Chapter 5: Awakening of the Blood Vessels

  On a small hillside in the suburbs of Luoxia City, Ye Chen lay casually among the weeds, one hand propping up his head and the other holding the clothes he wore every day. Above Ye Chen's head, a ball of flames floated, scorching the surrounding weeds.

  Ye Chenping calmed down his inner excitement and said lightly: "Xiao Huo, is that enough?"

  "Hey, don't call me Little Flame!" A very dissatisfied voice came from the flames on Ye Chen's head. Ye Chen didn't pay any attention to Huo Qilin's dissatisfaction, clapped his hands together and jumped up, assuming a meditation posture.

  Looking at the position where Ye's family was, a determined look appeared in Ye Chen's eyes, and he said, "Begin!"

  Rehearsing the Blood Awakening Method that he had long been familiar with, Ye Chen's mind slowly immersed in his cultivation. The fire spirit energy in the air suddenly became abnormally violent, excluding all other different spiritual energies around him. In the blink of an eye, Ye Chen was as if placed in an ocean of fire elements.

  The bloodline attribute is to use blood as a medium to introduce the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into the dantian to form a true crystal.

  Now, the Qilin bloodline in Ye Chen's body guided the fire element to its extreme, and the fire element rushed towards Ye Chen crazily. In an instant, Ye Chen's clothes were burned to ashes, but his hair was protected by the Fire Qilin and remained unscathed.

  On the grass, Ye Chen closed his eyes and sat cross-legged, with his hands in front of him forming a strange hand seal. His chest rose and fell slightly, and with each breath, a perfect cycle was formed. In the cycle of breathing, there was a faint fiery energy flowing through his mouth and nose, entering his body, nourishing his bones and flesh.

  Ding!

  The fire element perfectly combined with the blood, slowly moving towards the dantian under Ye Chen's control. Gradually, a misty light ball formed inside Ye Chen's dantian. Ye Chen knew that he had reached the most critical moment and moved his true energy from the first layer of Wu Xiang to the light ball.

  "This kid, despite having his bloodline dormant for three years, doesn't realize that's what made his true energy so refined. This foundation is undoubtedly the most solid." Huo Qilin felt a bit bored and secretly observed how Ye Chen was refining his True Crystal.

  The true energy and fire elements merged together, gradually solidifying, the light ball constantly compressing, sweat continuously breaking out on Ye Chen's face.

  Time slowly passed, and as the light ball inside his dantian continued to condense, Ye Chen's face became extremely relaxed. The obstacle that had troubled him for six years disappeared with the formation of the dan crystal. His eyes slowly opened, and Ye Chen slightly jumped up, his body leaping out more than three meters. Looking at the Huo Qilin behind him, which was filled with disdain, Ye Chen's face turned red as he explained: "Little Fire, I'm a bit excited, don't use that disdainful expression!"

  Ye Chenyu explained that Huo Qilin's eyes showed even more disdain, and he said with disdain: "You little kid, you're still happy with such trashy strength?"

  Trash strength, Ye Chen let out a bitter laugh, his past self's strength wasn't even one-tenth of what it is now. He picked up the tattered warrior uniform beside him and pouted: "Little Fire, do you have any martial skills to teach me? After all, I'm also a descendant of the Qilin bloodline!"

  Hu Qilin rolled his eyes and lazily yawned, saying: "You're not qualified yet, wait until you've cultivated to the Qi Wu realm, then maybe you'll barely have that qualification."

  Ye Chen rolled his eyes, and his Qi Wu realm already belonged to the ranks of top-notch experts, all of whom were talents recruited by various countries with heavy rewards.

  "Hey kid, there's a fight up ahead! And it's that young man who bullied you earlier!" The flames on Huo Qilin's body surged and transformed into a stream of light that flew towards the Qilin Seal. The originally dull Qilin Seal flashed with a red glow as it absorbed the fire elements in the air.

  The young man, Ye Chen, furrowed his brow and a cold smile flashed at the corner of his mouth. A gentleman takes revenge after ten years, but one day is enough. He pulled out the iron sword stuck in the ground and his entire figure darted into the grass thicket, sneaking towards the source of the sound. These movements were extremely familiar to Ye Chen, who had been an assassin in his past life.

  "Ah!"

