Translator: Kazeyuki_, Henyee Editor: Henyee

When he arrived at his current position, Qin Wushuang decided to not dive anymore for now. Instead, he started to move horizontally and kept diving towards the places where the water currents were most ferocious.

Beneath this Black Dead Sea, the undercurrents gushed with force. From time to time he would see lumps of aquatic grasses and a fierce shoal of fishes. About one hundred meters away, it was already clear that a different active zone of water spiritual beasts existed.

As he swam in this manner, seven days unconsciously passed by. Qin Wushuang suddenly remembered the time. This realization was because Mu Rong Xu said that she would wait for him for three months, but if he did not return, she would jump in after him. Naturally, this would not be something Qin Wushuang wished to see.

Within these seven days, Qin Wushuang was confident that at least he had broken away from the other’s pursuit. Most importantly, Qin Wushuang possessed an extremely important tool which he had not yet used. Before his departure, he had put this object to good use.

This object was indeed the Observant Jade Finger Plate that Luo Tongtian had wanted to acquire but was never able to. When Lu Xianlou entrusted this object to Qin Wushuang, he had never had the chance to use it. Now, this object could finally be put to good use.

Before his departure he had collected the spiritual perception of the four warriors without them knowing. He had put them into the jade plate so that as soon as they approached Qin Wushuang’s area, the jade plate would give him a warning.

This way, Qin Wushuang gained a great advantage. At least he did not need to worry about the other four launching a sneak attack on him.

Since he had eliminated this possibility, now Qin Wushuang was not in a rush. He planned to not use up his own strength inside the Black Water. Wherever there was water flowing, a canal was formed, so he would upgrade to the Profound Void Martial Stage.

He felt that deep inside this Black Dead Sea, the movements of spiritual Qi were surging violently, so tt was an appropriate place for a breakthrough.

If he were to achieve the breakthrough, he would need to summon the spiritual beasts to guard him. Among the eight great spiritual beasts he could summon, besides the Pure Altar Precious Pig that feared water, the others would not face too much pressure underwater. They would, however, not be able to move as freely as they could on the ground.

The two most powerful spiritual beasts in the water were at the peak of the Common Mysterious stage. They were two of the most powerful spiritual beasts inside the sealed scroll, the Swallowing Sky Lion Dragon and the Dark Mysterious Snake.

One of them possessed the mutated bloodline of the dragon and the other one was the Dark Snake. They had both specialized in moving underwater. However, for them to be at the peak of the Profound Mysterious Stage, it would require Qin Wushuang to possess the strength of the Perfect Void Martial Stage to summon them. Because of this requirement, it was clearly unrealistic. He needed to first breakthrough into the Profound Mysterious Stage.

The Perfect Void Martial Stage was above the Profound Void Martial Stage. Qin Wushuang was not anxious for quick results. He also knew that as long as he possessed the strength of the Profound Void Martial Stage, he could take care of the other four for good. Even if the other party had the Supreme Dao weapon, they would be outmatched.

The seven spiritual beasts had divided up the work and spread themselves in the surrounding waters to guard Qin Wushuang. Doing his own part, Qin Wushuang concealed himself deep inside a lump of aquatic grass and began the final dash.

This time, Qin Wushuang did not sense too much difficulty. Different than any occasion from the past, this time Qin Wushuang had reached the peak stage of the Transformation Void Martial Stage. The reason for not upgrading to the Profound Void Martial Stage was because he respected the instruction from the two Chiefs and focused to consolidate his stage.

Currently, through the consolidation in a previous time, Qin Wushuang knew that he had achieved maturity. When upgrading to the Profound Void Martial Stage now, it was neither too early nor too late. One could say now would be the perfect moment.

And since he was achieving the breakthrough on the eve of the battle, it would work to a great advantage to boost his morale. Naturally, Qin Wushuang had his own reasons for making the decision.

Inside the Dantian, like an unborn child that kept taking shape, Qin Wushuang’s Primordial Spirit kept forming more and more. Due to the increase of the stage, this Primordial Spirit also kept demonstrating vigorous life force.

Qin Wushuang continued pushing the Dantian and stimulating his own original Primordial Spirit.

Qin Wushuang had never dared to imagine the Profound Void Martial Stage when he first stepped onto the path of the martial arts, but now it started to become much clearer.

Although Qin Wushuang was inside the deep and cold Black Dead Sea, at this moment, he could sense an impatient heat wave from his entire body. It was a surge of steam that almost made his entire body split open.

This surge of heat was coming from the Dantian and was turning his entire body red. The waters of the surrounding area also started to change and began bubbling.

“Roar!”

Qin Wushuang gave a light shout while a mouthful of turbid air shot from his oral cavity. It formed into a surge of water that shot forward like an arrow.

Hu la!

The water arrow shot a school of fishes that were swimming by and instantly turned them into crumbs. Qin Wushuang opened his eyes and looked at what had happened before him with astonishment. Then he looked over his entire body.

“Profound Void Martial Stage!” Qin Wushuang thought about this word as a daring smile formed in the corner of his mouth. Upon entering the Profound Void Martial Stage, a complete change to Qin Wushuang’s temperament followed. This was a huge turnaround that made him much more reserved and less flamboyant.

In the Profound Void Martial Stage, martial artists can begin to free themselves from the restriction of the external form, completely capable of transforming it into emptiness. Even if they were overflowing with murderous intentions on the inside, they could still transform their appearance to be completely tranquil.

