by Feng Yise
Ye Yuan nodded and said, "Her enchantment art is natural born. There's not the slightest flaw at all. Her divine soul is also much more powerful than martial artists of the same rank, very hard to deal with!"
Chapter 1912 - Soul Driving Dao Fusion Pill
Ye Yuan instinctively felt that this Rong Xiyue was not simple.
This kind of bizarre enchantment art, Ye Yuan seldom saw it in his lifetime too.
If she really exerted herself to the utmost, probably Yu Jinsong this kind of powerhouse would find it hard to ward off too.
It was just that there was still a True God Realm powerhouse behind Yu Jinsong, that was why Rong Xiyue was very observing of proper restraint.
"Then … why would Your Excellency still refine pills for her?" Ning Tianping asked puzzledly.
He rarely saw Ye Yuan's solemn appearance and could not help being secretly surprised.
When Ye Yuan faced True God powerhouses, he had a calm look too.
"This woman isn't simple. That Linghua Pavilion is likewise not simple. Since they sent Rong Xiyue here, it shows that they don't wish to lose all decorum with us for the time being. Of course, we aren't their match right now as well. Hence, everyone had best stay in our own lanes and mind our own business," Ye Yuan said.
This Linghua Pavilion always gave Ye Yuan a mysterious and unfathomable feeling.
Compared to Yu Wenfeng and the others, that Pavilion Lord Linghua was clearly much harder to speculate his strength.
But, borrowing this chance to demand an exorbitant price, Ye Yuan was happy about it too.
...
Along the way, Rong Xiyue was indeed very restrained.
She used a secret art to completely cover up the immortal qi on her body, looking much more ordinary to bystanders.
Ye Yuan did not send people to keep an eye on her, but it was precisely because of this that she dared to be unbridled even less.
Returning to her residence and shutting the door and windows, rays of light suddenly emitted from Rong Xiyue's body.
It was only to see her mumbling away, and then those light dots finally turned into a light cover, enveloping the whole house.
Following that, a ray of yellow light flew out from her glabella and turned into an illusory black-robed man, landed on the opposite side.
If Ye Yuan was here, he would be able to recognize that this black-robed man was precisely that mysterious Pavilion Lord Linghua.
"Paying respect to Protector Witheredwood."
Rong Xiyue gave a deep bow to the black-robed man.
The black-robed man nodded slightly and said, "This boy is really impressive!"
A hint of surprise flashed across in Rong Xiyue's beautiful eyes as she said, "Even you, Protector Witherwood, aren't his match either?"
The black-robed man said, "I originally wanted to secretly observe him, but don't know why, I keep having the jitters. I have a feeling that as long as my wisp of divine sense left your glabella, it will definitely be eradicated by him!"
Rong Xiyue's expression changed slightly and she said, "My Immortal Dream Art doesn't have any effect on him at all. This is still my first time encountering it! In the past, even True God powerhouses couldn't possibly detect it too."
Rong Xiyue's Immortal Dream Art was greatly different from ordinary enchantment arts.
It was not a spell that directly targeted other people's divine souls, but a kind of divine soul reflex technique, affecting the other party's senses, being extremely undetectable.
As long as she did not take the initiative to go and make contact with the other party's divine soul, it was simply impossible for the other party to discover it.
Since Rong Xiyue learned it, she had never failed before.
Did not expect that today, it was directly cracked by Ye Yuan.
"Originally still wanted to probe his background, but looking at it now, this kid is even more troublesome than this old man imagined!" The voice of Witheredwood hidden in the black robes carried some gloominess.
Rong Xiyue's brows furrowed slightly and she said, "He put forth a condition, refining pills for us will be five times more expensive than the other two forces! Protector Witheredwood, what … should we do?"
The black-robed man mused for a moment and said, "Agree to him! This kid's appearance thoroughly disrupted our set up. Now that he's willing to stay out of the way, that's for the best. As long as he doesn't come and provoke us, we don't provoke him either, and can even ingratiate to him. Everything is for the grand plan."
