Sealed Divine Throne II: Twin Sons of Dragon
Chapter 395 - 196: Diving_2

Chapter 395: Chapter 196: Diving_2

Long Dangdang shook his head and said, "No, that won’t be the case. The requirement for Blood Refining Golden Body is to cultivate both inner and outer spiritual power at the same time. As long as my outer spiritual power cultivation speed can always keep up with the rise of my inner spiritual power, there won’t be any problems. My inner spiritual power is now close to 3,900, not far from the 6th Rank. If I start cultivating my outer spiritual power and rapidly increase it to 3,900, it can then be promoted together with the inner spiritual power."

Ling Menglu was a bit helpless when hearing this. She said, "Don’t let Sister Wang hear you say that. She endured so much pain and spent so much energy to train her outer spiritual power to 4,000. But you, the Blood Refining Golden Body is just a shortcut in your hands."

Long Dangdang said, "Indeed, for Kongkong and me, the Blood Refining Golden Body is indeed a shortcut. We’ve stored up quite a lot of dragon blood. I’ll start cultivating today, Kongkong and I will take turns. His inner spiritual power is now about 1,900, which can slightly boost his outer spiritual power. In this way, our chances of passing the test will be greatly increased."

"Okay. I’ll protect you."

This was also why Long Dangdang had called Ling Menglu out. Of those who knew their secret, only she did.

In the wild, there was no such thing as a bathtub, but this didn’t stump Long Dangdang. The lake water was readily available, a pit dug on the ground, some lake water led into it, add the blood of the dragon genus magical beasts, and there was a makeshift bathtub. To prevent the blood from seeping into the ground and getting wasted, he combined the earth and fire specialty magic to fire the pit walls and make them somewhat porcelainized, thereby insulating the liquid.

Ling Menglu activated a Holy Light Protection, shielded the pit with some other light specialty magic. They told their partners that Long Dangdang and Long Kongkong were practicing the Blood Refining Golden Body in turns to sharpen their skills before the battle."

Wang Changxin had just advanced to the 6th Rank, so she couldn’t continue to cultivate the Blood Refining Golden Body now. She had to wait until her inner spiritual power was upgraded to the 7th Rank and then carry on with the cultivation, which would prevent her progress from being delayed.

There was no doubt to anyone about Long Dangdang and Long Kongkong’s current cultivation; they were thought to be on the verge of the 5th and 6th Ranks respectively.

There was indeed an accumulation of quite a lot of dragon blood. The captured magical beasts they had were all sources of blood, especially the two Level 8 magical beasts, massive beings. They had bled them previously. Also, the blood of the 7th Rank, for the current Long Dangdang and Long Kongkong, was excellent in boosting the effect of the Blood Refining Golden Body. Long Kongkong was not even allowed to use a lot of this high-ranking blood. Only a small amount needed to be added to the water to have a good effect on him.

Through the night, Long Dangdang and Long Kongkong’s outer spiritual power had a considerable boost.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, Ming Xi first taught everyone the basics of diving, and then went to explore the underwater passage.

The two most important points about diving are, firstly how to maintain a balance between the internal pressure and the pressure from the environment while holding breath. The pressure varies at different depths of water. Generally, when diving to about two meters deep, you would start feeling uncomfortable in your ears, and you need to balance the ear pressure. The way to do so is not complicated, it’s just a matter of directing the air inside your body into your ears. This would push back the ear drum, which is caved in due to external pressure, and keep it balanced.

For ordinary people, this is very difficult because the balancing process needs to be done repeatedly, with every increase in the depth comes the necessity to balance, and then balance again with every extra depth. But for professionists like them, even the magic professionists, their outer spiritual power is incomparable to ordinary people. Their spiritual power is rather strong and they can easily control even the small, weak area like the ear drum. Thus the balancing becomes easy.

Therefore, everyone was able to swim freely underwater just by holding their breaths. When able to use spiritual power, swimming underwater felt pretty much the same as in the air, other than the greater resistance under the water. They were rather interested in this clear lake.

The peculiar sensation felt when watching the fish swim past themselves was rather genuine.

Ming Xi made three trips back and forth through the underwater passage before he could completely understand the passage.

As he drew a map on the ground and briefed everyone, he said, "The underwater passage is winding and difficult to traverse. Furthermore, there’s no light underwater and I could see clearly only by making my equipment glow. But during the real test when our inner spiritual power is sealed, we can’t rely on our equipment. So, we have to memorize the passage. The other end of the underwater passage is in the belly of the mountain where water routes connect to the outside. The water temperature underneath is much colder. Without strong enough spiritual power protection, the cold could greatly interfere. Even with the use of spiritual power, it takes me over six minutes to pass through. The instructor’s previous statement was somewhat conservative. Trying to pass through in eight to ten minutes under a condition of sealed spiritual power requires excellent physical stamina. The outer spiritual power needs to be at least over 500."

Long Dangdang said, "We tried out just now and found that without using the inner spiritual power to adjust breathing, just relying on holding breath, Menglu, Tao Linlin, and Yue Li can last four to five minutes max. For those of us with stronger outer spiritual power, the time should be enough. But to grope through the underwater passage below, it definitely takes more than five minutes."

Ling Menglu chuckled and said, "This is indeed the test of willpower that the instructor mentioned."

Long Dangdang nodded and seeing the somewhat pale faces of the three magic professionists, he said, "You focus on practicing holding your breath first, as much you can, to extend the duration. Then, we’ll explore the underwater passage below with Ming Xi, using the spiritual power at first to familiarize ourselves with the passage. This would save us some time. According to my plan, when we are doing the test later, we’ll use ropes to tie everyone together to avoid being lost. At that time, Ming Xi will lead the way, Sister Wang and I are stronger, and we’ll try our best to carry all of you. Kongkong will assist in adjusting everyone’s trajectory through the rope. The three magic professionists have only to hold their breath and maintain ear pressure, and just not make any movements. This way would lessen the oxygen you need and allow you to hold your breath for a longer time. Leave the rest to us."

Unquestionably, this was the best way. Everyone nodded.

Ling Menglu said, "Before the test, I can try to boost everyone’s state with magic. The seal on our spiritual power won’t affect our physical state. But according to your plan, you four will be under great pressure. You need to dive yourselves and carry us along. It’s not easy to adjust the direction in the winding underwater passage."

Long Dangdang replied, "This is something you don’t have to worry about. What I need is for all of you to hold your breath no matter what, until we emerge from the water."

Yue Li stuck out her tongue and said, "To hold your breath for such a long time, that’s a really painful thing to do! I’m scared I might not be able to hold it beyond my limit."

Long Dangdang said in a profound voice, "Given our physical condition as professionists, even if we exceed our limits, it won’t cause much damage to our bodies in the short term. But most importantly, you must not have any fear, and you must have faith."

Ming Xi added, "If it’s us carrying you, before the test starts, you need to relax your minds and bodies as much as possible, reducing your body’s nutrient consumption."