Chapter 1450 - 1445: Re-entering the Secret Realm (Part 2)

After several seconds, Lin Xi let out a soft "eh?"

The thatched hut was completely silent.

As if the old man really wasn’t inside.

This was different from before!

In the past, at most three seconds and the old man would come out.

And then have a very "friendly" spar with him.

"Playing dead, maybe?"

Lin Xi carefully walked toward the door again, stretched his neck out and peered inside.

This time he discovered there really wasn’t a single person in the hut.

But he still didn’t let his guard down at all.

Because sometimes the old man would cling to the roof, or hide in some blind spot outside his field of vision.

Right after, Lin Xi scanned every corner of the hut with full vigilance.

He found that the old man really wasn’t there.

"Where did you go?"

"Did you go down the mountain to peep on that wid~~" ["woman bathing?"]

"Except who the hell still bathes at this hour in the dead of night?"

Besides, he knew the old man’s habits very well.

Which was, before eight in the evening he would definitely return to the thatched hut.

Same thing day after day for over ten years!

At the same time, Lin Xi had never seen the old man leave Yunlong Mountain; of course, Yunlong Mountain included the small village below.

It seemed that because of something, the old man wouldn’t leave Yunlong Mountain.

That wasn’t to say he’d never left Yunlong Mountain his whole life.

It was just that in Lin Xi’s memory, the old man had never left Yunlong Mountain.

But from the old man’s own stories, he definitely had left Yunlong Mountain.

For example, the people of the Wang family in Chuzhou City.

And for example, some other bits of knowledge—you’d only know them if you’d personally experienced them.

So Lin Xi had always had a question, or rather, a guess!

After the old man picked him up, had he really never left Yunlong Mountain since?

Was that because of him?

Because of his existence?

And as for his background and all that, did the old man really not know anything?

The old man was such a powerful person!

He didn’t dwell on it.

After waiting in the thatched hut for a little over ten minutes, he set out for the Small Secret Realm.

After all, if he missed this window, he’d have to wait another three years.

Three years from now!

That would definitely affect his strength growth!

And in this era, only by constantly making his own strength grow could he protect the people around him, or the ones he cared about.

Especially now that he’d discovered signs of Spiritual Qi revival.

This was no small matter!

Once Spiritual Qi really started recovering, this world would no longer be as safe as it was now.

The world was bound to descend into chaos.

And those experts who had already broken through to King of Soldiers, or Innate.

Would definitely take yet another step forward.

Lin Xi didn’t feel fear.

He had confidence in his own strength.

Even if Spiritual Qi revival fully kicked off, he could still become one of the strongest.

But the people around him wouldn’t necessarily be as safe as before.

In this world, you can’t rely on one person’s martial strength to threaten everyone; lunatics and people who aren’t afraid of death are just too many.

And another thing: becoming the strongest takes time.

It also requires the second stage of the Xuanyuan Divine Dragon Cultivation Technique.

And even the third stage after that.

With his strength about to break through to mid-level King of Soldiers, going to the Small Secret Realm now was a lot easier than before.

Back then there’d been all kinds of climbing and scrambling.

Now, cliffs were like level ground to him.

It didn’t take long before he arrived at the entrance of the Small Secret Realm.

Since he’d been here once, entering the Secret Realm this time was very easy.

Seeing the familiar stone chamber, the little stone platform, the stone tablet, he recalled the scene back then when he’d obtained the Jade Pendant and the first stage of the Xuanyuan Divine Dragon Cultivation Technique here.

He didn’t linger on the memories.

He walked straight up to the stone tablet, took a deep breath, and slammed a palm onto it.

Logically speaking, with his current strength, just a casual palm should be enough to smash the stone tablet into pieces.

Of course, that’s for an ordinary stone tablet.

And just now, he’d used eighty percent of his strength for that palm.

Yet when it landed on the stone tablet, the tablet was completely undamaged.

Or rather, it hadn’t taken the slightest harm; it didn’t even bear a single mark.

If this were out in the world, that stone tablet would definitely have turned to powder.

Which showed just how extraordinary this stone tablet was.

"No reaction?" Lin Xi froze for a moment.

By rights, as long as he’d broken through to Innate, he should be qualified to obtain the second stage.

But right now, there still wasn’t the slightest change.

It was basically the same effect as when he’d come in before and struck the stone tablet with a palm.

Bear in mind his strength now had increased by at least a hundredfold.

"Try using full strength!" he said to himself inwardly.

But faintly, he could sense it; still, a trace of tension crept across his face.

That was normal!

Only by obtaining the second stage could his strength keep growing rapidly; maybe it would even come with stronger moves.

If he couldn’t obtain it, his progress would slow a lot.

Even if his strength kept rising, without the Cultivation Technique he wouldn’t be able to bring out one hundred percent of his power.

With a muffled "bang!"

This time, he used one hundred percent of his strength.

If there was still no reaction, that would mean he’d failed this time.

Meaning he’d only be able to come again three years later.

Honestly, all these years he’d never been nervous, but right now he couldn’t help feeling extremely tense.

"1!"

"2!"

"3!"

...

"10!"

He silently counted to ten, and neither the stone tablet nor the stone chamber showed any change.

At that moment, his heart couldn’t help but sink.

Could it be he still hadn’t met the required conditions?

Was he going to leave empty-handed?

Xuanyuan Divine Dragon Cultivation Technique, oh Xuanyuan Divine Dragon Cultivation Technique!

Why was it so damn hard to obtain?

He’d actually already had some psychological preparation for this!

After using the Xuanyuan Divine Dragon Cultivation Technique for so many years, he knew just how heaven-defying it was.

And the attached Xuanyuan Fist had terrifying power.

"Huh?"

"Xuanyuan Fist?"

"Do I need to try using that?"

It suddenly came to him.

And he realized he’d actually forgotten?

Using a Fist Skill like the Xuanyuan Fist would increase his power enormously.

This was also his trump card for being able to fight experts in the Innate middle stage while only at the Early Innate Stage himself—or rather, what he relied on.

In the next instant, he took another deep breath.

In his mind he reviewed the three moves of the Xuanyuan Fist.

First move: Tiger Descends the Mountain

Second move: Wild Lion in the Wild

Third move: Dragon Walks the World

To be honest, when he first learned the names of these three moves, he’d felt they were super wuxia and super cheesy, at least to people of this era.

But the person who’d created this Fist Skill was at least several hundred years ago, maybe over a thousand.

Thinking up these kinds of names was actually understandable.

So he went straight to the third move!

This move had immense power!

Because once he unleashed it, even a mid-stage Innate expert who wasn’t guarding with full strength would be killed by this one strike!

So you could say this move was his limit.

With a "bang!" his fist slammed into the stone tablet.

He didn’t bother about how badly his hand was damaged from that blow.

After all, that tablet was hard beyond measurement!

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