Blood Moon Hunters Chapter 113 Exploring the Divine Lake

It was already November since Wang Bugui started to cultivate in meditation. He had made great achievements this time, as he vaguely felt that some kind of shackle inside his body was about to be broken. Undoubtedly, it was a substantial threshold for the Sage Realm. He may be able to break the curse of nine years soon!

After all, he had experienced too much. In his early youth, he had already gone out to hunt demons with Druid and Merutia. The name of genius was actually gained by killing. Afterward, he underwent an exceedingly bloody battle, in which all his family was exterminated, with Chiou also dying for him.

Then he traveled to Kunlun Mountain and cultivated for ten years. During all that time, he was assiduously researching the Tao Law, day and night. He even found out a way of his own, of which the Taoism rudiment began to take shape. Now and then he went down the mountain to travel and experience human society. Although the attainments were sparse, he experienced many things.

In the Gathering of Practitioners, he first had to meet with the high-leveled, and of a higher power, then he had to kill and rob them. He had to cross two vast realms with all his skills to ward them off, nevertheless failing in the end. As for fighting with the old dragon, he reached a deeper understanding of Taoism. During the contests afterward, he struggled with different Taoism every day, accumulating all kinds of thoughts and feelings.

The Tao Law owned by each genius was all mysterious and abstruse, which had given him different feelings about the realms of Taoism after fighting with them. The last several contests enriched him even more, with the rudiment of his unbeatable fist position being more developed.

He also witnessed the assassination of a sage called Lin Yun. They confronted twice, which further promoted his combat skills, experience, and understanding of the Tao Law. When later on he went to Wenchuan for disaster relief, he had been struck by various aspects of the ordinary society once more and began to hold a new view on life.

So, with decades of extraordinary experiences as well as his talents and firm determination for cultivation, his achievements were a matter of course. He felt the day for his breakthrough was close by. But before that, he needed to do another thing, which was to explore the Divine Lake.

He had promised Qilin that he would help it capture the good luck from the lake before going through a sage catastrophe. It was almost impossible to exceed the sages. The peak of the Void Returning Realm was the best option. Even if there were only half a step left for reaching the sage level, one would never be actively competing with the rule of sages.

Wang Bugui got up and exerted the Hell Step to arrive at the Ancient Forest within just several flashes. He located Qilin who was still soundly asleep, slapped its back and said, "Little Qilin, I'm here now. Take me to the Divine Lake, and I will help you seize the good luck!"

"Hey, you scared me! You are hardworking. Not hanging out with me in a while, you directly went into cultivation." Qilin shivered a little after being slapped by him and kicked his shin with its hoof in return.

"I just can't wait to understand my achievements. See, I feel that my breakthrough is coming soon, so I'm here to do what I should do. Don't you want the good luck now?" Wang Bugui laughed and said, folding his arms.

"Of course, I want it! Let's go now. Go, go!" Qilin howled and rushed forward to guide the way. Wang Bugui grinned and followed behind it.

Moments later, they came to the center of the Divine Lake and jumped inside it. Wang Bugui spread Innate Prana Power to shield his body from the water. Then they went all the way to the bottom, where there was a stone cavern, on the side of which a stele was set up, with the letters "Entombment Lake of Dragon" inscribed.

"Entombment Lake of Dragon? Why is this stele at the bottom of the lake?" Wang Bugui said while frowning.

"That's because this stele is not only used to open the stone cavern, but it also has to quell the power beams inside, to prevent them from leaking out," Qilin said. Then it came to the front of the stone stele and recited ancient talismanic words, whereupon all kinds of incantations appeared on the stele. Later the brilliance was glistening splendidly with a light door appearing in the cavern. They stepped inside together.

After entering, they found that it was a cave dwelling inside; its private area was emitting a sort of terrifying aura. Qilin accompanied him past the outside region. There were some scattered golden flakes on every other part of the district, as well as some scroll fragments full of abstruse ancient writing on the way.

According to Qilin, it was at the time when it was wandering around the outside area that it found the Universal Buddha Manifestation technique. The scroll recorded that the Universal Buddha Manifestation technique was initially left by a divine monkey. But there was no clue why it had appeared in that place. When nearing the center, Qilin dared not to go further, as there was an altar in front where the Dragon and Phoenix Knack was laid.

"I'm going in then. I'll be back with good luck!" Wang Bugui said and gave it a smile, then stepped forward.

"Be careful, man! It's dangerous everywhere!" Qilin shouted to warn him.

With his back to it, Wang Bugui threw a fist to show his confidence. Then he just gradually disappeared from its sight. In that cave, a beam was spread for suppressing. Even for him, who was in the Void Returning Realm, it was only possible to go slowly by walking. The deeper he went in, the slower he walked.

"Is this the beam of power that was left by someone with real strength? It's really terrifying!"

Wang Bugui couldn't help sighing, but he continued to go deeper while clenching his teeth. Then he saw an altar hundreds of meters away in front. Upon it, an ancient scroll was placed, which should be the Dragon and Phoenix Knack. He circulated his mystical skill, prana power, and his blood to fight against the pressure of this beam of energy with all his might while stepping toward the altar at the same time.

