I Have 10 Equipment Slots-Chapter 78 - 72: Breaking Through to Super Body
SWOOSH!
Gu Zheng pushed off from his feet, chasing after it through the air as he soared toward the ravine.
That’s right. Magic Gold was alive.
It had no consciousness, but it possessed a strange instinct that drove it to move and avoid other living beings.
Gu Zheng’s Celestial Frost Blade had been transformed into a Spiritual Soldier simply by integrating five taels of Magic Gold.
A piece of Magic Gold that big, over three meters tall... How much would that weigh?
He’d struck it rich! Struck it rich!
His heart filled with an irrepressible joy, Gu Zheng descended from the sky into the ravine.
He quickly scanned the area, searching for the large piece of Magic Gold.
As far as he could see, black mountain rocks of various sizes were scattered everywhere.
But there was no sign of the one he’d just stepped on, the one that was over three meters tall.
Magic Gold was a product of the Power of Rules—incredibly wondrous and difficult to detect.
Gu Zheng’s Spiritual Power was nearly at one hundred, yet he still couldn’t sense it.
It wasn’t that he was incapable; even someone at the Super Body Realm wouldn’t be able to find Magic Gold through sensory scans.
Magic Gold was usually harvested by quickly grabbing it while it was on the move.
The big chunk of Magic Gold that had fled into the ravine had stopped moving, its aura vanishing without a trace...
’Wait, no. Magic Gold doesn’t have an aura at all!’
For the time being, Gu Zheng really couldn’t find it.
"I refuse to believe it’s gone."
With that mutter, Gu Zheng began to search back and forth in the ravine, inspecting every single rock.
As he was searching...
"Gu, what are you doing here?"
Yuan Qianjun stood on high ground, shouting down to Gu Zheng. "Is there some treasure in the ravine? Haha."
Beside him, Qing Yixiao, Xiao Dutian, Qing Yimei, and Dugu Feixue had also stopped. They nodded at Gu Zheng in greeting.
"There is."
Gu Zheng returned the gesture and blurted out, "I saw a Source Fruit here just now, but when I came down, it was gone."
"If the Source Fruit vanished, its time was probably up."
Xiao Dutian explained, "They are born from the evolution of the Power of Rules and are affected by it. After a Source Fruit appears, it only exists for a limited time. It could be as long as a day or as short as fifteen minutes before it disappears."
"Is that so?" Gu Zheng blinked. "Thank you for the explanation, Xiao! Still, I want to keep looking. Maybe after this Source Fruit disappeared, another one appeared in its place."
"That does happen," Xiao Dutian said with a smile. "The appearance and disappearance of Source Fruits is indeed a repeating cycle, like reincarnation."
’...So it really is like that?’
Gu Zheng was surprised, but he kept a straight face.
He had deliberately mentioned looking for a Source Fruit as an excuse.
Because Source Fruits were like opening a blind box.
Unlike Magic Gold, which was a huge profit if you managed to catch it.
Not to mention a piece of Magic Gold over three meters tall—that was a jackpot!
Faced with such an immense profit, it was highly likely that Yuan Qianjun, Xiao Dutian, Qing Yixiao, and the others would be tempted.
The human heart is the last thing you should put to the test.
...
"Haha, well then, Gu, you take your time searching."
Yuan Qianjun laughed heartily. "We’ll be on our way!"
He didn’t think much of it, and neither did Xiao Dutian, Qing Yixiao, or the others.
In their eyes, Gu Zheng was just being a bit stubborn.
"Alright, take care, everyone."
Gu Zheng clasped his fist and watched the group leave. Just before they disappeared from sight, he seemed to remember something and shouted up to the sky, "Yuan, Qing, Xiao, please help me keep an eye out for the Rule Array Hub~~!"
"Hahaha..."
Yuan Qianjun’s laughter echoed from the distance.
"Alright!!"
The sound waves rolled through the air, carrying down into the ravine.
SWOOSH SWOOSH~
Just then, two figures streaked past above the ravine.
The two rushing figures saw Gu Zheng below, and their eyebrows shot up as they both called out.
"Thanks, brother!"
"We’ll help you look out for the Rule Array Hub too! Hahaha..."
Amid their laughter, the two quickly departed.
Faintly, the rest of their conversation drifted back.
