"Cough, cough!"

Luo Qingyi coughed lightly twice, the panic in her eyes disappeared, and she said, "After your essence blood was used to refine the Spirit Sword, it's of no use anymore. I had nothing better to do, so I thought I'd see if there's anything special about your essence blood."

That sentence wasn't entirely meant to fool Ye Chen.

It was truly for research!

Luo Qingyi had previously mentioned wanting to find an opportunity to study Ye Chen's physique problem. Although Ye Chen still had some doubts in his heart, he didn't think much about it, and his face showed a nervous and expectant expression, asking, "Elder Qingyi, did you discover anything?"

Luo Qingyi nodded and said, "I found a little something, but I can't be sure. I can only say that your physique is a bit special. If you were to spit out a bit more essence blood, maybe we could see something."

Ye Chen asked suspiciously, "How much is 'a bit more'?"

He had just spat out so much essence blood and was already feeling very weak!

Luo Qingyi thought for a moment and said, "It probably doesn't need to be a lot."

Probably...

Ye Chen rolled his eyes and said, "Elder Qingyi, maybe next time. I feel weaker than if I had performed the Burning Sword Technique. I'm only eighteen, growing up, and wasting essence blood like this will lead to poor development and insufficient vitality!"

Luo Qingyi nodded.

She thought if Ye Chen spat out a few more times, she probably wouldn't be able to find anything.

Better not scare Ye Chen away this time, or it would be hard to get more essence blood from him in the future.

"By the way, have you noticed when your body started showing these special changes?" Luo Qingyi asked.

Ye Chen recalled his experiences over the years, and after a while, he said, "It should have been the last time when I was trapped by the Huang Family people in a cell. I was seriously injured, and my recovery speed became much faster.

Then I had a fight with Huang Tianxiong, got even more seriously injured. Although Elder Yang and Yang Tianji helped me heal, I clearly noticed my body's self-recovery speed increased even more."

"Getting injured seems to make your physique's characteristics more obvious. So, Ye Chen, you're practically born to fight. In the future, you should often go spar with others, especially those stronger than you but not too much stronger. They can't kill you, and you'll only get stronger!" Luo Qingyi said.

"Am I... a masochist or something?" Ye Chen muttered to himself.

Luo Qingyi suddenly laughed. It indeed seemed a bit like that...

But it's definitely not a masochist physique!

From the scenes witnessed earlier, Ye Chen's physique appears to be quite domineering, although he's only begun to explore the aspect of getting stronger through suffering.

"By the way, have you successfully refined the Spirit Sword?" Luo Qingyi finally remembered the main topic.

She could actually sense the connection between Ye Chen and the Spirit Sword, but she still asked, mainly because Ye Chen's speed was just too fast!

The Sword Control Celestial Scripture is powerful, but for a kid like Ye Chen with a Gathering Yuan Realm Tenth Layer cultivation, refining such a top-grade Spirit Sword in less than one quarter of an hour is a bit unbelievable.

Ye Chen revealed a smile, waving the sword in his hand, and said, "It's done, Elder Qingyi, your Sword Control Celestial Scripture is indeed amazing. I still have several swords in my storage ring. Can I have these swords devoured to elevate my sword to the level of a Magical Artifact?"

"No, first you need to nurture the sword spirit to a level equivalent to a Magical Artifact before it can devour other swords. Right now, the sword spirit isn't strong enough. Recklessly pushing for Magical Artifact level, even if you succeed by chance, your sword spirit would end up like an idiot."

Ye Chen nodded, then without overthinking it, he took out several bottles and jars from his storage ring, studied them for a while, and ingested some pills to nourish Qi Blood!

Although his body was already starting to recover quickly, with the help of the pills, it could recover even faster.

This time, the essence blood consumed was no less than usual…

His waist, back, legs, and feet were all feeling somewhat weak!

Usually, in battles, the blood lost is ordinary blood. Essence blood, however, is the quintessence of blood. Spitting out so much without quick recovery, Ye Chen really worried it might affect his growth!

Luo Qingyi no longer paid attention to Ye Chen, instead falling into contemplation. She thought of something and muttered softly, "I should check with those on the upper levels, perhaps they know a few things."

Having said that, Luo Qingyi's figure vanished from the spot.

Time slowly slipped by.

Ye Chen felt that a portion of his depleted essence blood had recovered, gaining strength, he began to refine the tombstones.

