Just then, starting from it, on the river surface a hundred meters above, the human martial artist who had just pressed its head into the water was smiling at it, taunting it with a beckoning finger.

"Hey, you! Come here!"

"Moo!"

The muscle fish-man instantly lost its mind.

But someone was even faster!

Before the muscle fish-man could break the surface of the water, over a dozen of its kin, fellow muscle fish-men, burst from the surging river around it.

Meddling busybodies! That human is my prey!

The thought flashed angrily through the muscle fish-man's mind.

But before that anger could last, it transformed in an instant into boundless terror!

The comrades who had just jumped out of the water didn't even last a second. The moment they left the river, they were simultaneously sliced in half by a flash of icy light that appeared out of nowhere in mid-air, turning into two lumps of ice sculptures that fell back into the river.

What was that attack?! What was that thing? Did he even make a move? Did he even make a move?!

His heart shook violently. The muscle fish-man, who had just been rushing forward, was so scared that its guts almost burst. On the spot, it turned its head and swam frantically into the depths of the cold river.

That guy! That guy isn't a human martial artist!

Cloud-level, definitely a Cloud-level martial artist!!

Once someone reaches the Cloud-level, they are no longer beings that groups of Disaster-level wights like them can deal with! Even if their entire tribe attacked together, they would just be delivering food!

"Did they run?"

On the reef, Fang Yue slowly dispersed the Inner Force Ice Sword.

It was an ice sword condensed from Inner Force, materialized in his right hand.

It was only for temporary use. Whether in terms of power or other aspects, it was far inferior to the Black Blade condensed by the Weird Ring.

But if it was just for temporary use, it was still quite convenient.

After all, Fang Yue was about to enter the capital city soon. It would be too conspicuous to walk around with a floating black disc behind his back every day.

As for the black ring above his head, that was the weird curse of the Wu Yu tribe, and he couldn't solve it, so he could only make do with letting it continue to exist.

"Empty Ice Sword Technique…"

Fang Yue savored the feeling of killing more than a dozen muscle fish-men with that sword just now, lost in thought.

Just now, he had simply used the Empty Ice Sword Technique, without resonating or harmonizing it with any other martial arts.

Judging from the feeling after using it, as a sword technique, the Empty Ice Sword Technique wasn't top-notch, just above average, just a decent sword technique.

But if it was integrated with other martial arts, the power of this sword technique would explode wildly, and it would be a completely different story.

Of course, dealing with these muscle fish-men was far from requiring that level of power.

Power floated up from the surrounding corpses falling into the water and merged into Fang Yue's body.

He closed his eyes…

A powerful aura soared into the sky, breaking through the clouds!

“System Notification: Congratulations to player [Ye Se Li Ming] for killing a Disaster-level High-rank Wight [Muscle Fish Wight]. Reward: Force Control +0, Force Deflection +0, Lifespan +6 months.”

“System Notification: Congratulations to player [Ye Se Li Ming] for killing a Disaster-level High-rank Wight [Muscle Fish Wight]…”

“System Notification: Congratulations to player [Ye Se Li Ming]. Force Control value has reached the upper limit of the realm and has been converted into [Realm Breakthrough Progress].”

“System Notification: Congratulations to player [Ye Se Li Ming] for successfully cultivating, increasing [Realm Breakthrough Progress]: 100%.”

“System Notification: Congratulations to player [Ye Se Li Ming]. [Realm Breakthrough Progress] has reached 100%. Break through the realm!”

“System Notification: Congratulations to player for breaking through the [Human-level Intermediate-rank] and advancing to the [Human-level High-rank]. Reward: Health Points +10000, Force Control +10000, Force Deflection +10000, Lifespan +80 years.”

“System Notification: Congratulations to player [Ye Se Li Ming]. [Realm Breakthrough Progress] has reached 100%. Having accumulated a wealth of experience, break through the realm. Reward: special attribute [Comprehension] +6.”

“System Notification: Congratulations to player [Ye Se Li Ming]. With [Maximum Attributes], having accumulated a wealth of experience, break through the realm. Reward: special attribute [Comprehension] +6.”

Human-level, High-rank!!

The power within his body surged wildly. Fang Yue felt his strength increasing crazily.

He opened his eyes and opened the attribute list.

“Name: Ye Se Li Ming.”

“Realm: Human-level High-rank.”

“Wight Realm: Disaster-level Middle-rank [0%].”

“Spirit Root: Wight Spirit Root.”

“Status: Wight Curse [Wu Yu], &

“Human-level Martial Arts: Analytical Eyes [Human-level Low-rank].”

“Innate Martial Arts: ….”

“Acquired Martial Arts: ….”

“Acquired Martial Arts: ….”

“Lifespan: 162 years and 2 months.”

Finally, a breakthrough!

The next step is the supreme Cloud-level, Rain-level, and even Immortal-level!

Fang Yue felt that the road ahead was under his feet, and he was moving forward step by step, firmly and powerfully!

Perhaps it was because Fang Yue's strength had advanced so much that his aura exploded too strongly.

The muscle fish-men wights that had been vaguely emerging from the bottom of the lake all遁entered the deep water, which made Fang Yue stunned.

"Strange, I'm only at Human-level High-rank. Logically speaking, Disaster-level High-rank wights should be stronger than ordinary Human-level High-rank martial artists. They also have the advantage in numbers, so why are they so afraid?"

Fang Yue frowned slightly, unable to figure it out.

But if he wanted to go deep into the cold river for the sake of the muscle fish-men wights, that was impossible.

Helpless, he could only return in disappointment.

However, when he asked Qing Chen and the others about this question, they all looked at Fang Yue with strange expressions.

"Brother Ye, are you really pretending not to know?"

"Brother Ye, isn't it too much to be so Versailles with your own brothers?"

"Brother Ye… you… alas… I already admit that I'm not as good as you, why do you have to make me look bad?"

"Xiao Ye, don't you really feel it? When you closed your eyes to break through just now, the aura that burst out in that instant almost broke through the clouds. That kind of formation is not something that a Human-level High-rank martial artist can have! I'm afraid that those wights, after seeing the aura of your breakthrough, all thought you were a Cloud-level expert, and were so scared that they didn't dare to provoke you again."

In the end, it was Lin Ling who revealed the reason.

So that's how it is?

Fang Yue scratched his head. He didn't feel anything, he just felt that his strength had improved further after this breakthrough.

But he didn't expect that just the external phenomenon of breaking through the realm would have scared away those wights of the same level.

"That's good, it will save me the effort."

That's what he said, but Fang Yue sat down at the bow of the boat.

When the others saw this, how could they not understand Fang Yue's thoughts? This guy was now wishing for the wights to come to his door so he could practice.