Longevity Martial Arts: I have a Mysterious Water Snake Avatar

The feedback from the Five Tiger Breaking Gate Sword reaching the pinnacle transformation level was also quite significant for the Demon Beast Hong Yuan. He felt his speed increase by ten percent every time he used the Innate Ability, Tiger Shadow!

It was as if two tiny wings had sprouted beside his snake brain...

This amplification was terrifying because the Five Tiger Breaking Gate Sword was essentially a low-tier sword technique that only included some basic footwork and leaping skills.

If he, Hong Yuan, were to master a high-tier movement technique, wouldn't it feel like he was wearing straw sandals and flying effortlessly?

"AHOO!"

"ROAR!"

Familiar roars of the ron Armored Saw Crocodile came from outside the cavern, and Hong Yuan cautiously guarded against the intruders.

If that group of ron Armored Saw Crocodiles approached his hiding place, he would immediately escape through one of the three secret passages!

These past few days, he had used multiple Innate Abilities to create three secret passages leading to the shore, always prepared to leave at a moment's notice.

Why not leave immediately? It was because the Myriad Silence Origin Skill was about to reach the Minor Accomplishment Stage, and the Ice Armor Python's evolution level was also approaching 6,000 points.

The world ashore was completely foreign to Hong Yuan, filled with the unknown.

The unknown represented immense danger!

Hong Yuan wanted to accumulate a bit more capital and become stronger before venturing out.

Of course, it would be best if he never had to go ashore and could stay safely within the Mysterious Water Snake Cave.

But that was not realistic.

Ever since devouring those two ron Armored Saw Crocodiles, Hong Yuan could clearly feel the water domain he inhabited becoming unstable. This was because an increasing number of lower-tier water Demon Beasts were migrating from the deep waters to the shallows.

Groups of ron Armored Saw Crocodiles had even started hunting in the shallow waters, making them unsafe as well. Territory was limited, and the food chain was fixed.

Regardless of whether Hong Yuan was at the critical point of the deep waters or in the Mysterious Water Snake Cave in the shallows, his Demon Beast instinct constantly warned him that this place was unsafe. A faint sense of crisis always loomed over him.

"HISS..."

Hong Yuan let out a soft hiss and coiled his body.

A storm is coming...

Once he refined the Innate Ability from the Myriad Silence Origin Skill and entered the second Bloodline Dream Realm of the Ice Armor Python, he would flee immediately!

Even if this place became more suitable for fighting and evolution, he still had to flee.

"No citizen of the Great Glutton Nation would earn the last Copper Coin!"

...

「Two days later.」

Phoenix Fire Peak, training room.

Hong Yuan sat cross-legged on the Taoist Mat, circulating the Myriad Silence Origin Skill within his body. His water-attributed True Essence gradually transformed into ice-attributed True Essence, possessing frost properties.

Finally, one-third of the True Essence in his Energy Sea turned frosty white. It clearly separated from the other two-thirds of bright silver True Essence, as incompatible as oil and water.

"HOO..."

Hong Yuan slowly exhaled a turbid breath and opened his eyes, a spark of electricity flashing within them.

Minor Accomplishment Stage. Content first released on M_VLEM_PYR.

The Myriad Silence Origin Skill had finally reached the Minor Accomplishment Stage!

[Myriad Silence Origin Skill (Minor Accomplishment 21/4,000)]

But the cost was that Hong Yuan was now dirt poor and owed Zhu nearly ten thousand Energy Stones!

However, the results were indeed gratifying.

[Innate Ability · Myriad Silence Realm: Create and control the ice-attributed Essence Qi within the realm, enhancing the power of the user's ice-attributed innate moves...]

Seeing the brief introduction of the Myriad Silence Realm ability, Hong Yuan was stunned for a moment.

A realm?

Isn't that an exclusive ability that only Martial Saints can control?

How could he, a mere second-order snake, also possess it? Could it be that he, Hong Yuan, was truly a once-in-a-millennium peerless genius with the potential of a Great Emperor?!

"GULP..."

Hong Yuan secretly swallowed and quickly shifted his main perspective to that of Demon Beast Hong Yuan.

In the Mysterious Water Snake Cave, Demon Beast Hong Yuan gently swung his tail. The ice layer beneath him instantly shattered, sending ice chips flying and scattering into the water.

