by Feng Yise
His training just now had just reached the critical point, with some signs of an imminent break through.
Dai Zichen knew that once these signs appeared a few more times, he should be able to break through successfully!
But such an abstruse state was forcefully interrupted. It could be seen just how depressed he was. He could not understand just why this kind of situation would occur in a perfectly fine cultivation room?
Under the current situation, Dai Zichen evidently could not continue cultivating anymore.
That sort of mysterious state was not something that could be entered every time. Once the state was interrupted, wanting to find it again was as hard as ascending to heaven.
Fortunately, people who exited seclusion in advance can refund the unused points. At least it was not wasted.
Dai Zichen walked out of his cultivation room dejectedly. When he arrived at the hall, he discovered that this place was already in a mess.
"What are you doing? I already found the feeling of breaking through just now. Why did the essence energy suddenly disappear? Points is a small matter, but who will compensate for my condition?" exclaimed an Eighth Level Spirit Condensation Realm disciple.
Hearing these words, Dai Zichen's mood instantly became much better. Indeed, it was much nicer to have others sharing in the suffering!
However, he also felt miserable at the same time.
He thought that it was his cultivation room which encountered issues. Looking at it now, it was far from him alone!
There were many people shouting and clamoring in the hall. They were clearly complaining about the essence energy which suddenly vanished.
Just what on earth happened? This kind of situation had never occurred in the cultivation rooms before!
Dai Zichen suddenly cast a glance sideways. His expression could not help changing when he saw a person. He went up to greet. "I've seen Senior Apprentice Brother Xin. Why is Senior Apprentice Brother Xin here? Could it be due to the issue of the cultivation room's essence energy vanishing?"
This person was precisely Xin Lie who was waiting for Ye Yuan to exit seclusion.
However, he did not manage to wait for Ye Yuan to exit seclusion, but he waited until problems arose with the cultivation rooms' essence energy.
Xin Lie replied lightly, "No. I'm waiting for somebody here."
Although Dai Zichen was not an elite disciple, his status in the sect was still very high. Xin Lie evidently recognized him too. If it were some other person, Xin Lie would not even be inclined to answer.
However, his words made Dai Zichen become more doubtful. What kind of person could afford to have Senior Apprentice Brother Xin personally wait at the cultivation rooms?
Presently, the disciple on duty was already covered in sweat. He had never encountered this sort of outbreak situation.
"Everybody, senior apprentice brothers, don't panic! I've already reported the problem here upstairs. Elder Peng is currently rushing over. Ah, Elder Peng, you're finally here!" When that disciple on duty saw Elder Peng, he immediately behaved as if he had suffered greatly.
Elder Peng saw all the disciples flooding this place until even water could not flow. He frowned and said, "What do you all think you're doing, kicking up such a fuss! All get lost outside for me and wait there! If anyone dares to cause a disturbance, they will be barred from using the cultivation rooms for a month!"
With Elder Peng blowing his top, everyone immediately lowered their banners and muffled their drums, and scrammed outside meekly.
Nobody wished to delay a month of cultivation time!
After everyone left, there were only Xin Lie and several top character core disciples left in the hall. They went up to pay respects to Elder Peng.
Elder Peng could not help being involuntarily stunned when he saw Xin Lie. But he did not say anything. Instead, he asked the disciple on duty, "What in the world happened? Explain in detail."
"Replying Elder Peng, 15 minutes ago, the cultivations rooms were all fine. But no idea why, all the essence energy in the cultivation rooms suddenly started to disappear rapidly, like they were being emptied out," the disciple on duty replied.
Elder Peng mused for a minute, clearly thinking about the various possibilities for this kind of situation to occur.
"I'll go take a look at the Spirit Gathering Formation," Elder Peng said.
Elder Peng's name was Peng Liming, a Tier 4 array master in the Tranquil Cloud Sect. His Array Dao cultivation was very incredible.
The Spirit Gathering Formations inside the cultivation rooms was a mid-sized array. It relied on the sect's grand array. The formations in the cultivation rooms would siphon a portion of the heaven and earth essence energy absorbed by the sect's grand array. Then, it will send it to every cultivation room through the array formations.
