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The Ape King fully opened up his divine soul. Ye Yuan formed a seal with both hands, and a wisp of soul strength reached into the divine soul of the Ape King.
Regardless whether it was demonic beasts or human martial artists, the divine soul was the most mysterious and also the most fragile place.
The Ape King only felt his divine soul quiver and his entire being feeling like he was dead tired.
The Ape King knew that he and Ye Yuan already set up a soul contract. He shall serve Ye Yuan as his master for ten years.
Currently, the Ape King no longer had his former pride. He said respectfully, "Yuan Fei pays respect to Master."
Ye Yuan nodded and said, "So, you’re called Yuan Fei? En, since you acknowledged me as your master, there are some things I wanted to make clear to you."
"Pray tell, master."
"You have your pride as the Ape King, and I also won’t control your words and actions as I please. Hence, under most circumstances, you’re free. If you sincerely acknowledge me as your master, I can even choose not to use soul strength. That way, you’re virtually completely free. However, if I find out that you feign compliance while acting in opposition even just once, I’ll use the soul contract without hesitation. Understood?"
"Yuan Fei understands! Don’t worry, Master. Since this Yuan Fei chose to follow Master, I naturally won’t have other thoughts," Yuan Fei said deferentially.
Methods like soul contracts were actually quite gentle. It primarily looked at the contents of the contract entered by the two parties. Because Yuan Fei and Ye Yuan’s soul contract was not on equal footing, Yuan Fei must serve Ye Yuan as master.
Even so, apart from restrictions on the contract and having to do things for Ye Yuan, there was pretty much no difference from normal times.
It was possible to forcefully plant a slave seal to control others. The party being enslaved could not hide any thoughts from the master. That was a true slave and not some master-servant relationship.
There were some even more impressive techniques which could directly obliterate the consciousness of the person being controlled to make him completely submit to his master. As long as the master did not take the initiative to come into contact with the spell, the person being controlled would forever be a walking corpse.
It was precisely because a method like a soul contract was very gentle that Yuan Fei agreed to Ye Yuan.
Otherwise, he would not agree with Ye Yuan and just kill him instead.
One had to acknowledge that Ye Yuan’s words dispelled Yuan Fei’s last bit of apprehension.
Ye Yuan’s meaning was that they were equals. But when Ye Yuan required something, he had to help Ye Yuan unconditionally.
Rather than saying master-servant relationship, they might as well say full-time bodyguard.
Furthermore, Yuan Fei and Ye Yuan had already entered a soul contract. There was also an indistinct hint of telepathy between them.
Yuan Fei could sense that Ye Yuan truly turned his nose up a little at him, this servant.
This sort of turning his nose up was not looking down in disdain, but . . . a sort of indescribable feeling.
Anyway, this master was very mysterious!
"En, don’t need to call Master either, just call me Young Master," Ye Yuan instructed.
"Yes, Young Master."
From the beginning since just now, Feng Zhirou’s mouth had always been wide open. She was already so amazed that she grinned from ear to ear.
A Tier 3 demonic beast was subdued just like that with a few sentences from Ye Yuan?
This was a Tier 3 demonic beast and not some Tom, Dick, and Harry!
In this thousand mile radius of the Endless Forest, a Tier 3 demonic beast was absolutely a kinglike existence! He actually became Ye Yuan’s servant just like that?
She still suspected that Ye Yuan was bragging a little just now, but only when she saw the Ape King’s attitude now, did Feng Zhirou become aware of her ignorance.
"You . . . You really subdued him?" Feng Zhirou was still a little hesitant to believe and wished to confirm it from Ye Yuan.
Ye Yuan smiled and said, "Look at his appearance. Is there still anything else to doubt? En, en, with Yuan Fei tagging along, time to beat up Su Yubai first after heading back. Heh heh."
Feng Zhirou was thoroughly defeated by Ye Yuan. At the start, he still had a certain air, but he revealed his true colors in his last sentence.
This fellow was simply a troublemaker!
"But, he’s the Ape King! How did you subdue him?" Feng Zhirou could not resist asking again.
"Everybody has a weakness. As long as you grasp their weak point, they can naturally be used by you. To the Ape King, what do you think he desires the most?" Ye Yuan smiled and countered with a question.
Feng Zhirou thought about it after hearing the question. After some time, she answered uncertainly, "Breakthrough to Tier 4? Well, I don’t think there’s anything with a greater allure than this."
"Smart! Yuan Fei is just like you. If you can’t break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, then it would be even more excruciating than killing you. You should be able to understand this sort of feeling," Ye Yuan smiled and said.
"En. En? You actually dare to compare me to a demonic beast?!"
Feng Zhirou nodded her head first but quickly realized that something was wrong and promptly burst into anger.
"Haha! I didn’t have that intention. Why are you always so sensitive? Don’t hit me! I have a Tier 3 bodyguard now! You can’t beat me!"
"Humph! Even if you have a Tier 4 bodyguard, so what? I’ll beat you anyway!"
Feng Zhirou simply did not care. She did not believe that Ye Yuan would really dare to make the Ape King come and beat her.
"Ouch, I was wrong, my grandaunt!"
"That’s much better!"
. . . . . .
After a bout of play fighting, a problem remained in front of Ye Yuan.
How should he handle the mountain full of Long-arm Stone Apes?
Once Yuan Fei left with him, this mountain full of Long-arm Stone Apes would lose their support.
In the Endless Forest, Yuan Fei was not the only Tier 3 demonic beast. If he were to leave, these Long-arm Stone Apes would be without a head. Sooner or later, they would be annexed by other forces.
The demonic beast world was at times crueler than the human world. It was impossible for other species to tolerate the Long-arm Stone Apes to continue occupying the mountain and calling themselves king. The final outcome would be complete annihilation.
"Yuan Fei, what about your fellow clansmen? If you leave, they’ll probably be swallowed up by other powerful races," Ye Yuan enquired.
Not that Ye Yuan was unwilling to bring them away, but because there were simply too many Long-arm Stone Apes!
If he brought them all away, how would he settle them down?
These Long-arm Stone Apes, when brought outside, could virtually destroy a mortal country. There was no place safe to put such a colossal force.
If somebody with some bad intentions found them, these Long-arm Stone Apes could be in even greater danger than at the Endless Forest!
No matter how powerful Yuan Fei was, he was just a single person. Furthermore, the experts from some of the great sects were even stronger than Yuan Fei!
When Yuan Fei saw that Ye Yuan took the initiative to mention his clansmen, he felt incredibly touched.
If it were some other person, having acquired such a powerful helper, who would bother about the life and death of Yuan Fei’s clansmen?
"Don’t worry, Young Master. I have an extremely powerful spatial spirit artifact on me. It’s ample to store my clansmen and me.
As he said, Yuan Fei flipped over his palm. A small-scale mini palace floated about his palm.
Ye Yuan’s eyes lit up, and he said with a smile, "To think it’s actually 128 restrictions spatial spirit artifact! This toy is probably extremely rare in the Endless World. Looks like you, Yuan Fei, are really fortuitous! No wonder only you among so many clansmen could awaken inherited memories and breakthrough to Tier 3."
Yuan Fei smiled. "If Young Master can help me breakthrough to Tier 4, you would be Yuan Fei’s greatest fortuitous encounter!"
Ye Yuan chortled and said, "Relax. I won’t let you down."
The Ape King fully opened up his divine soul. Ye Yuan formed a seal with both hands, and a wisp of soul strength reached into the divine soul of the Ape King.
Regardless whether it was demonic beasts or human martial artists, the divine soul was the most mysterious and also the most fragile place.
The Ape King only felt his divine soul quiver and his entire being feeling like he was dead tired.
The Ape King knew that he and Ye Yuan already set up a soul contract. He shall serve Ye Yuan as his master for ten years.
Currently, the Ape King no longer had his former pride. He said respectfully, "Yuan Fei pays respect to Master."
Ye Yuan nodded and said, "So, you’re called Yuan Fei? En, since you acknowledged me as your master, there are some things I wanted to make clear to you."
"Pray tell, master."
"You have your pride as the Ape King, and I also won’t control your words and actions as I please. Hence, under most circumstances, you’re free. If you sincerely acknowledge me as your master, I can even choose not to use soul strength. That way, you’re virtually completely free. However, if I find out that you feign compliance while acting in opposition even just once, I’ll use the soul contract without hesitation. Understood?"
"Yuan Fei understands! Don’t worry, Master. Since this Yuan Fei chose to follow Master, I naturally won’t have other thoughts," Yuan Fei said deferentially.
Methods like soul contracts were actually quite gentle. It primarily looked at the contents of the contract entered by the two parties. Because Yuan Fei and Ye Yuan’s soul contract was not on equal footing, Yuan Fei must serve Ye Yuan as master.
Even so, apart from restrictions on the contract and having to do things for Ye Yuan, there was pretty much no difference from normal times.
It was possible to forcefully plant a slave seal to control others. The party being enslaved could not hide any thoughts from the master. That was a true slave and not some master-servant relationship.
There were some even more impressive techniques which could directly obliterate the consciousness of the person being controlled to make him completely submit to his master. As long as the master did not take the initiative to come into contact with the spell, the person being controlled would forever be a walking corpse.
It was precisely because a method like a soul contract was very gentle that Yuan Fei agreed to Ye Yuan.
Otherwise, he would not agree with Ye Yuan and just kill him instead.
One had to acknowledge that Ye Yuan’s words dispelled Yuan Fei’s last bit of apprehension.
Ye Yuan’s meaning was that they were equals. But when Ye Yuan required something, he had to help Ye Yuan unconditionally.
Rather than saying master-servant relationship, they might as well say full-time bodyguard.
Furthermore, Yuan Fei and Ye Yuan had already entered a soul contract. There was also an indistinct hint of telepathy between them.
Yuan Fei could sense that Ye Yuan truly turned his nose up a little at him, this servant.
This sort of turning his nose up was not looking down in disdain, but . . . a sort of indescribable feeling.
Anyway, this master was very mysterious!
"En, don’t need to call Master either, just call me Young Master," Ye Yuan instructed.
"Yes, Young Master."
From the beginning since just now, Feng Zhirou’s mouth had always been wide open. She was already so amazed that she grinned from ear to ear.
A Tier 3 demonic beast was subdued just like that with a few sentences from Ye Yuan?
This was a Tier 3 demonic beast and not some Tom, Dick, and Harry!
In this thousand mile radius of the Endless Forest, a Tier 3 demonic beast was absolutely a kinglike existence! He actually became Ye Yuan’s servant just like that?
She still suspected that Ye Yuan was bragging a little just now, but only when she saw the Ape King’s attitude now, did Feng Zhirou become aware of her ignorance.
"You . . . You really subdued him?" Feng Zhirou was still a little hesitant to believe and wished to confirm it from Ye Yuan.
Ye Yuan smiled and said, "Look at his appearance. Is there still anything else to doubt? En, en, with Yuan Fei tagging along, time to beat up Su Yubai first after heading back. Heh heh."
Feng Zhirou was thoroughly defeated by Ye Yuan. At the start, he still had a certain air, but he revealed his true colors in his last sentence.
This fellow was simply a troublemaker!
"But, he’s the Ape King! How did you subdue him?" Feng Zhirou could not resist asking again.
"Everybody has a weakness. As long as you grasp their weak point, they can naturally be used by you. To the Ape King, what do you think he desires the most?" Ye Yuan smiled and countered with a question.
Feng Zhirou thought about it after hearing the question. After some time, she answered uncertainly, "Breakthrough to Tier 4? Well, I don’t think there’s anything with a greater allure than this."
"Smart! Yuan Fei is just like you. If you can’t break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, then it would be even more excruciating than killing you. You should be able to understand this sort of feeling," Ye Yuan smiled and said.
"En. En? You actually dare to compare me to a demonic beast?!"
Feng Zhirou nodded her head first but quickly realized that something was wrong and promptly burst into anger.
"Haha! I didn’t have that intention. Why are you always so sensitive? Don’t hit me! I have a Tier 3 bodyguard now! You can’t beat me!"
"Humph! Even if you have a Tier 4 bodyguard, so what? I’ll beat you anyway!"
Feng Zhirou simply did not care. She did not believe that Ye Yuan would really dare to make the Ape King come and beat her.
"Ouch, I was wrong, my grandaunt!"
"That’s much better!"
. . . . . .
After a bout of play fighting, a problem remained in front of Ye Yuan.
How should he handle the mountain full of Long-arm Stone Apes?
Once Yuan Fei left with him, this mountain full of Long-arm Stone Apes would lose their support.
In the Endless Forest, Yuan Fei was not the only Tier 3 demonic beast. If he were to leave, these Long-arm Stone Apes would be without a head. Sooner or later, they would be annexed by other forces.
The demonic beast world was at times crueler than the human world. It was impossible for other species to tolerate the Long-arm Stone Apes to continue occupying the mountain and calling themselves king. The final outcome would be complete annihilation.
"Yuan Fei, what about your fellow clansmen? If you leave, they’ll probably be swallowed up by other powerful races," Ye Yuan enquired.
Not that Ye Yuan was unwilling to bring them away, but because there were simply too many Long-arm Stone Apes!
If he brought them all away, how would he settle them down?
These Long-arm Stone Apes, when brought outside, could virtually destroy a mortal country. There was no place safe to put such a colossal force.
If somebody with some bad intentions found them, these Long-arm Stone Apes could be in even greater danger than at the Endless Forest!
No matter how powerful Yuan Fei was, he was just a single person. Furthermore, the experts from some of the great sects were even stronger than Yuan Fei!
When Yuan Fei saw that Ye Yuan took the initiative to mention his clansmen, he felt incredibly touched.
If it were some other person, having acquired such a powerful helper, who would bother about the life and death of Yuan Fei’s clansmen?
"Don’t worry, Young Master. I have an extremely powerful spatial spirit artifact on me. It’s ample to store my clansmen and me.
As he said, Yuan Fei flipped over his palm. A small-scale mini palace floated about his palm.
Ye Yuan’s eyes lit up, and he said with a smile, "To think it’s actually 128 restrictions spatial spirit artifact! This toy is probably extremely rare in the Endless World. Looks like you, Yuan Fei, are really fortuitous! No wonder only you among so many clansmen could awaken inherited memories and breakthrough to Tier 3."
Yuan Fei smiled. "If Young Master can help me breakthrough to Tier 4, you would be Yuan Fei’s greatest fortuitous encounter!"
Ye Yuan chortled and said, "Relax. I won’t let you down."
A 128 restrictions spirit artifact was practically the utmost limit of a spirit artifact.
If more restrictions were added, the spirit artifact would find it very hard to withstand the oppression of the restrictions. The final outcome would be the destruction of the spirit artifact.
Furthermore, spatial spirit artifacts were extremely scarce. A 128 restrictions spatial spirit artifact was even more valuable then.
If this spirit artifact were known to the outside world, it would surely set off a wave of bloodshed!
Ye Yuan did not expect that Yuan Fei actually possessed such a spirit artifact.
"Where did your spirit artifact come from, Yuan Fei?" Ye Yuan asked curiously.
"Back then when I was at peak Tier 2, although I awakened inherited memories, I remained unable to find the juncture for a breakthrough. Hence, I hardened my heart and entered the depths of the Endless Forest alone to seek out the opportunity for a breakthrough. Who knew that I would randomly barge into a human grotto. This spirit artifact was obtained from inside that grotto," Yuan Fei did not hide it and explained to Ye Yuan.
Ye Yuan was surprised. "A human grotto? Isn’t the Endless Forest under the rule of demonic beasts? Why would there be a human grotto?"
Yuan Fei shook his head and said, "That I don’t know. But I acquired this spirit artifact from the outermost area of that grotto. The inhibitions inside are overly powerful. I simply dared not go in too deep. Back then, I obtained several Demon Spirit Pills and this spatial spirit artifact inside the grotto, and then quietly retreated. I only broke through to Tier 3 after swallowing the Demon Spirit Pills."
"Oh? There’s actually such things like Demon Spirit Pills inside that human martial artist’s grotto? Looks like you, Yuan Fei, really have a tremendous fortune. Your future accomplishments definitely won’t be low!" Ye Yuan said admirably.
From Yuan Fei’s recount of the situation, his luck was simply freaking amazing!
Yuan Fei was only at peak Tier 2 back then. Entering deep into the Endless Forest was simply no different from courting death. But not only did he not die, he even bafflingly obtained the opportunity to breakthrough and successfully broke through to Tier 3.
And now, Yuan Fei encountered Ye Yuan. This could no longer be described as good luck!
Accompanying by Ye Yuan’s side, as long as Yuan Fei did not die, his future accomplishments would be immeasurable!
Just like Yuan Fei said himself, meeting Ye Yuan was his greatest fortune!
"Thank you, Young Master!" Yuan Fei exclaimed respectfully.
Ye Yuan nodded and said, "Looks like this human grotto should be the temporary dwelling of some extremely powerful existence. This Endless Forest is really such an interesting place!"
Yuan Fei’s words filled Ye Yuan with a deep curiosity about that grotto. After he became stronger, he must absolutely pay a visit to that grotto.
"Alright, there’s no time to lose. Yuan Fei, quickly pack up and put your clansmen inside the spatial spirit artifact. Then follow me. You and your clansmen just stay inside the spatial spirit artifact normally to cultivate. When I need you, I’ll naturally call for you," Ye Yuan instructed.
"Yes, Young Master!" Yuan Fei acknowledged and started to carry out the great migration feat.
This Crimson Summit Ridge was also a rich treasure land. Apart from the Crimson Soul Grass, there were quite a few other precious medicinal herbs.
As for those things, Ye Yuan naturally would not waste them. He made the apes pack them all up and deliver it inside the spatial spirit artifact.
Of course, to the present Ye Yuan, the most precious was still the Crimson Soul Grass.
Ye Yuan got three to four stalks of it from Yuan Fei and made him keep the rest away inside the spatial spirit artifact.
Once everything was settled, Yuan Fei and his clansmen all entered the spatial spirit artifact. Then, the spatial spirit artifact shrunk to become a small bead the size of a soybean and was carried on Ye Yuan’s body.
. . . . . .
Ye Yuan and Feng Zhirou continued down the ridge. The Crimson Summit Ridge originally bustling with noise and excitement was abnormally still now.
But this sort of situation would not last long. What the Endless Forest lacked the least were demonic beasts. This place would soon be occupied by other demonic beasts.
There would naturally be a bout of fighting and killing over this, but that had nothing to do with Ye Yuan.
It could be said that he returned fully loaded from this trip to the Crimson Summit Ridge. Not only did he obtain the Crimson Soul Grass, he even subdued a Tier 3 demonic beast.
Feng Zhirou felt that she was still dreaming even now. This entire day and night’s experience was overly bizarre.
"Am I still dreaming, Ye Yuan? Did we really subdue a Tier 3 demonic beast?"
"You can pinch yourself. If it hurts, that means you aren’t dreaming. Ouch! I asked you to pinch yourself! What did you pinch me for?"
"You’re actually in so much pain. Looks like this really isn’t a dream! But I still feel like this isn’t real. Ye Yuan, if you let out the Ape King and his clan, wouldn’t they be able to directly obliterate the State of Qin?"
Ye Yuan said helplessly, "Don’t be silly! Yuan Fei can’t be exposed. He can only be used during crucial moments. Just think about it, if a Tier 3 demonic beast appeared in the human territories, what would be the outcome? Furthermore, Yuan Fei and the rest are hiding inside the spatial spirit artifact. If the spatial spirit artifact is exposed, forget about me, even the State of Qin will face annihilation! So we must keep our mouths tightly shut after we return, understood?"
