Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 71 Return with Regret
"Out!"

At the edge of the pool, accompanied by a low cry from Zhou Chun, Zhou Jiahe's pet, the Green Scaled Crocodile, was the first to break out of the water, opening its mouth wide to breathe.

Afterwards, Zhou Jiahui's pet, the water turtle, also emerged on the water with a splash and slowly climbed onto the shore.

Seeing this, Zhou Jiahe and Zhou Jiahui, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately stepped forward to communicate with the spirit pets and asked about the results of their underwater reconnaissance.

After a while, when the two of them finished communicating with their spirit pets, Zhou Chun looked at them impatiently and asked repeatedly, "How is it? Can you two aunts tell me the details?"

"The situation is a little bit difficult to say."

"According to the Green Scaled Crocodile, after it went deeper into the cave, it did enter an underground river with a large flow of water, and indeed found a lot of the strange fish that you, my nephew, Zhengchun, mentioned."

"And there are not only those strange fish in the underground river, but also many ordinary fish and shrimps and other monsters. Among them, there are even powerful monsters that even the Jade Scaled Crocodile feels dangerous."

Zhou Jiahe looked at Zhou Chun and first told him the information his pet had obtained.

Then his eyes turned to Zhou Jiahui.

Seeing this, Zhou Jiahui also said, "The situation my water turtle found is not much different from what Sister He said. The only difference is that it said the water quality in the underground river is very good, and it likes it very much."

After listening to what the two of them said, Zhou Chun couldn't help but lower his head and start thinking.

After thinking for a while, he looked up at the two and said, "The Jade Scaled Crocodile is quite powerful. Even if it is not a second-level monster, it must be a special and powerful first-level high-quality monster. So the risk is indeed not small."

"But whether it's the Jade Scaled Crocodile or the Swirling Water Turtle, they are only monsters after all. The information they have detected is still too vague. My nephew suggests that the three of us go down and take a look in person. What do you think, Aunts?"

Go down and see for yourself?

After hearing what Zhou Chun said, Zhou Jiahe and the other man looked at each other in confusion, both of them a little hesitant.

Unlike Zhou Chun, the two of them had lived long enough to practice the magic of "water avoidance".

But precisely because they have lived long and have seen a lot, they know better how dangerous it is to be underwater where there are so many water monsters.

If they were asked to take risks in such a place at this time, how could they not feel hesitant and worried?

"Nephew Zhengchun, are you sure you really want to go down and take a look? If we really encounter any danger down there, we may not be able to take care of ourselves. By then, you..."

After hesitating for a long time, Zhou Jiahe looked at Zhou Chun and whispered about his concerns.

Zhou Chun heard this and immediately smiled and said, "Don't worry, Aunt Thirteen. Although I don't have underwater pets like you, I also have ways to keep myself safe."

"Well, since you have no problem with it, nephew Zhengchun, then I have no objection as aunt."

Zhou Jiahe nodded, which was considered as his agreement.

Seeing this, Zhou Jiahui, who was standing by, didn't want the two to think that she was timid, so she immediately responded, "I have no objection either."

So the three of them, after using the "water-avoiding technique", sat on the back of the spinning turtle and let it carry them down to the cave deep in the pool. The green-scaled crocodile was driven by Zhou Jiahe to lead the way and drive away those strange fish.

When the spinning turtle carried the three people into the huge cave deep in the pool, a wonderful underwater world came into the sight of Zhou Chun and the others.

I saw that the water deep in the cave was not pitch black at all, but there lived many luminous small fish and shrimps.

With the help of the faint light emitted by these small fish and shrimps, Zhou Chun and his companions could barely see some of the scenery with their naked eyes.

However, to truly perceive the situation, one still needs to rely on spiritual consciousness.

Under the detection of divine consciousness, all kinds of strange and bizarre aquatic animals in this underground water world can be seen at a glance.

A strange fish that looks like an ordinary small lizard, with no scales on its body, a mouth full of sharp teeth, and a faint blue light flashing at the end of its tail.

A kind of large shrimp with two very long claws. Its eyes are as bright as sapphires and emit blue light.

There are also strange fish that look like eels, with a long and narrow dorsal fin on their backs, and they swim very fast in the water.

However, these aquatic animals just look strange and are not monsters.

The scent emitted by the water turtle made them dare not approach, and they all fled far away.

After walking along the winding cave for nearly half an hour, the spinning turtle carried Zhou Chun and the others into the underground river.

