Lifting his head up to look at Tang Yu, Ye Yuan looked calm, but he remained silent.
Tang Yu felt a little self-conscious by Ye Yuan’s stare and said awkwardly, “Sorry Brother Ye. It’s not that I am looking down on you, but . . .”
“I know what you meant by that. Regardless whether you believe it or not, it’s useless, even if my father came. Not only that, even if it’s Wan Donghai or even Wu Daofeng who came, it wouldn’t help,” Ye Yuan said firmly.
Wu Daofeng whom Ye Yuan had named was the Chairman of the State of Qin’s Alchemists Association. In the entire State of Qin, the one with the highest accomplishments in the Alchemy Dao was neither Wan Donghai nor Ye Hang, much less the Imperial Uncle from the Imperial Family; it was this Lord Chairman Wu Daofeng. Now that Ye Yuan said even he would not do, it was basically the same as sentencing Tang Zonghuai to death.
Except these words had a hint of quibble in Tang Yu’s ears. If it were regarding other matters, he naturally would not argue about it. But right now, Ye Yuan was sentencing his father to death right in front of him. How could he not have doubts? Who was Ye Yuan anyway? Merely a silkpants.
“Brother Ye, you . . .”
“Yu-er, let Mister Ye . . . finish his words.” Tang Zonghuai interrupted Tang Yu halfway.
Tang Yu was a little stunned. Ye Yuan nodded and said, “I just said that they won’t do. But this doesn’t mean that Uncle’s situation is hopeless.”
Tang Yu was elated after hearing this. Grabbing Ye Yuan, he said, “Does Brother Ye has a plan?”
“The plan actually lies with you, Brother Tang.”
“Me?” Tang Yu was befuddled by Ye Yuan’s words. In reality, Ye Yuan did not know how to initiate his request; which was why he took a very roundabout way.
Nodding his head, Ye Yuan said, “Brother Tang is also aware that my past reputation isn’t that great. I wonder if Brother Tang can trust me.”
At this moment, Tang Yu came to a realization. As a smart man, if he still could not understand Ye Yuan’s intention hidden in his words, then he would be a fool.
“Does Brother Ye mean . . . the Six Leaf Grass?” Tang Yu asked hesitatingly.
“That’s right.” Ye Yuan did not deny it and directly acknowledged this.
In reality, there were differences in the way the Divine Realm and the Lower Realms ranked their medicines. Although a Tier 1 pill in the Divine Realm was also categorized into levels of high, middle, and low, the so-called high-level pills that the State Of Qin had to offer were merely low-level pills when placed in the Divine Realm. The variety and quality of the pill formulas in the Divine Realm were not something which a Lower Realm’s mortal country could compare to.
Logically speaking, it was impossible for Ye Yuan to refine a high-level Tier 1 pill with his strength. His essence energy could not even support the refinement of a high-level Tier 1 pill. The only reason why he could refine it was that he used to be an Alchemy Emperor. He was only able to refine medicines that surpassed his strength with his pitiful amount of essence energy by meticulously controlling the distribution of essence energy to a terrifying degree.
Yet these so-called high-level Tier 1 Pills were merely some unwanted low-level pills in Ye Yuan’s eyes.
However, high-level Tier 1 pills from the Lower Realms were no longer sufficient to treat Tang Zonghuai’s injuries; middle-level Tier 1 pills from the Divine Realm were necessary. But Ye Yuan’s current strength was way too low at the moment, making it impossible to refine pills of such a grade.
Hence, he was giving Tang Yu an option. If Tang Yu chose not to believe in him, then his fate with Tang Yu would end here; there would be nothing he could do for Tang Zonghuai’s injuries.
“H-how can I do that? What if . . . What if . . .” Tang Yu became quite flustered.
Subconsciously, Tang Yu felt that Ye Yuan was trustworthy. However, when facing the grim reality, Tang Yu really did not know what he should do. His idea was that if Ye Yuan really could not save his father, then he had the Great Returning Pill as his last hope.
“Brother Ye, it’s not that I don’t believe you, it’s just . . . just . . .” Tang Yu did not know how to word it.
