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“The second part of the second objective is completed? How did I find the Crimson Qilin Fruit? Where is it?” Yang Fan was confused for a while.
It wasn’t until he carefully recalled and pondered that he finally figured it out.
The logic was simple: the polluted Qilin Fruit, since it had been successfully purified by Yang Fan, was now the Crimson Qilin Fruit.
If nothing unexpected happened, the Crimson Qilin Fruit should be inside him, the very one he had absorbed!
Hearing this news, Yang Fan was overjoyed.
Originally, he had already given up on completing the ultimate objective, since without completing the second objective, he couldn’t unlock the ultimate objective.
But now, he was only one step away from completing the second objective—the final breakthrough—and he still had two Beast Essence Pills in his possession, making it a straightforward task.
“I still have a chance to complete the ultimate objective!” Yang Fan was thrilled.
He quickly checked the time on his wrist screen; it had taken him three full days to refine the Qilin Fruit!
“There’s still a day and a half left! I wonder if it’s too late!”
Yang Fan immediately grabbed a Beast Essence Pill and stuffed it into his mouth. Inadvertently, he noticed an arrow still stuck in his leg. Ignoring the pain, he pulled it out.
Compared to consuming the Qilin Fruit, the process of taking the Beast Essence Pill was almost a pleasure.
A warm current nourished his entire body, and he could hear the faint sounds of his bones, likely due to the Beast Essence Pill transforming his body.
The Beast Essence Pill actually contained a small amount of impurity, roughly equivalent to a piece of exotic beast spirit flesh, and Yang Fan refined it with ease.
After about two and a half hours, the warm current within his body gradually subsided, and the faint sounds of his bones disappeared.
Yang Fan took a deep breath. At this moment, he felt incredibly relaxed from head to toe, with an indescribable sense of comfort.
For someone who had been a vegetable for ten years, when had he ever experienced such a state? Yang Fan couldn’t help but revel in it.
It was the mysterious voice that interrupted Yang Fan’s self-indulgence.
“You have completed the physical breakthrough, the second objective has been accomplished.”
At this moment, Yang Fan felt physically comfortable and mentally happy, especially when he thought about the objective rewards, which made him even more excited.
However, after waiting for a few minutes, the legendary Qilin Claw did not appear in front of him like the Beast Essence Pill or the exotic beast spirit flesh.
“Um, hello! Are you still there? Did you forget something?” Yang Fan couldn’t help but ask.
There was silence all around.
“Hello! My reward…” Yang Fan reminded.
Perhaps forced by Yang Fan, the voice unusually answered his question.
“The reward has been given to someone else.”
Yang Fan was shocked, his eyes wide open. What was going on?
Did people in other realms not keep their word like this?
However, Yang Fan quickly realized that this situation seemed understandable.
There was only one Crimson Qilin Fruit, and Liu Qi had already obtained it. Now it seemed that he had taken the lead in completing the physical breakthrough, so he was the first to complete the second objective, and the reward naturally went to him first.
Yang Fan’s situation was extremely special, and even the master of the trial might not have expected that someone else could complete the second objective.
As a result, his reward was gone.
Speaking of which, up to now, Yang Fan still didn’t know where this mysterious voice came from. Not only him, but even the examiners had mentioned that the source of the voices in the other realms had not been identified yet.
Whether it was a real living creature, some kind of artificial intelligence program, or something else entirely, Yang Fan couldn’t even begin to guess.
If it were some real creature, there might be a chance to make up for the missing reward, but if it were just a program, then there probably wouldn’t be a way to compensate for the reward.
Although Yang Fan had prepared himself mentally for not receiving the reward, he still wanted to try and fight for it.
“So, my reward is gone? You never said that only the first to complete would get a reward,” Yang Fan tried to communicate with the voice.
“You should at least give me an explanation.”
The voice remained silent, offering no further explanation.
Yang Fan shook his head and sighed. It seemed that the voice wasn’t planning to compensate him.
“Sigh, this trial of yours, to be honest, is a bit unprofessional.”
“Forget it, forget it, I won’t argue with you. The second objective is complete, and the third can be unlocked. Surely the third objective can’t only be activated by one person.”
