It had been ten days since his engagement had been canceled.
During these ten days, Ye Chen took the first of his Windy Dew Pellets. It cleared his mind, just like they said it would, and he felt fresh and focused. It cleared the meridians leading to his heart, allowing him to train his Qi without any restraint, and reach the fourth coil of the Pure Yuan Art.
At the same time, Ye Chen began practicing his Golden Swallow Art. It required pure Qi, which was very hard to cultivate. Without it, the user would never be able to truly master the art and travel long distances in the air.
The good thing was that the Qi from the Pure Yuan Art was unbelievably pure. All of the impurities in his Qi had been filtered out upon reaching the second Coil. With his Pure Yuan Art at the Fourth Coil, in addition to his powerful soul, the training process of the Golden Swallow Art was extremely quick.
During these past few days, my Qi has been growing like crazy, which should be a sign that I have reached Mortal Realm Stage 7. The cultivation speed of the fourth Coil of the Pure Yuan Art is, indeed, incredible, but trying to reach the Condensing Reality Stage truly is difficult. What should I do? In reflection, I've only been in this world for six months, but compared to other people who have been practicing the same art for 4-5 years or maybe even 7 years, there's no difference.
Ever since he found out that Ye Xuan had already reached the Early Condensing Reality Stage, Ye Chen knew that he needed to work even harder. Otherwise, he would not be able to fight against Ye Xuan at the Ye family meeting at the end of the year. Other than Ye Xuan, the second son of the eldest Uncle Ye Tang was also quite powerful, since he and Ye Xuan were regarded as the top two geniuses of the Ye family.
He took a jade bottle from his pocket and unplugged the wooden stopper. A blue pellet fell out into his palm.
Qi boosting pellet was a useful pellet for disciples, used to break through to the next stage, and was valued at more than three thousand silvers.
Right now, Ye Chen was only one step away from reaching the Mortal Realm Stage 7, which normally would take him a week or so. However, he didn't want to wait anymore and wanted to use the Qi boosting pellet to break into Stage 7, which would save him seven days of hard work.
Seven days might be nothing to other people, but for Ye Chen, it meant everything. With his comprehension ability, seven days could allow him to master a High-Rank Mortal Realm Skill, even that Top-Rank Mortal Realm Skill Lone Peak of Thirteen Swords only took him two or three months, and that too because it was incomplete, otherwise it would only have taken him a month.
So, he had to save time when he had a chance. He could not afford to waste the time.
Sitting on his bed, Ye Chen flicked the blue Qi boosting pellet into his mouth which slid down his throat.
The Qi boosting pellet melted the second it entered his body, and turned into extremely pure Yuan Qi.
All of a sudden, the Qi from the Pure Yuan Art rushed out from his Dantian like a wolf on the prowl, and in a second, wrapped around the pure Yuan Qi from the Qi boosting pellet, and started refining it.
What a powerful refining ability! If it was Qi from that Cloud Qi Spell, it would be at least two times slower. The higher the quality was, the faster the refining would be. This was a well-known fact that everyone in this land knew. But it was clear that if the total quantity of the Qi increased, it would be a great help for training Yuan Qi. Because, in most situations, it was common for the quantity to be greater than the quality.
One hour had passed.
There was a quiet sound of popping bubbles coming from Ye Chen's body.
The dilated Dantian, once again, expanded like a balloon, and, in the middle of the Dantian, the crystal clear Qi tornado started spinning faster, constantly shifting, and began absorbing the incoming Qi.
After a long time, Ye Chen finally opened his eyes and exhaled out a black fog. Ye Chen could not help but stupidly smile as he knew he had just reached the Mortal Realm Stage 7.
Normally, there was not much difference between the peak of Mortal Realm Stage 6 and Mortal Realm Stage 7. But, for Ye Chen, even the smallest change could mean a huge improvement in power, allowing him to perform more powerful martial skills.
I should stop cultivating my Pure Yuan Art and begin to stabilize my foundation. Ye Chen knew the importance of pacing himself. He had to stabilize the foundations of all his newly mastered skills in order to learn more and get stronger. Just like a skyscraper, if you built it high without creating a strong base, it would fall down and be ruined.
On the second day, Ye Chen managed to completely stabilize his skills, with a little bit of improvement. That Qi boosting pellet could save up to a month's worth of hard work and he had only used seven days, so there were still technically twenty-one days of effective use left.
In the following days, Ye Chen took another Windy Dew Pellet and brought himself to the edge of the fifth Coil of the Pure Yuan Art - the Union of Six Senses.
But, of course, his life was not only about martial arts.
After meeting with the number one outer disciple, Wu Zongming, they had become friends and would chat and spar with each other during their spare time.
In the beginning, Wu Zongming was full of pride, thinking that, although Ye Chen was quite formidable, there was still a gap between the two of them. However, when he limited his power to the Mortal Realm Stage 7 and sparred, he was surprised to find himself a bit behind! His High-Rank Mortal Realm 'Burning Fist' seemed to be weaker than Ye Chen's 'King Kong Fist'! Wu Zongming was astounded.
