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"Buzz!"

A terrifying surge of spiritual energy suddenly erupted from Ye Chen's body, rippling outwards in all directions...

"boom--"

"boom--"

A series of enormous roars resounded...

The surrounding tables, chairs, and benches instantly turned to dust, and the doors and windows, which had just been repaired during the day, shattered with a deafening crash...

In the blink of an eye, the brand-new house was once again in ruins, drafty from all sides...

Ye Chen snapped out of his daze and quickly withdrew his spiritual energy, returning it to his dantian...

"Foundation Building Stage..."

"It's finally done..."

Ye Chen felt the changes in the spiritual energy within his body; it was more solid than before, and the four Dao Platforms in his dantian shone with light, his Dao foundation becoming stable...

His current strength is several times greater than before...

"Is this the Foundation Establishment stage?"

Ye Chen felt he could now easily defeat a peak Foundation Establishment cultivator with a single hand, and even a Foundation Establishment Great Perfection cultivator could be easily suppressed with the aid of divine power...

"These pills really paid off..."

To successfully establish his foundation, he consumed over a thousand Grade 5 Spirit Replenishing Pills, including dozens of Grade 6 Spirit Replenishing Pills and Grade 7 Immortal Spirit Pills...

Any cultivator who consumed this many pills would likely have already reached the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage, or even the Great Perfection of the Foundation Establishment stage...

He looked down at the porcelain bottle in front of him; not a single Grade Seven Immortal Elixir remained...

A hint of disappointment flashed across his face.

"What a pity... If I had a few more Immortal Spirit Pills, I might have been able to break through to the mid-Foundation Establishment stage..."

Ye Chen muttered with a regretful expression.

If he weren't worried about the trouble caused by the unusual celestial phenomena, he would have liked to refine the seventh-grade pills himself...

"I wonder how that old man's refining is going..."

He suddenly remembered Long Xingyu, who had devoured him with the Purple Gold Gourd last night, and half a day had already passed...

Ye Chen flipped his hand, grasping the purple-gold gourd out of thin air, and probed into it with a wisp of his consciousness...

The gourd contained a pool of murky spiritual liquid, more than double the amount from last night, at least a thousand drops...

Long Xingyu lay quietly in the spiritual liquid, unable to move, his aura having dropped to the Golden Core stage...

He seemed to sense the presence of Ye Chen's thoughts, and suddenly opened his eyes, shouting in terror.

"Boy, let me out right now! I'll give you anything you want, please let me go..."

"What kind of place is this? I don't want to stay here anymore, let me out..."

Please...

Long Xingyu was in despair at this moment.

After spending one night inside the purple-gold gourd, his cultivation level plummeted from the Nascent Soul stage to the early Golden Core stage, having been refined by an entire major realm...

His cultivation of over a hundred years vanished overnight.

He lay in the murky spiritual liquid, able to clearly feel his cultivation rapidly diminishing, even his flesh and soul being refined...

He had even considered using his primordial spirit to possess Ye Chen's body on his deathbed, but that idea was also extinguished.

Ye Chen stared at Long Xingyu, who was soaking in the spiritual liquid, with a surprised expression. He seemed not to have expected that Long Xingyu was still alive. He spoke indifferently.

"Old man, begging me won't help. Since you've come to kill me, you should be prepared to be killed..."

"What goes around comes around."

From the moment the other stepped into the cave, it was destined that it would be a fight to the death. Letting him leave would be tantamount to releasing a tiger back into the mountains, inviting trouble...

Hearing Ye Chen's words, Long Xingyu was terrified. She tried to struggle but couldn't move, and desperately begged for mercy.

"I...I don't want to die, I can't just die like this..."

"I reached the Foundation Establishment stage at thirty, the Golden Core stage at fifty, and entered the Nascent Soul stage in less than two hundred years... I'm not reconciled!!!"

"Please, spare my life..."

A mournful cry echoed within the gourd...

Ye Chen paused for two seconds, a hint of disdain flashing across his face.

"You only reach the Golden Core stage at fifty? You're a waste!"

"At your age, with half a leg already in the ground, you've only just reached the Nascent Soul stage? At this rate of cultivation, you might as well be dead. What's the point of cultivating at all?"

He was determined to condense his Golden Core within a year, and in his eyes, Long Xingyu's cultivation progress was no different from that of a waste. He even doubted how this old man had become an inner sect elder of the Qingyun Sect...

Are all the powerful figures in the sect really that useless?

Dragon Rain: ? ? ?

Upon hearing this, Long Xingyu was completely stunned...

How could his prized talent be considered worthless in Ye Chen's eyes?

This is...

"Kid, do you know what it means to reach the Nascent Soul stage in two hundred years?"

Long Xingyu shouted angrily.

"Does that mean...you're about to die?" Ye Chen asked in surprise.

"you..."

Long Xingyu's face darkened, his chest heaved, and he was so angry he felt like his lungs were about to explode...

But the current situation was unfavorable to him, and getting angry would be useless, so he could only suppress his anger and grit his teeth and say.

"Boy, I have a very good chance of reaching the Nascent Soul stage. At that time, I can even compete for the position of sect leader of the Azure Cloud Sect. As long as you let me go, once I become the sect leader, I will make you the peak master of the thirteen inner peaks..."

The master of a peak is second only to the leader in the Qingyun Sect, a position of immense power and prestige, making it an irresistible temptation for any disciple...

"I won't let go..."

"You're trying to bribe me with this? Who wouldn't fall for that kind of bribe?"

Ye Chen said calmly.

What is a peak master? He's the king of Black Cloud Village, used to running rampant. Who would want to be subservient to someone else?

Long Xingyu was stunned, completely dumbfounded.

I thought Ye Chen would agree without hesitation, but who knew he would refuse so decisively...

This kid doesn't even care about the position of peak master?

He's just an outer disciple, why does he have such high standards?

Long Xingyu was furious, but was still trying to persuade Ye Chen to release him...

He had cultivated for hundreds of years and was unwilling to die here like this.

Ye Chen ignored him, and with a thought flashing through his mind, he took the storage ring from Long Xingyu's hand...

He had noticed the unusual ring on his hand earlier, and now, inside the purple-gold gourd, nothing escaped his senses...

"Old man, you can just stay here and wait to die..."

Having obtained the storage ring, Ye Chen withdrew his thoughts...

"No...no!"

"Let me out, I don't want to die..."

"Please don't kill me! Please..."

"You little bastard..."

Long Xingyu broke down and started cursing...

His shouts faded into the distance, disappearing from my ears...

Ye Chen glanced at the purple-gold gourd in his hand and sneered.

"Don't worry, I'll send that brat Long Aotian down to keep you company soon, so you two can be reunited..."

After saying that, he put away the purple-gold gourd and turned his gaze to the storage ring on his other hand...

The ring shimmered with light, and there was a faint, unusual fluctuation of spiritual energy.

"This old thing has lived for hundreds of years; he must have quite a few treasures on him, right?"

Ye Chen murmured softly, narrowing his eyes, his anticipation growing stronger...