However, when he was closer, he found that there was a considerable dragon corpse behind the altar. It was quietly hovering with no aura of life at all. Although it was dead, it still had its stateliness. That was the reason for the massive pressure in the area.

"How did this happen? A dragon was actually buried here! Why did it end up here?" Wang Bugui was really shocked. He would have never believed that a dragon would be buried at the bottom. But the sight before him was a hard fact, proving the origin of the lake.

The dragon was golden, and its scales had not wholly lost their luster, even after death. What made Wang Bugui even more surprised was that a lot of horrible scars were visible on its body. Who could give a dragon such serious injuries? The pressure he was under now felt just like that of the Founder Master, a true God of War.

The cultivation base of this dragon was definitely as sturdy as a true immortal's, but it was still beaten to such an extent by some unknown tyrant and died here at last. He just wondered who could be so formidable that an immortal beast had simply died by his hand.

But Wang Bugui didn't have time to sigh, as the pressure in the chamber would increase over time. The dragon was dead, but it did not allow other people to get close quickly. No wonder the people with higher levels of cultivation had to withstand more pressure. Anyway, there was a corpse of an immortal beast with the power of a true immortal guarding the place.

He just sped up to walk toward the altar. Having exerted all his energies, he could only walk step by step under the pressure of this dragon. During his walk, there appeared new beams of power, which turned into water columns to rush toward him. These water columns could be compared with the catastrophe of a sage level, to test the physical strength of all comers.

Wang Bugui persisted, walking while enduring a great deal of pain, with his teeth clenching tightly. There were more and more water columns. And their power was increasing, too. But he just frowned his knife-shaped eyebrows and regarded this as a refinement of his physical body, believing that it would become stronger after this.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, as he was less than one hundred meters away from the altar, a large beam of power was launched. Instead of attacking his physical body, it was aiming to take his primordial spirit.

"Soul of War Immortal!"

Wang Bugui roared loudly and circulated his Soul of War Immortal wholeheartedly to fight back. His Shen Tang burst out golden light. Then a golden dwarf stepped out from it and raised his fist to punch forward. But the beam of power was also mighty. After he smashed it, his primordial spirit was also injured.

A crack appeared on this dwarf. Wang Bugui just called in his primordial spirit and walked further. But there were even more beams of power coming to attack him; he was forced to call out his primordial spirit again. After the bloody fight against the rays of energy, he finally went to a distance of ten steps away from the altar; his dwarf had already been scarred all over his body.

At this moment, another danger had just appeared. A mighty intent arrived, nearly pressing Wang Bugui to kneel down. This was the pressure of a Greater Power, which surpassed the peak of the Void Returning Realm by two vast realms. If he were a sage, one could imagine the result. But he was just a cultivator of the Void Returning Realm. How could he confront the pressure of Greater Power?

He exerted all his mystical skills, Eight Limits Universal Order, Heavenly Battling Force, Reversal Method, and Undefeatable Body of the World, to withstand the pressure. He even exerted Blood Ignition Technique afterward, when he was finally able to move again. With only ten steps left, he strolled, it was as if leaving enough the time to drink a cup of tea.

"Finally... I'm here!"

Wang Bugui came close to the altar, at last, just seeing a golden scroll lying there quietly. He tried to adjust his aura as soon as possible. Moments later, he exerted all his energy to reach out his hand to grasp the scroll. Suddenly, a surge of coolness rushed into his heart, and his whole body broke out with gooseflesh. His sixth sense told him not to grasp it, so he crazily retracted his hand with all his strength.

"Howl!"

The minute he retracted his hand, the roar of a dragon came through out of nowhere. This sound shocked Wang Bugui so much that his prana power and blood began to stir as if the Aura Sea inside his body was about to collapse. The next scene, however, was even more frightening. The dragon corpse behind the altar burst out golden light all of a sudden.

At this moment, the head of the dead dragon just moved a little and then slowly opened its eyes, which were as big as copper bells.

"What?!" Wang Bugui just froze there. After hundreds of thousands of years, this dragon was still alive?

"Mortal? Amazingly, you can reach here. But you have to experience the last test, which may kill you. It's not too late to retreat now," An old and aging voice came through. Wang Bugui just saw that the golden eyes of the ancient dragon were staring at him and warning.

"Elder Real Dragon, I didn't know that you were still alive. I'm sorry to disturb you," Wang Bugui said with cold sweat dripping down his face.

"It doesn't matter. I'm already dead with only a residual thought still here. I just want to see if there is anyone in later ages that can get this Dragon and Phoenix Knack. For the last time, are you going to take the last test?" The Real Dragon asked.

"This junior is willing!" Wang Bugui clenched his teeth and said. He never believed that this was just a residual thought, which released such mighty pressure, even more horrifying than Greater Power! But he was already here. He couldn't just head back with nothing. A promise was something to be fulfilled. Wang Bugui would not go back on his words, so he had no other choice but to go forward.

"That's very good. Then, be careful!" The old dragon said. Right after, a golden light was emitted from his eyes to shroud Wang Bugui.

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