I Was Forced To Marry The Phoenix Empress-Chapter 199: Ten Days

’A Fortuitous Encounter!’

Yi Chen exclaimed in his mind, and for the sake of final confirmation, took another sip.

+ 5 Spiritual Energy

+ 5 Spiritual Qi

"Hahahaha! Amazing!" He exclaimed loudly as his maniacal laughter echoed throughout the forest.

The very next moment, he plunged his entire head into the water and started gulping it all down like a parched goldfish.

It was his spiritual sea which was the first to fill up and stopped increasing after that. This was soon followed by his Qi Pool.

Gasp!

Gasping for air, he pulled his head out of the water, finally stopping.

As the water droplets trickled down his face, his gaze was fixed on his status panel with relish evident in his eyes.

=== Godly Cultivator System ===

Name: Yi Chen

Age: 18 years

Strength: 180

Spiritual Sea: 10.88 / 10.88 [Recovery: 8 hrs of Sleep]

Qi Pool: 332 / 332 [Recovery: 24 days]

Cultivation: Fifth Level of [Meridian Refinement Stage]

Qi Nature: Fire

Innate Ability: Eye of Truth Lv1 (Passive) [Progress: 73,997-> 77,843 / 100,000 EXP]

[Cultivation Arsenal]

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"Now there’s no need for me to rest. I can continue the hunting session for longer," he muttered with a wide grin.

At the same time, one of his earlier questions was answered when he saw that his spiritual energy stopped increasing after reaching the 10.88 mark.

’So, there’s indeed something special about these Ghostly Beasts. Along with helping me replenish my spiritual energy, they are also helping with the expansion of my spiritual sea.’

He thought with excitement as his desire to hunt more and more of these beasts only increased.

The next instant, his gaze fell on the crystal clear water surface beneath his waist as he muttered to himself.

’I’m sorry, Madam Gao...I’m sorry, Senior Sisters...reuniting with all of you will have to wait.’

Not willing to let go of such a brilliant opportunity to farm both experience points and expand his spiritual sea, he made this decision.

"Even so...I cannot camp here for too long." He muttered with pursed lips while thinking, ’Ten days...I’ll camp here for at most ten days and leave straight for the tomb’s core thereafter.’

The next second, he nodded to himself and made up his mind.

With a time limit clear in his mind, he got out of the pond the next moment and began looking for ghostly beasts to hunt.

A few moments later, he noticed that the ghostly beasts around the pond’s periphery had dwindled substantially, so using the Bursting Fire Steps, he widened his search area.

Ten minutes passed like this with him searching around a new area, but there were no findings at all.

’Sigh...should I go in the east direction next?’

However, just when Yi Chen was contemplating whether to change his direction, he was suddenly attacked by a huge swarm.

A swarm of small but dangerous slug beasts.

A hint of disgust appeared on Yi Chen’s face right away. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Even though all of them were remnant souls now, just imagining how disgusting and slimy they would all have looked when they were alive evoked a great sense of abhorrence within him.

It was at that moment that one of the slugs lunged at him.

"I’ll rather die than be touched by the likes of you! Die!"

He roared, and the next second, a large cloud of fire completely engulfed the beasts as they all soon disintegrated in the air while writhing in pain.

Ding!

Ding!

Ding!

.

.

.

Endless notifications rang in his mind, followed by a message.

Successfully slain Grade 5 Neck Choking Slugs (Remnant Souls)! x128

His eyes brightened in excitement as he watched the large numbers on the screen, expecting to see the amount of experience points he would be getting.

+ 1280 EXP!

"A freaking 1280 EXP! Is this a fucking scam!" he roared in anger and frustration, "Weren’t Grade 5 beasts supposed to give a minimum of 1000 EXP here?"

He clenched his teeth in anger as the answer came naturally to him.

"Bloody saturation points!" he clenched his teeth in frustration while glancing at his EXP bar.

[Eye of Truth Lv1 (Passive) (Progress: 81,629 / 100,000 EXP)]

With only around twenty thousand more points remaining to level up his Innate ability, he felt that he would be able to level it up today...however, that was only wishful thinking from his side.

’I refuse to believe I won’t be able to level up in the next ten days! No matter how severe the diminishing returns became, with constant nurturing from the mystical pond, I will definitely be able to achieve this target.’

With a frustrated glint, he started looking for more beasts to kill the next instant and, using the Bursting Fire Steps, went deeper into the forest.

However, during the whole period, he ensured that he never lost the direction of where the pond was situated.

Ding!

