“This…” Fang Yun reached out and touched the Swallowed Lake Pearl, and the first one he had obtained appeared in his hand.

Fang Yun stared at the two sacred fruits, speechless for a long time.

During the process of falling from mid-air, Fang Yun even suspected that the old man had intentionally sent him here, but the second sacred fruit was obviously also given to him by the old man. Moreover, the old man had previously said that he couldn’t eat it, which seemed to be directed at him, not like a trap.

Fang Yun looked up at the sky, at the place where he had appeared, but there was nothing. He must have appeared in mid-air directly after exiting the light gate, even Niu Shan was not there.

The waterfall was a hundred zhang high, with a torrential momentum, making a huge roar as it fell into the water.

Fang Yun deliberately looked behind the waterfall, there was no cave, and then he looked around.

This was a closed valley, the bottom of the valley was nearly circular, with a diameter of about three miles, quite wide, larger than a small town. Outside the valley was the blue sky, the mountain walls were steep, with no vines for climbing.

The pool in the valley was actually a lake, which occupied about half of the valley. The lake was wide and the water was clear and blue.

Apart from some moss, there were no weeds, only a few water plants were seen in the lake.

Fang Yun carefully observed the surroundings, guessing that the passage should be uncontrollable, and his arrival here should be an accident. Finally, Fang Yun looked at the silver-scaled fish, which immediately opened their mouths to reveal their sharp teeth, as if they wanted to die with Fang Yun.

Fang Yun ignored the fish, wanting to walk around in the valley, but found his legs weak and walking was a bit difficult. The place was very open, except for stones, there were only stones. In the end, he had to return to the lake. If this place was really the Dragon Cliff, then the only living creature, the silver-scaled fish, might be a good thing.

Fang Yun walked back to the lake, and dozens of silver-scaled fish immediately swarmed to the shore.

“These silver-scaled fish want to kill me, I don’t know what accidents will happen, let’s deal with them first.”

Fang Yun took a deep breath, stared at the lake in front of him, and then imagined the scene of waves rolling up the fish.

“Boom…” A giant wave three zhang long rose from under the water. It swept up all the silver-scaled fish and pushed them to the shore.

Fang Yun retreated while controlling the water wave with his mind. In the end, the water wave pushed and pulled, and all the silver-scaled fish fell on the ground.

The silver-scaled fish flopped around on the ground. Even out of water, they were still extremely fierce, trying to leap towards Fang Yun, still opening their sharp-toothed mouths to bite.

These fish didn’t die even after being on the shore for a long time, their gills kept opening and closing, their fins kept flapping. They used their bodies to slap the ground and kept getting closer to Fang Yun.

These fish were very slow and posed no threat at all.

Fang Yun put away his knife, released the power of the Courage to Write. The power of the Courage to Write at the first realm was like a storm, causing sand and stones to fly. This powerful power of the Courage to Write was enough to kill the demon people and make the unprepared demon soldiers faint.

However, these fish were not affected at all, they were still fierce.

“Worthy of the Holy Land, worthy of the Dragon Cliff.”

Fang Yun originally wanted to use the War Poetry. But on second thought, he took out a long spear from the Swallowed Lake Pearl and stabbed it at the nearest silver-scaled fish. Fang Yun’s body had not recovered, but his strength was still greater than that of an ordinary young man, and because he had been a soldier, his spear was very accurate, hitting the fish’s head. This spear could pierce a hole in the head of a demon soldier.

That silver-scaled fish didn’t even lose a single scale, it just seemed to be in some pain, and its eyes were even more fierce.

Fang Yun observed carefully and was shocked to find that these fish all had slight bulges on their heads, as if they could grow dragon horns, and their scales were also exceptionally thick, with a hint of fierceness that fish should not have, which was obviously a characteristic of dragon species.

As a Chinese, Fang Yun knew that he had encountered top-grade ingredients.

Fang Yun took a careful look, there were about forty fish, so he held the long spear, changed from stabbing to smashing, and smashed it on the head of a fish. The fish’s tail lifted and then fell, and it fainted.

Fang Yun did the same to all the fish, knocking them out, then took out a silver needle for testing poison from the Swallowed Lake Pearl and inserted it into the flesh. The Swallowed Lake Pearl was given by Feng Yuanjun, and it contained everything, even salt, candles, and oil lamps, but unfortunately, there were no items like the Mo family’s oil stove.

The silver needle didn’t detect any poison, so Fang Yun took four of the largest fish to the lake to slaughter. Finding no wood fuel, he simply lit two rows of candles to roast the fish. When the fish was half-cooked, a special aroma filled the air. Fang Yun tore off a piece of tender white fish meat, dipped a little fine salt, and put it in his mouth.

Fang Yun chewed slowly, the fish meat was extremely tender, full of fish flavor, without any fishy smell, but there was a special fragrance. After chewing five or six times, the fish meat completely turned into juice.

Fang Yun swallowed gently, then began to eat the fish faster.

After eating the fish, Fang Yun felt a very faint warmth flowing in his abdomen, which eventually spread to all parts of his body, and his injuries seemed to heal faster because of this.

Fang Yun sighed in his heart, the fish from the Dragon Cliff was really extraordinary, maybe it had eaten some sacred blood or sacred jade.

In order to heal his body as soon as possible, Fang Yun didn’t care about anything, he kept killing and eating fish, until he ate them all.

In the end, Fang Yun looked down at his belly, which was bulging, but not yet bursting. The digestion speed of this fish meat was too fast.

During the process of eating the fish, Fang Yun noticed that the eyes of these fish were somewhat special, like blood-colored beautiful jade, so he cleaned them and put them into the Swallowed Lake Pearl.

