Putting aside that Zhou Yan only brought along Zhou Yu, even if Zhou Yan came by himself, eradicating the Crimson Afterglow Holy Land was also plenty to spare.
Dao Profound versus Phaseless indeed had an overwhelming advantage.
But this kind of advantage was not absolute.
To Zhou Yan, this level of genius, he could rely on powerful concepts comprehension to heaven-defyingly defeat a First Level Dao Profound.
Moreover, the Vastsun Flameheart Pupil, this kind of ocular art’s lethality was extremely formidable. Crossing realms to battle was even more like having a common meal.
These made Ye Yuan’s identity become even more mysterious.
Making Ye Yuan become the Crimson Afterglow’s Young Lord seemed to have become a joke. Because Ye Yuan was someone on a completely different level from them.
When Chen Qin saw the situation, he hastily said the reason for Tu You’s great loss in longevity. Everyone felt lingering fear after hearing it too.
But after Wu Siyuan heard it, his expression changed drastically and said, “Holy Followers! We ran into two very powerful opponents in the boneyard! They called themselves Holy Followers!”
Tu You’s expression changed. He did not think that such an incident even happened before in the boneyard.
After Wu Siyuan returned, he always had carefully avoided mentioning the boneyard matters. This was still his first time opening his mouth to mention about the matters that happened underground.
It was just that Tu You never thought that Wu Siyuan actually ran into Holy Followers at the boneyard. Furthermore, it was two at once!
“What?! You guys ran into two Holy Followers? No wonder the casualties were so severe! It’s just that … those Holy Followers all had extremely formidable strength, you guys … how did you guys escape?” Tu You said in puzzlement.
He himself had exchanged blows with a Holy Follower before and was naturally aware of a Holy Follower’s prowess.
If not for the Crimson Afterglow’s forbidden art being powerful, he would have long been killed by the other party already. Even so, Tu You still lost the Crimson Afterglow’s most valuable treasure before considering it spending money to get rid of a calamity.
“This … They … They were killed by Ye Yuan!” Wu Siyuan ruminated for a moment before saying.
“What did you say?! The … The two Holy Follower were both killed by Ye Yuan? How is that possible?” Tu You said in disbelief.
“Holy Lord, the specific circumstances, I can’t tell you. Otherwise, the entire Crimson Afterglow might suffer a disastrous calamity,” Wu Siyuan said with a frown.
That black-clothed person’s might, he witnessed it with his own eyes. A pagoda slaying two holy follower experts. Too powerful!
Long Teng’s warning was still ringing in his ears. If this matter was divulged, Long Teng might really do away with witnesses to prevent divulgence of one’s secrets. Even the Crimson Afterglow Holy Land was out of the question!
Tu You’s expression turned apprehensive. The matters that happened in the boneyard was clearly even more complicated than he imagined. He nodded his head straight away and said, “Forget it, this Emperor won’t make things difficult for you either. Hopefully, Ye Yuan will be blessed by heaven and can return safe and sound.”
…
A year’s time passed in a twinkle. But to Ye Yuan, it was an extremely drawn-out process.
He felt like he had a very, very long dream. He walked in the dark, walked and walked, but forever could not walk to the end.
“Where am I? Seems like … my divine soul is being restrained? My divine soul was clearly already torn to shreds by Fiendgod Jia Lan. Why is it still well right now? Could it be … I’m already dead?” Ye Yuan muttered to himself.
This question, he thought for very long in this dark space but failed to find an answer.
Ye Yuan could not figure it out right now, whether he was alive or dead.
“Ugh … Finally came! This will suppression seems to be getting stronger and stronger!”
In this darkness, the only thing that made Ye Yuan feel like he existed was this will suppression.
At set intervals, he would be devastated by this will suppression once. This kind of devastation practically made him had a breakdown.
But in this darkness without any hope, his breakdown meant nothing at all. Because Ye Yuan did not even know whether he was alive or dead right now.
