Forest of Stone

  For centuries, the town of Street Edge was a place where no one asked about it. There were no ferocious beasts here, nor were there cannibalistic beasts that made the burial grounds fearful. Moreover, the natural minerals contained in the Stone Forest could even provide the Burial City with hundreds of years of mineral resources.

  But it is such a place, yet no one has ever asked about it.

  However, on this day, a young man came to visit in the dead of night, completely breaking the tranquility of Stone Forest. He was Wang Chen. In his past life, Wang Chen knew about the existence of Stone Forest because a tragic event had once occurred here, but he had never been here before and only heard that the trees in this forest were indestructible, with a hardness level one hundred times that of diamonds in the real world.

  Human labor cannot be exploited.

  Crossed a heavy mountain, forgot the dust on this road almost unimpeded to the Stone Forest, after all, it's a place with few people, not even half a player was seen along the way, occasionally encountering one or two monsters could also avoid fighting, after all, the game still relies on cultivation and attributes.

  He has only just reached level 3 in his long and arduous task, is pathetically weak, with a physical strength that doesn't even match the real world, unable to use even the simplest life force blast.

  So, Shi Zhilin's training may be an opportunity to break through physical limits.

  Endless stone forest, the structure of silver-white objects and trees is almost identical, some are even ancient tree roots forming a vast canopy, blocking the scorching sun in the high sky. The system prompts that the temperature here is sixty degrees Celsius, which is an almost imperceptible sunny season in the real world.

  The atmosphere in the real world has long been destroyed, and inside the isolation zone, except for radiation haze and red sky all year round, it is almost a rare sight to see such a sky and the scorching sun.

  Wang Chen closed his eyes, opened his arms and enjoyed the warmth of the sun, but he didn't forget why he came here.

  "Is this the Stone Forest?" The vast and endless land, the silver-white color that meets the eye, the surrounding silence without a sound. What's even more amazing is that the leaves on the stone forest are also silver-white in color, but they have a green texture, when the wind blows, they sway with the wind, and when you reach out to touch them, you can feel their unyielding hardness.

  "Let's try it out then..." The hatchet in his hand didn't have anything special about it, the blade was dull and unreflective, but after all, it was just an ordinary hatchet.

  Taking a deep breath, the first thing to try was whether he had the power to cut down the stone tree. With his hatchet in hand, Wàng Chén suddenly exerted force, and at the moment when the hatchet collided with the stone tree, a large amount of firelight was produced due to friction. The forceful strike backfired, and Wàng Chén retreated two meters, his tiger's mouth splitting open.

  Shaking off the numbness in his arm, a hint of shock appeared in his eyes. The hardness of Shi Lin exceeded Wang Chen's imagination.

  It's just that this moment of contact is forgotten, and the eyebrows are tightly locked. If there were no accidents, almost all the stone forests here would have had the same unyielding hardness. Let alone a hundred roots, I'm afraid even one root has already been completed.

  He put down the knife in his hand, stretched out his palm and inserted it into the trunk of the tree. Wang Chen slowly closed his eyes, and a layer of silver-white light appeared on his body, which was the prelude to the release of life potential, but only the prelude. This move condensed life just to feel or detect other signs of life.

  The silver of Shíshù and the white of Wàngchén complement each other, at first glance they seem to have merged into one after a long time. Wàngchén slowly opened his eyes, at this moment his eyes had already condensed into silver and white, this is the condensation of life potential.

  "These trees, they have life, and they're rejecting me. No, not just me, but anyone who sets foot on this land." Due to his latent potential, Wang could feel the Stone Forest's rejection of him, a shocking aura that sought to intimidate him away.

  "This feeling, it's as if the ingredients and game are rejecting outsiders, just like Old Wang said. A good butcher understands his prey, a good chef knows his ingredients. So, to cut you all down, it depends on whether I can become a qualified woodsman!!" Forgotten Dust gazed at the stone forest in front of him, yet he didn't have even half a speck of despair, instead becoming increasingly excited.

  Looking at this silver-white forest, it seems as if I saw a road that is about to become stronger.

  In this way, Wang Chen began his most arduous cultivation in the Stone Forest since entering the game. In moments without anyone by his side, he had to endure loneliness that ordinary people found hard to bear. He had to complete one hundred Stone Forest trees before he could end this.

  How much time is needed? He doesn't know...

  "Bang! Bang!"

  The blade of the cleaver is very dull, Wang Xian suspects that it has never been opened, because the sharpness of this thing is only 100.

  The Butcher's Cleaver

  Sharpness: 100

  (The family heirloom has been passed down for generations and has become a dull knife)

  Sharpness of one hundred, even the snow sheep can't be killed, but Wang Duichen didn't complain. King Butcher wouldn't harm himself; if he would, his past life wouldn't have sacrificed his life to protect himself.