“Yu-er, give it to him,” at that moment, the silent Tang Zonghuai said with a weak voice.
Turning over and meeting his father’s gaze, Tang Yu and his father exchanged a great deal of information from each other’s eyes. Finally, gritting his teeth tightly, Tang Yu passed the box containing the Six Leaf Grass over to Ye Yuan and said, “Brother Ye, please.”
Ye Yuan did not decline and received the box calmly. He then said, “Give me a day. I will be here promptly at this time tomorrow. However, Uncle’s injuries are not very stable at the moment. If I don’t deal with it, it would be hard to endure until tomorrow. Let me carry out a set of needle technique on him to stabilize his condition to prevent it from worsening.”
Tang Yu made a welcoming gesture and said, “I will have to trouble Brother Ye then.”
Ye Yuan naturally did not carry golden needles on him, so he returned to the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion to retrieve the needles.
After Ye Yuan left, Tang Yu asked his father uneasily, “Father, I know that Brother Ye is a man of genuine skill and knowledge, but his previous reputation is really dreadful. I still feel that this is a gamble.”
After a bout of violent coughing, Tang Zonghuai gave a strained smile and said, “How can I . . . not understand my own injuries? What . . . Brother Ye said . . . was right. Even if . . . Wu Daofeng came . . . it would be futile. Even if . . . it was a gamble, there is . . . nothing that . . . we can’t afford to lose.”
“Father, is it truly so serious?” Clearly, Tang Yu never thought that his father’s injuries had already worsened to such an extent.
Tang Zonghuai simply shook his head and said, “That boy . . . does not belong in a shallow pond. Yu-er . . . no matter . . . the result, in the future . . . get closer . . . to him.”
Tang Yu did not expect his father to have such a high evaluation of Ye Yuan. However, his own bias toward Ye Yuan had been cast beyond the ninth layer of clouds ever since stepping into this house. Nodding his head, Tang Yu said, “Father, don’t worry. I, your son, am not an ungrateful person. As long as Brother Ye treats Father with all his might, this life of mine can be considered sold to him.”
Chapter 18
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Watching Ye Yuan’s acupuncture skill and movement flowing naturally like water, Tang Yu became even more confident. At this moment, he discovered that Ye Yuan was utterly not worthless like the rumors suggested.
“Father, how are you? Do you feel better?” after the acupuncture session was over, Tang Yu asked anxiously.
Presently, Tang Zonghuai’s face color was a lot rosier, and his coughing was not as violent as before. “Mister Ye is indeed skillful. Right now I feel that my entire body is a lot more relaxed.”
Even though he was still out of breath when talking, it was much better compared to previously.
This needle technique of Ye Yuan naturally was not something ordinary, but a pinnacle needle technique which was self-created. Ye Yuan named it the 72 Paths Great Cycle Acupuncture. This set of needle technique once stirred up the Divine Realm, and it possessed unfathomable capabilities.
Of course, with his current realm, he simply could not unleash the power of this needle technique. It could only control Tang Zonghuai’s condition a little right now.
“This acupuncture can only alleviate the symptoms, but it cannot treat the root of the problem. Tomorrow, I will send the medicinal pill over. There’s no time to waste. I will return first.” Finishing his words, Ye Yuan immediately bade farewell and left.
. . . . . .
Ye Yuan went to the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion to retrieve the medicinal herbs for refining the Exploding Yuan Pill and directly entered the pill refinement room together with the three stalks of Six Leaf Grass.
Exploding Yuan Pil
l was only a low-level Tier 1 medicinal pill in the Divine realm, perfect for the current Ye Yuan to refine. He even had better Tier 1 medicinal pills for increasing strength, but currently, he was unable to refine them. Once his strength increased, he would naturally be able to refine higher level medicinal pills of the same tier.
To Ye Yuan, the refinement method for the Exploding Yuan Pill was very simple. After six hours, Ye Yuan brought a few medicine bottles with him out of the pill refinement room.
Next was naturally a closed-door seclusion training. He found a quiet chamber, and informed the servants to not disturb him, and started his meditation.