Successfully slain a Grade 7 Three-Horned Wildebeest (Remnant Soul)!

Successfully slain a Grade 5 Bone Devouring Ants (Remnant Soul)! X350

Successfully slain....

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+759 EXP

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+488 EXP

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+67 EXP

Yi Chen kept at it without a stop.

The more he hunted, the lower the EXP he was gaining became. However, this only further fuelled his desire to duke it out with the system.

’I was unable to comprehend the Bursting Fire Steps fully despite the 10x buff, and now, after serving me such a golden platter, you’re trying to take it away from me as well?! Dream on!’

He snorted in anger and devoted himself to slaying all the ghostly beasts that crossed his path.

’So, what if the EXP is reduced? Even if it drops to 1 EXP per beast, I’ll make sure to slay tens of thousands to ensure I level it up within these ten days!’

He didn’t rest for even a second as beast after beast became victims of his raging flames, one after another.

It was only during the times when he returned to the pond to recover his stats that he got a few moments of rest.

As the bright light of the sun started to dim and evening had made its arrival known, the beasts which had become victims of Yi Chen’s flames numbered in hundreds.

Even after night descended, he was still driven to slay as many beasts as possible and continue on with his actions throughout the night, but mental exhaustion had finally started to take its toll on him.

Although he had just refilled his spiritual sea, he was finding it difficult to use the Crimson Fire Arts.

While the expanded spiritual sea had made it possible for him to use the Crimson Fire Arts for an extended period of time, it had still not made him immune to mental exhaustion, which appeared as a stabbing pain in the middle of his head.

’So even after recharging it continuously...I’ll still be exhausted after a while,’ Yi Chen thought bitterly.

A few moments later, he returned to the pond, which was glistening in blue light in the darkness of the night.

’A natural treasure like this is sure to attract many beasts at night...’ He thought.

He held no misconception in his mind that it was only he who knew about this pond in this forest, and started looking for a tall tree to spend the night.

Sleeping on the ground and falling victim to these beasts was the last thing he wanted.

A few moments later, after climbing a tree, he comfortably rested his back on its trunk. Taking out a snack from his storage ring, he leisurely munched on it while his gaze was focused on the pond several hundred meters away.

Just like he had anticipated, not even an hour had passed, and tens of ghostly beasts were arriving around the pond’s periphery to sip its crystal-clear water, which was glistening in blue light.

Yi Chen silently observed them all from atop the tree.

He was confirming whether they’ll be able to discover his presence from this distance or not.

Only after confirming that he was safe did he relax and close his eyes.

Within moments, his breathing turned even, and sleep took over him.

The next morning, after freshening up, he busied himself with the same routine until late evening, when he couldn’t go on any further.

Days passed one after the other.

On the third day, he was met with another problem.

The ghostly beasts within fifty kilometres of the pond had all been wiped out by him. Thus, he was unable to find more.

’With my limited Qi, I can’t go any further than this...’ Yi Chen thought with a frown while throwing a pebble on the pond’s surface.

Dip!

Busy in thought, his eyes leisurely followed the water ripple as it reached the edges of the pond.

’Wet mud....’

His eyes narrowed the next instant before suddenly widening in realisation.

"I got it!" he exclaimed with excitement, grabbing a few handfuls of wet mud and shaping them into a pot.

The next instant, using the Crimson Fire Arts, he evenly blasted it with heat on all sides as the clay began to turn to ceramic, but just when Yi Chen thought it was successful, a deep crack formed on it.

’Again...’

He repeated the process.

Crack!

’Again...’

Finally, after struggling for three hours, he successfully created a pot. A bright smile formed on his face the next second.

Now that he was familiar with the process, he repeated it multiple times throughout the day and night and by the next morning, more than a hundred ceramic pots were ready for him to use.

He filled them all with the pond’s water and stored them inside his storage ring the next instant.

’Although I ended up using an entire day on this, with this I can go much deeper into the forest,’ Yi Chen thought with a grin and, using his Bursting Fire Steps, ventured deep into the forest.

Ninth Day.

Thousands of beasts had fallen victim to Yi Chen’s flames, and he had even become proficient in dealing with them using just his swordsmanship by now.

"This exhausting farming finally comes to an end..." Yi Chen muttered while raising his sword and cutting a Grade 6 Ghostly Beast diagonally.

SHATTER!

Its three cores shattered simultaneously, and the next instant, a message Yi Chen had been dying to hear finally rang in his mind.

DING!

Innate Ability Successfully Levelled Up!

Eye of Truth Lv1 (Passive) -> Eye of Truth Lv2 (Active)