  So, there must be a reason for doing so, just like the game itself. The task of Shi Zhilin is very unreasonable, because even the strong can't do it, how can Wang Cun do it? Indeed, Creation is not a fair game, but all unfair things have their reasons for existence.

  What Wang Chen can do now is to complete the task.

  He still has one year left.

  The quiet forest of stone, from this day on, has been filled with the sound of chopping and hacking. In the depths of the forest, it sounds especially clear and loud. The rhythmic crashing sound, I don't know how long it lasted, eventually from morning to night, and from night to morning, even the time for rest gradually decreased.

  Like this, after a whole month, Wàng Chén finally threw away the axe in his hand and expressionlessly walked to the ground, with anxiety and unease filling his eyes.

  Staring at the Stone Tree that he had been chopping for a month, he revealed deep worry. For an entire month, he had hardly any time to rest, but the result was greatly disappointing. The Stone Tree not only didn't have even half a trace of cracking, it didn't even have a single scratch.

  Even an iron man can't bear it for a month, this is not only physical training but also spiritual blow. If one persists in vain, it will strike people's expectation and confidence.

  Nowadays, Wang Chen is in such a decadent state.

  He lay on the ground, panting heavily, gazing up at the silver-white sky with a bewildered expression. For an entire month, he hadn't even gotten one, and although he had succeeded, the goal of a hundred seemed so far away that sometimes he wondered if he should just give up.

  After all, his expectations for the slaughterhouse were not as strong as those of the bloody gods.

  Another voice in his heart told him to persevere, that once he gave up on the beliefs he held until now, wouldn't everything be overturned? But if he didn't give up, he simply didn't have that much time left here.

  If he broke away from his original historical traces, could he still meet with his companions and loved ones? So the time to leave this place was a year later...

  Just as he was lost in thought, a leaf floated down from the sky, like a solitary boat sailing across the ocean, and gently landed on his cheek, blocking his line of sight.

  Pick up the silver leaf that covers the eyes, gaze at it, a ray of sunlight breaks through, and surprisingly, the veins of the leaves can be seen clearly. Wàng Chén didn't think much about it, and threw it aside. However, at this moment, a gust of wind blew by, and the silver leaves on the stone tree began to flutter down continuously.

  Wang Chen suddenly sprang up, came to the tree trunk and walked back and forth, thinking that he suddenly twisted his hatchet towards the branches. The motionless branches didn't even drop a single leaf, which was exactly why Wang Chen felt shocked.

  How can wind blow down leaves? This is unscientific!!

  That gentle breeze was able to blow down the leaves of a tree that was unshakeable, even resistant to being chopped down with an axe. The fact that it was blown down by the wind is what makes the sorrow of being forgotten for a month feel so piercing.

  As a result, this idiot actually climbed up the big tree and kept blowing air at the leaves non-stop for an entire day. Only when his mouth was completely exhausted did he finally stop.

  But even so, not a single leaf fell off. What the hell is going on? The same gust of wind blew down several leaves, and this time Wang Xian unconsciously used his life potential. He wanted to see clearly how these winds were doing it.

  This intense desire and life potential itself produced resonance.

  Suddenly, he felt a loud rumbling in his forehead, and his life potential suddenly overflowed, then gathered into his eyes!!

  "Suddenly, five words echoed in my mind: Life Potential, Condense!!"

  The potential of mutation allowed him to clearly see the moment when the wind swept over the leaves, that feeling was like a caress, just like the caress of parents to their children!!!

  Even Wang Chen himself did not expect that this strong desire would allow him to understand the potential of life!!! This should be the four major foundations, gathering advanced, condensing, and of course, this is not the most exciting thing. The most exciting thing is that just now, he seemed to have understood something.

  He grasped the axe once more, his excitement and eagerness to cut down the Stone Tree, which had borne no fruit despite nearly a month of attempts, evident in his deep breath. As he swung his arm, a shadowy figure appeared, something even he himself hadn't noticed - the result of over ten thousand swings in the past month, bringing about a drastic change in his physical abilities.

  Will this time be able to succeed in enlightening new life potential?

  At the moment when the hatchet was raised, this originally dull knife emitted a cold light under the sunlight. The hatchet and Silver Tree collided, sparks flew out instantly, but there was no crashing sound as before. When the hatchet met Stone Tree, what came was a muffled humming noise.

  "Bang......"

  A seemingly ferocious slash, however, contained a gentle wind, and the Stone Tree remained motionless. Yet, an instant later, a look of surprise appeared on Wudu's face, although faint, the Chai Knife had successfully left a visible mark on the Stone Tree!!!

  "Succeeded!!" Forgotten dust, those eyes gleaming with white flames, shone with expectation of success!!!!

  (I spent the last two days revising my new book and outline, and negotiating free things with the website, so I couldn't update in time. Sorry, starting today I'll be rushing to rank, updating at 6pm and 12am, extra updates will be notified separately)