This array formation had someone maintaining it all year round, and there had never been problems that occurred. Today's circ.u.mstances were truly quite unexpected.
Elder Peng inspected the array formation carefully and said in bewilderment, "There's nothing wrong with the array pivot. The grand array itself is also fine. Could the problems have occurred over at the cultivation rooms?"
Elder Peng went to the relevant array formations for controlling the cultivation rooms and inspected it carefully.
This inspection immediately revealed that something was wrong.
"En? So this is it! All the essence energy are actually heading into one cultivation room! It's just that . . . who has such great capabilities to actually be able to plunder so much essence energy?" Peng Liming became doubtful again.
Returning to the hall, Peng Liming asked the disciple on duty, "Who's using the A-grade cultivation room, No. 43?"
"Uh, it's a disciple called Ye Yuan," the disciple on duty revealed.
Not that the disciple on duty was very responsible to remember the cultivation rooms for every disciple, but because he had a very strong impression of Ye Yuan. Hence, he reported it right away.
Elder Peng had no special feelings when he said that, but Xin Lie's and Dai Zichen's expression changed.
"Oh, that so? I want to see just what kind of deity this Ye Yuan is, to actually have such capabilities to absorb so much heaven and earth essence energy!" A thick curiosity welled up in Peng Liming.
. . . . . .
Causing such an incident was naturally unintentional on Ye Yuan's part.
In reality, he also did not imagine that his breaking through to the Fourth Level Spirit Condensation Realm would actually need to absorb so much heaven and earth essence energy!
The initial breakthrough was very normal and also under Ye Yuan's control.
But when he broke through to the Fourth Level Spirit Condensation Realm and stepped into the Middle Stage Spirit Condensation Realm, that sort of feeling like the divine soul was rent asunder appeared once again!
Every breakthrough in a minor stage, there would also be a minor transformation for the divine soul. It was just that the pain during Ye Yuan's transformation process was far more agonizing compared to ordinary martial artists.
However, the torment this time was still far from comparable to when breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm.
Ye Yuan no longer wished to recall that feeling.
As expected, the golden characters in his sea of consciousness emerged once more, like that time when he broke through to the Spirit Condensation Realm!
Once the divine text appeared, they began to absorb heaven and earth essence energy frenziedly!
Luckily, the cultivation room was pretty capable and could provide essence energy unceasingly.
After a long while, the cultivation room finally became peaceful again, and Ye Yuan also successfully broke through to Fourth Level Spirit Condensation Realm!
Chapter 224 - Fourth Level Spirit Condensation Realm! High-rank Alchemy Master!
Examining his soul force, Ye Yuan was overjoyed.
Indeed, this kind of soul-ren
ding pain was not all for naught. His current soul force actually broke through to the high-rank Alchemy Master standard already!
Furthermore, Ye Yuan could sense that his soul force seemed to be that teensy bit stronger than ordinary high-rank Alchemy Masters!
The divine text was really unexpectedly powerful!
Ever since acquiring these golden characters, Ye Yuan would frequently undergo visualization in his sea of consciousness. But this one month plus, there was no progress at all.
No wonder his father, Ji Zhengyang said that he only had some superficial knowledge.
Too hard!
Each character, every stroke, all encompassed the maxim of the Great Dao. Even though Ye Yuan once stood at the pinnacle of the Martial Dao, it was also difficult to see its entirety.
However, these golden characters seemed to have a life of its own. Every time Ye Yuan broke through, they could come out by themselves and assist Ye Yuan's soul transformation!
No matter what, this was a good thing for Ye Yuan!
The present Ye Yuan was only middle-stage Spirit Condensation Realm, but already had the soul force of a high-rank Alchemy Master. This was plenty for him to do many things!
Such as, refining Tier 3 medicinal pills!
Of course, to Ye Yuan, high-grade Tier 3 medicinal pills were still beyond his power. But low-grade Tier 3 medicinal pills were no longer something challenging to Ye Yuan!
