Mu Territory's Young Lord, Mu Chen!

Mu Territory's Young Lord—Mu Chen!

"Ding! Successfully killed ten people. Obtained one sign-in opportunity!"

Listening to the system prompt ringing in his ears, Zhao Chen watched the Black-Clothed Youth and the others slink away, his expression icy.

Same as before—if they met again, he probably would not hold back.

This time, he had mainly let them go because he had enough people.

Zhao Chen silently said decisively, "Sign in!"

"Ding! Signing in. Sign-in location—Life and Death Trial Arena. Sign-in successful!"

"Ding! Congratulations, host. Sign-in successful. You have received the sign-in reward—A Leaf Flat Boat!"

Zhao Chen froze. What was that supposed to mean?

A Leaf Flat Boat?

Was it literal, or just a description...

He looked into his Mustard Seed Bracelet, where a green ball of light had already appeared.

Within the light was a tiny boat resembling a green leaf.

The moment his consciousness touched it, the relevant information surfaced.

"So it's a special spiritual artifact, used for ferrying and flight."

Zhao Chen finally understood. The little boat's name was A Leaf Flat Boat.

It contained various small spiritual arrays. As long as they were activated, it could transform into a large ship.

With sufficient spiritual energy replenishment, it could remain active for a long time.

Even without spiritual energy supplied to it, it possessed a certain amount of stored spiritual energy, allowing it to be activated and maintained for a limited period.

"Not simple. It's also a Divine Artifact."

After noticing that A Leaf Flat Boat was also a Divine Artifact, Zhao Chen attached much greater importance to it.

It was definitely no ordinary item. Perhaps it had other uses as well.

However, on the Spirit Road, where spiritual energy could not be used, it would depend on the spiritual energy stored within A Leaf Flat Boat itself.

"Roughly speaking, if its spiritual energy is fully replenished, it can be used three times."

Zhao Chen noted the key information. If he only used its basic ferrying and flying function, its spiritual energy consumption would not be too great.

But if he wanted to activate its spiritual array barrier, it would consume more spiritual energy.

Of course, it could also replenish its expended spiritual energy by absorbing spiritual beasts, spiritual herbs, and other things containing spiritual energy.

This allowed Zhao Chen to use this spiritual artifact on the Spirit Road.

In truth, people like Wu Yingying and Song Yuqing also carried spiritual artifacts.

It was just that once the spiritual energy in the artifacts they used was depleted, it was truly gone and could not be replenished.

Why else would Jiang Jie, the white-robed instructor, specifically warn them about the Corrosive Poison Water at the edge of the Life and Death Trial Arena?

It was simply because some people from great clans and powerful factions carried spiritual artifacts with them.

Spiritual artifacts could temporarily keep someone safe atop the Corrosive Poison Water.

But they consumed an enormous amount of spiritual energy.

Ordinary people probably would not waste such a trump card.

"This will do. I like it."

Zhao Chen was genuinely satisfied with A Leaf Flat Boat.

With such a Divine Artifact, he no longer had to worry about being unsafe while sleeping at night.

Zhao Chen turned his attention back to the Life and Death Trial Arena itself. The participants here all came from the same Guardian Land.

Those with Third-Level Spirit Bodies were exceedingly rare.

The rest were mostly at the peak of Second-Level Spirit Body, like the Black-Clothed Youth.

They formed groups in order to earn points more effectively and survive the Life and Death Trial.

This meant that if Zhao Chen wanted to find enough people within a radius of several hundred miles, he could not keep searching as he was now.

"Following the banks of the Corrosive Poison Water, I should be able to find quite a few people."

Zhao Chen suddenly thought of this. Considering human nature, some people knew that they were not strong enough to claim one of the thirty slots, so they would need to find a way to leave the Life and Death Trial Arena.

No matter how terrifying the Corrosive Poison Water was said to be, they would still have to try it before anything else.

That way, the odds of encountering people along the banks would certainly be better than searching for needles in a haystack in the forest.

Zhao Chen accelerated in one direction.

Before long, he saw the so-called Corrosive Poison Water.

The pitch-black Corrosive Poison Water stretched beyond sight, utterly impossible to cross.

Moreover, no one knew whether there were other obstacles beyond that Corrosive Poison Water.

Zhao Chen tossed in a dead branch. The instant it touched the Corrosive Poison Water, it was corroded, sending wisps of white smoke into the air.

"Tsk. Even a Third-Level Spirit Body would be finished after touching the Corrosive Poison Water."

He looked around and murmured, "Where there are venomous snakes, there should also be antidotal herbs."

Near this wide river filled with Corrosive Poison Water, there had to be something capable of countering it.

Zhao Chen was certain that A Leaf Flat Boat in his hand could resist the Corrosive Poison Water.

It was just that there was no need to use it yet.

He remembered a special kind of stone called Rootless Stone.

If it was used as a container, it could hold Corrosive Poison Water without being eroded by the deadly poison.

Under normal circumstances, as long as it did not encounter something that countered it, there would be no problem.

Following that line of thought, there was actually no need to find so-called Rootless Stone.

Zhao Chen looked at the soil along the river where the Corrosive Poison Water flowed. That soil had likely been there for a very, very long time.

Any soil unable to withstand the Corrosive Poison Water had probably vanished long ago.

What remained, then, could definitely be used to contain Corrosive Poison Water.

"It should be this thin layer of black soil. The rest of the soil is useless."

Zhao Chen tested it briefly and found that it was indeed that thin layer of black soil that blocked the corrosive poison of the Corrosive Poison Water.

Now that was interesting.

It was certainly impossible to rely on this to cross the broad river formed by the Corrosive Poison Water.

But using it to make containers, fill them with Corrosive Poison Water, and keep them as temporary trump cards was not a problem at all.

"You discovered this too?"

Just then, a black-haired youth holding a sharp short blade watched Zhao Chen warily and asked in surprise.

"Mu Chen!?"

Zhao Chen turned around. Seeing the stranger's familiar face, he raised his brows in surprise.

He truly had not expected to encounter Mu Chen, the young lord of Mu Territory and a fellow student of Northern Spiritual Academy, at a time like this.

He had thought it was some unlucky fool foolishly trying to ambush him.

He had nearly given the other party a righteous punch. Good thing he had not acted.

"You!?"

The black-haired youth also recognized Zhao Chen. As one of only two people from the Northern Spiritual Realm to enter the Spirit Road in over a decade, there was no way Mu Chen could forget Zhao Chen.

Even though he did not know Zhao Chen particularly well.

"I originally thought we'd meet as soon as we entered the Spirit Road. Who would've thought we wouldn't encounter each other until we reached the Life and Death Trial Arena?"

Seeing that Mu Chen was safe and sound, Zhao Chen smiled.

He had said it before—given Mu Chen's luck, his quick wits, and his decisive nature, how could he possibly die on the Spirit Road?

Now it seemed that Mu Chen was doing quite well. He had also reached the cultivation of a Third-Level Spirit Body.

"That's true. When I first entered the Spirit Road, I found myself completely alone."

Seeing the relatively familiar Zhao Chen and hearing his words, Mu Chen nodded.

"Only later did I realize that everyone's locations had likely been randomly scattered. How are you doing now?"

He was very curious. Zhao Chen had managed to survive all the way to the Guardian Land on the Spirit Road, so he could not be simple.

Had his Spirit Body cultivation reached the peak of Second-Level Spirit Body, or even Third-Level Spirit Body!?

More importantly, Zhao Chen had actually discovered the secret of the soil by the Corrosive Poison Water river, just like him!