"Mm, good."
"It's getting late. Get some proper rest first."
"I'll go help Bai Suyan. Her injuries are quite severe — if she tries to heal on her own, it'll take far too long." Seeing that Chu Feng had accepted the gift, the White Ape Half-Emperor smiled with relief and departed.
"Haha, I can't believe it — that old monkey of a man actually gave you such a massive gift."
"So many martial pearls, it's beyond imagination! Chu Feng, hurry up and refine them. You might just catch up to Bai Ruochen and break through to the fifth rank of Martial King." After the White Ape Half-Emperor left, Eggy immediately began celebrating, looking even happier than Chu Feng himself.
"Refine them now?" Chu Feng was somewhat surprised by Eggy's words. Although he was thrilled to have received so many martial pearls, he hadn't planned on refining them any time soon.
"What are you waiting for? You'll have to refine them sooner or later, right? Besides, aren't you heading to the Boundless Green Sea? With that old White Ape backing you up, you've got nothing to fear from anyone. If any disciple dares mess with you again, just beat the crap out of them," Eggy said.
"You really are something." Hearing Eggy's words, Chu Feng couldn't help but laugh. This girl was incredibly petty — even pettier than he was. It was clear she'd been holding a grudge, still thinking about all those Green Wood Mountain disciples who had humiliated him.
"Fine, I'll do as you say. I'll refine them right here." In the end, Chu Feng relented and listened to Eggy. After moving to a quieter area, he began refining the martial pearls.
Chu Feng's martial cultivation talent was beyond imagination. He rarely encountered any barriers when breaking through realms — as long as he accumulated enough martial power, he could advance directly.
Right now, his speed at refining martial pearls was astonishingly fast, even simpler than drinking water. His body was like a bottomless pit that could never be filled.
If an ordinary person witnessed this scene, they would be thoroughly terrified, because the sight of Chu Feng devouring martial pearls was truly horrifying — like an insatiable wolf greedily gorging on its favorite food.
However, in truth, Chu Feng had a love-hate relationship with cultivation resources. He loved them because they were the key to advancing his cultivation.
Thanks to the Divine Thunder, he couldn't absorb the martial power between heaven and earth through Mystic Arts and techniques the way other people did for breakthroughs. The Divine Thunder within his Dantian demanded far too much — using Mystic Arts and techniques to gather martial power from heaven and earth would take an eternity and never produce enough for a breakthrough. Only massive quantities of cultivation resources could suffice.
He hated them because cultivation resources were so terribly difficult to find, costing him no small amount of effort.
Fortunately, the White Ape Half-Emperor had done him an enormous favor this time. What he'd gifted were all martial pearls, and the quantity was by no means small.
Now, Chu Feng's cultivation had already broken through from the third rank of Martial King to the fourth rank, and there were still plenty of martial pearls remaining. Just as Eggy had said, it was quite possible that Chu Feng would have the chance to break through to the fifth rank of Martial King.
The fifth rank of Martial King — how desperately Chu Feng longed for it. Once he reached the fifth rank, he could catch up to Bai Ruochen. That was an enormous temptation.
At this moment, even Chu Feng was extremely tense. He couldn't be certain whether he would succeed, but he hoped with all his heart that he could break through.
*Hummm—*
Suddenly, a dense surge of martial power melted within his body and, with lightning speed, was drawn into his Dantian.
In that instant, his Dantian pulsed twice in a miraculous fashion, and a subtle change rippled outward from it, spreading throughout his entire body.
Chu Feng's eyes snapped open. Bolts of lightning flickered within them, as though those eyes contained countless thunderbolts capable of destroying the world.
"I've broken through! I've broken through again! Fifth rank of Martial King — I've entered the fifth rank of Martial King!" In this moment, even the perpetually calm Chu Feng was so excited that he leaped with joy.
The fifth rank of Martial King might not mean much in the Holy Land of Martial, or perhaps it meant nothing at all.
But in the Eastern Sea Region, what kind of existence was a fifth rank Martial King? Almost no one among the younger generation could reach that level — only old monsters who had lived for several hundred years had such an opportunity.