
The other three people were also watching Lotte's movements closely, wanting to see whether he could succeed.
When Lotte stretched out his hand, he expected something to stop him, and he was prepared to be blocked.
But to everyone's surprise, Lotte's hand reached out to the water without any hindrance. Even when he put his hand into the water, the entire tear pool showed no reaction.
Seeing this scene, several people did not show joy on their faces, but were a little surprised, and then they frowned.
The words of the Mermaid Queen were by no means unreasonable, and several people did not believe that the Sharman Clan's treasure would be taken away by them so easily.
Sure enough, a moment later, Lotte's hand had touched the stone wall at the bottom of the pool, but he did not touch the teardrops that were clearly sinking at the bottom of the pool.
Watching Lotte groping for a while at the bottom of the pool, but unable to reach the teardrops, Lotte and the three people watching on the side became even more shocked.
However, the Mermaid Queen behind her did not show any surprise at all, as if she had known this would happen.
Lotte did not believe in evil, so he changed places several times in a row, and even used some Taoist methods, but in the end he got nothing.
After trying for a while, Lotte finally gave up, stood up and shook his head at the anxious person next to him, saying:
"This tear pool is very strange. The teardrops are obviously at the bottom of the pool, but I just can't reach them. It seems that what we see is all an illusion."
"Amitabha!"
Faming took a step forward and said:
"I'm a poor monk, come and give it a try!"
After saying that, Faming squatted down with a solemn expression, and his eyes lit up with golden light, like a pair of divine eyes that could see through everything.
It is one of the six great magical powers of Buddhism, clairvoyance!
Legend has it that clairvoyance can see through all the illusions in the world, and can even see through the past and future of things in front of you. Only eminent Buddhist monks with great wisdom can cultivate it.
But after Fa Ming used such magical power, a trace of doubt appeared on his face.
He stretched out a hand towards the tear pool just like Lotte had done before. He also reached into the red water without any hindrance and fished at the bottom of the pool for a while. Finally, he sighed and retracted his outstretched arm.
Fa Ming stood up, shook his head and said:
"Just now, the poor monk observed the tear pool and the teardrops in it with his clairvoyance, but the scene in the pool remained unchanged, indicating that this was not an illusion or illusion.
But the poor monk put his hand into the pool, but like Brother Lotte, he couldn't touch the teardrops at all.
According to the poor monk, this teardrop does exist in the tear pool, but it is not simply lying on the bottom of the pool, but exists between virtuality and reality, with form but no quality. So we can see it, but we can't touch it.
Queen, is the poor monk right? "
After hearing what Fa Ming said, the Mermaid Queen showed surprise on her face, nodded and said:
"Master is right. One of the clan's records about this tear pool is 'Existing in nothingness, seeing as emptiness'. It exists between reality and emptiness, and everything you see is emptiness."
Lotte and Faming have already tried it, and even Faming's clairvoyance has no effect. Bu Xiaotian and Lan Yunxi have no intention of trying again.
Knowing that it would be impossible to get the teardrop without taking back the triblade, Lotte sighed and said:
"Alas! It seems we have to go to the Dragon King's lair!"
Seeing what Letian said, Bu Xiaotian muttered:
"The Dragon King must have been seriously injured before. If we want to go, we must find him before he recovers from his injuries. This matter should be done sooner rather than later!"
After hearing what Bu Xiaotian and Letian said, the Mermaid Queen couldn't help but show a trace of worry on her face and said:
“But according to Dragon King’s temperament, he will definitely hide after being so seriously injured.
He was hiding before, and we searched for him for two thousand years but could not find his whereabouts. How could we find his hiding place in a short period of time? "
"this…"
Although the words of the Mermaid Queen seemed a little too ambitious, they were true. For a moment, several people couldn't help but frown.
Just when a few people were looking worried, Lotte spoke:
"This is actually not difficult!"
As he spoke, he took out a palm-sized package and a small compass from his arms.
Seeing what Letian took out, Lan Yunxin and Faming were a little puzzled.
This compass was what Lotte used to determine the direction when they were on the road a few days ago. Could it be that he wanted to use this compass to search for the hiding place of the Dragon King?
Unlike Lan Yunxin and Fa Ming's doubts, Bu Xiaotian roughly knew what Letian was planning when he took out the compass, and said thoughtfully:
"Are you going to look for his three souls directly?"
Lotte nodded:
"That's right!"
He opened the cloth bag in his hand, revealing what was inside, which were three pitch-black scales that shone with cold light.
Although he saw the doubts on other people's faces, Letian had no intention of explaining. He sat down cross-legged on the spot, put the compass and scales in his hands in front of him, and began to cast spells.
As Lotte played a series of spells, the compass and black scales on the ground slowly floated out of the air, and golden runes flew out of his hands and landed directly on the black scales.
When Lotte finished the last spell, black light suddenly erupted from the black scales. A very small black shadow flashed above the black scales and disappeared directly into the compass. Then the few originally extremely hard black scales turned into ashes. , slowly falling to the ground.
Almost as soon as the black shadow merged, the compass began to tremble slightly, making a slight "buzzing" sound, and the pointer on it was also rotating crazily.
