Chapter Thirty-One: Yuan Qi Pill

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  "I'll give you a chance too, leave immediately." Ye Chen had only used fifty percent of his strength just now, his true power hadn't been unleashed yet.

  Li Bu seemed to have heard the most hilarious joke and burst into loud laughter, with a killing intent in his laughter that was not concealed at all. It was clear that Ye Chen had really infuriated him.

  "It seems you won't rest until you reach the Yellow River, kneel down for me." The laughter still echoed, Li Bu had already killed his way over, along the way, a flash of knife light cut through the air, with an aura that made gods and ghosts tremble, he slashed out, determined to see blood before returning.

  Ye Chen stood still on the spot, looking as if he had been stunned by the sharp blade light.

  Seeing this scene, Li Bu sneered and thought to himself: should he cut off Ye Feng's arm or an ear first, or both at the same time?

  Still want to resist?

  Li Bu saw Ye Chen's right hand on the hilt of his sword, with an expression that seemed both empty and yet not empty.

  Clang!

  The next moment, a flash of sword light suddenly appeared out of thin air, stabbing out at an unbelievable speed, and then immediately retracted, returning to its scabbard.

  Li Bu stood there stupidly, looked down and saw that a sword hole had appeared in his left abdomen at some unknown time, piercing through his back, with fresh blood staining his clothes.

  "No way! No way! I was already at the peak of the 10th layer of Qi Refining Realm a year ago, how could I be instantly killed?" Li Bu's expression was ferocious, but gave off a sense of weakness beneath his tough exterior.

  "Today I won't kill you all, but if you come again to provoke me, the consequences will not be so simple."

  Yedu picked up his large leather bag and left a back view for several people.

  Qingfeng Town

  Lingyao Xuan

  The shopkeeper looked at the demon beast materials on the counter with a shocked expression, not because there was anything wrong with the materials, but because the owner who sold them was simply too astonishing. If it were a martial artist of the 10th layer of Qi Refining Realm who obtained so many demon beast materials, he would still be surprised, but the key point was that the other party was only at the early stage of the 7th layer of Qi Refining Realm.

  "Red armor spider materials, 900 taels, earth centipede materials, 1,200 taels, red refined bird materials, 1,300 taels, ground viper snake materials, 800 taels,... tiger wolf demon beast materials, 1,100 taels, total of 28,880 taels of silver."

  "Old rules, all changed to golden tickets. Also, get me a bottle of demon-dispelling potion." The inner elixir of the demonic beast is more effective than individual spirit stones, so Ye Chen won't waste it.

  "Do you have a demon beast's inner dan?" The shopkeeper's eyes lit up.

  "What's wrong?"

  The shopkeeper said: "Can this internal elixir be sold to Lingyao Xuan?"

  "I'm not short of money, I'm short of time."

  "What if I trade you a Yuanqi Dan for it? To be honest with you, the master of our Lingyao Xuan is currently experimenting with a new kind of dan medicine, which requires a large amount of demon beast inner dan. One Yuanqi Dan has an effect that's absolutely not lower than three months of fire-refining inner dan, and it'll also save you money on buying evil-repelling medicine water."

  Yuán qì dān, yè chén yī lèng, zhè zhǒng dān yào néng shěng qù liàn qì jìng wǔ zhě sān gè yuè kǔ gōng, hǔ láng yāo shòu nèi dān suī hǎo, zhǐ shì yòng bì xié yào shuǐ qū chú yāo qì hòu, zuì duō zhǐ néng shěng xià liǎng sān gè yuè huǒ hòu, fǎn ér yǒu suǒ bù jí, hé guò hái shěng qù yī píng jià zhí shàng wàn èr de bì xié yào shuǐ.

  "Alright, I agree to exchange." Ye Chen nodded.

  ……

  Yedu came out of Lingyao Xuan and headed towards the wine building.

