Chapter 48 Fate in the Divine Lake

After mastering the martial arts of four human limits, Wang Bugui planed two days that were fully arranged for the following cultivation. Every morning, he had to cultivate the prana blood. The rest daytime of the first day would be spent cultivating the Force Limit, and the nighttime cultivating the prana blood again. The first day's cultivation would stop until late at night. The second day was for the Speed Limit and the Acuity Limit. During daytime, he would practice what he had understood, and during the nighttime, he would continue to study the rest.

Today, after Wang Bugui combined those two martial arts of Speed Limit and Acuity Limit, it was not a problem for him to run around the Pure Land for three laps, no matter which kind of terrain. The only difficulty was the spirit of the array. After he recovered, the spirit of the array had made the whole forest area covered with the gravity field, and it would become larger as Wang Bugui's cultivation base increased.

In addition, there were countless bans set in the forest. If he accidentally touched them, he would be taught a lesson. Even the grass and vines here were given strength. As long as he entered the Ancient Forest, there would be numerous vigorous ancient vines rushing to him, and the magical flowers and grass would take the initiative to attack him.

Wang Bugui felt vexed about that. And what more terrible was that, in recent days, even the Divine Lake was set with bans. If he triggered them, he would be attacked by the various punishments. He had gone to the restricted area more than once to complain about that, but the spirit of the array denied they were set by it, and even tried to persuade Wang Bugui that one must be tempered before he took a great duty from the god.

"D*mn it!" Wang Bugui snarled with his great anger. Within the first lap, he had already been attacked a lot of times. Even with the help of those magical martial arts, he was not the opponent of the spirit of the array. Why didn't it make the entire Pure Land into a minefield? But the complaint was useless, after all, he was definitely not an opponent of the spirit of the array, so he could only try his best to endure its hell-style cultivation rules.

Wang Bugui swallowed a grass of old herbs to repair his wounded body. Then, with a roar, he returned to cultivation again. As soon as he stepped into the forest, several shadows suddenly appeared and dashed toward him. They were nine jasper-like leaves of the Nine-leaf Orchid. This red orchid had nine leaves, and each of them could fly out to kill people like sharp knives.

Wang Bugui immediately turned aside to avoid, and those nine leaves were almost pasted on his face. He just avoided the nine leaves, but was then blocked by the White Jade Flower. There was a ban among the flowers. If he couldn't avoid the flower rain, he would be hit by the martial arts of the spirit of the array. Confronted with the endless flowers, he didn't reduce his speed, and still passed through them like a traveling dragon.

Thousands of the white jade flowers floated in the air. One after one, they all dashed toward Wang Bugui. His body, however, was as light as smoke, coming and going through the flower net. His moves were unpredictable. When he seemed to the left, but he was actually to the right; when he seemed slow, he was actually very fast. Those flowers couldn't hit him. Just as he was about to get out of the flower net, several beams of power suddenly appeared in the air and clashed to him.

Wang Bugui got nervous. The spirit of the array had changed the ban. No matter whether he could avoid it or not, he would definitely trigger the ban when he was about to get out. Fortunately, he was a cultivator with a faster brain than ordinary people. It would only take him half a second to come up with such emergency countermeasures.

He released his prana blood at once, which forced him to turn left and avoid the attack of one beam of power exactly. Then, he made a flip to avoid the attack of another beam of power. But two other beams of power followed to fly to him. Like a flying swallow, he escaped from them lightly and elegantly. Finally, there were only two beams of white lights left unpassed. Not delaying, he mobilized his prana power to make a palm toward those two beams of power when he was about to land on the ground.

He stretched his body, like a roc swaying wings to hit the sky. The two beams of power were also like rainbows, breaking into the air. When he and the two rays of white light were about to collide, he suddenly spun two turns, and passed through the two rays of white light at an extremely strange angle. Like a golden roc, he smashed through the sky.

