by Feng Yise
Finished talking, Qi Hai pulled out a flask of wine calmly and went to the stone table by the side to start pouring himself a cup to drink on his own.
This was the Immortal Remembrance Jade Brew that Ye Yuan gave him. This time, he specially brought it along with him.
He knew that these four people would definitely be very conflicted and surely would not have an answer for a short while.
Forget about Liu Hong; the other three people were all the top proud children of heaven of a world, gathering millions of gazes on them.
Even if they admired Ye Yuan very much right now, it also did not represent that they were willing to be Ye Yuan's underlings, listening to Ye Yuan's assignment for every matter.
But Qi Hai had his own considerations. Ye Yuan had never belonged to the Endless World. He was destined to radiate splendor in the Divine Realm!
With Ye Yuan's current improvement speed, he believed that this day would not be too distant.
Maybe 10 years, but even so, the maximum would not exceed 20 years!
However, to talk about where the Endless World's final hope lay, that was absolutely Ye Yuan!
Zhao Tianyin this Boundless Realm existence was akin to a gigantic mountain pressing down on Qi Hai's heart.
Once the realm passageway was completely stabilized and the Wind Emperor personally descended upon the Endless World, it would probably be hard for him, a Realmlord, to survive as well.
Initially, he was constantly worrying about this matter, all the way until he saw Ye Yuan's spectacular performance in the Vast Heaven Pagoda this time!
Yes! Qi Hai was completely awe-inspired!
Perfect Completion two consecutive times and directly making it into the seventh level!
Such a result, not say that it would never be seen again, but it was absolutely unprecedented!
Moreover, in just this half a month's time, Ye Yuan already broke through multiple realms in a row, breaking through to middle-stage Sea Transformation.
Such cultivation speed, who could guarantee that he would be incapable of having the strength to contend with the Wind Emperor before he descended?
An Endless World youth being able to obtain a Divine Realm's inheritance was no doubt impressive. But Ye Yuan's extraordinariness was clearly not due to this. The most remarkable thing about Ye Yuan was not the Divine Realm inheritance, but that remarkable talent of his! It was himself!
Qi Hai dared to confirmed that even if the Divine Realm's legacies landed on these four people before his eyes, they absolutely could not reach Ye Yuan's level either!
After all, no matter how incredible the legacy, it also needed the martial artist to go and comprehend concepts bit by bit, to go and cultivate essence energy.
Essence energy cultivation was hard to say. But this sort of thing like concepts comprehension, it required talent.
The reason why Ye Yuan was powerful was that his concepts comprehension threw these few people in front of him multiple streets behind!
And to make these four people follow Ye Yuan was also hoping that they could become the Endless World's future hope; it was to let them m.a.t.u.r.e even faster and become even stronger!
If they could not let go of the pride in their hearts, Qi Hai could not help them either.
"Okay! I'll stay behind to follow Ye Yuan!"
What made Qi Hai rather surprised was that the first one to speak up was actually the Qin Yan who had a grudge with Ye Yuan.
"I'm staying!"
"I'm staying too!"
Guo Taoqun and Yin Yanhua practically followed right after. But Liu Hong became rather hesitant.
This sort of situation now was far too drastically different from what he predicted before coming to the Vast Heaven Pagoda.
He did not think that he actually had to be a lackey for a youth much younger than him now.
"I . . ." Liu Hong revealed a difficult look and became hesitant to speak.
Qi Hai gave him a sidelong glance and said coolly, "No need to be conflicted. Willing means willing. Unwilling means unwilling. I won't make things difficult for you just because you choose to leave. Furthermore, I came up with this idea at the last minute as well and still haven't discussed it with Ye Yuan yet. Whether he's willing to or not is still another matter altogether!"
This matter was indeed what he conceived impromptu. The Fierce Gale World's abnormal activities made him rather uneasy.
No matter which angle one analyzed from, the move of massacring cities was the dumbest one. But were the Fierce Gale World folks really a bunch of fools?
This Liu Hong's talent was indeed decent. That was why Qi Hai had the thought of keeping him behind together with the others.
"Actually, you don't need to feel wronged. I believe you've perceived it too; Ye Yuan's talent and strength, you won't be able to catch up for the rest of your life too. When he cleared the fifth level, he already had that kind of strength. The second Perfect Clear this time, it's still uncertain what kind of heaven-defying rewards he obtained. Coming out of the Vast Heaven Pagoda this time, he's already on a completely different level of martial artist from us. Following him won't bring disgrace to you. Maybe there might come a day where you would even be proud because of today's choice!" At this time, Qin Yan suddenly voiced out to urge.
Qi Hai glugged a mouthful of Immortal Remembrance Jade Brew and said with a smile, "Not maybe. It's definitely!"
Liu Hong finally sighed slightly and said to Qi Hai, "Okay, I'll stay behind!"
"Alright. Since that's the case, you guys each enter seclusion to comprehend then."
Regarding Liu Hong's choice, Qi Hai was not very surprised.
This person was not someone stupid. Or else, he would not have his present accomplishments either. How he should choose, he was actually very clear in his heart. It was just that he could not cross this hurdle in his heart.