Yuan Fei had helped out quite a bit ever since following him. He even fought with a Sea Transformation Realm powerhouse. It was time for some repayment.
"Uh, already five days. The Ouyang Family is most likely panicking from waiting, right? I'll go and meet this Ouyang Family!"
Ye Yuan was so confident not because he broke through in Spirit Condensation Realm, but because it stemmed from his tremendous Alchemy Path strength!
. . . . . .
"Ye Yuan!' Dai Zichen who noticed Ye Yuan first called out.
With his call, the atmosphere in the hall instantly became tense.
Everyone here had different thoughts, but they were all waiting quietly for Ye Yuan to exit seclusion.
"En? You . . . You actually broke through to Fourth Level Spirit Condensation Realm! Only used five days!" After Ye Yuan walked out, Dai Zichen's pupils involuntarily constricted as he exclaimed in shock.
"Isn't entering a retreat to breakthrough realms a very normal thing? What's there to make a fuss about?" Peng Liming said crossly.
Dai Zichen smiled bitterly and said, "Elder Peng doesn't understand. Ye Yuan was only Second Level Spirit Condensation Realm before entering seclusion! Five days time and he broke through two realms consecutively!"
"What? What did you say? Breaking through two realms consecutively in five days? What kind of joke is this?" It was now Peng Liming's turn to be alarmed.
The Spirit Condensation Realm was not like the Essence Qi Realm. Even the top disciples in the sect would require several months before they could breakthrough a realm!
When Dai Zichen said that Ye Yuan broke through two realms consecutively in five days, Peng Liming instinctively took it that he was making a joke.
Xin Lie remained silent by the side, but astonishment flickered across his eyes. This was also his first time seeing Ye Yuan. He was still unaware that he was only at the Second Level Spirit Condensation Realm before this.
"Elder Peng, how would I dare to crack such a joke with you? He and I came into contact before he entered seclusion. He was indeed Second Level Spirit Condensation Realm. That's right! If you don't believe me, ask him!" Dai Zichen pointed to the disciple on duty.
Seeing Elder Peng's probing gaze, the disciple on duty nodded and said, "What Senior Apprentice Brother Dai said is correct. Ye Yuan was indeed Second Level Spirit Condensation Realm before entering closed-seclusion."
"Hiss . . . This boy is actually so freakish. Truly remarkable! Ye Yuan, let me ask you, what did you do inside the cultivation room just now?" Peng Liming asked.
Ye Yuan instinctively sensed that things were not good, but he still answered honestly, "This disciple was naturally breaking through cultivation realms inside. Could it be that there are still other things that one can do in five days time? Moreover, the A-grade cultivation rooms are so expensive. Nobody would be willing to waste time doing something else, right?"
"Uh . . ." Peng Liming was left speechless.
That was right. Breaking through two realms consecutively in five days, what other things could he be doing inside? How was it possible?
In reality, Ye Yuan was truly only breaking through realms. Except, not only did he breakthrough Martial Path realm, he even broke through divine soul realm under the aid of the divine texts!
This point, he obviously would not tell outsiders.
The average divine soul realm breakthrough did not have such a large commotion.
"Do you know what happened while you were in retreat inside?" Peng Liming asked gloomily.
"Uh, this Disciple is unaware. Elder Peng, please clarify." Ye Yuan really did not know what happened.
Elder Peng recounted the incident for Ye Yuan, leaving Ye Yuan astounded after hearing it too. He could never have imagined that his breakthrough would actually bring about such a huge influence.
"Apologies. Because the cultivation method that this Disciple is training in is rather special, I require vast amounts of essence energy to support when breaking through. I really did not think that it would end up like this," Ye Yuan apologized.
"Haha, no worries! For the sect to have a genius disciple like you, it's the sect's fortune! Such a trifling matter is not worth mentioning. However, if you want to breakthrough realms again in the future, you can come and let me know first. I'll help you adjust the Spirit Gathering Formation to avoid affecting the other disciples' training." Elder Peng burst into laughter.
