Chapter 194: Body Tempering in the Sword Pool

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle.

The skin over his entire body had already melted, staining the surrounding pool water a bright red.

Intense pain washed over Ren Yidao's spirit; although his body twitched uncontrollably, he did not let out a roar, but instead silently gritted his teeth.

When Heaven is about to place a great burden on a person, it must first distress their Heart Star, exhaust their muscles and bones, starve their body and skin, empty their person, and frustrate their actions.

He did not mean to praise suffering, or spout slogans like "only by enduring the bitterest of the bitter can one become a person above others."

Suffering is just suffering; there is nothing about it worth praising.

But this world is still relatively fair, or rather, it pays more attention to Causality and affinity.

Where there is a cause, there must be a result.

As long as there is effort put in, then there is a high probability of receiving a reward.

Misfortune and fortune have no gate; they are only summoned by people themselves.

As for what is most important?

Is it having proud natural talent? Or is it painstaking effort?

The answer is that these two things have actually never been in conflict.

Neither can be dispensed with!

Although Ren Yidao looked like he was idling about and not acting properly in his daily life, he was confident that the effort he put into cultivation was not weaker than anyone else's.

Did you really think he had just been a pet in the Divine Path Sect for these hundred years?

If a top student tells you they didn't review, do you really believe they didn't review?

How could that be possible?

Even if his natural talent were better, if he did not put in day-and-night effort, it would have been impossible for him to reach his current strength at this age.

For the Human Race, a hundred years is enough to span several generations, but for the Demon Race, this really can only be considered a half-grown child.

If you want to show off in front of others, you must suffer behind their backs.

You only have to work very hard to make it look like you are not exerting any effort at all.

Slowly opening his eyes, Ren Yidao felt the stinging pain in his pupils, his gaze resolute.

He did not choose to escape upward, but instead chose to continue sinking.

Ren Yidao did not recklessly dive all the way down, but stopped after descending to a certain height.

The water in the Deep Pool here was terrifying; not only did it contain Evil Qi, but the pressure was also abnormally frightening.

It was only thirty meters underwater, yet it had already reached the limit of what his body could currently withstand.

With difficulty, he crossed his knees to sit in the water, Ren Yidao constantly adapting to the surrounding pressure.

Growth, dissolution, growth, dissolution...

After repeating this for who knows how many times, the change he was waiting for appeared!

First from his fingertips, a patch of smooth skin grew out, slowly but firmly.

That skin then spread upward, faster and faster, quickly covering his entire body.

The newly grown skin shimmered with a metallic luster, glowing with a faint light beneath the water.

This meant that he had completely adapted to the pressure brought by this depth.

And at this moment, Ren Yidao's height of one zhang six had shrunk by nearly one chi.

Opening his eyes, Ren Yidao looked down at the dark space below like an abyss, whispering to himself:

"The method is feasible... it's just that it took a little too much time."

To adapt to this initial thirty meters, he had already spent two hours.

In all fairness, compared to the improvement gained, this speed was actually not slow; it could even be said to be very fast.

But Ren Yidao did not have that much time to wait.

Calculating the remaining time, the time limit he set for himself was at most six hours.

Three times the time, yet he had to cover nine times the distance.

Is this possible?

"I can only do something slightly dangerous..."

As he went deeper into the pool, the pressure became greater and greater, and his massive body began to slowly compress.

At sixty meters, Ren Yidao did not stop for even a moment.

His speed did not decrease, but increased!

He plummeted downward.

Seventy, eighty... one hundred meters!

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!

It was not until one hundred and fifty meters that Ren Yidao barely managed to stop.

At this time, Ren Yidao could no longer be seen as having a human form; large amounts of blood seeped from all over his body, like a ball of blood that had fallen into the Deep Pool.

Yet his gaze remained resolute.

Maintaining his crumbling, shattered body, he resolutely bit down on the top-grade Purple Crystal he had been holding in his mouth.

Crack!

