Chapter 27: Who Am I?

  The old man in white robes chuckled and said, "In the path of cultivation, it is essential to be patient. No matter how much spiritual energy you possess, if you can't control it, it's like a useless gas. When you master it, you'll find that breaking through levels of strength comes naturally."

  "Thank you, senior, for your guidance. Your few words have opened up my mind, it's truly better than ten years of bitter practice. Ah, senior, you're not dead?" Ye Xuan asked cautiously.

  The old man in white robes looked at Ye Xuan and smiled, "I can say I'm dead, but I can also say I'm not dead. Cause and effect, reincarnation, life is death, death is life. Between life and death, it's up to you to see what's life and what's death."

  "What was that? Old fellow, what are you talking about?" Ye Xuan found the old man's response to be utterly bewildering.

  "I'm indeed dead, what you see is just my soul body." The old man said calmly.

  "Soul body? Are you serious, there's a soul body?"

  Ye Xuan suddenly thought of the scroll given to him by Kong Daoshi, which said that a person has two hidden bodies, the soul body and the spiritual body. The Dan Tian Palace condenses the divine light body, referring to the spiritual body. Could it be that the soul body is actually another soul body?

  "Hehe, little one, you don't need to ask questions. When the day comes that you're lucky enough to reach that step, all of this will naturally become clear." The old man said with a teasing tone, looking at Ye Xuan's curious expression.

  Ye Xuan nodded, thinking to himself that he would eventually reach that step one day. He thought of the cave entrance at the foot of the mountain cliff and the two words "Tian Ge". He looked at the old man and asked, "May I ask for your name?"

  The old man in white heard Ye Xuan ask his name, and suddenly he felt bewildered, looking around at the vast expanse of whiteness, his thoughts seemed to sink into ancient memories. Ye Xuan looked at the old man's aged face, not only with some emotion, but this old man seemed to have been isolated from the world for too long.

  After a long time, the old man muttered: "Who am I? I actually don't know who I am."

  Ye Xuan's eyes widened in surprise. This old fellow actually didn't know who he was? It really had been a long time, to the point where he'd even forgotten his own identity.

  "It seems like a part of my memory has been separated or cleared by someone." The old man said slowly.

  "You always say you just lost a part of your memory?" Ye Xuan asked, stroking his chin.

  "Not bad, now the memories I retain are only these in my soul's heart, and other memories are elsewhere. I remember that I have a jade mirror retaining most of my memories."

  Ye Xuan was completely confused by the old man, and listening to him made it seem like his memories were stored in several different places. Ye Xuan said enthusiastically: "Where is your jade mirror, senior? If it really exists and has been preserved, I can retrieve it for you and help you recall all of your memories."

  The old man in white robes smiled at Ye Xuan, thinking to himself that this wasn't his doing, but rather Ye Xuan's own decision to help him. He nodded and said with a smile: "Alright, little one, you're too weak now. If your strength increases, I'll come bother you again."

  Ye Xuan looked at the mysterious old man in front of him, stroking his chin and smiling: "So it was because I was too weak, that... Elder, you must have had considerable strength when you were alive."

  The old man in white robes gazed at Ye Xuan with a pair of profound and bright eyes, as if he had seen through Ye Xuan's thoughts.

  Ye Xuan saw that he wasn't speaking, so he took the opportunity to say: "I don't know if Senior has any treasured high-level mental techniques or mysterious skills, lend them to me to take a look, this way my strength can increase faster, and your memory can recover sooner, right?"

  The old man in white robes laughed and said, "Little girl, you're young but already a cunning little fox. You clearly want to get some benefits from me."

  Ye Xuan's little thought was seen through by him, and he couldn't help but smile awkwardly. He said: "I say, Old Hun Dun, you must have been a top-notch master in the past, right? You should still have one or two high-level cosmic techniques, shouldn't you?"

  "Chaos Old? Hmm, I like this name. From now on, I'll be called Chaos. As for what you said about the Cosmic Mystical Technique, have you forgotten that I'm not suffering from amnesia?" Chaos Old stroked his beard with a sly smile.

  Ye Xuan looked at him like this, and didn't know whether what he said was true or false.

  "However..."

  Ye Xuan heard what the old man of Chaos said and immediately raised his eyebrows.

  Hun Dun Lao looked at Ye Xuan's anxious appearance and couldn't help but laugh, saying: "Although I don't have any secret recipes to treasure, the experiences I've kept in my memory might be of some use to you."

  Ye Xuan's eyes lit up when he heard the two words "experience", which was equivalent to cultivating experience. He thought for a moment and asked, "Then, senior, how can I break through to the Star Profound Realm now? My strength is too weak, it's even hard to beat that despicable Si Tu Ran!"

  Hun Dun Lao said: "To better control the mysterious energy, the best way is to fight. Only in continuous battles can the mysterious energy in your body maintain a flowing state, so that you and the mysterious energy in your body become more intimate and familiar, making breakthroughs naturally easy."

  Ye Xuan was writing when he suddenly heard a loud shout that pulled him back from the depths of his soul. The figure of Hun Dun Lao also disappeared with the shout, vanishing into the vast and boundless chaos.

  "Yexuan brother! Yexuan brother!"

  Ye Xuan opened his eyes to see Ye Yun rushing over, the little girl panting heavily. She was wearing a light blue thin dress, her slightly developed small breasts rising and falling with each breath, exuding the charm of adolescence.

  Looking at her anxious appearance, Ye Xuan smiled and said: "Don't be in a hurry, what's wrong?"

  "Just now, someone from our family ran back and said that Xiangting Jie and Zhuang Ge were bullied by a group of young sons from the Situ family in the market. I just asked Ye Chen Tian and Ye Pan to go and help." Ye Yun said with a huff.

  Ye Xuan heard that Ye Chen Tian and Ye Pan went to help, and he felt a hint of surprise. At this time, the voice of Hun Dun Lao echoed in his mind, wanting to better control the mysterious energy, the best way was to fight, only in the continuous battle, the mysterious energy in your body can keep flowing state.

  "Let's go! I'd like to see who in the Situ family is so arrogant." Ye Xuan said with a curved corner of his mouth.

  Ye Xuan and Ye Yun arrived to see Ye Zhan and others from the Ye family, as well as the younger generation of the Situ family, standing off against each other. All of them had eyes filled with anger.

  Situ's family, led by a man wearing coarse black clothes, with an arrogant and proud fat face, was none other than Situ Ran, who had clashed with Ye Xuan a few days ago. Next to him stood a familiar yellow-haired youth, who stared straight at Ye Xuan as he approached, seemingly still resentful of the slap Ye Xuan had given him last time.

  Situ Ran saw Ye Xuan running over and sneered: "So quickly calling for reinforcements, but even if you come, you're still useless. Last time wasn't it the same, I beat you until you spat blood?"

  "What's going on?" Ye Xuan came forward, without even looking at Sutu Ran, and asked Ye Xiangting.