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"This water is fine for bathing, but not for drinking; it has a strong sulfur smell," Gu Ran cautioned.
"Got it!" Su Xiaoqiang waved to him and then jumped into the lake.
The lake was very clear, but there were no living creatures in it, only some aquatic plants. Gu Ran used his white eye to see through it, and there were no strange large animals in the seabed either.
As the beauty bathed, Gu Ran admired her graceful figure from the side. At the same time, he took out a spirit scroll and brought out some pots, pans, and utensils needed for camping, preparing to start a fire and cook.
Su Xiaoqiang swam towards the center of the lake.
The lake isn't very big, about thirty meters in diameter.
"Be careful, don't dive, the water's quite deep here," Gu Ran shouted to her. "Don't be naughty!"
"I know, I'm not a child!" Su Xiaoqiang replied.
She regularly swims, so she's a very good swimmer. As a result, she swims very boldly, just like a mermaid, her snow-white body tumbling in the water.
"I love watching you swim on your back!" Gu Ran exclaimed with a smile.
Su Xiaoqiang smiled, but did not do as he wished, and simply played in the water at her own pace.
Suddenly, she seemed to see something interesting at the bottom of the lake, so she took a deep breath and plunged straight into the water.
Gu Ran had been watching her movements closely. When he saw her actions, he was stunned for a moment and immediately rolled his eyes at her.
After diving underwater, she seemed to have discovered something interesting and reached out to retrieve it.
Gu Ran had only glanced at the animals with his eyes to see if there were any dangerous ones, and then paid no further attention.
Now, Su Xiaoqiang has discovered a large clam, which looks like coral. It hadn't moved, so Gu Ran hadn't paid any attention to it.
Now it has opened its shell, revealing a fluorescent bead inside.
It was precisely because Su Xiaoqiang saw this bead that she was so excited and immediately dived down.
Gu Ran judged that the seabed was about six meters deep, but because it was crystal clear, he thought it was shallow.
He was worried that Su Xiaoqiang might misjudge the water depth and cause a problem, so he kept a close eye on her.
Sure enough, just as she had submerged about three meters into the lake, a turbulent vortex suddenly appeared at the bottom of the water and sucked her in.
With a thought, Gu Ran sensed the mark on Su Xiaoqiang's wedding ring, used the Flying Thunder God Technique to teleport behind her, and scooped her up.
However, the suction force at the bottom of the lake was actually struggling against him, trying to pull him to the bottom of the lake as well!
If Gu Ran were alone, he would immediately dive to the bottom of the lake to investigate, but since he had Su Xiaoqiang with him, he was afraid she would choke on the seawater, so he glanced back at the sky and used his Heavenly Hand Power to teleport to the surface of the water.
Chapter 583 Dragon Embryos
Gu Ran held the snow-white Su Xiaoqiang, floating about a meter above the lake surface, watching the water below warily.
But at this moment, the once turbulent lake water calmed down again.
Everything came quickly and went quickly.
Gu Ran floated back to the shore, where Su Xiaoqiang was perched on his shoulder, coughing.
She just choked on some water.
Gu Ran gently patted her smooth back to comfort her, and it took her a while to recover.
Gu Ran carried the snow-white lamb back to the camp, held her affectionately in her arms, and stared at her with some anger: "I told you not to be naughty, look, now look what happened?"
Su Xiaoqiang said, feeling wronged, "How was I supposed to know that there would be a whirlpool in this calm water for no reason? Why are you yelling at me!"
Gu Ran took off his own hoodie and draped it over her, who was completely naked.
Su Xiaoqiang glanced at Gu Ran and noticed that he looked unwell, so she took his hand and said, "Okay, okay, it was my fault. I shouldn't have messed around like that."
"I was wrong too. I spoiled you too much." Gu Ran reached out and pinched her delicate nose. "It seems I'll have to keep a close eye on you like a child for the next while."
"Mmm, mmm, mmm, not enough! You still can't spoil me enough!" Su Xiaoqiang, disregarding her nakedness, snuggled into Gu Ran's arms and acted coquettishly. "Keep spoiling me!"
She wrapped her arms around Gu Ran's neck, swaying her weight from side to side with each foot.
Gu Ran chuckled, looking down at her little feet bouncing around on the beach. Worried that she might catch a cold, he told her to quickly put on her clothes.
Then he immediately used a small-scale fire technique to start a campfire in the camp: "Get dressed and come warm yourself by the fire."
"Okay!" Su Xiaoqiang said while putting on her underwear.
At this moment, Gu Ran looked towards the center of the lake and felt that the sudden force at the bottom of the lake was not just a simple undercurrent; there was probably something at the bottom of the lake.
In this world, most supernatural events and phenomena are caused by dragons or hybrids.
So, that giant clam...
He thought for a moment, then put his hands together in prayer. As soon as the thought arose, he instantly entered immortal mode.
It's best to be cautious when dealing with what appears to be a dragon, so he immediately unleashed his strongest combat form.
Then, he created five shadow clones.
"Wow, when that clone suddenly appeared, it looked like a ninja!" Su Xiaoqiang remarked by the campfire.
One of the shadow clones turned around and glanced at her, making a face at her. Then Gu Ran's main body and the other shadow clones noticed and also turned around and made faces at her.