This incomprehensible will suppression was even many times more powerful than that azure dragon will Ye Yuan cut down in the past.
Ye Yuan was wrecked utterly dog-tired by him each time before that will would suddenly disappear as if it had never appeared before.
From the very beginning hundred breaths of time, to later, a quarter of an hour, two hours, then to the current half a day, Ye Yuan felt that he was in the midst of continuously strengthening.
That will was akin to great waves washing away the sand, continuously scouring Ye Yuan’s nerves, making him wish that he was dead.
That sort of feeling was seriously too overwhelmingly depressing.
But right now, Ye Yuan was already thoroughly numb towards this sort of feeling. His endurance was goodness knows how many times stronger compared to when it just started.
“Huuu … Finally passed! Am I kind of asking for it a little right now? Why do I feel somewhat uneasy all over if this will doesn’t come? But being devastated for so long, it seems like my will suppression became considerably stronger too!”
Ye Yuan gave a self-deprecating smile but released his own will suppression. He could distinctly feel that he had grown quite a bit in this dark space.
All of a sudden, there was a blur before Ye Yuan’s eyes. It actually changed scenes!
“Master, you finally woke up! This one year, you worried Blackwind to death!”
Opening his eyes, the first thing Ye Yuan heard was Blackwind’s voice.
Ye Yuan blinked his eyes, clearly still kind of dazed.
“Ugh … Blackwind? I … I came out?” Ye Yuan said sluggishly.
“Came out? What came out? Master, you have always been underground here and didn’t go out!” Blackwind said baffledly.
“En? Underground?” Ye Yuan furrowed his brows. Memories instantly filled his entire head.
He still remembered Fiendgod Jia Lan suddenly making a move at that time, tunneling directly into his sea of consciousness, and grinding up his divine soul.
Then he knew nothing after that.
Right at that time, a burst of mysterious power blasted right onto Jia Lan’s fiendish sense, shocking him out of his sea of consciousness.
After that, darkness descended, wrapping Ye Yuan’s tattered divine soul inside entirely.
Then afterward, it was that infinite torture.
Chapter 849 - Transformation
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Black bead!
What saved him must be the black bead!
This black bead was truly miraculous. His divine soul was already heavily wounded by Fiendgod Jia Lan, and the black bead actually brought him back to life!
Then what confined him inside the dark space was also the black bead?
“Just what the hell is this black bead, to actually be so miraculous!” Ye Yuan muttered.
“What bead is master talking about? Oh, right, when that Fiendgod Jia Lan came out from master’s body, he mentioned before about some Soul Suppressing Pearl,” Blackwind suddenly recalled something and said.
“Soul Suppressing Pearl?” Ye Yuan was stunned but had never heard this name before.
Back then, when he obtained this black bead from the Grand Yan True Sect’s ruins, it entered his sea of consciousness incomprehensibly.
And it also saved him several times at critical junctures.
This time, it even forcefully dragged him back from an extent from impending death, fully restoring his tattered divine soul.
“En? You said just now … one
year? I’ve already slept here for a year’s time?” Ye Yuan suddenly recalled something and said in surprise.
“Yes, Master. In the beginning, Blackwind was very worried about Master’s safety. But later, although Master did not wake up, you continuously broke through cultivation realms in your sleep, making Blackwind endlessly amazed. Only then did I set my mind at ease. Just earlier, Master actually directly broke through to Heaven Enlightenment Realm in your sleep and didn’t even trigger any heavenly tribulation. It’s seriously too incredible!”
After Ye Yuan fell into a coma, his aura had always been vague and fleeting, looking very frightening, as if he might pass away at any time. Blackwind was also anxious but could not do anything by the side, completely at a loss on what to do.
But after this kind of state kept persisting for a period of time, not only did Ye Yuan not die, he directly broke through a minor cultivation realm instead, breaking through to the Fifth Level Boundless Realm.
This discovery made Blackwind unbelievably shocked.
He was already going to die and could actually still break through?
