Chapter 748 – Cold Lake

Chapter 748 – Cold Lake

As time passed, Long Chen’s Martial Soul slowly healed. Once all the medicinal power in the Rainbow Lingzhi had been spent, his Martial Soul had healed completely.

His Martial Soul had returned to its Fifth Earthly Martial Stage state.

In terms of essence, I am still at the Third Earthly Martial Stage, but my Martial Soul has recovered. Essence is simple to get. All I need to do is kill a few demonic beasts.

At this point, Long Chen only needed to regain enough essence to reach the Fifth Earthly Martial Stage, then even a Seventh Earthly Martial Stage cultivator would be no match for him. Even now, he could fight a Sixth Earthly Martial Stage cultivator.

Long Chen exited the mountain cave and went searching for demonic beasts to hunt. The Wood District had demonic beasts in abundance, especially ones that were at the Category Six King-tier and below.

It didn’t take much effort to find two Category Six King-tier Green Wind Leopards. He killed them using the Golden Emperor Veiled Heaven Seal, then used Blood Transmutation to absorb their blood. The two Green Wind Leopards were able to take human form, but they were covered with green patterns and moved very quickly when they did so. They had seen the Third Earthly Martial Stage Long Chen as prey, but in the end, they had turned into prey instead.

After swallowing their blood, Long Chen successfully reached the Fifth Earthly Martial Stage and was considered to have fully regained his previous strength. This meant that he could use the Martial Gold Tombstone and progress even further. He started to think about where he would go next.

“Little Cat, should I go find a place to focus on studying the Martial God Tombstone now?” Although the little brat liked to brag, he still gave Long Chen great advice during key moments.

“There’s one more thing I forgot to tell you,” said the little black cat on his shoulder, rolling his eyes.

“What is it?” asked Long Chen.

“The Seven Star Lord’s inheritance that you received contains the Seven Star Body. It’s an intermediate Emperor-tier body tempering technique, so even cultivating it will be no simple feat. You need to guide the celestial Qi from the sky into your body in order to cultivate the Seven Star Body. If you don’t believe me, you can take out that blue rock and try.”

When Long Chen heard this, he hurriedly took out the blue rock. Previously, he had been focused on healing his Martial Soul, so he had momentarily forgotten about the inheritance. He immersed his whole mind into the rock, which was shaped like a heart organ. He faintly saw a vision of a human-shaped silhouette standing on the peak of a mountain controlling the violent energy of the stars in the sky so that it poured into his body. The celestial Qi was more terrifying than the Metal Devouring Wind from before, yet that person held on!

The man took all the terrifying celestial Qi into his body.

Heavenly Wood City was built on this tree’s crown!

Long Chen did not dare stop for long in the air, because, to his surprise, many avian-type beasts were flying around. These beasts were even stronger than the Heavenly Phoenix! The Thunder Phoenix and the Nine Wing Vulture were all Category Six King-tier and above, so Long Chen did not want to fight them for no good reason. These demonic beasts probably lived in flocks, so he would be finished if they all swarmed him.

I can’t believe such a large tree exists in this world. How rare. Long Chen shook his head with a bitter smile and landed. The tree was gigantic. He never would’ve imagined that such a huge tree existed. He suspected that if he stood in front of it, he would think it was a gigantic wall standing between heaven and earth!

“How embarrassing of you to be this shocked in front of a tree. Gigantic objects like this tree are everywhere in the Three Royal Territories, especially in the Desolate Royal Territory. Although the demon race is usually in human form, the sizes of their original forms would startle you to death! The size of this tree is just average.” Little Cat looked at Long Chen with his chubby face. He looked so cute but used such a contemptuous tone when he spoke, making him seem very amusing.

The Desolate Royal Territory! The demon race!

Long Chen could only shut his mouth every time he heard Little Cat talk about the Royal Territories. He was still very far from the masters of the Royal Territories, and he knew that although he was getting stronger and progressing shockingly fast, that was no excuse to be complacent, because he was too far away from his goals.

He was in a hilly area with many trees growing at various heights. The nearer he got to Heavenly Wood City, the larger and more ancient the trees looked. Many of the trees were large enough to build cities on.

The earthly spiritual Qi of the wood element is thick here. I wonder if I can cultivate one of the Five Emperor Seals, namely the Azure Emperor’s Rising Heaven Seal, while I’m here, Long Chen thought to himself.

The Ancient Graveyard was a land of treasures to Long Chen. Ever since he came here, he had gotten many good items. This was the time to digest all the treasures he had.

It was like looking at a mountain while running your horse to death.[1] Although Heavenly Wood City seemed close, he was quite a distance away from it. As Long Chen walked through the hilly area, he came across many gigantic mountain peaks.

When he arrived in a darker area, he suddenly sensed that his surroundings had gotten colder. The trees here were very tall, so not much light passed through, making the place dim. The only sounds were beast roars far away.

Long Chen did not think too much and continued to hurry along. He heard the sound of water ahead, and the nearer he got to the water source, the colder the surroundings became.

There must be a cold lake ahead, guessed Long Chen. As expected, when he went closer, he spotted an emerald-green lake. The water was ice-cold, even colder than ice water. Normal people could not even get close to it. However, it was not an issue for Long Chen.

1. this is an idiom – things are farther away than they seem ☜