"This Disciple knows. Thank you, Elder Peng!" Ye Yuan cupped his fists and gave thanks.
Ye Yuan could sense that this Elder Peng was the same type of person as Lu Yan. As long as it was something beneficial to the sect's development, he would spare no effort to do it, even if it cost him his life!
Right then, Xin Lie who was by the sides finally moved.
He slowly walked in front of Ye Yuan. He saluted Elder Peng first and said, "Elder Peng, this disciple is here to convey the sect decree to Ye Yuan!"
Elder Peng's expression changed but did not say anything. Nodding, he withdrew to one side.
Xin Lie turned to Ye Yuan and said coldly, "Sect decree has arrived. Ye Yuan, receive the decree!"
Ye Yuan looked at Xin Lie and immediately understood. He rolled his eyes and said, "No need to block me here, right? I'm already here in the sect. Could it be that you're afraid I'll run?"
Xin Lie ignored Ye Yuan's mocking, and he repeated his words. "Sect decree has arrived. Ye Yuan, receive the decree!"
"Alright, alright. I'll receive it. So cold and frosty, what the fun in being like an ice sculpture?" Ye Yuan words made Dai Zichen who was by the side sweat heavily.
Was this punk fearless due to ignorance, or was he sufficiently rampant?
This was the Senior Apprentice Brother Xin Lie hailed as Unparalleled Sword. He actually dared to speak in this manner?
Dai Zichen was already completely speechless. The reason why he helped to shield Ye Yuan was actually that he wanted to have a match with Ye Yuan himself. He did not imagine that he was not even qualified. He was about to meet the sect master right away.
Towards Ye Yuan's attitude, Xin Lie remained unperturbed. He just casually fired out a streak of green light.
Ye Yuan reached out to receive it, but it was a jade substance token. This was presumably the sect decree.
Ye Yuan inserted his divine sense into it and said with a frown, "What the hell is Tri-Hall Joint Hearing? Do you want me to go along with you?"
Xin Lie nodded and said, "That's right!"
"Then let's go. Don't let those old fellows from the Pill Hall wait until they panic.
" Finishing, Ye Yuan left with Xin Lie.
Dai Zichen was already so shocked that he could not say anything.
Tri-Hall Joint Hearing!
What kind of trouble did Ye Yuan cause?
Chapter 225 - Are You Talking About This?
A great majestic hall at the main peak of the Spirit Blessing Mountain.
Xin Lie led Ye Yuan along and stood in the center of the hall.
"Sect Master, Ye Yuan has been brought here!"
Xin Lie finished this sentence and retread.
Ye Yuan unwittingly sized up the imposing looking middle-aged man in the middle of the great hall. He should be the current sect master of the Tranquil Cloud Sect, Luo Qingfeng!
Luo Qingfeng's person was not equal to his name. His entire being's sharp edge was withdrawn. If not for sitting in the middle of the great hall, he would be like an ordinary person, which gave people a fleeting and ephemeral sensation.
Luo Qingfeng was also sizing up Ye Yuan. He was clearly very interested in this little fellow who feared nothing and no one.
This was the first time he saw a youth that could still remain so calm and unworried when facing the Tri-Hall Joint Hearing.
"Insolent Ye Yuan! Why haven't you paid respects seeing Lord Sect Master and the various Hall Heads?" said a person sitting before Luo Qingfeng.
Ye Yuan shrugged his shoulder and said, "I wanted to pay respects too, but I've just entered the sect and don't know a single person. How do I pay respects? This Lord, do me a favor, how about giving me an introduction?"
That person was stunned when he heard this, but could not do anything to Ye Yuan. Ye Yuan entered closed-seclusion right after arriving. He most likely did not even recognize the roads, let alone the sect master and these hall heads.
"Humph! Indeed sharp-tongued! As a sect disciple, to not even recognize the sect master and various hall heads is already committing a blasphemous offense!" The person who spoke was none other than Ye Yuan's old acquaintance, Yao Qian.