Volume Three: Rising Fame Chapter Ninety-Three: I Am Invincible, You Do As You Please

"Li Yu, after absorbing this, it actually has a remarkable effect on my injuries!"

As soon as Can Yishuang saw Li Yu land, she stepped forward and said with pleasant surprise.

*Injuries?!*

Wen Xiangxuan's gaze fell upon Can Yishuang, filled with lingering doubt and astonishment. When had the latter sustained injuries? She had remained completely unaware of it. Could it have happened near the Soul-Devouring Tree Spirit?

"As long as it's effective!" Li Yu sensed the change and noticed that the life force within Can Yishuang's body had grown much richer. He smiled and said, "I originally just wanted you to try it, figuring it wouldn't matter even if it had no effect. But it's best that it works for you, as it can shorten your recovery time."

Perhaps due to some transformation occurring between the Soul-Devouring Tree Spirit and the eerie mountain, the Blizzarding Ghost Crystal had been born. In a certain sense, it was bound to be much more precious than a purely ordinary Blizzarding Ghost Crystal.

The life essence within it could be considered a supreme tonic for someone like him who had consumed his life origin, or for someone like Can Yishuang whose existence had been impaired due to a disrupted transformation. It could effectively restore a person's physiological functions.

However, initially, due to the isolation of the stone skin and the fact that this life essence was enveloped by spiritual energy, even someone with Can Yishuang's astonishing sensory prowess had failed to discover its mysteries.

Li Yu himself hadn't noticed it at first either. Even during the process of absorbing it, as these life essences entered his stomach along with the spiritual energy, most of them had been directly wasted. It was only under the scan of his spiritual power that he had discovered the secret within.

"Mm-mm!" Can Yishuang nodded in pleasant surprise.

Having dealt with the matters behind them, Li Yu no longer delayed. In any case, with much important intelligence now in hand, the most crucial task at present was naturally to win this realm expedition and then bring the Snow Fox Demon Vine back to the Qing family.

"Let's move out!"

Li Yu took the lead, dashing forward as he said, "Let's go hunt for scores!"

"..."

Only Can Yishuang moved with utmost promptness, while the rest of them paused for a moment before closely following behind.

Only the Young Lord could speak of this so casually!

Wen Xiangxuan thought to herself. One had to know that scores were mostly held by people, and wanting to acquire scores meant testing whether one's "blade" was sharp enough.

Those who could survive with scores intact were no simple characters, especially those who had acquired extra scores; they were even more ferocious by a notch, or else they wouldn't have had the ability to secure those scores in the first place.

Moreover, since the scores were on people, those people could run!

"Still, if it's the Young Lord making a move, he will surely sweep through the entire secret realm. How could there be any single enemy capable of matching him?"

Wen Xiangxuan suddenly thought of the valley, and then of the composed and unhurried manner in which Li Yu had emerged from the water and caught her. Thinking of this, she quickened her pace, following closely behind Li Yu.

"I made a good choice this time!" Xing Chengping also muttered inwardly.

He watched Li Yu ahead, exuding that high-spirited and vigorous demeanor, and a trace of envy welled up in his eyes. He was already twenty-five years old, and it was only with the aid of treasures that he had managed a narrow and perilous breakthrough to the fifth grade.

If he were given the chance to do it all over again right now, he wouldn't even dare to believe he could successfully break through to the fifth grade a second time.

Yet, based on what he knew, the latter was merely an outsider, yet he held a lofty status within the Qing family. Even this cultivation and strength of his far surpassed ordinary mortals, and he could probably even engage in life-and-death combat with the older generation, right?

Xing Chengping thought to himself. Although Li Yu had consistently displayed a fifth-grade cultivation level so far, he felt that the latter should be no less inferior to an average fourth-grade... and perhaps even higher!

"Why do both of you seem to be zoning out?!"

Li Yu's voice drifted over, jolting them abruptly from their thoughts.

"No, Young Lord, I was just thinking about something!" Xing Chengping said hurriedly.

Meanwhile, Wen Xiangxuan also chimed in, "Young Lord, me too. I was wondering how long this realm expedition will take to end!"

"It should be soon!"

Hearing this, Li Yu lowered his head to glance at the token hanging at his waist, and said, "If there are no accidents, we should reach the final circle within a week!"

*The final circle?!*

This term was utterly novel. As the group chewed on it, they instantly felt that this expression was simply the most fitting description imaginable!

Once the danger contracted to the center, it would stop shrinking further. Judging by how things had developed so far, although they had never witnessed what the danger looked like, they also hadn't headed straight toward the center of the circle.

Roughly speaking, they were just farming on the edge of the circle.

When the circle shrank once more, they would inevitably face more enemies in a much narrower space. Calculated this way, it could indeed be called the final showdown.

"I wonder how intense it will get by then?" Xiong Xiuer said from the side.

Even before reaching the final stage, she had already experienced the pursuit of the fifth-grade exotic beast, the Soul-Devouring Golden Wave Tiger, and had crossed paths with four groups of teams containing fifth-grade cultivators. Crisis lurked everywhere, and it was hard to imagine what kind of tragic battles would erupt further inward.

Wen Xiangxuan said, "I suppose it will be endless slaughter!"

Xing Chengping nodded in agreement beside her, "His Majesty the Emperor didn't clearly state how the competition can be terminated either. If it relies solely on the final time limit to judge the outcome, immensely fierce battles will definitely erupt before the time runs out."

"That's when the true crisis begins. Everyone wants to acquire other people's scores. Once they strike, unless it's a crushing dominance, there will inevitably be casualties in combat, and then other teams will come swarming in like wolves catching scent of blood!"

"Furthermore, the smaller the circle, the higher the probability of running into people, and there certainly won't be any shortage of people seeking revenge!" Wen Xiangxuan thought for a moment and said.

Take her for instance. If she hadn't encountered Ning Ankang within the eerie small mountain, then after stepping into the fifth grade, she would definitely have settled scores with Ning Ankang in the final circle to avenge past grievances!

Aside from her, there must be other people harboring grudges against one another. The final stage of the secret realm would be the absolute best opportunity for revenge!

"..."

Because of his spiritual power, Li Yu didn't make anyone scout the path ahead. Of course, the excuse he gave was airtight: focusing on the journey first.

At this moment, listening to these people rambling and speculating wildly, he couldn't help muttering inwardly: *Is it really that dangerous?*

If he carefully tallied up the crises he had faced since entering the secret realm, only the demons he encountered the first time had exerted the greatest pressure on him. That youth wrapped entirely in black robes could be said to have given him incomparable pressure.

Other than that... it seemed like every encounter was just a total blowout victory?!

Whether it was facing Crown Prince Ying Yongge of Great Ming, fighting the cunning white fox on the snowy mountain, or dealing with the various fifth-grade cultivators and the Soul-Devouring Tree Spirit inside the eerie small mountain, and even the four Blue Star cultivators he dealt with last—none of them had brought him much pressure!

Li Yu pondered carefully, and then thought back to the basketful of intelligence data before entering the secret realm, those individuals who had been specifically highlighted. To him, they didn't even count as pressure anymore, even if all those people swarmed him at once!

"As expected, once I am invincible... I can just let everyone else do whatever they want!"

He muttered to himself. He wasn't talking nonsense; relying solely on his spiritual power, he could probably easily slaughter these highlighted key targets right now!