I slowly approached the three disciples to hear what they were saying.

They weren’t able to detect me since my spirit sense was so much more developed than theirs. With the breakthrough to the Crystal Lake Palace Foundation, my spirit sense had reached the 5-kilometer mark.

(Disciple 1) “We should give up”

(Disciple 2) “No, I didn’t survive the encounter with a fucking rabbit only to give up when the prize is in front of me.”

(Disciple 1) “So do you wanna go in? Have you seen how Kai ended up? If he didn’t crush his token he would probably be dead right now.”

(Disciple 1) “So what do you suggest?”

(Disciple 2) “I don’t know, I just don’t want to leave here empty-handed.”

(Disciple 3) “I concur. But we ended up in the freaking Grasslands. The most dangerous place in the whole secret realm!”

(Disciple 2) “So what do we do?”

(Disciple 3) “Let’s cultivate. At least here the qi concentration is higher than normal and if someone else arrives we could attempt to hunt some demonic beasts.”

At this point, I decided to approach them and make my presence known.

They immediately stood up, swearing: “Fuck where does this demonic beast come from? And how is it able to go near the temple?”

“I don’t know, let's kill it!”

Before I could state my intentions they launched at me a barrage of elemental spells. But while they were quite coordinated, they fell short in comparison to the rabbits' strong attacks.

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I easily dodged and slapped the incoming spells. I was hoping that by not retaliating they would cease their foolish attempt and recognize that maybe I was not an enemy. After a while, though I had enough and, annoyed, I let out a qi-infused roar.

The roar disrupted the incoming spells, stunned the three disciples and one of them even fell on his butt.

(Disciple 1) ”It’s too strong!” He then crushed a token, disappearing from view.

(Disciple 2) “Fucking coward!”

(Disciple 3) “He’s not wrong though.” He also crushed his return token.

(Disciple 2) “I’m unwilling. I will try my luck with the temple.”

So he entered the temple. I tried following him but a formless energy stopped me from going forward.

‘Hmm, it seems that only one person can enter at a time.’

I looked at the disciple inside and I found him struggling to move forward while trying to dodge the incoming wind blades. After a minute he was hit by a few of those while he was crushing the return token. And so he disappeared, his life or death unknown.

After he teleported, the energy blocking me disappeared. I entered the temple and felt a wind blowing towards me. I stepped forward and some wind blades appeared, I let them crash uselessly on my skin.

‘It seems like that disciple couldn’t move properly because of the wind. Well, with my weight it feels more like a breeze.’

I continued walking forward with wind blades hitting me until I arrived at the stele. Only then did the blowing wind and blades stop.

I touched the stele.

I appeared in a black space with a voice telling me that this was the inheritance of the heavy as a mountain technique.

It was a technique created to increase one weight at will, once mastered one can triple one weight.

I was quite happy since, with it and my normal weight of 500 kg, I could smash apart anything in my path.

The only downside was that the speed was affected.

‘I wonder why they put a trap which, if you pass, gives you a technique perfectly suited to pass the said trap. Whatever.’

I started practicing and in half a day I was out.

I don’t have much time, the battle with the beasts can attend: time to go collect the other techniques. Gotta catch them all.