After about half a stick of incense, the compass slowly stopped vibrating, and the pointer also slowed down, until it finally pointed in one direction and remained motionless.
Lotte stretched out his hand to hold the compass and said:
"It's done!"
Several people's eyes suddenly lit up.
Seeing that Lotte seemed to really be able to find the Dragon King, the Shark Queen no longer cared about what happened before and couldn't help but ask:
"Our tribe spent more than two thousand years trying to find him, and we tried almost every method to no avail. Can you tell me how you did it?"
Seeing the Mermaid Queen trying her best to keep a cool face, but unable to hide her curious look, Lotte didn't show off and replied:
"My compass can directly find other people's three souls, but there must be something closely related to the other person as a guide.
This black scale was originally a companion of the Dragon King, and was used as a natal magic weapon by him for more than a thousand years. The relationship with him has long been inseparable, so his location can be found. "
Several other people also suddenly understood. Fa Ming thought about Lotte's words, and his expression changed slightly for a moment, but it soon returned to normal, so no one noticed the change in his expression.
After Letian finished speaking, Bu Xiaotian immediately continued:
"The Dragon King had hidden himself for two thousand years, and we certainly didn't expect that we could find him in such a short period of time.
Let's go now, just in time to catch him by surprise! "
"good!"
The other four people all nodded in agreement when they heard this.
Now that they had decided, the five of them left the cave without further ado and flew in the direction pointed by the compass.
…
Two thousand miles south of Cangwu Mountain, there is a group of large and small rocks.
One of the huge rocks is several feet above the sea. It looks like any other rocks, but if you look closely, you will find that there are several holes on it no more than the size of your little finger.
The hole was deep and pitch black inside.
There are many such reefs in this sea area. Even if someone passes by here, they will not pay attention to them.
If you can drill through these small holes, you will find that this seemingly unremarkable reef is hollow in the middle. The small holes do not lead directly to the inside of the reef, so no outside light can enter.
But the cavity in the reef is not completely dark. There are white light-emitting round stones no bigger than soybeans embedded in the uneven top, illuminating the place.
It is about three feet in diameter. The bottom is an unknown depth of sea water, and the highest point above the sea water is about two feet.
There should be nothing in this small grotto, but at this moment, in the center of the grotto, three huge dragon heads are floating on the water, and several huge scars are still visible on the ferocious dragon heads. A trace of blood.
It was the Dragon King who was seriously injured and defeated in Cangwu Mountain.
This was an excellent hiding place that he accidentally discovered when he was young. It was so hidden that even if the Sharman tribe almost turned the South China Sea upside down in the past two thousand years, they could not find him.
After all, no matter how carefully you search, you won't be able to break open every stone and look at it.
At this time, the Dragon King was very depressed and angry.
Two thousand six hundred years ago, he was still a little black snake, with his spiritual wisdom just beginning to awaken, and he was practicing quietly on a large island deep in the South China Sea.
But he was discovered by a hawk demon. Just because the black snake was too weak, he would become the hawk demon's food.
He is not willing to give in!
But Black Snake had no choice, he could only escape, but the hawk demon was much stronger than him, so he couldn't escape at all.
Finally, when he was blocked by the harpy again, he accepted his fate.
He didn't want to run away anymore, so he just lay there, waiting for the harpy to kill and devour him.
Although he had given up hope of living, he still couldn't help but close his eyes when the harpy swooped down.
But after waiting for a long time, the expected pain did not come. Instead, a cry of pain was heard.
Black Snake opened his eyes curiously and saw that the hawk demon had flown into the distance, and could only barely see a smaller and smaller black dot.
At this moment, Black Snake suddenly felt that his tail was grabbed by someone, and his whole body was lifted upside down.
He immediately turned around and bit the hand holding his tail!
But although he bit it, it seemed as if he bit on an extremely flexible yet unbreakable membrane.
"Huh? You little black snake is quite fierce, isn't it?"
A man's voice came, smiling, gentle, and peaceful, as if singing a moving and gentle ballad, which made Black Snake speak unconsciously.
At this time, Black Snake also realized that it was this person who saved him.
But Black Snake didn't feel any guilt for biting his savior. Who asked him to scratch his tail?
And Black Snake didn't ask him to save him.
If you meddle in your own business, you deserve to be bitten.
The man placed the black snake on the ground and loosened its tail.
Black Snake knew that if the man wanted to catch him, he would not be able to escape, so he did not run away, but raised his head and looked upward.
When he saw the man's appearance clearly, he couldn't help but feel a little stunned.
This man is so good-looking!
Of course, at that time, Black Snake didn't know what a human was, but simply thought he was good-looking.
Since then, Black Snake was taken back to a very beautiful and huge island by that man, where there were many people as handsome as that man.
Black Snake is very smart, and it only took him a few months to understand what those people said. He knew that this was Cangwu Mountain, and the person who brought him back was the leader of the Shark Clan, and the Shark Clan was the most powerful in the South China Sea. ethnic group.
Gradually, Black Snake discovered that the leader of the Sharman clan was really powerful. It was clear that the tsunami could submerge most of the island. With a slight wave of the three-edged halberd in his hand, the turbulent sea immediately became calm. Wave.
From that time on, Black Snake swore that he would become as powerful as the leader of the Sharman clan!