Feng Zhirou had a casual personality. She just felt that having a Tier 3 demonic beasts subordinate was very glorious. She honestly did not think that the consequence would be so severe.
"No way? I was still thinking about bringing Yuan Fei out to show off just now. They actually can’t even show their faces?" Feng Zhirou felt dejected.
Ye Yuan put on a solemn face when he saw that and said, "Senior Apprentice Sister, you must treat this matter as if it didn’t happen when we return. Or else, the consequences are not something that you and I can bear!"
"Fine, fine! I understood already! I won’t even tell Aunty. Just relax!"
Feng Zhirou just had a more roguish personality, but she was no fool. Ye Yuan already spoke to such an extent, she obviously knew propriety.
Especially that spatial spirit artifact. That was virtually a ticking time-bomb!
The duo chatted as they walked and quickly descended the mountain.
The Crimson Soul Grass was already obtained, so the next step was the Pine Yang Fruit.
The place the Pine Yang Fruit grew at was called Gray Pine Forest. It was not really an extremely dangerous place, just the territory of a Tier 2 demonic beast.
Now that they had Yuan Fei, plucking the Pine Yang Fruit was effortless.
Walking, the pair reached a dense forest.
Killing intent appeared in a flash without any warning signs!
An arrow passed through layers of trees and shot toward Ye Yuan’s heart at extreme speed!
The distance of this arrow was neither too far nor too near. It made Ye Yuan unable to detect it in advance and also did not give him the slightest bit of time to react!
However, Ye Yuan managed to react to it. His sensitivity towards qi activities was incomparable with regular Essence Qi Realms.
Spirit Void Shattering Space was executed right away as he leaped to the side, barely evading this arrow!
Just as Ye Yuan was planning on summoning Yuan Fei out, warning bells appeared again!
A figure charged out from the grass straight for the direction he dove towards!
That was to say, this evasion by Ye Yuan positioned him perfectly for the next wave of assassination!
A saber beam flashed past, and a powerful aura came from straight ahead. That was a full powered attack from a Fifth Level Spirit Condensation Realm!
Right at that moment, Ye Yuan also unleashed a palm!
Except that this palm of his was not aimed for the assassin, but towards the ground.
Stacking Waves Layered Palm, Eighth Layer Wave!
Rumble!
Dirt flew everywhere, and then Ye Yuan’s figure could be seen forcefully changing its direction, and he had a close shave with that saber!
Chi! This saber still managed to graze lightly Ye Yuan’s arm.
However, it was not over yet!
A third attack headed for Ye Yuan once more!
This was a chain assassination precise to the limits!
The other party calculated all of Ye Yuan’s reactions!
Ye Yuan was in deadly danger!The assassination this time was inter-connected, making a chain attack. It virtually took into account Ye Yuan’s every reaction!
Just now, Ye Yuan borrowed the recoil from the Eighth Layer Wave to barely avoid the second attack.
But now, Ye Yuan was in midair. The third attack connected seamlessly without giving Ye Yuan any opportunity to catch his breath.
The grasp on timing was precise, and coordination was marvelous. It was virtually flawless!
More importantly, the strengths of these three people were extremely strong. All of them at the Fifth Level Spirit Condensation Realm and above.
For three Fifth Level Spirit Condensation Realm and above martial artists to lay down such an ingenious killing trap, it was simply an unavoidable certain death scenario!
"Ahh! Ye Yuan!" Feng Zhirou also reacted in a flash and was about to go over and help Ye Yuan.
But right then, another figure flashed out and shot directly at Feng Zhirou.
"Your opponent is me!" An azure figure attacked Feng Zhirou with unimaginable speed.
"It’s you, Su Yishan!" Feng Zhirou angrily exclaimed in shock.
The two people instantly exchanged a blow. They were actually on par.
"Heh heh, if not, who do you think it is? Nanfeng Zhirou, this young master has chased after you for so much, but you refused to give any face. Today, I’m going to let you taste this young master’s prowess!" Su Yishan smiled nastily.
As the Su Family’s young patriarch, Su Yishan was naturally aware of Nanfeng Zhirou’s true identity.
The Su Family’s relationship with the Imperial Family had always been very delicate. Su Yishan had also pursued Nanfeng Zhirou for a very long time in the academy, but Nanfeng Zhirou always spoke bluntly to him.
Su Yishan had been pursuing Nanfeng Zhirou. On the one hand, it was in consideration for the Su Family’s interests. On the other hand, it was obviously because of Nanfeng Zhirou’s beauty.
Not only was Nanfeng Zhirou’s looks outstanding, but she was also a famous ice beauty. How could Su Yishan not be moved?
Nanfeng Zhirou involuntarily flew into a great rage upon seeing Su Yishan tease her with words. "Such gall, Su Yishan! I’ll definitely return and report to Imperial Father about this incident and make him administer punishment onto your Su Family!"
Su Yishan sneered coldly and said, "Then, you have to be able to go back first! Hehe, the dazzlingly gorgeous Senior Apprentice Sister and the super genius both fell in the Endless Forest. Truly lamentable!"
"With the likes of you?" Nanfeng Zhirou said with similarly a cold sneer.
. . . . . .
Over here, Su Yishan intercepted Nanfeng Zhirou. On the other side, Ye Yuan already arrived at the critical juncture of life and death!
Ye Yuan could naturally call out Yuan Fei at this time, but after he summoned him, he would already be a dead man.
The Chang trio brothers were clearly unaware that Ye Yuan had subdued Yuan Fei, but their chain assassination this time coincidentally sealed shut the possibility of Ye Yuan summoning Yuan Fei!
Chang One was born cautious. His investigation concerning Ye Yuan was also quite thorough.
Regardless of how much of a wastrel Ye Yuan was in the past, he was now currently an opponent that barred absolutely no negligence!
If they looked down on Ye Yuan just because he was at the Essence Qi Realm, they would definitely suffer a huge loss.
In reality, Ye Yuan’s performance affirmed Chang One’s thoughts.
If it were some other Essence Qi Realm martial artist, that deadly arrow from Chang Three would have already pierced through his heart. But not only did Ye Yuan evade Chang Three’s arrow under the situation where it was impossible to change his body’s inertia, he forcefully altered directions in midair!
This could no longer be described as being tough!
Two Fifth Level Spirit Condensation Realm’s immaculate assassination was actually dodged ingeniously by a Ninth Level Essence Qi Realm!
But that was alright because Chang One himself was the person in charge of the final strike!
Chang One, a Sixth Level Spirit Condensation Realm expert!
Since the beginning when Ye Yuan entered the area they were lying in wait, Chang One was already accumulating his energy and waiting to release it, all for this final lethal blow.
This strike was a Sixth Level Spirit Condensation Realm martial artist’s most powerful strike!
Due to the addition of that Eighth Layer Wave from Ye Yuan earlier, his current airborne speed was even faster than before!
And Chang One’s speed was greater than Chang Two’s. That was to say that Ye Yuan’s and Chang One’s speed which was greater than Chang Two’s were coming together!
Chang One also used a sword. It seemed as if he already saw the result of Ye Yuan being gored through and breathing his last.
"Ah! Careful, Ye Yuan!"
Nanfeng Zhirou was entangled by Su Yishan and could not free herself. But she saw the scene of Ye Yuan about to be killed.
"Better take care of yourself first, Princess Nanfeng!"
Seeing Nanfeng Zhirou’s reaction, Su Yishan also felt a wave of delight. That hateful Ye Yuan was finally about to die!
Boom!
Nanfeng Zhirou was sent flying and spat out blood on the spot.
But at the same time, the script did not play out according to Chang One’s plan.
The tip of Chang One’s sword was about to stab Ye Yuan when the scene before his eyes suddenly blurred. Nine Ye Yuans actually appeared at the same time in front of him!
Afterimages?
Ye Yuan was currently airborne, how could he possibly create afterimages?
And these nine Ye Yuans were incomparably realistic. Just which one was the real body?
Chang One’s divine sense swept across these nine figures instantaneously, but to his shock, he discovered that these nine silhouettes were actually all real bodies!
What sort of situation was this? Seeing ghosts?
However, Chang One was currently like an arrow fitted to a string, being at the point of no return. He could not tolerate any hint of hesitation.
"Humph, paltry tricks! It’s just camouflage!"
Chang One chose the centermost Ye Yuan without hesitation. That was also his initial target.
Creating afterimages under this sort of situation, it was ten to one a camouflage. The aim was to confound Chang One’s senses.
And the true body had never changed from the very beginning!
Swoosh!
Chang One’s body passed through the afterimage just like that.
There was no unsmooth feeling of penetrating a body. He passed through the air!
Chang One’s heart involuntarily sunk.
To deal with a Ninth Level Essence Qi Realm, the three brothers employed all of their skills to its limits and meticulously laid out this certain death situation. The result was just making Ye Yuan suffer some light injuries?
When setting up the scenario, Chang One had absolute confidence that let alone a Ninth Level Essence Qi Realm, even a Seventh Level Spirit Condensation Realm would suffer major losses when caught unprepared.
Towards Ye Yuan, Chang One had already placed great emphasis until he could not think any higher of him. But the outcome still exceeded his expectations.
All the way up to now, Chang One could not figure out just how Ye Yuan created eight afterimages while in an airborne state.
Also, just which one was his real body?
Bang!
The Ye Yuan behind Chang One fell heavily onto the ground. Chang One also landed softly, appearing to be very relaxed without Ye Yuan’s shabby appearance.
Ye Yuan stood up and dusted off the grass bits on his body and said calmly, "I really have to thank the three of you. Without you guys, I’m afraid that my Nine Swords Stance wouldn’t be completed so quickly!"
On the boundary of imminent danger, Ye Yuan remained calm and immediately entered Heart Like Still Water state.
Under that sort of situation just now, the more he panicked, the more certain he would die.
Ye Yuan understood that to shake off this strike, he could only utilize the Nine Swords Stance’s movement technique!
But his Nine Swords Stance was incomplete. There must be a foothold to execute the movement technique, but he was currently suspended in midair.
In the moment of crisis, relying on Heart Like Still Water state, Ye Yuan stimulated his potential to the greatest extent and finally completed the Nine Swords Stance!Meanwhile, the Chang Brothers gathered together. The complexions of the trio did not look too good.
Hearing the meaning of Ye Yuan’s words, their painstakingly designed killing scenario actually helped Ye Yuan to have a breakthrough!
That movement technique just now was very profound. Even Chang One, the Sixth Level Spirit Condensation Realm, was actually unable to differentiate which was the true body.
"Ye Yuan, you aren’t naïve enough to think that you can retreat safely after evading our ambush, right? Although that move just now was incomparably profound, your cultivation realm is still too low," Chang One said in a low voice.
Chang One designed this death trap as a precautionary resolute measure to resolve a complicated problem. All done to prevent unnecessary complications.
Even if they did not ambush, with his cultivation realm, killing Ye Yuan was as easy as taking something out of his pockets. Not to mention there were even Chang Two and Chang Three by his sides.
"Hur hur, you guys are thinking too much. Why do I have to retreat? If I didn’t have a breakthrough at the last moment just now, I would already have been killed by you all. How can I let you off so easily?"
Though Ye Yuan said these words while smiling, those familiar with him knew that Ye Yuan was truly enraged!
It was just that Ye Yuan’s threat sounded rather comical. A Ninth Level Essence Qi Realm rookie actually threatening three Fifth Level Spirit Condensation Realm and above experts. No matter how they looked at it, it just seemed like stubbornness.
When Ye Yuan finished talking, the Chang Trio Brothers involuntarily exchanged glances. They were wondering if Ye Yuan had a problem with his brain.
With their understanding of Ye Yuan, while Ye Yuan might be very unbridled, he never did something he had no confidence in.
However, the current circumstances did not seem to allow him to be overbearing.
Ye Yuan could not naively think that he was a match for the three of them, right?
"Ye Yuan, I think that you haven’t made clear of the situation, right?" Chang One asked rather bafflingly.
"Of course I understand the situation. The three of you are the Su Family’s lackeys, right? Received that old dog Su Yubai’s order to come and kill me, yes? No?" Ye Yuan scoffed coldly.
Chang One had clearly heard of the power of Ye Yuan’s eloquence, so he did not plan on bickering with him. He nodded and said, "You’re mistaken. Elder Su did not order us to come. We’re under the family head’s command to come and kill you."
Ye Yuan was taken quite by surprise. "Family Head? Su Yishan’s old man? Well, same thing! Looks like I really have to give a good one to the Su Family when I return. Otherwise, they will really think that this little lord is nice to provoke!"
Chang One felt rather confused. Although he went through an in-depth investigation on Ye Yuan before this task, this was his first time meeting Ye Yuan after all.
Only now did he discover that Ye Yuan’s personality was entirely different from what he understood.
In his impression, Ye Yuan was calm and steady, seemed like he was reckless, but entrenched himself at every step.
But now, Ye Yuan was clearly an incomprehensible good-for-nothing from a wealthy family. He completely could not make clear of the situation!
If not for Ye Yuan’s performance being overly stunning just now, Chang One might even think that Ye Yuan was a moron.
Just as Chang One was dazed, Ye Yuan pointed at his nose and scolded, "Hey, do the three of you still have a sense of shame? A Sixth Level Spirit Condensation Realm, two Fifth Level Spirit Condensation Realm, came to kill me and yet dare not do it openly. Instead, you guys used this sort of underhanded sneak attack tactics! Indeed, the type of master one has will have the same kind of lackeys! Su Yubai that old dog is also so sinister and enjoys sneak attacking others! You are all indeed cut from the same cloth!"
Chang One was scolded by Ye Yuan until he was stupefied. He unwittingly started to doubt his own judgment.
Could it be that Ye Yuan this fellow was really just a hothead? A 100% good-for-nothing silkpants?
Of course, Ye Yuan’s talent was beyond all doubts. He was definitely a peerless genius. Even the young patriarch, Su Yishan, would have to admit defeat.
Other than this, was Ye Yuan really a rash fellow?
Was his actions back in the Dan Wu Academy just a random coincidence?
Ye Yuan finished scolding the Chang Brothers and turned his head toward Su Yishan. He started to cursed, "Su Yishan, you tortoise’s grandson! You only know how to bully women! If you have the capabilities, then come and one on one with this Little Lord! Spineless fellow! Want to kill me but dare not make a move in the academy. You even run all the way to the Endless Forest to do this. In the future when the Su Family lands in your hands, it will be squandered away to nothingness eventually! Oh no, the Su Family won’t be able to exist for a long time. When I go back, I’m going to beat the Su Family until they can’t raise their heads!"
Su Yishan was currently in a heated battle with Nanfeng Zhirou when he suddenly heard Ye Yuan’s cursing and could not help burning with rage after hearing it.
Forcing Nanfeng Zhirou back with a blow, Su Yishan arrived in front of Ye Yuan with a few leaps.
Nanfeng Zhirou also followed tightly behind and came to Ye Yuan’s side. Both parties entered a stalemate.
Ye Yuan casually fished out a medicinal pill and threw it to Nanfeng Zhirou. Then he said with a smile, "It’s been hard on you, Senior Apprentice Sister Nanfeng. Eat it. No need to mind this sort of small injuries."
Nanfeng Zhirou caught the medicinal pill but lowered her head instead. She knew that her identity had already been made aware to Ye Yuan, making it rather awkward.
"Don’t get cocky, Ye Yuan! Even if you avoided the Chang Brothers’ ambush, do you think that you can still exit the Endless Forest today?" Su Yishan was displeased when he saw Ye Yuan’s composed appearance.
Shouldn’t the current Ye Yuan be in a panic?
Ye Yuan stared at Su Yishan and said with a smile, "I don’t plan on leaving the Endless Forest."
"Humph! Good that you know!"
"The Endless Forest is so fun! I still plan on playing for a few more days! As for whether you guys can walk out or not, that I dare not guarantee."
"Is your brain spoilt, Ye Yuan? Can’t you tell what kind of situation you two are currently in? Just now, I heard that you want to fight one on one, yeah?" Su Yishan stared at Ye Yuan like he was looking at a fool.
Ye Yuan beamed and said, "That’s right. Does the dignified Su Family’s Young Patriarch only know how to bully women? If you have the capability, let’s go one-on-one!"
"Hahahaha . . ." Su Yishan roared with laughter when he heard that and said, "Alright, I’ll fight you one on one! But . . . it’s us as a group fighting you alone!"
Ye Yuan’s face fell after hearing that, and he said in terror, "Su Yishan! Are you a man or not?! If you have the capabilities, let’s fight one-on-one!"
Seeing Ye Yuan’s appearance, Su Yishan felt incredibly venting. He chuckled and said, "Ye Yuan, I think your brain really broke down! The four of us combined can kill you like slaughtering a dog! Why should I entertain you with a duel? Do you think this is the academy?"
Ye Yuan stared at Su Yishan who looked proud of himself and suddenly grinned, smiling very happily.
"You can still laugh when death is knocking, Ye Yuan? I got to hand it to you. Chang One, Chang Two, Chang Three, kill Ye Yuan! Leave Nanfeng Zhirou alive, I still have a use for her!" Su Yishan ordered.
While the Chang Brothers were secretly displeased that Su Yishan was still lustful at such a time, they would not refute Su Yishan’s words. After all, he was the future Su Family’s family head.
Just as the Chang Brothers were prepared to make a move, their face suddenly changed!
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
In a blink, hundreds of white colored apes appeared in front of their eyes, enclosing them in the center together with Ye Yuan.
The weakest one of these white apes was at the Initial Stage Tier 2!
"Haha, Su Yishan! I found out that I really like your idea of one on one! All of us versus you guys! Man, you’re really a genius to even come up with this sort of one on one method!" Ye Yuan looked at Su Yishan as he burst into laughter.
"Wha-what’s going on?"
Su Yishan stared wide-eyed at this unbelievable scene and could not even hear Ye Yuan’s mocking him.
Several hundred Long-arm Stone Apes appearing out of thin air. This visual impact was seriously enormous!
With their vision filled with Tier 2 Long-arm Stone Apes, this sort of pressure was absolutely unforgettable for life.
Su Yishan could even feel his own legs quivering!
Not just Su Yishan, the Chang Brothers were also completely dumbstruck at the moment. Even though they had experienced too many things, they had never seen such a huge occasion before!
These hundreds of Tier 2 Long-arm Stone Apes was enough to plow the Su Family one time over.
Although the majority of these Long-arm Stone Apes were at Initial Stage Tier 2, there were also quite a number of Middle Stage and Late Stage Tier 2.
Just one Middle Stage Tier 2 demonic beast was enough for him to choke over. What kind of outocme if hundreds were added up?
At this moment, their nerves were already tensed to the limits.
"Spatial spirit artifact! It must be a spatial spirit artifact! If not, it’s impossible to contain so many demonic beasts! Ye Yuan, he . . . actually has a spatial spirit artifact!" Chang One suddenly exclaimed in shock.
"Spa-spatial spirit artifact? H-how’s that possible?" Even though the truth was in front of his eyes, Su Yishan still felt that it was unreal.
"That’s right. It is indeed a spatial spirit artifact. I didn’t think that you would have such knowledge, quite a figure. However, you offended this Young Master. This is the most foolish thing you’ve done in your entire life!"
Although it was just a few short breaths of exchange, Ye Yuan could tell that among these four people, Chang One served as a brain-center character.
With Su Yishan’s personality, it was impossible to lay down such an elaborate killing trap to wait for the hare to land in it.
The absolute strength of the four of them was much greater than Ye Yuan’s pair. There was simply no need to be so cautious.
That final strike from Chang One was remarkably brilliant. In fact, it was a flawless blow. Ye Yuan truly arrived at the borders of life and death at that time.
