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"…How did I end up here?"

His chest fiercely ached while his head felt swollen Wang Liang couldn't understand how he had ended up here

His lasthi suddenly felt nervous, a hint of fear creeping into his heart In this vast ocean, no ship led up froround, only to be i away, a ainst the cliff, the ship was half underwater and notwas coround, which ht, but a cliff?!

Wang Liang couldn't even speak

The ship hadn't disappeared and he hadn't been abandoned This was absolutely worth being happy about, but the ship had still run aground

Fortunately, the ship had not sunk As long as they worked to repair the leaks in the hull, the ship could continue its journey

Putting aside his thoughts for now, Wang Liang began to arduously make his way onto the island His current priority was to find the other round here, the other crewonto the island, Wang Liang began to take the measure of this place he had drifted onto This was a solitary and deserted island Strange rocks, two or three people high, were standing across the island, a strange forest of stones

Perhaps it was an illusion, but when the sunlight shone over hi felt like the tips of these stones had a aze swept over a few of the nearby rocks, Wang Liang felt his entire body quiver in excitee rocks was not the brown stone he expected, but the sheen ofLiang had specifically researched such things for this venture, so he was incredibly familiar with the color and appearance of h hisLiang did not act lightly After all that honing, from hope to disappoint was already used to it

It was justChong spoke of On this voyage, he had encountered metallic ores, but they had been iron ore or copper ore of varying quality

This variety had broadened Wang Liang's horizons However, this place was so far fro journey that extracting these ores on a large scale was far too unprofitable

If the metallic ore before him was of that sort, then it orthless

"I hope, I hope that I've found that other kind of ore…"

Wang Liang put his hands together, his heart uneasy

He knew that he could not go on , but the fleet could no longer continue under these conditions

There had been no results or harvest, morale was low, and their stores of food and water were running out Even their sturdy junks had taken heavy dae

He was afraid that there were not many chances left

He took in a deep breath and cal finally pulled out the Wootz sword on his back

Wang Chong had gifted it to hie

The meteoric metal could not be differentiated fro was certainly no lance

But Wang Chong had taught him the simplest of methods

If the slash of a Wootz Steel sword could cut all the way or even several feet deep, then it was just ordinary and worthless ore

But if it could block the slash of the Wootz Steel sword, or if the Wootz Steel sword could only make a shallow cut, then this metal would unquestionably be thewhether a metal was meteoric metal

If this metal could block the slash of a Wootz Steel sword, then even if it was not meteoric metal, the quality of this lea Liang's apprehensive thoughts, the sword slashed at an exposed part of the strange and rugged rock

Though just an instant, this !

When he saw that the Wootz Steel sword in his hand had only sunk half an inch into the rock before being unable to cut any further, Wang Liang was dumbstruck

All the sound in the world seemed to fade away The entire world became silent, and time seemed to stop for asee see red as he frenziedly slashed his Wootz Steel sword at the rock

Half an inch, half an inch, half an inch, half an inch…

Fro's Wootz Steel sword had left cut after cut on every part of the rock But without exception, these cuts were only half an inch deep, and sometimes even less

The incredibly sturdy Wootz Steel that could cut through iron like mud could only cut half an inch into the surface of this strange rock

Scrape!

As if provoked, the red-eyed Wang Liang suddenly scraped away the lossy black, it was all glossy black…

Scraping away the brown stone surface of this strange rock, he discovered that it was all glossy blackthreay his sword, his eyes cohter at the sky

"Hahaha, success, I've succeeded!

"I've finally found the 's voice could be heard across the entire island He laughed so hard that he began to cry

After all the countless tribulations and challenges, after all the narrow escapes, he had finally found thehad spoken of

He had finally surpassed himself and accomplished the truly inconceivable!

At this moment, all the blood and tears were finally worth it!