I Start with a Mysterious Island-Chapter 110: If I Weren’t in a Hurry, I’d Come Ashore and Take You Out
Lin Li was clearly mistaken to judge the Long-armed Ape Beasts’ behavior by human standards.
After his bamboo raft passed under the large tree hanging over the water, the Long-armed Ape Beasts actually started to chase him.
For humans, traveling through a forest is extremely difficult.
But for these Long-armed Ape Beasts, which had lived in the forest their whole lives, the forest was their home. They moved with incredible agility.
Leaping and bounding through the trees on the riverbank, their speed was not much slower than Lin Li’s as he drifted downriver on his raft.
SMACK.
SPLASH.
"Damn it, you guys just don’t quit, do you?" Lin Li cursed, swinging the bamboo pole in his hand to bat away a wild fruit thrown by one of the relentlessly pursuing Long-armed Ape Beasts.
"ROAR..." Seeing Lin Li getting annoyed, the Long-armed Ape Beasts were delighted and pursued him even more relentlessly.
"You asked for this." Lin Li leaned to one side, dodging a thrown fruit, then raised his right hand.
A pale golden Spiritual Light flashed at his fingertip. The next second, a small, orange-red flame appeared above it.
WHOOSH.
The small flame expanded rapidly, growing to the size of a fist in the blink of an eye.
"Turnabout is fair play! Since you’re throwing fruit at me, then have a taste of my Fireball!" Lin Li shouted to the three Long-armed Ape Beasts relentlessly chasing him on the bank, then waved his hand.
WHOOSH.
The fist-sized, orange-red Fireball shot out, flying toward the one at the very front—the same Long-armed Ape Beast that had started throwing fruit at Lin Li.
The Long-armed Ape Beast at the front was moving too fast. Faced with the incoming orange-red Fireball, it couldn’t stop in time and was hit directly.
These Long-armed Ape Beasts had incredibly thick fur. When the Fireball hit and exploded, the searing flames were sure to instantly scorch a large patch of it.
"ROAR..." Not only was a large patch of the hit Long-armed Ape Beast’s thick fur scorched, but its skin was also burned by the flames. It let out a pained howl and fell right out of the tree.
Fortunately, its two companions following behind had quick reflexes and managed to grab it.
’Now you know what I’m capable of, right? Let’s see if you still dare to chase me... Uh, you’re still coming after me?!’
Lin Li saw that his one Fireball had knocked the annoying Long-armed Ape Beast right out of the tree.
He was feeling pretty happy about it! But to his surprise, the Long-armed Ape Beast, despite its painful lesson, started chasing him again with its two companions.
"ROAR..." The burned Long-armed Ape Beast shrieked at Lin Li while leading its two companions to continue their assault, pelting him with wild fruit as he drifted on the river.
’Are these Mutant Beasts insane?! Who chases someone this relentlessly...’
Lin Li dodged the wild fruit thrown by the Long-armed Ape Beasts, then raised his hand and shot out one Fireball after another in a counterattack.
For a time, the two sides—one on the river and one on the bank—were locked in a fierce battle. Piercing bestial roars echoed across the water.
Although the Mutant Beasts had superior numbers, they had to expend stamina to keep up with Lin Li’s raft.
Half an hour later, the nearly exhausted Long-armed Ape Beasts were forced to stop.
They stood on a large, leafy tree, letting out frustrated roars at Lin Li as he quickly drifted into the distance.
’Idiots. If I weren’t in such a hurry, I’d come ashore and finish you off instead of bothering with this...’
Lin Li made an internationally recognized offensive gesture from Blue Star toward the three screeching Long-armed Ape Beasts, not caring whether they understood what it meant.
’I’ll have to get a long-range Spiritual Artifact later. That way, if this happens again, I won’t be limited to only using my Superpower to attack.’
After that "friendly interaction" ended, Lin Li sat down and began to cultivate, recovering the Spiritual Energy he had just consumed.
After eating two of the magical fruits from the Magical Little Tree, Lin Li’s cultivation aptitude had undergone an earth-shattering transformation compared to before.
Now, cultivating in this unknown Otherworld—where the Spiritual Energy concentration was several times higher than on Blue Star—his efficiency increased even more.
HUUU...
With each breath, the free-floating Spiritual Energy in the air began to rush toward Lin Li.
Recovering that amount of spent Spiritual Energy would have taken about an hour of cultivation on Blue Star. Here, however, it only took Lin Li about forty minutes to be fully restored.
"That saved me nearly twenty minutes. If the Cultivators on Blue Star knew I could travel back and forth to an Otherworld with such a rich concentration of Spiritual Energy, they’d go mad with envy," Lin Li chuckled to himself, his Spiritual Energy now fully recovered.
...... 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮
The giant sun in this world’s sky also followed the rule of rising in the east and setting in the west.
After a hard day’s work, the giant sun was about to clock out.
The brilliant red sunset dyed half the sky in a vibrant crimson.
Seeing the sky change color, the animals that hunted by day knew night was about to fall.
To avoid becoming prey for nocturnal creatures, they began to rush back toward their dens.
Lin Li, who had been drifting on his raft all afternoon, looked up at a flock of birds flying overhead that strongly resembled the sparrows of Blue Star.
’These "sparrows" are huge! They’re a third larger than the ones on Blue Star.’
Pulling his gaze from the sparrows, Lin Li shifted his focus forward.
After an afternoon of drifting, the once tall and dense trees along the riverbanks gradually became shorter and more sparse, and his field of vision opened up.
"Hahaha... I’m finally out of that forest!" Lin Li’s spirits lifted as he gazed at the wide, open plains ahead.
The rushing river, which had been about a hundred meters wide, surprisingly began to narrow after it exited the forest.
After his raft left the forest and drifted another six or seven kilometers downriver, Lin Li noticed the river had narrowed by half.
’This is far enough. Time to get ashore,’ Lin Li muttered, bending down to grab the bamboo pole on the raft.
"Heave-ho."
He plunged the bamboo pole into the water and, with a powerful push, the raft beneath his feet began to slowly drift toward the riverbank.
It wasn’t that Lin Li didn’t want to continue drifting downriver on the raft; it was because, as the channel narrowed, he saw many large rocks appearing in the water.
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