If not for him remaining calm in the final hour of peril and having broken through at the last moment, he would already be a corpse now.
From this, one could see that this Chang One was absolutely a very nasty character to deal with!
But sadly, his opponent was Ye Yuan! He was a young master who would definitely avenge any grievances, not some old good-two-shoes who returned good for evil.
Towards Ye Yuan’s words, Chang One did not refute them, because he knew that what Ye Yuan said was the truth.
The stupidest thing that he, Chang One, ever did in his life was to offend Ye Yuan!
Chang One was naturally crystal clear on Ye Yuan’s actions in the Dan Wu Academy and knew about his personality of seeking revenge for the smallest grievance. Hence, he dismissed the thought of begging for mercy.
"Fight it out, brothers! Ignore those demonic beasts and directly kill Ye Yuan!" Chang One was also a very decisive person as he directly laid down an order.
When Chang One’s command was issued, he took the lead to burst towards Ye Yuan. Chang Two and Chang Three and Big Brother had incredible synergy. Following closely behind, the trio charged towards Ye Yuan in a triangle formation.
This was Chang One’s dying act. Facing so many Tier 2 demonic beasts, he did not feel that he could kill Ye Yuan. However, what made Chang One speechless and pleasantly surprised was that these Tier 2 demonic beasts actually did not react at all to this!
These demonic beasts unexpectedly did not move out to stop the three of them!
Could it be that these demonic beasts were just what Ye Yuan pulled out to intimidate them? Ye Yuan could not command these demonic beasts at all?
This discovery filled Chang One with wild elation!
"Haha! Nearly got hoodwinked by you! So, you can’t command these demonic beasts at all! Brothers, kill him with me!" Chang One roared with laughter.
Ye Yuan did not take any actions. He just looked at Chang One with a smile that was not a smile filled with ridicule.
"Humph! At gates of death already and yet, you’re still pretending there! Wind Thunder Sword!"
Chang One’s sword appeared in front of Ye Yuan once again. But this time around, Ye Yuan did not exhaust all his energies to defend. He remained motionless there.
Right at this moment, a white figure flashed out from the side and grabbed hold of Chang One’s sword very violently, twisting it into scrap metal.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
One exchange, three palms landed respectively on Chang One, Chang Two, and Chang Three’s chest.
This figure was as fast as lightning. The three of them did not even make clear of what it was before being sent flying out.
"Ti-Tier 3 demonic beast!"
Chang One’s face finally flickered as he stared at that white ape built like an iron pagoda in horror. Only now did he know why Ye Yuan did not move this whole time. Because he did not need to move at all.
With a Tier 3 demonic beast guarding by the side, why would he need to make a move personally?
However . . . why would a Tier 3 demonic beast obey Ye Yuan? He was merely an Essence Qi Realm martial artist!
Chang One suddenly recalled that Ye Yuan had just descended down the Crimson Summit Ridge and finally understood some things. His complexion changed greatly against his will!
"You . . . you brought the entire Crimson Summit Ridge’s Long-arm Stone Ape clan under your control?" Chang One stared at Ye Yuan with dread.
"Hur hur, you finally realized. I even thought that you were pretty smart. Didn’t think that you’re so slow! That’s right. Yuan Fei and his clansmen will be following me in the future."
Of course, it was not because Chang One was dumb, but because the impact he received today was too tremendous.
An Essence Qi Realm martial artist subduing the entire Crimson Summit Ridge’s Long-arm Stone Ape clan. If this spread out, other people would surely treat him like a lunatic!
However, this sort of impossible matter genuinely happened!
"H-how’s this possible? The Ape King is a Tier 3 demonic beast. Why would he willingly obey you? Also, humans and demonic beast have a language barrier. How can you possibly subdue him?" Chang One questioned unwillingly.
"Do you feel that I have a need to answer your question?" Ye Yuan said with a cold smile.
Chang One only asked because of the burning uncertainty in his heart. Truthfully, he did not hope for Ye Yuan to answer him.
Chang One sighed and shut his eyes painfully. He gave a long exhalation and said, "Sigh, the Su Family going against you is the Su Family’s greatest failure! Perhaps the Su Family will vanish entirely from the scene of the State of Qin because of this! Make your move!"
Yuan Fei waved his long arm, and immediately, over a dozen Tier 2 Long-arm Stone Apes rushed up, carrying away the Chang Brothers who already had no means to retaliate.
Before long, blood-curdling screams came from far away, making the scalp of those who heard it tingle.
The Long-arm Stone Apes were originally wild and untamable. They had always just killed any human martial artists they saw. Only Ye Yuan who knew the universal beast language could communicate with Yuan Fei who activated his spiritual wisdom. Otherwise, their end result would not be much better than the Chang Brothers.
Each one of the wretched screams transmitted into Su Yishan’s ear, impacting his mind repeatedly. It already completely collapsed his mental defense.
Su Yishan only abruptly roused with a jerk after Ye Yuan slowly walked towards him. He retreated non-stop, all the way until he bumped into a Long-arm Stone Ape before jumping in fright and dodging hurriedly.
"Y-Ye Yuan, I-I was wrong, I deserve death! I deserve death! I beg you, please don’t kill me! It’s all because Su Yubai that old bastard forced me! It’s all because he forced me!"
Su Yishan could not hold on any longer and slammed his knees onto the ground as he begged for mercy by shouting himself hoarse.
Ye Yuan looked at Su Yishan kneeling on the ground with snot dripping from his nose and said with a smile, "I also didn’t say that I’m killing you, Young Master Su! Look how frightened you are!"
Su Yishan was already like a bird startled by the twang of a bowstring right now. His brain was already no longer in charge.
Hearing that Ye Yuan had the intention to let him off, he spontaneously became overjoyed and said, "Y-you’re for real? Th-then I can go?"
"Of course you can’t go. All of my secrets have already been seen by you. If you were to leave and spread outside that I possess a spatial spirit artifact, then wouldn’t I die without a burial place?"
Su Yishan was so terrified that his legs weakened. Ye Yuan’s meaning was to kill him for sure.
"Don’t worry, I can swear a Heavenly Dao Oath to absolutely not spread the things I saw today!" Su Yishan then raised his hand and looked as if he was really about to swear a Heavenly Dao Oath.
Ye Yuan waved his hand and said, "That isn’t necessary, Su Yishan. I’ll give you a chance; a chance to fight one-on-one! After you kill me, you can leave this place."
Su Yishan was stunned and quickly returned to his wailing and said, "Y-Young Master Ye, Great Hero Ye, I really know that I was wrong. I shouldn’t have opposed you. I shouldn’t have brought people into the Endless Forest to come and kill you."
Ye Yuan also did not expect Su Yishan to be so spineless. That normally haughty bearing was all gone. At this time, he was like a despicable person devoid of any sense of shame.
Sometimes, people were like that. Without arriving at the final juncture of life and death, one could never see through a person’s true character.
People who normally appeared to be incomparably lofty would become shamelessly menial when facing death, while those who typically appeared to live a licentious life and had improper conduct would remain incomparably unperturbed in the face of death.
There were numerous manners of life.
It was very clear that Su Yishan belonged to the former.
If Ye Yuan made the Long-arm Stone Apes attack, Su Yishan might still give a desperate struggle. But Ye Yuan surrounded him and did not kill him yet. Also, with the Chang Brothers’ horrifying way of dying as the precedent, Su Yishan’s mind collapsed entirely.
Ye Yuan suddenly pulled a long face and said solemnly, "I have no time to joke with you! If you don’t want this opportunity, I can kill you right now."
The current Su Yishan was clearly someone who yielded to force but refused a soft approach. With Ye Yuan riling up, the words sunk into Su Yishan instead.
"Bu-but . . ." Su Yishan stammered.
"But I’m not a match for you, right?" Ye Yuan said with a smile.
Su Yishan lowered his head. Clearly, he tacitly agreed. But at such a time, he did not dare to say these words out.
"This Little Lord asks to fight one-on-one, it means one-on-one with you. You don’t need to doubt this. However, the one-on-one I mentioned is not right now. There are also conditions for giving you this chance."
Hearing Ye Yuan say that, Su Yishan’s eyes lit up as he felt like he had grasped hold of his final life-saving straw.
"What conditions? As long I can do it, I’ll comply!"
"Well, I feel that my cultivation is almost consolidated. After my cultivation realm consolidates, I can break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm. At that time, we’ll have a deathmatch! But before then, in order to help me consolidate my cultivation realm, I’ll have to trouble you to feed me moves," Ye Yuan said.
"Spi-Spirit Condensation Realm? So quickly?" Su Yishan was stunned.
Ye Yuan had just broken through to peak Ninth Level Essence Qi Realm not long ago. He was going to break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm now?
Who among martial artists when breaking through a major realm was not filled with trepidation as if they were treading on thin ice?
Back then when Su Yishan broke through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, he prepared for a full half year, all the way until he was very certain before he dared to take this step.
And at that time, Su Yishan was already at half-step Spirit Condensation Realm.
Ye Yuan was obviously still just peak Ninth Level Essence Qi Realm now. Could it be that he wanted to break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm directly?
Wasn’t this too exaggerated?
In the State of Qin, breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm must go through the process of half-step Spirit Condensation Realm. This was something everyone knew. Never had anyone been foolish enough to directly breakthrough to the Spirit Condensation Realm.
Not that it was impossible to breakthrough directly, but because the success rate of a direct breakthrough was too low. So low that nobody dared to attempt this step!
The success rate of breaking through directly from Ninth Level Essence Qi Realm to Spirit Condensation Realm was so low that it was negligible!
With such a low success rate, who would dare to try it rashly?
Ye Yuan had not broken through to Ninth Level Essence Qi Realm for long. Now, he wanted to directly breakthrough to the Spirit Condensation Realm. Was this possible?
"None of your business whether it’s fast or not. Either way, you can forget about escaping if I don’t break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm. Hence, you’d better pray for me to breakthrough earlier," Ye Yuan said coolly.
"B-but if I win you, what if you go back on your words then?" Su Yishan was not a fool either and enquired about his doubts.
"Hur hur, that will have to depend on my mood. Doesn’t matter to me anyway. But you can’t not take this gamble! Lose, you’re a dead man. Win, you can go back and continue to be the Su Family’s young master! This is your only chance. Up to you whether you want to or not," Ye Yuan said indifferently.
"D-don’t . . . I want this chance! Of course I want this chance!" Su Yishan hurriedly said.
This was Su Yishan’s sole lease on life. He would be a fool to give it up.
Ye Yuan could completely make those demonic beasts destroy him right now, but he just had to find trouble for himself. How could Su Yishan give up this opportunity?
Ye Yuan nodded and said, "Since that’s the case, you have to remember, you can only defend and not attack! Fully be my human sandbag! At that time, I’ll let Yuan Fei watch the battle by the side. If you have the slightest intention to attack, you’ll die horribly!"
Su Yishan had certainly thought of harming Ye Yuan when the latter was feeding moves, but now that Ye Yuan said that, he immediately tossed this idea out of his mind.
You got to be joking. A Tier 3 demonic beast watching the fight by the side, if he revealed even a trace of killing intent, the other party would finish him off without hesitation.
If Ye Yuan was an ordinary Ninth Level Spirit Condensation Realm, then forget about it. However, it was impossible for Su Yishan to kill in one strike with Ye Yuan’s practical combat abilities.
Hence, he better obediently became his human sandbag.
. . . . . .
"Are you joking, Ye Yuan? You’re only at the peak Ninth Level Essence Qi Realm, not even at half-step Spirit Condensation Realm. How are you going to breakthrough to Spirit Condensation Realm? Ah! I know already! You must be messing with Su Yishan!" Nanfeng Zhirou was pleasantly surprised that she discovered something.
However, Ye Yuan shook his head and said, "Breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm within a few days is a must. It has to happen even if it can’t! If I don’t break through, I can’t even refine the Essence Yang Pill, and Lu-er can’t be saved. Therefore, I have to break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm by hook or by crook."
"But . . . you aren’t even half-step Spirit Condensation Realm!"
"What kind of crap is half-step Spirit Condensation Realm? Essence Qi Realm to Spirit Condensation Realm is meant to be done in one shot. You people separating it into half-step Spirit Condensation Realm and Spirit Condensation Realm are actually self-ruining your foundations, making Spirit Condensation Realm’s foundation unstable!" Upon mentioning half-step Spirit Condensation Realm, Ye Yuan’s face was filled with contempt.
"But . . . everybody impacts the Spirit Condensation Realm from half-step Spirit Condensation Realm. Could everyone be wrong?" Nanfeng Zhirou refused to accept.
Ye Yuan retorted with a question after hearing that, "Are those everyone you say more amazing than my master when added up? My master said it’s good to break through directly. Do you think that he would harm me?"
". . ." Nanfeng Zhirou had nothing to refute with.
Rumble!
An Eighth Layer Wave from Ye Yuan was easily warded off by Su Yishan.
Chi!
Another Absolute Yang Finger from Ye Yuan shot towards Su Yishan with abnormally fierce, incomparable force, but was defended by him again.
However, Ye Yuan did not feel dispirited. In fact, he became more excited as he fought.
He completely did not need to consider the problem of defense as he unleashed all the moves he knew over and over again.
While the threat to Su Yishan was not great, the other party was very ragged looking.
Ye Yuan’s attack was not something which could be released by the average Ninth Level Essence Qi Realm. Even if he did not use his strongest trump card, the Nine Swords Stance, his attacks could cause substantial damage to Second Level Spirit Condensation Realm martial artists.
If Su Yishan had not broken through to the Fourth Level Spirit Condensation Realm, just these moves could exhaust him to death.
Furthermore, Ye Yuan was attacking all out wildly while Su Yishan could only endure being hit. Under the waxing and waning, Ye Yuan’s attack became fiercer.
Ye Yuan already continued the reckless attacks for two days.
These two days, apart from eating, sleeping, and mediation, Ye Yuan spent the rest of the time training with Su Yishan.
With such a free human sandbag, hitting it was very delightful and satisfactory.
The more Ye Yuan hit, the more excited he got. The more he hit, the more he did not know fatigue. Sometimes, when he got excited, he could fight for several hours at a time.
In contrast, Su Yishan was already on the verge of collapse being tormented by Ye Yuan.
He simply could not understand how Ye Yuan had such incredible endurance when he was merely a Ninth Level Essence Qi Realm.
With such a powerful attack, logically speaking, the expenditure of essence energy should be enormous. But Ye Yuan could fight for several hours at a time and did not need to consume Qi Returning Pills!
Even if he was the one doing the frenzied attacks, he probably could not sustain for two hours!
However, were Fourth Level Spirit Condensation Realm and Ninth Level Essence Qi Realm on the same level?
Not that Su Yishan did not think of sneak attacking Ye Yuan, but Yuan Fei’s aura remained indistinctly locked onto him this whole time, leaving him not daring to make any reckless moves at all.
Su Yishan believed that as long as he retaliated once, what awaited him was definitely a lightning blow!
He had already witnessed the terror of this Ape King. He was completely unable to last even a round with him.
These two days, Yuan Fei had also been observing Ye Yuan’s wanton attacks the whole time. At times, his gaze was shining. It was uncertain what he was thinking.
Rather, it was Nanfeng Zhirou who had nothing to do these two days. But she also had a knot in her heart which was unresolved and was somewhat weighed down with worries.
Ye Yuan had heard ’Nanfeng’ this surname. Most likely, he already guessed her identity.
’Nanfeng’ was the imperial surname. Nobody was unaware of it in the State of Qin.
Nanfeng Zhirou and her aunty were already considered very good friends with Ye Yuan. But they had always concealed their identity. No matter what, it was not very justifiable.
These two days, Ye Yuan was consolidating his cultivation realm at full force, so he completely did not bother about this matter. Once he broke through his cultivation realm, would he dig into this matter? Would he drift away from her?
Nanfeng Zhirou started to become somewhat anxious about her gains and losses.
. . . . . .
After another day passed, Ye Yuan continued to unleash his wanton attacks on Su Yishan as usual.
Suddenly, Ye Yuan halted his attacks and sat down crossed-legged.
Yuan Fei narrowed his eyes and seemed to have guessed something. His body moved, and he instantly appeared between Ye Yuan and Su Yishan, isolating the two.
Su Yishan also seemed to have guessed something and knew that it was impossible for Yuan Fei to give him the opportunity to get close to Ye Yuan. Hence, he withdrew to the sides sensibly and meditated on his own.
Ye Yuan wanted to breakthrough, and Su Yishan also needed to recuperate.
Though he did not feel that Ye Yuan could directly breakthrough to the Spirit Condensation Realm, it was still best to prepare for everything!
What kind of joke was this? Ninth Level Essence Qi Realm directly breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm. Even his old man did not dare to do that back then!
Not only his father, Su Yulin, but also Lord Dean, Wan Donghai, Nanfeng Yi, these well-known Crystal Formation Realm experts, who among them was not a peerless talent back then?
But not one of them dared to directly breakthrough to the Spirit Condensation Realm when they were at the Ninth Level Essence Qi Realm!
What kind of joke was this?
Transitioning from half-step Spirit Condensation Realm was the method to impact the Spirit Condensation Realm fumbled out by countless ancestors. Does Ye Yuan wish to challenge countless ancestors with his own strength?
Even a genius like Su Yishan prepared for a full half years’ time.
Back then when Nanfeng Zhirou broke through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, the amount of time she prepared for was a little lesser than Su Yishan, but there was still four to five months’ time.
However, Ye Yuan did not make any preparations at all. He only used a few days to consolidate his cultivation realm and then directly initiated breakthrough.
If he succeeded, then what did they, these so-called geniuses, even count as?
Nanfeng Zhirou saw that Ye Yuan was preparing to breakthrough and also became nervous immediately.
Even though Ye Yuan said it like he was very confident, this sort of matter like challenging the limits known to martial artists still made Nanfeng Zhirou feel quite worried.
A major realm could not be broken through as and when one liked. Facing the breakthrough to Spirit Condensation Realm, nobody dared to be negligent in the least bit.
Because if the assault failed, they would suffer varying degrees of injuries, possibly even facing the risk of a drop in cultivation!
Although it could be cultivated back once more, the difficulty when impacting the bottleneck next time would increase tremendously!
This was also why all martial artists would be extremely prudent when breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm.
"You must succeed, Ye Yuan!" Nanfeng Zhirou silently cheered.
She knew that if Ye Yuan could not break through, Lu-er would die for sure.
Once Lu-er dies, the blow to Ye Yuan would definitely be huge!
This was something which Nanfeng Zhirou did not wish to see.
Ye Yuan just sat cross-legged like that for an hour, the aura on his body gradually stabilizing.
His eyes suddenly snapped open. Retrieving a Spirit Surge Pill from his storage ring to consume, he said to Yuan Fei, "Yuan Fei, help to guard me. I’m going to begin the breakthrough. Eye Su Yishan properly and don’t let him escape."
"Be at ease and breakthrough, Young Master. There’s Yuan Fei here for everything," Yuan Fei answered.
Ye Yuan nodded and shut his eyes again.
Not far away, Su Yishan witnessed this scene and was secretly alarmed in his heart.
Ye Yuan could actually really communicate with this demonic beast!
No wonder he could subdue this Tier 3 demonic beast!
There was really innumerable secrets on Ye Yuan’s body!
Ye Yuan adjusted his condition and consumed the Spirit Surge Pill, and he officially commenced the attempt to break through into the Spirit Condensation Realm!
While the onlookers felt that Ye Yuan impacting the Spirit Condensation Realm was filled with incomparable danger, to the party involved, Ye Yuan, it was not really a very amazing thing.
