Chapter 46: The Fifth Stage of the Mortal Realm

  No matter how depressed Yedu is, people's desire for secret recipes now surpasses their desire for money.

  Ye Xue and Chen Tao were no exception. With this profound secret recipe, the two of them basically forgot to sleep and eat in their cultivation.

  Ye Xue's Ice Palm was unleashed, and the surrounding air turned icy cold. Snowflakes danced in the sky, as if a heavenly snow maiden had descended, her holy beauty dazzling all who beheld her, captivating the hearts of men and cities alike.

  Chen Tao's finger flicked out, and the surrounding grass and trees flew about. Amidst the chaotic leaves, he found a leaf that matched his heart's desire. With a light pinch, he flicked his wrist, and it shot out like an arrow, yet rotated as it flew, leaving a trail of parted leaves and shattered blades of grass in its wake.

  Ye Chen wasn't always watching Ye Xue and Chen Tao cultivate, he also had his own cultivation content. The Sword Transformation Manual was not inferior to other secret manuals, and in some ways even surpassed them.

  Ye Chen started cultivating, and he felt that his meridians were about to burst. He used the Sword Transformation Technique to transform his Qi into a sword, and his Qi was like a sword. Although his strength was astonishing, similarly, the circulation of his internal energy was not something that ordinary people could withstand.

  Although Ye Chen was unsure where the sword in his body had gone, he knew that when he fainted last time, Hu Lao must have inserted a long sword into his body.

  In the Huajian Jue, if the body doesn't have a sword, it's fundamentally impossible to cultivate. Once you want to take a shortcut, it will be too horrible to look at. As for what kind of horror, Ye Chen believes that Old Man Hu won't let himself try, and he himself also doesn't dare to try.

  A sharp, cutting sensation like being sliced by a sharp sword emanated from within the body. The deeper the internal energy of the Huajian Jue, the sharper it was, and the more severe the damage to the meridians, making advancement extremely difficult.

  Firstly, one must enhance their own meridian endurance to withstand the damage caused by the circulation of the Huajian Jue, and only then can the increase in internal power be considered.

  The amount of spiritual power required for each advancement in the Sword Formula is enormous, and the internal strength of the previous six stages was only equivalent to the current three stages.

  Ye Chen is currently at the third stage of the Mortal Dust Realm, and to advance to the fourth stage, he needs at least the spiritual power required for others to enter the eighth stage from the seventh stage of the Mortal Dust Realm.

  Absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, transform it into one's own inner strength. This is something that everyone must do. Different practices produce different attractive forces.

  Just like Xiaoxue and Chentao, now Xiaoxue's absorption of the world's cold energy is much faster than Chentao's absorption of the world's spiritual energy, maybe it's partly due to physical reasons.

  Ye Chen originally had an ordinary person's physique, and although he still does now, his speed of absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is a bit faster.

  Ye Chen sat cross-legged in front of Yu Wang Bei, operating the sword finger technique, and a faint sword aura surrounded Ye Chen, making him appear and disappear, very solemn.

  Ice freezes three feet, not the work of one day. So many things can't be rushed. The three of them also knew this point. Even if they wanted to suddenly become very powerful and kill Xing City to rescue their own kind from the midst of water and fire, the three of them also knew how unrealistic this idea was. They could only cultivate step by step.

  The Jiuzi Golden Lotus, a heavenly and earthly spiritual object, should be refined into a dan medicine to exert its effect, but no one here knows how to refine the dan, and there are only nine of them, not one can be wasted.

  Under Ye Chen's command-like order, Ye Xue and Chen Tao each ate one, without reaching the realm of life and death, flesh and bone, but also increased the depth of the two people's internal strength.

  No wonder so many people are obsessed with those heavenly treasures, this is indeed a shortcut. Eating a nine-son golden lotus actually increased Ye Xue's strength by three layers, allowing Ye Xue to break through the sixth rank and enter the ranks of seventh-rank powerhouses.

  Chen Tao's cultivation had advanced even further and he had reached the sixth stage, which was a meteoric rise for Chen Tao. To think that previously, he had only been at the second stage!

  Chen Tao looked at Ye Chen with the same gaze as he would look at a beauty, eagerly hoping that Ye Chen would give him another one, so that he could enter the ninth level of the Mortal Dust Realm.

