29: Chapter 29 The Frozen Sea, Strange Water Temperature

"Roar!" (Open up for me!)

Lu Hu gave a great shout, and red energy waves exploded from him as the center, causing the temperature in the air to spike rapidly, and the snow outside the cave melted into water before one's eyes.

Rumble!

There were large hollows inside the snow, causing it to collapse, and a large amount of snow sank downward, but it turned into hot water in mid-air before it could even fall.

The hot water sank, melting the snow below, and the hundreds of meters of snow were actually sinking at this moment!

Lu Hu felt it still wasn't fast enough; he stood at the edge of the cave entrance, raised his tail, and shot out Pure Yang fluid.

Sizzle!

It was like flowing magma entering; the snow below hissed and smoked, rising with thick steam, accelerating the melting of the snow.

Rumble! Rumble!

Like a high-rise building exploding floor by floor, the hundreds of meters of deep snow dropped three or four meters every ten seconds or so.

A few minutes later, beneath the cliff, only a warm pool of water was smoking.

"Awoo~" (The Snow Leopard widened her eyes. Is this a Grandmaster? Why does it feel too easy!)

Lu Hu retracted his boiling energy, the red waves dissipated, and he turned around, walking to the Snow Leopard's two night-luminescent pearls; although these two pearls were useless, they were really pretty, and Lu Hu couldn't help but want to collect them.

"Roar~" (I, this King, will trade this with you!)

Lu Hu took out two packs of Spirit Fertilizer, opened one, and sprinkled it on the Snow Leopard's precious snow lotus.

"Awwa~~~" (The Snow Leopard was shocked; her treasure smelled even better!)

The Snow Leopard hurriedly hugged the remaining pack of Spirit Fertilizer and nodded repeatedly, fearing that Lu Hu would go back on his word.

The night-luminescent pearls only had the function of providing light; she could see clearly at night without them, and other than being pretty, they actually had no other use. Being able to trade them for a treasure that could improve the quality of her snow lotus was totally worth it!

"Hmm."

Lu Hu put away the night-luminescent pearls and then walked up to the cliff, where there was still thick snow, and the road was blocked.

But it didn't matter; wherever Lu Hu, who carried his own Pure Yang energy, went, the snow would melt rapidly, forming a path, and Lu Hu continued northward.

"Awoo~"

The Snow Leopard waved her paw at the edge of the cliff to see Lu Hu off, and after Lu Hu had gone far away, the Snow Leopard returned to the cave, hugging the Spirit Fertilizer and giggling foolishly.

She had met a good tiger today!

...

Rumble! Rumble!

Lu Hu's own Pure Yang energy was too thick; the snow melted, the temperature rose, the snowy mountain became soft, and finally, an avalanche occurred.

Lu Hu had been walking in the snowy mountains for two days and had encountered seven avalanches.

Each time it was a big collapse, with ice and snow covering everything on all sides, but Lu Hu relied on his Pure Yang energy to force a path out of the snow, and that was how he walked out of the snowy mountains.

He saw the sea, which was exuding cold air!

"This place clashes with me, this King!"

Lu Hu looked back and complained; although the avalanche couldn't hurt him, it was still a hassle. The world had turned white, and after walking for a long time, he even almost got his direction wrong.

"Finally, I see the sea!"

Lu Hu leaped from the high ground and then landed heavily into the sea.

The bone-chilling seawater had no effect on Lu Hu; in fact, because of Lu Hu's jump, the nearby water even became warm.

Glug glug~~

Lu Hu's ears closed, and then he dove down to play in the sea.

Tigers can swim, and they can also dive.

Yes, dive; swimming underwater while still having combat capability to hunt for prey—this was something Lu Hu only learned after becoming a tiger.

Normally when playing in water pools, Lu Hu liked to dive to the bottom.

Now that Lu Hu's cultivation had reached a small achievement and he had also learned the art of water control, he was relaxed and unimpeded in the water, possessing a certain level of combat power.

"There aren't any fish!"

Lu Hu swam underwater for a long time without encountering any fish; perhaps the seawater was too cold and not suitable for fish to survive.

Moreover, the seabed was only a few dozen meters deep now, still at the seaside.

"Let's go to the deep area to take a look!"

Lu Hu accelerated and swam toward the center of the sea; the seabed became deeper and deeper, and he saw fish. After Lu Hu swam to the seabed at a depth of about eight hundred meters, he felt that the water temperature was obviously similar to room temperature.

"Strange, why is the temperature at the bottom of this sea getting warmer and warmer?"

Lu Hu was puzzled; the water temperature at the bottom of this Cold Sea was higher the further down you went, while the seawater higher up was colder.