"Hahaha, how silly and childish you guys are!" Su Xiaoqiang said with a giggle.
After fooling around for a while, Gu Ran got down to business. He first rolled his eyes at the bottom of the lake again, and the big clam was still there.
So, a shadow clone entered the water, intending to retrieve the large clam from the bottom of the lake to see what was going on.
However, just as the shadow clone was about to reach the bottom of the lake, the giant clam suddenly opened, and at the same time, a vortex appeared again, sucking the shadow clone directly into the bottom of the lake.
Immediately afterwards, the giant clam swallowed the shadow clone whole.
"Holy crap!" Gu Ran closed his eyes, feeling a sharp pain in his body—this was the sensation of his shadow clone.
He did it on purpose, wanting to see what tricks that giant clam would play, but it seems it only knows how to use water currents to attract moving things in the water?
So, Gu Ran formed hand seals and used the Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique to launch the giant clam from the bottom of the lake directly with the Water Dragon Bullet!
Instantly, two spiraling water dragons rose from the bottom of the water, pushing the large clam out of the water.
That giant clam looked small at the bottom of the water, but it was actually as big as a wok.
However, after the giant clam came ashore, it didn't move at all and started to play dead.
"Is this the vortex caused by this thing?" Su Xiaoqiang asked curiously as she approached Gu Ran.
"It might be something from inside the clam shell." Gu Ran casually reached out and ruffled her hair. "Didn't you see something glowing inside?"
"Yup!"
"Women are indeed interested in things that shine, like glowing... badminton shuttlecocks."
Su Xiaoqiang was unaware of the joke about the glowing badminton shuttlecock; she just kept urging Gu Ran to open the clam.
I don't know if this thing is a freshwater clam or a sea clam. If it's a freshwater clam, how come there are freshwater clam in the sea?
If it is a sea clam, why does it live in freshwater?
"Quick, smash it open and take out the luminous pearl inside!" Su Xiaoqiang urged Gu Ran.
Gu Ran wasn't in a hurry. He sent his shadow clone into the sky, used the Weighted Rock Technique to cover his hands with a thick layer of rocks, and then added weight as he fell from the sky, punching the center of the giant clam!
This punch also amplified Sakura Rush's monstrous strength, making it incredibly powerful and heavy, like a pile driver.
However, such a powerful punch left the giant clam shell completely unharmed!
"This is something!" Gu Ran saw how hard the clam shell was and couldn't bear to break it, so he thought for a moment and exchanged thoughts with his shadow clone.
Immediately, the shadow clones understood the main body's intention. The four shadow clones, together with Gu Ran's main body, surrounded the giant clam and then formed hand seals at the same time!
Sage Art: Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique!
He's going to bake this thing until it's hot!
This is how it usually happens when grilling clams; they'll open up once they're cooked.
Five powerful fireballs kept spewing fire at the giant clam, let's see how long you can endure it!
"Holy crap, you can breathe fire? Isn't that a skill only the Calabash Brothers have?" Su Xiaoqiang exclaimed in surprise. It was the first time she had ever seen Gu Ran breathe fire.
The five flames were emitted by Gu Ran in Immortal Mode, and the continuous high temperature output could even evaporate all the water in the lake.
Therefore, the giant clam opened in no time!
The instant the door opened, a shadow clone instantly teleported inside and retrieved the bead.
Then, the item ended up in Gu Ran's hands.
This is a black bead that emits a green fluorescence, though it's not very clear in the daytime.
"What is this?" Su Xiaoqiang leaned closer to take a look, but Gu Ran stopped her. She obeyed and immediately stopped.
Gu Ran could clearly see the inside of this thing with just a glance.
Inside the bead is a small dragon.
Therefore, this bead is actually an embryo left behind by a dragon after it has transformed into a cocoon.
Besides the little dragon inside, the outer circular part of this embryo also possessed sentience. It seemed to sense that a living thing was approaching, so the circular part conjured two hands and began to bite Gu Ran's arm.
But Gu Ran had entered immortal mode, and his body was covered in fine scales, which it couldn't bite through at all.
This thing is too weak and needs to absorb a lot of essence and blood to slowly grow.
So we don't know if someone deliberately placed the embryo here.
No wonder there are few creatures in this lake; they must have all been sucked clean by this embryo and used as nutrients.
However, there are very few creatures on such small islands, and it is unknown how long it will take for them to take shape.
Seemingly because it failed to bite through Gu Ran's arm, it automatically sensed a threat and began to rage. The little dragon inside started to stir restlessly, as if it wanted to come out.
But it's still so young, what's the point of it coming out?
Dragons are most vulnerable when they are in their cocoons, so the dragon king's cocoon is hidden in a secret place, such as inside Nibelungen, and requires a special key to enter.
However, this little dragon has no Nibelung roots at all, so its bloodline is not high. It may be a third or even fourth generation species.
"This little thing should be of great research value if I take it back. I'll give it to Mom!" Gu Ran thought for a moment, then used water and wind techniques to create ice and freeze the thing.
At the low temperature, the embryo quickly lost its vitality and soon turned into a large ice ball in Gu Ran's hands.