As long as the gains and losses were analyzed clearly, he could make a wise choice.
. . . . . .
In a blink, Ye Yuan had already spent over five months in the snow-covered land of ice.
In these five months plus, Ye Yuan was frozen to death many times. Each time was death because of depleting essence energy.
In order to not freeze to death, Ye Yuan thought of countless ways. Yet, it yielded very little success.
In the beginning, Ye Yuan released the Scorching True Intent to maintain his body temperature. He discovered that this way would exhaust essence energy very quickly and die.
Later on, Ye Yuan became wiser. He only maintained the released true intent at a very low level to barely ensure that he would not be frozen to death. But that sort of extremely cold feeling made him exceptionally clear-minded.
That bone-piercing chill made him have limitless despair!
But Ye Yuan still toughed it out!
Under Heart Like Still Water heart realm, Ye Yuan gingerly maintained the feeble true intent to resist the freezing cold.
Gradually, Ye Yuan finally touched upon some know-how!
Ye Yuan discovered that he could sense the Scorching True Intent's true essence more clearly under such a condition!
Even though this sort of feeling was still extremely fuzzy, at least he had a direction to strive towards; it was not hazy like before.
These few days, Ye Yuan had been fastidiously experiencing the Scorching True Intent all along, and he gradually had some understanding in his heart.
Heat was a kind of energy release. When the temperature was not high, this sort of release would not produce too much destructive power.
But once the temperature rose to an extremely terrifying level, the destructive force of that Scorching True Intent would be very alarming!
In the end, it was still how high a degree the martial artist could raise the temperature of the Scorching True Intent to!
The higher the temperature of the martial technique released, the greater the destructive power evidently caused!
Just like the Spirit Bristle Div
ine King's Nine Suns Burning Heaven, its horrifying destructive power was not due to its large area-of-effect, but it was because he could raise the temperature within a certain sphere of influence to an extremely terrifying level.
A level that was able to obliterate Divine King powerhouses!
How profound a concept did that have to be?!
The present Ye Yuan was clearly still far off!
Figuring out this link, Ye Yuan no longer used the Scorching Concept to maintain his own body temperature anymore!
Chapter 578 - Preliminary Peep at the Door
"Flame Movement Carnage!"
Ye Yuan released all of his essence energy, wanting to shatter this world of ice and snow.
Yet, everything was futile. His Flame Movement Carnage was incapable of stirring up even a drop of sea spray.
But Ye Yuan did not have the intention of giving up. He swung his fists like this over and over again, repeatedly like a moth flying into the fire, all the way until he froze to death.
Then once more!
Ye Yuan already could not remember how many times he had died and how many punches he had swung.
Either way, every time he swung his fists, he had to go all out to release the Scorching True Intent to the limits!
"Still a little bit more! Just a tiny bit!"
These countless times of swinging his fists was not a wasted effort. Continuously persisting in the state of his limits, this made his utilization of the Scorching True Intent become even more practiced. The understanding became deeper too.
And now, Ye Yuan finally felt that he was gradually going to touch that threshold!
This feeling made him excited, yet dejected. He was excited that the Scorching Supreme True Intent's gate was right in front of him; but feeling dejected that this step kept on being distant just like the end of the world for very long, unable to break through for a long time.
How could the gate to a supreme true intent be so easy to step inside?
But what Ye Yuan lacked the least was patience. In his previous life, in order to research a type of medicinal pill, he would even perform up to a million dreary experiments.
If there were not this sort of grinding process, he could not possibly have become the Divine Realm's youngest peak Alchemy Emperor either.
This bit right now was simply just child's play to him.
Just like this, his fists danced about over and over again, seeking that sensation of breakthrough bit by bit.
By the time it was the 170th day, Ye Yuan finally found a spark of inspiration!
Rumble!
Ye Yuan struck out a punch with all his might. The snowy-ice space finally underwent a trace of change!
It was this trace of change that made Ye Yuan inexplicably excited.
That punch earlier shattered that extreme cold very briefly!
Even though it was only for an extremely brief time, Ye Yuan sensed it clearly!
But this punch, likewise, exhausted all of his essence energy. Ye Yuan would be frozen to death very soon.
Reviving again, Ye Yuan did not attack randomly right away, but he meticulously visualized that sort of feeling just now.
Mustering strength, punching out, shattering space!
It was this sort of feeling!
Ye Yuan once again sensed that the instant the extreme cold was smashed, the extreme cold weather had that tiny hint of loosening up.
Although this sort of extreme cold was very stubborn and recaptured the position immediately, that kind of feeling absolutely would not be wrong!
"Heh heh, hard work pays off! Finally got a preliminary peep at the door!"
Even Ye Yuan himself could not help being proud of himself for a while either.
He only used a short 170 day's time to get a preliminary peep at the door of the Scorching Supreme True Intent. This was absolutely a very remarkable achievement.
Even the Spirit Bristle Divine King back them spent at least several decades time to get a preliminary peep at the door of this supreme true intent.
As it was said: the first step was the hardest for everything. The hardest thing about comprehending concepts was not the process of comprehension, but finding the way to cross the threshold.
