Time flies like a fleeting horse, summer leaves and autumn comes.
In the corridor, Fang Yuan once again stood before the boulder blocking the path.
Because the weather was getting colder, he had put on simple long-sleeved clothes. But his body was no longer as thin as a few months ago.
His chest, arms, legs, and abdomen all had visible muscle groups.
These muscles didn't protrude like rocks, but appeared streamlined, coupled with Fang Yuan's gradually increasing height and fair skin, giving a youthful, energetic feeling.
"Three days ago, the White Boar Gu could no longer enhance my strength. That is to say, I already have the strength of one pig, which is considered the goal of Hua Jiu Xingzhe. Today, I'll push this boulder again!"
Section 79: Breakthrough to the Sixth Gu of the Hidden Legacy. A sharp glint flashed in Fang Yuan's eyes. He stepped forward with his right leg, left leg behind, forming a bow stance.
He placed his hands on the surface of the boulder, took a deep breath, and suddenly exerted force.
Under his pushing, the giant rock first moved extremely slowly, then gradually started to roll, and finally rolled forward.
The path blocked by the boulder was an upward sloping corridor. The round stone processed into a sphere by Hua Jiu Xingzhe was most suitable for rolling. Perhaps this was also his intention—for the inheritor to push the boulder and roll it up.
"Ten steps, twenty steps, thirty steps..." Fang Yuan counted in his mind as he pushed forward step by step. "Last week, I pushed forty-five steps and ran out of energy, so I had to give up. This time, I wonder how far can I go?"
Forty steps, forty-five steps...
After a while, Fang Yuan broke his previous record. But he was also quite exhausted.
Forty-six steps, forty-seven steps...
Fang Yuan clearly felt that at this point, his physical strength was almost gone.
Forty-eight, forty-nine steps...
He mustered his remaining strength and moved forward two more steps. Finally, he could go no further, drenched in sweat. Bracing the boulder with his shoulder and leg, he gasped for breath.
"Should I give up?" Fang Yuan couldn't help thinking. This was an upward slope tunnel; he would also consume a lot of energy on the way back. After all, the boulder would roll back, and he had to brace against it during the process.
If he let go and ran directly, the boulder would roll faster and faster; he didn't want to fail to dodge and be crushed into a pulp.
But after thinking, Fang Yuan felt somewhat unwilling. Push a few more steps.
Fiftieth step.
He suddenly felt the pressure from the giant rock lighten dramatically. It turned out that the boulder had rolled onto a flat platform.
Fang Yuan pushed a few more steps, bypassed the boulder, and found himself in a secret chamber.
This secret chamber was about the same size as the cave in the crevice. Fang Yuan temporarily named it the second secret chamber.
The chamber was empty, and the walls were made of strange red soil, emitting a dim red light. On the other side of the chamber was a rough gray stone door. It should be the work of Hua Jiu Xingzhe in haste.
Fang Yuan rested for a while, but didn't immediately push open the stone door. Instead, he made a new discovery.
He noticed that a patch of ground in front of the stone door looked wet.
"Could it be..." A thought immediately flashed in Fang Yuan's mind. He crouched down, reached out his hands, and dug into the soft and moist soil.
A second Earth Treasury Flower!
Fang Yuan laughed softly, carefully parted the petals, and took out the Gu insect immersed in the golden liquid.
He urged his true essence and instantly refined it.
This was a Jade Skin Gu, shaped like a bedbug, flat and wide, with a small head, an oval light green body, emitting a jade-colored halo.
"After getting the White Boar Gu, I was thinking about where to get another Jade Skin Gu so that I could combine them to advance to White Jade Gu. I didn't expect Hua Jiu Xingzhe had already prepared it for me." Fang Yuan's mind raced, considering the impact of this Jade Skin Gu.
This was already Fang Yuan's sixth Gu.
Previously, he had five Gu, but none could be used for defense. With the Jade Skin Gu, he finally filled the gap in his defense.
Sometimes, defense often means attack.
This is not hard to understand. Take Fang Yuan himself: through the White Boar Gu, his strength rose to the power of one pig. In theory, such strength could allow him to smash relatively soft rocks with a single punch, but Fang Yuan had never done so.
Because he knew his defense was insufficient; with one punch, the rock would shatter, but his fist would also be mangled.
Now with the defense of the Jade Skin Gu, he could fully utilize his strength advantage.
Of course, there were positive effects and negative ones.
The Jade Skin Gu was valuable, its defensive performance among the best of rank one Gu, but it was not easy to feed; every ten days it had to consume two liang of jade.
The market price of jade was relatively high, not to mention the issue of its source.