Rong Xiyue bowed slightly and said with a nod, "Xiyue understands."
...
Three groups of people let Ye Yuan make a huge killing.
Furthermore, Southridge's great commotion already spread throughout the entire Nine Pledge Imperial Capital at this time too.
The news of Southridge becoming an independent country astounded the four directions.
Of course, the most important thing was still Ye Yuan's alchemy skills!
Those Celestial Deity powerhouses of the middle-order imperial cities and high-order imperial cities all went into action without delay.
A Five-star Alchemy Emperor capable of refining vast spirit divine pills, in a place like the Nine Pledge Imperial Capital, that was absolutely in high-demand.
Not only did more and more Celestial Deity powerhouses came to Heavenly Eagle, more and more alchemists also gradually gathered at Heavenly Eagle.
Actually, many of the Pill Tower's alchemists including Xuan Yu were personally taught by Ye Yuan. After several centuries of tempering, their strength was no longer what it used to be since long ago.
Especially the Ning Family's Ning Siyu, her talent was pretty strong and was long already a Four-star Alchemy God who was known far and wide.
Coupled with Ye Yuan's current fame that was at the height of its prosperity, Heavenly Eagle because of the holy land of alchemists.
After Southridge's situation settled down, a year's time already passed.
In this one year, Ye Yuan's realm also unknowingly broke through to Sixth Firmament Divine Vestige.
Of course, under Ye Yuan's magic-like medicinal pills assault, Heavenly Eagle Imperial City gave birth to a large batch of Celestial Deity powerhouses.
The power of the present Heavenly Eagle Imperial City already surpassed the vast majority of high-order imperial cities.
However, following everyone's strength becoming stronger and stronger, Bai Chen became more and more awkward here.
He discovered that everyone around Ye Yuan, their strengths were all advancing by leaps and bounds. Only he remained forever at a standstill.
In other imperial cities, everyone's cultivation speed was very slow, easily calculated with tens of thousands of years.
But in Heavenly Eagle, ten thousand years was too long; they were all seizing every minute they can!
With extremely high-quality medicinal pills, everyone's cultivation speed was too fast.
Every day, Bai Chen was living in torture.
In this one year, Bai Chen also became familiar with Ning Tianping and the people around Ye Yuan.
Except, he kept on being unable to integrate into that circle.
Not that because everyone was not fond of him, but because everyone knew that he would be eliminated in the end!
At the rate of this progress, Heavenly Eagle's Ninth Firmament Celestial Deities would be as worthless as cabbages.
On this day, Bai Chen finally could not endure it anymore and went to find Ye Yuan.
"Master, I … the time that I came out is too long, I … want to go back to Sky Foothill to take a look."
Bai Chen discovered that right now, only returning to Sky Foothill could calm his state of mind.
After all, in that place, he was the sovereign.
How could Ye Yuan not understand what he was thinking in his heart? He smiled and said, "Going back, are you reconciled to it?"
As the controller, he could indeed do as he pleased in th
e Sky Foothill World.
But that was under the prerequisite of not knowing that there was a huge world outside. Once they knew, who could be willing to be mediocre?
Bai Chen smiled bitterly and said, "What can I do even if I'm not reconciled to it? Miss Leng's strength is likely almost catching up to mine already. As for the others, in a few more years, they will also surpass. I …"
Ye Yuan patted his shoulder and said smilingly, "This one year, Southridge has just stabilized. There was a multitude of things to attend to, so I've never been able to settle down. Now that the overall situation has preliminarily settled down, I finally have time to consider your problem!"
Bai Chen was taken aback when he heard that and said, "My problem? What problems do I have?"
In Heavenly Eagle, he was the most free person, because he did not need to cultivate at all.
Ye Yuan smiled and said, "I want to research a new kind of medicinal pill and need your cooperation!"
The moment Bai Chen heard, he said in pleasant surprise, "I wonder what new medicinal pill Master wants to research?"
