Chapter 43

The water flow became increasingly turbulent, and Yi Yun knew that he was very close to the waterfall.

He continuously regulated his breathing, putting his body in the best state.

On Earth, there were people who challenged a sixty-meter high dive and survived. However, the waterfall in Dong River was over a hundred meters high.

Although Yi Yun's physical condition far exceeded that of an ordinary person, he had not received professional diving training. Moreover, he was not at his peak state, so diving directly down still posed a significant challenge.

"Rumble!"

Yi Yun could already hear the sound of the waterfall crashing into the deep pool. The rapid water flow pulled him directly over.

After tumbling a few times in the water, Yi Yun felt a sudden emptiness below him. A strong sense of weightlessness came over him, and his field of vision was immediately filled with splashing water, turning everything into a white blur.

He jumped down from the waterfall, which was over a hundred meters high.

From a distance, the majestic cliff stood like a giant, and the waterfall cascading down from the cliff resembled a long sword in the giant's hand. The giant leaned on the sword, the tip pointing downward, exuding an indescribable aura.

Yi Yun, on this sword-like waterfall, was just a tiny black dot, plummeting downward at an extremely fast speed!

"Plunk!"

A huge splash of water rose, like a blooming white lotus.

The moment Yi Yun emerged from the water, the powerful force impacted his internal organs and bones, making him feel as if his body was being hammered on an anvil.

This heavy blow seemed to loosen Yi Yun's muscles, causing him intense pain, but also a sense of indescribable comfort.

Yi Yun held his breath and dived straight down, familiar with the process.

Now, his entire body was on fire, and immersing himself in the cold pool water felt incredibly refreshing.

He quietly dived deeper, reaching a depth he had never achieved before.

Until he...

Reached the bottom of the pool!

This was the first time Yi Yun had dived to the bottom of this deep pool!

At the bottom of the pool, the water was clear, with sand and stones as smooth as jade. Yi Yun's body curled up, his arms wrapped around his legs, as if he were sleeping at the bottom of the pool.

Time seemed to lose its meaning. Yi Yun did not know how long he had been there, but the coolness in his chest prevented him from suffocating due to the lack of air.

The burning sensation in his meridians was gradually cooled by the cold pool water, and the pressure from the pool water continued to compress his internal organs...

At this moment, Yi Yun felt as if he had returned to the womb. He felt like a fetus in the womb, isolated from the world...

His body felt as if it were on fire, and Yi Yun's only thought was to quickly absorb this energy, or else it would burst his meridians, with unimaginable consequences.

In the deep pool, where the water temperature was close to zero degrees, Yi Yun's body heat dissipated quickly. If a person were naked in zero-degree air, they would not easily freeze to death as long as they did not fall asleep. However, if they jumped into zero-degree ice water, they would be completely frozen within ten minutes.

The low temperature, high pressure, and lack of oxygen in this harsh environment promoted the rapid consumption of the energy essence in Yi Yun's荒骨 (wild bone). The process of energy consumption also improved his physical constitution, refining his body.

Time passed, and the water was silent. The pool water did not move at all, and Yi Yun seemed to enter a completely independent space-time. In this space-time, he could only hear his slow and steady heartbeat.

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Again and again, the rhythm was as precise as a pendulum.

Gradually, Yi Yun's soul seemed to leave his body, and his last thought in his mind fell asleep. Yi Yun seemed to be completely frozen.

In a deep dive, losing consciousness meant certain death.

However, although Yi Yun had lost consciousness, the purple crystal in his chest slowly pulsed, sending energy to every part of his body.

Yi Yun completely entered a state of emptiness and self-forgetfulness. Every cell in his body absorbed the energy from the wild bone, resisting the cold and the astonishing pressure under the water!

In fact, even a top-tier body-strengthening technique like the "Dragon Sinew Tiger Bone Fist" could hardly fully temper every inch of the body. Whether it was "Tiger Descending the Mountain" or "Dragon Soaring to the Heavens," there were always areas left untrained.

Where there were omissions, there was a potential weakness in a martial artist's body.

The only move, "Dragon Dancing in the Ocean," used the immense pressure of the liquid to evenly affect every part of the martial artist's body. In theory, it could indeed temper every inch of the martial artist's flesh.

However, due to the limitations of the physical body, almost no warrior could truly cultivate "Dragon Dancing in the Ocean" to its ultimate level.

To temper every inch of flesh, one must first enter a state of self-forgetfulness. Otherwise, the body would always be regulated by the brain's consciousness. People would subconsciously use their strong and habitual body parts, for example, if someone tried to push a rock with all their might, they would unconsciously use more force in their dominant hand.

Only by emptying one's self-consciousness and letting each cell resist the water pressure and cold according to its instinct could they achieve thorough tempering. In this state, the body follows its instincts, which is known as "no form, no emptiness, no self"!

Entering a state of self-forgetfulness was already difficult, and doing so in deep water was even more challenging, as losing consciousness in deep water was almost equivalent to suicide!

However, although Yi Yun had lost consciousness, the energy from the origin purple crystal flowed into his blood, nourishing his brain, meridians, and organs. The human body needs to breathe because the tissues need the energy released by respiration. Now, with the energy provided by the origin purple crystal, oxygen became less important.

Thus, Yi Yun stayed in the deep water for a whole day and night without realizing it!

His bones, organs, and every cell seemed to come alive, as if they had their own independent consciousness.

It wasn't until the next day, when the sun was high, that Yi Yun slowly floated to the surface, like a drowning person, rising to the water's surface...

...

Yunhuang, one of the twenty-four wildernesses of the Taiyi Divine Kingdom, was usually uninhabited except for the sacred lands guarded by the major tribes.

In Yunhuang, besides the sacred lands where humans gathered, there was another place known as the "wilderness"!

In the wilderness, the wild energy was dense, and the truly powerful wild beasts lay dormant in the "wilderness"!

If a martial artist with insufficient strength mistakenly entered the wilderness, they would certainly die!

However... at the edge of a "wilderness" in Yunhuang, an old man and a young girl appeared.

The old man wore a yellow robe, was somewhat overweight, and had a youthful appearance despite his white hair. His eyes were small, and he did not look particularly remarkable.

The young girl beside him was slender, around sixteen or seventeen years old. She had arched eyebrows and long, slender eyes, with a pair of clear, autumn-water-like eyes that were very clean.

The girl wore a rough linen dress, and under the sleeves, her arm, as white as a lotus, was exposed.

Her skin was so white that the blood vessels beneath it were visible.

Generally, a healthy complexion is rosy, but this girl's skin was so pale that it gave the impression of being as delicate as Xi Shi, weak and unable to bear clothing.

However, if one looked at the current situation, they would not think so.

The girl's originally jade-like hands were now covered in blood, and in front of her lay a dead ferocious beast, the size of a small calf, which she had killed with her own strength!