Chapter 359: Foggy Island (1/2)
Chapter 359: Foggy Island
Translator: 3herylEditor: Hitesh_
Ye Chen saw that the old man and his granddaughter had noticed his existence, so there was no need to hide anymore. He walked out of the fog and said with his hands held in front of his chest, ”Greetings. I am terribly sorry for breaking in the forbidden area, but I am not very familiar with this area, I wonder if I can get a ride from you guys to a place where I can rest.” The forbidden area was too mysterious and confusing. Without people as guides, it would be impossible for Ye Chen to find anywhere to rest.
The young lady saw that Ye Chen was so young but carried such a decent aura, with a hint of freshness and sharpness which was not the characteristics of bad men, so she asked the elder with a low quiet voice, ”Grandpa, should we bring him with us? Maybe we could ask for some boat fee since most of the people who enter the forbidden area are 'rich'.”
The elder nodded and said to Ye Chen: ”You can enter the boat, but you will have to pay three thousand low rank soul stones as fee. How about it?”
In the elder's eyes, Ye Chen's cultivation was quite odd. His zhen qi was too pure for a Clasping Yuan Realm warrior, but it seemed to be impossible for him to be an Astral Reaching Realm warrior, since one would have such a rich and power zhen yuan, which was different from the one Ye Chen carried, unless he hid his qi. Obviously, the elder did not know that Ye Chen had damaged meridians, so his zhen yuan now was not even half of his original quantity and it was very impure compared to its normal condition. However, the fact of Ye Chen being a Clasping Yuan Realm warrior was certain, and he should be able to afford three thousand low rank soul stones.
”Okay!” Ye Chen agreed instantly. Three thousand low rank soul stones were nothing compared to the rest of his property.
”Get on then!”
The young lady waved her hand.
After getting on the boat, Ye Chen came to realize that the deck was full of dead beast corpses, with their inner pellets being taken out. They were all mainly rank 3 beasts, and not many rank 4 beasts. However, there was one rank 5 beast. He did not understand what these people killed these beasts for, since the pellets from rank three and four beasts would not value much. But, it would not be his place to ask.
He took out three small boxes from his storage ring, each containing one thousand low rank soul stones, Ye Chen handed them over to the elder, ”There are three thousand low rank soul stones. You want to count them?”
The elder opened the boxes to check before nodded and said, ”We will need to drive the boat in a minute. Can you wait a bit first?”
”Alright!”
Ye Chen was not in a hurry either, so he stood on the side.
Besides the elder and the young lady being Clasping Yuan Realm warriors, there were another two Clasping Yuan Realm warriors amongst those ten warriors who jumped into the lake to kill the beasts. They were the son and grandson of the elder, and the rest of them were all Condensing Reality Realm warriors, equal to normal inner disciple in a normal martial school.
”Did you really come from the outside world?” The young lady approached Ye Chen and asked.
Ye Chen answered, ”Yes.”
”Is the outside world really that fun? I have never been outside.” The woman said with envy.
”You grew up in here?”
Ye Chen was quite surprised.
”Yeah, my great grandfather had gotten stuck in the forbidden area. Ever since then, he got married and had children, and made my family.”
After hearing the woman, Ye Chen could not help but feel sorry for her. He did not know exactly how big this island was, but there would be a limit no matter how big it was. Without being able to see the outside world and having to live on an island on her life must have been a torture. Of course, with growing up and living here her whole life, she would have no idea what it was like out there, so perhaps the excitement would not be that deep.
He did not want to let the young woman have too much excitement for the world outside, so Ye Chen shook his head and said that it was very dangerous out there, and he was here because he was being haunted.
”You are lying! Once, someone said that the world outside is huge and endless. There are a lot of interesting places. As for killings, we have that here too on the forbidden island.” Young woman said, a bit upset.
Ye Chen forced a laugh while touching his nose.
”Oh, alright, why are you hunting the low rank beasts? The pellet from these rank 3 and 4 beasts should not worth much, right?” Ye Chen could not help but ask.
The young lady made a look at Ye Chen and explained, ”The natural yuan qi is quite weak here, and there aren't many medicine and great potions. Therefore, we have to kill the beasts and extract the pellets from their bodies to train. However, after a long while, the high ranked beasts are running out as well, so without any other choice, we started to kill low rank beasts.”
”I see.”
Ye Chen just realized it - the natural yuan qi was indeed quite weak in the forbidden island, less than thirty percent of the outside world. In this kind of environment, the training speed would not be too high.
At the head of the boat, the elder took out a skull-sized light ball, which shone an orange light, but slowly dimmed.
”The sensing ball is about to lose connection with the tower. Everyone, aboard.” With surrounding zhen qi, the elder's voice spread out in every direction under the water.
Soon, countless human figures jumped out of the water and landed on the deck of the boat. A lot of them carried beasts with them, and were covered in blood.
”Father, what is going on with this guy?” It came from the son of the elder who was in his forties and extremely strong. Before, he was too busy killing beasts to pay attention to Ye Chen. It was until then that he had a minute of free time to ask about him.