Yesterday, the Qi spiral in his dantian had reached its limit, but after consuming the three drops of Earth Heart Milk sent by Hua Qianxue, the dantian had expanded somewhat. Now refining the tombstones wasn't much of a problem.

To reach the second layer of the Sword Tomb as quickly as possible, to acquire the second layer of the Nine Heavens Sword Manual, Ye Chen no longer cared about gaining battle experience.

Every tombstone he refined, the suppressed remnants of Celestial Demons broke out, but before they could merge with other remnants, Ye Chen slashed them down!

One night passed.

Ye Chen refined over a hundred tombstones, the Qi spiral in his dantian condensed significantly, yet once again, he felt the limit. Luo Qingyi hadn't returned from wherever she went, and Ye Chen figured it was almost dawn, so he decided to leave the Sword Tomb and return to bed for some rest.

Lately, it's been too exhausting.

If he wasn't injured, he was cultivating, and then expelling essence blood—it was becoming too much to handle!

This time, he slept until noon.

His stomach growled with hunger, prompting Ye Chen to rise.

He left the guest room, headed downstairs, and found Hua Qianxue, Granny Rong, and Yu Chengguang with a resentful expression all waiting for him on the first floor.

"Hmph, I thought you'd sleep yourself to death! Do you know we've been waiting for you to set off since early morning?" Yu Chengguang gritted his teeth.

Ye Chen yawned, looking gratefully at Hua Qianxue.

He knew that being able to sleep so long was thanks to Hua Qianxue forbidding anyone from disturbing him.

Before Ye Chen could speak, Hua Qianxue coldly said, "Hurry up and eat something, we need to speed up our journey to Unparalleled County, I have important matters to attend to."

Ye Chen was somewhat used to Hua Qianxue's demeanor by now, not bothering him.

She was putting on a cold and aloof act for Granny Rong and Yu Chengguang.

When alone with him, this girl had a cold exterior but a hint of cuteness as well.

The shopkeeper brought the food to the table, Ye Chen looked at the group and said, "Let's eat together."

Yu Chengguang snorted coldly, "This rough food is only fit for you to eat."

Ye Chen chuckled, looking at Yu Chengguang, thinking this guy would die if he didn't speak.

Deciding to ignore him, Ye Chen focused on eating his fill.

Yu Chengguang continued to mumble about how Ye Chen eating like this was disgraceful and likened to a barbarian.

Granny Rong, however, kept glancing at her own young lady, constantly furrowing her brows in concern, thinking this wasn't good as her young lady seemed to be interested in Ye Chen's eating manner…!

A moment later, Ye Chen was full, burped contentedly, then got up, and said, "Miss Hua, we can set off now."

Hua Qianxue said nothing, stood up, and left the inn, with Granny Rong following, and Yu Chengguang also stood up to go.

Ye Chen said, "Brother Yu, you come from a wealthy family and are generous; could you settle the bill for this meal?"

Yu Chengguang's face turned beet red!

Settle the bill?

He had to pay for Ye Chen's meal?

His storage ring was already lost to Ye Chen; he didn't have any silver to settle the bill!

Ye Chen sighed and said, "To think such a big family's child could be so stingy, how can you take on great responsibility in the future?"

Yu Chengguang wished he could have pounded Ye Chen!

Ye Chen turned to the shopkeeper and said, "Wasn't yesterday's one thousand taels of silver enough for this meal?"

The shopkeeper hurriedly replied, "More than enough. If you liked the food, I can arrange more for you to have on the road as dry rations."

Ye Chen waved generously, saying, "No need, I'm not the type to take advantage of small gains."

At the doorway, Hua Qianxue let out a peal of laughter, which she'd held back for a long time since yesterday; today, she couldn't contain it anymore.

Ye Chen saw nothing strange in this; he'd seen Hua Qianxue laugh several times in the past few days.

Yet, Granny Rong and Yu Chengguang stood there dumbfounded.

Their young lady hadn't laughed in years…

Hua Qianxue looked at Ye Chen and said, "Next, you will face a new world, with true talents, real powerhouses, and greater challenges. Are you prepared?"

Ye Chen looked poised, staring into the distance, and said, "My world is still ahead in the far distance!"

Cangxing Martial Arts Academy is just the starting point.

Hua Qianxue looked at Ye Chen, a barely perceptible smile curling at her lips.

"The distance is vast; let's see how far you can go. I'll be watching expectantly!"

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