  "Master, please be kind! Give my poor daughter a mouthful of food to eat, and in the next life I'll be your cow or horse." At the entrance of the wine house, a middle-aged woman with a little girl, both wearing tattered clothes, their faces dirty, the little girl seemed to be extremely hungry, sucking on her fingers, looking hopefully at the passing guests.

  Unfortunately, no one paid attention to them, thinking they were dirty, and didn't even bother to take a glance.

  Ye Chen looked at them pitifully and took out a piece of silver from his money bag and tossed it over.

  For him, it's not that he lacks small money, but rather big money. Normally, a meal would cost at least ten or twenty taels of silver, and in terms of living standards, he can be considered quite wealthy and luxurious.

  "Thank you, thank you!" The middle-aged woman was so excited that she couldn't speak. She had been bringing her poor daughter to Qingfeng Town for several days, and the people who gave her money were mostly ordinary people or some elderly beggars, while those rich families didn't give a single penny.

  Ye Chen waved his hand and walked into the wine building.

  A middle-aged woman's little girl stared blankly at the back of Ye Chen, her eyes containing countless things that could not be erased.

  Second floor.

  Sitting by the window, Ye Chen was still thinking about what had just happened.

  "Compared to warriors and wealthy families, the lives of commoners and poor people are too bitter. Just by hunting a single demon beast, one can earn several hundred or even thousands of silver coins, while they still struggle for three meals a day, with countless people starving to death. Does heaven really exist with fate?"

  It wasn't until now that Ye Chen finally felt himself merge into this world, feeling the joys and sorrows of it, the suffering of all living things.

  Before, he always regarded himself as an outsider, a passerby.

  "I've given up, there are countless poor people on Zhēn Líng Continent, even if I want to help, it's impossible to cover them all. All I can do is guarantee that whoever I see, I will help one by one."

  After finishing the meal and leaving the wine building, the mother and daughter were gone, probably going to a steamed bun shop to buy buns! Ye Chen sighed and walked towards the distant towering Qingfeng Mountain.

  When I returned to the independent courtyard, the sky had already darkened, and a bright moon slowly rose.

  Ye Chen first took a bath to wash away the wind and dust on his body, then sat cross-legged on the bed, preparing to refine the Yuanqi Dan he had just obtained into his own internal energy.

  Yuanyi Dan is light yellow in color, with fine cloud-like patterns on its surface and slightly transparent.

  Gudong!

  Swallow the Primordial Qi Pill, Ye Chen hugged the primordial guardian, slowly operating the pure primordial skill.

  Rumble.

  A deafening crash seemed to resound within his body, the Yuanqi pellet transformed into a pure and majestic Yuanqi flow that poured into his four limbs and hundred meridians, merging with his internal energy.

  An hour has passed.

  Ye Chen opened his eyes, and a sharp glint flashed across them.

  "In one breath, he went from the initial stage of Qi Refining Realm's seventh layer to the later stage. It seems that the Yuanqi Pill doesn't have such a great effect!" Three months of hard work had brought him to the middle stage, which was already quite good considering Ye Chen's physical talent wasn't high, barely making it into the upper-middle tier, and couldn't compare to those cultivation geniuses. His only advantage was his strong soul force and extraordinary comprehension ability, allowing him to master any martial art to perfection, but these had little relation to his cultivation progress, at most speeding up his breakthroughs, not requiring too much time."

  Was it that the fish meat changed my physique, or perhaps I had reached a high level of spiritual power and my body was extremely deficient in yuanqi, so it was more effective, converting more internal energy?

  Ye Chen temporarily wouldn't think about things he couldn't figure out; what he needed to consider was how to cultivate the third move of the Tempering Jade, Strengthening Body Technique.

  Unlike general qigong methods, strong body qigong is usually difficult to practice. This has nothing to do with comprehension, but rather requires opportunity and method; otherwise, one can only sigh in admiration from afar.

  Of course, Ye Chen was not incapable of cultivating, but the third style's cultivation method was a bit strange, and it actually required absorbing the jade energy from the jade stone and merging it with his physical body.