Compared to the relatively calm water flow in the cave, the water flow in this underground river is much more turbulent.

Even a giant like a water turtle has to paddle hard to avoid being swept away by the current.

"Should we go up or down?" Zhou Jiahe, who was driving the Green Scaled Crocodile to lead the way, gestured to Zhou Chun and asked.

Seeing this, Zhou Chun pondered for a moment and then pointed upstream.

Then they left a marker at the place where the cave and the underground river meet to avoid forgetting the route when they come back.

After going upstream for about two quarters of an hour, the Green-Scaled Crocodile leading the way encountered a tough opponent.

In the underground river that was more than ten feet wide, a strange monster that looked like a scavenger and was wearing bone armor was fighting fiercely with the green-scaled crocodile.

The two monsters fought in a very tough style, releasing spells to attack each other while opening their mouths to bite each other.

But the green-scaled crocodile has an owner.

At this time, the spinning turtle carried Zhou Chun and the other two to the outside of the battlefield. Zhou Jiahe, who was on the turtle's back, immediately waved his hand and summoned a golden hairpin magic weapon, which shot towards the strange monster.

Zhou Chun and Zhou Jiahui did not just stand there and watch. They each used their magical weapons to besiege the strange monster.

With the three of them working together, the strange monster could not escape and was killed in the water by Zhou Chun's [Moon Blade Meteor Wheel] by splitting its head open.

Because the three of them didn't recognize this strange monster, Zhou Chun thought its corpse might be of some use, so he cut it into several pieces and put them into the three people's storage bags.

Then continue upstream to explore this area.

After going upstream for another three quarters of an hour, Zhou Jiahe's expression suddenly changed, as if he had discovered something.

She pointed somewhere and signaled the turtle to go there.

Soon Zhou Chun and Zhou Jiahui also understood what she had discovered.

Suddenly, they saw another cave intersection similar to the one they came in from.

Seeing this situation, Zhou Chun immediately made a decision to enter the cave to find out what was going on.

As a result, not long after they went deeper into the cave, they encountered a large school of strange fish that looked like catfish.

More than a dozen strange fish simultaneously besieged the green-scaled crocodile that was clearing the way in front, preventing it from going deeper into the cave.

This made the three people behind even more curious, so they immediately joined the battlefield, killed and dispersed the group of strange fish, and then continued to go deeper into it.

But not long after, the strange fish that had escaped earlier quickly came back with dozens of its kind, and among them there were three or four strange fish that exuded the aura of a first-grade top-grade monster.

"retreat!"

Zhou Chun gave the order to retreat without hesitation.

The three of them quickly switched to the Green-Scaled Crocodile, which was faster and more flexible in swimming, and then let the Water Turtle use its huge body to cover the rear and quickly retreated towards the underground river.

After fleeing in such a rather embarrassing way, the three of them finally managed to escape back to the underground river.

But the poor water turtle was beaten and seriously injured, so Zhou Jiahui had to temporarily put it back into the spirit beast bag.

Without the stable mount of the Water Turtle, and with the three of them having consumed a lot of mana, they could only regretfully end this trip to the underground river.

Gurgle gurgle!

A large number of bubbles suddenly emerged from the calm pond water, and then the green-scaled crocodile's mouth full of sharp teeth emerged first.

On the crocodile's back, Zhou Chun and the other two had been in the dark underground water world for an hour. Now that they saw the light of day again, they opened their mouths wide to breathe in the fresh air.

After taking a few deep breaths of fresh air, Zhou Jiahe looked at Zhou Chun and said, "My dear nephew Zhengchun, let's end this trip. Given the complex conditions in the underground river, it would be impossible for Qi Refining cultivators like us to stay there for long without a Foundation Establishment cultivator accompanying us!"

This time, the three of them were defeated by the group of strange fish together, which shows the danger in the underground river.

Moreover, there was no place to meditate or rest within a radius of two hundred miles, so they couldn't even use the tactics of attrition.

Therefore, in Zhou Jiahe's opinion, this matter cannot be accomplished at all without the cooperation of a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Zhou Chun could use a purification stone jar to solve the problem of meditation and rest, but he did not have a water-fighting pet, and his own cultivation was only at the ninth level of Qi Refining, so he could not explore the underground river alone.

Therefore, although he still felt somewhat unwilling and regretful, he rationally agreed with Zhou Jiahe's suggestion and agreed to return to the family to report the results of this time.

"Let's follow what Aunt Thirteen said and go back to report our findings to the clan leader."

(End of this chapter)