Ye Fan nodded and said, "I'm only guessing. As for whether I'm right or wrong, I have no confidence. We'd better be more careful tonight."
Soon, Zhou Yi, Wang Ziwen, and the others also came to Ye Fan and the others' side. Everyone had witnessed Ye Fan's strength.
They had originally only known him as the barbarian on the basketball court, but earlier, when he had clashed with Liu Yunzhi over the distribution of the Saint Fruits, they had finally witnessed his terrifying strength.
He had actually lifted a thousand-kilogram boulder without the slightest effort. He was practically inhuman.
After seeing Ye Fan's terrifying strength, Liu Yunzhi immediately chose to shut up and no longer dared to voice any doubts.
Even Wang Yan, the female student who had been on Liu Yunzhi's side, began taking the initiative to draw closer to Li Xiaoman after witnessing Ye Fan's terrifying strength.
Back in school, Ye Fan and Li Xiaoman had practically been a pair of immortals. They could not believe the two would become complete strangers.
Especially after the foreigner Kai De had revealed that he was not Li Xiaoman's boyfriend, everyone became even more hopeful that the university sweethearts would reconcile.
Li Xiaoman, who had originally felt that Ye Fan was no longer worthy of her, also began taking the initiative to talk with him.
The terrifying roar continued for more than two hours before finally fading away.
Inside the forbidden zone, in the shelter they had temporarily built from boulders, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At the same time, they were filled with worry about their future.
This world was probably far less beautiful than they had imagined.
Meanwhile,
Inside the Saber-Toothed Tiger's nest, after enduring two full hours of torture like the Eighteen Levels of Hell, Li Zhi had finally overcome the tribulation that every person who left the Barren Ancient Forbidden Zone alive had to endure.
The burning of the Life Force originating from the depths of his body was simply more painful than being slowly sliced apart.
Because his consciousness remained clear the entire time, the burning sensation transmitted from his lower abdomen after the life essence in his flesh and blood was ignited was enough to make him wish he were dead.
It was as if even his Wheel of Life were being burned by sacred flames, causing his originally withered Bitter Sea to continuously awaken amid the searing heat.
Even the solid, indestructible Bitter Sea cast from steel could be melted by this burning.
If not for the Ginseng Fruit continuously replenishing the Life Essence consumed by the burning, Li Zhi would have felt as if his flesh and blood were about to dry up.
Perhaps it was because he had consciously circulated the Breathing Method to absorb the Medicinal Power of the Ginseng Fruit, providing the fuel needed for that burning of life.
It allowed his Wheel Sea to endure an unprecedentedly extreme transformation.
His Wheel of Life seemed to have been purified.
After undergoing this tempering, the originally thin Wheel of Life became thick and translucent.
The Wheel of Life seemed to have gone through a journey of additive manufacturing. After the tempering, the Wheel of Life, which had originally possessed thirty marks, lost more than half of them.
When the burning sensation disappeared, Li Zhi felt that every cell in his body was filled with energy. Every cell had once again blossomed with the youth and vitality unique to a young man.
Within his Wheel Sea, a vast amount of Life Essence formed a thick cloud drifting above his Bitter Sea.
That was the last of the Life Essence remaining from half a Divine Medicine. After realizing that his body could no longer absorb even a trace of it, Li Zhi had guided it all into his Wheel Sea.
At that moment, Li Zhi's blood was as heavy as lead and mercury. As it flowed through his body, it seemed to produce the roar of a great river, and even his blood carried a faint, indistinct silver radiance.
His physique seemed to have undergone an astonishing transformation, directly changing from a Mortal Physique into a special Dao Body.
Because half a fruit of an Immortality Elixir had participated in this special transformation, his Life Origin had received an ultimate baptism.
Inside the cave, after all movement had finally subsided,
In the place where Li Zhi had originally been sitting cross-legged, there now stood a foul-smelling statue wrapped in thick sludge.
Under Li Zhi's conscious guidance, the astonishing heat had burned out the deepest impurities in his body. They had combined with his clothes to form a layer of sludge armor.
As the transformation ended, Li Zhi's breathing sounded once more.
The sludge armor slowly developed cracks.
A small hand, crystalline as jade, was the first to break free from the sludge armor's restraints and emerge into the outside air.
Then, amid a series of cracking sounds, the sludge armor finally shattered.
A delicate little figure, its entire body radiating a jade-colored glow, walked out naked.
Looking at his hands, which had shrunk by more than half, and his hairless body, Li Zhi exclaimed, "Rejuvenation?"
A cold wind swept past, and Li Zhi suddenly felt somewhat empty.
He immediately went to his backpack, only to discover that its height had reached his chest.
A single transformation had actually turned him from a burly man who was 1.8 meters tall into a child roughly 1.2 meters tall.
As for his exact age, Li Zhi could not determine it because he had yet to see his own Wheel of Life.
