BXBX NOVEL Chapter 120: Risking My Head
Suddenly, the wooden vehicle slightly jolted, and the old man disappeared without a trace. The perceptive Qian Jin felt a gust of wind forming behind his back. What’s more was that he felt like the target was his butt.
"Again?" Qian Jin thought back to the day when he was kicked into the lake. He immediately realized what was happening. He moved the Warrior Power in his 108 energy reservoirs to its peak, and the explosive power caused mud and snow to fly in the air. He seized the chance and rushed into the Frosting Ice Lake.
The old man missed his target and froze. "How could this be? My kick was calculated according to the maximum strength he showed yesterday... Has his Warrior Power cycling speed improved this much in just one day? I wonder about his Warrior Power, too. Has this kid been exercising while he was asleep?"
Exercising? Jumping into the air, Qian Jin forced a smile in his heart, "In what earth would that kind of sleeping be called exercising? I’m risking my head. The f**king odd medicine from Eulalia almost killed me. But fortunately, during those days in the Burning Fire Lake, I could use external resources to aid my inner body. Thanks to the potion, it’s beneficial both ways. Not only has my body and Warrior Power become much tougher, even my Warrior Power cycling speed has increased from my limit of 60 to an impossible 65."
Puff. The minute Qian Jin dived into the water, his hair raised up like rows of needles. It was even colder than he imagined. He felt like he was about to be frozen into a popsicle.
The arctic water covered the blood vessels under his skin and began to cool down his flowing blood immediately. If this continued, his blood might freeze.
The impossible 65 cycles were decreased to only 55 once he got into the water. The water wasn’t just solidifying his blood, but also his Warrior Power.
"This..." After trembling, Qian Jin started to dance with the Forging Breath Technique. His body was quickly restored to a normal temperature and his Warrior Power was back to the normal level again.
The old man was once again shocked. What kind of freak was this young man? He thought that the frigid lake would lower his Warrior Power cycling speed to 30, but it seemed like it had bounced back after reaching 50. He should have not possessed such a strong defensive ability if he had just reached Wind and Cloud Stone Body instead of Wind and Cloud Golden Body. Did he have a special method to temper his body to make his body so strong?
Huh? Just some casual workout under the water could bring him back to normal so soon? The old man scratched his gray hair as a perplexed look covered his face. "How did this kid do it?
"Son, aren’t you a fish there?" The aged fellow pointed towards the inner space. "Don’t waste your time here. Swim to the inner area."
Qian Jin looked at the stone beside the old man’s foot and recalled the lessons in the other lake. The old man cast a waist-high stone down upon him in the water when he hesitated to move.
Qian Jin chose to go deeper into the lake, sparing himself from a hitting stone.
Sophia touched the icy mirror out of curiosity, and an instant tremble sneaked upon her fingers. She used her Warrior Energy several times in succession, yet it barely chased the cold air away.
"Isn’t it freezing?" The old man drew an egg out of nowhere and gently put it in the lake for a few seconds. After he picked it up and broke its shell, an orange icy ball appeared.
"Look at this." The old man flicked his wrist, and the icy ball hit a small stone on the edge of the lake. Out of expectation, the broken object was the stone.
"Isn’t it awesome? It only takes a few breaths to freeze and kill a rabbit in the lake." The old man grinned at the two girls who were completely stunned at the lake. However, the weird look on them intrigued him. Following their eyes, the old man was almost astonished to death. Qian Jin was 200 meters away.
"Is this kid trying to scare off my heart? Is he doing this on purpose?" The old man rubbed his forehead as he was startled by the distance. "For God’s sake, it’s 200 meters. Is he going to die if he doesn’t play with fire?"
..230...270. The eyes of the wrinkled old man twitched again and again. It was so much further than he had expected. Could the young pup handle it? It would become more and more difficult to swim further into the cold lake, yet he had actually travelled another 70 meters. Was he out of his mind?
"Can the water be any colder?" Qian Jin’s lips paled at first, and then they seemed to become blue and cold. The rotation speed of his warrior power could no longer maintain 65 cycles; instead, it was lowered down to 40. Eulalia’s unbearable potion finally played a powerful role this time. He managed to stay at his current distance of 270 meters. "I have to stop here, or I may really go back to the Stars."
