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"Haha, Second Senior Brother is too kind. I was also just claiming some interest. I didn't think that this Seventh Prince could actually endure such humiliation for an important goal and doing such a thing like bearing thorns to ask for punishment," Ye Yuan said with a laugh.
"En. It was indeed contrary to all expectations! That child knows when to yield and when not to, and his martial strength is also extremely formidable. Indeed not what the other princes can compare to. Absolutely the bearing of a fierce and ambitious person. Barring no accidents, the next Wind Emperor is very likely to be him! Hence, you should still be more careful in the future, Little Junior Brother, in case this boy uses some underhanded tricks," Shi Haoran warned him.
The incident this time also let everyone have a brand new understanding of Zhao Chenggan.
The high and mighty Wind Emperor successor actually did this sort of self-belittling thing, making entire capital drop their glasses.
But thinking about it carefully, this method of doing things was the best way to handle things at present.
Even if Ye Yuan was way less understanding of what was good or bad for him, it was also not possible to let this sanction carry on.
Otherwise, the Qixia Mountain lineage would also become unreasonable even with justification.
With Zhao Chenggan's status, doing everything to this step was already his limits. If Ye Yuan still refused to budge, that was being unappreciative.
If the Royal Family and the Alchemist Association, these two giants, really ruptured completely, neither side could bear the consequences.
At that time, the one who would be put in an awkward situation would not be the Wind Emperor but Star Abyss himself.
It was precisely because so that Ye Yuan's way of handling things was grasped perfectly. It could gain the greatest benefits and also reflect a magnanimous heart.
As for Zhao Chenggan's apology, Ye Yuan simply paid no attention to it at all.
How could he possibly be deceived by this sort of superficial act? The more sincere Zhao Chenggan's apology was, the more intense his hatred towards him.
This sort of high and lofty ambitious fierce person would never feel that they were wrong.
"Rest assured, Eldest Senior Brother. I have a score in my heart. Oh, right, Seniors, from today onwards, I'm going to enter seclusion for a month and won't be able to expound on the Alchemy Path with Seniors anymore," Ye Yuan said.
"En? Entering a retreat so soon?"
Hearing that Ye Yuan was going to enter seclusion, the few people felt a great sense of loss in their hearts.
These few days, they truly reaped no little benefits by exchanging knowledge together with Ye Yuan. There were even more gains compared to listening to Star Abyss preaching the Dao.
Carrying on at this speed, them having some breakthrough in alchemy were inevitable. But Ye Yuan actually entered seclusion at this time. They were naturally quite reluctant to let go.
Ye Yuan smiled and said, "Yes. I sense that I'm about to break through, so I've decided to enter a retreat to pour all my efforts into breaking through realms!"
"Like that eh? Alright then," Shi Haoran said.
. . . . . .
Ye Yuan returned to his own residence. A streak of white silhouette suddenly assaulted towards him.
The white silhouette's speed was exceedingly quickly. Ye Yuan was actually unable to evade with his movement technique!
"Violent Blaze Transforming Dragon!"
In a hurry, Ye Yuan execute a Violent Blaze Transforming Dragon, colliding together with the white silhouette!
Bang!
The white silhouette directly flew out, while Ye Yuan also fell back two steps from the enormous collision force.
But Ye Yuan was not astonished; he became overjoyed instead and said, "White Light! You actually broke through!"
"Y-Yes . . . Big Brother . . ."
A slightly choppy and tender voice transmitted into Ye Yuan's mind. It was universal beast language!
"En? Have you unlocked your inherited memories?" Ye Yuan was astonished again.
"Yes." This time, White Light was clearly way smoother when talking.
"Haha! You brat, your breakthrough speed is too rapid! It's almost catching up to this young master!" Seeing White Light open his mouth to speak, Ye Yuan was also very glad.
White Light smiled and said, "Big Brother, you're the real freak. Your breakthrough speed is too fast, completely without bottlenecks!"
"En? Just a few year old little kid, you're actually calling me big brother?" Ye Yuan said huffily.