His understanding towards heaven and earth essence energy surpassed any so-called expert in the State of Qin considerably.
Those Crystal Formation Realm experts’ understanding towards heaven and earth essence energy was not even fit to carry shoes for Ye Yuan.
To them, the Spirit Condensation Realm was a massive ridge. To Ye Yuan, the Spirit Condensation Realm was merely a small threshold; that’s all.
The Spirit Surge Pill entering his abdomen was just like tossing a small pebble onto the surface of a peaceful lake; breaking the original equilibrium state of essence energy within Ye Yuan’s body.
Practically instantaneously, the essence energy within Ye Yuan’s Dantian seethed!
Woo! Woo!
A whirlwind started to howl underneath Ye Yuan. This whirlwind continuously enlarged, expanding more, whipping up fallen leaves.
The essence energy tempest! Commenced!
A vortex formed from the essence energy tempest brought forth a violent tornado, and this storm grew increasingly larger!
The Endless Forest was originally a land rich with essence energy. Ye Yuan recklessly absorbed all the essence energy converging without any care, flowing into his dantian.
"En? What’s going on? This essence energy storm is not right!" Su Yishan exclaimed in shock.
Back then, the essence energy storm he caused when he himself broke through to the Spirit Condensation Realm was simply a small apprentice in the presence of a great sorcerer when compared to Ye Yuan.
Ye Yuan’s essence energy tempest gave him the feeling like it was a great flood or savage beast, incomparably violent.
With such violent and turbulent essence energy gushing into the dantian ceaselessly, would it not burst the dantian?
"Hehe, burst it! Burst it! Let’s see how you posture after it bursts!" Su Yishan was chuckling inwardly over his misfortune.
But just as he was taking pleasure in the misfortune of others, his collar was suddenly grabbed from behind, lifting him up like carrying a baby chick.
Yuan Fei carried Su Yishan and speedily headed for the distance. Nanfeng Zhirou followed behind them.
The essence energy tempest formed from Ye Yuan’s breakthrough grew larger and larger, almost about to spread over here. Hence, Yuan Fei decisively brought everyone to retreat a certain distance away.
Su Yishan who was being dragged felt unbearable shame and humiliation. But facing a Tier 3 demonic beast, what could he do?
He did not wish to end up like the Chang Brothers, being torn to shreds by those damnable apes!
Yuan Fei landed far away after a few flashes; roughly a thousand feet away from Ye Yuan.
Even with such a distance, they could still feel that surging essence energy storm.
The expansion of the essence energy storm showed no signs of stopping. Instead, it grew even larger.
Ye Yuan was situated in the eye of the essence energy storm, oblivious to all that was happening in the outside world. Currently, all of his thoughts were placed on refining essence energy.
Unlike the wild essence energy in the outside world, the essence energy inside Ye Yuan’s body was impossibly tame.
If the essence energy in the outside world was a violent wild beast, then the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art was a powerful beast tamer. Essence energy which went through its domestication became very obedient.
Ye Yuan was currently revolving the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art, Mortal Chapter’s second phase’s cultivation method. He also did not expect that breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm would actually require such an enormous amount of essence energy.
No wonder Spirit Bristle Divine King that fellow was so powerful. This was only breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, and the necessary essence energy was already so titanic. If one entered the Divine King Realm, just how terrifying would the quantity of essence energy required be?
Ye Yuan was just like a diligent little bee, refining the essence energy non-stop using the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art, then sending it into his dantian.
The essence energy within the dantian accumulated more and more, gradually inflating Ye Yuan’s dantian to the limit!
And right now, the critical juncture of breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm had arrived, and that was to gather the qi and liquefy it!
However, Ye Yuan did not bother about the essence energy inside the dantian but continued to refine essence energy ceaselessly, steadily pouring it into the dantian.
Ye Yuan’s dantian was inflated even much more bigger with the risk of exploding at any time! If he did not take measures right away, it could really be like how Su Yishan desired; stuffing the dantian so full it explodes!
"No way right? Is Ye Yuan still refining essence energy? His dantian is probably about to explode from fullness, right? Turns out he didn’t even know how to impact the Spirit Condensation Realm! To actually wager with me by making such a shameless claim! Hahaha!" Su Yishan was full of delight from his misfortune.
Nanfeng Zhirou glared viciously at him and said angrily, "Shut your mouth for me! If Ye Yuan dies, the Ape King will kill you too! Therefore, you’d better pray for him to survive. At least that way, you theoretically still have the possibility of staying alive!"
Su Yishan was full of disdain as he said, "Even if he breaks through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, it’s merely First Level Spirit Condensation Realm! I’m a small stage higher than him! You’re so sure that he can defeat me?"
Nanfeng Zhirou sneered coldly and said, "Wasn’t Lin Tiancheng also a small stage higher than Ye Yuan back then? And what was his end result? Do you think that Ye Yuan is a fool? To suggest such a duel under the circumstance where he had no confidence? I dare to bet that as long as he enters the Spirit Condensation Realm, killing you will be as simple as slaughtering a dog!"
"Humph! Then he has to break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm first! You look at him. Right now, what’s the difference from suicide?" Su Yishan remained stubborn.
Nanfeng Zhirou did not make any sound this time. Ye Yuan’s actions were truly no different from committing suicide!
What Ye Yuan needed to do at this time was to gather the qi and liquefy it, not to refine essence energy. No matter how large a martial artist’s dantian was, it also could not contain so much essence energy!
Nanfeng Zhirou looked at Ye Yuan in the distance; her eyes full of concern.
Rather, it was Yuan Fei who stared at Ye Yuan glowing eyes, uncertain whether it was worry or reassurance on that ape face.
Ye Yuan naturally did not know what they were thinking. Just as his dantian was about to blow up, a warm qi flow poured into the dantian, enveloping the violent essence energy.
This flow of qi was precisely the medicinal strength transformed from the Spirit Surge Pill!
This flow of medicinal strength was just like a tight pocket; wrapping up all the inflated essence energy tightly inside. No matter how they swelled up, it was to no avail.
With the assistance of the Spirit Surge Pill’s medicinal strength, Ye Yuan’s dantian swiftly recovered to its original size, while that newly refined essence energy was compressed by the medicinal strength!
Finally, the essence energy within Ye Yuan’s body reached saturation. He was unable to continue refining essence energy, so he started to condense the gathered qi into liquid according to the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art’s method!
As soon as the cultivation method was revolved, the essence energy within the dantian started to form a cyclone!
While at the same time, the medicinal strength of the Spirit Surge Pill and the essence energy which were refined had fused together, causing the essence energy inside Ye Yuan’s dantian to become even more massive!
The Spirit Surge Pill already contained massive amounts of essence energy to assist martial artists to breakthrough to the Spirit Condensation Realm under the effects of other medicinal herbs.
The pill formula of the Spirit Surge Pill was not much to Ye Yuan, but it could absolute give rise to a storm of blood in the State of Qin.
This was the best supplementary medicinal pill which Ye Yuan knew to attack the Spirit Condensation Realm.
Under the guidance of the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art, the cyclone inside Ye Yuan’s dantian became increasingly smaller, and ever more condensed.
The originally formless essence energy actually transformed into a hazy mist inside his dantian!
However, the mist was unstable at the moment and had yet to truly form the liquid state of essence energy.
This was also the most crucial moment of gathering qi to liquefy it!
These mist seemed to be only a step away from liquefied essence energy, but this was also the most unstable period. Once a rebound occurred, the essence energy would swiftly return to its original state.
If it was minor, the martial artist’s cultivation realm would fall. But if it was severe, the dantian would suffer damage, affecting future cultivation!
The incredible aspect of the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art was that it was matchlessly tyrannical! With such an overbearing cultivation law, how could it possibly give these mist the opportunity to rebound?
Under the overwhelming oppression of the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art, these mist finally continued to condense together!
Drip!
A liquid state of essence energy dripped down. The first Spirit Liquid had completely taken shape!
However, this was merely the beginning!
Drip . . . Drip . . .
Drops of Spirit Liquid fell down. At the end, nine drops of Spirit Liquid completely took form!
"Nine drops of spirit liquid huh? Didn’t expect that the breakthrough this time would actually be so perfect, way stronger compared to my previous life!" Ye Yuan gasped in admiration.
However, the breakthrough to the Spirit Condensation Realm was not over yet!
"How is it? Dumbfounded, right?"
Nanfeng Zhirou glanced at the slack-jawed Su Yishan and appeared to be very pleased with herself as if she was the one who broke through.
Su Yishan was truly befuddled.
The essence energy which Ye Yuan absorbed was multiple times of others!
With such a colossal amount of essence energy, should it not burst the dantian?
Could it be that Ye Yuan was a natural-born freak with a dantian several times larger than the average person?
What kind of joke was this?!
This was not a genius but a freak! Looking at Ye Yuan’s appearance, it totally did not look like his dantian was multiple times bigger than others!
However, how on earth did he do it?
"Hey, do you want to guess how many drops of spirit liquid Ye Yuan’s formed? I guess that it’s definitely seven drops, maybe even eight drops!"
Su Yishan jumped like a cat that had its tail stepped on when he heard that. "Eight drops?! How’s that possible? Forget about our State of Qin, even in the entire Tranquil Cloud Sect’s domain, the current highest record is just six drops! No matter how monstrous Ye Yuan is, seven drops is the pinnacle already. How can it possibly be eight drops?"
"Why can’t it be possible? You said that it was impossible for him to break through directly to the Spirit Condensation Realm, but now, didn’t he break through? Furthermore, you also saw that essence energy storm just now. It was multiple times the size of when we broke through! Such a terrifying essence energy storm, condensing eight drops shouldn’t be strange either, right?"
"Perhaps . . . Perhaps a lot of the essence energy was wasted by him? That must be it!"
"Idiot! You still refuse to accept reality even now!" Nanfeng Zhirou could not be bothered with him anymore.
Nine represented the pinnacle of numbers. As a First Level Spirit Condensation Realm martial artist, the most was condensing nine drops of spirit liquid!
During the process of martial artists cultivating essence energy, it was also the process of using essence energy to strengthen the entire body.
It was just that the strengthening effects for the divine soul were too poor and very hard to detect.
But every breakthrough in a major realm would cause a qualitative leap in terms of body strengthening. The divine soul would also follow and experience a qualitative change, resulting in a one-time transformation!
However, even after martial artists break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm and their dantian received an immense boost, it could at most endure a total of nine drops of spirit liquid.
Any more would only result in the dantian to burst.
Each one of these nine drops of spirit liquid contained a colossal amount of essence energy. Every drop was virtually the total sum of essence energy held in reserve by Essence Qi Realms. One could imagine just how formidable nine drops of spirit liquid was.
However, for a martial artist to achieve nine drops of spirit liquid when breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, it could only be described using these words: as difficult as ascending to Heaven!
The vast majority of Spirit Condensation Realm martial artists condensed between one to three drops. Some genius martial artists could condense four drops and above.
Such as Nanfeng Zhirou and Su Yishan, they both condensed four drops of spirit liquid!
But above four drops, there would be a huge spike in difficulty!
Because the more spirit liquid that was condensed, the more essence energy would be required. And a martial artist’s dantian simply could not support such horrifying essence energy.
The reason why Long Tang could suppress all with his Third Level Spirit Condensation Realm cultivation was that he condensed five spirit liquid drops!
Each realm breakthrough in the Spirit Condensation Realm, due to limitations of the dantian, could only once again condense the same amount formed at the First Level Spirit Condensation Realm.
That was to say, when Long Tang was at the Third Level Spirit Condensation Realm, he already had 15 spirit liquid drops, while other Fourth Level Spirit Condensation Realm students merely possessed 16 spirit liquid drops.
To perception geniuses such as Long Tang, such a minute difference was simply unworthy of being mentioned. Hence, he could firmly occupy the place of number one on the Martial Roll!
In other words, the number of spirit liquid drops condensed when breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm represented the kind of heights a martial artist could reach in the future!
Just think about it. When a nine spirit liquid drops martial artist is at the Ninth Level Spirit Condensation Realm, it would be nine by nine, 81 spirit liquid drops! While a one spirit liquid drop martial artist would only have nine spirit liquid drops.
It was simply impossible to compensate for this sort of difference with other aspects!
Of course, the vast majority of martial artists were at three drops and below. Hence, the difference between them would not be overly distinct.
It was just that if three drops and below martial artists did not have any heaven-defying lucky chances, they would stop at the Spirit Condensation Realm in this lifetime. Desiring to breakthrough to the Crystal Formation Realm would be impossibly difficult.
To want to break through to the Crystal Formation Realm, one must possess at least four spirit liquid drops and above. Even so, not everybody could break through to the Crystal Formation Realm.
The more spirit liquid, the greater the chances of advancing to the Crystal Formation Realm.
However, there were merely a meager two martial artists who condensed six spirit liquid drops when they were at the First Level Spirit Condensation Realm in the entire Tranquil Cloud Sect domain!
One of them was the current Tranquil Cloud Sect’s Sect Leader, Yan Traceless!
The difficulty of condensing six spirit liquid drops was evident from this.
As for seven drops and above, those were all myths . . .
At least within the Tranquil Cloud Sect’s domain, condensing seven spirit liquid drops was completely unheard of!
This was also the reason why Su Yishan was so astonished.
Even if he did not believe Ye Yuan could condense eight spirit liquid drops, he could not refute the fact that Ye Yuan condensed seven spirit liquid drops! That was because the quantity of essence energy which Ye Yuan absorbed just now exceeded the amount he absorbed back then by quite too much!
It far surpassed the volume of essence energy required for six spirit liquid drops.
Which was to say, Ye Yuan had already surpassed everyone in the Tranquil Cloud Sect domain!
This fact made Su Yishan infinitely depressed, endlessly jealous, and also utterly terrified.
Sure enough, the degree of Ye Yuan’s monstrousness already far exceeded his understanding.
Seven spirit liquid drops! That meant that no matter how casually Ye Yuan cultivated in the future, he could cultivate to the Crystal Formation Realm!
Furthermore, Ye Yuan was already so terrifying while at the Ninth Level Essence Qi Realm. Now that he condensed seven spirit liquid drops in one go, what extent would his strength soar to?
If he knew that Ye Yuan did not condense seven spirit liquid drops, but instead, the nine drops which he dared not even think about, who knew what he would think.
In reality, not only Su Yishan dare not imagine it, but even Nanfeng Zhirou also did not dare to imagine that.
She said eight spirit liquid drops just to ridicule Su Yishan. Honestly speaking, even she did not really believe that Ye Yuan could condense eight spirit liquid drops.
Because . . . that would be too inhuman!
"Nine drops of spirit liquid huh? Didn’t expect that the breakthrough this time would actually be so perfect, way stronger compared to my previous life!" Ye Yuan also felt rather emotional.
In his previous life, Ye Yuan only condensed seven spirit liquid drops. Among the pinnacle powers in the Divine Realm, seven spirit liquid drops were not considered very impressive.
The true-blue geniuses all condensed nine spirit liquid drops!
In the Lower Realms, nine spirit liquid drops were something which only existed in the legends. But in the Divine Realm, there were a few people who could achieve it.
Of course, that was also because Ye Yuan did not hold any interest in the Martial Path. Otherwise, with his degree of monstrousness, nine spirit liquid drops was not at all that amazing.
But this time around, under the double effects of the Spirit Surge Pill and the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art, he finally achieved the perfect nine spirit liquid drops.
Right then, Ye Yuan suddenly felt his divine soul quiver and a head-splitting pain transmitted over.
"Siiii . . . So painful! Is it starting?"
Condensing spirit liquid was only fulfilling half of the breakthrough to Spirit Condensation Realm. There was still another half, which was the baptism of the divine soul!
This was the true sense of the first qualitative change of the martial artist’s divine soul. It was of vital importance!
Crack . . . Crack . . .
The initially vast clear skies of the Endless Forest had an abrupt change and was covered up by layer upon layers of dark clouds.
Countless streaks of lightning flashed across the sky, while the sound of rolling thunder came from the far away to near.
"What happened? What’s going on?"
Su Yishan’s complexion turned ashen. He had never seen such abnormal weather and could instinctively sense that things were not quite right.
The feeling that this sudden change in the situation did not seem to have formed naturally. Rather, it seemed like a phenomenon brought about when some powerhouse broke through cultivation realms.
Yuan Fei’s eyes shone like he seemed to know what was happening. Hence, he lightly patted Nanfeng Zhirou’s shoulder, and his other hand picking up Su Yishan like a baby chick as he shot away even further in the distance.
This time around, Yuan Fei moved away even further away from Ye Yuan. A distance of several miles!
Smack!
Yuan Fei casually threw Su Yishan down, but his gaze was fixed firmly at the place Ye Yuan was breaking through.
Nanfeng Zhirou also caught up right then as she stared at Yuan Fei in total bewilderment. She really wanted to ask Yuan Fei just what in the world happened, but they were unable to communicate so Yuan Fei would not understand even if she asked.
But looking at Yuan Fei’s actions, could it be that the source of this phenomenon was actually Ye Yuan?
How was this possible?
Such a phenomenon was impossible to have even if one broke through to the Crystal Formation Realm, let alone breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm!
Just what on earth happened on Ye Yuan’s body?
Su Yishan picked himself up rather miserably and just happened to meet Nanfeng Zhirou’s baffled gaze. He involuntarily became pissed. "Don’t look at me; how would I know what happened? This Ye Yuan is a natural-born freak! Freak! Freak!"
Su Yishan did not dare to get mad at Yuan Fei, so he could only say ’freak’ three times consecutively to express his displeasure, and at the same time, conceal the deep shock within his heart.
Through Yuan Fei’s reaction, Su Yishan clearly also realized that the source of this phenomenon was Ye Yuan.
However, he just could not figure out how Ye Yuan could invoke such a horrifying phenomenon when he was merely breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm.
Nanfeng Zhirou was speechless for some time before she said, "Ye Yuan’s gathering qi and then liquefying it is already completed. Now, it should be the divine soul transformation. But would the divine soul transformation invoke such a phenomenon? Could it be due to him condensing seven spirit liquid drops?"
"I already said that I don’t know! Divine soul transformation is just symbolical. How can it possibly trigger such a phenomenon?" Su Yishan said crossly.
Nanfeng Zhirou thought about it for a long time and also could not come up with an explanation. She could only observe Ye Yuan’s movements closely.
. . . . . .
Meanwhile, over ten thousand miles away, at the Tranquil Cloud Sect, an old man filled with a sage-like bearing broke out of his seclusion and looked at the phenomenon in the distance with a grave expression.
"It’s over at the Endless Forest. What happened? Could another Tier 4 demonic beast be born? But it’s also not possible for Tier 4 demonic beasts to trigger such a phenomenon!"
. . . . . .
Somewhere deep in the Endless Forest, an elderly man who was only skin and bones looked at the phenomenon towering the skies with a similarly solemn expression!
"Which old demon broke through? Such a level of phenomenon is simply inconceivable! I’d better stay further away from him! Breaking through in the Endless Forest, doesn’t this fellow scared of provoking that old demon in there?"
Although the elderly man was very curious about what happened, he still turned around and left without looking back.
. . . . . .
Over at the other side of the Endless Forest, this place was hailed as a land forbidden to humans, the Ten Thousand Demons Valley. There were countless powerful demonic beasts within!
In the deepest part of the Ten Thousand Demons Valley, inside a cave, a youth actually sat there cross-legged.
The youth was presently training in meditation when he suddenly opened his eyes. He murmured to himself, "It’s the aura of a human! To think that such a heaven-defying existence appeared once again among the humans! What a pity! I’m also at the most critical juncture right now. Otherwise, I would go and meet him."
