Chapter 104: The Chance to Survive!

Inside Zhiyuan Hall, Fang Xu looked at Lu Qingluo and Chu Mu, and spoke his decision.

"Fang Xu, this won't do!"

"Fang Xu, big brother......"

After hearing this, both girls looked worried, preparing to stop Fang Xu.

"This matter is settled like this; there is no other solution."

At this moment, Fang Xu decisively interrupted them and made the decision directly.

"Senior Brother Huang, if I unfortunately remain trapped in the ruins, please, after you come out, take Mu and Senior Sister to the Ascension Immortal Gate and look after them well."

Looking at Huang Qingzhou beside him, Fang Xu spoke pleadingly.

Huang Qingzhou's expression darkened slightly, then he said somewhat angrily: "You brat, don't rush to settle your affairs; with that mindset, you'd better quickly think about how to survive."

"Hey! Hurry up and look!"

After throwing the Great Yu Dynasty-printed ruins guide to Fang Xu, Huang Qingzhou looked at Lu Qingluo and Chu Mu and said: "All of you go out, don't disturb him."

Lu Qinglo glanced at Fang Xu, then didn't say anything more, directly pushing Chu Mu out of the room.

"Fang Xu, big brother...... Mu will wait for you to come back." Chu Mu gazed at Fang Xu reluctantly.

Fang Xu stood up, rubbed her head, and said softly: "Don't worry, big brother will definitely come back."

After seeing off the three, Fang Xu opened the ruins guide, carefully examined everything written about the ruins once, and memorized it.

Putting down the book, he wore a thoughtful expression.

According to the book, the Ti Lan Mountain Ruins seem to be a self-contained world, inside are numerous mechanisms and prohibitions, and there is a kind of monster called a human fiend, with great danger.

The main part of the ruins is underground, also the place most martial artists choose to explore.

According to estimates, the underground ruins have seven stages; currently most explorers can only reach the second stage.

Because starting from the second stage, a strange prohibition appears inside the ruins; this prohibition can suppress a martial artist's own qi and blood strength, and within its range, whether a martial master or a martial venerable, only physical strength can be used, and it is impossible to project energy outward.

Moreover, inside the second stage of the ruins, human fiends are numerous and very strong; since the ruins opened, the number of martial artists who have died in the second stage has already reached a terrifying amount.

This might be my opportunity!

After noticing this information, a glimmer of hope rose in Fang Xu's heart!

As long as I can survive and reach the second stage of the ruins, the gap between me and people like Yu Shan Tianyi will be greatly narrowed.

【25) Also!

There's one more thing!

During this period of my arrangements, the 'friends' who died in the ruins number not less than a hundred, but several dozen at least.

These friends' legacies are mostly various attribute points; after entering the ruins, once I harvest all these friends' legacies, my strength will surely double, or even become stronger!

These attribute points are all my own physical strength; they should not be affected by the ruins' prohibition, so at that time who is stronger or weaker is still uncertain!

Yu Shan Tianyi...... Su Cheng......

A faint killing intent flashed in Fang Xu's eyes!

If there is an opportunity, he doesn't mind completely eliminating the two in the ruins!

However, before that, he still needs to raise his strength as much as possible.

Setting aside his distracting thoughts, Fang Xu took out the beast skin inscribed with the Divine Extension Canon and entered the Inner Viewing State.

His current strength has already reached the peak of the fifth level of the Martial Apprentice Realm; perhaps after tonight he could break through to the sixth level.

However, this improvement, whether against Yu Shan Tianyi or Su Cheng, is minuscule.

After some thought, his consciousness immediately arrived at the first aperture he had opened—the Inner Gate aperture.

Inside the vast aperture space, the murky chaotic qi had been completely absorbed, leaving only a towering stone gate that reached heaven and earth standing before him.

Not far in front of the stone gate, a strange wooden staff floated in midair, emitting a faint glow.

His consciousness manifested as his physical form; Fang Xu reached out and grasped that strange wooden staff, feeling the faint energy emanating from it, and felt a slight joy.

When Lu Zhiyuan originally gave him this staff, he could not tell its quality at all.

After several uses, he merely felt that this strange staff could absolutely match a low-grade weapon.

Now, this staff has been nurtured as a life-bound weapon within the aperture space to this point; its own aura is obviously stronger, and moreover, the staff's length seems to have changed.

When Lu Zhiyuan originally handed it to him, the staff was only a little over three feet; but now, its length has actually reached about four feet!

Grasping the long staff, Fang Xu faintly felt a hint of vitality appearing within the staff!

This hint of vitality was very weak; when Fang Xu tried to feel it carefully, it actually disappeared, as if an illusion.

Standing in the aperture space, holding the long staff, Fang Xu looked at the towering stone gate before him, and a feeling of eagerness to try welled up in his heart.

When he had just broken through the Martial Apprentice Realm, he had once tried to blast open the stone gate before him and failed.

Now he is already at the peak of the fifth level of the Martial Apprentice Realm, and after absorbing many legacies, his strength is far greater than before; he should try again!

Thinking it, he did it; holding the long staff in his hand, Fang Xu stepped step by step to the front of the stone gate, gradually gripping the long staff tightly!

"Ha!"

He stomped down hard, using the recoil force of the Eight Extremes Tread, his body leapt high, and he swung the long staff wildly, smashing it toward the stone gate before him!

At the moment the strange staff was swung, it suddenly enlarged enormously; a heaven‑spanning staff shadow, with the momentum of a collapsing mountain, slammed into the stone gate!

At the instant of contact, the entire aperture space shuddered!

Strangely, not a single sound was emitted!

"A faint sound!"

The terrifying recoil force sent Fang Xu's consciousness body flying backward dozens of zhang in an instant; after a few tumbles in midair he barely managed to stabilize.

Boom—!

Boom—!

After emitting a series of low, rumbling booms, the originally tightly sealed massive stone gate actually revealed a tiny crack!

Seeing this, Fang Xu was overjoyed; he hurriedly flew to the stone gate, wanting to peer through that slit to see what the world inside was like.

But that slit was really too small; through the slit, he could only vaguely see some white mist, and couldn't see anything else.

Only when he got close to the stone door's slit could he clearly feel a strange energy that made his consciousness slightly tremble, slowly seeping out from that tiny slit.

Fang Xu could clearly feel that these strands of strange energy, although extremely weak, seemed extremely pure; after slowly seeping out from behind the stone door, they gradually filled his aperture space.

The energy within a martial artist's aperture space is fixed; his inner gate aperture had already been fully refined beforehand, but now, after the stone door was opened a slit, a strange energy actually appeared again.

Fang Xu suddenly felt very excited!

If one compares a normal aperture space to a deep pool, the pool water is profound but will eventually run dry; then one's aperture space is like a deep pool with a living water source, so after the water is drawn, new water will be replenished.

As long as the 'water source' behind the stone door does not run dry, the pool of water in one's aperture space will not run dry!

But for now, the entrance of the water source is still a bit small; we need to think of a way to expand it.

Thinking of this, he immediately retreated several zhang, then raised the wooden staff in his hand again, preparing to strike the stone door once more!

The shadow of the Heaven-Reaching Staff appeared again!

After the massive stone door was bombarded, it trembled violently again!

Only after the vibration did Fang Xu discover that the slit remained just as before, not widening in the slightest.

It seems that with his current strength, he can only open such a fine slit.

After trying once more, it proved his guess was correct; Fang Xu decisively gave up on continuing to bombard the stone door.

His consciousness slowly withdrew from the aperture space; he began to try to guide out the energy that had seeped out from behind the stone door, to temper his physical body.

(End of chapter)