"That guy’s a total idiot. He helped clear the path, and now he wants to destroy the Rule Array Hub? Doesn’t he know this Domain is a land of opportunity for us!?"
"That’s just how idiots think. If you take him seriously, wouldn’t that make you an idiot too?"
"Hahaha!"
...
’An idiot?’
The corners of Gu Zheng’s mouth lifted slightly.
’If I can get over two hundred Demon Points in one go, what’s wrong with being an ’idiot’ again?’
WHOOSH!
SWOOSH~
He continued searching the ravine. From time to time, people would streak past overhead.
Some who saw Gu Zheng would stop to greet and thank him, others would mock him without restraint, and some just ignored him completely.
Gu Zheng remained calm and treated it all with indifference.
Compared to a little mockery, a piece of Magic Gold over three meters tall was undoubtedly more important.
...
...
「The outskirts of Thousand Star Lake.」
「Near the entrance to the Domain.」
In a hidden corner, Xie Bufeng and Xie Buping were lying in the grass, watching the activity at the entrance from a distance.
"Everyone’s been inside for half a day. Let’s go too!"
Xie Buping whispered, beckoning for Xie Bufeng to stand up.
The two of them glanced around furtively before quickly approaching the entrance.
When they set foot in the swamp, they were overjoyed to see a winding path paved with the corpses of Terrain Monsters.
"The benefits of entering late are obvious. The people ahead of us paved the way, saving us so much trouble."
Xie Buping chuckled softly.
Xie Bufeng didn’t answer. His face was still pale, half of his left arm was gone, and he was unsteady on his feet, not yet used to walking.
However, they had walked less than a hundred meters when a translucent, crystalline fruit suddenly materialized out of thin air, glowing faintly before their eyes.
"A Source Fruit!"
Xie Buping’s eyes lit up. He ran over, snatched the fruit, and shoved it into his mouth.
BZZZ~
As the fruit entered his stomach, it released a surge of energy that instantly filled his entire body, spreading to every limb and bone.
A faint halo of light appeared on the surface of Xie Buping’s body.
When the halo faded, Xie Buping’s aura was swept clean of its previous listlessness and decay, returning to its peak.
"Hahaha, a self-healing Source Fruit! This Source Fruit actually has a healing effect! All my injuries are healed!"
Xie Buping roared with laughter.
"Good."
Xie Bufeng couldn’t help but smile as well.
With Xie Buping restored to his full strength, the two of them no longer needed to sneak around, worried about being targeted by others.
"Let’s go, we’ll keep looking!"
After the initial euphoria, Xie Buping waved his hand and led Xie Bufeng forward.
This time, they walked for over two hundred meters before being attacked by a Terrain Monster, which Xie Buping obliterated with a single punch from a distance.
Continuing on, the two discovered another Source Fruit.
Xie Buping wanted Xie Bufeng to take it to heal his injuries first.
Xie Bufeng thought for a moment and refused.
The effects of a Source Fruit were unpredictable. Since Xie Buping was at the peak of the Alien Body realm, if he got lucky and ate a Source Fruit that let him break through to Super Body, that would maximize its effect.
And as it turned out, after Xie Buping accepted the fruit from Xie Bufeng and swallowed it, his aura changed dramatically on the spot.
BANG!
BANG!
BANG~!
Suddenly, Xie Buping’s body doubled in size. His fiery red hair stood on end, and his vertical pupils were cold and merciless.
Streams of scorching hot aura poured out from his open pores, creating ripples in the void and causing mist to rise.
In Xie Bufeng’s perception, every aspect of Xie Buping was surging—his presence, his aura, his vital energy, and his Divine Wondrous power were all climbing ceaselessly.
Higher and higher, stronger and stronger!
"Super... Super Body!?"
As he rapidly retreated, Xie Bufeng’s eyes widened, and a look of excitement spread across his pale face.
BOOM!
A deafening roar.
Xie Buping stood motionless, but a violent blast of Powerful Qi, first compressed and then released, erupted from him, sweeping across a radius of several hundred meters.
"Hahaha!"
His euphoric, unrestrained laughter echoed in all directions.
Now nearly three meters tall, Xie Buping savored the sensation of breaking through to Super Body, his scarlet, vertical pupils scanning the surrounding area for several miles.
"Commander, where are you?"
"Come on out. Let me see where you’re hiding..."
"Ha, I see you!!"
