The river crossing competition officially began at the sound of a command.
Competitors from all directions plunged into the river at the first opportunity, starting their crossing of the Sunset River.
Only Wei Kang, participating in such a competition for the first time, stood frozen for a long while before belatedly jumping into the river.
Perhaps due to his poor swimming skills, he swallowed a large mouthful of water before surfacing and beginning to swim.
However, he had already fallen far behind the others.
At this rate, he would only finish last and wouldn't receive any rewards.
Seeing this, Wei Kang became anxious and quickly sped up, swimming towards the front in an attempt to close the distance.
Meanwhile, Xu Chuan, hidden on the water's surface behind Wei Kang, watched everything calmly, without intervening.
Only by letting things run their course could Wei Kang find the destiny that rightfully belonged to him.
If Xu Chuan were to interfere, given Wei Kang's peculiar fate, he might end up missing his opportunity!
After half an hour of this, the competition had passed its halfway point.
Without resorting to martial arts cultivation, everyone's stamina began to wane.
Wei Kang, at the very back of the group, was already gasping for breath, sweat mingling with river water, on the verge of exhaustion.
After all, he was young and lean, his physical condition naturally inferior to the others.
Furthermore, he had expended too much energy trying to catch up.
Just as he was about to collapse from exhaustion.
Suddenly.
Something dark approached him from beneath.
With a keen eye, Xu Chuan immediately recognized it as a beast resembling an octopus, its strength comparable to a Reincarnation realm cultivator.
At that moment, it extended a tentacle and slowly reached towards Wei Kang.
"Finally!" Xu Chuan muttered.
After such a long wait, the beast mentioned in the script information had finally appeared.
As expected, after finding its target, the beast, with lightning speed, dragged Wei Kang into the river.
Wei Kang struggled, but how could he, a mere cultivator of the second level of Body Tempering, escape from a beast of the Reincarnation realm?
He could only watch helplessly as he was pulled underwater.
His face filled with despair, tears welling in his eyes, his thoughts unknown.
On the shore, seeing this, some martial artists immediately dove into the water to rescue him.
But how could human speed match that of a beast in the water?
In the blink of an eye, the octopus-like beast had dragged Wei Kang and disappeared into the depths, vanishing without a trace.
The rescuers, wary of the direction the beast had disappeared, dared not venture further.
No one knew the depth of the Sunset River, only that many powerful beasts resided at its bottom.
Although the Great Wilderness Dynasty had dispatched people to kill some of them in the past, many still remained, occasionally causing trouble.
However, it was the first time they had emerged to drag someone away during the River Sacrifice Festival!
And a beast of such formidable strength, no one had anticipated this.
At this moment, Wei Kang had drowned and fallen into a coma.
He continued to sink.
One thousand meters.
Two thousand meters.
Five thousand meters.
As the depth increased, the surroundings became darker, devoid of any light.
It was eerily quiet, so quiet it was terrifying.
And just as Wei Kang was about to drown.
Suddenly.
Xu Chuan keenly sensed a drastic change in the fortune above Wei Kang's head.
It was growing at an abnormal rate.
Xu Chuan frowned, "This fate is truly strange."
He had never encountered such peculiar destiny.
When his fortune reached its lowest point, it rebounded.
In just a few minutes, Wei Kang's fortune had nearly surpassed his own!
Keep in mind, Xu Chuan had accumulated his current vast fortune by plundering the luck of several protagonists and chosen ones.
Yet now, in a matter of minutes, Wei Kang, having done nothing, had gained so much fortune!
"It's too abnormal, no wonder he has such an opportunity!"
Only when his fortune reached its peak did the situation immediately turn around.
From the distant darkness, a giant crab-like beast slowly emerged, its cultivation level comparable to that of the octopus-like beast.
Upon encountering each other, the two beasts engaged in a fierce battle, fighting each other.
Faced with the crab-like beast's pincers, the octopus-like beast could no longer attend to Wei Kang and simply flung him away.
Wei Kang continued to sink, and soon, unconsciously, he arrived at a place that shimmered with a faint light.
This single beam of light illuminated the entire riverbed, and the temperature here was much higher than elsewhere.
Undoubtedly, this was the place where the Great Sun had fallen, the place where the Sun-Shooting Divine Bow suppressed the origin of the sun.
"Finally found it!"
Xu Chuan, without hesitation, headed directly towards the point of light.
Then, with a wave of his hand, a sharp and powerful attack struck the point of light.
Following this, the light emanating from the point intensified, and then directly transformed into a portal.
Xu Chuan pushed open the portal, and an irresistible, terrifying suction immediately pulled both Xu Chuan and Wei Kang, who was nearby, into it. They then appeared in an unknown space.
"Cough cough! Hooo!"
Upon arriving in this space, Wei Kang, who had been unconscious, coughed violently and spat out the water he had swallowed, gasping for fresh air.
He then looked around in confusion, bewildered.
After a long while, he finally spoke, "I'm not dead?"
"Where is this place?"
Xu Chuan watched this scene with surprise and then revealed himself.
"You really have a tough life, to not have drowned from this!" Xu Chuan teased.
Wei Kang was merely a martial artist at the second level of Body Tempering, yet he had been underwater for so long without drowning.
Furthermore, this was thousands of meters deep; even if he hadn't drowned, he should have been crushed by the immense water pressure.
Yet, he was completely unharmed!
Xu Chuan attributed all of this to the power of fortune!
Only this could explain it.
"Young master, did you save me?" Wei Kang asked cautiously, paying no attention to Xu Chuan's teasing.
"That's right!"
Xu Chuan readily accepted the credit, as he didn't know anything else.
"Thank you, young master, for saving my life!"
Hearing Xu Chuan's words, Wei Kang immediately intended to kneel before him to express his gratitude.
"Stop, I can't accept that!"
Xu Chuan quickly pulled Wei Kang back, this was not something to be done.
At this moment, his fortune was even higher than Xu Chuan's. If Wei Kang were to kneel, who knew what kind of mishap might occur.
With the opportunity so close at hand, Xu Chuan didn't want any errors at this juncture.
Fortunately, Wei Kang's peak fortune did not last long.
Soon, it dissipated into thin air, returning to its low point.
This change made Xu Chuan marvel, "Truly, there are wonders everywhere in the world!"
"Why don't you let me thank you, benefactor?" Wei Kang asked Xu Chuan, confused.
"No need for thanks, you should focus on healing!"
As he spoke, Xu Chuan took out a low-grade healing pill from his storage ring and handed it to Wei Kang.
Although Wei Kang had narrowly escaped death, he had still sustained considerable injuries from being dragged so far by a Reincarnation realm beast.
If not treated promptly, he might not escape death.