Chapter 276 – Moon Lake (II)

Chapter 276

Moon Lake (II)

Notifications broke out rather frequently in the past few days.

It all started with Long Tao and now ended with Xing Feng–all the kids (including Lao Shun? Hello? Why are you learning an art like you’re a disciple of mine?! And, far more importantly, system, why did you give me a reward for it?!) had gained the initial mastery of Enduring Eternity.

Not all of them would practice it, at least not daily, so my 20% stacking bonus wouldn’t be min-maxed, as it were, but any bonus was a welcome one in my book.

But, to be honest, I’ve been kind of underestimating what 20% extra speed would mean. And even further, what a few stacks of it would do.

For instance, on the first day, everyone save for Rayce and Light cultivated using Enduring Eternity–excluding Lao Shun, which entailed me to an extra 100% bonus cultivation speed. While, yes, it only lasted a day, it was closer to what I’d actually get by cultivating for a week.

The rewards from them gaining the initial understanding of the method, though, weren’t particularly tantalizing: an extra 450 Creation Points, essentially salvaging the cost of what I used to make it, and 1 extra use of Demonic Crystal of all things.

That wasn’t even the best news, as far as I was concerned–it was that we finally left the damned forest!

The sunlight!

The colors!

Oh my God, it’s all so beautiful I could weep! I mean, I’m not gonna… but I sure as hell could. Going from effectively complete darkness, where we struggled to see more than a foot ahead of us, to just a normal world… I don’t want to be insensitive, but hey, so long as I keep it in my head, it’s like going from being blind to finally being able to see!

We emerged onto a slightly hilly plain, with some scatterings of the trees and knee-high grass, and quite a few critters running amok. There were no human settlements as far as I could see, though we did run across a river relatively quickly. Eternal River, Lao Shun said it was called.

Seeing as it sourced somewhere in the massive Eternal Range, it seemed appropriate. The water was quite cool, and we could finally replenish our dwindling supplies, deciding to even camp for a few days at the riverbank since we could all use a wash and a brief respite.

We wouldn’t actually travel along its side any further than this, as the river itself stretched north while we needed to head straight east. According to Lao Shun, the gathering was happening on the southeastern shoreline of the lake, so we’d first have to reach the eastern bit before just traveling down south along the side of the lake.

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The lake itself was quite massive–honestly, even when I read about it in the books, it sounded more like a sea rather than a lake. There were like nine port towns and cities on its shores; it had its own mini ecosystem and shipping lanes and had buried so many people in its span that the floor was likely decorated with decomposed bodies.

On top of that, it had regular storms and even waves (huh?), and the rough estimates set it to be the size of a ‘small empire’.

Huh.

Though I’ve always been bad with measurements (more so in this world that uses slightly altered numbers), from what I could gather, it sounded like it was about half a million square miles.

Yeah.

No.

I refuse to believe it.

I mean, I don’t know what the biggest lake back on Earth was–no, wait. I don’t know what the biggest lake back on Earth was. I was stumped with Eternal Range, too, and its size, but that’s really only because the ‘number sounded big’, and not because I had some factual knowledge to act as a frame of reference.

Why can’t a lake be half a million square miles? Just because my apartment was about half a thousand… square feet… doesn’t mean that a lake can’t be visible from space. We had a wall that was visible from space! Oh, how I miss the days when I really thought that.

I noticed that the kids picked up some sparring once again–this time including Rayce.