  The threshold for advancing to the mortal realm in front of Jīn Lián is like a mere formality, no wonder Chén Tāo would be so eager to come again, but this request was flatly rejected by Yè Chén.

  Eating another Jiuzi Jinlian would be more beneficial than harmful, but if you eat one and then want to eat another, it's obvious that there will be a huge side effect. So, Ye Chen was unmoved by Chen Tao's resentful gaze.

  Ten days later, the sad news for the three was that Ye Xing City had been breached by the demon beasts. The protective array cast by Ye Wu Men had been broken through by the Ling Long Beast and several other eighth-level demon beasts working together.

  At that time, the monster descended upon the city, and the massacre began. In the eyes of the monster, there was no distinction between men and women, old and young, nor any social morality; everything in sight that was human was slaughtered indiscriminately.

  People had no choice but to take up arms and kill the ferocious beasts that were stronger than themselves. The population of Night Star City was not small, with a million people or more.

  The power generated by these people's desperate struggle is also not to be underestimated, and the entire Star City is shrouded in a bloody mist.

  To say that Ye Chen doesn't care about other people's lives or deaths, except for Hu Lao and Ye Wu Mian, the others don't have much of a relationship with him. Some are even sworn enemies, while others refused to let him in when he was down on his luck, not even allowing him to work as a hotel service staff.

  But when Ye Chen saw the blood-filled misty Star City in the distance, he couldn't help but feel a twinge in his heart, and old memories began to stir up in his mind.

  At that time, Xiaoxue was still naive and wanted to eat sweets, envied others for wearing good-looking clothes, and followed closely behind her own back.

  At that time, Chen Tao had not shaved his head yet and was still a street boy who was often bullied and could not speak as smoothly.

  But all of this is gone now!

  The places where memories were made have disappeared, and those memories can only be stored in the mind, with no familiar scenes to recall them clearly.

  Ye Chen had an impulse to shout at the sky, but could only helplessly watch as everything unfolded.

  The three of them then trained even more desperately, with hardly any words exchanged. Ye Chen also swallowed a Jiu Zi Jin Lian.

  A powerful spiritual force surged through the body's meridians, solidifying the tendons' endurance while increasing its internal strength depth.

  A nine-son golden lotus, allowing Ye Chen to upgrade to the fifth stage of the mortal dust realm. This is still under the condition that Ye Chen has upgraded to the sixth stage before, otherwise it's unknown whether he can break through the fourth stage boundary.

  The profoundness of the inner power possessed by the fifth-order Sword Transformation Technique is something that Ye Chen has never experienced before. According to Ye Chen's calculations, this fifth-order Sword Transformation Technique is equivalent to a ninth-order ordinary mortal realm, and even surpasses it.

  Ye Chen stood on the square of Yu Wang Bei, practicing his swordsmanship that he had previously demonstrated. The strange and omnipresent swordsmanship was not elegant, but what attracted people's attention was that Ye Chen's current swordsmanship actually came with its own sword energy.

  This shocked both Ye Xue and Chen Tao, as sword energy was the exclusive domain of Innate Realm experts. Only strong Innate Realm cultivators could release their sword energy externally to harm others from a distance.

  And Ye Chen can actually release sword energy, isn't this already reaching the Xiantian realm?

  Rumble!

  The last long sword fell to the ground and actually left a half-meter-deep sword mark on this hard-as-iron square.

  "Dust, you've reached the Prenatal Realm?" Chen Tao asked incredulously, looking at Ye Chen with a face full of joy. Ye Xue also had a delighted expression.

  "No, just the fifth stage of Mortal Realm." Ye Chen said with a smile.

  "Come on, you think I can't see that? A Mortal Realm fifth-stage cultivator who can release sword energy externally? And leave a mark in this square?" Chen Tao's face was full of disbelief.

  Ye Chen smiled bitterly and said: "It's really the fifth stage of Mortal Dust Realm, don't believe me? Take a look!" As he spoke, he stretched out an arm for Chen Tao to see.

  All dust realms, one refinement of skin and flesh, two refinements of tendons and bones, three refinements of extraordinary meridians. Each of the three refinements includes three levels, with one to three being the first refinement, four to six being the second refinement, and seven to nine being the third refinement. The one Ye Chen showed to Chen Tao had only reached the tendon and bone stage.

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