Chapter 961 - New Attempt (1/2)

Chapter 961: New Attempt

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Ling Han didn’t wait for Shui Yanyu’s answer, and directly extracted the essence from a new Mountain River Stone.

Of course, this wasn’t the special Mountain River Stone that he had obtained recently. Rather, it was one that he had obtained from the group of seven that he had killed. He had obtained a total of two Mountain River Stones from them, but as he had been busy with his journey, he hadn’t refined the two stones yet.

The eyes of the others became green with envy as they saw Ling Han refining a Mountain River Stone openly, and they could barely contain themselves, not das.h.i.+ng over and s.n.a.t.c.hing it away.

Fortunately, they were able to stop themselves when they realized that it was only an ordinary Mountain River Stone.

Ordinary Mountain River Stones were only capable of reducing the cultivation time of cultivators. Although they were extremely valuable, prodigies weren’t too fussy about the small amount of time that they could save. Only Mountain River Stones with special attributes could be considered precious treasures. They could genuinely raise one’s battle prowess.

Fearing Ling Han’s battle prowess was only part of the reason that no one charged over. The other reason was because of Hu Feiyun. She was the Ninth King!

Thinking of the empress of the Chaotic Stars Majestic Empire’s fondness toward the Ninth King, who would dare to disrespect her?

Even the members of the Chaotic Stars Majestic Empire didn’t dare touch the Ninth King. It was much the same for the Eternity Sky and Jade Drop Majestic Empires. In fact, they even had to risk their lives to rescue her if she were to come across any dangers. After all, everyone was aware that the empress of the Chaotic Stars Majestic Empire would definitely erupt in rage if the Ninth King were to die here. She definitely wouldn’t hesitate to bury everyone here alive as a tribute to the Ninth King.

There was no need for doubt—the empress of the Chaotic Stars Majestic Empire could definitely steel her heart to do that.

Shui Yanyu wasn’t stupid. It was impossible to come across Hu Feiyun during normal occasions. Now that she had such a great opportunity, she naturally had to act friendly with Hu Feiyun. The Ninth King was charming and naive, and knew little of the world’s dangers and evils. Before long, she had already fallen into a cheerful conversation with Shui Yanyu.

Ling Han casually cultivated in front of everyone else.

In the eyes of others, such action was crazy and rash. However, Ling Han was incredibly relaxed. This was because no one else knew that his physique had already reached the toughness of a Level Two G.o.dly metal. Who here could injure him?

Even if they used divine flames, they would probably still need to refine him for several days, right? If they instead chose to use the most potent poison, it would still be quite a while before he was actually taken down by it.

After all, the unique environment here guaranteed that Ling Han was almost completely safe.

The Mountain River Stone in his hand was slowly becoming dimmer. Meanwhile, the large mountain in his Dantian was rapidly growing larger.

The lower one’s cultivation level, the faster one’s growth. When the Mountain River Stone became dull and brittle, the first Mountain in Ling Han’s Dantian had already grown 100-fold. Now, it was finally starting to look a little bit like a mountain.

‘I’m almost at the middle stage of the low extreme,’ Ling Han thought to himself. ‘But this Mountain River is already about to form and condense a river, so why is the mountain still so small?

‘Is it because I’m relying on the Mountain River Stone to rank up?

‘Whatever, everything will be fine as long as my battle prowess matches my tier.’

Ling Han stood up and started to cross the river again.

This time, he charged to the 60th stone in one breath before finally slowing down. After raising his cultivation level, his improvement was especially clear. However, a feeling of strain once again overcame him when he reached the 90th stone. He pushed himself to take another step forward, yet all he could do was helplessly plop into the river.

“Hahaha!” A few people immediately started to howl with laughter. They looked as if they were about to break into gleeful applause at any moment.

However, looks of shock spread across their faces in the very next instant.

It was because Ling Han was actually swinging his arms and swimming toward the island!

‘Monster! He’s definitely a monster!’

It wasn’t that no one had thought of this before. Since they had made it more than halfway, why couldn’t they swim forward? In fact, the distance was even shorter if they swam.

The answer was simple. It was because this was actually more difficult—more than one hundred times more difficult, to be precise.

Swimming away from the island was extremely easy. Apart from the corrosive nature of the lake water, there wasn’t even the tiniest bit of resistance. However, swimming toward the island was a completely different story. In addition to the threat of the lake water, there was also a terrifying resistive power.