Looking at the row of pill bottles in front of his eyes, Ye Yuan frowned lightly. He was very discontented with this round of pill refinement. Three sets of ingredients, yet he only managed to refine 26 Exploding Yuan Pills. Among the pills were 15 middle-grade Exploding Yuan Pills, eight high-grade Exploding Yuan Pills, and only three superior-grade Exploding Yuan Pills.
Medicinal pills were divided into several grades: low-grade, middle-grade, high-grade, superior-grade, and transcendent-grade. If it were in the past and Ye Yuan refined these sort of lowly medicinal pills, in this case, the low-level Tier 1 Exploding Yuan Pill, the lowest grade would at least be of superior-grade. And yet today, he could only refine out a bunch of trash. This was obviously something he was not accustomed to.
If the few Alchemy Grandmasters in the State of Qin were to hear Ye Yuan’s thoughts, they would definitely find a hole in the ground to crawl into. If they were to refine the Exploding Yuan Pill, they would express thanks to the heaven and earth if there was one superior-grade medicinal pill. Now, Ye Yuan refined three of them, and he still was not satisfied? Superior-grade medicinal pills to them were something that could only be encountered by luck and not by attempting to refine it. Only sometimes when they were lucky could they manage to refine it.
Ye Yuan let out a sigh. He knew that this was not something that could be helped. After all, this body had never refined medicinal pills before, so his skill was still lacking. The most important thing was still that his strength was too weak. One portion of essence energy had to be split into three to be used; naturally, he could not refine high-level pills.
Holding the bottle containing the superior-grade Exploding Yuan Pills, Ye Yuan took one out and immediately swallowed it.
The instant the pill reached his abdomen, it immediately transformed into gushes of essence energy which swept outwards. The surging essence energy repeatedly gushed through all the meridians in Ye Yuan’s body. Ye Yuan did not dare to delay, and he immediately cultivated the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art to direct the chaotic essence energy to flow along the meridians properly. The initially violent essence energy immediately became extremely subservient under the guidance of the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art. After essence energy fully circulated through Ye Yuan’s body, it finally converged within his dantian. After tempering using the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art, the initially somewhat chaotic essence energy became incomparably stable.
The Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art was divided into three chapters of Mortal, Earth, and Heaven. Right now, Ye Yuan was cultivating the early part of the Mortal chapter. The Mortal Chapter was further divided into three sections, and each section had an accompanying martial technique. That was also a strong point of the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art. A martial technique dedicated to the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art had unmatched power.
The Spirit Bristle Divine King was invincible in the Divine Realm because he had mastered the final martial technique in the Heaven Chapter of the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art; this martial technique was called the Nine Suns Burning Heaven. The moment this martial technique was unleashed, a radius of several thousand miles would burn into nothingness; it was immensely terrifying.
The supporting martial technique for the first section of the Mortal chapter was named the Absolute Yang Finger. It unleashed essence energy from the fingertips, and after mastering to the large success stage, it could smash rocks and break metal, having an extremely high attacking power.
After four hours, the medicinal efficacy was fully absorbed by Ye Yuan after cultivating with the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art. Ye Yuan felt the essence energy in his body was lacking just by a bit more before he could step into the Second Level Essence Qi Realm.
Without any hesitation, Ye Yuan threw the second superior-grade Exploding Yuan Pill into his mouth and continued to temper the essence energy in his dantian. Another four hours passed, and Ye Yuan then swallowed the third pill.
After Ye Yuan finished taking all the superior-grade Exploding Yuan Pills, he continued to consume the high-grade Exploding Yuan Pills. But the effects were much more inferior compared to the superior-grade Exploding Yuan Pills. Furthermore, with the increasing consumption of Exploding Yuan Pill, the medicinal effects would become less efficacious for Ye Yuan.
When dawn was about to break, Ye Yuan felt his entire body’s meridians and dantian slightly swelled, and he was in pain. He knew that the maximum amount of essence energy he could absorb had been reached. If he continued, his body would explode, and he would die. Once again checking his body’s essence energy, it had actually reached the peak of the Third Level Essence Qi Realm; just a little more needed before stepping into the Fourth Level Essence Qi Realm. Right now, Ye Yuan had already exhausted three superior-grade Exploding Yuan Pills as well as six high-grade Exploding Yuan Pills. It could not be said that it was not extravagant.