Fang Yun felt his body full of strength, a strange current flowing in his body, so he started to move, finding no weakness at all, his steps were steady, his body that had been eroded by the severe poison finally recovered, and the aftereffects of the poisoning were completely eliminated!

Fang Yun took out a set of bow and arrows to test his strength. He hardly used any strength, and the bow was fully drawn. His strength was even stronger than before he was poisoned. He let go, and the arrow flew out.

“Good!” Fang Yun let out a long sigh of relief. It was too dangerous to be seriously injured in the Holy Land. As long as his body was fine, his self-protection power would increase.

Fang Yun looked at the wheelchair in the water, smiled slightly, but a cunning smile appeared on his face.

“I should continue to sit in this wheelchair!”

The art of war of the Military Strategists, mixing the real with the unreal.

Fang Yun pointed at the wheelchair and beckoned, a stream of water carried the wheelchair over and Fang Yun put it into the Swallowed Lake Pearl.

Fang Yun looked at the waterfall and the lake, recalling his own water-controlling power. He thought to himself that his relationship with the Dragon Clan might not be very good in the future, and he hoped there would be a way to resolve it.

Eating dragon pearls could grant a certain degree of water-controlling ability, but water control was a natural talent of the Dragon Clan. Any race that attempted to seize this power would be regarded as an enemy by the Dragon Clan, just like the disputes over the Path of the Saints among the various human families. Even if humans could pray for rain and stop floods, it was universally accepted that all water systems were under the jurisdiction of the Dragon Clan of the Four Seas.

Even if the disciples of the prominent families of All the Saints ate dragon pearls, they would combine them with other divine objects to eliminate the water-controlling ability attached to the dragon pearls to avoid being detected by the Dragon Clan. However, Fang Yun had already directly swallowed three dragon pearls due to a fortunate coincidence.

Although the water-controlling ability was not bad, its power was not as strong as The War Poetry, and humans could not possibly live in water every day. The benefits were too small, and the cost of being regarded as an enemy by the Dragon Clan was too high. Therefore, those who could afford dragon pearls would not directly swallow them like Fang Yun.

In the spirit of exploring The Holy Land, Fang Yun first walked around the valley and found nothing special. Then he walked back to the lakeshore.

The water immediately parted to both sides. Fang Yun stepped down into the bottom of the lake, one step at a time. After entering the water, he felt as if there was an invisible shield around him, pushing all the water away. His breathing was very smooth, and he could walk freely in the water.

Fang Yun carefully observed the bottom of the lake. There were many broken stones and some water plants. The water plants had traces of silver-scaled fish eating them. So he went over, uprooted those water plants, and put them into The Swallowed Lake Pearl.

Fang Yun walked all over the bottom of the lake and found nothing but water plants. He confirmed again that there was no cave behind the waterfall that could hide treasures. Then he activated his water-controlling ability, letting the water wash the mud and stones at the bottom of the lake, rolling the mud and stones to the shore, hoping to find something. This was the Dragon Cliff, who knew what might be buried.

The water kept throwing the mud and sand from the bottom of the lake to the shore, and the bottom of the lake was getting deeper and deeper. When the mud and sand at the bottom of the lake were exhausted, Fang Yun saw the complete bottom of the lake. He found that the lake was like a funnel, getting narrower as it went down. The rocks around the bottom of the lake were incredibly smooth, obviously modified by external forces.

Based on his knowledge, Fang Yun judged that this lake had a history of at least several thousand years. However, the rocks at the bottom of the lake were as smooth as a mirror, without any erosion by the water flow. Even the Treasures of Literature of the Great Scholar could not achieve this. It would take at least the power of a Semi-Saint to do this.

At the deepest part of the lake, there was an egg-sized pebble with black, white, and red stripes. The surface was smooth, and it looked exactly like the other stones at the bottom of the lake, without any special features. But Fang Yun had been glancing at this stone from time to time until now, staring at it.

The water kept sending the mud, sand, and stones from the bottom of the lake to the shore. But all the water slid off as soon as it touched this stone, unable to push it at all. This made the stone stay at the bottom of the lake, slowly sinking until all the mud, sand, and stones were cleared away. This stone became even more unique.

Fang Yun reached out to grab it, and with a light lift, the stone didn’t move at all. He had to grab it again, then lifted it up with force.

“It weighs at least two thousand pounds! An egg-sized stone weighs two thousand pounds, this is really strange. Even the bones of the Dragon Saint couldn’t be this heavy.

Fang Yun knew this thing was special, but he had never heard of it. He carefully looked at the tricolor stone, then tried to put it into The Swallowed Lake Pearl. It went in smoothly, but The Swallowed Lake Pearl shook slightly, then returned to normal.

“I need to figure out what this is after leaving The Holy Land. Let’s get out of here first.”

Fang Yun thought to himself. The water under his feet surged, forming a thick water column that lifted him up. He rose higher and higher, finally surpassing the top of the valley.

In front of him was a river, the water pouring down to form a waterfall. Further away were uneven hills, the ground barren without a blade of grass, revealing the hard rocky surface, just like the ground in the valley. In the distance, he could see the shadow of mountains.

Only then did Fang Yun realize that he was not in a valley, but in a deep pit. So he took a step out, walked onto the ground, turned around to look in the other direction, and then froze.

There were actually five pits nearby that were similar in shape. The five pits were arranged in an arc, each pit being three to four miles long. Behind these five pits, there was an even larger depression, which was fifty to sixty miles long.

If these five large pits and the larger depression were shrunk by hundreds or thousands of times and combined, they would clearly form the paw print of some animal! (To be continued.)