All of the sudden, a dark shadow twisted and appeared out of the river.

The water splashed everywhere, it was a dark brown strange looking fish. There were spikes near its gills and it had a sleek muscled body with dented skin.

It opened its huge mouth full of sharp teeth and jumped at Igris’s head.

Igris gave it a light smile, bowed a little, and hit the fish in its stomach.

"Ding!"

The weird fish’s skin was like steel, which surprised Igris. He knew his punch could turn a huge stone into dust, but, somehow, it could not break through this fish’s skin.

"Bang!"

The weird fish bounced back half meter from the punch, however, its long slim tail swung towards Igris, it was so fast that it stirred up a strong wind. Even Igris did not want to take it.

At this deadly moment, instead of backing out, Igris took out the saber, from his inventory, and swung it at the fish.

’’Whoosh!’’ The fish’s tail was cut off.

And the weird fish fell back into the river, it hurriedly swam towards the deep, afraid to attack Igris again.

Igris forced a smile, he knew it would not be this easy if he did not have the saber. He would probably still be struggling to break its defense.

The fish’s tail was a meter long, thick as the bowl, and should be enough to fill up Igris.

Igris quickly made a fire and started to barbecue the fish.

Fifteen minutes later, a great smell, which Igris had never smelt before, spread around Igris, making him salivate.

Grabbing the fish tail, Igris bit into it. The fish meat was so tender that he almost bit his tongue.

’Unbelievable! This fish meat is like both beef and chicken, it has this rich taste that I cannot describe with words, it is also extremely chewy. Wait! Why is my body starting to heat up?’

After he swallowed the fish meat, Igris felt a warmth moving around his body, all the way into his stomach and, from there, it spread all over his body and into his muscles, blood, and even bones. One wave after another, all he could feel was the warmth.

[Ding! 100x Multiplier System Activated on Consumable: Ancient Dimensional Fish] 𝕗𝕣𝐞𝐞𝘄𝐞𝚋𝚗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗹.𝚌𝕠𝚖

[Effect: Extreme Body Tempering.]

About fifteen minutes later, the heat finally wore off and Igris could feel an endless stream of energy coming out from inside of his body continuously.

[+3 Agility]

The energy invigorated him and he felt like he could kill an adult tiger with one punch.

’Did that fish meat just boost my body?’ Igris’s face was full of joy as he carried on munching on the fish tail, stuffing it all in without much chewing.

’’Whoosh!’’

His body started to heat up rapidly and black sticky gooey stuff was seen coming out of his pores on his skin, accompanied by a bad odor that almost caused Igris to black out from the smell.

"I can’t take it anymore, I really need to cleanse myself!" Igris could not stand it anymore and dived into the river full of strange fishes.

’’Splash!’’

When the water splashed onto his body, Igris felt his temperature go down. Igris felt extremely relaxed as he felt all his pores over his body open up and be refreshed.

However, while Igris was enjoying the moment, the residents of the river were not.

The strange fishes nearby heard the noise and was irritated by the filth streaming from Igris and attacked Igris in retaliation fiercely.

Igris sneered as he took out his great saber and swung out.

One, two, three...

Totally, there were nine fishes were cut in half without being able to fight back, all by that one attack of Igris’s.

One by one, Igris threw all of their bodies onto the land, saving them for later.

After a quick rinse, Igris came out from the river. As he shook off the dripping water, he felt his body had lightened and power increased. Besides that, Igris could feel the fish meat in his stomach had already been digested and felt intense hunger pains.

The largest fish of the nine was about one-meter-long. Igris picked up three of them, gutted them, then rinsed them out in the river. He then skewered them and started barbecuing again.

Soon, a delicious smell spread out in the cave.

’My power had already increased a lot, I wonder if I could reach level 2 of Immortal Diamond Body by eating all these fishes.’ Normally it should take Igris at least a 3 days to reach the second level, but now with the fish meat, he not only fed himself but also reached his goal, a perfect win-win scenario.

After eating the three fishes, more black gunk appeared on Igris’s skin, but there were far less and much clearer than the first time.

Suddenly, Igris felt a sharp pain from his stomach accompanied by a loud rumbling. Igris’s face soured as he ran to a hole and squatted as his innards unloaded itself.

It was like an exploding volcano; the place was contaminated with an unbearable odor. After finishing his business, Igris did not feel the expected weakness of such a violent expulsion, rather, he felt quite relieved. Those were the leftover black stuff that did not come out Igris’s skin.

While being naked, Igris sprinkled some vanilla powder around to mask the horrific odor, then he walked towards the river again.

Once again, he washed away the black gunk on his skin. His skin felt smooth like silk, tough like steel, and impervious to all blades. His body looked like it had been trained thousands of times, his muscles sleek, and shoulder wide and strong.

Igris calmly felt the changes as his body continued absorbing energy from nature using Arcane War Vein technique.

’It seemed that not only my body has been strengthened, but the speed of absorbing energy had also increased.

Comparing physical power just alone, Igris was already as powerful as a level 15 Player.