Finishing, the youth shut his eyes again, cutting off all of his senses.
. . . . . .
This instant, countless masters in the Endless World was startled by the phenomenon caused by Ye Yuan.
It was just that no matter how they thought, they did not imagine that such a level of phenomenon was caused by a puny little Spirit Condensation Realm.
However, Ye Yuan’s current body condition was not great.
"Siii . . . Why is the divine soul transformation in the Spirit Condensation Realm so painful?!"
Ye Yuan was currently experiencing a head-splitting pain, his divine soul feeling like it was being shredded, making him wish that he was dead.
Ye Yuan had the past experience of breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, so of course he knew what the Spirit Condensation Realm’s divine soul transformation was all about.
But now, this sort of agony had greatly surpassed his experience.
"Argh!!!"
Ye Yuan finally could not take it anymore. He clutched his own head and started rolling around on the ground in anguish.
In the distance, Nanfeng Zhirou who saw the situation was greatly alarmed. She was about to launch herself over when she was stopped by Yuan Fei.
"Ape King, can’t you see how much pain Ye Yuan is in? Quickly go and save him!" Nanfeng Zhirou was almost in tears.
Yuan Fei just shook his head and did not have any intention of heading over.
"Yuan Fei! Ye Yuan is your master! If something happens to him, you’ll also suffer retribution!" Nanfeng Zhirou threatened when she saw that she could not persuade Yuan Fei.
Yuan Fei waved his hands again and continued to be unmoved.
Nanfeng Zhirou saw Ye Yuan rolling around non-stop on the ground appearing like he was in increasingly tormenting pain and could no longer endure it. She raised a palm to attack Yuan Fei.
However, Yuan Fei’s speed was even greater than her’s. He directly gave a hand-chop to the back of Nanfeng Zhirou’s neck, and Nanfeng Zhirou promptly fainted.
Su Yishan who was watching at the sides was unclear what was going on. Did this Yuan Fei really want to see Ye Yuan die?
However, Yuan Fei did not give him much time to ponder. With the same hand-chop down, Su Yishan also fainted.
Finishing these, Yuan Fei seated on the ground and quietly watched Ye Yuan who was struggling on the ground.
The current Ye Yuan felt that his entire body was about to be ripped apart. Even as somebody who had been through two lives, he had never tasted this sort of feeling.
Ji Qingyun was an expert in terms of souls. Otherwise, it would not have been possible for him to become the youngest Alchemy Emperor.
However, he had never experienced this sort of torment even during his previous life where he broke through so many cultivation realms.
This was only breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm!
Ye Yuan’s mind was on the verge of being extinguished. During this time, it was the desire towards life which sustained him, making his soul preserve that last trace of clarity and eternity!
He, Ji Qingyun, wanted to take revenge!
He, Ji Qingyun, wanted to charge back to the Divine Realm and kill that traitor with his own hands!
Ji Canglan was still living well in the Divine Realm. How could he, Ji Qingyun, die just like this?
Ye Yuan was unresigned!
Using his last trace of clarity, Ye Yuan revolved the Thousand Augmenting Soul Incantation!
This was his first time revolving the Thousand Augmenting Soul Incantation in this lifetime. Because cultivating soul strength below the Spirit Condensation Realm did not hold any meaning whatsoever.
Even so, Ye Yuan’s familiarity towards the Thousand Augmenting Soul Incantation originated from the deepest parts of the soul!
In his previous life, he cultivated this technique countless times. This skill was akin to a part of his body!
In his previous life, Ji Qingyun did not hold much interest towards cultivation methods and was also uninterested in martial techniques. He was only infatuated with soul manuals!
As an alchemist, Ji Qingyun could not do without soul manuals!
However, the Thousand Augmenting Soul Incantation which had proved effective every time actually failed this time!
How was this possible?!
Arghhh! What’s going on?! Ye Yuan howled agonizingly in his mind.
The Thousand Augmenting Soul Incantation was an absolutely powerful soul cultivation method in the Divine Realm. Ji Qingyun and his father only became renown throughout the Divine Realm because of cultivating this technique.
But now, even the Thousand Augmenting Soul Incantation could not resolve the issue of the divine soul tearing?
It was but a one-time simple breakthrough. How could something like this happen?
Just as Ye Yuan was completely helpless and hovering on the edge of absolute despair, his divine soul once again underwent an abnormal change!
Numerous golden-colored unknown texts slowly drifted into Ye Yuan’s sea of consciousness, akin to the trickling of a stream, immediately nourishing Ye Yuan’s divine soul!
These golden texts were incomparably profound and mysterious. Each word vanished after entering Ye Yuan’s sea of consciousness, and Ye Yuan’s divine soul was also being repaired.
Gradually, the pain of the divine soul being torn apart lessened, all the way until it disappeared entirely.
However, the inflow of these gold texts did not end. They continued to enter Ye Yuan’s sea of consciousness. Not only did it fully mend Ye Yuan’s divine soul, it even nourished Ye Yuan’s divine soul, strengthening it slowly!
"Wh-what are these texts? To actually have such a miraculous effect?"
Even being an illustrious Alchemy Emperor in his previous life, Ye Yuan had never seen such an abstruse and abnormal thing before. Merely the texts itself could strengthen the divine soul. Just what kind of heaven-defying means was this?!
Could these texts be a soul cultivation method? Then if one grasped these texts, wouldn’t they become a heaven-defying existence?
Could it be that these texts had already transcended this world and were the legendary Divine Script?
For the sake of researching the Alchemy Path, Ye Yuan had read extensively on all books in his past life and learned countless languages.
But he actually could not recognize any of these golden words!
Where did these words come from? Why did they enter my sea of consciousness?
Ye Yuan was currently full of doubts and questions.
The breakthrough in cultivation realm this time was way too abnormal. It had already surpassed Ye Yuan’s understanding!
Ye Yuan’s divine soul no longer hurt anymore, but to his dismay, he discovered that he could not do anything. He could only let those texts enter his sea of consciousness freely.
Since he could not do anything, then Ye Yuan might as well just lay there and started to savor these golden texts.
With this bout of savoring, Ye Yuan immediately felt that these golden texts were out of the ordinary.
Between each brush and stroke, it divulged the allure of Dao. This was an indescribable sort of boundless feeling as if what these texts were currently describing was this stretch of Heaven and Earth!
This feeling even gave Ye Yuan an illusion of tearing through the firmament.
Ji Qingyun was formally a Divine King powerhouse, but his cultivation realm was completely piled up using medicinal pills. He did not necessarily have a very deep understanding of Heavenly Dao.
Even so, he was a genuine Divine King. His comprehension of the Heavenly Dao was extremely deep.
But when he looked at these texts, Ye Yuan felt that his understanding was worse than dog shit!
In front of these characters, Ye Yuan felt that his understanding of Heavenly Dao was just like a toddler learning how to walk.
Even if Ye Yuan could not understand them, the impact of the deep, resonant feeling of the boundless Great Dao contained within these words pierced deep into the soul!
"Could these words really be the Divine Script? An existence lording above Divine King? But . . . where did they come from? Could it be that these texts automatically entered my sea of consciousness with my one-time breakthrough to the Spirit Condensation Realm? But I didn’t step on sh*t today!"
Ye Yuan knew that he picked up a treasure!
With his knowledge and horizons, he naturally knew the extraordinariness of these words.
Even the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art was likely not as good when in front of these characters!
Even if these characters were not the legendary Divine Script, it was also an existence which could cause a frenzy in the entire Divine Realm!
Ye Yuan was certain that once somebody in the Divine Realm knew that he possessed these texts, they would tear his divine soul into shreds with any hesitation and use all kinds of methods to search it out from his sea of consciousness!
Even if they could not understand the contents of these texts, just placing it inside the sea of consciousness and giving it a look every day would be tremendously helpful to martial artists.
The maxim of Great Dao contained within these words might be able to . . . help lead martial artists towards the Deity Realm!
It’s the Deity Realm!
Just by thinking of these two words, Ye Yuan could not stop his body from trembling a little!
Which martial artist did not yearn for the Deity Realm?
Even Ji Qingyun who had no interest in the Martial Path in his previous life fervently pursued that legendary Alchemy God Realm!
To want to become an Alchemy God, first, one’s divine soul must step into the Deity Realm!
Without a deity level divine soul, how could one possibly refine out deity rank medicinal pills?
Presently, Ye Yuan could leap ranks to refine medicinal pills because these pills were too low leveled. The requirements towards divine soul were not high.
But as the level of the medicinal pill rose in tier, the difficulty of refining would also become increasingly difficult! Without the support of a powerful divine soul realm, it was impossible to refine them!
If not for the sake of letting the divine soul undergo a transformation, Ye Yuan would not even be bothered to advance to the Divine King realm.
The Deity Realm could absolutely drive all martial artists insane!
Ye Yuan produced a series of conjectures about these golden texts.
Firstly, could these golden texts be a soul cultivation method written using the Divine Script?
Highly probable!
That was because these texts could be used directly on the soul. Not only did it repair his damaged divine soul, it even nourished and strengthened his divine soul!
Secondly, if one could completely comprehend these golden characters, did that mean that they could break through the chains of heaven and earth and gain access to that Deity Realm which enraptured all?
Also possible!
But Ye Yuan felt that it might not be so easy.
The profundity of these golden texts could no longer be described using words. Even with Ye Yuan’s peerless talent, he was unable to comprehend one in ten-thousandth of it.
It was easier said than done to want to comprehend it thoroughly.
Apart from this, the reason for the Deity Realm to dwindle to zero was unknown. But most likely, it was not as easy to take that step as mastering a set of cultivation law. Even if this set of cultivation law was a Deity Realm cultivation method!
One hundred thousand years ago, all the Deity Realm powerhouses in the Divine Realm vanished overnight!
Nobody knew where they went and nobody knew why they disappeared. But ever since then, the Divine Realm had never given birth to another Deity Realm powerhouse!
Not just that, all the secrets involving the Deity Realm also seemed to have vanished overnight since then.
One hundred thousand years had passed and time had buried even more secrets in oblivion.
Today, nobody knew how to break through to the Deity Realm anymore.
In these hundred thousand years, there had been countless dazzlingly shocking geniuses who wanted to try all sorts of means to smash the fetters. In the end, it all came to naught.
There were even some unrivaled powerhouses who fell during midway, leaving behind infinite regrets.
Ji Qingyun had once been hailed as the genius figure most likely to break through to becoming an Alchemy God. But even that was only everyone’s flattery, or perhaps it was everyone’s affirmation of him.
Because nobody truly felt that he could genuinely break through to the Alchemy God realm.
That was because this was a hundred thousand year shackle! Nobody could break it apart!
While Ye Yuan’s imaginations were running wild, that sheet of golden texts already completely entered Ye Yuan’s sea of consciousness.
Just as Ye Yuan heaved a sigh of relief, his entire being was like he got shocked by lightning. His divine soul also shuddered as tears started flowing out . . .Inside Ye Yuan's sea of consciousness, two faint silhouettes stood as they faced each other.
Ye Yuan looked at this kindly but big and tall figure as he wept bitterly.
"I'm so stupid! I'm so stupid! I'm so stupid! I should have long thought of this! In this whole wide world, who would do all this for me except for you?"
Ye Yuan's tears covered his face as his emotions were virtually crumbling.
Ever since birth, Ye Yuan had always been calm and collected. He had never lost control of his emotions like this before.
He had buried the hatred at the bottom of his heart all along and placed all of his energy on cultivation. He only hoped to be able to charge back to the Divine Realm one day and kill that traitor!
But this time around, facing this person, he could no longer keep his cool.
This was the father who raised him, taught him alchemy, and taught him cultivation: the most powerful Alchemy Emperor in the Divine Realm, Ji Zhengyang!
A man would not shed tears easily unless his heart was broken!
Ji Zhengyang had an amiable appearance and did not develop a baleful aura from being murdered by that traitor. His gaze toward Ye Yuan was filled with tender love.
Ji Zhengyang smiled kindly and said, "Yun-er, to be able to see you reincarnate and get a new lease on life, Father is very comforted. Has all been well?"
"Good . . . Good. . . Everything has been good for this child. I just often miss Father very much." Ye Yuan choked.
"Haha, what's the point of missing a dead person? Since you have a new identity, a new life, you should go and live that new life. Don't wallow in the past. The Medicine King Hall is already the past. Things that had happened, just let them be," Ji Zhengyang smiled and said very nonchalantly.
"How can I? Father's debt of gratitude for raising me up, even if Yun-er is ground to dust, I wouldn't dare to forget! And that traitor, how can I dispel my grinding hatred if I don't tear his corpse to shreds?! Yun-er dare not forget the scene of Father's death! With heaven's grace, I, Ji Qingyun came back to life. How can I be considered human if I don't avenge this enmity?"
Ji Zhengyang stretched out an illusionary hand and lightly caressed Ye Yuan's head like the past.
Except, the current Ji Zhengyang was a remnant soul without a corporeal body. How could he touch Ye Yuan?
However, Ji Zhengyang did not seem to mind this. Although his hand passed through Ye Yuan and did not touch anything, his face still revealed a satisfied smile.
Seeing this scene, Ye Yuan felt like a knife was twisting in his heart.
"Oh Yun-er, you reviving is not some heaven's blessing. It's father who used a divine soul secret art to send you to the Lower Realms. But father did not send you to the Lower Realms to hope for you spend your days living in hatred and be blinded by hatred. That way, you would become a machine for revenge. That's not the outcome I wish to see!" Ji Zhengyang sighed and said.
Ye Yuan trembled, and his eyes were filled with disbelief.
Him reincarnating was actually due to father using a great arcane ability? How . . . How was this possible?
However, Ye Yuan suddenly thought of something and immediately said agitatedly, "Father, since you have this kind of powers, did you also arrange yourself to reincarnate? Where did you reincarnate? I . . . I'm going to find you!"
Ji Zhengyang smiled and said, "You're overthinking it, Yun-er. Ji Canglan schemed for such a long time, how could he give Father a chance for my divine soul to escape? Back then, Father already expended all my effort to send you away. It was only because he underestimated Father's strength that I could give you a slim chance of survival. At that time, my divine soul was almost entirely pulverized by him. It was at an extremely frail and weak state, but it did not dissipate. It was merely because his divine soul realm could not detect my presence. Hence, I concealed within the void and waited until he was killing you to execute an almighty deception secret art to make him think that your soul already dissipated. Then my remnant soul brought your divine soul to shuttle through the void and enter the Lower Realms."
Only now did Ye Yuan knew that his reincarnation was not accidental, but a feeble thread of hope sought out for him by Ji Zhengyang risking the complete exhaustion of his divine soul.
Ji Zhengyang described it easily, but Ye Yuan could feel the peril back then!
Ji Canglan's divine soul realm was not low, and it was absolutely impossible for him to not discover a remnant soul. Ji Zhengyang had to outsmart Ji Canglan's probing and go into hiding, and he also needed to execute the secret art to make Ji Canglan think that Ye Yuan was already dead. Then he shattered the void to bring Ye Yuan to the Lower Realms.
This process was an extremely huge drain on the divine soul.
If not to save him, Ji Zhengyang completely had the ability to escape alone!
With Ji Zhengyang's divine soul realm, reincarnating was not something hard.
However, Ji Zhengyang did not do so. Instead, he did everything he could to leave this thin thread of hope for him!
This was the choice made by a father before he died!
Such a father's love akin to mountains and oceans, how should Ye Yuan repay it?
He had no chance to!
If he could, Ye Yuan would rather that the person who died was him!
But Ye Yuan knew that his father's remnant soul could not hold on much longer.
This farewell would be forever!
"Father, I . . ." When Ji Zhengyang finished talking, Ye Yuan was already choking through sobs.
No one knew a man better than his own father. Ji Zhengyang had never doubted his son's filial piety. Hence, he smiled and said, "Yun-er, Father did not tell you all these to make you think about revenge and whatnot. I only wish for you to know that Father only hope you will live on well and not become a machine seeking revenge."
"But . . . But Ji Canglan is so treacherous. Are we going to let things go just like this?" Ye Yuan asked very unwillingly.
Ji Zhengyang shook his head and said, "Father did not mean that. I also know I can't stop your vengeance. You have your memories of your previous life. Ascending to the Divine Realm in the future is a certainty. You'll also meet Ji Canglan sooner or later. But father does not wish for you to be completely clouded by hatred. What's the difference between the such of you and a walking corpse? If you really kill Ji Canglan, then your life would completely lose meaning. At that time, you'll also lose yourself, and your cultivation realm will no longer advance too. Yun-er, you have to halt your footsteps to pay attention to the people around you. Don't let down their expectations of you. You . . . are no longer Ji Qingyun now!"
Ye Yuan's mind trembled. Images of Ye Hang, Ren Hongling, Lu-er, Nanfeng Ruoqing, Nanfeng Zhirou, Huyan Yon, Tang Yu, involuntarily appeared inside his head.
That's right. I'm no longer Ji Qingyun anymore! I'm currently Ye Yuan!
I have a family, teachers, and friends!
Ye Yuan sucked in a deep breath and nodded solemnly. "Father, this child understands! Be at ease, I'm still your son, Ji Qingyun! However, I'm also Ye Hang and Ren Hongling's son, Ye Yuan! I . . . won't disappoint you all!"
Ji Zhengyang had a smile in his eyes. Clearly, he was very pleased with his son.
In fact, he had always been very pleased with his son ever since his birth!
Even though they were separated by life and death today, it was enough for him to know that he was living on well.
"Haha, when has my Yun-er ever disappointed me? However, you have to promise father, in the future when you return to the Divine Realm, you have to act within your capability. Never forcefully do things. While Ji Canglan might be powerful, it's impossible for him to overturn the Medicine King Hall alone. There's definitely an even more powerful person behind him!" Ji Zhengyang warned him.
Ye Yuan nodded and said, "Relax Father. This Child knows what to do! Father, this Child will definitely step into the Deity Realm in this lifetime and attain the long-cherished wish from our previous life!"
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I decided to read this novel aloud to my father, after he was involved in an accident. On September 20, 2018 my father passed away. I will continue to read this novel. And leave this message on every chapter. I don’t know if I’ll still be reading this aloud dad, but I’ll be thinking of you when I read. I love you dad.
You know I was kind of angry at first. I mean 48 stones and he's still not done... I was quite annoyed the author decided to reaffirm his hatred and all that but it did get a little touching towards the end. Also kind of expected his old man to call him an unfilial son not wanting to get married. Wanting to see my grandchildren before my soul dissipates and all that. Lol
This chapter is burning hot with discussion!
Seeing Ye Yuan mention the Deity Realm, a yearning look also appeared on Ji Zhengyang's face.
"Deity Realm? That's truly a long-cherished wish! Yun-er, Father believes that you can crack this hundred thousand year mystery and step into the Deity Realm!"
Ji Zhengyang chose to believe Ye Yuan's wildly rampant words when he heard it without any hesitation at all.
"Father, you can actually send this child down to the Lower Realms to reincarnate. Just what realm did your divine soul reach?" Ye Yuan voiced out the query in his heart.
Ye Yuan's previous life's divine soul was also very powerful. Yet, he was unable to achieve reincarnation; let alone talked about resurrecting other people.
Therefore, he was very curious just how strong Father was, to actually let him resurrect!
Ji Zhengyang smiled and said, "As long as you properly study the Medicine God's Soul Canon, with your talent and perception, reaching my level is not something hard!"
"Medicine God's Soul Canon? Could it be those golden characters that entered my sea of consciousness?" Ye Yuan asked in amazement.
