Chapter Twenty: Extreme Forging

  The stars are scattered, dotted on the night sky, a crescent moon is bright and clear, the moonlight passes through the dense foliage, casting dappled shadows in the quiet forest.

  Diya Lan and Hu Long were patrolling outside, while Zhao Xin leaned against the trunk of a tree, breathing evenly, with her eyes closed in rest.

  Luo Hao stood beside another ancient tree, his eyes narrowed slightly, as if he had never cancelled his vigilance towards his surroundings.

  Among the dense leaves of the ancient tree he relied on, Mu Yu Butterfly slept quietly, having been exhausted from running around all day, she couldn't afford to stir a single thread of spiritual energy.

  Lu Hao occasionally raised his head and glanced at the Mu language butterfly among the leaves, with a rare look of tenderness in his eyes.

  "Thud! Thud!"

  Lu Hao furrowed his thick eyebrows and looked at Shi Yan who was walking towards him slowly, asking in surprise: "Haven't rested yet?"

  "Hmm." Shi Yan nodded and replied softly, standing beside Luo Hao, asking in a low voice: "In this area, isn't it not too easy for the other party to find us?"

  "It's not easy indeed." Luo Hao smiled, "There is no fixed route here, the demon beasts often appear and disappear, and the warriors are also active everywhere. It's hard for 'Darkness' people to judge which traces will be left by us. In fact, we should pay more attention to the demon beasts and those adventurous warriors."

  "That means the other party won't be able to find us that easily." Shi Yan thought for a moment, then asked: "Luo Shu, does releasing your gravitational field require consuming too much spiritual energy?"

  "Why ask this?" Luo Hao was taken aback.

  "I want to use your gravitational field to temper my body. Under the gravitational field, I will bear enormous pressure, which can enhance my physical strength. I want to see how far my limits can be pushed." Shi Yan said seriously, he was not content with being ordinary and felt that just practicing bitterly was dull, wanting to find some excitement and passion.

  "Relying on the gravitational field to hone yourself..." Luo Hao's eyes lit up, and he nodded: "The method is not bad, but are you sure you want to try? What if your body loses all its strength and the enemy suddenly finds you, won't you be unable to fight back at all?"

  "I didn't plan on using Jingyuan." Shiran smiled slightly.

  "Pure physical training?" Luo Hao was shocked.

  "Uh-huh."

  Lu Hao furrowed his brow deeply and didn't speak until half a minute later: "You've just broken through to the Xiantian realm, so it's not wrong to slowly get familiar with your body and temper it properly. However, you've never strengthened your body before, and now you're starting to cultivate using gravity fields without even considering using spiritual energy. This kind of crazy intensity... can you really withstand it?"

  "I want to try," Shi Yan said calmly.

  "Alright! You come with me." Luo Hao nodded and quietly headed towards the distance, Shi Yan silently followed.

  After the two left quietly, the Mu Yu butterfly on the ancient tree slowly opened its eyes from among the dense branches and leaves.

  Gazing silently at the two by the small river in the distance, Mu Yuxi's beautiful eyes were filled with astonishment and confusion, muttering to herself: "Just broke through the Innate Boundary and yet dared to cultivate through the Gravity Field, is this guy crazy?"

  Mo Yu Die couldn't sleep, feeling more and more strange. Her curiosity got the better of her, so she quietly slid down from the ancient tree and snuck towards Shi Yan and Luo Hao's direction, wanting to take a sneak peek at their situation.

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  "I'll use a five-fold gravity field first. Generally, a martial artist of the Later Heaven realm can only withstand a five-fold gravity field after special tempering of their body. You should be careful and stop high-intensity movements if you feel your body can't handle it."

  "Alright, now it's your turn. For the first try, you can start by running around me. If you can run ten laps without using any spiritual energy, that means you've adapted. Remember to pace yourself!"

  Lu Hao's words were suddenly interrupted by a fierce surge of energy that burst out from his body.

  In an instant, with Luo Hao as the center, gravity surged fivefold! The space around him seemed to have collapsed, and the air sank violently, making it hard for people to breathe.

  A formless pressure suddenly enveloped my entire body!

