Chapter 313: Wanting to Progress Too Much

Chapter 313: Too Eager to Advance

Beside the Martial Cloud Inscription, Qi Yuan sank into a brief contemplation.

The marks above were all etched into his memory.

“Are you saying Luo Bufan truly broke through the limits of martial arts and shattered the void?” Han Xianyun asked, staring blankly at the traces left by Luo Bufan.

Luo Bufan was the most recent recorded figure to have broken through the limits of martial arts.

In her youth, Han Xianyun had admired Luo Bufan the most, regarding him as her idol.

It could be said that most martial artists in the circle held great respect for Luo Bufan.

“Perhaps he shattered the void, or perhaps… he died,” Qi Yuan replied casually.

He recalled Yu Xiu, whom he had encountered in that torture space last time.

Yu Xiu… was already a dead man.

Thus, this realm… had an underworld.

Did Yu Xiu come from the underworld?

Qi Yuan’s mind raced with many thoughts.

As for breaking through the limits of martial arts, Qi Yuan already had an idea.

“It seems I, too, must prepare to break through the limits of martial arts,” Qi Yuan said earnestly.

“?? Wait, Mr. Qi, you want to break through the limits of martial arts?” Han Xianyun was stunned.

He had seen Qi Yuan in action.

This cultivator was like a deity.

And now he was going to pursue martial arts breakthroughs.

Was this… a hobby?

He suddenly recalled Nan Shi Zhang Yang; compared to Qi Yuan, Zhang Yang’s hobby was nothing.

“Could it be that, by looking at this Martial Cloud Inscription, you’ve gained some insight… seeing something in Luo Bufan’s traces? Imitating him to break through the limits of martial arts?”

Qi Yuan shook his head. “I won’t imitate Luo Bufan. First, I have no family; second, his path doesn’t suit me.

The little treasures in the sea are more fitting for me.”

Han Xianyun’s heart trembled.

A cultivator was indeed a cultivator—he had already discovered how to break through the limits of martial arts.

“By the way, since your family is so wealthy, could you lend me a yacht? I plan to go out to sea and seek the opportunity to break through the limits of martial arts,” Qi Yuan said, reaching out to borrow something.

He had thick skin; lacking something, he borrowed it without any psychological burden.

“Cough… I don’t have a yacht,” Han Xianyun replied awkwardly.

Although he was a second-generation rich kid, he wasn’t the kind living a lavish life.

His father died early, and the reins of power had long been in his elder brother’s hands.

Compared to commoners, his life was heaven on earth, but compared to other rich kids, he was quite strapped.

“But Princess Huansha definitely has one!” Han Xianyun quickly added. “You can borrow it from her!”

“The paramecium princess has one?” Qi Yuan’s eyes lit up. He mused, “I’ve protected her so well; if I borrow a yacht from her… she wouldn’t refuse, would she?”

Qi Yuan felt this was settled.

After all, his protection of Princess Huansha was so meticulous that he had even nearly halted her cell division.

This had greatly extended her lifespan by a dozen minutes.

Hearing this, Han Xianyun was speechless.

Was this what he called good protection?

Of course, he dared not refute Qi Yuan.

“Come, let’s go find the princess and borrow the yacht.” Qi Yuan waved his hand grandly and headed back to where they had come from.

At that moment, Han Xianyun was uneasy.

He feared the princess would turn into a paramecium and then die.

If he remembered correctly, paramecia didn’t live very long.

…

A day later.

The luxury yacht sailed slowly.

A man stood on the yacht, his expression calm.

Princess Huansha stood behind the man, awe in her eyes.

The dozen minutes yesterday were undoubtedly the most wondrous experience of her life.

Facing this mysterious man before her, she harbored no royal arrogance; instead, she was like a servant.

“Hmm, steer a bit southwest,” Qi Yuan said at that moment.

Princess Huansha promptly ordered the intelligent robot to steer the yacht as Qi Yuan instructed.

Instantly, the yacht sped off to the southwest.

Qi Yuan stood on the yacht, his eyes fixed on the sea’s surface.

He was searching for the mutated sea monsters he needed.

But over the past half day, he had found almost nothing.

Mutated sea monsters were not so easy to encounter.

Moreover, they had to share the same bloodline as Qi Yuan—an even rarer find.

At this moment, Qi Yuan had turned into a radar, constantly scanning.

Princess Huansha was full of curiosity, with many questions, but she obediently refrained from asking.

Suddenly, Qi Yuan spoke: “Stop.”

Like a driver, Princess Huansha had the intelligent robot halt the yacht.

She looked at Qi Yuan with curiosity.

Just then, a longsword appeared in Qi Yuan’s hand.

“Go!”

With Qi Yuan’s command, the blood-red sword shot into the sea.