He took out a short-sleeved shirt and put it on. He could not wear the trousers, so he could only tear off the pant legs and wear the remainder as a short skirt.
After getting dressed, Li Zhi was eager to test how strong his current body was.
For this transformation, he had practically used half an Immortality Elixir to lay his foundation.
No matter how ordinary his physique had been before, it should have become extraordinary now.
Li Zhi walked out of the Saber-Toothed Tiger's cave and found a boulder weighing tens of thousands of jin nearby.
Li Zhi exerted himself with both hands. Although he failed to lift the boulder, he still managed to shake the several-tens-of-thousands-of-jin boulder.
When he ran at full speed, his speed had at least doubled.
He picked out a boulder weighing a little over ten thousand jin, and Li Zhi lifted it over his head with ease.
He then switched to one hand and held it for three seconds.
Ten-thousand-jin divine strength in one arm.
Li Zhi gained an entirely new understanding of his own strength.
He then returned to the Saber-Toothed Tiger's nest and took out the Scriptures forged from Eternal Blue Gold from the Snakeskin Bag.
He could hardly wait to cultivate the "Primordial Longevity Art."
Only by opening the Bitter Sea and awakening the Life Spring would he possess even a sliver of self-preservation ability on this vast land.
Feeling the surging Life Essence within his body,
Li Zhi seized the momentum and began circulating the Longevity Art he had been studying for two years.
As the opening chapter of the "Primordial Longevity Art," the Longevity Art was specially used to help cultivators solidify their foundations and open the Bitter Sea. He was so familiar with it that he could not have known it better.
Sitting cross-legged inside the tiger's den, Li Zhi circulated the Mysterious Method and began directing the vast Life Essence within his body toward the Bitter Sea.
When his mind sensed the thick cloud of Life Essence covering the sky above the Bitter Sea, Li Zhi simply could not believe his eyes.
When ordinary people opened the Bitter Sea, they only needed to condense a few strands of Life Essence above it to complete the process.
Yet Li Zhi had summoned a vast amount of Life Essence as boundless as a sea of clouds to open his Bitter Sea. The difference in treatment was like heaven and earth.
While using the Mysterious Method of the Longevity Art to direct the thick sea of clouds, he sensed the throbbing of the Wheel of Life.
Very soon, Li Zhi sensed a Divine Power Source at the Wheel of Life that seemed about to erupt.
Li Zhi then circulated the Mysterious Method and drew a stream of essence from the thick cloud of Life Essence, using it to strike the place where the Divine Power Source showed signs of erupting.
Boom!
When the Life Essence landed on the Divine Power Source, it was as if a basin of cold water had been poured into a blazing-hot wok of oil. The surface of the oil exploded instantly.
In an instant, Li Zhi felt a vast amount of Divine Power burst from the Wheel of Life. Then a silver radiance pierced out through his body, illuminating the entire tiger's den in silver-white light.
It was as if a silver ocean had appeared in the void. At the same time, a water tornado reaching from heaven to earth appeared above the silver ocean.
Through the water tornado, vast amounts of Life Essence continuously fell into the silver ocean below, raising monstrous waves. A Silver Giant Island even slowly rose from the surface of the sea.
Then, a Fruit Tree radiating wisps of Immortal Mist broke through the soil on the silver island and instantly grew into a towering tree.
The thick cloud of essence above the silver ocean seemed to be drawn by the silver ocean below and instantly began pouring down rain like a waterfall.
The surface of the silver ocean rose at a visible speed.
The monstrous waves, carrying boundless Divine Power, surged toward the chaotic shore.
In the blink of an eye, fierce winds howled across the sea and torrential rain poured down. It seemed to find the rain falling from the cloud of essence above the Bitter Sea too slow, so three more Essence Tornadoes formed over the sea.
The four Essence Tornadoes were like water pumps, drawing essence from the cloud above and injecting it back into the silver ocean.
Perhaps because the essence was being poured in too quickly and in too great a quantity, countless Divine Power whirlpools of varying sizes appeared on the silver surface. They eventually joined together, forming an extremely corrosive Ocean Vortex.
With the vortex's support, the Divine Power waves' assault on the chaotic shore accelerated once more.
Patches of chaotic space were transformed into silver ocean.
As the cloud of essence in the sky gradually thinned, the wind and waves on the sea gradually weakened as well.
When the final trace of essence rain fell into the silver ocean, the silver surface gradually returned to calm.
The Silver Giant Island in the sea, along with the Immortal Tree atop it, became even clearer.
Then the Immortal Tree on the island released wisps of Immortal Mist, concealing the Silver Giant Island and the Immortal Tree.
Only then did the strange phenomenon projected into the tiger's den disappear.
Within Li Zhi's Wheel Sea, a silver ocean as large as a soccer field had appeared.
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