A ruthless bandit from the celestial realm, he began his cultivation journey after kidnapping the Em

The room was completely quiet.

Ye Chen and Lin Ningxue sat facing each other, cultivating with their eyes closed.

The surrounding spiritual energy surged into their bodies, and after circulating through the cultivation technique for one small cycle, it was refined into spiritual power in their dantian.

The spirit stones they clutched tightly turned to dust after their spiritual energy was drained, one stone after another being consumed and pulverized...

Before long, a pile of stone chips appeared in front of Ye Chen; he had absorbed almost all of the spirit stones...

Before Lin Ningxue had even finished absorbing the one spirit stone in her hand, Ye Chen had already consumed ten spirit stones, making him dozens, even hundreds of times faster than her...

Ye Chen's dantian was like a bottomless pit; the moment his cultivation technique circulated, all the surrounding spiritual energy was frantically drawn in, rapidly refined and absorbed...

The spiritual energy on Tianling Peak was unknowingly flowing towards "Courtyard No. 20," causing the spiritual energy on the entire mountain to become somewhat diluted...

However, the changes were not noticeable to the disciples living on Tianling Peak, and did not attract anyone's attention.

As darkness gradually fell, the light disappeared and was swallowed by darkness.

The room was pitch black...

"Snap!"

A crisp sound broke the silence!

A powerful aura suddenly surged forth, like a flame in the darkness...

Ye Chen suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze bright and piercing. Feeling the surging spiritual energy within his body, he was overjoyed...

"Is this the cultivation level of the third stage of Qi Refining? My spiritual power has doubled..."

He murmured softly.

With this change in a minor realm, his strength instantly increased significantly.

With the aid of spiritual energy, his fist clenched with immense power; the force of a single punch could likely exceed six thousand jin...

This cultivation isn't that difficult...

Is this girl lying to herself?

Ye Chen muttered to himself, recalling how smoothly his cultivation had gone, as if it had all come naturally, and how easily he had broken through...

At the same time, Lin Ningxue, who was cultivating with her eyes closed, seemed to sense something and opened them. Sensing the change in Ye Chen's aura, she widened her eyes in surprise and gasped...

"Senior...Senior brother..."

"You...broke through again?"

"How is this possible..."

Lin Ningxue stared at Ye Chen in disbelief, somewhat questioning her own existence.

She couldn't resist pinching her smooth skin, and immediately gasped in pain...

"It's not a dream..."

"Senior brother, you've really broken through to the third level of Qi Refining!!!"

After feeling the pain, Lin Ningxue couldn't help but scream, as if she had seen a ghost...

She had been cultivating for over a year and was only at the second level of Qi Refining, while Ye Chen had broken through to the third level of Qi Refining in a single day...

Such a speed of cultivation left her speechless!

Am I just too useless, or is my senior brother just too amazing?

How could he cultivate so quickly?

Meeting Lin Ningxue's gaze, Ye Chen smiled and said calmly.

"What's impossible about that? Refining to the third level isn't difficult..."

"Wouldn't refining more spiritual energy allow you to break through?"

Lin Ningxue: ? ? ?

Upon hearing Ye Chen's words, Lin Ningxue's expression froze, and she opened her mouth as if to speak but then stopped...

She's been stuck on the second level of Qi Refining for over half a year. Don't you have any idea how difficult that is?

At that moment, she realized that she might really be too useless...

Could it be that my senior brother is really a cultivation genius?

At this moment, Ye Chen got up and lit a candle, instantly illuminating the room...

Lin Ningxue caught a glimpse of the shattered stone chips and empty porcelain bottle in front of the prayer mat, and her heart skipped a beat. The way she looked at Ye Chen changed...

"Senior brother..."

"You can really inhale that much..."

"With so many pills and spirit stones, aren't you afraid of overeating yourself?"

Only now did she understand why Ye Chen had improved so quickly—it was because he was frantically absorbing spirit stones...

She could do such a thing, but if the massive amount of spiritual energy entering her body couldn't be refined in time, she might explode and die...

At her current cultivation speed, she wouldn't dare to do something so risky...

Hearing this, Ye Chen turned around and glanced at her, shrugged, and said with a relaxed expression.

"How can you possibly be full?"

"Even if there's a little more spiritual energy, it wouldn't be a problem..."

When he previously circulated the Supreme Induction Technique, he didn't feel any sense of being overwhelmed. On the contrary, he felt that the surrounding spiritual energy was too scarce, not enough for him to absorb. Even spirit stones and pills couldn't meet his needs...

He wished he had more spiritual energy; his cultivation speed might be even faster!

"this..."

Lin Ningxue stood there stunned, then, recalling the mysterious cultivation technique Ye Chen practiced, she suddenly understood...

As expected of a cultivation technique bound by laws, it's truly formidable...

If she could also cultivate such a profound technique, her cultivation would surely advance by leaps and bounds. Unfortunately, while Ye Chen was willing to teach her, the technique itself didn't allow it...

"Gurgle!"

Their stomachs both started growling at the same time...

After a period of cultivation, they were all extremely hungry.

Lin Ningxue came to her senses, blushed, and said softly.

"Senior brother, I'll go cook..."

After saying that, he turned and walked out...

Ye Chen stood still, suppressing the surging aura around him, carefully sensing the powerful spiritual energy within his body, and clenched his fist...

Suddenly, a punch was thrown forward...

"boom--"

A gust of wind from the punch whistled past and slammed into the wall several meters away...

"Clatter!"

The thick white wall instantly dented into a fist-shaped indentation, cracking outwards in all directions!

"this..."

Ye Chen's eyes lit up; he hadn't expected that his punch, delivered with his spiritual energy, would possess such terrifying power...

If he were to encounter a disciple at the eighth level of Qi Refining again, he was confident that he could kill him with a single punch!

He looked down at his fists, feeling increasingly stronger and more anxious...

"I hope Qing'er is safe and sound..."

"I must break through to the Golden Core stage as soon as possible so I can save Qing'er..."

Ye Chen murmured softly, his heart yearning to become stronger.

When Liu Ruyan told him that she could take him to rescue people once he broke through to the Golden Core stage, he immediately suspected that the black-robed man who kidnapped Ye Qing'er was a Golden Core cultivator...

At the same cultivation level, Ye Chen was confident he could defeat his opponent...

"You old bastard, you just wait! You dare to kidnap my sister? I'll punch you to pieces..."

Ye Chen muttered through gritted teeth.

A short while later, Lin Ningxue's voice came from outside...

"Senior brother, the food is ready, come and eat..."

Hearing this, Ye Chen snapped out of his thoughts and looked up at the door...

"They're here..."

He rubbed his hungry stomach and walked straight towards the door...

You need to be well-fed to have the energy to cultivate...