Green Monster Epic

Chapter 118: Very Dirty, But Very Effective

Once a physical body reaches level 8, further advancement becomes exceedingly difficult, except for beings with naturally powerful physiques, such as dragons and giants.

Reaching level 9 is the limit of the physical body. Even without any inheritance, a body of this level can directly advance. Dragons, for example, are born with level 8 physical strength. Once they develop from infancy to adolescence, they can directly advance, unlike most races like the Kobolds, who are stuck at the bottleneck of advancement. After adulthood, their physical bodies reach level 9, directly advancing to Legendary, as easily as eating and drinking.

By the way, level 9 is the foundation for advancing to Legendary. Without reaching the standard of a level 9 physical body, there is no way to advance to Legendary. As for level 10 physical strength, it completely transcends the individual's limit and is the foundation for the body and spirit to unite, the basis for entering Demigod and Saint realms in the future.

Allen is currently stuck at the threshold of advancing from level 8 to level 9. Every time he continuously tempers his body, he can feel his body slowly progressing and growing. However, after lingering at this level 8 warrior threshold for three to four years, Allen still hasn't seen the end in sight.

Therefore, when Philip told Allen that ordinary external forces, such as regular training with hundreds of pounds of dumbbells, no longer met the needs of normal physical tempering, and then revealed a more extreme method, Allen couldn't wait to try it out.

Holding his breath, performing weightlifting, bench presses, and other exercises at the bottom of the deep lake. Initially, Allen couldn't last long at all, certainly surfacing in less than 30 breaths. Once he could persist for more than five minutes in the lake, the effect of this extreme physical tempering became apparent. At least, Allen could feel the physical strength that had been stagnant for a long time growing at a visible rate. The level 9 barrier that was originally invisible could now be vaguely felt.

However, after the farmer Jiem and the others suggested digging up the silt in the center of the lake, and Allen took it upon himself to do it during his training, he felt that he was a little overwhelmed.

Firstly, Green Lake doesn't look big, only about half the size of a football field, but it would be a truly enormous task for Allen to dig up the silt that has accumulated for hundreds of years from beginning to end by himself. Secondly, the silt accumulated in the center of the lake comes from a wide range of sources, including fish feces, soil erosion from the upper reaches, and even the remains of various animals. As soon as Allen made a move at the bottom of the lake, the dark black color quickly spread over a large area of the lake water. Although Allen held his breath, he still felt uncomfortable with the smell and aura.

As the saying goes, it's better to share happiness than to enjoy it alone. Allen, who has never considered himself selfish, used the excuse of helping Flower Snake and the others improve their strength and began a training operation at the bottom of the lake, combined with the work of digging up silt.

After experiencing the hardship once, Da Shan began to find various reasons to refuse this task. Flower Snake and A Xiao, on the other hand, persisted, which led to the conversation they had just had.

"Swish!!!"

A black and green head emerged from the lake surface. After taking a long breath, it washed the dirt off its head in the lake water, revealing its true face, which was the Kobold, Mao Luo himself.

Subsequently, several figures emerged with a splash. A Xiao and Da Jiang, who couldn't hold their breath any longer, also surfaced, frantically absorbing fresh air. Only Allen and Flower Snake were nowhere to be seen, even after more than ten minutes had passed.

As the relatively weaker members of the tribe, the effect of tempering their bodies in the lake was far greater than that of Allen and the others, but correspondingly, their burden was also heavier.

Relying on a single breath, they had to hold on for several minutes in the lake. With the lung capacity of the Kobolds, they could basically achieve this after training. However, coupled with the strenuous aerobic exercises such as weightlifting, bench presses, and digging up silt at the bottom of the lake, as well as the ubiquitous huge water pressure, it was a tremendous tempering of the individual's physical body.

A Xiao and the others went ashore, rested for a while, and then began to pull the grass rope tied around their waists. The other end of the grass rope was the foul-smelling silt they had dug up from the bottom of the lake. In an instant, most of the lake surface turned from green to black. Countless fish were disturbed by the turbid lake water, sticking their heads out of the lake, even flipping out of the lake to breathe.

"Who do you think will come out first this time?"

After opening the sack filled with silt and dumping the silt on the shore, Da Jiang asked A Xiao, Mao Luo, and Hei Tou.

"That goes without saying, it's naturally the Chieftain!"

"That's right!!"

Flower Snake seemed to be at odds with Allen recently. Although he knew that his strength was not as good as the other party, he always competed with Allen when training at the bottom of the lake. Perhaps strength is more obvious in combat duels, but when training at the bottom of the lake, how long one can persist depends not only on their own strength, but also on individual lung capacity, willpower, and other factors. In order to surpass Allen in some way, Flower Snake began to exert his own strengths and desperately compared his breath-holding skills with Allen. Heavy physical training was completely disadvantageous to Flower Snake, as he was primarily a agility-based combatant.

"I bet it's Flower Snake. He came out right before the Chieftain yesterday, and he will definitely hold his breath to compete for this honor today."

Da Jiang actually admired Flower Snake more, or rather, as the object they were currently chasing, he hoped that Flower Snake could defeat the Chieftain in some way, so that the Chieftain would not seem so perfect.

"Gurgle!!"

Another ten minutes passed, and several large bubbles emerged from the lake surface. It seemed that the time for the final showdown was approaching, and several people stopped piling up silt and began to focus more on the lake surface.

"Splash!!"

A head suddenly stretched out of the lake surface, not even bothering about the silt flowing between his cheeks and nostrils. The first thing this face did was take a deep breath of air, and then he had time to frown and re-enter the turbid water to wash off the silt on his head. Without his original face being revealed, just seeing the burn marks on his body, everyone already knew who the final winner of this gamble was.

"See, I told you!!"

Da Jiang was really happy. This was the first time Allen had failed in a contest with the tribesmen since he became the Chieftain.

"Pfft!!"

Another face floated up, but the first thing this face did when it floated up was not to breathe in the air, but to put its head on the lake surface and cough and gag hard.

"What's wrong?"

Allen looked at the winner Flower Snake in surprise. He had finally won, so why didn't he look happy at all!

"Ugh, I, I swallowed several mouthfuls of lake water, it's really TM disgusting!!"

Flower Snake continued to gag in embarrassment, panting heavily as he replied.

"Hahaha~~"

Da Jiang and the others on the shore burst into laughter. The taste of this silt was indeed disgusting. Everyone had tasted it these days. It seemed that Flower Snake had paid a high price this time in order to win.