"That's right! Father's divine soul realm subsequently soared fiercely due to the effects of studying the Medicine God's Soul Canon daily."
"So that's how it is! No wonder Father can refine a half-step divine pill. So it's actually due to obtaining such a mystical arcane canon! Could it be that Father's divine soul really reached the legendary half-step Deity Realm?" Ye Yuan was incomparably shocked in his heart.
Ji Zhengyang shook his head and said with a smile, "What half-step divine pill? That's all concocted by Ji Canglan. That medicinal pill was at most slightly stronger than peak Tier 9 medicinal pills. How can it be worthy of being called a half-step divine pill? As for divine soul realm, I'm still very far away from half-step Deity Realm! If I reached the half-step Deity Realm, how could Ji Canglan have the opportunity to lay hands on me? However, the more I understand the Medicine God's Soul Canon, the more I feel that the Deity Realm is vague and abstruse!"
Ye Yuan was also formerly at Divine King realm. He could naturally sense the mythical and illusory allure of the Deity Realm.
But hearing Ji Zhengyang say that, he felt that the future would be riddled with difficulties.
This Medicine God's Soul Canon was so mystical, and it was actually unable to help Father step foot into the Deity Realm?
"Father, where did you get this Medicine God's Soul Canon from? Why have I never heard of it before?" Ye Yuan asked curiously.
"Father acquired this Medicine God's Soul Canon from the Godsfall Mountain Range. But this Medicine God's Soul Canon is only an incomplete canon. To this date, I also don't know its origins. When I obtained it, it was only a tattered book, very inconspicuous. But when I used divine sense to inspect it, these golden characters actually automatically imprinted within my divine soul. I was also unable to retrieve it. I could only study it every day, all the way until my divine soul realm had some breakthrough, then only I was barely able to control these golden characters," Ji Zhengyang explained.
"It's actually the Godsfall Mountain Range! No wonder! Roughly ten years ago or so before Father died, you joined hands with numerous Divine King powerhouses to barge into the Godfall Mountain Range together. I'm afraid that the Medicine God's Soul Canon was obtained during then, right?" Ye Yuan had a look of realization.
Divine King experts were indeed pinnacle existences in the Divine Realm. However, it was not like they could travel freely anywhere around the world.
In the Divine Realm, there were some forbidden places. Even if Divine King experts entered, just a moment of carelessness and there would be the risk of perishing!
The Godsfall Mountain Range was one of them!
As the name suggests, a place where even Deity Realm powerhouses had to perish, what did Divine King experts count for?
Of course, there was another saying about the Godsfall Mountain Range. Countless eons ago, an earth-shattering great war took place in that place. Those participating in the great war were all Deity Realm powerhouses! In that battle, many Deity Realm experts fell. Hence, that place was later called the Godsfall Mountain Range.
But too much time had passed. As for which saying was true, it could no longer be determined.
Only one thing was certain, that was the Godfall Mountain Range was an extremely perilous place but also a place with tremendous lucky chances!
This Medicine God's Soul Canon might have been a soul cultivation method left behind by some Deity Realm expert!
Ji Zhengyang nodded and said, "That's right, it was obtained back then. You have also seen the Medicine God's Soul Canon and should understand its allure. I was also unable to grasp these golden characters back then, so I temporarily did not tell you. Later on, when I planned to impart you the Medicine God's Soul Canon, that unexpected incident happened. Sigh . . . Truly fate makes a fool out of men! With your talent, if you were given several hundred years to comprehend the Medicine God's Soul Canon, you might really achieve Half-Deity Realm!
To Divine King experts, several hundred years was not considered long. It might just be the duration of a retreat.
For Ji Zhengyang to give Ye Yuan a time limit of merely several hundred years, it was clear just how confident he was in his son's talent!
But when Ye Yuan heard that, he said, "Father, perhaps this lifetime is my opportunity! In my previous life, I neglected the martial path. Even if I had acquired the Medicine God's Soul Canon, I might not be able to reach Half-Deity Realm. In this life, I'll pour my heart into the martial path and pursue that unparalleled Deity Realm. I absolutely won't let Father down!"
Ji Zhengyang smiled and said, "I naturally won't be disappointed. Father has already observed your new body. You cultivated very well, and your foundation is also very solid. You condensed nine spirit drops, and the divine soul transformation was also very flawless. As long as you take each step forward firmly, stepping into the Deity Realm in the future is definitely not a dream! Alright, time is almost up. Father should go. In the future when Father isn't by your side, you have to take good care of yourself!"
As he was talking, Ji Zhengyang's body became increasingly faint. This was the sign of a remnant soul about to vanish!
Ye Yuan's eyes instantly blurred once again. The father and son barely managed to reunite, yet, it was so fleeting.
This goodbye was forever!
Ye Yuan desperately tried to grab hold of Ji Zhenyang, but how could he clutch a remnant soul on the verge of disappearing?
"Don't worry, Father. This child has already grown up. I'll take good care of myself! I'll definitely step into the Deity Realm in the future. Even if I have to try every means, I'll definitely find a way to revive you!" Ye Yuan said with tears in his eyes.
"Haha, silly boy. Life and death are set by the heaven. You just . . . have to . . . live well by . . . yourself and . . . that would do . . ."
Ji Zhengyang's remnant soul gradually become fainter, hazier, and finally vanished into nothingness . . .
Once again watching his father leave him, Ye Yuan felt as if a knife was twisting in his heart. He only hated himself for being too weak. If he had Father's former strength, he could surely hold onto Father's divine soul and even revive him.
But right now, he was unable to do anything!
Ye Yuan once again experienced that sort of deep helplessness. He disliked this sort of feeling very much.
"I, Ye Yuan, must definitely step into the Deity Realm in this lifetime! The heartless heavens treat everything as straw dogs! I, Ye Yuan, have to carve out my own Great Dao and oppose this Heaven!"
At this point, Ye Yuan already returned to reality. Ye Yuan howled at the skies.
At this point, Ye Yuan's breakthrough to the Spirit Condensation Realm was finally completed!
The heaven and earth phenomenon faded away as if it had never appeared.
Yuan Fei brought the unconscious Nanfeng Zhirou and Su Yishan in front of Ye Yuan. Ye Yuan had not yet completely recovered from his grief. Seeing Su Yishan, his killing intent involuntarily surged!
"I . . . What happened to me? Ah! Ye Yuan! You’re fine; that’s great!"
Nanfeng Zhirou slowly woke up. Seeing Ye Yuan safe and sound, she could not help being overjoyed.
Unknowingly, Nanfeng Zhirou’s concern towards Ye Yuan had already become an involuntary habit.
"Hur hur, it’s just breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm; what could happen?" Ye Yuan forcefully pressed down the grief in his heart and said with a forced smile.
"But you really frightened people to death just now; rolling on the ground while clutching your head, I even thought you . . . I saw your distressing appearance and wanted to come over to help you, but I was knocked unconscious by this fellow! Humph! " Nanfeng Zhirou pointed at Yuan Fei and said with a displeased look.
If not for Yuan Fei being too powerful, she probably would have swung her sword over at this time.
"He’s right in not letting you come over, so don’t blame him anymore. My divine soul transformation is different from others. I’ll experience a type of special baptism, that’s why it’s so painful. Earlier, the several dozen feet radius around me was extremely dangerous. Your divine soul would have suffered injuries if you came over rashly," Ye Yuan explained.
Nanfeng Zhirou looked at Ye Yuan with suspicion and then looked at Yuan Fei. "Really?"
"Of course it’s true. If not, you can feel my soul strength, and you’ll know that what I said isn’t false."
As he spoke, Ye Yuan released his soul strength. Yuan Fei and Nanfeng Zhirou clearly felt that surge of soul strength.
"You . . . You. . . You. . . actually directly broke through to middle-rank Alchemy Master’s soul strength?" Nanfeng Zhirou had a face as if she saw a ghost. Even her speech became stammers.
By the side, Yuan Fei also found it unexpected. Two ape eyeballs flickered. Clearly, he was also very surprised.
Under normal circumstances, a martial artist’s soul strength followed their cultivation realm. The level of cultivation would possess a matching soul strength, apart from those people with naturally powerful divine souls.
Before Ye Yuan’s broke through, his divine soul was roughly the same as the average person. Even if he went through divine soul transformation, it should have only been to the extent of low-rank Alchemy Master soul strength. How could he directly possess middle-rank Alchemy Master soul strength?
Ye Yuan smiled and said, "Didn’t I say just now? My divine soul transformation is different from others. Having experienced such a painful divine soul baptism, what I obtained was naturally more than others."
"But . . . But. . . if you possess middle-rank Alchemy Master soul strength, wouldn’t you be able to directly refine high-grade Tier 2 medicinal pills?" Nanfeng Zhirou exclaimed in shock.
She recalled that Ye Yuan could refine Tier 2 medicinal pills when he was at the Fourth Level Essence Qi Realm. Then did that not mean that he possessed the strength of a high-rank Alchemy Master at minimum currently?
Wasn’t this too quick?
"High-grade Tier 2? Even if I didn’t reach middle-rank Alchemy Master soul strength, that’s also not an issue."
To Ye Yuan, these medicinal pills from the State of Qin had no challenge at all. Refining high-grade Tier 2 medicinal pills were too easy.
The real challenge was those medicinal pills which surpassed high-grade Tier 2. If Ye Yuan’s soul strength did not have a breakthrough, there might really be some difficulties in refining it.
After all, Tier 2 medicinal pills were way harder than Tier 1 medicinal pills. To go even further by leaping ranks to refine medicinal pills, the difficulty naturally also increased.
Nanfeng Zhirou sucked in a deep breath before saying, "Su Yishan was really spot-on about something."
Ye Yuan was stunned and asked, "What did he say about me?"
"You’re a freak! Freak! Freak!"
It was rare for Nanfeng Zhirou to acknowledge something Su Yishan said because each and everything that happened on Ye Yuan’s body could not be described using the word ’normal,’ so it could only be described using ’freak.’
Ye Yuan chuckled and said, "How rare for Su Yishan’s appraisal of me to be so high. In order to thank him, I’ll give him a chance to fight fairly!"
Nanfeng Zhirou was greatly startled when she heard that and quickly said, "You aren’t really going to go one-on-one with him, right? You just broke through! With Yuan Fei and me around, you don’t have to be swayed by personal feelings!"
The meaning of that was that Ye Yuan was obviously not Su Yishan’s match.
Nanfeng Zhirou’s thinking was not wrong. Although she knew that Ye Yuan was very strong and he was surely even more impressive after breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, he had just broken through after all, and Su Yishan was three minor realms higher than him. This distance could not be compensated so easily.
Nanfeng Zhirou knew that after the Spirit Condensation Realm, jumping ranks to battle would be even more difficult because the disparity between each minor realm was even greater.
A three spirit liquid drops First Level Spirit Condensation Realm and a Second Level Spirit Condensation Realm who likewise condensed three spirit liquid drops, there was a whole three spirit liquid drops difference between them. That also meant that the difference in essence energy quantity between them was 100%!
It was very hard to compensate for this sort of disparity without heaven-defying methods!
Between Ye Yuan and Su Yishan, there was a full three minor realms gap between them. There was even a minor stage in-between.
The disparity in-between was too big!
Ye Yuan just smiled and said, "Relax, I know what I’m doing."
Right then, Su Yishan also slowly awakened.
Seeing Ye Yuan’s currently sizing him up with ill intentions, his heart shivered for no reason.
"Come on, Su Yishan! I said that I’ll give you the chance to duel me. Now, let’s carry out a one-on-one deathmatch!" Ye Yuan’s words carried an imposing air as if he showed disdain on everyone.
"You . . . You really want to go one-on-one with me?" Su Yishan clearly also did not dare to believe it.
Ye Yuan’s advantage over here was too clear. There was simply no need to do this sort of foolish thing.
"What? You’re unwilling?" Ye Yuan’s tone turned icy.
"Willing! Of course I’m willing!" Su Yishan hurriedly responded.
At this point, he already had no choice. Since Ye Yuan himself was being stupid, then wouldn’t he be as dumb as Ye Yuan if he did not grasp this opportunity well?
It was just that he was worried Ye Yuan merely only using him to measure his strength, and he would still make Yuan Fei kill him in the end.
If it were him, he would definitely do that.
"You don’t have to worry; Yuan Fei and Senior Apprentice Sister Nanfeng won’t attack! As long as you can kill me, you can leave this place. I’ll make Yuan Fei hold back Senior Apprentice Sister Nanfeng and not let her attack," Ye Yuan saw through Su Yishan’s concerns and said calmly.
"Ye Yuan, you!" Nanfeng Zhirou immediately jumped up but was held back by Yuan Fei.
Su Yishan could not help becoming ecstatic when he saw this scene.
These few days had been too aggrieved for him. Having lived for nearly twenty years, he had never suffered such injustice before!
"Haha . . . Ye Yuan, you asked for it yourself, then don’t blame me for not holding back! You aren’t naïve enough to think that you’re really my match after just breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, right? One-on-one isn’t the time for being a training partner anymore!" Su Yishan laughed madly.
Ye Yuan said nonchalantly, "So much crap. Come on!"
"You’re courting death, Ye Yuan!" Su Yishan gritted his teeth and attacked Ye Yuan with a punch.
If in the past, Ye Yuan would definitely evade this punch at the first moment. But now, Ye Yuan did not run or dodge, he directly struck out with an Eighth Layer Wave. The two of them clashed together!
Rumble!
After an intense collision, the pair each retreated several steps.
An incredulous shock was written all over Su Yishani’s face. "Didn’t you just broke through to the Spirit Condensation Realm? How can you be this strong?!"Su Yishan was all too familiar with Ye Yuan’s moves!
Stacking Waves Layered Palm, Eighth Layered Wave!
But the question was how could the Eighth Layered Wave have such incredible power?
It was actually not at a disadvantage when clashing with his palm!
No matter how strong the Eighth Layered Wave was, it was just a Tier 1 martial technique.
Ye Yuan had just broken through to the Spirit Condensation Realm. A First Level Spirit Condensation Realm using a Tier 1 martial technique could actually have a draw with a Fourth Level Spirit Condensation Realm martial artist like him?
Since when were Tier 1 martial techniques so powerful?
Since when were First Level Spirit Condensation Realms so strong?
Ye Yuan curled his lips and said with displeasure, "Indeed, Tier 1 martial techniques are no longer suitable!"
Ye Yuan had just broken through to the Spirit Condensation Realm. Apart from the movement technique Spirit Void Shattering Space, all his martial techniques including the Absolute Yang Finger were all Tier 1 martial techniques.
Using a Tier 1 martial technique to battle a Fourth Level Spirit Condensation Realm was clearly not quite enough.
That clash just now looked to be evenly-matched, but in reality, he was at a clear disadvantage.
The impact Ye Yuan suffered was much greater than Su Yishan’s. The distance he retreated was also farther.
Nanfeng Zhirou also had her mouth wide open when she saw this scene and no longer struggled in Yuan Fei’s arms.
It was very clear that this scene gave her a similarly huge shock.
Even though that palm from Su Yishan just now was not his strongest move, he did not hold back any strength.
Middle-rank Tier 2 martial technique plus Fourth Level Spirit Condensation Realm strength; no matter how one looked at it, the outcome should be Ye Yuan heavily injured and puking blood. However, Ye Yuan merely moved back a few steps.
Nanfeng Zhirou suddenly thought of something and asked out loud, "Ye Yuan, just how many drops of spirit liquid did you condense?"
With Nanfeng Zhirou asking, Su Yishan also perked up his ears. He was also very curious whether it was seven drops or eight drops.
Ye Yuan did not turn his head back and just said casually, "Nine drops."
Su Yishan’s eyes popped out. "Ni-nine drops? Impossible! How can there possibly be a person who can condense out nine spirit liquid drops in this world and not have their dantian burst?"
Ye Yuan said calmly, "You don’t know, doesn’t mean that there isn’t. The State of Qin is merely a small place. You are but a frog at the bottom of a well."
"What kind of joke is this? I don’t believe it! Frog at the bottom of a well? You said it like you aren’t someone from the State of Qin! Haha, I know, you must have only condensed seven drops and want to make yourself look good. Either that or you’re trying to shake my state of mind!"
Not that Su Yishan was unwilling to believe, but because nine spirit liquid drops were truly even more mythical than legends. The way he perceived it, it was completely impossible to appear.
And yet, Ye Yuan said he condensed nine spirit liquid drops, shattering the absolute of Su Yishan’s knowledge. Hence, he chose to not believe.
But deep down inside, a discordant voice was telling Su Yishan that what Ye Yuan said was true!
Otherwise, how could one explain why Ye Yuan could pair a Tier 1 martial technique with his First Level Spirit Condensation Realm and be equally matched with him?
Even though Su Yishan had never seen seven spirit liquid drops martial artists, he knew that it was absolutely impossible for seven spirit liquid drops martial artists to possess such a powerful strength!
That was to say, Ye Yuan condensed at least eight spirit liquid drops, maybe even the nine drops which Su Yishan was reluctant to admit!
"I was just stating a fact, not to make you believe it. It doesn’t matter whether you believe it or not; the outcome won’t change," Ye Yuan said indifferently.
"Humph! I don’t believe you then! No matter how monstrous you are, you’re just at the First Level Spirit Condensation Realm. Can you oppose the heaven?" Su Yishan said indignantly.
After that, Su Yishan rushed forward and collided together with Ye Yuan.
The pair’s movement techniques were quick to the extreme. They turned into two streaks of afterimages and clashed together non-stop. In a blink, they had crossed over a dozen exchanges!
Su Yishan’s movement technique goes without saying. He also trained in a high-grade Tier 2 movement technique, not at all inferior to Nanfeng Zhirou’s Spirit Swallow Dance!
However, after Ye Yuan broke through to the Spirit Condensation Realm and had the support of immense essence energy, the true might of the first stage of the Spirit Void Shattering Space also emerged!
His speed was actually even slightly faster than Su Yishan!
Outsiders could not tell, but Su Yishan’s senses were incomparably clear.
Just because of that tiny bit, his attack was forever half a beat slower than Ye Yuan’s. This also resulted in him being unable to unleash his full power each time.
Ye Yuan’s Eighth Layer Wave and Absolute Yang Finger were Tier 1 martial techniques with tremendous power. Especially the Absolute Yang Finger, its power could no longer be mentioned in the same breath as it was during the Essence Qi Realm.
While it could not cause real harm to Su Yishan, it made him unable to leave it unrestrained.
Ye Yuan made use of this half a beat advantage coupled with the powerful might of the Absolute Yang Finger and the Eighth Layered Wave to forcefully fight Su Yishan to a draw!
This sort of feeling made Su Yishan so depressed that he wanted to vomit blood.
Currently, he was somewhat regretting playing such large stakes with Ye Yuan. He should have used his most powerful move right from the start and fight Ye Yuan to the death.
Under the current situation, it was no longer possible even if he wanted to withdraw from the fight.
It was like Ye Yuan went mad. He pestered him dead from the start till the end without giving him any chance to catch his breath.
"Damn it! To think that his movement technique is so strong. I fell for his trick!" Su Yishan silently cursed as he dealt with things.
His present thoughts were very simple. To find a chance to break free from the battle and then unleash a big move!
However, Ye Yuan just refused to give him this chance.
The current Ye Yuan was like an old bull which did not know fatigue. All his moves ’greeted’ Su Yishan’s body like a raging tempest.
Having just parted forever with his father, Ye Yuan’s heart carried boundless grief. He turned this sorrow into battle power and unleashed it all on Su Yishan’s body!
The current Su Yishan was just the target to vent the emotions in his heart.