"If I don't call you big brother, what do I call you then? I don't want to call you master. Proud divine beasts will never become a human's lackey!" White Light raised his tiger head with a prideful look.
Ye Yuan was also tickled by his appearance and said with a smile, "I didn't ask you to call me master. But I can be your uncle with my age, right? Come, call uncle and let me hear!"
Hearing Ye Yuan's words, White Light nearly stumbled to the ground. He said sulkily, "Knock it off! Don't you humans all address each other using cultivation realms? Now that I broke through to Tier 3 as well, what's wrong with calling you big brother?"
"Uh, this really does seem to be the case. Fine. Big brother then." Ye Yuan's heart stirred, and he enquired, "Oh, right, do you know your origins now that you unlocked your inherited memories?"
Ye Yuan was very curious about White Light's origin. He was clearly a descendant of the Flowing Light White Tiger, yet he had treasure seeking abilities. It was too weird.
But White Light shook his head and said, "Don't know. I only unlocked a very small portion of inherited memories. The rest are still sealed and completely can't be opened up yet."
Ye Yuan said disappointedly, "Like this huh, that's too bad. If we know your origin, we can maybe suit our methods to your situation. Who knows, you might be able to break through to Divine Beast Realm!"
Hearing Ye Yuan's words, White Light was also quite disappointed.
Ye Yuan suddenly asked again, "Then, what kind of inherited memories have you awakened? Let's have a look."
To divine beasts, inherited memories were something extremely precious. Under normal circumstances, they would never tell it to humans.
But ever since the death of his mother, White Light treated Ye Yuan as his only kin. Or else, he would also not have fought Zhao Chenggan to the death under the situation where he was aware he could not contend with him to protect Ye Yuan.
"Uh . . . All some random and messy stuff. Such as this kind of thing like the universal beast language. To say the most useful one, it will be a cultivation method that was awakened. But, it's only to the third level too," White Light said.
"En? What kind of cultivation method?" Ye Yuan asked curiously.
"White Tiger Darklight Divine Art!" White Light said.
"It's actually a divine art!" Ye Yuan said in astonishment.
Although Ye Yuan also cultivated in a divine art, this did not mean that divine arts were common wares.
The birth of each divine art would stir up a bloody struggle in the Divine Realm.
But a little white tiger that Ye Yuan found in the Lower Realms actually had a divine art in his inherited memories! This was too inconceivable!
Although Ye Yuan had not heard of this set of divine art, its power was beyond all doubt!
"Yeah! I didn't know it myself, but actually I've already started cultivating this divine art long ago. It's actually like a part of my body," White Light said.
Ye Yuan suddenly remembered something and could not help being greatly astonished as he said, "Could it be that . . . when you swallowed those medicinal pills, your body automatically revolved the White Tiger Darklight Divine Art?"
White Light nodded and said, "Yes."
Ye Yuan's expression became peculiar. "Then the third level that you awakened, it's not that . . . you can also raise your realm by swallowing medicinal pills, right?"
White Light had an
innocent face as he said with a frank nod, "Big Brother is indeed incredible! Guessing it in one try!"
"I guess . . . your head ah!" Ye Yuan forcefully stifled back a swear word.
Chapter 404. Pledging Allegiance to the Death |
Eating medicinal pills and sleeping, raising realm unconsciously.
This was the cultivation process that so many martial artists dreamt about! But even if Ye Yuan's cultivation did not have bottlenecks, it was also not possible to reach such a state!
Cultivation was like sailing against the current, either advance or regress.
On the matter of cultivation, no martial artists dared to slack off.
But White Light's cultivation method, any martial artist who saw it would have an impulse to beat him up. Ye Yuan was no exemption either.
Seeing that dim gaze from Ye Yuan, all the fur on White Light's body stood up.
Suddenly, Ye Yuan's figure flashed, and he vanished.
White Light immediately felt that something was wrong, but it was already too late. Ye Yuan caught hold of him.
"What White Tiger Darklight Divine Art?! What can even cultivate when sleeping?! Maddening your big brother to death! How can there be such a perverse divine art in this world?"