Seeing this, Princess Huansha’s eyes widened.

She finally witnessed Qi Yuan in action again… and this blood-red sword… wasn’t it…?

Her gaze toward Qi Yuan shifted once more, as if he were a deity.

After the sword was drawn, Qi Yuan sat upright on the yacht.

“Over ten thousand meters, it seems I’ll have to wait a while.”

The mutated sea monster he had detected lay a full ten thousand meters deep at the bottom of the sea.

This depth was utterly terrifying.

On Blue Star, the immense pressure would be enough to shred any human submarine.

Even though Arch Star’s technology was a notch above Blue Star’s, diving over ten thousand meters posed enormous difficulty.

For instance, the kingdom of Lulis, where Princess Huansha resided, could not build a submarine capable of diving over ten thousand meters, even with the nation’s full might.

At this moment, Qi Yuan’s target was below ten thousand meters in the seabed.

Now, at ten thousand meters deep, on a broken piece of wood, blood still clung eerily.

Many peculiar stones bore remnants of various bloodstains, as if the passage of time could not wash them clean.

A bloated corpse of a mutated sea monster lay quietly in the deep, wrapped in a transparent crystal.

It was as if sealed within.

Just then, the blood-red longsword flickered, and the transparent crystal at ten thousand meters deep, carrying the mutated sea monster’s corpse, rose from the abyss.

On the yacht, Qi Yuan’s expression was surprised: “It seems in this game, my luck is high—I’ve encountered a remarkable sea monster right away.”

“Game?” Princess Huansha beside him showed a curious look. “What game?”

“I mean, this world of yours is a game I like, and I’m the player.”

Princess Huansha paused for a moment, then smiled: “Mr. Qi really knows how to joke.”

Even if Mr. Qi was a cultivator, it didn’t mean everything he said was true.

“I never joke.” Qi Yuan smiled and didn’t continue on this topic.

The people of this world were nothing but NPCs.

Soon, the sea ahead stirred with ripples.

A flash of blood-red light passed, and the blood-colored longsword landed on the yacht, carrying a transparent crystal.

The transparent crystal was about one meter high, one meter long, and one meter wide—a cube.

Inside the transparent crystal lay the corpse of a strange fish with three legs, two fins, and three eyes.

The strange fish’s eyes were still open, showing human emotions—anger and unwillingness.

[King of the Morisal Fish, a Wuying-level fish with terrifying bloodline, once devoured two thousand people from a small town, sealed here.]

Qi Yuan’s eyes instantly took in all the information.

His throat bobbed with a sense of thirst, longing to open the transparent crystal and drink the blood of the Morisal fish.

Princess Huansha looked at the strange fish, fear in her eyes: “This is a mutated sea monster… it looks so disgusting.”

As the saying goes, even if you haven’t eaten pork, you’ve seen a pig run.

But that saying is outdated now—Princess Huansha had never seen a mutated sea monster, but she had eaten one.

On Blue Star, many city dwellers were the same—they’d eaten pork but never seen a pig run.

“This is a big haul, and…” Qi Yuan’s eyes held a smile, “it’s the best bait.”

As he spoke, he took out fishing line and wrapped it around the transparent crystal.

Qi Yuan was greedy.

This mutated sea monster was probably enough to let him break through to the martial limit.

But since he’d finally come out to sea, shouldn’t he earn a bit more?

After all, on the path of blood martial arts, bloodlines had to be continuous.

He said this while using the fishing line to tie up the transparent crystal, then with the blood sword, he made tiny holes in it.

The fishing line passed through the transparent crystal, piercing the mutated sea monster’s body.

This mutated sea monster had not awakened even now, as if still in a slumber.

“Alright, time to fish!”

Qi Yuan cheerfully tossed the mutated sea monster directly into the sea.

“With your ancestor as bait, you’ll have to take the hook, won’t you?”

The path of blood martial arts lay in devouring.

With a sleeping ancestor as bait, wouldn’t those mutated sea monsters flock here?

After all, they were too eager to advance.

After setting the bait, Qi Yuan sat down and continued cultivating.

Now, he only had to wait for the mutated sea monsters, too eager to progress, to deliver themselves to his door.

“A illusory world, a boring casual game—killing, killing, killing is the real thrill.” Qi Yuan sighed.

How to play was just routine.

But after meeting Yu Xiu, he had a feeling that soon he could open the map and start killing, killing, killing.

About an hour later, a smile spread across Qi Yuan’s face: “Finally here.”

His eyes seemed to pierce the sea surface, and his hand suddenly pointed.

From the seawater, a mutated sea monster resembling a fish was flung out and landed on the yacht.

Qi Yuan’s eyes held a smug smile: “Since you’re so eager to advance, after you die, I’ll scatter your ashes in the sea, letting you return to your homeland.”