Just like this, the two of them exchange over a hundred rounds in a hundred breaths of time!
Boom!
Another clash, but this time the pair separated.
Ye Yuan finally gave up his entanglement with Su Yishan. The negative emotions in his heart were almost vented finish.
After pulling apart, the pair were panting heavily. Clearly, such high-frequency clashes were very taxing on their stamina and essence energy.
After panting a few times, Su Yishan recovered first. He said furiously to Ye Yuan, "Ye Yuan, don’t think that you’re very impressive just because your movement technique is fast! If you have the capability, try breaking apart this move of mine for me to see!"
Finishing, Su Yishan raised both palms towards the skies. It was precisely the starting motion of the Heaven Flipping Palm!
Su Yishan was already at the Fourth Level Spirit Condensation Realm. Displaying the Heaven Flipping Palm right now could no longer be mentioned in the same breath as back in the academy!
An astonishing aura undulated out. It actually made people feel that the sky was rent asunder and the earth was split open.
Ye Yuan breathed in deeply and recollected his feelings. He took out the Canghua Sword and said lightly, "The warmup exercise is already done. Now, I’ll send you on your way with the Nine Swords Stance which was completed because of you guys’ assassination!"
Finishing, his silhouette split, and nine Ye Yuans appeared in front of Su Yishan’s eyes.
Su Yishan’s pupils involuntarily shrunk when he saw the situation. He did not expect that Ye Yuan was actually still hiding such a formidable move!
Chang One’s fight only lasted for an instant. Back then, he was battling with Nanfeng Zhirou and did not witness how Ye Yuan avoided the assassination.
Also, during the subsequent spars, Ye Yuan did not use this move either.
No matter how one looked at this, the nine silhouettes gave Su Yishan an enormous shock!
A terrifying sword intent similarly undulated out, clashing with Su Yishan’s aura. It was actually not at a disadvantage at all.
Su Yishan had an extremely strong impression of this sword intent.
Back then, for Liu Ruoshui, Su Yishan was put into a sorry state by Ye Yuan. It was due to being struck by this sword intent.
However, the current Azure Dipper Floating Zero Sword Art could not be mentioned in the same breath as it originally was anymore.
Ye Yuan’s sword intent realm was exceedingly high. It was just that he did not have the essence energy to match it.
The Ye Yuan today had already broken through to the Spirit Condensation Realm and condensed nine spirit liquid drops. Displaying the might of the Azure Dipper Floating Zero Sword Art would naturally be several levels higher than what it was in the Essence Qi Realm!
Ye Yuan no longer lined up in a straight line when he executed the Nine Swords Stance this time, but instead, it was nine disorganized figures.
After the Nine Swords Stance was completed, Ye Yuan could already freely display these nine silhouettes and also freely control the timing of releasing the sword beams.
This way, the might of the Nine Swords Stance would be much greater.
The sword beams released by the nine disorderly silhouettes would be much harder to defend than if they lined up in a row.
Also, Ye Yuan now could freely adjust the entire sword beam releasing duration according to the opponent’s situation.
This alteration in rhythm was the hardest to be on guard against.
If the opponent was not overwhelmingly more powerful than Ye Yuan, then how could they defend the second sword beam when they had just blocked one sword beam and not mustered up new strength?
This was the greatest aspect of this Nine Swords Stance that Ye Yuan created!
Powerful sword intent synchronizing with multi-varied attacks could let Ye Yuan’s power soar once again!
Su Yishan instinctively sensed that things were not right. But right now, it was like a notched arrow that had to be released.
Since he could not differentiate which was Ye Yuan’s true body, he would just directly sweep across with the wind from his palm!
With his powerful strength of Fourth Level Spirit Condensation Realm, he would directly crush Ye Yuan!
Even if Ye Yuan had condensed nine spirit liquid drops, the disparity between them was still enormous. If he did not make good use of this advantage, then he would have completely no chance of victory at all today.
The Heaven Flipping Palm by itself held incredible power. Among the Su Family’s Tier 2 martial techniques, it was also a pinnacle existence.
After breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, Su Yishan had faith that he could rely on the Heaven Flipping Palm to crush Fifth Level Spirit Condensation Realm martial artists!
Su Yishan was indeed a genius. He also had rich experience in being in critical situations and was not those sort of flowers which grew up in a greenhouse.
But sadly . . . he met Ye Yuan!
Just as he was prepared to release the Heaven Flipping Palm, his brain suddenly blanked out. His divine soul sunk into a disoriented and hazy state!
However, Su Yishan rapidly regained consciousness.
Except that when experts exchange blows, that split second of delay was ample to cause lethality.
The nine sword beams whistled out and arrived in front of Su Yishan dazzlingly. Su Yishan only regained consciousness at this time. It was already too late to want to circulate his strength to defend.
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh.
Nine sword beams struck Su Yishan’s body solidly and instantly broke his protective essence energy, destroying his internal organs.
What happened . . . This was the last thought that went through Su Yishan’s mind. But he would never know.
Nanfeng Zhirou swallowed hard and felt somewhat parched.
What in the world happened just now? She also really wanted to know.
At that final moment just now, Su Yishan clearly hesitated for a bit. Just that short moment cost him his life.
But in that sort of life and death juncture, why would he waver? Was this any different from suiciding?
Nanfeng Zhirou knew that it was definitely something Ye Yuan did. But she did not know what method he used.
Speaking of which, after Su Yishan broke through in cultivation realm, he was actually already on par with her. Ye Yuan could kill Su Yishan, so he naturally also had the ability to kill her.
Nanfeng Zhirou unwittingly thought back to two months ago, that scene where she almost killed Ye Yuan.
Just two months and he already caught up, even surpassed her?
To think that she, Nanfeng Zhirou, had always boasted she was a genius. But in front of Ye Yuan, she was nothing!
"Senior Apprentice Sister Nanfeng? Senior Apprentice Sister Nanfeng?"
"Uh, ah? What is it?" Nanfeng Zhirou only reacted after Ye Yuan called out twice in a row.
"It’s late. We should go."
It had already been five to six days since they entered the Endless Forest and Ye Yuan still had two medicinal herbs which he had not acquired.
Since this matter was settled, he naturally did not want to continue delaying.
If not for the fact that he needed to break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, Ye Yuan would have long let Yuan Fei kill Su Yishan and would not have let so many things happen.
Nanfeng Zhirou followed behind Ye Yuan somewhat dejectedly, utterly unlike her usual self.
Along the way, the two were very silent. Neither opened their mouth to speak.
After four hours, Nanfeng Zhirou finally could not resist and opened her mouth to ask, "Ye Yuan, don’t you have anything you want to ask?"
"When you want to talk, you’ll obviously say it. If you don’t want to talk, then it’s also meaningless if I ask." Ye Yuan just replied nonchalantly without turning his head back.
Nanfeng Zhirou glared at Ye Yuan’s back view somewhat resentfully and said discontentedly with pouting lips, "Tch, this guy who doesn’t understand women! This Princess will talk about it, alright? My father is Nanfeng Yi. I’m called Nanfeng Zhirou. My aunt is called Nanfeng Ruoqing. My father is the ruler of the State of Qin. Is this fine?"
"I already knew this long ago."
"I know that you are aware, but you should at least show me your attitude, right?"
Nanfeng Zhirou was so exasperated by Ye Yuan that she gritted her teeth and halted her steps to stomp her feet. She shouted loudly at Ye Yuan’s back view, "Hiding our identities from you is my aunt and my fault, but we also have difficulties that we can’t say. It’s so inconvenient to enter the academy with my aunt and my identity. That’s why we concealed our surnames. Initially, I also planned on telling you when we get back, but didn’t I not have the opportunity this whole time?"
Ye Yuan also stopped and turned around. Looking at Nanfeng Zhirou, he suddenly smiled and said, "Senior Apprentice Sister Nanfeng is thinking too much. If I really have any attitude, I would have long left you behind and ignored you and not stand here talking to you. Not having an attitude is the best attitude."
Nanfeng Zhirou bit her lips and then said angrily, "Then why didn’t you say that earlier. I even thought that you were really angry."
"You also didn’t ask me," Ye Yuan replied very innocently.
Nanfeng Zhirou thought about it and felt so too. It seemed like it had just been her imagining all sorts of things from the start. She had not even asked this fellow.
Perhaps even this matter of concealing their identities did not count as something in this guy’s heart?
"Fine then. I was the one who imagined things! Then you tell me. When you killed Su Yishan, why did he slow down by half a beat?"
Nanfeng Zhirou had a carefree personality. Knowing that Ye Yuan was not angry, this matter was directly filtered out by her.
Nanfeng Zhirou became that unruly little princess once again.
"About that . . . It’s a divine soul mystic art, the God Stunning Spike. It can make people lose focus for a short period of time," Ye Yuan did not have any intention of hiding it and said it directly.
"Divine soul mystic art! You actually even know divine soul mystic arts!" Nanfeng Zhirou exclaimed in astonishment.
"This is just the shallowest type of divine soul mystic art. What’s there to get excited about?"
Not that Ye Yuan was posturing, but this God Stunning Spike was really the crudest one among the divine soul mystic arts he knew.
The God Stunning Spike was just a simple way of using soul strength to attack the opponent’s divine soul. It was not all that profound.
If Su Yishan were prepared beforehand, Ye Yuan would not even have succeeded.
After all, Ye Yuan only had middle-rank Alchemy Master soul strength; it was roughly the same as Su Yishan.
This attack of his took him by surprise.
Of course, divine soul mystic arts were not much to Ye Yuan. But in mortal countries like the State of Qin, it was absolutely an exceedingly rare existence.
Even if it was the crudest type of divine soul mystic art!
When the State of Qin’s martial artists fought, they would not even think of the other party using divine soul mystic arts, because this thing was too rare.
Hence, martial artists who possessed divine soul mystic arts tend to succeed in sneak attacks.
It was just that too few people knew it; so scarce that there simply wasn’t any need to be on guard against it. There was no need to go so far as to be on guard against the opposing party’s divine soul mystic art every time one fought a battle. Being distracted like that was, on the contrary, a big taboo.
"Yeah, I should have thought of it long ago. Other than divine soul mystic arts, how could Su Yishan have made this kind of low-level mistake?" Nanfeng Zhirou muttered.
Ye Yuan turned to go. Nanfeng Zhirou quickly recovered and hurriedly chased after, grabbing hold of Ye Yuan and said, "Ye Yuan, teach me this divine soul mystic art, okay?"
But Ye Yuan shook his head and said, "Not okay!"
Seeing Nanfeng Zhirou’s face change instantly, Ye Yuan quickly said, "Right now, your matter at hand is to cultivate the Water Defying Incantation. Wasting time on other matters would only delay your cultivation. After your Water Defying Incantation is completed, I’ll teach you an even stronger one!"
Only now did Nanfeng Zhirou’s rage transform into joy as she said, "You were the one who said it! If at that time, you don’t teach me, I will . . . I will . . ."
Nanfeng Zhirou said "I will" for a long time and could not think of an even better threat.
Ye Yuan’s strength was already no longer beneath hers. What could she threaten Ye Yuan with?
"Relax. I have plenty of divine soul mystic arts. As long as you can cultivate to a sufficient realm, I have as many as you want! Let’s go!" Ye Yuan said very generously.
The previous life’s Ye Yuan virtually gave up on the Martial Path but had researched quite a bit in terms of divine soul. Therefore, he also cultivated many divine soul mystic arts.
Of course, the aim of him cultivating the divine soul was still for alchemy. These divine soul mystic arts helped Ye Yuan to better understand the divine soul. He naturally enjoyed it tirelessly.
. . . . . .
A day later, Ye Yuan brought Nanfeng Zhirou and Yuan Fei to the Gray Pine Forest to harvest the Pine Yang Fruit.
This place obviously also had powerful demonic beasts to guard it. However, it was merely a Tier 2 demonic beast.
Ye Yuan released Yuan Fei, and that demonic beast immediately started quaking. It did not reveal the slightest hostility from the start till the end.
The hierarchy in the demonic beast world was more stringent. When a Tier 2 demonic beast faced a Tier 3 demonic beast, there was only the word ’submission.’
Obtaining the Pine Yang Fruit effortlessly, Ye Yuan and the rest rushed to the Blackwater Ravine. It was also the habitat of the Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python.
The Blackwater Ravine was to the east of the Crimson Summit Ridge, roughly over a thousand miles away. It was six hundred miles from the borders of the Endless Forest and also an extremely perilous land.
But to the current Ye Yuan, it was not all that dangerous.
With a Tier 3 demonic beast following by his side, he could go anywhere he wanted to in the thousand mile radius of the Endless Forest.
However, Ye Yuan normally would not let Yuan Fei follow by his side, but made him stay inside the spatial artifact.
Not only there were many students participating in the trial inside the Endless Forest, but there were also even more demonic beasts hunters. If they encountered anyone, they could only silence them permanently.
Ye Yuan did not wish to murder innocents, so it was better to lay low.
Also, Ye Yuan had the intention of tempering himself when he entered the Endless Forest. If he made Yuan Fei take the front for everything, it would lose the meaning of tempering.
A day later, Ye Yuan and Nanfeng Zhirou finally arrived at the Blackwater Ravine.
This place had babbling brooks with a beautiful forest. It was quite a nice place to go to.
The six hundred mile region is a boundary. Here, Tier 1 demonic beasts and Tier 2 demonic beasts mingled together.
Of course, this was also not an absolute assumption.
However, that martial artist which Ye Yuan treated was pretty unlucky. To have encountered the Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python here could be considered super lucky.
According to the description by that martial artist, Ye Yuan determined that Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python might be Middle Stage Tier 2. This strength might not require Yuan Fei to come out. He might be able to handle it himself.
But Ye Yuan did not dare to be negligent. The Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python did not only have a formidable poisonous breathe, but its fleshy body was also very powerful. If one were to accidentally brush past by it, they would definitely suffer.
"According to the records, this Blackwater Ravine was originally a late-stage Tier 1 demonic beast’s territory. But who knew when it became occupied by the Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python. I reckon that there must be something that the Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python likes here. Otherwise, it would not cling to this place. We might even obtain something nice." Ye Yuan transmitted his voice to Nanfeng Zhirou.
Nanfeng Zhirou was already long used to Ye Yuan’s encyclopedic knowledge. She just asked, "Then what do we do now? Lure it out and kill it?"
Ye Yuan shook his head and said, "No rush. Let’s sneak inside and check out the situation first."
The pair swallowed the Breath Concealing Pill and quietly sneaked into the Blackwater Ravine.
Traversing past layers of the dense forest, the two finally arrived close to the stream of water.
But right at that moment, from an empty space beside the stream, a series of intense fighting clamors sounded out.
Ye Yuan pulled aside the tree leaves to sneak a glance and actually saw two demonic beasts currently in the midst of a fierce battle.
One of them was a black python, roughly ten foot long. Looking closely, one could see that there was indeed a seven-colored stripe at its vital point. It was precisely the Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python!
And the other demonic beast was a mighty white tiger; similarly a Tier 2 demonic beast.
Except that the white tiger’s strength was a stage lower than the Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python; just low-stage Tier 2.
The battle between the two was very intense. However, the Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python clearly held the absolute upper-hand. That white tiger was currently already covered in injuries.
Bright red blood completely dyed that body of white fur, making it look very miserable.
However, that white tiger seemed to be very stubborn. It refused to take even a step back despite being injured to such an extent. Instead, it roared and took the initiative to attack the Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python.
That manner of appearance showed that it clearly intended on taking it down with it.
"Ye Yuan, why doesn’t that white tiger run away when it can’t beat it?" Nanfeng Zhirou transmitted. Evidently, she also found it very strange.
Ye Yuan shook his head slightly and similarly transmitted his voice. "No idea. Maybe it has some reason that it can’t retreat?"
"Demonic beasts also have reasons? I think it’s just stupid and just have to fight to the death with that python. Could they be snatching territories? Such severe injuries, even if it wins, it most likely won’t be able to survive."
"All life has spirituality. Even demonic beasts have feelings. You’ve also seen Yuan Fei. Low-tier demonic beasts don’t have such complex emotions. But it refuses to fall back despite knowing that it’s no match for it. I’m afraid that it really has its reasons."
While speaking, Ye Yuan pulled the tree leaves aside even more. The pair’s visual field became even wider.
Entering their sight was a tiny white tiger the size of a cat was currently quivering there.
Nanfeng Zhirou could not contain her surprise as she turned to look at Ye Yuan.
The little white tiger bared its fangs as the fur on its entire body stood on its ends. A low cat-like roar even came out of its mouth every now and then. No matter how one looked at it, it looked very cute.
And yet, under this sort of tragic circumstance, the little white tiger’s roar seemed to be so helpless and pitiful.
Ye Yuan’s heart shuddered for no reason as if he saw the former him.
"Ye Yuan, let’s save that white tiger? Look at that little white tiger. It’s really so pitiful." At this time, Nanfeng Zhirou’s words sounded out by Ye Yuan’s ears.
Ye Yuan turned to look but saw that Nanfeng Zhirou’s face was already covered in tears. Clearly, she was deeply touched by that white tiger’s profound parental love.
Under this sort of situation, it was obvious that waiting for the white tiger and the Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python to fight until both were heavily injured would be the best, but Ye Yuan really could not do it.
Ye Yuan did not say anything. He just nodded slowly and took out the Canghua Sword, saying to Nanfeng Zhirou, "The weak point of the Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python is that seven-colored flower. This is the high ground; an excellent place for ambushing. I’ll go down and lure it over here, you find an opportunity to kill it in one blow!"
Nanfeng Zhirou nodded with all her might. The current her was also filled with a powerful resentment towards that python.
At the moment, the black python and white tiger was intoxicated with the intense battle. The white tiger suffered setbacks repeatedly, but it refused to back even one step.
The white tiger was already an arrow at the end of its flight. It only relied on a single obsession to forcefully hold on and not collapse.
That black python locked onto an opening and shot forward abruptly, directly targeting the white tiger’s lower jaw.
The white tiger’s actions already could not keep up with the black python at all any longer. If this bite landed, the white tiger will die without any doubt!
Right at this time, a white light sneak attacked the black python’s face with lightning speed.
This happened too suddenly, the black python was unable to react to it at all. The white light directly struck its eye.
Phhssstt!
The black python’s eyes instantly became a bloody mess.
An awful shrill cried out. The black python rolled on the ground in pain. The enormous body twisted non-stop and its tail swept around randomly filled with attack power.
Even Ye Yuan did not dare to rush up rashly at this time. He just gave the dying white tiger a look.
The white tiger gazed towards Ye Yuan with full of gratitude.
The little white tiger saw that the black python suffered injuries and plucked up its courage to come over to its mother’s side. It used its tiny tongue to nurse its mother’s wounds while periodically giving off whining sounds, appearing to be in great sorrow.
However, this scene did not continue for too long. The black python roused from its pain, and a grating howl indicated that it was currently in an enraged state.
The black python used its remaining eye to stare fixedly at Ye Yuan. But Ye Yuan just looked at it smilingly and even crooked his finger at it, seemingly very contemptuous.
That Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python flew into an even greater rage seeing the situation. With a swoosh, it vanished.
Ye Yuan was prepared long ago and naturally would not be successfully ambushed by it.
Similarly, with an Instant Flash, Ye Yuan vanished on the spot. That black python struck thin air.
"Big stupid snake, I’m over here!" Ye Yuan once again crooked his finger at the black python over at the other side.
The Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python seemed to understand Ye Yuan’s words. It rushed towards Ye Yuan once more recklessly.
Ye Yuan’s movement technique was not much slower than the Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python. He evaded once again.
Having repeated this twice, as long as Ye Yuan dodged one more time, the Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python would enter the place where Nanfeng Zhirou was lying in ambush.
