Ten days later they reached the hidden island. While they were entering the island to open an array, all the Immortal Ascension stage cultivators' energies drained. The moment had been sudden.
At that same moment, the octopus — which had not managed to crush their ship in the previous ten days — succeeded. Its huge tentacles struck hard. The Crimson Cloud Sect could not save their ship this time. Only a few survived the chaos including Yi Fan, Yang Kai, Miao Lin and Yu Aoqing managed to get away.
Yi Fan swam to the other side of the island. He reached the shore a little farther from where Yang Kai was. He entered the island forest. In his system the map he had copied earlier was clear, and he could see it in the system panel. The forest was thick. Shadows moved between trunks. The air smelled of salt and damp earth.
On the path a fourth stage beast attacked him. It was a lizard. Its name was Blazing Horn Lizard — it spat small fireballs, and its scales glowed red when it became enraged. Yi Fan had not known its habits at first. When the lizard spat a fireball at him he understood its ability.
"Your ability is good, but unfortunately you met a person like me who has much more understanding and fire energy than you," Yi Fan said. He rushed at the beast this time and tried to fight it with his hand. Flames gathered and wrapped around his fist. He struck with a burning punch.
The lizard jumped and tried to dodge his blow, but it failed. Yi Fan's Blazing Flame Step technique had boosted his speed many times over. He moved faster than the lizard expected. In a few moments he killed it. When the beast fell he gained one thousand breakthrough points. Yi Fan looked at the number and felt his heart beat faster. He thought, "This place is like a paradise for gaining breakthrough points."
He walked on the marked path and killed many beasts. Each fight was short and sharp. Each fight sharpened him.
Hours passed.
He reached his destination and found the cave, but the entrance stone door was closed. When he checked his system he found a shocking number on the panel.
Host had thirty-eight thousand and forty breakthrough points.
At that time Yi Fan heard people coming. From the distance he guessed,"They must be elders of the Crimson Cloud Sect who were in Immortal Ascension stage. With my current strength i could not fight them head on. I had to wait. In the novel that, they would leave this place because of a sixth stage flying beast."So Yi Fan moved a bit farther away but still kept them in sight, waiting for the right moment.
After some moments a flying beast passed over that place. The elder and the disciples of Crimson Cloud Sect left the cave, calling back, "If we are alive then we can try again in future." Their voices faded. Yi Fan started toward the cave, but then he saw Yang Kai arrive.
Yang Kai had destroyed the stone gate by using fifth stage bugs that thought Yang Kai was their queen. They had found a similar aura on his body. Yang Kai had obtained this ability by killing their queen and absorbing a beast skill. He left the bugs in front of the cave door as guards so no one could enter. The sight of those bugs did not stop Yi Fan.
Yi Fan attacked and killed the bugs one by one. Each kill give him more breakthrough point.There was some 5th stage and so many 4th stage beast but he still killing them.
Hunting so many beasts in a few hours had trained his reflexes and speed. For someone at the Qi Transformation stage it was hard to kill so many beasts at once, but Yi Fan's emptiness sword helped him a great deal. Because of that sword he had even killed a fifth stage beast with a single strike.
In a short time he cleared most of the beasts at the entrance and entered the cave.He get another notification that he gain so many breakthrough point and his present breakthrough point is 127k.Yi Fan ignore this for now.He had to with deal so much essential thing then this.
Inside he ran fast and saw shelves and piles of martial arts books from different sects, but he did not stop to read any of them. He kept moving, using his movement technique so that nothing would slow him. He wanted the Soul Worming Lotus.
When he reached the inner room he saw something absorbing the enegy barrio of soul worming lotus,it was Yang Kai's earth demon.Yi Fan can saw him because it was outside of Yang Kai body.The demon was absorbing the surrounding spiritual energy layer of the Soul Worming Lotus. The lotus glowed faintly.
"Senior brother Yang, you have to stop here. This lotus belongs to me," Yi Fan said in an arrogant tone.
He thought to himself,"Soul Worming Lotus protected the soul, and Body Worming Lotus protected the body. Only one piece existed in the Martial Peak world. If I could not get it now, my soul cultivation would fall back many times.
Yang Kai did not agree to give it to him. So Yi Fan attacked. This time he focused fully. He knew that defeating Yang Kai would be a thousand times harder than fighting the fifth stage bugs at the gate. He stopped hiding his abilities. He showed all his strength.
Yang Kai could not see Yi Fan's sword, but before Yi Fan's attack connected, Yang Kai punched him in the chest. Blood fountained from Yi Fan's mouth. The pain was sharp and sudden. Yi Fan thought,"Like I had expected, defeating a heaven-chosen one was not a child's game."Heaven chose its people, and those chosen were not easy to beat.
Not only that, Yang Kai's strength was not lower than his. But so what? Yi Fan only needed one chance. With his sword no matter how strong the opponent was, in the end Yi Fan believed he would win.
He took a few steps back and attacked again. This time both of them were at the Qi Transformation stage, but each held his own advantage. Yang Kai had a beast skill, though it could not be used deep inside the cave. The man who had once defeated the Heaven-Devouring Bug Queen was not easy to break.
Yi Fan suddenly remembered a story of Yang Kai from Star Boundary. In that story, if Yang Kai gave a person a special type of fire fregment when that person needed it, the person could save his loved one and would not attack Yang Kai. Yi Fan thought, "You will be the same in the future — you will not give up until someone uses your people as captives to deal with you."
Confidence rose in Yi Fan when he saw that Yang Kai's attacks did not wound him as much. It was because of his Limitless Force physics. He had refined it once already and granted two extra layers of strength. He was at the peak of Qi Transformation and had a strength that the body might not normally allow. This made him unusually powerful among others of his realm.
Yi Fan took another step back and attacked again.
To be continued