However, he had no idea that Ye Chen had already mastered his King Kong fist to its highest stage - the Unity Stage. Therefore, it would be impossible for him to beat Ye Chen while suppressing his cultivation.
At the deep end of the mountain, neither the sun nor the moon could be seen. Without noticing, another six months had passed.
One night, Ye Chen rubbed the body boosting ointment all over his body, preparing to try and enter the fifth Coil of the Pure Yuan Art, and combine his six senses.
As for the body boosting ointment, the unity stage required a strong body that was full of energy, and the ointment would increase his chances of success.
Pushing the Qi of the Pure Yuan Art to its extreme, Ye Chen pressed his tongue against the roof of his mouth and concentrated on his heart, reaching a higher mental state.
Although it seemed to be silent outside, inside Ye Chen's body, there seemed to a climate change, with his Qi rolling unceasingly like a little river.
For most disciples, three of their senses were usually combined, such as their spirit and Qi. The first step of training was purifying their spirit and mixing it with Qi. This step allowed the two to become a union which could change their form when required with just a single thought. If you combined spirit and consciousness, your mind's sharpness would increase under pressure. The hardest part of the union was to combine Qi and the consciousness.
After few days of exploring and experimenting, Ye Chen finally had a basic idea of it.
His eyebrow unnoticeably straightened, as his Qi followed the veins and arrived between his eyebrows. This was the place where the human soul was located and also where the consciousness resided.
After pushing his Qi through his whole body thirty-six times, his Qi was infused with the power of soul and reached back in the Dantian. Ye Chen knew that he had succeeded and had reached the internal unity.
Then, there was the outer unity.
In comparison, the outer unity seemed easy. For example, you should only have to unite your eyes and hands. Coordinating your whole body should not be hard, any human being could manage that after training. However, the outer unity of the Pure Yuan Art was about the infusion of three different Yuan Qi into the limbs, the eyes, and the spinal cord.
First of all, the disciple had to extract the hidden Yuan Qi from the spinal cord. Knowing that the spinal cord was one of the most important parts of the human body, even a tiny little mistake would result in an injury that would be very hard to treat. So Ye Chen did not want to rush it at all.
He let his Qi slowly permeate into his spinal cord, then slowly pulled out a stream of Yuan Qi hidden deep within the bones and nerves, and mixed it with his Qi.
He waited until they had become one,then put that finished Yuan Qi back into his spinal cord.
Repeating the same procedure over and over again, Ye Chen finally managed to combine the outer unity together. His forehead was covered with sweat and his shirt was completely soaked.
But, all of that was definitely worth it, considering that the Yuan Qi in his limbs, eyes, and spinal cord were infused with spirit and consciousness, causing his reflexes to be tremendously improved.
Other than that, after reaching the fifth Coil of the Pure Yuan Art, the rate at which his Yuan Qi restored itself was quite satisfying.
At the outer part of the mountain range was a very strange set of landforms, there were forests, hills, moors, lakes...
Over the past few days, you could often see a human figure coming and going, killing one beast after another.
He had such bad luck. Thirteen rank 2 beasts and none of them had pellets inside their bodies, and this was even including four peak rank 2 beasts.
Ever since he reached the highest stage of his Pure Yuan Art, Ye Chen realized that if he wanted to improve faster in the future, he would need the help of beast pellets.
The beast pellets were extracted from the parts inside the beasts' bodies, where they absorbed the Yuan Qi from nature. Theoretically, a beast pellet that was an year old could save a disciple about an year of hard work, a five-year-old pellet could save about five years of hard work. However, it was only theory. Inside the pellet was not only extracted Yuan Qi but also a lot of Beast Qi. If a normal disciple was infected with a little bit of beast Qi, he might face the risk of going crazy, and if he was unlucky, the whole pellet would be melted by the beast Qi and became completely worthless.
But, of course, if a disciple had reached the Condensing Reality Stage, they could suck out the Beast Qi with their own Qi, making the pellet perfectly safe. However, the pellet had to be under Condensing Reality Stage. In other words, a Condensing Reality Stage disciple still would not be able to handle the pellet that was higher than rank 4.
The strong smell of blood attracted a lot of beasts' interest. Ye Chen closed his eyes and, with his extraordinary soul power, sensed there was a relatively strong beast around thirty meters away, which should be a peak rank 2 beast.
His body shifted and he somehow started to float, both feet in the air like a big bird, and flew out twenty meters, going straight towards the back of a huge tree.
With a loud noise, the tree was cut in half and a beast, that looked like both a wolf and a tiger, appeared behind the tree.
A peak rank 2 beast, the Tiger-Wolf Beast!
Ye Chen twisted his wrist and his great steel sword turned into a beam of light, shooting out with extreme speed. It was the strongest move in the Lone Peak of Thirteen Swords - The Extreme Sword.