Nanfeng Zhirou was also sharpening her blade as she stared fixedly at the seven colored flower at the black python’s vital point.
Ye Yuan dodged and entered the ambush radius. Just as he taunted the black python once again and Nanfeng Zhirou was on the verge of striking, the black python actually hesitated!
"Damn it. This black python is naturally cunning. It actually grew suspicious of my actions!" Ye Yuan’s cursed in his heart.
The Canghua Sword shook, and a sword beam fired out again. Except, the black python that was prepared would not be struck so easily. It avoided it with a slide of its body.
It was just that after the black python dodged, it still did not head over here.
A bad premonition arose in Ye Yuan’s heart. Indeed, the black python suddenly turned around and actually charged towards the white tiger!
"Damn it!" Ye Yuan silently cursed and chased over with his sword.
Nanfeng Zhirou laid in ambush for so long, but that black python actually ran away. She could not help feeling very depressed.
However, her lying in ambush did not hold much meaning anymore at this point. With a large stride out, she also chased after.
This black python was abnormally cunning. Even though it gave away its back to Ye Yuan currently, it swayed around. There was simply no way of getting an accurate aim. Ye Yuan fired out multiple sword beams in a go and was evaded by it.
In a blink, the black python was only several dozen meters away from the white tiger. This distance was merely an insignificant matter to it.
The white tiger was already on the verge of death at the moment. After that fierce burst of strength just now passed, it could no longer muster up strength at this time.
It was not the black python’s match from the start and was even bitten several times by the black python. Currently, it was not only covered in wounds, but it was also already deeply poisoned. How could it have the strength to resist?
Seeing the black python pounce over, despair showed in the white tiger’s eyes. Its gaze turned towards the tiny white tiger by its side as its eyes were full of unwillingness and helplessness.
The little white tiger did not appear to be as frightened as it originally was at the current moment. Instead, it was snarling, baring its teeth at the black python and waving its claws about. It was sufficiently imposing, but sadly, it was too weak and tiny.
Nanfeng Zhirou was greatly anxious when she saw the situation. A series of sword beams shot over. It was just that her sword beams were much weaker compared to Ye Yuan’s. Even if there were occasionally a few which landed on the black python’s body, it neither hurt nor itched.
Ye Yuan knew that it was too late. He immediately gritted his teeth. "There’s only this move! Little white tiger, if I slip up, don’t blame me!"
In a thought, Ye Yuan lightly tossed the Canghua Sword up into the air and then put his both hands together to form a sword, pointing it towards the Canghua Sword.
A strand of soul strength wrapped around essence energy escaped from the fingertip and directly penetrated the Canghua Sword!
Just like that, the Canghua Sword actually suspended in midair!
"Sword Driving Technique! Go!"
Ye Yuan pointed with one hand; the Canghua Sword turned into a streak of flowing light as it swooshed out, directly piercing the black python!
The black python seemed to have sensed something, the speed of it pouncing towards the little white tiger became slower. But its body’s swaying became even more pronounced and even more difficult to pinpoint!
Canghua Sword’s speed was even faster than the sword beams released by Ye Yuan earlier. Even so, this sword still missed.
The black python gave off that horrible grating howl once again as if it was expressing a victory declaration.
Ye Yuan’s face darkened, but his fingertip still pulled backward again. The Canghua Sword rapidly drew a lone line across the air and turned into a streak of flowing light, shooting towards the black python once more.
This time around, because the Canghua Sword was too near to the black python, the black python did not expect this sword could actually return after going off. Being caught off guard, it was pierced through by Ye Yuan!
"Sss, sss . . ."
The black python started rolling on the ground in agony once more, but it did not die straight away.
This sword did not stab its vital areas!
"Senior Apprentice Sister, quickly go and follow up with a strike!" Ye Yuan clenched his teeth and shouted.
With a cling , the Canghua Sword dropped on the ground. Ye Yuan was also sitting slumped on the ground, his entire person completely exhausted.
Only now did Nanfeng Zhirou recover from her surprise and hurriedly swung her sword to follow up with a blade.
However, before Nanfeng Zhirou even approached, the black python’s tail swept by, nearly hitting her.
Nanfeng Zhirou was very anxious. She did not expect that this black python’s vitality was actually so tenacious. She was actually unable to approach momentarily.
Just then, a streak of white light flashed across . . .
Ye Yuan and Nanfeng Zhirou both stared wide-eyed as they watched this scene in disbelief.
The little white tiger scurried to the black python’s vital spot like lightning, rushing at that seven-colored flower, and biting down on it!
"Sssss. . . Sssss. . ."
The black python itself also did not think that this little white tiger would actually take advantage of his misfortune to profit from it. Furthermore, it could have bitten any other place, yet, it just had to bite down on its vital spot!
This was lethal!
The black python shook its body repeatedly, trying to shake off that little white tiger.
However, the little white tiger’s teeth locked down on that seven-colored flower securely and refused to let go. No matter how much the black python rocked, it just did not loosen up!
Initially, the black python had its vital spot bitten, it already could not unleash a tenth of its full strength. With the addition of the injuries from battling the white tiger along with the wounds Ye Yuan inflicted, it would no longer move anymore after some time. It was just that it still twitched every now and then.
A Tier 2 middle-stage demonic beast was actually bitten to death by a little white tiger just like that!
Even though the black python was already unmoving, the little white tiger still refused to release its bite as it chomped down firmly without letting go.
Ye Yuan picked up the Canghua Sword, walked over to the black python’s side, and petted the little white tiger’s small head. The tiny white tiger seemed to have understood and only let go then.
Ye Yuan was also afraid that the little white tiger did not bite viciously enough and supplemented another stab on the seven-colored flower, thoroughly ending the Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python’s life.
After the little white tiger released its bite, it no longer bothered with the black python, but instead, returned to its mother’s side and used its tiny tongue to lick her wounds.
Ye Yuan and Nanfeng Zhirou turned to look at each other and also did not know what to say.
The two of them expended such an enormous effort, but the result was that it was this little fellow who gave the killing blow.
But the speed which the little fellow displayed just now also made them have a completely new appraisal of it. Once this little fellow matures, it would be an absolutely terrifying character!
Nanfeng Zhirou glanced at the white tiger lying on the ground and looked at Ye Yuan again.
Ye Yuan understood her meaning, but he shook his head and said, "She is too gravely injured. Moreover, she’s also poisoned by that Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python. There’s already nothing I can do."
Nanfeng Zhirou said without any sign of giving up, "Didn’t you bring a lot of medicinal pills? There should be detoxification pills and healing pills, right?"
Ye Yuan sighed and said, "It’s useless. Demonic beasts’ physique is different from humans. They must use corresponding medicinal pills. The medicinal pills I brought along is no use to her."
The medicinal pills used by demonic beasts formed a system of its own. They were different than the medicinal pills used by humans.
Also, only Ye Yuan this sort of Alchemy Dao great master could achieve such brilliant accomplishments in both systems at the same time.
However, even a clever housewife cannot cook a meal without rice. Presently, there was no pill refinement room here. Without ingredients, no matter how amazing Ye Yuan was, it was also impossible for him to pull medicinal pills out from nothing.
Ye Yuan saying this was the equivalent of sentencing the white tiger to death. Nanfeng Zhirou could not bear it. Seeing the whimpering little white tiger, her tears started overflowing uncontrollably once again.
Ye Yuan also found it hard to endure.
He was not a person overflowing with compassion. It was just that the scene just now was overly similar to his experience in his past life.
Although the white tiger was just a demonic beast, he still felt as if he experienced it himself.
The white tiger’s eyes which were originally already shut gradually opened at this time. It also seemed to have recovered a bit of consciousness.
Seeing its mother open her eyes, the little white tiger involuntarily started jumping about in front of her in joy.
The white tiger’s gaze was full of loving kindness; completely unlike a fearsome demonic beast.
Except, Ye Yuan and Nanfeng Zhirou both knew that this was the white tiger’s final radiance before death. Most likely, it was already done for.
The white tiger looked at the little white tiger with tender love, but its gaze shifted to Ye Yuan as it revealed an imploring intention.
After that, she used all the strength in her body to use her head to push the little white tiger to Ye Yuan’s feet.
This white tiger was actually entrusting her child to him!
Honestly speaking, Ye Yuan did not wish to become a nanny. He still had many things he needed to do and had no time to waste in this area.
Even though he pitied this mother and son pair very much, he still felt that it was rather troublesome to ask him to raise this little white tiger.
The white tiger clearly saw through Ye Yuan’s reluctance and could not help but give a low roar; akin to a final lamenting whine. The intent of begging was already very clear.
Nanfeng Zhirou could not help flying into a rage when she saw Ye Yuan hesitating. "Ye Yuan, do you still have any sympathy? The little white tiger is already so pitiful. It lost its mother when it’s so small. Leaving him here unchecked will cause him to be killed by other demonic beasts! If you aren’t taking him in, I’ll shelter him! Come, little white tiger!"
But the little white tiger did not approach Nanfeng Zhirou but jumped back. It was evident that it was unwilling to leave its mother.
The white tiger gave another roar, and her gaze became stern. The little white tiger looked like a child who did something wrong as it lowered its head, but it still headed over to Ye Yuan’s feet.
When Nanfeng Zhirou saw this, her temper rose again.
"Hey, little fellow, is your brain even working? He doesn’t even want you, why did you run over to him for? Quickly come over to my side!"
As she spoke, Nanfeng Zhirou reached out to hug the little white tiger, but the little white tiger squeezed in between Ye Yuan’s legs and just refused to let Nanfeng Zhirou hold it.
Like this, Nanfeng Zhirou became even more livid. She was originally someone with a fiery temper, but her goodwill was taken for ill intentions. It would be weirder if she did not get angry!
"Run some more! Keep running! Do you believe whether or not I’ll yank your ears!" Nanfeng Zhirou had her hands on her hips as she said with an enraged face.
But the reply was a cat-like roar.
This one human and one tiger actually started to play catching around Ye Yuan.
Ye Yuan was driven to a point where he was at a loss whether or cry or to laugh by Nanfeng Zhirou. It turns out that this woman did not differentiate between demons or humans when she lost her temper!
"Alright, alright. Stop circling. Keep going in circles, and I’m going to get dizzy! I’ll keep the little white tiger, alright?" Ye Yuan said impatiently.
Ye Yuan pulled Nanfeng Zhirou off and lowered his body to speak to the white tiger. "Don’t you worry, since I promised you, I’ll take good care of him. Following me, his power in the future will definitely be above yours. You can go in peace."
Not that Ye Yuan was callous, but it was because this white tiger was already done for long ago. The reason why it still did not pass away was because Ye Yuan had yet to promise it.
There was plainly a language barrier, but the white tiger seemed to have understood what Ye Yuan said. It gave off another low roar as if it was thanking Ye Yuan, and then gradually, it fell silent.
The little white tiger also seemed to have sensed something. It whined mournfully as it came to its mother’s side, wanting to prop up its mother using its small head. But the white tiger did not react in the slightest.
Nanfeng Zhirou’s tears poured out once again when she saw the situation. The awe of a tiger presently earlier was all gone.
Such an emotional woman!
Ye Yuan sighed and directly sat down on the spot, swallowing a medicinal pill to begin recovering.
The sword driving technique was also a divine soul secret art with extremely powerful might. It was just that it was still somewhat forceful for the current Ye Yuan. Just using it for a round trip just now already severely overdrew his essence energy and soul strength.
After adjusting his condition for some time and waking up, Ye Yuan discovered that the little white tiger was currently circling around him.
Seeing Ye Yuan look over, the little white tiger wagged its tail and tunneled into Ye Yuan’s bosom.
"I’m perplexed. You don’t even want him, so why does this little white tiger stick to you so?" Nanfeng Zhirou said very defiantly.
Ye Yuan smiled and said, "This is charisma! I was born with the demeanor of a sovereign and can attract countless others to follow me. Yii . . . This little white tiger . . . is not normal!"
Just as Ye Yuan was blowing his own trumpet, his expression changed.
"What is it? Is there something wrong with the little white tiger?" Nanfeng Zhirou’s heart plummeted as she quickly asked.
Ye Yuan did not reply her and just turned the little white tiger all over to inspect several times and also used divine sense to investigate. His expression became increasingly solemn.
Nanfeng Zhirou was an anxious person. Seeing Ye Yuan mess around for so long and refusing to say anything, and his expression becoming uglier, she could not help asking anxiously, "Just what is going on? Talk! Seriously, you’ll be the death of me! He won’t die, right?"
Only now did Ye Yuan look at Nanfeng Zhirou as if he was staring at a retard. "What? Die? He couldn’t be better!"
Nanfeng Zhirou finally let out a sigh of relief but immediately said huffily, "If he’s fine, then what are you pulling that long face for? Deliberately scaring me? Why can’t you finish saying everything in one go? Just what happened to him?"
"It can be counted as we picked up a treasure. This little thing has a huge background!" Ye Yuan kept away his serious expression and seemed rather excited as he said.
"Huge background? Isn’t it just a little white tiger? What background can it have? If it has backing, then why would it be forced to such an extent by a big black python?" Nanfeng Zhirou asked in suspicion.
She looked left and right and could not see just which aspect of this little white tiger was extraordinary.
Ye Yuan sighed and said, "How many times have I told you. Knowledge is power! Why don’t you have any progress at all up till now? Without knowledge, even if you entered a treasure mountain, you’ll also return empty-handed!"
Nanfeng Zhirou glared. "Are you telling or not? Why do you have so much nonsense?"
"Forget it. I already told you to educate yourself! It’s true. That white tiger is just an ordinary white tiger, but this little white tiger is very different! Have you ever heard of the Four Phases Divine Beasts?"
"Of course I heard of that before. The eastern Azure Dragon, the western White . . ." Nanfeng Zhirou was in the midst of talking when she suddenly thought of something and said in astonishment, "This . . . You . . . You aren’t about to tell me that this little white tiger is the White Tiger Divine Beast?"
Nanfeng Zhirou was stunned by Ye Yuan that even her words became stammers.
What kind of concept were Divine Beasts? They were the absolute sovereigns of this world!
Possessing the name of a Divine Beast, it was an existence that would surely step into the Deity Realm in the future as long as it did not die!
Ye Yuan casually picked up a little white tiger, and it was the Sovereign of the West, the White Tiger Divine Beast?
Are you kidding?
But Ye Yuan gave a laugh and said, "Of course he isn’t a divine beast. However . . . he truly has the bloodline of the White Tiger Divine Beast! It’s just that his bloodline is too thin. Wanting to become a divine beast . . . too difficult, way too difficult."
Ye Yuan naturally did not find it nice to say some things. In the Divine Realm, there were numerous demonic beasts that possessed divine beast bloodline. It was just that true pureblooded divine beast bloodline could no longer be found today.
Because in this stretch of heaven and earth, there was no longer the existence of Deity Realm. Naturally, there was also no existence of divine beasts!
Possessing a faint divine beast bloodline, future accomplishments would definitely be extraordinary.
As long as the strength of the bloodline is sufficient, stepping into the Demon Emperor realm was virtually guaranteed!
Demon Emperor realm was equivalent to the human Divine King realm.
Also, the majority of divine beast progenies possessed innate divine abilities. Once they stepped into the Demon Emperor realm, their power would become incredible.
In terms of the Divine Realm’s pinnacle battle strength, there was actually not much difference between humans and the demon race.
"But, if he truly possessed divine beast bloodline, even if he doesn’t become a divine beast, he should also be very amazing in the future, right?" Nanfeng Zhirou asked.
"Exactly! This little thing also has a name which belongs to itself, the Flowing Light White Tiger! A branch of the White Tiger Divine Beast’s progenies! I truly did not expect that an ordinary white tiger could actually give birth to a Flowing Light White Tiger. Looks like this little fellow’s ancestral origin is not simple!" Ye Yuan sighed in admiration.
"A Flowing Light White Tiger? No wonder when he wanted to kill this black python earlier, his speed was so fast. Really akin to a bundle of flowing light."
"En, the Flowing Light White Tiger is renowned for its speed. A mature Flowing Light White Tiger at the bare minimum has the strength of Tier 5, Taking Form! At that point, his speed can compare with flying profound artifacts!" Ye Yuan explained.
"So incredible? Then didn’t we acquire a treasure?" Nanfeng Zhirou exclaimed in surprise.
Above spirit artifacts were profound artifacts. The speed of flying profound artifacts was quick to the point it was inconceivable. The speed of Flowing Light White Tigers could compare to flying profound artifacts. One could see the extent of their speed!
Ye Yuan laughed and said, "You’re thinking too much. A Flowing Light White Tiger, from newborn to maturity, need at least a thousand years. After he grows up, I’d have long reached the Divine King realm!"
Nanfeng Zhirou curled her mouth and said with disdain, "Keep bragging! Divine King realm even! I’ve never even heard of what Divine King realm. Utter bullshit!"
Not that Nanfeng Zhirou was ignorant, but because this place, the State of Qin, was too small.
Starting point determines one’s horizons. How could the people of the Boundless World know how the realms in the Divine Realm were divided?
If they could rise to a certain realm, their horizons would naturally broaden.
Towards Nanfeng Zhirou’s disdain, Ye Yuan just smiled but did not explain. He and Nanfeng Zhirou were simply not on the same level. There was naturally no way of communicating.
"But with me around, his realm might catch up to. Maybe even surpass Yuan Fei’s within ten years!" Nanfeng Zhirou said with a smile.
"So fast? You aren’t bragging again, are you?" Nanfeng Zhirou asked in disbelief.
"When have you ever seen me brag? This little fellow’s foundation is much better than Yuan Fei’s. As long as I use medicinal pills to supplement, his future accomplishments definitely won’t be low. Furthermore, this small fellow has already awoken its bloodline just now. Its future cultivation speed would be very rapid!" Ye Yuan explained.
About this point, Nanfeng Zhirou did not doubt Ye Yuan.
Ye Yuan’s attainments in the Alchemy Dao had already completely exceeded her understanding. He would frequently pull out medicinal pills that she had never even heard of.
Also, he dared to promise Yuan Fei to let him breakthrough to Tier 4. It was likely not spoken carelessly.
Then would it not be a very effortless thing for him to help a little white tiger?
"Fine, I know that you’re amazing! The little white tiger is so adorable. How about we give him a name? Look how white and fluffy he is; why not call him Whitey?" Nanfeng Zhirou directly decided it.
"Roar!"
The little white tiger roared in a low cat-like tone to show its protest. Clearly, it disliked this name.
Nanfeng Zhirou fumed and said, "Humph! Even if you don’t like it, you’ll have to accept it! It’s Whitey!"
"Hmm, when he runs, it looks like a beam of white light. I say . . . call him White Light, how’s that?" Ye Yuan was asking the little white tiger.
The little white tiger arched in Ye Yuan’s bosom. It was clear that it tacitly approved of this name.
"Haha, then in future, you’re called White Light!" Ye Yuan said with a laugh.
"Humph! You ungrateful tiger! Just now, who was the one fighting hard before managing to keep you? This fellow was prepared to abandon you. He isn’t a good person!" Nanfeng Zhirou said crossly.
"Roar!"
What replied her was White Light’s angry roar.
"Alright, don’t delay any more time here. We still have to search around this Blackwater Ravine. Perhaps there’s good stuff! This Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python definitely discovered something to hang on here and not leave," Ye Yuan said as he interrupted Nanfeng Zhirou’s provocation.
The pair found a place to bury the white tiger and also retrieved the Seven Colored Flowing Cloud Python’s inner core, then brought White Light into the depths of the Blackwater Ravine.
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