Who knew that right after Yang Fan finished speaking, the voice suddenly reappeared, and unusually, there was a certain fluctuation in it.
“What did you say!”
Yang Fan was startled.
Previously, this extremely mysterious voice, aside from briefly introducing the other realm and the objectives, never appeared and certainly never had any fluctuations in its tone. But this time, it was surprisingly fierce.
The sudden fluctuation in the mysterious voice left Yang Fan inexplicably stammering, “Uh… I, I said you should unlock the third objective.”
“Not that sentence, the one before it!” the voice said fiercely.
It took Yang Fan a moment to recall what he had said.
“I said, I said this trial of yours is a bit unprofessional…”
“You said I’m unprofessional!” the voice roared, “This is intolerable!”
Yang Fan stood there, stunned.
Things didn’t seem to be going well.
The mysterious voice was angry!
The consequences could be severe; it was possible that he would be kicked out of the other realm directly.
“This… Senior,” Yang Fan couldn’t find a suitable title, so he temporarily used ‘Senior’ to address the voice, “I know this isn’t your fault, it’s mine. I don’t want the reward anymore, just tell me about the third objective, really.”
“No way!” the mysterious voice barked, “Kid, I’ve realized you look down on me!”
“No, no, no, I absolutely didn’t mean that. It’s a misunderstanding, definitely a misunderstanding,” Yang Fan knew that he could offend anyone here except this guy.
The voice had made it clear from the beginning.
“My trial!”
This trial belonged to him; there was no way he could be offended.
The mysterious voice probably hadn’t expected that it would end up saying so many words to a trial participant.
“You’re apologizing with your mouth, but you still look down on me in your heart,” the mysterious voice said.
Faced with such a haughty mysterious voice, Yang Fan was also at a loss for words.
“However, your request is not excessive. It’s decided then. Although I have no reward to give you, finding a reward in the Shan Hai Jing world is not difficult.”
Yang Fan couldn’t believe his ears when he heard this.
He could still get a reward!
“What reward?”
“Let’s see… Phoenix Flowing Flame Grass will do.”
“What is the Phoenix Flowing Flame Grass?”
“I only give you the reward; I’m not responsible for anything else,” the voice said coldly, returning to its previous aloofness, “All you need to know is that this reward is no weaker than the Qilin Claw!”
“I will guide you to go and harvest it, and ensure your safety. After harvesting, you will still participate in the trial as usual, with no special treatment whatsoever. Do you understand?”
“I, I understand… but the problem is, I’m trapped here. How can I go to harvest it?”
Yang Fan only heard the mysterious voice sigh helplessly, “I never thought that meeting you would make me break the rules.”
“So be it. Since I have promised you a reward, I must deliver it to you, lest you speak nonsense!”
“In the nineteenth cave chamber to your left, the Demon Lotus Thousand Hand Vine has fallen off, revealing a secret passage behind it. You can leave from there.”
Yang Fan was stunned for a while.
If he wasn’t mistaken, Liu Qi was very likely coming to kill him, right?
Although he had also completed the physical breakthrough, unfortunately, his basic attributes were too poor. Compared to Liu Qi who had also achieved the physical breakthrough, the gap between them had not only not narrowed, but it had probably widened.
Liu Qi’s physical limit, without a doubt, was much higher than his!
But no matter how clever Liu Qi was, he would never expect that Yang Fan had escaped through a secret passage.
Without delay, Yang Fan quickly packed up his belongings, holding the exotic beast egg, and without caring about anything else, he swiftly found the cave chamber.
On the wall, Yang Fan indeed saw that behind a large area where the vines had fallen off, a cave entrance was exposed.
Yang Fan remembered that there had been no abnormalities here before. It was possible that when the Demon Mara Thousand Hand was contaminated, the turbid qi concentrated its attack on its core, resulting in this area being neglected. Additionally, the grip on the cave entrance was insufficient, causing the vines to fall off.
The entrance was narrow, with a height of only about one and a half meters, definitely not left by a qilin. It was likely dug by some other exotic beast.
But none of that mattered. What was important was that this cave entrance was enough for Yang Fan; he could escape from here!
Yang Fan hurriedly made his way to the secret passage.