Reverend Insanity - Chapter 79

Chapter 79

Time was like a white steed that flitted past a crack, and summer left with the arrival of autumn .

In the walled-in path, Fang Yuan stood once more before the giant boulder blocking the way .

Due to the weather growing colder, he wore plain and simple garment with long sleeves . But his body figure was no longer the thin sort like how it was a few months ago .

His chest, two arms and legs, and abdomen all showed obvious muscle .

These muscles were not as protruding as a stone, but it showed as a type of streamline, matching up with Fang Yuan’s slowly growing body . Matched as well with his white skin, this gave others a type of youthful, full of vitality feeling .

"Starting from three days ago, the White Boar Gu stopped supplying me any increase in strength . That means, I already have one boar’s strength, thus reaching the Flower Wine Monk’s requirement . Today, I shall try pushing this round rock again!"

Fang Yuan’s eyes shone as he took a step forward with his right leg, his left leg at the back, forming a bow step .

His arms touched the surface of the round rock as he took a deep breath in and pushed with all his strength .

The large boulder moved under the pressure of both his arms, moving slowly, gradually gaining momentum and rolling forward .

The road before the boulder blocking the path was an inclined slope . Being turned into a round rock by the Flower Wine Monk, it was most suitable for rolling . This must have been his intention, to allow the inheritor to push the boulder upwards and move it away .

"Ten steps, twenty steps, thirty steps . . . " Fang Yuan slowly progressed, counting in his heart, "Last week, I pushed it to forty-five steps and that was the limit of my stamina, forcing me to quit . This time, I wonder how far I can push it?"

Forty steps, forty-five steps… . . .

A while later, Fang Yuan broke his original record, but that was enough for him to feel unbearably tired .

Forty-six steps, forty-seven steps… . . .

Fang Yuan could feel strongly, at this point his stamina was almost all gone .

Forty-eight, forty-nine steps . . . .

He mustered all his strength and moved another two steps . Finally, he was at his limit, sweating profusely . Using his shoulder and leg to anchor the rock in place, he took a few deep breaths .

"Should I give up?" Fang Yuan could not help but have such thoughts . This inclined slope, when returning he has to expend quite a bit of stamina as well . After all, the rock has to roll down and he had to slowly release it in the process .

If he let go and ran, the rock would roll faster and faster . Fang Yuan did not want to get turned into a pile of flesh after being unable to avoid it .

But thinking for a while, Fang Yuan felt indignant . Let’s push it a few more steps .

Fiftieth step .

He suddenly felt that the pressure from the huge rock had lightened . It had actually rolled into a straight platform .

Fang Yuan pushed for a few more steps . After routing past the huge rock he found himself in a secret room .

This secret room was like the rock crack’s secret cave . He temporarily named it the second secret room .

There was nothing in the room . The four walls were a strange red soil, glowing red . On the other end of the secret room, there was a simple grey-coloured rock door . It should be the hurried product of the Flower Wine Monk .

Fang Yuan rested for a while but did not immediately open the rock door, as he had a new discovery .

He found that the ground before the rock door was slightly damp .

"Don’t tell me . . . " Fang Yuan had a thought . He bent down, stretching out both arms and loosening the soil .

The second Earth Treasury flower!

Fang Yuan laughed heartily, carefully peeling the flower petals and retrieving the Gu worm slumbering in the golden nectar .

Once he deployed his primeval essence, it was instantly refined .

This was a Jade Skin Gu . Its appearance was like the bedbug, flat and wide with a small head and its green body was oval in space, emitting a faint jade coloured glow .

"I obtained the White Boar Gu, and was still thinking where could I get a Jade Skin Gu so I could refine it into the White Jade Gu . To think that the Flower Wine Monk already prepared it for me," Fang Yuan contemplated, thinking about the significance of this Jade Skin Gu .

This is Fang Yuan’s sixth Gu worm .

Although he had five already, none were defensive . Now that he had the Jade Skin Gu, he could cover up his weakness in defense .

At times, defense means offense .

This was not hard to understand . Taking for example Fang Yuan’s body . Using the White Boar Gu, his strength grew to one boar’s strength . Theoretically, with this strength, he could smash a rock in one punch, but Fang Yuan never did such a thing .

Because he knew his defense was not sufficient, so with one punch, the rock would break, but his fists would also turn bloody from the damage .

Now that he had the Jade Skin Gu, he could supplement the advantage he had in strength . Obviously, there were advantages and disadvantages .

The Jade Skin Gu had a high value, being one of the best defensive Rank one Gu . It was not easy to feed, consuming two pieces of jade rock every ten days .

Jade rock’s market price was expensive, and the source was often the problem .

