Chapter 126 - How Hard Can It Be? (1/2)

*Cough cough*

Zhong Yue woke up in a fit of coughing. As he coughed up bloody phlegm, he visualized the moon and sun that circled around him as they slowly treated his injuries, purging the dead flesh and dirt in his wounds for a quicker recovery speed.

He was lucky enough to survive as he had more than hundreds of wounds all over his body and he had torn most of his muscles during the battle. Currently, he used up all of the Lingyu Paste he took out from the Swords Gate on his wounds. With the help of the [Sun Moon Prodigious Emanation Art], his recovery speed sped up significantly.

There are fractures all over my bones as well….

He looked inwards and inspected his internal organs and the bones, only to discover that they too suffered heavy injuries due to the relentless ramming of the insect race into him. With such injuries, it would take up to at least four days for him to fully recover.

I almost died this time and Xin Huo actually asked me to try another time.

After quite a while, Zhong Yue only started to get up slowly and he could feel extreme pain all over his limbs. He looked around the tunnel he created and he saw corpses of the thousands poisonous hornets and heaven silkworms littered around the tunnel.

This was all my doing?

Zhong Yue breathed in deeply and all he could feel was a tingling horror, as if he hadn't fought to the end, he might have been completely devoured by the insect swarm. He would've been left with no trace of himself remaining in the world!

At this rate, I would be done for if I were to encounter another one or two insect race. I should just quietly stay here and recover my injuries. Besides….

He looked at the corpses of the heaven silkworms, poisonous hornets and the adult golden centipede while he thought, There are so many spiritual pearls in their bodies and I can't carry them all at once. I would also need time to fully absorb the power of these spiritual pearls to cultivate my five elemental Sword Qi!

He triggered his psyche and slashed at a rock on the top of the tunnel entrance. The rock then fell down and covered up the entrance of the tunnel.

I wonder how long it would take to fully absorb the essence of all these spiritual pearls.

Zhong Yue's psyche gushed out and the corpses of the insect races suddenly moved as his psyche extracted the spiritual pearls out of their bodies. Their spiritual pearls came in various types; the spiritual pearls of the poisonous hornets had mostly water, wood and fire elemental spiritual pearls while the heaven silkworms had mainly gold, wood and earth elemental spiritual pearls. Other than that, the sizes of their spiritual pearls greatly varied – some were as big as pebbles while some were as small as sesame seeds.

There were about ten thousand spiritual pearls but only a few of them could be considered large.

Zhong Yue started cultivating his [Great Boundless Sword Qi] and continued to absorb the power of the spiritual pearl in order to further strengthen his Sword Qi. After a few more days, his injuries had fully recovered, but he did not stop his cultivation; instead, continuing it.

In the tunnel, the number of spiritual pearls decreased significantly and seven Sword Qi were floating beside him. At this stage, other than the Xiang Dragon Sword Qi and the Coral Sword Qi, he had already cultivated the five elemental sword qi and they were getting stronger and stronger!

As time passed, the five elemental Sword Qi's power had almost become as strong as the Xiang Dragon Sword Qi, but Zhong Yue had no intention of stopping. By this point, he had already used up all of the small sized spiritual pearls.

"Long Yue might have already died halfway seeing as he is still not here yet."

In front of the monster god Ming King's palace, Yu Xuanji looked behind and he failed to discover any trace of Zhong Yue. He then shook his head and said, "The survivors are all here already and those who did not show up had most likely already died in the black jungle. Never had I thought that so many of our people died in this jungle…."

At the stairs in front of the palace, King Teng, Yu Xuanji and the others had already advanced over eighty steps and the palace began to draw near.

Behind them was another group of Qi Practitioners that came afterward. Kong Ban was among the second group of Qi Practitioners and they were working together to decipher the puzzles on the staircases.

King Teng and the others poured huge amounts of effort in order to solve the totem carvings on the stairs and they immediately removed their own totem carvings as they solved totem carvings on the stairs. They did not give any chances to Kong Ban's group of Qi Practitioner but Kong Ban and the others didn't seem to mind. After all, they were competitors; in fact, they would even grow wary if King Teng and the others had given them any extra chances in case they were plotting something nefarious for them.

The two groups of Qi Practitioners consisted of only fourteen of them. This means that out of the sixty plus Rebirth Qi Practitioners that had entered the Black Mountain's secret realm, only fourteen of them were able to make it to this point whereas the others had seemingly lost their lives in just the black forest underground!

Time slowly passed and after over ten days, King Teng, Yu Xuanji, Hu Qimei and the others managed to decipher another ten plus steps. With that, their excitement was on the verge of boiling over as they were now only eight steps away from the entrance of the palace. However, they ultimately managed to maintain their composure.

"Thank god we worked together to solve the totem carvings on the stairs. We might've taken years to decipher these totem carvings if we had acted alone, not to mention the extremely high risk of dying!" a Qi Practitioner laughed.

"Saint city lord is indeed powerful. What a godly character, to be able to walk all the way here alone and enter the palace of the Monster God Ming King to obtain his heritage!"