Adjusting his breathing, Hong Yuan focused his mind and began to use his new Innate Ability.

Myriad Silence Realm!

A blue wave of light emanated from Hong Yuan's body, spreading out in all directions. It penetrated the ice layer and the Mysterious Water Snake Cave.

Hong Yuan gently closed his eyes and instantly sensed the heat carried by different living beings within a thirty-meter radius.

From his perspective, these heat signatures, appearing as orange points of light, quickly coalesced to form the rough shapes of Demon Beasts. Some had orange points of light at their hearts that were scorchingly hot, while others were dim and only mildly warm.

Hong Yuan instantly understood. The Myriad Silence Realm provided him with an ability similar to Divine Sense.

Sensing ice-attributed Essence Qi is, in fact, sensing temperature!

Gazing at a small, fish-shaped orange point of light, Hong Yuan willed it, and immediately used the realm's ability to erase the mildly warm orange light point at the fish's heart.

Outside the Mysterious Water Snake Cave, a small silverfish that had been swimming suddenly stiffened. Its eyes lost their luster, and it stopped moving, washed away by the water currents.

"The orange light point shaped like a little fish isn't moving forward anymore, and it's also becoming dimmer? Could it have just died like that?"

Demon Beast Hong Yuan blinked his snake eyes, pondering.

Soon, he swam out of the Mysterious Water Snake Cave, searching for that little silverfish.

After a while, Hong Yuan finally figured out the general applications of the Myriad Silence Realm.

An hour.

In a day, the Myriad Silence Realm could be maintained for a maximum of an hour.

If he used the method of erasing orange light points to kill opponents, his Demon Essence would also decrease to varying degrees.

Having figured out the applicable range of this Innate Ability, Hong Yuan couldn't stop grinning.

"HISS, HISS, HISS..."

Demon Beast Hong Yuan started doing the Axe Gang dance in the Mysterious Water Snake Cave, lively and frisky.

With a realm-type Innate Ability like this, as long as I, Hong Yuan, don't act recklessly, I basically won't die.

And as my power rapidly grows, won't I be able to crush anyone I want with just a thought?

Hehe.

...

「One day later.」

Demon Beast Hong Yuan cautiously swam out of the Mysterious Water Snake Cave and activated his Myriad Silence Realm Innate Ability.

A pale blue wave of light emanated from Hong Yuan's body, merged with the surrounding Shui Lang, and spread out in all directions until it disappeared upon reaching its limit.

SPLASH! SPLASH!

Hong Yuan instantly sensed all living beings with heat sources within a thirty-meter radius.

At this moment, he felt as confident as if he had activated a wall-hack in a competitive game!

Even so, Hong Yuan remained calm and patiently searched for prey.

Soon, a lone ron Armored Saw Crocodile caught Hong Yuan's eye.

Frost!

After activating Frost, Hong Yuan's breath-concealing ability was amplified. His entire snake's presence began to change, becoming nearly indistinguishable from the flowing Shui Lang. If one did not look closely, they would not perceive him as a giant snake but rather as a large mass of Shui Lang.

He drew closer, incredibly close.

Hong Yuan lurked behind the ron Armored Saw Crocodile, stealthily reaching the maximum effective range of Frost Thorns, while the crocodile was still lazing about in the muddy sand.

The simplicity of it all greatly surprised Hong Yuan.

He had experienced multiple times how keen the ron Armored Saw Crocodiles' sense of smell was. If it hadn't been for his cunning, he would have been besieged by them long ago.

It seemed the enhancement Myriad Silence Realm provided to ice-attributed Innate Abilities truly exceeded his expectations.

His thoughts flashed past, and Hong Yuan decisively launched his attack.

Frost Thorns!

Nine huge ice ridges rapidly condensed in front of Hong Yuan, a terrifying aura gathering upon them as if to destroy everything.

Just then, the ron Armored Saw Crocodile lying in the mud ahead suddenly twitched its body and swam off without looking back.

"Demon Beast instinct? Too late!"

With a thought from Hong Yuan, the nine huge ice ridges instantly shot forward, so fast they only produced a sizzling sound.

The nine huge ice ridges successively pinned the ron Armored Saw Crocodile to the rocks ahead.

Dead. The ron Armored Saw Crocodile died just like that, without any power to fight back.

The Myriad Silence Realm... terrifying indeed!