Chapter 235
Suddenly, Gu Shihan felt that the speed at which he absorbed the spiritual energy was gradually slowing down, as if a pipe that was originally unobstructed was gradually becoming narrow and congested.
She knew in her heart that this meant that her current cultivation had reached a bottleneck.
Gu Shihan slowly opened his eyes, stood up, stretched his stiff limbs, and then decided to leave the formation and look around, perhaps finding an opportunity to break through the bottleneck.
When she walked out of the formation, an extremely tall mountain that towered into the clouds came into view.
This mountain is like a giant sword piercing the sky, steep and dangerous, and daunting.
At the foot of the mountain, there is a winding path leading all the way to the top of the mountain.
Gu Shihan approached the path curiously. Just as she approached the foot of the mountain, a line of large golden characters suddenly appeared in the air: "There is an adventure on the top of the mountain!"
"Is there an adventure on the top of the mountain?" Gu Shihan whispered softly, with a hint of doubt and excitement in his eyes. "Is this true or false? Did someone deliberately set this trap to lure me up the mountain? But... since I'm here, how can I miss such an opportunity? All right! Then I'll go up and find out!"
Thinking of this, Gu Shihan's mouth corners slightly raised, revealing a confident smile, then he raised his feet without hesitation and stepped onto the path leading to the top of the mountain.
However, after taking just the first step, Gu Shihan instantly realized that something was wrong. She felt that the immortal power that was originally surging in her body was like being firmly locked by an invisible shackle, and could no longer flow smoothly.
Apparently, this seemingly ordinary path is actually a road of trials full of tests.
Gu Shihan took a deep breath. Now that she had set foot on the mountain, she could only move forward. With every step she took, the pressure on her body increased, as if a heavy burden weighed on her. But she had a firm gaze, thinking of the adventure on the mountain, and gritted her teeth to persevere.
When we reached halfway up the mountain, a triangular pavilion suddenly appeared. In the pavilion, a man was sitting, concentrating on playing the piano.
The melodious piano music flowed into Gu Shihan's heart like a trickle of water, and the pressure on his body was actually relieved a lot.
Gu Shihan looked towards the triangular pavilion, and saw a fairy in white leisurely playing the piano in the pavilion, with a dignified demeanor and a contented look.
Gu Shihan did not disturb the person playing the piano, but stood outside the pavilion and listened quietly.
After the song ended, the fairy in white raised her eyes to look at Gu Shihan and said with a smile: "My friend, you have extraordinary perseverance to be able to get here. This mountain is called Test Heart Peak. Only those with sincerity and perseverance can reach the top."
Gu Shihan suddenly understood and hurriedly asked the immortal about the strange encounter on the top of the mountain.
The immortal plucked the string gently and said calmly, "There is a thousand-year-old spiritual fruit tree on the top of the mountain. As for what kind of spiritual fruit it is, everyone who can go up there sees something different.
But they are all excellent things, eating them can help you break through your current realm. But there are many hardships along the way, do you still want to move forward?"
Gu Shihan nodded without hesitation and continued to move up step by step. The journey was not peaceful. Although his spiritual power was restricted, he was still harassed by various fairy beasts.
Gu Shihan had to fight every few dozen steps, and the strength of the fairy beast was also increasing, forcing her to stop and meditate to recover, and this happened repeatedly.
Gu Shihan gritted his teeth and dealt with the attacks of the fairy beast while moving towards the top of the mountain with difficulty.
Time passed by unknowingly, and Gu Shihan had lost her concept of time. The only thought in her mind was to move forward. She really had no way to retreat.
The path that originally led upwards disappeared when she stepped away, leaving only darkness and emptiness with no way out.
After fighting and stopping on and off, Gu Shihan only felt that her body had become a lot lighter. As for whether her cultivation level had improved, she seemed not to feel it.
Every time when she was about to be exhausted, the fairy beast would retreat, leaving her time and space to practice and recover.
That day, Gu Shihan suddenly had an idea and remembered a special skill he had learned during his previous training. Although this skill could not directly call upon the immortal power, it could skillfully use the power of the surrounding environment.
Gu Shihan tried to practice his skills, and in an instant, the surrounding flowers, plants and trees seemed to be summoned and stretched out their branches to resist the fairy beast.
With this help, Gu Shihan finally reached the top of the mountain. There was nothing on the top of the mountain except a big tree.
This tree is extraordinary at first glance. It grows in the center of the top of the mountain. Its canopy occupies almost half of the top of the mountain. It is lush green and growing very well.
Gu Shihan raised his eyes and looked over. On a branch in the center of the tree, a spiritual fruit emitting a faint glow was right in front of him.
"Is this the immortal-grade marrow-cleansing fruit?! It is indeed a great treasure!" Gu Shihan was overjoyed.
The immortal-grade marrow-cleansing fruit is not just cabbage. It is said that this immortal-grade marrow-cleansing fruit is extremely rare. It takes a thousand years for a tree to grow, a thousand years for it to bloom, and a thousand years for it to bear fruit.
The most rare thing is that each tree of the Millennium Cleansing Marrow Fruit only bears one fruit at a time. Only after the fruit is picked will it bloom again a thousand years later.
Another reason why the immortal-level marrow-cleansing fruit is precious is that it requires luck. Only lucky people can see the ripe fruit. If one is unlucky, even if he waits under the tree, the fruit will not appear.
"It seems that I have good luck. This fairy-level marrow-cleansing fruit is mine!" Gu Shihan jumped up and stood on the branch.
Just as she bent over to pick it, the branch under her feet suddenly shook, and a huge guardian beast broke out from the leaves.
"What the hell? How could such a huge thing hide under the green leaves? Why didn't I notice it at all? I was so careless!" Gu Shihan rolled over to avoid the claws of the guardian beast, and then looked carefully at the big guy in front of him.
The big guy's body is green, no wonder I ignored it. His eyes are sharp and his claws are glowing with a faint light, which makes people feel fearful. It seems that a fierce battle is inevitable.
Gu Shihan knew very well that this guardian beast was not easy to deal with, so she quickly calmed down and observed the guardian beast's movements.
The guardian beast pounced again, and Gu Shihan dodged to the side, and at the same time, he condensed his immortal power into a sharp thorn and stabbed the guardian beast's eyes. The guardian beast felt pain, roared, and attacked more fiercely.
Just when Gu Shihan was feeling increasingly exhausted, he thought of the dark spiritual power he had absorbed before. He had never used this dark spiritual power in battle, so now he could give it a try.
She tried to mobilize this power, and saw a dark light shoot out from her palm and hit the guardian beast. The guardian beast seemed to be greatly restrained and its movements became slow.
Gu Shihan seized the opportunity, flew up, and leaped towards the immortal-level marrow cleansing fruit again.
Although the guardian beast was suppressed, it still fought desperately to stop him. Gu Shihan gritted his teeth and fought the guardian beast to the last hurdle.
In the end, she avoided the guardian beast's fatal attack with a risky move and successfully picked the fairy-level marrow cleansing fruit.
(End of this chapter)
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