I Can Recognize Everything, But the Information is Wrong

In the heartland of the Blood Sect, it is not suitable to travel by boat or fly.

Tian Lin and Zhao Bei traveled by Sword Control, and it took them three to four days to finally reach Chenxian Town.

This place is called a small town, but in fact, it only has a few mountains and several villages. Even the Blood Sect Devotees are reluctant to come here.

"People say, live off the mountain if it's near, live off the sea if it's close. Here at Immortal Sinking Pond, one can neither sail out to sea nor catch fish."

When they really arrived at Immortal Sinking Pond and looked at the vast and boundless sea, disappointment was inevitable in Zhao Bei's heart.

He thought Immortal Sinking Pond must possess some extraordinary spectacle, but upon truly seeing it, he realized it was no different from any other sea area.

"The stone path ahead must be the remains of the old dock. The ancestors from the immortal gate all left from here to seek immortality in Cangzhou."

Seeing a towering wooden stake near the shore, Zhao Bei felt a slight surge of emotion.

He looked at the wooden stake, almost a thousand years old and still not decayed, imagining the ancestors must have stopped here in front of it and, like him, looked at the vast sea from its side.

Tian Lin couldn't feel what Zhao Bei was feeling at all; no matter how he contemplated, the wooden stake was still just a wooden stake, and it had deteriorated even more than a thousand years ago.

"Junior Brother Zhao, do you think this seawater has changed differently from a thousand years ago?"

Tian Lin walked alone to the shore and reached out to touch the slightly warm waves.

"Elder Brother Tian, your question is strange. Nowadays in Yulong Continent, who has seen the sea from a thousand years ago?"

While saying this, Zhao Bei still went to Tian Lin's side, stepping on the waves, and scooped up a handful.

Water flowed through his fingers, leaving only a few grains of sand.

He placed it on his tongue for a taste. The seawater was slightly bitter; he couldn't detect anything unusual.

"This sea is definitely different from a thousand years ago."

In Tian Lin's eyes, the notification from the illusion that said "Water Spirit Foundation Establishment Pool" had now changed to "Earth Spirit Foundation Establishment Pool."

He never expected that, while searching for the Foundation Establishment Pool in the illusion following the perspective of Patriarch Yuelao, he would find a Water Spirit Foundation Establishment Pool here at Immortal Sinking Pond that had turned into an Earth Spirit Foundation Establishment Pool.

This change caught Tian Lin off guard.

"Yes, the past is a thousand years old, how could the people and objects of a thousand years ago remain the same a millennium later?"

Zhao Bei misinterpreted Tian Lin's intention and continued expressing his feelings based on Tian Lin's words:

"The Yulong Continent, before the ancestors, who knows how many people wanted to sail out to seek immortality—

But the continent is like an isolated island with endless sea on other sides. Although there's no 'Immortal Sinking Pond,' it is surrounded by boundless oceans.

Only through the perilous Immortal Sinking Pond, one can connect to another sacred land of the immortals."

Zhao Bei was correct, as far as Tian Lin knew, Yulong Continent was originally part of Cangzhou.

If not for the Swordsman severing it with a stroke of his sword, Yulong Continent would not have an Immortal Sinking Pond, and would have been a true port surrounded by sea on three sides.

"Junior Brother Zhao, let's visit the farmers in Chenxian Town. They live near the coast all year round, so they should know more about Immortal Sinking Pond than us."

Tian Lin looked toward Zhao Bei.

At that moment, Zhao Bei was placing a small piece of wood on the shore, where the waves slapped it high into the air, before it retreated into the sea.

The wood, which had been floating on the water's surface, sank into the sea upon entering and disappeared in an instant.

Hearing Tian Lin speak, he stopped his curiosity and followed Tian Lin into the woods behinf using Sword Control.

Chenxian Town is near the sea, but almost all the households living there are hunters.

According to these hunters, the water in Immortal Sinking Pond has been changing every now and then for a long time.

However, the changes are not seasonal but occur over intervals. The water on the sea surface will sink to the seabed, and the water at the seabed will rise to the surface.

A thousand years ago, when Chenxian Town was bustling, the town's people realized that Immortal Sinking Pond might consist of five kinds of water convergence.

One layer of water is poisonous, only creatures like the Golden Ear Fish dare to swim in it.

Another layer of water is slightly poisonous, but people can boil it to extract some gray-brown dust.

...

Five different kinds of water create Immortal Sinking Pond.

And only the creatures of the Five Elements can freely swim in these five types of water.

In the early days, the townspeople of Chenxian Town were able to lure the creatures with special methods onto shore and devise ways to hunt them, extracting their precious Five Elements beads.

"The rising and sinking of the five types of water has been the same for a thousand years. But in the thousand years since, the pace of this rise and fall began to slow. From every ten or so years to several decades—

Nowadays, the surface of Immortal Sinking Pond hasn't changed its water in two hundred years."

The old man said, "If it's the extremely poisonous water, it's fine, but this slightly poisonous water makes the fish scarce and inedible—over time, no one in Chenxian Town goes to the sea anymore."

Zhao Bei curiously asked the old man, "I just tried it and Immortal Sinking Pond doesn't keep wood afloat, indeed everything sinks.

If so, why can the fish swim on the surface?"

The old man immediately replied, "Besides the creatures of the Five Elements, these fish cannot swim freely. Like the Golden Ear Fish, it can move in non-toxic waters.

But Immortal Sinking Pond seems to have cursed these fish. Golden Ear Fish can only survive in poisonous water, and Saw-toothed Demons can only live in slightly poisonous sea areas."

He said, "When you see fish and shrimp on the surface, you might think they can escape the fate of being 'devoured' by Immortal Sinking Pond. But that's not true—if the surface water is non-poisonous, Golden Ear Fish will sink into the poisonous sea regions."

Tian Lin and Zhao Bei visited several households and the answers they got were largely the same.

That afternoon, Zhao Bei had diarrhea all day long, while Tian Lin took the opportunity to absorb the energy from the Earth Spirit Foundation Establishment Pool in the deserted seawater.