Ye Yuan looked at him and said with a smile, "Soul Driving Dao Fusion Pill!"
Chapter 1913 - Grand Completion Dao Realm
Inside the hidden chamber, light revolved around.
Bai Chen let go of his whole divine soul and also fully released the Dao that he comprehended.
Ye Yuan's soul force spread out, carefully sensing the secrets within Bai Chen's body.
This kind of state had been ongoing for more than a month.
Every day, Ye Yuan would investigate until his soul force was depleted.
Suddenly, the light converged, and inside the hidden chamber things returned to tranquility.
"Master! Are you alright?"
Seeing the Ye Yuan who was tired until he was virtually collapsing, Bai Chen hurriedly went up to support him.
Ye Yuan waved his hand and said, "I'm fine. Just that I used too much strength today."
"Master, let's forget it! It's simply impossible for people who refined Dao Fruits to advance anymore."
When Bai Chen saw Ye Yuan being dog-tired every day, he was moved, but he really could not bear it in his heart.
The crux was that this matter was simply a futile effort.
Since time immemorial, how many major powers wanted to break this shackle. But no one was able to succeed.
Disregarding what was far away, just talking about the present era, there was still an Alchemy Dao supreme existence around, but it was also unheard of that he could create this kind of medicinal pill.
Bai Chen naturally knew that Ye Yuan was formidable, but this kind of unprecedented thing, it was truly not what the word formidable could accomplish.
Ye Yuan looked at Bai Chen and said smilingly, "Could it be that you're willing to stop in front of the True God Realm in this life?"
Bai Chen said with an indignant look, "I'm naturally unwilling. It's just that … seeing Master exhaust your soul force for me every day, Bai Chen feels that I've let Master down. The road back then was chosen by me. I know that I'm being somewhat hypocritical now, but I can't control myself."
Bai Chen understood that Ye Yuan's time was too valuable.
Wasting his time made Bai Chen feel grievously sinful.
If hope could be seen in this matter, it was still alright, but it was clearly a hopeless endeavor. If he spent several years, even several decades' time but returned without accomplishing anything.
This kind of loss was simply immeasurable.
Ye Yuan said, "If there's unwillingness, then it's good. Under the operation of Heavenly Dao, there are no absolutes. Back then, the small world that Master was in, Heavenly Dao dwindled to zero. No one could step into the Deity Realm for more than 100 thousand years. But even so, Master also blazed a new trail and entered Great Dao with alchemy, finally entering Deity Realm."
Bai Chen s.u.c.k.e.d in a cold breath when he heard that and said in amazement, "Turns out that master was actually born in a small world too? Entering Great Dao with alchemy … truly incredible!"
He was presently Sky Foothill World's controller and naturally knew what Heavenly Dao signified.
Heavenly Dao missing Divine Dao, no matter how monstrous your talent was, it was also impossible to step into Deity Realm.
But his master did it!
Ye Yuan smiled and said, "There are no absolutes in the world, what you see with your eyes might not be the truth. Back then, if I gave up on Divine Dao because Heavenly Dao dwindled to zero, there also wouldn't be the present me."
Bai Chen drew a deep breath and said with a nod, "Master, I understand! I won't give up!"
Ye Yuan nodded and said, "The reason why one can't advance after refining a Dao Fruit is that the Dao you refined isn't your Dao1! Other people's comprehensions are other people's in the end. Even if you refine them, that's also other people's lifetime comprehension. That's like wearing clothes. What you wear is clothing tailor-made for others, no matter what, you can't possibly fit into it completely too. It's also precisely because of this that your divine soul and your physical body can't completely conform to other people's Dao as well."
Bai Chen thought about it and said, "But this kind of thing is too abstruse. Divine soul, physical body, Dao Fruit; three things completely becoming one, can it really be achieved?"
Heavenly Dao was abstruse, the physical body and divine soul were similarly abstruse.
Great Dao revolved, but the human body was also a small world that revolved according to some kind of law.
Martial artists cultivating, most knew how but did not know the whys.