Ye Yuan rubbed White Light's tiger head furiously, rubbing until he was dizzy.
By the time Ye Yuan stopped, all White Light could see were stars.
"Huff, huff . . ." Ye Yuan was also panting, dog tired.
Messing around was messing around. Not that Ye Yuan was jealous of this cultivation method, it was just that he felt somewhat unfair.
The cultivation method that White Light awakened should be a divine art that was tailor-made for the same kind of divine beast. Humans were unable to cultivate it. Even if Ye Yuan asked for it, it was useless too.
"Doesn't that mean that I'll have to provide medicinal pills for you non-stop in the future to let you cultivate?" Ye Yuan looked at White Light from the corner of his eye.
Hearing these words from Ye Yuan, White Light gave a flattering low roar and rubbed his face against Ye Yuan's cheek, saying, "Haha! I know that Big Brother is the best!"
"Best my *ss! Don't kiss my *ss! Who did I provoke? To become a pill refining coolie?" Ye Yuan had a gloomy look.
"Hehe, how can you say coolie? Big Brother's alchemy skills are unparalleled in this world! Find happiness in it . . . Furthermore, I, White Light, still have some capabilities. I'll definitely find more treasures for Big Brother!" White Light said fawningly.
Ye Yuan said huffily, "I say, how did you know to follow me back then? Could it be that you already know that I knew alchemy back then?"
"Uh . . . I don't know either. I just felt especially cordial when I saw Big Brother, so I followed you in a daze," White Light said in confusion.
"Alright! I'm scared of you! I'm going to begin closed-seclusion to cultivate. This time, I'm going to break through to the Seventh Level Crystal Formation Realm in one stroke!" Ye Yuan said.
White Light trembled and nearly slipped off from Ye Yuan's shoulder.
"S-Seventh Level Crystal Formation Realm?! Big Brother, are you mistaken? You're only at the Second Level Crystal Formation Realm!" White Light was taken aback by Ye Yuan.
"Not mistaken. It's Seventh Level Crystal Formation Realm! This time, Zhao Chenggan that punk almost killed us, making me very peeved! Each one of you all bullying that my realm is low, right? I'll break through for them to see!" Ye Yuan said annoyedly.
All along, Ye Yuan's adversaries were all way stronger than him. This made it very disadvantageous for him every time he fought.
Even if his essence energy was much thicker than other people, the disparity in realms could not be made up for.
Although Ye Yuan defeated his opponents in the end, it had the feeling of walking on a tightrope practically every time.
A few days back, if not for Shi Haoran making a move, he would already have been killed by Zhao Chenggan.
While Zhao Chenggan's strength was decent, it was still too far away compared to Ye Yuan. The reason why he was formidable was because of his realm!
Zhao Chenggan comprehended true intent; for Ye Yuan to want to cross a major realm to win him, it was too difficult!
Hence, Ye Yuan resolved his heart this time to enter closed-seclusion for a month and planned on breaking through five realms in succession!
This was an impossible mission to others, but to Ye Yuan, it was merely a question of time.
. . . . . .
Day two, the rear of the mountains where Ye Yuan was in seclusion.
Shi Haoran passed a storage ring to Ye Yuan and said, "These are the Tier 3 medicinal herbs that Little Junior Brother you requested. It's all prepared properly."
Ye Yuan clasped his hands and said, "Thank you very much, Eldest Senior Brother!"
"What's there to thank? Merely just some Tier 3 medicinal herbs, not a big deal. But you made me prepare so many portions for you; you're not planning on refining pills alone, right? Could it be that this one month, you're planning on refining a batch of Tier 3 medicinal pills?" Shi Haoran asked curiously.
Ye Yuan smiled and said, "Wanting so many medicinal herbs is naturally to use to refine medicinal pills. But my closed-seclusion this time is in order to break through realms."
Shi Haoran asked very curiously, "Even if Little Junior Brother, you, refine pills without sleep or rest, to refine so many medicinal herbs into medicinal pills, it would probably take more than a month. How will you have time to break through realms?"