Even if Ye Yuan already comprehended the Scorching True Intent, to go a step further and achieve supreme true intent, it was another world.
This degree of difficulty was no less than an aboriginal ascending to the Divine Realm from the Endless World.
Apart from Ye Yuan this exception, for an aboriginal to want to ascend to the Divine Realm from the Endless World, there might not be one in several hundred years either. The level of difficulty could be imagined.
Ye Yuan could get a preliminary peep at the door in a short 170 days. This was absolutely an incredible heroic undertaking.
Of course, even if Ye Yuan got a preliminary peep at the door, the road at the back was extremely hard to walk too. But once this step was taken out, it was the most solid step.
The astonishment in the black-clothed person's heart could be imagined. "This boy, just where did this freak pop out from? This is the Scorching Supreme True Intent, not some lousy common-ware. 170 days! He only used 170 days to get a preliminary peep at the door!"
The black-clothed person's pride was already beaten completely battered and bruised by Ye Yuan under the circ.u.mstances where he knew nothing of.
Along the way, Ye Yuan completed far too many impossible to complete tasks. The black-clothed person already felt that he was numb. But he was still shocked by Ye Yuan once more without any surprise.
Even though the black-clothed person did not tell him the time he remained in the inheritance space this time, he reckoned that it was almost up as well.
Even if there were still time left, there definitely wouldn't be much left either. To want to get any progress in the Scorching Concept, the time was simply insufficient. Hence, Ye Yuan thought of the Nine Characters True Word Formula.
Ye Yuan decided to use this bit of time remaining to research this Nine Characters True Word Formula for a bit.
This Nine Characters True Word Formula was vastly different from ordinary martial techniques. There was no general outline, no cultivation method, just nine very blurry words, giving people a feeling of having no way to start.
Ye Yuan mustered up Heart Like Still Water and started to visualize the 'Lin' character formula. This already became a habit of Ye Yuan's. Under Heart Like Still Water heart realm, regardless whether was it cultivation or battle for Ye Yuan, the efficiency was very high. Yet, in the next moment, Ye Yuan's entire body suddenly trembled!
This Heart Like Still Water Realm actually produced an inexplicable resonance with the 'Lin' character!
"Could it be that these two have some connection?" Ye Yuan said in great surprise.
This Heart Like Still Water was successfully comprehended by chance when he was at the Nine Heavens Road. It was completely unrelated to this 'Lin' character.
But he clearly sensed that the heart realm which was stuck at the bottleneck all along seemed to have that tiny hint of loosening.
On the other side, the originally extremely fuzzy 'Lin' character in the sea of consciousness, under Ye Yuan's visualization, seemed to gradually become clearer.
The two, heart realm and the 'Lin' character, seemingly like dry wood meeting raging flames, instantaneously producing a resonance!
Under this resonance, luck came as Ye Yuan's mind became more agile, and he actually involuntarily formed a strange hand seal.
This hand seal was not complicated. But not knowing why, when Ye Yuan formed the seal, it was unbelievably strenuous.
The method to form the seals was clearly in Ye Yuan's head. However, even the first hand seal, he was unable to form it even by mustering all of his might!
It was as if within this seal, it contained tremendous repulsive force, separating his both hands.
Ye Yuan was a stubborn person too. This first seal, he already formed mo
re than half of it. Just the final step and it was going to succeed.
At this time, he absolutely did not wish to give up.
Hence, he used all the essence energy in his body, wanting to complete the seal.
Puhwark!
Ye Yuan finally could not hold back the sweetness in his throat. A mouthful of fresh blood spewed out.
"This seal is exceedingly overbearing! It actually shocked me till internal injuries! Even the first seal is so profound. How terrifying must the seals at the back be?!" Ye Yuan wiped the fresh blood at the corners of his mouth and could not help saying with an emotional sigh.
Even though he did not succeed, Ye Yuan could confirm that this 'Lin' character and heart realm most likely had some kind of connection.
Ye Yuan already had not broken through in heart realm for very long, constantly marching on the spot. Evidently, he had reached a bottleneck.
But through the visualization this time, Ye Yuan clearly sensed Heart Like Still Water heart realm loosening up again.
As long as he continued visualizing, Ye Yuan's heart realm was bound to have some breakthrough!
However, what excited Ye Yuan even more was that if visualizing the 'Lin' character could aid heart realm breakthrough, then didn't he obtained a method to cultivate heart realm?
Chapter 579 - Three Palms!
Heart realm did not have a direct enhancement to a person when it came to combat power. But its auxiliary function was too powerful!
Along the way, this Heart Like Still Water already helped him for God knows how many times.
Essence energy realm increase was not something hard to Ye Yuan. But heart realm was different.
He knew that if there wasn't any heaven-defying fortuitous encounter, wanting to breakthrough to Heart Like Monolith Realm was too difficult.
If this Nine Characters True Word Formula could really advance heart realm, then its benefit was huge.
But this was all just Ye Yuan's deductions. He only visualized the 'Lin' character once and could not even form the first hand seal. How could wanting to break through be that easy?
However, as long as there was a direction to work towards, Ye Yuan believed that he could fumble it out someday.