After landing on the ground, he continued to run. He would get out of the Ancient Forest after another more pass. He proceeded cautiously, but the ban of the spirit of the array was too secret, and he had suffered a lot. Now, his body was devastated by various martial arts of the spirit of the array, and his face was also covered with dust.

"Whizzing!"

Suddenly, there were dozens of vigorous ancient vines like pythons appearing and rushing toward Wang Bugui. He immediately jumped up to avoid. But when he was in the air, the ancient vines were coming to him in all directions.

Staying calm, Wang Bugui jumped back and forth among those ancient vines. He was like a traveling dragon, rolling in the veins, or like a flying flower, dancing in this ancient veins array. He took advantage of those ancient vines supposed to block him as springboards. However, the veins seemed to be irritated, and didn't just want to trap him anymore. Instead, they began to splash him, intending to injure him and then trap him.

"Hey!"

Wang Bugui shouted out loud, and quickly resorted to the martial arts of the Speed Limit and the Acuity Limit. It was not easy for the veins to trap him. His speed was improved a lot, and every time the ancient vines was a little slower than him. In less than three minutes, he completely broke through the besiege of the enraged ancient vines. At the next moment, he pierced into the sky like a sharp arrow, whistling out of the Ancient Forest.

"Boom!"

A strong figure fell on the edge of Divine Lake and left a small pit on the ground. Wang Bugui stopped here, looking at the steaming lake, and his ink-like eyes were full of waves. The degree of difficulty of the Divine Lake was second only to the Jade Stair. Fortunately, the spirit of the array had canceled the ban that without full speed, one would be sent back. So, it was still possible for Wang Bugui to consider countermeasures, otherwise it was really terrible.

He resorted to the Endless Golden Body Manifestation, and then the Innate Prana Power burst out from his Aura Sea to cover him with a layer of golden divine robe. Even his hair was dyed into gold, just like the God of War, majestic sacred.

Then he suddenly rushed out, and with a bang, a spider web crack appeared at his feet. He continued to rush out. He was so fast, leaving a long golden rainbow in the air. In a blink, he almost came to the center of Divine Lake.

"Ah!"

Wang Bugui roared in the air, because the spirit of the array had increased the gravity again. This sudden change almost made him fall into the water, but fortunately he quickly adjusted. With a burst of blood vigour, he dashed to the Stone Forest and jumped back and forth in it. After several leaps and flips, he had passed halfway. His moves were indeed elegant, and as free as a swallow.

In the eyes of ordinary people, Wang Bugui could be regarded as a master of martial arts. How could a simple comment good Lightening Kung Fu conclude his free leaping onto roofs and vaulting over walls? This was the gap between the cultivators and the mortals. To be with a little cultivation was at the height that mortals could not reach in their lifetime. Those cultivators known as masters were really the same as the true immortals in the eyes of mortals.

On the last stone pillar, Wang Bugui temporarily stopped. The gravity of the second half way was increased a little. To pass through it, Wang Bugui had to burst out stronger prana blood. Suddenly, some faint red lights began to blend with the golden lights covered on him.

That was the power of primordial blood vigour which had integrated with the Innate Prana Power. Wang Bugui looked like being made from red gold. He took a deep breath and calmed himself down. At the next moment, his body burst out red golden lights. He rushed out with a momentum intending to go straight to the end.

"Clang!"

However, when he rushed out of 100 meters, the Divine Lake suddenly rioted. The mist on its surface disappeared, replaced with a dragon column rising into the sky.

That water column almost occupied 10% of the area of the lake. Colliding into it, Wang Bugui was bounced back to the stone column. He looked at the water column in doubt, and was robbed of the ability to speak. It had never happened before; was it a new test set by the spirit of the array? After the water column vanished, a huge body slowly showed up.

It's hundreds of feet long body was covered by cold blue scales shining like an iron armor. It had four feet, and a dragon-like head. It had a pair of dragon horns as well, using its blue crystal eyes to stare at the person in front without a word.

Wang Bugui recognized it was the Qilin, but he didn't know why it became so huge. Was this one its father? Thinking of this, Wang Bugui got anxious. He once wanted to barbecue its son. What if he was here to take revenge?

