Chapter 49 (1/2)

In the room filled with darkness, Lin Xun gasped heavily. There were unbearable pains like being punched by needles in every inch of his skin, his clothes being soaked by cold sweat.

“ I never thought the second test would be so much more difficult than I expected…”

While murmuring, Lin Xun felt not that depressed in the heart because he had expected there would not be much of a chance to succeed in the first trial.

What he hadn’t expected was that he failed so fleetingly at the beginning of the test, which was hard to stomach for him.

Shooting a glance at Shia Zhi in deep sleep, without drowsiness, Lin Xun went out of the room and intended to take a cold shower.

So he didn’t notice there was a smile flashing by at the corners of her mouth.

She sensed the existence of Lin Xun again in sleep. Although she wasn’t clear about what happened to him, she felt unprecedentedly settled as long as she could perceive the breath of Lin Xun.

……

It was late night already and the vast sky was brilliant with starlight.

Lin Xun soaked himself in a wooden bucket in the courtyard, feeling the cold water running down and moistening his skin, reducing the pricking bit by bit .

“Three days later, there will be a second chance to do the test. However, according to my physical power now, it might end with failure again.”

Leaning against the bucket, Lin Xun gazed at the vast night sky in a trance.

The “Water Mountain” located in the sea was thousands of meters high and flowed down swiftly like a dragon, whose crashing power was beyond imagination. So it was nearly impossible to ascend to the top of the mountain against the huge waterfall.

Lin Xun even doubted that there wouldn’t be much hope to pass the second test even though he reached the ninth level of Martial Realm and his physique was refined well, let alone with the power he possessed at the moment.

“It’s really annoying.”

Lin Xun thought it over but failed to come up with a solution. He sighed deeply.

However, Lin Xun suddenly noticed that his physical power was restoring at an unbelievable rate. A feeling of numbness generated from his skins, muscles and bones as if they were growing.

Lin Xun’s heart and soul was immediately captured by that. Carefully perceiving, he found there was an extraordinary power that could scarcely be noticed and was integrated into his body. His strength in the stinging body not only recovered, but also became even stronger than before.

The unexpected change cheered Lin Xun up immediately and reminded him of the situation where he left the Heaven-access Place for the first time months ago.

At that moment, he thought the award was merely a volume of Meditating Magic after passing the first test. It never occurred to him that even the scars of his Heart Vessel and Four Acupoints would just disappear and the four spiritual vortexes were formed.

Moreover, his weak physique had been improved a lot since then.

“Is it that every time I enter the Heaven-access Place, my body will be improved a lot?”

“Or is there some connection between the change of my body now with my first try to pass Body Refining?”

Lin Xun thought fast in the heart. He had been sent to a spiritual tattoo battlefield called “Mille-Waterfalls” when doing the second test “ Body Refining”.

The overwhelming stinging pain he felt just now was the after-effects of being struck by the waterfall, which now seemed as a refining for the body.

It was possible!

As soon as Lin Xun recalled the name of the test, Body Refining, and the fact that he couldn’t exert spiritual force but physical power when passing the test, he suspected the strange intangible magical force might come from the “Mille-Waterfalls”.

The discovery immediately made Lin Xun feel excited again. He hurried to dry his body with a towel, wore clean clothes and stood in the courtyard, practicing Marching Boxing.

Hu! Hu! Hu!

With his fists striking the air, Lin Xun did find his strength promoted a lot!

He could only shake the air with his utmost force previously, but now he could easily achieve that by an arbitrary strike.

“If so, even if I keep failing, I shouldn’t give up. Each time I try, my body will be refined, and my power will become stronger, then it’ll get easier and easier for me to pass the test…”

Lin Xun’s thinking was clearer and clearer. “ That should be it! It is the true purpose of the second test to refine body. So no matter how many times I fail, I only become calmer facing them !”

“For example, the requirement of the first test seemed to be simply uncovering the secret of the Flowing-light Spiritual Tattoo. Who could’ve ever thought the true secret of it all is the key to practicing Meditating Magic?”

“Looking back on it, I have underestimated the tests on the Green-cloud Path. Who can ever assume that there are mystiques beyond imagination behind each one?”

At this moment, standing alone in the darkness with bright eyes like stars, Lin Xun was suddenly as enlightened as beholding the sun blazing forth from a cloudy sky.

……

Another three days passed away.

Lin Xun entered the Heaven-access Place at night and started his struggle for passing the “Mille Waterfalls” again.

This time Lin Xun managed to climb nearly seven meters due to his stronger physique before he was thrown away by three torrents of waterfalls forcibly.

However, Lin Xun paid more attention to the change of his body rather than the failure. Feeling carefully, he found his previous speculation was confirmed and that he became stronger after the struggle as expected!

If he could do the test every three days for 108 times, it would cost him 324 days, which was nearly a whole year!