Then, around a month’s time passed again, Ye Yuan actually broke through once more!
In one year, Ye Yuan’s cultivation realm actually soared rapidly, breaking through all the way to peak Ninth Level Boundless realm.
From the initial-most worry, Blackwind became astonished.
Ye Yuan’s situation was too strange. Blackwind had no way of understanding at all.
But one thing was certain, Ye Yuan was already fine!
Which dying person could still break through continuously?
But recently, Ye Yuan’s cultivation realm already reached the nodal point of breaking through to the Heaven Enlightenment Realm. Blackwind became worried again.
This heavenly tribulation from Middle Three Realms to Upper Three Realms was not that easy to transcend.
But just now, Ye Yuan directly broke through to Heaven Enlightenment Realm, and he did not even trigger the heavenly tribulation!
Breaking through the Middle Three Realms, one must experience a major heavenly tribulation once. With Ye Yuan’s strength, this heavenly tribulation’s power was bound to not be small.
But right now, he already finished breaking through, and even a hint of the heavenly tribulation could not be seen. This really made Blackwind’s jaws drop.
Ye Yuan also could not quite make head or tail of it but recalled his experiences inside the dark space.
Could it be that the will devastation in the dark space was actually cultivation?
Ye Yuan immediately examined his own divine soul and discovered that between the eyebrows of his divine soul, there was indeed an additional eye!
This was the hallmark of breaking through to the Heaven Enlightenment Realm, opening a heavenly eye!
Upper Three Realms gained enlightenment on Dao. The so-called Heaven Enlightenment Realm was the divine soul unlocking a heavenly eye and could have a preliminary glimpse into the secrets of Heavenly Dao.
This heavenly eye was a kind of resonance between the divine soul and Heavenly Dao. Martial artists could see the power of laws that they could not see in the past through the heavenly eye, and comprehend these power of laws and use them for themselves from there.
Wanting to reach this step was a tremendous test to Middle Three Realms martial artists.
One must comprehend sufficiently profound concepts before breaking through to Heaven Enlightenment Realm to be able to open up the heavenly eye easier.
And after opening the heavenly eye, martial artists’ speed of comprehending concepts would be dozens of times faster compared to before!
Especially those genius martial artists, their comprehension speed could increase hundreds, thousands of times. Heaven Enlightenment Realm was the realm where one truly soared to the skies in one move.
Therefore, reaching Heaven Enlightenment Realm, martial artists’ strength would have a qualitative leap. Boundless Realm, martial artists were completely inadequate to look at in front of Heaven Enlightenment Realms.
However, precisely because comprehending concepts before Heaven Enlightenment Realm was more difficult, it was even harder to come by for Ye Yuan to be able to comprehend a supreme true intent to the fifth-stage before Heaven Enlightenment Realm.
In terms of concepts comprehension, Ye Yuan did not choose the easy way in the least bit. He relied on his comprehension abilities to understand it step by step.
Ye Yuan examined his essence energy sea again and discovered that his essence energy sea already reached a horrifying circumference of one million feet unknowingly.
This level was as many as dozens of times of ordinary Heaven Enlightenment Realm martial artists.
Solely in terms of essence energy sea, Ye Yuan could compare to middle-stage Heaven Enlightenment Realm martial artists now too.
“Truly inconceivable! My soul force actually already reached middle-stage Alchemy Saint!”
What surprised Ye Yuan more was still his soul force.
In the past, Ye Yuan’s divine soul realm always followed his cultivation realm. Even if his soul force already reached the level of great circle of perfection, it was also not possible to break through the body’s fetters.
But now, he actually smashed these fetters!
Ye Yuan had never heard before that someone’s divine soul realm could actually break through the body’s limits.
Even if your divine soul cultivation method was cultivated any more fearsomely, it was also impossible for initial-stage Heaven Enlightenment Realm martial artists to cultivate to middle-stage Alchemy Saint.
But now, Ye Yuan did it!