From the Third Level Essence Qi Realm to the Fourth Level Essence Qi Realm, there was a small bottleneck. In a mortal country like the State of Qin, many people were stuck at this bottleneck, and some might even never broke through it during their lifetime.
But this bottleneck was basically non-existent for Ye Yuan. With his extremely high cultivation realm in the past life, a small bottleneck in the Essence Qi Realm naturally could not stump him. As long as the accumulation of essence energy was sufficient, Ye Yuan could cross this threshold anytime.
It was just that continuously rising through two small cultivation realms overnight had made Ye Yuan’s foundation slightly unstable. With Ye Yuan’s experience, he naturally would not do something where the loss outweighed the gain. Even though he desired strength, he did not want to quench his thirst for it without regard for the consequences. Only by keeping his feet firmly on the ground could he walk further.
Over the next few days, his primary mission was to stabilized the sudden rise in strength and to strengthen the foundation of his Initial Stage Essence Qi Realm. Only then would he consider stepping into the next stage.
Of course, because Ye Yuan cultivated the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art, his essence energy was much thicker and purer than the average Third Level Essence Qi Realm. If someone else was to consume the Exploding Yuan Pill, one superior-grade Exploding Yuan Pill and two high-grade Exploding Yuan Pill were enough to make the First Level Essence Qi Realm promoted to the Third Level Essence Qi Realm.
Which was to say that currently, Ye Yuan’s essence energy was three times thicker than the average Third Level Essence Qi Realm! No wonder the Spirit Bristle Divine King had such power. If a person was to cultivate the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art to an exceedingly high realm, even if one squandered essence energy, one could exhaust his opponent to death.
If a person took into account of this, then even if his own strength was inadequate, his essence energy was sufficient enough to refine a Divine Realm’s middle-level Tier 1 medicinal pill.
“It’s late. Time to help Uncle Tang refine the Ink Jade Heart Returning Pill.” Ye Yuan stood up and stretched his body, pushing the door outwards.
Right after stepping out the door, he saw Lu-er swaying around like a sylph. She smiled and said, “Young Master, you exited your closed-door seclusion?”
“En. Yii? You are already at the First Level Essence Qi Realm?” Ye Yuan replied with a smile while his perceptions un
wittingly swept over Lu-er’s body. He discovered that Lu-er who was initially void of any essence energy was actually at the First Level Essence Qi Realm right now. Furthermore, he only taught Lu-er the Heaven Illusionary Ice Soul a day ago!
Lu-er nodded her head obediently and asked timidly, “Young Master, am I cultivating too slowly?”
Ye Yuan could not help but laughed. “You little lass. Don’t say these words outside. Otherwise, you will anger others to death. Your cultivation speed is too fast; so fast that it makes everyone feel ashamed of their inadequacy.”
Lu-er had just stepped onto the path of cultivation and completely had no understanding of cultivation speed. Listening to how her young master was praising her, Lu-er was elated.
“Really? Does that mean that in the future, I will be able to help Young Master?”
“Haha. Of course. Our family’s Lu-er is the most amazing. Let’s go, follow young master to settle some matters. Tomorrow, we will depart for the Dan Wu Academy. I will bring you to the academy through recommendation,” Ye Yuan said with a laugh.
Chapter 19
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These few days, the Drunken Star Manor was deserted. Its limelight was stolen by the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion.
Ever since the incident caused by Ye Yuan, Wan Donghai had been in a closed-door seclusion, rejecting all visitors. This made Wan Dongyang extremely anxious. He really wanted to send someone to finish Ye Yuan off, but without his big brother’s consent, he did not dare to make the call. Hence, he would linger around Wan Donghai’s seclusion location every now and then, hoping that Wan Donghai would exit seclusion faster.
Currently, Wan Dongyang was pacing about the room’s doorway looking very impatient. Clearly, his patience was already at its limits.
“Big Brother, if you are still not coming out, I will bring people along to cripple that punk! I can’t stomach this grievance.” Wan Dongyang clearly already lost his temper.
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