Qi Yuan increasingly felt he was a good person.

For those who sought progress, he was also magnanimous.

As he spoke, he squeezed with his hand.

That advancing mutated sea monster burst apart violently.

A single drop of blood was squeezed from the monster’s body, while the rest turned into a pulp.

Qi Yuan flicked his hand, and a flame rose.

The pulp, roasted by the flame, became ash.

“I keep my word, I never lie to sea monsters.”

Qi Yuan said, scattering the ash in his hand into the sea.

As for him, he swallowed that single drop of blood into his belly.

“Hmm… my martial talent has increased a bit, but… a bottleneck… still far off.”

Qi Yuan really wished he had a panel—it would make things much easier.

He felt that if he had a panel, he could see his progress at any time, and his cultivation speed would surely skyrocket.

In the time that followed, the mutated sea monsters Qi Yuan needed gathered in greater numbers.

On the first day, a full eighteen came.

The next day, the number of sea monsters surged, with one hundred and thirty arriving.

This made Qi Yuan exclaim, "In this world, there are still many who wish to advance."

As time passed, Qi Yuan caught more and more mutated sea monsters.

Moreover, the speed at which the sea monsters came continued to increase.

At the same time, a massive yacht appeared on the sea.

The owners of this yacht were a brother and sister, and on board were about a dozen rich second-generation heirs.

At that moment, a man in black leaned on the railing, gazing at the sea, as if recalling something.

Then, the yacht's owner, Liu Yu, approached gracefully, her eyes filled with curiosity as she looked at the man in the black robe.

This man in the black robe was someone they had found in the sea.

According to his account, he had been swimming when he accidentally ran into trouble.

In the end, the brother and sister rescued him onto the boat, and he only then regained consciousness.

"Chen Fan, you're frowning—seems like you're unhappy?" Liu Yu asked, her gaze fixed on his handsome face, intrigued.

The man before her looked young, but carried an air of weathered experience.

Liu Yu, who had always had a taste for "older men," found this quite appealing.

"I have some matters... Miss Liu, could you steer the yacht in the direction I indicate? Once it's done, I will repay you handsomely!" Chen Fan's eyes seemed to pierce the seabed, spotting a mutated sea monster.

Lately, he had seen no fewer than one mutated sea monster heading toward a single location.

A foreboding feeling stirred in his heart.

"This..." Liu Yu hesitated briefly.

They had set out on this pleasure cruise with a plan.

Now, changing course based on Chen Fan's words...

But looking at Chen Fan's handsome face, Liu Yu smiled lightly. "A small matter."

"Thank you," Chen Fan said, clasping his hands in gratitude, appearing quite upright.

About three hours passed.

At this moment, Qi Yuan sat on his yacht, a smug look in his eyes.

Today, he had caught another two hundred mutated sea monsters.

The blood he obtained was growing ever more abundant.

Now, he couldn't help but sigh, "Alas, even the sea monsters are so diligent, so eager to improve—how can I have any excuse to slack off?"

Just then, Princess Huansha approached. "Mr. Qi, a yacht nearby is signaling. They want to board our ship, claiming it's a matter of utmost urgency."

"Oh?" Qi Yuan looked up and immediately spotted the nearby yacht.

He saw the man in black on the yacht at a glance.

He instantly sensed the aura of death.

"Yu Xiu... someone like him?"

Qi Yuan grew curious.

If it were anyone else, he might have refused outright.

But for someone like Yu Xiu, he was deeply intrigued.

"Let's meet them."

"Alright."

About ten minutes passed.

Liu Yu and her brother accompanied the man in black, Chen Fan, onto Princess Huansha's yacht.

Liu Yu had a pistol tucked at her waist, just in case.

When she saw only a man and a woman on the yacht, her wariness faded.

This couple looked like rich second-generation heirs out on a honeymoon trip.

Then, the man in black, Chen Fan, spoke. He looked at Qi Yuan, then at the sea, his eyes cold and sharp. "Are you fishing?"

Qi Yuan smiled. "If I answer your question, will you answer one of mine? That would be fair."

Qi Yuan's words left Chen Fan momentarily stunned.

In all his encounters with all sorts of people, this was the first time he had met someone who spoke like this.

"Fine," he said after a brief silence, nodding.

"Yes, I am fishing.

Now it's my turn—how do I enter your world?" Qi Yuan stretched lazily, asking casually.

Chen Fan's expression shifted slightly.

Liu Yu and her brother, along with Princess Huansha, were bewildered, having no idea what Qi Yuan meant.

At that moment, Chen Fan gave Qi Yuan another look. "You wouldn't want to enter. You enter... when you die."

(End of chapter)