Celestial Emperor 2
Ch. 587 - Gained the Unexpected Gift

On that round island, there was nothing in it. Not even a stone was seen there. Qin Shan traced the island for a while, and he found ancient writings engraved on the stone floor in the middle of the island.

“You must have a long life if you can arrive at this place. In this place your patience will be tested for ten years.” Qin Shan read the writing and felt extremely astonished. What does longevity, patience, and testing have to do with this place?

After thinking for some time, Qin Shan did not dare to imagine what was on his mind. He just thought that something in this place was not a good thing.

*whoosh!* Surface sea water suddenly rippled and gave rise to hundreds of giant whirlpools. From within this vortex, various terrifying and powerful sea monsters began to spring up and rise to the surface. After some time, the vortexes disappeared and the sea monsters stopped rising upwards.

“What's that amount?” Qin Shan almost cried out in shock as he swept his gaze around. On the entire surface of the circular island there were currently over ten thousand monsters that had surrounded it.

Those sea monsters possessed strength as high as the early Profound Immortal. Power that could not be underestimated considering their numbers were tens of thousands.

Qin Shan smiled bitterly and became helpless. What he had thought before had truly come true. In this place, one had to fight nonstop for ten years!

*rumble...* When those tens of thousands of monsters started moving, the round island shook violently and like it was about to collapse at any moment. They were all preparing to attack Qin Shan and tear him into several million pieces.

“Very unfair... I can't even fly or leave this round island because there is a mysterious formation array.” Qin Shan's inner being and he is very upset. Even though he himself was the number one Array Expert in the Three Realm, he was still unable to break the array array array array that locked him up at the moment.

The arrays in this place were extremely complicated and were formed with methods that Qin Shan was unaware of. In the past it turned out to have many great and powerful people, very different from today.

Qin Shan took out the Jiuhua Sword and directly moved forward with a sword beam following him from behind.

*puftt! The puft!* Every Qin Shan passed through that crowd of monsters, they all instantly turned into flesh juice and their blood spurted up into the sky.

Qin Shan was a Great Circle stage Immortal Venerable who had almost levelled up, in his eyes all these monsters were nothing more like ants that he could trample on at will.

Time passed and Qin Shan only took a few minutes to kill all those monsters. Although they were numerous and looked strong, but actually those monsters were very stupid. They could not even touch a strand of Qin Shan's hair until they died.

Qin Shan thought maybe the test on this second island was not too difficult and he continued to fight against countless monsters. After being there for several months, he understood the mechanism in the place. Every once an hour, a wave of monsters would arrive and spew out more monsters each wave. Right now alone, Qin Shan was dealing with over thirty thousand sea monsters that were as strong as the early and middle Profound Immortal.

“It's been less than a year since I started the exam, but the difficulty has increased so far. I was worried in just 5 more years, until I finally could not continue the fight.” From here Qin Shan became a little panicked and he began to limit the use of his Immortal Elemental Energy.

In this place, there was no time to cultivate and recover energy. That was why Qin Shan had to save his Elemental Energy the best he could.

Time continued to pass and Qin Shan had gone through countless battles. Now, the number of monsters that came out from within the sea reached hundreds of thousands. Qin Shan had also used up two of his spare energy from the Meridian Elemental Storage Channel, and he only had one spare energy left. 7 years had passed since he entered this place, and he had only one spare energy left, suppose Qin Shan was not a Venerable Immortal perhaps he had been inside the stomachs of those monsters for a long time and was expelled in the form of dirt.

“How much longer should all this continue. I'm almost on the threshold.” Qin Shan muttered and he almost went crazy. Although his Elemental Energy was still enough to put up a fight, but his mental state was extremely concerning.

Thinking of how great the difficulty level of this Forbidden Territory was, Qin Shan was able to estimate that there were priceless treasures hiding in this place. That's why he must stay up to the next three years and go to the next island.

The river of time continues to flow rapidly and sweeps the past into the future. Qin Shan had already entered his tenth year since he had entered the Deep Ocean Oblique realm, that meant that he would be able to clear the second test a little more. Unfortunately, it was not as expected.

Qin Shan had now been cornered by millions of sea monsters, meanwhile the Elemental Energy within his body was only left less than the size of a grain of corn ore. This was a very bad thing, considering that he could not cultivate and recover his current energy.

It was at this moment, Qin Shan finally thought whether his decision to enter this place was a right or wrong choice. Though only a little more, he did not accept the fact that he might end at this time.

Qin Shan did not accept it and hatred was visible in his eyes. However, his heart and mind remained as calm as the water in the pond. Not moving or wavy in the slightest.

As if an unstoppable desire was beginning to explode within him, Qin Shan suddenly caught an unexpected inspiration from the emotional change in his heart. This shocking change even made his body explode by an uncontrollably abundant energy. He had obtained a Secred Art!

“Ah.. true. Emotion.” muttered Qin Shan while closing his eyes. “Anger will cause damage and suffering, meanwhile calmness will result in worse things than 'anger'.”

Qin Shan continued to try to grasp this Secred Art as millions of monsters still continued to chase him from behind. A moment later, Qin Shan's body exploded with such overwhelming force that the monsters nearby became completely lifeless.

This Secred Art was too mysterious and Qin Shan still needed time to be able to comprehend it completely. But for now at least he knew roughly what kind of Sacred Art this was.

“With this Sacred Art, I can blow up the Elemental Energy within my body without having to commit suicide. Moreover, this Secred Art has a semi-passive ability to be able to recover my Elemental Energy instantly.” Inner Qin Shan and he feels very happy beyond anything that has ever happened in his life. This Secred Art is too powerful!

It needs special conditions to be able to activate the Secred Art's semi-passive ability. Under any circumstances, Qin Shan still had to calm his mind even though his body was in a great rage. It was only at that time that the recovery of Elemental Energy would be able to be done through this Secred Art. In other words, this Sacred Art was Qin Shan's last card when he was on the verge of death.

As Qin Shan's body was again filled with abundant Elemental Energy, he was able to overcome all those monsters in just some time by continuously blasting out the Elemental Energy within his body. Even when Qin Shan did that he felt pain, but he did not care at all. As long as he does not die, he will not stop.

A few more days had passed, now the environment inside the round island had changed and returned as it was. Qin Shan who realized that there were no more monsters springing up from within the sea felt an incredible peace. He had finally won a relentless battle for these ten years!

Right after the second exam ended, Qin Shan was able to see a few sentences hanging above the round island where he was currently.

“Congratulations for having completed the second exam. We don't have to give you a gift because you actually got one, do we?” Qin Shan read the sentence and he felt goosebumps. These words seemed to tell him indirectly that he had been noticed by someone all along.

'Is that the tribe that inhabits the Deep Ocean Oblique?' thought Qin Shan and felt that it made sense. Most likely, these exams had been prepared by the local tribes to look for someone who was truly strong.

“The more secrets I know from this place, the more mysterious this place is.” Qin Shan murmured and he felt an unwearing feeling from this thing.

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