Qian Jin submerged his entire body into the lake. The next second, he was wrapped tightly in a net formed by the surrounding coldness, which was continuously shrinking. He instantly spread his 40-cycle warrior power throughout his body, intending to block the frigid air like what he had done last time in the Burning Fire Lake. But soon, he found out that it wouldn’t work here. The heat of the flames had kept brushing his exterior warrior power network that day. Once it succeeded, it went inside his interior and continued brushing.
This coldness here wasn’t brushing against him at all. Instead, it was strengthening the warrior power network... But the weird thing was that along with his network, his blood was turned into frozen icy blocks.
If it had reached that moment, the warrior power network would definitely kill Qian Jin. The intended killer had already shown some signs of being frozen.
Qian Jin suddenly found out that he was thinking much slower, as if the cold air had frozen his thoughts. It was as if everything around had stopped moving, too.
“Wind has no particular form; no weapon can injure it. Cloud has no particular shape; no space will contain it.”
The same words crossed Qian Jin’s mind, but he had an epiphany. That day in the Burning Fire Lake, he had melted and dismissed the irregularities to form a new warrior power network after the former one was destroyed by the high temperature. However, today...
He needed to break the network himself before restoring it. It was almost the same thing, but there was an extra process. The cycling of his warrior power suddenly stopped while the chill invasion befell him. At the moment it was about to be frozen solid, the warrior power of his 108 energy reservoirs once again rotated alone. The whirling and tearing instantly tore his network apart, and there was a trace of warmth which spread through every corner of his body.
Freeze... Turn... Tear... And then freeze again... turn again...
In the water, Qian Jin repeated this self-mutilating process. Overtime, the 40-cycled warrior power has been restored to 44 cycles.
He sometimes rose to the surface for a deep breath, and then back submerged back into the cold lake, continuing to practice the Wind and Cloud Golden Body. Seeing this, the tight fists of the old man gradually relaxed.
Even if his master lived another life, he would not be able to find such a good apprentice again. He had no desire for this apprentice to do anything that might invite any danger.
Just then, A huge golden tail suddenly emerged from the area nearby Qian Jin, and it slapped the quiet blue lake. The surface of the water became rough and split open, spraying crests of water everywhere.
The old man standing far from the shore also heard the crisp sound of that tail. It was like dozens of whips shaking in the air at the same time.
After the slap, some waves immediately spread to the surroundings, and the undercurrents also accumulated under the surface.
The old man looked at the tail that disappeared in the lake and said, "F**k! What is it doing here?"
There was like a thunder-like explosion in Qian Jin’s ear. His golden body reached its peak at once. The young man swung his feet to the surface. Here, he saw a bunch of waves falling from the air.
"Is this..." Qian Jin stared at the golden fish that was as long as three men. "Is it a demon?"
Danger spread all over Qian Jin’s nerves. This huge golden monster was nothing but dangerous. It was in no way inferior to the Demon Uyeha Spider. Its mouth was opening and closing as though it wanted to expose its sharp teeth. Coupled with its strong jaws, it looked like a deliberately polished dagger.
There was no doubt that once one was bitten by this strange thing, it would not end with only a few holes. Bones could be bitten through.
The golden monster threw its tail, and its huge body dashed in the water like a flying arrow. Its body braved the wind and waves and with a golden light, it sprung out of the lake, setting off a raging dark tide.
That huge dark tide surged first upon Qian Jin before the fish arrived. He was pushed all the way back. It was hard to resist the power since he was underwater. It was completely different from a ground battle, where he could ground himself, making the impact minimal.
However, here in the lake, he could not find any place to support himself.
The monster moved even faster than the tide. Unexpectedly, instead of using its teeth, it battered at him with the shell on top of its head.
It was so difficult to exert any force, so punching at the weird shell was like pounding on hard granite. The two hard objects collided in the water, stirring the surrounding water to issue a "bo" sound.
The beast made an unearthly cry while its body slightly swam backwards. Its head wagged, looking Qian Jin’s fist in astonishment. It had to be wondering how that little thing could even itself.