Additionally, when at the Profound Void Martial Stage, it would be difficult to judge one’s performance of strength by just looking. As the name implies, one would become unaware of the profound mystery of the Profound Void Martial Stage.

Qin Wushuang felt that his entire body had become much lighter. His own body had seemed to be like a piece of dust within this world as he had completely assimilated his ordinary body into the emptiness.

The Profound Void Martial Stage was formulated on this principal.

After Qin Wushuang entered the Profound Void Martial Stage, he strengthened it even further for a few days. Counting with his fingers more than half a month had passed.

Qin Wushuang revealed a faint smile and took out the sealed scroll.

This time, he wanted to see what the two spiritual beasts of the Profound Mysterious Stage would be like.

The two spiritual beasts of the Profound Mysterious Stage were Purple Purple Pupil Golden Ox and Burning Sky Explosive Tiger.

These two spiritual beast could be labelled as the most wild and brutal. Among the twelve sealed spiritual beasts, they were the ones that could become violent the easiest and could excel at hand-to-hand combat, direct combat.

Once they become mad, the combat potential demonstrated by these two spiritual beasts of the Profound Mysterious Stage could easily match that of the elite warriors of the Common Mysterious stage!

The appearance of these two spiritual beast was much taller than the other spiritual beasts. Taking it all in with his eyes, Qin Wushuang felt overjoyed.

Perhaps, these two spiritual beasts of the Profound Mysterious Stage would not get put to use entirely. However, in the future if he truly encountered a formidable battle, the power of these two spiritual beast would be revealed completely.

Qin Wushuang chased all spiritual beasts back to the sealed scroll because he did not wish them to waste their energy and spiritual Qi by travelling in the water.

He wanted them to have the same energy he saw now when he summons them to battle. For now, he would let them stay inside the sealed scroll and behave. It would not be a bad choice to let them conceal their strength and bide their time.

After he had finished everything, Qin Wushuang started to initiate the Observant Jade Finger Plate. When he had finished his preparatory steps, the next step would be to launch a counterattack.

Through the Observant Jade Finger Plate, Qin Wushuang realized that these four were far away from him. They were no longer within the three hundred meter water area. Based on this, he figured they were probably heading to the deeper water area.

Qin Wushuang revealed a smile from the corner of his mouth. It seemed that after performing some little tricks, he had indeed kept these people in the dark.

As anyone would, they probably thought that as soon as Qin Wushuang dove into the water he would have swam towards the deeper area, aiming to discover that egg of the Phantom Dragon first.

Indeed, this would be normal logic. However, contrary to this, Qin Wushuang had not cared much about the Phantom Dragon egg. Additionally, he did not believe that he would possess such luck as to discover the egg. After all, for several thousand years, it had been impossible for all previous generations of the Floating Snow House.

This was a matter that had not been settled for a few thousand years, how could a first-timer have any advantage? Just by looking at the probability, it seemed impossible.

Therefore, Qin Wushuang’s goal was not to search for the egg of the Phantom Dragon. At least, his priority was not to search for the bloodline of the Phantom Dragon.

As long as he could take out the four warriors, all controversy would get eliminated. He would remain undefeated.

As for the bloodline of the Phantom Dragon, it would best if he could find it. If he didn’t look, Qin Wushuang would not push himself. He would not feel that his use of these three months would match up to the few thousand years the Floating Snow House had spent in search.

Qin Wushuang began to dive towards the deep water area. He realized that the four warriors had not traveled together. Now their spiritual perception was pointed in four different directions. However with these four directions it was easy to see they had formed a searching formation.

Without a doubt, these four were searching for him. Qin Wushuang knew that everything was going according to his plan and he was in control.

He did not feel surprised by the people of the Heavenly Punishing Villa and the Sound of Thunder Sect. However, when the Vase Mound Venerable Clan and the Hundred Swords Sect had joined the show, it seemed that these two powerhouses were under the same control as the Heavenly Luo Daoist Sect when they were being forced around by the Heavenly Punishing Villa and the Sound of Thunder Sect. To the Aspiring Throne Qin Clan, such powerhouses would pose as a threat in the end.

Even without this layer of collaboration, these four warriors have targeted Qin Wushuang, how could he show mercy and be lenient?

Upon diving to the six hundredth metre water area, Qin Wushuang immediately felt the difference this dividing line had bought. It was not strange how the Floating Snow House had forbid the young disciples from diving more than six hundred meters into the water. After passing six hundred metres, the water pressure and the spiritual Qi movements of the undercurrent he felt were completely different from those above the six hundred metre mark.

If the water currents were describes as ordinary above six hundred metres, then the ones beneath six hundred metres could be said as surging forth violently.

It would not have mattered if there were only just different undercurrents. In this area there were also different types of underwater spiritual beasts starting to become active.

The most fatal part was that the spiritual beasts of the underwater all excelled at disguising themselves. Sometimes you would feel it was just a piece of rotten wood, a crowded reef, or sometimes a lump of aquatic grass. You would soon realize, however, that these were all disguised spiritual beats.

At this time, Qin Wushuang had shown his advantage as an expert in the beast language. Firstly, he could communicate with these underwater spiritual beast. Secondly, he could acquire beneficial information from communicating with the beasts.

When the spiritual beasts of the underwater saw Qin Wushuang excelled in beast language and as they sensed the presence of powerful beasts, they felt that he was not someone they could push around.

Naturally, this strong presence had been dispersed from the sealed scrolls. The sealed scrolls possessed innate intimidation power to the spiritual beasts!