Lu Hu swam upward; he wanted to know if the sea surface was cold at this time.

As he went up, the water temperature gradually decreased, and sure enough, the bottom of the Cold Sea was hot.

While swimming upward, Lu Hu suddenly saw a figure diving down; the direction was straight and true, aimed right at him.

This was a middle-aged man using internal energy to resist the cold current of the sea, with a fishing net hanging from his waist; strangely, this fishing net was made of iron.

The diving speed was quite fast, and within a minute, he met Lu Hu. Man and tiger stared at each other, and upon seeing Lu Hu, the man was completely dumbfounded.

"Ah... woooo~"

Glug glug!

The subconscious scream caused the man to swallow several mouthfuls of seawater; he hurriedly covered his mouth and quickly calmed down, looking at Lu Hu in disbelief.

How could there be a tiger in the sea!?

"Yo heh~"

Lu Hu was also surprised and circled around the man; it was worthy of being a world with martial arts, to be able to remain so calm when encountering a tiger in the wilderness.

How could a tiger still move freely at such a deep seabed?

The middle-aged man's expression changed; he was a Second-Class expert, and even he couldn't do this so easily in the sea.

This tiger... a Spirit Tiger!

Glug glug!

Without a word, the middle-aged man immediately swam upward.

Spirit Beasts varied in strength, but ever since ancient times, a tiger that had become a Spirit Tiger had never been weaker than a First-Class expert.

He had even heard that there was a Mountain God in the Xuan Kingdom that even a Grandmaster couldn't do anything about.

Whether it was true or false, once a tiger was a Spirit Tiger, it was definitely stronger than him.

Just run!

"Roar~" (Don't run!)

Lu Hu's playfulness was aroused; he easily caught up, hovering around the middle-aged man and baring his teeth, scaring the man so much that he wished he could grow a fish tail to speed up his ascent.

Plop!

Finally, the middle-aged man flew out of the water, quickly locked onto a large ship not far away, and scrambled up. There were people on the ship to receive him, wiping his body and draping a blanket over him, asking him the reason for coming up.

"There is a Spirit Tiger underwater!"

The man was still terrified. After saying this, he wrapped himself tightly in the blanket. In order to run faster, he had exhausted all his internal energy. Without the support of internal energy, he had been forced to endure the Cold Sea, and he was shivering uncontrollably, with the water droplets on his eyelashes and hair visibly freezing into ice cubes.

"A Spirit Tiger!"

The crowd on the ship was terrified, "The breeding season for the Crimson Molten Fish is at least half a year away; how could a Spirit Tiger arrive so early?"

"Did you see wrong?"

"Can I, a dignified Second-Class expert, see wrong?"

"What should we do? With a Spirit Tiger there, should we still fish?"

"Fish! Damn it, I've dumped all my belongings into this fishing trip; it's impossible to give up!"

"Maybe the Spirit Tiger is just scouting early; let's wait two days before going into the water."

...

Suddenly, the water surface exploded, and Lu Hu emerged, roaming on the surface of the water.

"Walking... walking on the waves, Grand... Grandmaster..."

The people on the ship were completely stunned, too scared to speak, watching Lu Hu get closer and closer to them. Finally, one person on the ship hardened his heart and stood out.

Thud!

"Greetings, Lord Mountain Monarch!"

Thud! Thud! ...

"Greetings, Lord Mountain Monarch!"

The people on the ship knelt down one by one, speaking words Lu Hu didn't understand. Lu Hu thought for a moment, flicked his tiger tail, and water splashed, gathering into a line of text.

'Who among you is literate?'

"What did Lord Mountain Monarch write?"

"This looks like Kun Kingdom script. Could it be that Lord Mountain Monarch comes from the Kun Kingdom?"

"I know the kun language, let me."

A young man who could speak the kun language stepped out and glanced at the words Lu Hu had written with water. Although a few were wrong, this person was also a dabbler; he could speak the kun language but didn't know many kun script characters.

Fortunately, as Lu Hu's cultivation increased, the words he wrote contained the artistic conception he wanted to express. After the young man saw Lu Hu's words, he unconsciously grasped the meaning, and he even felt that the few kun characters he knew were things he had learned wrong in the beginning.

"It is kun script."

This person nodded, knelt back down to Lu Hu, and said in the kun language,

"Greetings, Lord Mountain Monarch!"

Now Lu Hu understood. He walked onto the ship and flicked his tail, writing to tell everyone to get up.

"Lord Mountain Monarch is telling us to get up!"

The young man who knew the kun language said hurriedly, and the others couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Fortunately, this Lord Mountain Monarch was not bloodthirsty.

"Roar~" (Come over, I, this King, have questions to ask.)