"Haha!" The Qilin made a sneer. Somehow, its voice seemed familiar to Wang Bugui.

"What?! It's really you!"

Shocked, he was so familiar with that voice. It was the Qilin that he wanted to eat. When Yun Jinghong blamed him that day, it burst out the same sloppy laugher. It was that Qilin exactly.

"I am Blue Qilin Sage, the lord of the Divine Lake. Kid, you bullied my son that day, and are you guilty of that?" The Qilin pretended to be august.

"Don't pretend! I can recognize your voice even if you're transformed into another species. Don't play tricks. Tell me your real identity, otherwise you won't be fine in the future." Wang Bugui threatened it, and those words worked. After all, this king of spirit beasts was good at picking spiritual fruit. A lot of top quality spiritual fruit could be picked only through his ideas.

"Don't say that. I'm just joking to have a relax." The Qilin changed back to its original size at once, like an adult golden retriever. It came to Wang Bugui, afraid that he would not let the spiritual beasts to pick spiritual fruit for itself.

"No time to chat with you. Quickly tell me what you got to let you become so big," Wang Bugui sat down and asked.

"It was a Taoist method left by my ancestors. I have learned it under the lake all these days. What you see just now is called the Universal Buddha Manifestation technique. If I cultivate it to the Big Achievement Realm, I can be as high as the sky!" Proud, the Qilin raised its head.

"Really that powerful? Teach me, and I'll share the good things I get equally with you in the future." Greed filled up Wang Bugui's eyes. He intended to learn such powerful divine martial art.

"I can teach you. But besides the good things, I still have another request." The Qilin smirked. A divine beast, but looked very inconspicuous.

Disgusted, Wang Bugui replied, "What's it?"

"There is also a divine martial art at the bottom of the lake called Dragon and Phoenix Knack. When you become a saint, you have to help me get it. It's very important to our spiritual beasts. It allows us to return to our ancestors and to evolve to be the supreme true dragon and fairy phoenix. As long as you bring it to me, I'll feel okay to let you be the king of the spiritual beasts!" answered the Qilin.

"There exists such kind of divine martial art? Then why don't you just ask my Master for help?" Wang Bugui was puzzled.

"No way. There is a reincarnation mirror under the lake, which can reflect the past and present, even the future. The more powerful people are, the more likely they fall into it, and to the worst, they will be trapped in the illusion for a life. So only those under the Saints State can come to the bottom of the lake. And this dreamy experience will offer enough training for you to be a saint."

"Even those in the God of War State will be easily got lost. The reason why I choose you is that you have the ancient pendant to protect you, so the success rate is high. On the contrary, if you're above the Saint State, you will see more experience, which will maybe become a demon on your cultivation road. To the best, you will lose reason to be mad for a lifetime, and to the worst, you will be taken with life," explained the Qilin.

"That's it, then I want to go now," said Wang Bugui.

"No. The reincarnation mirror's difficulty lies in its test to the power of the primordial spirit. Your primordial spirit is stronger than the cultivators at the same state, but you're still not qualified to take the test. I can tell that once you see the mirror, your primordial spirit will be burned out, and you will die." The Qilin quickly rushed to persuade him to calm down.

"Eh! That terrible? Well, then I promise you. I will help you to win this fate before I become a saint. Then, quickly teach me the Universal Buddha Manifestation technique!" Wang Bugui was reluctant. However, he still listened to it, though he believed in himself that he could overcome all difficulties.

"Okay, no regrets!" The Qilin reminded again.

"I always do whatever I said!" Wang Bugui patted his chest to promise.

Then the Qilin passed the Universal Buddha Manifestation technique to Wang Bugui. They two had chats and laughs, walking together. The Qilin had accompanied him to run until the last lap.

It even cheered for Wang Bugui in front of the Jade Stair. They left together until he stopped cultivating. Yun Jinghong saw this scene and became confused that when they two were in such a good relationship.