"Hey brother, do you think there are secrets inside the pond? If there is, I really want to try my luck." Li Zhenyuan couldn’t help but inquire as he walked towards the lake with Ye Chen and others.
"Don’t you have divination skills? Why not use it and figure it out yourself?" Ye Chen rolled his eyes at the fat guy while feeling disappointed that his divination technique didn’t work.
He had, after all, low cultivation; no matter how hard he tried, he was bound to fail.
"Brother, if I could calculate such a thing, I would have done it long ago," Li Zhenyuan spoke with a dissatisfied sigh and glanced at the big lake in front.
"As long as we cultivate in this lake, our spiritual Qi will be refined, the impurities in the body will disappear, and there is even a chance of getting enlightened. With such outstanding benefits, there is no way the lake would not have any secrets hidden below."
"But a pity that most of us can only walk inside up to a hundred meters," he sighed once again.
The lake was pretty wide, amounting to a total of a thousand meters; as for the depth, it was shallow at the start and deeper the further you go.
Although it was not difficult to go beyond hundred meters, no one wanted to cultivate rapidly and break through the Qi-refining stage, so the majority of them would only cultivate below hundred meters.
"Hey brother, do you have any tricks to go farther than a hundred meters? If yes, tell me," suddenly, Li Zhenyuan thought of Ye Chen killing people in a restricted area and inquired with a whisper.
Although the hope was slim that there should be any tricks, he decided to give it a try.
"Fatty, don’t you understand how the mystic pond works? Then why are you asking such a stupid question?" Ye Chen couldn’t help but shake his head with a disdainful look.
"Aye, brother, I know how it works, but hehe, you are a god here who can decide the life and death of others. Who knows if you have some tricks?" The fatty spoke shamelessly.
In response, Ye Chen could only roll his eyes at him.
"If there was any, I would’ve given it to my cute junior sister first rather than gifting it to a fat guy like you," he stated.
Hearing this, Li Zhenyuan could only sigh in disappointment.
"A pity that spiritual roots didn’t matter here; if not, I would be able to go further than a hundred meters," he spoke with a dejected look.
Yes, the spiritual roots didn’t matter here; no matter how high tier it was or how low it was, someone could go past hundred meters, while some even failed to cultivate at fifty meters.
"Stop with your daydreams and enter the lake," Ye Chen stated with a faint sigh as he set foot in the water.
It was neither too cold nor too hot. Furthermore, just as he set a foot inside, all the spiritual Qi in his body started moving impatiently, and a warm current, which was named mystic Qi by others, started to drill into his body.
However, Ye Chen didn’t hesitate and resisted this.
Not only he but others did the same, as by doing this they can find out how far they can go.
The reason behind this was simple: walk until you reach the limit of resistance; once you find the limit, stop there and take a step back before entering into mediation.
Splash! Splash! Splash!
Just as Ye Chen and his group entered, the disciples from other powers also followed suit.
Some were excited, and some were nervous. Almost all of them hoped to reach the hundred-meter spot, and some even thought reaching further than this, as the benefits were greater.
But only a few who had the ability to do so really cared about this; one of them was none other than Crown Prince Ji Feng.
’Father values me for my high talent, so there is no way I can fail here,’ he thought with a determined look while silently glancing at Ye Chen, who walked forward calmly. Your journey continues at freewebnovel
His expression was calm, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Compared to him, the other disciples were having a hard time just looking at Ye Chen, who was ahead of everyone.
Even Li Zhenyuan and his group felt unprecedented pressure.
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How could they not feel anything since everyone here was a genius, no matter if they fought to win this opportunity or were selected by their masters.
Some could be even considered extraordinary geniuses who appeared only in a few hundred years. With how their sect treated them, they had all been thinking no one can match their talent.
Even if their masters told them the world was wide, their arrogance was there, and they didn’t place anyone in their eyes.
But Ye Chen was different!
This guy was someone who had brought down the tribulation, had an inheritance of a mysterious alchemy master, and could even kill people in the restricted area. Which one of them can compare to him?
Clearly no one!
However, many of them deep down refused to believe that they were not better than him. Hence, they all wanted to compete with him here, especially since the tier of spiritual roots didn’t matter here.
’Ye Chen, no matter how much luck you have, in front of me, Zhu Dong, an unparalleled genius in alchemy and cultivation, you are nothing!’ Zhu Dong from the Flame Dragon Sect thought coldly.
’You do have some means, but let’s see if you are capable of entering my eyes,’ Qin Lian from the Sword Pavilion thought silently.
Splash! Splash! Splash!
Inside the cave, only the sounds of water echoed as everyone walked further and further.
There was no change until the forty-meter, where a disciple had to stop because he couldn’t resist the mystic Qi drilling inside his body.
The male disciple was from a second-grade sect and was devastated after knowing he was the first person to stop, but he knew that he couldn’t change the fact, so he unwillingly sat down and started to cultivate.
It didn’t take too long, and disciples from third and second grade sects started to fail in resisting the mystic Qi, leaving them no choice but to stop and cultivate obediently.
Less than hundred managed to walk a further eighty meters, and numbers were still falling rapidly.
"Sigh, my spiritual root is high-tier earth grade, yet still I can only walk up to eight meters," one of the disciples couldn’t help but sigh.
"Yeah, mine is the same, but do you know about that guy? He only has a mid-tier earth-grade spiritual root, yet he is still walking further than ninety meters," another disciple replied with a jealous look.
Although many didn’t waste time and started to cultivate, there were a lot of disciples who were curious about how far someone could go.
"In the previous year there was a dark horse who had cultivated at two hundred meters. Do you think anyone can do the same?"
"I don’t know, but the chances are high since there is Crown Prince Ji Feng, the genius Zhu Dong, sword master Qin Lian, and let’s not forget that fat guy Li Zhenyuan. He acts like he is out of this world, but damn, he has a low-tier, heaven-grade spiritual root!"
"What? Is it true?"
"Yes, and it is no secret in the Buddhist temple and elders of other powers. If not for the fact that this fatty was a troublemaker and is already a disciple of Buddhist Wei Sun, many would have come to poach him."
"Sigh, I am jealous of his luck. But what do you think about Ye Chen? He seems to have no problem in resisting?"
"Humph! He must be acting tough! I believe the truth will be revealed soon."
The disciple spoke with intense dislike. Well, he was, after all, from the Flame Dragon Sect.
Just as these two were conserving, Ye Chen walked past hundred meters. It was not too deep, but half of his body was now under the water while the mystic Qi was trying to drill into his body with much stronger force.
’No wonder a lot of them fail here,’ he thought silently, and after taking a look behind, he continued to walk further.
There were only about seventy disciples who were now following him, but after they reached the hundred meter target, more than forty of them had to stop there.
"Hiss, there are many disciples who reached hundred meters this year."
"Yeah, I wonder what would have happened if Ye Chen didn’t kill half of the disciples."
"I don’t think it was his fault for killing them. Also, why are you bringing this up now? Don’t you see there are more than twenty disciples who have reached one hundred twenty meters? It is a lot compared to the previous ten years."
The male disciple spoke with dissatisfaction, and his eyes became focused on the half-submerged figures.
Not only him but now almost everyone was looking at them, wondering how far they could go and who would be the one to reach the farthest.