Chapter 65: Ghost?

  On horseback, Ye Chen shook his head and put the Tuyuan Blood Hand Secret Book away again. This kind of martial arts was too harmful, and what the sect feared most was that the martial arts would be passed on. No matter how unrelated it was to oneself, as long as one learned it, they would be unlucky, and might even have their martial arts abolished. Compared to a behemoth like the Evil Blood Sect, personal strength was too weak.

  After all, even if Tu Yuan's Blood Hand was extremely powerful, it was still only a top-notch martial skill at the human level, and had not reached the point where Ye Chen would risk cultivating it.

  Xīn shén zài cì chén rù líng jiè zhōng, yè chén qǔ chū shū jiā shàng de dì èr běn mì jí.

  English Translation:

  His mind sank into the spiritual realm once again, and Ye Chen took out the second secret book from the bookshelf.

  Holding it in his hand and taking a look, this secret book turned out to be an unannounced secret technique.

  "Earth-shattering, top-tier human secret technique. The practitioner must infuse their entire body's true energy into the soles of their feet, using a special shockwave to transmit it outwards, exploding at the designated location. The technique has three realms: First realm, true energy tears open the earth, directly charging towards the opponent; Second realm, true energy hides beneath the ground, silently and stealthily exploding at the designated location; Third realm, true energy lurks beneath the ground, allowing for remote control of the explosion from a distance, extremely consuming true energy."

  Yes, Ye Chen's eyebrows rose, from the described realm, the Blood-handed Butcher only practiced to the first level, the attack is relatively obvious, if the opponent's sense of feeling is strong enough and the speed is fast enough, it can still be dodged; the second level is a bit harder to defend against, the true energy hides at the bottom of the earth, silently and suddenly appearing underfoot, catching one off guard, and may even kill an equal-level martial artist; the third level starts to become abnormal, actually able to make the true energy lurk underground, controlling the explosion from a distance, isn't that equivalent to a remote-controlled landmine.

  Ye Chen secretly congratulated himself, if the Blood-handed Butcher had cultivated the Earth-shattering Heaven-stunning technique to the third level, even if he could retreat unscathed, he would still have to suffer some shock. This was because his soul power was strong enough and his speed was fast enough. If it were someone else, they wouldn't have been able to dodge in time, or the distance of their dodge wouldn't have been big enough.

  Of course, the secret technique is a secret technique, and the difficulty of cultivation is several times that of the same level martial skill. The difficulty of cultivating the explosive heaven shocking secret technique is absolutely not lower than that of the low-level martial skill. People with poor qualifications may not be able to reach the third level even after ten years.

  With the secret technique in hand, Ye Chen naturally wouldn't let it go and made up his mind to successfully cultivate it as one of his killer moves.

  Next is the third and final secret book.

  "Qian Qi Jue, a low-level auxiliary technique of the Earth level, is divided into two realms: the lower realm, at the Condensing True Realm level, allows for arbitrary changes in true energy fluctuations and hides one level of cultivation; the upper realm, at the Embracing Yuan Realm level, hides one level of cultivation. Note: The opposing technique to Qian Qi Jue is a auxiliary technique called Wang Qi Jue. When they meet, the higher realm wins."

  Upon seeing this, Ye Chen understood what it meant to have a higher realm. It wasn't just about the two major realms of the Introspection Technique; even if the probability of encountering someone in the same realm was high, as long as one's own realm was slightly higher than their opponent's, they would still be considered superior. This meant that the opponent wouldn't be able to see through one's cultivation using the Introspection Technique. Conversely, if the opponent's realm was even slightly higher than one's own, then one would have nowhere to hide.

  "What a great Qi-gathering technique, it's enough to be used at the level of embracing the origin!" Ye Chen was delighted in his heart, with this, his chances of survival increased greatly.

  As for encountering a martial artist who practices the "Wang Qi Jue", it can be ignored in a short period of time. The world is vast, and it's not easy for two people to meet by chance, unless there is a certain sect that treats Wang Qi Jue as ordinary goods and passes it down, on the premise that the other party possesses Wang Qi Jue.

  Taking a step back, even if they were to encounter each other again, Ye Chen was confident that he could cultivate the Introspection Technique to its peak, and in that case, the opponent would only have a 50% chance of seeing through him if they too had cultivated the Introspection Technique to its peak.

  The black horse galloped wildly, dashing out dozens of meters in the blink of an eye. The scenery on both sides flew backward rapidly, becoming a blur.

  ……

  The dark night has no stars, the crescent moon is high in the sky, and thick clouds are slowly moving at the edge of the sky, covering everything.

  "It's going to rain tonight, let's find a place to rest for the night!" On the dimly lit path, the crisp sound of horseshoes echoed from afar, Ye Chen thought as he rode on horseback.

  He had originally planned to travel overnight and arrive at Liúyún Zōng by dusk the next day, but that now seemed impossible.

  After walking for a while, some distant lights came into view.

  It's a village!

  The village is not big, with the dim moonlight, Ye Chen's true energy gathers in his eyes, and he can easily see which family has lit up their lights and which house is bigger.

  In an instant, Ye Chen arrived at the village entrance.

  He got off his horse and walked in with one hand holding the reins.

  The sound of horseshoes had already awakened many people, and the lights in many homes were lit up. The noisy voices were all mixed together, apparently looking for someone.

  As the doors of nearby houses opened wide, a group of people rushed out from them.

  "Who are you and what brings you to Huangshi Village?"

  "Don't think about making reckless moves, we're not afraid of you."

  Ye Chen smiled bitterly and suddenly slapped the ground, creating a large hole. "I'm just here to stay overnight and will leave tomorrow. With my strength, it's too easy for me to do whatever I want to you."

  "Are you really here to borrow a place to stay?" The leading man, with his shirt off and holding a hoe in his hand, looked at the pit on the ground and swallowed hard before asking cautiously.

  Ye Chen nodded, "Do I look like a bandit to you?"

  "It's not like that!" The man was sizing up Ye Chen, seeing him wearing a white robe made of high-quality material, which could probably support himself for several months just by selling the edges and corners. At his waist was a precious sword, he was only fifteen or sixteen years old, with a clear and elegant appearance, refined and extraordinary, where did he look like a bandit who would stop at nothing?

  Matsushita let out a sigh of relief and the man shouted loudly: "Alright, everyone go back! This person is not a bandit."

  Upon hearing this, most people turned around and went back home, leaving only a small portion of onlookers.

  The man didn't bother about it either and said to Ye Chen: "My family still has an empty room, you can come in and stay for free, as for the accommodation fee..."

  Yedu took out a piece of silver and threw it into the other person's hand, "Is that enough?!"

  "That's enough, that's enough, Chunhua! Quickly tidy up the empty room for Young Master." The man scolded his wife in the room with a joyful smile.

  Ye Dun looked around and found that none of the houses had a courtyard. He said, "Where can I tie up my horse?"

  "Horse! There's a broken tree behind my house, you can be tied up there!" The man stared at the black brown horse for a moment, pointing to the back of the house.

  "Good!"

  Leading the horse to the location, as Hanzi said, there is a tree here that two people can hug together, but it's broken and separated by the house, so you can't see it at all.

  Tying up the reins, Ye Chen poured out a large pile of fodder from the storage ring and said to the black brown horse: "Rest well today, we'll continue on our journey tomorrow."

  Hmph!

  A black brown horse with two streams of air spraying from its nostrils, lowered its head to eat grass.

  Ye Chen was about to leave when he inadvertently saw an anomaly in the distant night sky and couldn't help but take a cold breath.

  "Is it a ghost, or..."