  The rock felt as if every cell in his body was filled with sand and gravel, his body sank heavily, as if he had carried hundreds of pounds of weight on his back, the tendons and bones in his knees tightened suddenly, his heart rate increased rapidly, and his muscles contracted under gravity.

  The invisible pressure of a five-fold gravitational field forced his body to make adjustments on its own, and just standing there motionless made him feel that breathing had become much more difficult.

  As expected!

  Shi Yan's heart skipped a beat as he felt the overwhelming pressure of the five-fold gravity field, and he knew that in this kind of battle environment, anyone who entered Luo Hao's gravity field would be immediately affected by it. Their usual strength could not be fully utilized, and they would definitely be at a disadvantage against Luo Hao in every aspect of the fight.

  This is still five times gravity; how much more frightening would it be if it were ten times gravity?

  Shi Yan realized the horror of this "Martial Spirit", took a deep breath, and drove out the messy thoughts from his mind. He suddenly let out a low growl and started sprinting around Luo Hao.

  As soon as he moved, the pressure of the gravitational field surged, and Shi Yan's two feet seemed to have been filled with countless lead blocks, weighing more than a thousand catties. The simplest sprinting that he used to do every day had become the most terrifying torture.

  Under the influence of a five-fold gravitational field, his body was absolutely impossible to fly out of the ground, as if his body was pressed down by an iron hand of a giant, and he couldn't breathe.

  After one lap, Shiyan's running speed slowed down by half.

  Three circles later, Shi Yan's running speed slowed down by half again.

  After five laps, Shi Yan was no longer running, but walking slowly...

  At the sixth round, Shi Yan's face turned bright red, his arms bulged with veins like small snakes lightly trembling, as if they were about to burst out of his skin.

  At the seventh lap, Shi Yan was like a wild beast, his eyes were red and almost spewing fire, this is a manifestation of hypoxia.

  By the eighth lap, Shi Yan's footsteps were staggering, each step seemed to have used up all his strength, and with each step he took, his body trembled slightly.

  At this time, Luo Hao finally couldn't bear it anymore and shouted in a low voice: "This is your first time practicing gravity field, don't be so hard on yourself, this is already your limit! Enough! Stop! If you continue, you might exhaust yourself to death!"

  Shi Yan raised his head, his eyes red as if bleeding, and said in a hoarse voice: "Haha, this is just getting interesting, let's continue!"

  Lu Hao was stunned, and his mind only had one thought: this kid has gone crazy!

  In a nearby thicket, Mu Yu Die covered her small mouth, her face full of shock, as if she had just recognized Shi Yan for the first time.

  Shi Yan didn't continue to nag Luo Hao, and after a low growl like a wounded beast, he continued to walk steadily with his head bowed, his face twitching with blue veins, and walked another circle.

  In the last lap, Shi Yan's body swayed back and forth. With every step he took, he would tremble once, as if he was about to fall at any moment, as if he would die of exhaustion in the next instant!

  Under such circumstances, he walked step by step and actually completed another circle. After completing the circle, a strange sense of satisfaction appeared on Shi Yan's mouth.

  Luohao woke up from his stunned state and saw that Shiyuan had not fallen, he finally let out a sigh of relief, preparing to withdraw the gravity field first before talking to Shiyuan.

  Mu Yu's butterfly tightly pressed against her mouth, her beautiful eyes full of disbelieving, as if she had never thought that Shi Yan, who was only a postnatal cultivator, could actually complete this extreme challenge.

  "Let's go around again." Shi Yan suddenly shouted in a low voice.

  "What?" Luo Hao's body shook violently, his eyes sharp as a knife, and he roared: "Enough! Don't be reckless!"

  Ke Bu Deng Luo Hao withdrew the gravity field, Shi Yan surprisingly got up again, this time his body swayed three steps at a time, and when he reached halfway, he finally fell to the ground with a thud.

  Lu Hao was about to shout, but suddenly found that Shi Yan was crawling forward with his hands and feet, like a monster, as if he was deliberately looking for death.

  It took Shi Yan half an hour to slowly crawl to the finish line like a snail.

  A moth in the grass stared blankly at him, his mind a complete blank.

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