To others, the value of a top-grade Purple Crystal is extremely high, as it can be used to craft various magic treasures and be used in medicine; swallowing it is the most wasteful method.

But at this moment, Ren Yidao could no longer care about such things.

Swallowing the shattered Purple Crystal, just as Ren Yidao prepared to utilize this power to integrate it into his body...

Hum!!!

His skin suddenly began to repair itself rapidly without any warning!

"Hmm?"

Perhaps because it shared the same origin as the Purple Crystal Creation Liquid, the top-grade Purple Crystal unexpectedly triggered an effect Ren Yidao had not anticipated.

Feeling the restorative effect, Ren Yidao had an epiphany in his Dao Heart.

He had originally thought that the energy of the Purple Crystal Creation Liquid had been completely exhausted, but that was not the case.

A portion of the energy remained, hidden within his bones, tendons, and flesh, not yet fully consumed.

This power lay dormant; if he were to be injured in the future, it would be a life-saving force, capable of pulling him out of critical condition in a short time.

But at this moment, this power was being forcibly squeezed out.

After pondering for a moment, Ren Yidao did not stop it, choosing instead to continue utilizing this power.

Rather than worrying about being critically injured in the future, it was better to strengthen his trump card now so that he would not suffer such injuries.

"Seize the day."

With a firm heart, he took a large amount of top-grade Purple Crystal and stuffed it into his mouth.

Crack, crack!

With the help of the top-grade Purple Crystal's power, he continuously guided out the energy remaining in his body.

Finally, upon swallowing the fiftieth Purple Crystal, his body took on a jade-like luster.

The pressure outside his body was swept away, unable to cause him the slightest harm.

His body stretched slightly, and a series of faint, crisp sounds erupted from his whole body.

"So, that was not the limit."

The tendons, bones, and flesh that Ren Yidao had previously thought were fully tempered now showed further improvement.

After he had completely adapted to the pressure here, only two hours had barely passed.

Four more hours to go!

Looking down, Ren Yidao could already vaguely see the deepest part of the pool bottom.

Although more than half the distance had been covered, Ren Yidao did not relax.

He knew very well that the remaining path would be far, far more difficult than what lay ahead.

"But... what of it?"

I shall stride forward; let's see who dares to stop me?

With a light laugh, Ren Yidao charged fiercely toward the depths!

His jade-like skin was torn apart again, but his footsteps did not hesitate in the slightest.

Charge!

Toward the deeper places, charge!

Boom!

Crossing a distance of over a hundred meters in one go, the soaring, immense water pressure struck Ren Yidao's body like a heavy hammer, pounding him incessantly.

In a trance, Ren Yidao felt as if he were a red-hot iron sword being hammered by a blacksmith!

Boom!

Hum—

What Ren Yidao did not know was that this place was actually the General's Sword Washing Pool.

And Ren Yidao's actions at this moment happened to be tempering himself as if he were a sword.

Two hundred and fifty meters!

Boom!

Two hundred and sixty meters!

Boom!!

Two hundred and seventy meters!

Boom, boom, boom!!!

After exceeding two hundred and fifty meters, every ten meters added was more terrifying than all the previous pressure combined.

"Cough!"

Spitting out a large amount of fresh blood and Purple Crystal fragments from his mouth, Ren Yidao's entire body was crushed and deformed.

At this moment, of the four hundred top-grade Purple Crystals he had scavenged earlier, only a pitiful fifty remained.

But no matter how he struggled, his body could no longer sink any further.

Only the final thirty meters remained!

Yet these thirty meters were like a natural chasm blocking his path.

Impossible to cross.

So close...

Yet so far!

I have things to do today and need to go out to see a friend, and by the way, visit the hospital.

To avoid breaking the update streak, these two chapters were rushed out by me staying up all night until six in the morning...

I didn't want to stay up all night either, but the "Wind Vane" recommendation starts tomorrow, and it would look too bad not to update the day before.

I've already worked this hard, please save this child, everyone; don't "stockpile" the book these few days, sob sob sob!

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