The Tiger-Wolf Beast did not expect Ye Chen to be this fast, it was just about to move his body when it was stabbed in the chest. Although it was badly wounded, but it was surprisingly tough, suddenly grabbing Ye Chen's elbow.
"Piss off! 'The Twisted Road'!" Ye Chen ignored the opponent's attack, accumulating his Qi into his great steel sword, and thrust it towards the opposite side, forcibly twisting open that beast's chest. Then, with extreme speed, he cut the beast's claws, which were reaching toward him.
Such a strong rank 2 top beast, yet it could not even survive two attacks from Ye Chen, its body softened and fell on the ground, like a deflated balloon.
Looking at the beast's wound, Ye Chen's eyes brightened, and his face was filled with joy: It is about time. Finally, this beast has a pellet inside its body!
Slicing the Tiger-Wolf Beast's corpse, Ye Chen reached his hand inside its body and took out a milky-yellow pinkish pellet, about the size of an egg.
According to the booklets about the beasts, if the rank 2 beast had a pellet inside its body, it would increase its chances of becoming a rank 3 beast. If the pellet had slight color changes, it meant it was not far away from upgrading to its next power level. This pellet was milky yellow with a hint of pinkness, no doubt that monster was about to reach the next level. It was more powerful than a normal rank 2 pellet, and for its size, it must've been there for at least an year.
Even after the evil-warding potions' cleansing and losing about ninety percent of its Beast Qi and Yuan Qi, it could at least save Ye Chen a month of hard work. Nevertheless, this pellet was about to reach the next power level, its effect might even double, and could save him around two months of hard work.
Staring at the pellet in his hand, even with his powerful soul power, Ye Chen still could not control his excitement. Two months of hard work! It could help me reach the Late Mortal Realm Stage 7, and, if I am lucky, there might still be a fifth of the original Yuan Qi left after the cleansing of the evil-warding potion, which means four months of hard work. Then I will definitely reach Mortal Realm level 8.
Ye Chen took out a jade box, carefully putting that valuable pellet into the box, and closed the lid. This was to protect against Beast Qi and Yuan Qi leakage.
After taking a deep breath, he calmed himself from his excitement and looked at the beast's corpse.
"The materials from a peak rank 2 beast could sell for at least a thousand silver. I should not let it go to waste. I need the money to buy the evil-warding potions which cost five thousand silvers." Ye Chen mumbled to himself, squatted down, and started digging inside the beast's body, collecting all the useable parts.
After he finished collecting the materials, he frowned. The big leather bag that I brought is completely filled up. It would be so nice if I had a storage ring.
But, of course, he was just dreaming about it. Among all the core disciples, only eldest sister Zhu Mei and "Hanshan Childe" Luo Hanshan had it. He knew he was nowhere close to that stage yet. However, he was surprised at how powerful Emerald Valley was, because, among all the countless geniuses in Emerald Martial Palace, even Ji Xuyan, who was only at the Peak of Mid Condensing Reality Stage, had a storage ring.
Sigh... Emerald Martial Palace is, indeed, a rank 7 martial institution. They have countless fortunes and treasurable assets. The Ye family is one of the famous eight families, and also have a large fortune, but only my father and some other senior masters have storage rings. My mother also had one, but she was a junior master of the Rudra martial institution, with a great reputation. But it was impossible for other people, like me, to get a storage ring.
Shaking his head, Ye Chen closed the big leather bag and prepared to leave.
All of the sudden, out of nowhere, a huge gale of wind started to blow around the forest, throwing around small rocks, and even some of the small plants were pulled out of the ground, with their roots flailing in the air, like a hurricane.
Ye Chen was shocked. What the heck?!?
AHWOOOO...
A terrifying loud howl was heard. It seemed to be only a couple hundred meters away.
Oh no! It is a rank 3 beast! Only the rank 3 beasts could release their Beast Qi and let it form an air flow, known as a Beast Wind, which could confuse people's senses.
Before Ye Chen's soul traveled to this world, he read this classic fantasy novel, called "Outlaws of the Marsh", in which the main character was fighting against a tiger. There was also a wave of odd wind blowing before the appearance of this tiger. Right now, this rank 3 beast was way more powerful than that tiger, its wind more like a hurricane.
With no time to waste, Ye Chen put all his effort into accumulating Pure Yuan Art. His feet pushed the ground, and his body jumped out like a big bird, wanting to avoid the rank 3 beast's attack.
He heard the sounds of branches breaking. Shortly after, a wolf beast, the size of a cow, suddenly appeared where Ye Chen was previously standing, its body slim and strong. It did not have any hair covering its body, but, instead, was covered with black flakes, which seemed metallic. It had a long scorpion tail, the hook at the end had a gray shine to it, which just screamed "deadly poisonous".
Ye Chen turned his head to look, then he tried everything he could to accumulate his Qi. Pushing his Golden Swallow Art to the limit, he ran away as fast as he could.
That weird-looking beast was the Scorpion Tail Demon Wolf, one of the top beasts among all rank 3 beasts. Even a Mid Condensing Reality Stage disciple would have to run away from it.
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