Fang Zheng also has a Jade Skin Gu, but he has the clan leader’s backing, providing him with jade rocks . If Fang Yuan wanted jade rocks, he would have to buy them, and that could easily expose him .

"Originally in feeding the White Boar Gu, I had to regularly kill wild boars, and that is already troublesome . With the addition of this Jade Skin Gu, do I have to go dig in mines?" Fang Yuan laughed bitterly, seeing a new problem in front of him .

Keeping the Jade Skin Gu, temporarily nurturing it in his aperture, Fang Yuan gradually opened the rock door .

The rock door was heavy, and if Fang Yuan did not have the White Boar Gu’s boost in strength, he would not be able to move it . But now, with Fang Yuan pushing it, the door slowly opened .

The scene that was revealed to Fang Yuan caused his field of vision to expand all of a sudden .

It was no longer a narrow tunnel or a secret room, but a large spacious plot of underground stone forest .

Fang Yuan estimated at initial approximation, the stone forest’s size was over thirty Mu(1)! On earth, a standard football field was only eleven Mu .

"I should be inside Qing Mao mountain now, this underground space should be naturally formed . " Fang Yuan looked up at the stone walls .

The stone walls in this space were over sixteen meters tall, and the ceiling was also made of stone .

From the top, there were large dark red pillars erected . Each emitted a faint red glow, and so did the walls, just like the tunnel and secret room . The light although dim, allowed Fang Yuan to see some things at least .

Fang Yuan looked far, and each stone pillar was like an upside down tree, except without branches, and only leaving the stem .

The stone pillar’s surface was not smooth, and was full of dark eerie holes . Numerous pillars drooped down, forming an inverted stone forest within the mountain .

Nature had its way with things .

Fang Yuan with his immense knowledge, was not shocked, but stared at the dark holes in the pillars, frowning more intensely .

He had suddenly understood the Flower Wine Monk’s intention in placing the Jade Skin Gu .

"If I am not wrong . . . " Fang Yuan turned his right hand, and out came a moonblade .

The eerie blue moonblade flew through the sky in an arc, precisely hitting a dark hole in the stone pillar .

A shrill and angry sound came from the dark hole .

With a ‘swoosh’, a grey monkey flew out from the cave and leapt towards Fang Yuan .

Pow pow pow .

Fang Yuan shot three moonblades .

The monkey was in midair and could not adjust its position, but its tail was extremely agile, sweeping several times and causing its body to flip in midair . After avoiding two moonblades, it was finally hit by the third, plopping on the floor dead .

It was dead, without a drop of blood .

Only its grey body turned to stone, and in a second, its flesh and blood body became a stone monkey statue .

The statue’s posture and facial expression was just like the monkey right before it died, imitated to perfection . After two breath’s time, the stone monkey’s surface cracked, and cracks developed all over its body . Finally with a boom, its entire figure blew up into tiny rock fragments .

"It really is an underground colony of jade eye stone monkeys . " Fang Yuan knelt down, sweeping the fragments aside and taking out two jade green yellow pearls . These two pearls were the jade eye stone monkey’s eyes .

This strange animal would turn into grey rock fragments once dead, and only its eyes would turn into two jade green spherical pearls . Each were very heavy, reaching at least fifty grams .

This meant that as long as he killed jade eye stone monkeys, the Jade Skin Gu’s food problem would be resolved .

"I not only have to feed the Jade Skin Gu, I also have to continue the inheritance . Flower Wine Monk’s next clue should be hidden in this stone forest .

Fang Yuan frowned . Things had become complicated .

He tried taking a few steps forward, his eyes peeled to the stone pillar .

On his seventh step, on the pillar closest to him, numerous jade-coloured glowing eyes could be seen peeking out of the stone holes .

At once, a drop of sweat fell from Fang Yuan’s forehead .

He quickly took a step back, and the numerous eyeballs in the dark holes faded .

Evidently, each pair of eyeballs meant a jade eye stone monkey . The jade eye stone monkey was terribly agile, and to kill one Fang Yuan had to use four moonblades .

On a stone pillar, there were at least a hundred jade eye stone monkeys, and in the entire forest, who knew how many were there in total .

With Fang Yuan’s current strength, he would die from being attacked by four monkeys . If he included the Jade Skin Gu’s defense, Fang Yuan could deal with twelve monkeys at once at most .

Thankfully, these monkeys usually slept in their dark holes and ate rocks when they were hungry or thirsty . The stone pillar was their home and food . Unless he got within ten meters of them or provoked them purposely, they would not come out .

Using earth’s words, they were a bunch of neet/hikikomori monkeys .

(1) Mu (亩) - 1 Mu is 666 ⅔ meters²

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