Chapter 243 - Casting of the Old Self and Taking on a New Self (1/2)

It didn’t take long for the plane to fly away. Suddenly, the sky was covered in thick, dark clouds. In the twinkle of an eye, it started raining heavily.

Often, Qin Fen would raise his head, looking at the sky. Usually, there was little chance of rain on a plateau. But today, it was actually raining heavily. Looking at the whole world from above, it seemed that the whole world was shrouded in torrential rain.

Qin Fen smiled as he looked at the Thunderstorm in his hand, which could adapt to a vast majority of environments, and dropped this super killing machine that had reaped almost a thousand lives on the ground.

To walk on the road of martial dao, one needed to have a firm heart! Holding a weapon that could easily erase lives would become one’s biggest obstacle. Throwing it away would mean throwing away the obstacle itself…

Qin Fen turned and took two steps, then turned back and picked up the Thundercloud and fixed it on his back carefully.

It was easy to discard the obstacles, but if he could carry them with him all the time and never use them…only then would it mean to truly break through the obstacles.

There was a vast difference between breaking and discarding.

Atop the high mountain, the wind was much stronger than on the plains.

The cold rain in the wind would hit the face, heavy and as painful as soybeans hitting the face. Even though the waterproofing ability of the recruit uniform was pretty good, it was still thoroughly soaked by this heavy rain pretty soon.

Carrying the heavy weapon on his back, Qin Fen walked on the muddy mountains. Every step he took would leave a deep footprint behind, which would quickly be filled by the rain.

The constantly falling heavy rain not only obscured his visibility, it also obscured the sound of other organisms around, and even washed away their smell in the air completely.

Inside the mountain forest, there were still many insect warriors that may suddenly attack at any time.

Having lost most of the visual, auditory, and olfactory help, Qin Fen had to depend more on his martial senses.

The heavy rain lasted for a long time. It did not stop even a bit for the entire day. In this heavy rain, Qin Fen had already killed a dozen or so insect warrior that wanted to ambush him.

With his other sense somewhat hindered for the time being, Qin Fen’s martial sense became even more sensitive. He even had a feeling that he could count the number of raindrops falling on the ground within a radius of three meters.

There were neither any hotels nor any houses; all there was was an endless nature.

At night, Qin Fen could only find a cave to take shelter from the rain and eat some non-toxic wild fruits that he had gathered to fill his hunger. Also, circulate the true energy in his body to dispel the cold.

His clothes were already wet and sticking to his body. This not only nullified any effect of being sheltered from the wind and rain, it also made him feel colder instead because of his clothes always sticking to his body.

The quality of his military boots was pretty good. Even after walking in such mountainous areas for many days, there was not much damage done to them. It was just that when the heavy rain fell, the cold rainwater poured along his ankles into his shoes, giving him the feeling of having his feet being soaked in water all the time, which seriously affected his balance while walking.

When the rain finally stopped, Qin Fen used his good skills to hunt some prey and barbeque them to improve his meals.

Having climbed thousands of feet of a steep cliff bare-handedly, Qin Fen stood at the peak of the steep cliff, looking about at the quiet view. Qin Fen circulated the Dragon Elephant true energy to his throat and roared with all his strength. An unprecedented pride suddenly surged into his heart.

Listening to the call echoing in the mountains, Qin Fen gently spread his hand out, embracing the voice coming from afar. His state of mind had entered a state he had never experienced before.

Looking back down on over ten thousand feet of conquered cliff and recalling the several dangerous situations that happened due to the heavy items he was carrying, Qin Fen’s calm mind fluctuated once more into the delight of a conqueror.

Qin Fen had never thought about conquering someone. But when he saw this cliff that was over ten thousand feet tall, he had the urge and desire to conquer it for the first time.

Martial Emperor Dragon Fist contained the word “Emperor”, and an emperor was someone who conquers!

If there was no conquering aura of power in his fist technique, then, how could it be called Martial Emperor Dragon Fist? At best, it could only be called Martial Dragon Fist.

Looking into the distance, Qin Fen, once again, chose a mountain to conquer before he began running once more.

For the next few days, Qin Fen conquered mountains and cliffs one after another, living the simplest natural life.

The sun and moon rose and fell.

In this unpolluted holy land, looking up at the night sky shining with stars, breathing the freshest air, everything was so harmonious and natural that he even forgot to practice his martial dao.

Assimilate — Qin Fen gradually began to assimilate into nature. He no longer deliberately conquered every tall mountain and cliff but walked on the mountains with ease.

After having crossed a mountain, what fell into Qin Fen’s eyes was not a mountain but a huge lake.

Clean and pristine!

Qin Fen had never seen such clean lake water. It was as if it could illuminate people’s hearts.

He gulped down the cool water, and a cold feeling immediately rushed straight to the top of his head as forty-eight thousand pores all over his body spread open in an instant.

Feeling inexplicably comfortable and at ease, Qin Fen jumped into the water, swimming quickly with ease.

Huge lake, bypass it? No! Swim across it! Swim across it!

A voice in his mind kept on repeating. Swimming in the water, Qin Fen unconsciously used the dragon forms that were usually present in the martial arts.