"Hur hur, Little Brother naturally has a plan," Ye Yuan said with a faint smile. Clearly, he was unwilling to say anymore.
Shi Haoran suddenly recalled Little Junior Brother's monstrousness and thought to himself, his pill refining speed should be faster than ordinary people, right?
Or he did not even plan on refining finish these medicinal herbs, but to keep them for refining next time?
Seeing that Ye Yuan did not wish to speak, it was naturally inconvenient for Shi Haoran to ask anymore and he took his leave.
. . . . . .
Ye Yuan casually waved a hand. The Square Cauldron and Yuan Fei appeared before his eyes at the same time.
When Yuan Fei saw Ye Yuan, he bowed and greeted, "Young Master!"
He had already followed Ye Yuan for close to a year. From the initial half-belief and half-skeptical, to now, it was already prostrating on all fours.
This one year, he practically ate Demon Crystal Pills like candy. He was already Peak Tier 3 now and only a step away from Tier 4.
A year ago, he did not even dare to think about it!
Ye Yuan nodded slightly and said, "I plan to refine a batch of medicinal pills this closed-seclusion to breakthrough realms. You're already not far away from Tier 4 at present. Back then, you promised to follow me for ten years, and I'll refine the Demon Manor Pill for you. This promise can be fulfilled now."
Yuan Fei's entire body trembled, and his agitation could not be any greater. "I-Is what Young Master said true?"
"When have I teased you before? The Demon Manor Pill isn't some impressive medicinal pill to me. I can already refine it now. It was just that I always didn't have the time. Uh . . . after refining finish the Demon Manor Pill, our debt is also considered settled. You can choose to leave me and return to the Endless Forest. Of course, the prerequisite is that I can return to the Endless World . . ."
Evidently, Ye Yuan did not have huge confidence in returning.
With the passing of time, the war between the two worlds would get closer and closer. There were bound to be even more powerful people guarding the realm passageway. Wanting to smoke his way through it like last time was already not very likely.
Yet, when Yuan Fei heard these words, he shuddered and hastily asked, "Does Young Master not want Yuan Fei anymore?!"
Ye Yuan smiled and said, "You don't overthink things. This one year, you have been following me. You should know my temperament as well. As long as I've ackno
wledged that person as one of my own, I absolutely won't hold anything back from him. You rendered much help to me this one year. I've treated you as a friend in my heart. How can I not want you? It's just that I still have to ask about your choice out of respect to you."
Yuan Fei did not even think and directly said, "If not for following Young Master, Yuan Fei would still be in the Endless Forest right now living muddled and simple-minded days. How could I have the chance to advance to Tier 4? Following Young Master, the one who benefitted isn't just Yuan Fei alone but the entire Long-arm Stone Ape Clan! Yuan Fei and clansmen are willing to pledge allegiance to Young Master to the death and to never forsake you!"
Chapter 405. Power of the Square Cauldron! |
After following Ye Yuan, the Long-Arm Stone Ape Clan could no longer be compared to the past.
Back then, when Ye Yuan saw Yuan Fei, only he alone was a Tier 3 demonic beast. And now, there were already twenty to thirty Tier 3 Long-Arm Stone Apes.
One could say that the collective strength of the Long-Arm Stone Ape clan went up a level!
Such a huge transformation was something that Yuan Fei could never have imagined before following Ye Yuan.
Now, asking Yuan Fei to leave Ye Yuan, he would not even know how to survive.
"Haha, you willing to stay on, of course I welcome it!" Ye Yuan said with a smile. Yuan Fei's answer did not exceed his expectations.
In truth, he already predicted this outcome when he solicited Yuan Fei back then.
"Old Yuan, want to keep on eating the food, right? Haha! Following Big Brother, forget about Tier 4, even taking form isn't something hard!" White Light suddenly scoffed.
Yuan Fei's old face turned red first, then immediately turned pale with great shock as he said, "White Light, you . . . you . . . are actually Tier 3 already!"
"How is it? Incredible, right? If you don't work hard, I'm going to surpass you very soon!" White Light still had a child's disposition as he said with a proud look.