  In the dense forest, a figure burst forth like thunder, shooting straight out of the woods like a cannonball, spewing out a large amount of blood mist in the sky, heavily crashing into the rocks outside the forest, letting out a mournful scream that pierced through the air. Ye Chen let out a dark cry, his entire body sticking close to the ground.

  Looking at that person's face, Ye Chen was slightly startled. This man wasn't the boss of Jian Qi Ge, Li Tian? What would make him associate with that scoundrel?

  At this moment, a young man covered in blood from head to toe slowly walked out, looked down at Li Tian who was knocked unconscious on the ground with disdain and said: "You dog slave, I took a liking to your sword skills, it's giving you face!"

  The young man's hands, which seemed to be covered in fresh blood, were like the sharpest divine soldiers in the world, carrying a hint of soul-stirring and spirit-snatching aura, directly chopping onto Li Tian's throat.

  "Crack!"

  The sound of a throat being slit accompanied by a massive spurt of fresh blood, instantly gushing out from the young man's hands, dyeing the wild grass red all over the ground.

  Ye Chen sneered and tightly gripped the hilt of his sword. The young man was only at the seventh level of Initial Martial Arts, but Ye Chen's habit was to kill with one sword!

  A young man held Li Tian's head with one hand and groped his body back and forth with the other, his eyes burning with desire. The Huang Jie high-level martial skill was a hot commodity even in the market. A yellowed book slipped from Li Tian's body.

  The young man casually threw the corpse in Ye Chen's direction and bent down to pick up his book.

  Ye Chen's figure moved at this moment, his feet kicked off the ground, his right hand grasped the sword, and it seemed that only a flash of white light was left in the sky. Just as the young man was still immersed in the joy of obtaining the sword technique, Ye Chen's sword had already appeared in front of the young man, piercing through his heart amidst his shocked expression.

  "You're just a dog slave. I'm ending your dog life as a favor to you!" Ye Chen said calmly, looking at the young man's shocked expression.

  The sword was spinning wildly in the young man's heart, and Huo Qilin couldn't bear to watch it anymore, shouting: "You little scoundrel, you're ruthless!"

  Ye Chen smiled calmly, wiping the blood from his hand, and kicked the young man's corpse away with one foot. He said nonchalantly, "Xiao Huo, in my previous life when I was on a mission, there were even more ruthless ones than this. Compared to now, tsk, tsk, Xiao Huo, you really haven't seen the world!"

  The contemptuous tone in Ye Chen's words drove Huo Qilin into a frenzy, and the sound of his roar echoed in Ye Chen's mind. Ye Chen chuckled and picked up the book on the ground, then reached out to search Li Tian's body again, pulling out several gold bars and a key.

  Ye Chen once again made a move that caused Huo Qilin to be distracted, not even sparing the copper coin on Li Tian's body. What disappointed Ye Chen was that apart from a few gold bars, there were no martial skills on the young man's body that he wanted.

  After burying Li Tian's body, the young man's body was thrown directly into the forest, and the bloody smell immediately attracted the attention of the demon beasts. Packs of wolves bit back and forth on the young man's body, while Ye Chen climbed up a tree to leisurely flip through a book.

  Sword Energy Slash, a high-level sword skill of the Yellow Stage. The Sword Energy Slash is like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, with fan-shaped attacks that sweep everything in its path.

  When Ye Chen was immersed in this mysterious martial skill, Huo Qilin looked at Ye Chen's movements with disdain as usual and said: "Kid, your family has a few high-level Qi Wu masters, the Xuan-level martial skills are definitely available, but this trash can also excite you!"

  Carefully putting the book into his bosom, he leaned against the tree trunk and Leaf Chen bitterly smiled: "Xiao Huo, with my status in the Ye family, I don't even have the qualifications to touch martial skills, let alone see those few high-level Qi Wu masters."

  Ye Chen's mood seemed a bit down, Huo Qilin was slightly stunned, then said: "Young man, with me here, who can stop us on the entire continent?"

  Shaking off the unpleasantness in his heart, Ye Chen's figure lightly leapt from one tree to another, leaving behind a bloody scene on the ground. As for Huo Qilin's words, Ye Chen directly ignored them, and through their conversation, he came to know that Huo Qilin was now at the Soul Martial Realm.

  Ye Chen's figure disappeared at the end of the woods in a few ups and downs...