Xianxia: Why am I here?

Chapter 158

158 Astonishing Discovery, natural formation

Sitting on the beach Wang could see as far as several miles covered with sand, you the left and right. This already showed him that the river was indeed too long, considering he couldn’t see the end or even the intersection with other streams.

Starting in the distance, he couldn’t help but frown because he realized something even scarier. Which was that there were no footprints on the sand.

Regardless of the situation, this was a God water source being a river, it is to be expected for monsters to drink this water and thus the number of footprints on the shoreline should be more.

Even when he touched the ground he was sitting on, he could feel some of it was sturdy, but when force was exerted it still left behind an imprint.

It was thus surprising that he couldn’t even see any footprints in the sand to the edge. His eyesight was indeed good and he could see farther than most.

But that was not the most important thing, with his understanding, the monsters in this world were too huge and thus he was certain to discover footprints because they would be too huge.

But he didn’t find any clues of the monster being around.

He even was forced to stand up and observe to see if he missed anything, but the result was the same in the end.

He couldn’t help but secretly frown at this slightly, even after careful observation nothing changed.

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Sometimes the fear of the unknown is even scarier than being hopeless.

The more he thought about it he couldn’t come up with a suitable explanation.

Just looking at the forest behind him and the huge river in front of him, he felt like he was sitting on a high time bomb.

He couldn’t be blamed, after all the situation was not within his scope of understanding.

And the more complexities he made up in his mind, the more solemn he become.

With such a clean water source nearby why would monster not date to drink it? Let’s not say him, even an idiot could perceive that something was wrong.

But since he didn’t feel any threat at all, he continued to sit there quietly feeling the situation was already like this and even with his current strength there was no reason to investigate it.

Regardless of the situation, it couldn’t change anything anyway, all he had to do became more cautious in everything he did near this location.

“I just have to be careful and soon I might be capable of gaining some benefits before retreating otherwise I might be planted in this place.” Wang thought this to himself.

He had a lot to accomplish but his current physique was a problem that had to be dealt with before any other steps were taken.

In the end, he didn’t even dare use the other techniques such as star refinement art due to fearing that he might lose the chance to hit the transformation.

“Nothing in this place seems suspicious which makes me even more uneasy in the end.” Who was Wang, he had already survived from a black hole even entering another universe how could he be easily fooled?

Over the last few months, he came to a realization, something that people don’t know about might indeed also become a factor that affects their future.

But in the end, he still chose to ignore somethings in some end, because he thought knowing them might in the end make one’s life dull.

It’s best to let nature take its course on some matters then. With such a thought he tried to negotiate to calm his mind.

At the same time his heart calmed down, and he sent his soul power into the lake again to perceive the situation before making move to catch something to eat.

He was not going to abide by the fishermen’s philosophy, he just has to send in the hook and use some means to catch prey.

But he was slightly regretful since he couldn’t use his spiritual consciousness for it. Its coverage was large but the water surface seemed to be preventing him from using it.

The water in the river was indeed clear, but after going several hundred meters, it started to appear gloomy.

With his current soul strength, going all the way to one and a half kilometers could be considered a huge task.

In the way of the soul, he had yet to improve much, refinement of the soul is something that requires opportunities for those without proper techniques.

He indeed lacked any soul refinement arts, yes, the soul needs to be refined.

The purity of the soul is the most important aspect for low-level cultivators like Wang.

The higher the purity, he can have a high affinity with things such as comprehension of laws and even techniques.

In the same way, if he could gain himself some technique to refine his soul, his practice speed would increase considerably.

All this time he has been focusing on the body and even the techniques he obtained have been either for the body or Qi. He thus could only hope for some opportunity that could help him in increasing his soul power or refinement.

He was aware that the new world would not tolerate them if they lacked strength, and thus was something he was clear about from just looking at his interaction with the huge air of eyes and even large scales.

Perhaps the large creatures disdained when bothering with him, but that might not be the case with others.

Even though his soul can’t see further into the water, he could feel another oppressive aura in the water.

It was scary, considering his soul could cover close to a thousand meters radius, he could feel that a huge creature was sleeping down below.

Its length would not be less than four kilometers, such a behemoth staying on the river’s surface, then he could imagine the situation in seas and oceans.

The figure was huge, and from his perception, it might be the one making the water on the surface of the river appear to produce a gloomy atmosphere.

He didn’t even bother to estimate its height anymore considering he had no plans on meaning with it at the moment.

The thought could already explain Wang’s mentality, especially hearing him think

something like, for the time being.

But he couldn’t be blamed, his physical body was indeed a huge pit, and it required a vast amount of energy to continue training.

“Forget about the technique to refine the soul, at present, it might be very difficult to attain much in this aspect. I didn’t have much time to go around searching and even if I’m willing this world will not agree.” This was exactly his attitude towards the issue of obtaining some soul refinement art.

It’s also very practical, to get oneself involved with the cultivation world, it is indeed important to know how to adapt.

Being too rigid with some things and pursuing personal desires without checking out the overall situation and environment would be no different from suicide.

Since he couldn’t touch the big boss at the bottom of the river, he would just wait until he saw something worth his attention.

But after waiting for another day nothing seemed to happen.

He was not some old man that has majored in the matters of fishing.

Truth be told, to practice their state of mind, some experts usually use fishing.

But someone like Wang doesn’t have such patience and thus he took out some belongings from the storage space.

In his previous life, he read about some religious story of someone called Jonah that seemed to be swallowed by the fish.

But now looking in the water, he couldn’t help but become emotional.

“If the fish doesn’t come for Jonah, then Jonah will go towards them.” As much as he said this, he wouldn’t dare jump into the river.

As he spoke he had already cut off some kind of piece of wheat and hung it at the end of the hook.

Without much delay, he threw it into the river, at the same time discovered an abnormality when the fishing line just descended into the river.

“This river has a naturally formed formation on it. But what is the purpose of this formation?” Indeed he was not interested in many things but he couldn’t help himself.

His perception was focused on the surface of the river, as he could feel the formation had become active yet nothing happened.

It did not go in line with the principles of formation but what shocked him, even more, was the fact that the formation seems very perfect in his eyes.

He had already developed the idea of staying around for some more days trying to grasp clues on the formation.

He wanted to make use of this formation to improve his level and at the same time advance his formations.

Once a formation to this level is created, it can give birth to its spirituality but it takes time unless one can find some natural treasures to speed up the process.