Chapter 1822: Chapter 1816: I Just Need to Pee!

Time ticked by bit by bit, and all the intern disciples had already finished regulating their breathing. At this moment everyone’s attention was on Zhang Menglong in the Sunset River; his state was almost no different from two hours ago, just quietly floating on the surface of the river.

"Worthy of Senior Brother Gu Xiao, he’s already broken the intern disciples’ record."

"Yeah, I heard that even Senior Brother Lei Poguan back in the day only lasted 72 minutes in the Sunset River his first time. That record has been kept for hundreds of years."

"How long has it been now?"

"127 minutes. Even Senior Brother Lei Poguan would never have imagined his record would be broken by this much, right?"

"I wonder how long Senior Brother Gu Xiao can hold out today. Don’t tell me he can even break that record of over 30 days?"

"If he really breaks it, I’ll be his bootlicker for life!"

"You think just anyone is qualified to be Senior Brother Gu Xiao’s bootlicker?"

"Exactly. If we want to be Senior Brother Gu Xiao’s bootlickers, we at least have to become Inner Sect Disciples or even Core Disciples!"

...

"Other disciples are coming!"

Right at this time, the Sunset River started to get a bit livelier.

To protect these intern disciples, during these two hours the Sunset Sect had temporarily stopped opening the Sunset River to other disciples. Now that two hours had passed, the other Sunset Sect disciples also started walking in.

However, they didn’t immediately start their own cultivation, but instead focused their gazes on these intern disciples.

"I really don’t get what the Elders are thinking, actually reserving a time slot just for these interns. The Sunset River is so big, even if everyone went in it wouldn’t be filled."

"Hey, they are intern disciples after all. Their hearts aren’t firm and they’re easily affected by outside influences. The Elders taking that into account isn’t totally unreasonable."

"I wonder if this year’s new disciples have any good seedlings."

"I heard this batch of intern disciples is pretty damn bold. Yesterday the student union of the outer sect sent people to collect the entrance fee. Guess what happened?"

"Spit it out already, stop keeping us in suspense."

"That group of outer sect disciples actually got detained by that batch of interns. They only let one person go back to pass the word, telling the student union to bring enough contribution points to ransom their people."

"This year’s interns are that terrifying? We sure didn’t have that kind of guts back then. Honestly, are today’s outer sect disciples all that useless now, they can’t even beat intern disciples?"

"I did hear some rumors. They say this time our Sunset Sect recruited a real beast. He even dared point at an Elder of the Divine Profound Hall and curse him out, and even had a fight with a Core Disciple, ended in a draw."

"An intern disciple could fight a Core Disciple of the Divine Profound Hall to a draw?"

"Tsk tsk tsk, that’s impressive."

"Hey bro, how long was the Sunset River closed today? Two hours?"

"Yeah!"

That group of disciples suddenly glanced at each other, then their gazes once again fell on Zhang Menglong, who was floating on the river’s surface.

"Wait, someone still hasn’t come out of the Sunset River!"

"Is that an intern disciple?"

"Don’t tell me he’s been soaking in the Sunset River for over two hours already?"

"No way. Even Senior Brother Lei Poguan didn’t last over two hours on his first soak. Maybe he only started midway?"

Zhang Menglong’s situation was too unbelievable, to the point that everyone assumed he must have gone in relatively late. But in reality, Zhang Menglong was actually the first one to jump into the river.

More and more people gathered on the shore. Most of them even forgot they’d come here to cultivate. Some others, having heard the story passed around by word of mouth, also came over to watch the show. The whole Sunset River area became exceptionally lively.

You have to know, this was a record set by Lei Poguan, a record that had never been broken up to now. Even those who could last over 60 minutes were as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns.

In the eyes of most people in the Sunset Sect, Lei Poguan was a godlike existence. His reputation was even higher than that old Sect Master who only knew how to fish and play chess.

Now the god in their hearts was being surpassed. How could they not come watch the spectacle?

"This kid is even more of a monster than I imagined." Amid the crowd, Cang Meng was also quietly observing. "He seems to have already surpassed Senior Brother Lei Poguan. I hope when he comprehends the Nine Nether Sunset Art, he can be as smooth as Senior Brother Lei Poguan."

...

Very soon, another hour passed, and those who had just been doubting that Zhang Menglong only entered the Sunset River halfway could no longer find any excuse to justify themselves.

They had no choice but to admit that this intern disciple was truly a freak!

At this time Zhang Menglong still hadn’t realized there were so many people around.

His body was already monstrously strong to begin with, and coupled with his innate Ultimate Life Form constitution, it allowed him to almost completely ignore the negative damage the Sunset River caused to the body. Soaking in this river water really felt no different from soaking in a hot spring to him, as if all the meridians in his body were loosening up.

Right now, Zhang Menglong was in a state of comprehending the Nine Nether Sunset Art.

Previously, he had absolutely no understanding or concept of this kind of Energy called the power of fortune, so even though he had the cultivation method for the Nine Nether Sunset Art, he could never actually get started.

Now that he was soaking in the Sunset River, every molecule of water here was actually the purest power of fortune. Zhang Menglong spent over an hour to almost completely understand this kind of power, and at the same time started cultivating the first layer!

At this moment, during the cultivation process, he also came to understand why this Nine Nether Sunset Art was so hard to practice.

The first layer of the Nine Nether Sunset Art required splitting the power of fortune entering the body into several thousand streams and circulating them along fixed routes during cultivation.

First of all, controlling these several thousand streams of Energy flow was already extremely difficult. Most people simply didn’t have the ability to control things so precisely. In this process, even a tiny deviation would cause cultivation to fail.

And the most important point was that the power of fortune entering the human body was extremely thin. It naturally had an intimate fusion with the body’s own Energy, which made accurately locating the power of fortune during cultivation much harder.

Sometimes, after the power of fortune flowed to a certain part of the body, it became difficult to track. As cultivation advanced, this situation became more and more obvious.

Only those born with extremely sharp perception toward the power of fortune had any hope of reaching the basic threshold to cultivate it.

On top of that, one also needed extremely strong comprehension ability, or else they couldn’t even grasp the circulation patterns of those streams of Energy.

It took Zhang Menglong close to two hours to finish cultivating the first layer of the Nine Nether Sunset Art, and this was already the Cultivation Technique he had spent the longest time learning so far!

At this moment, Zhang Menglong suddenly opened his eyes.

"Over 200 minutes now. Looks like he’s reached his limit too."

"But that’s already insane. He’s already surpassed Senior Brother Lei Poguan. Maybe he has a chance to become the next person to comprehend three layers of the Nine Nether Sunset Art!"

"But why isn’t he coming up?"

They had thought Zhang Menglong had reached his limit, but he merely opened his eyes and looked around with a confused expression, clearly not planning to come up at all.

"Damn! Since when did so many people show up?" Zhang Menglong hadn’t expected he’d become some rare animal on display for so many people.

"Clan Leader, if you can’t hold on anymore, just come up!" a fellow intern disciple whispered. "You’ve already broken Senior Brother Lei’s record, no need to force it!"

"No!" Zhang Menglong’s face was full of embarrassment. "I freaking want to pee! I was planning to just do it in the pool, but with so many people watching now, how am I supposed to pee?!"