Wanting to pry into the mysteries of the human body was an extremely difficult thing to begin with, let alone even having to make these three completely fit together?
Since remote antiquity, how many alchemists had attempted to breach this gap, but no one was able to succeed.
Ye Yuan smiled and said, "Not trying, how would one know? I have a feeling that once the Soul Driving Dao Fusion Pill succeeds, my Alchemy Dao strength will definitely improve further!"
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Ye Yuan used a full three years to probe Bai Chen's body.
In these three years, Ye Yuan could be said to have exhausted himself and racked his brain, completely depleting his soul force every day because he was willing to stop.
The current Ye Yuan seemed to have returned to when he was studying the Dao Defying Pill back then, his entire person insane.
Bai Chen also finally experienced Ye Yuan's craziness.
Only then did he knew that for Ye Yuan to be able to have today's accomplishments, it was not coincidental.
Other people all said that Ye Yuan's talent was high, but did not know how much hard work he put in behind.
It was just that this kind of frenzied probing was not what ordinary martial artists could stomach.
Bai Chen felt that if it were him, investigating the body's mysteries with such intensity, he would probably have long gone mad.
Without astonishing willpower, it was simply impossible to accomplish.
Three years later, Ye Yuan suddenly told Bai Chen that he was entering closed-seclusion and disappeared.
Inside the World Suppressing Stele, Ye Yuan sat cross-legged in front of the Lesser Heavenspan Mountain.
"Senior, just what is the divine soul?" Ye Yuan suddenly asked.
Through three years of probing, Ye Yuan discovered that wanting to create the Soul Driving Dao Fusion Pill, the crux still lied with the divine soul.
And in this aspect, Dustless undoubtedly had the greatest right to speak.
Dustless said, "This question, no one can answer clearly. However, humans can't exist without the soul. The divine soul can exist independently in this world, but the physical body can't break away from the existence of the divine soul. It's a kind of mysterious mental energy, connecting the physical body and Heavenly Dao. Martial artists can cultivate Dao because the divine soul can communicate with Heavenly
Dao. If one has to insist on saying what it is, I feel that … it's the extension of Heavenly Dao."
"The extension of Heavenly Dao …" Ye Yuan ruminated on Dustless's words, his mind starting to sink into the Lesser Heavenspan Mountain.
"Myriad lives have intelligence and are a part of Heavenly Dao."
"The physical body is a dead substance without the soul. Grass and wood are dead objects without spirit."
"If say that the divine soul is a line, this end connects to material, that end is anchored to Heavenly Dao …"
"..."
Gradually, a trace of enlightenment was born in Ye Yuan's heart.
Above the Lesser Heavenspan Mountain, the aura of Dao gradually grew thicker.
Ye Yuan's divine soul left the body and flew above the Lesser Heavenspan Mountain.
Gradually, his figure became illusory, becoming countless light dots, and finally, completely dissipating!
In this area of space, the existence of Ye Yuan's divine soul could no longer be seen.
But sensing carefully, it was as if his divine soul was omnipresent.
Seeing this scene, Dustless's pupils constricted slightly as he cried out in surprise, "This kid gained epiphany again! Soul fusing into Dao, feeling the source of Great Dao, even Empyreans can't accomplish it too!"
A hundred years passed in a twinkle. On this day, Ye Yuan slowly opened his eyes, his gaze incomparably deep.
Divine soul returning to position, Ye Yuan felt an inflating feeling within his body, he was actually going to break through.
Thoughts stirring, countless middle-grade divine essence stones appeared around Ye Yuan.
Without the slightest hesitation, Ye Yuan started absorbing divine essence frenziedly.
No idea how long had passed either, Ye Yuan finally reached Seventh Firmament Divine Vestige in one stroke!
"Dao Realm is at grand completion! Wonder when can I step into that fleeting and ephemeral Ancestor Realm!" Ye Yuan said with vicissitudes of emotion. Dao = truth/path
Chapter 1914 - L.u.s.trous Gold Great Imperial Capital