Published: December 25, 2024
Qin Chen was surprised to find that a significant portion of the breakthroughs came from the warriors of ordinary dynasties.
However, Qin Chen quickly reacted. The resources that upper-tier dynasty warriors usually receive far exceed those of ordinary warriors. Thus, although they are powerful and have high cultivation, the difficulty of breaking through is still comparatively greater than that of ordinary dynasties.
Ordinary dynasty warriors, on the other hand, usually do not have access to superior resources. Therefore, after absorbing the true energy from the Demon Pool, they immediately experienced a significant improvement.
However, since they had only cultivated for half an hour, those who broke through temporarily accounted for only about one-tenth of the total number, around twenty people.
What surprised Qin Chen even more was that Di Tianyi and Leng Wushuang were also among them.
The aura of the two instantly rose to a new level, directly stepping into the half-step Martial King realm, their presence formidable.
"Isn't this cultivation speed too fast?"
Qin Chen was astonished, feeling that the cultivation speed of Di Tianyi and Leng Wushuang was somewhat too rapid.
However, although Qin Chen was not madly absorbing the true energy from the Demon Pool, with the continuous absorption, his own cultivation also experienced a slight gradual improvement.
As for the Devouring Ants and Fire Refining Worms, they had already stopped absorbing after a little over half an hour, evidently reaching saturation.
After an hour, when Qin Chen stopped his cultivation and put away the spirit bugs into the black gourd, he suddenly found that the magic crystals in the black gourd had actually increased again, totaling over six hundred pieces.
"How could there suddenly be so many?"
Qin Chen was taken aback, and upon looking around carefully, he was immediately speechless. It turned out that the Devouring Ants and Fire Refining Worms had unknowingly collected many magic crystals from the edge of the Demon Pool. Since many people had recently broken through, the commotion in the entire Demon Pool was quite large, leading to few noticing the magic crystals by the pool's edge.
Moreover, after the Devouring Ants and Fire Refining Worms had improved their strength, their concealment skills had also become more formidable, causing almost all the magic crystals along the edge to be collected, except for those that were too obvious and could not be gathered.
"It seems it will be hard not to be discovered this time."
Qin Chen smiled wryly, feeling no real concern in his heart.
He kept a low profile mainly because he didn't want to appear too greedy, making the Great Wei Dynasty the enemy of hundreds of dynasties. But since the Devouring Ants and Fire Refining Worms had almost collected all the magic crystals, he naturally wouldn't return them.
When the hour was up, someone among the seven major dynasties immediately stood up: "Please, all warriors from the seven major dynasties should leave the Demon Pool immediately. If there are any..."
This person coldly shouted, but before he finished speaking, he was stunned.
Not only was he stunned, but the others who had been engrossed in their cultivation, like Zhou Zhengshu, also awakened, their faces instantly displaying expressions of anger.
Li Yuancheng was the first to stand up from the Demon Pool, angrily saying, "Who is it? Come out!"
Zhou Zhengshu's face turned ashen as he shouted at the people from the seven major dynasties, "Surround these common dynasty folks."
Swish! Swish! Swish!
Sixty or seventy furious figures immediately flew out, instead of allowing the warriors in the Demon Pool to leave, they surrounded Qin Chen and the more than one hundred others inside.
At this moment, over a hundred strong warriors from ordinary dynasties also stopped their cultivation. When they saw that more than half of the pool water had decreased and there were only a few magic crystals on the shore, they instantly understood what had happened.