“What? Master just broke through to the Heaven Enlightenment Realm and your soul force actually already reached middle-stage Alchemy Saint? This … How is this possible?” Blackwind was shocked to the core.
Ye Yuan gave a bitter laugh. A surge of powerful soul force was released.
Sensing Ye Yuan’s soul force, Blackwind’s eyes were filled with disbelief.
“Really middle-stage Alchemy Saint! My God, how can such a miraculous thing happen in this world?”
Blackwind was already unable to use words to describe his astonishment. This sort of impossible to happen thing actually really happened in front of him.
No matter what divine soul cultivation method one cultivated in, it was not possible to break through to the next level at a corresponding cultivation realm. This was common sense.
But the current Ye Yuan shattered this common sense.
Ye Yuan shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly, “I don’t know what’s going on either. Looks like the problem still occurred with the Soul Suppressing Pearl. Seems like I still have to find Jia Lan when there’s a chance and inquire about this Soul Suppressing Pearl’s matters from him.”
Jia Lan coming into being should originally be a matter that made the Divine Realm fall into immense terror, but he was severely injured by Ye Yuan.
Especially the time where he seized possession, Jia Lan’s fiendish sense probably injured his foundations. He completely had no way of recovering to his peak state within a short time.
If Ye Yuan met Jia Lan again, Ye Yuan believed that he should have sufficient strength to deal with him.
“Master breaking through the body’s limits, this kind of thing, you must take care not to expose it in front of people. Otherwise, it will stir up huge problems,” Blackwind said with a solemn face.
Once this sort of thing was revealed, Ye Yuan was surely be treated as a lab rat, drawing countless people’s covetous eyes.
Ye Yuan said smilingly, “You don’t need you to remind me about this. I naturally got it. Oh, right, I remember that there were still two Holy Followers at that time. Those two people’s strengths were extremely formidable. Why didn’t they attack us?”
Blackwind’s expression dimmed as he said, “Lord Throne, his … condition seems to be very bad!”
Chapter 850 - Chaotic Devil Sea
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Hearing Blackwind telling the situation on that day, Ye Yuan’s expression was very ugly.
After he went into a coma, Long Teng actually forcefully deployed the Vast Heaven Pagoda and slew the two holy followers.
Actually, regarding Long Teng’s identity, Ye Yuan had some surmises long ago.
However, Long Teng did not tell him, so e did not go and expose it either.
Even if the dragon race’s lifespan was a lot longer compared to the human race, it was absolutely impossible for Long Teng to live for 50 thousand years either.
As for what Long Teng said before, Fang Tian letting him survive until now through altering the flow of time, that was even more absurd.
Forget about Long Teng, even Fang Tian himself, as long as he did not break through to Deity Realm, it was absolutely impossible for him to live until now either.
Even if Fang Tian had heaven-defying attainments in the Dao of Time.
If Ye Yuan’s conjectures were right, Long Teng should be the Vast Heaven Pagoda’s artifact spirit!
Although Ye Yuan refined the Vast Heaven Stele, due to his cultivation realm being too low, he was completely unable to unleash the true power of the Vast Heaven Pagoda.
Ye Yuan reckoned that even if the Vast Heaven Pagoda’s grade did not reach divine artifact, it was probably not far off either.
However, Long Teng’s condition being poor was true.
Ye Yuan estimated that during the great monumental battle 50 thousand years ago, Long Teng probably suffered considerable injuries too, resulting in him not recovering until now.
Forcefully deploying the Vast Heaven Pagoda was overly forceful to the Long Teng in this kind of state.
Blackwind said that after Long Teng returned to the Vast Heaven Pagoda, he never came out again either.
Even though Blackwind could not make head or tail of the situation, Long Teng’s weakness, he perceived it.
Ye Yuan’s heart stirred, and he immediately entered inside the Vast Heaven Pagoda.
At present, Ye Yuan already broke through to Heaven Enlightenment Realm. After entering the Vast Heaven Pagoda, he distinctly sensed that it was somewhat different from before.
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