Luo Qingyi took Ye Chen away.

On the road.

"Elder Qingyi, doesn't this belong to the second layer of the Sword Tomb?" Ye Chen asked.

"This is the second layer of the Sword Tomb, but at that time, the Nine Heavens Sword God promised to give him a separate place. Remember the way in a moment; next time you can come by yourself. I don't want to see those two legs, disgusting."

Ye Chen: "..."

"Elder Qingyi, the owner of these two legs shouldn't be someone beyond redemption, right?"

If he were truly irredeemable, the Nine Heavens Sword God would probably have directly killed him. How could he promise to leave him a separate area in the second layer of the Sword Tomb?

Luo Qingyi said blandly, "This person loved stealing. Tens of thousands of years ago, he stole a Primordial Bead, and the Celestial Demon was released by him. Although it was an unintentional mistake, he must still pay for what he did."

I see.

After walking for a while, Ye Chen returned to the area of the second layer of the Sword Tomb, where tombstones were embedded.

This time entering.

Ye Chen mastered the Droplet Sword Intent.

He initially got in touch with the Heaven-Ascending Step.

These all require time to get familiar with; it's time to leave now.

After leaving the Sword Tomb, Ye Chen's legs returned to normal. It was almost dawn outside.

When he entered the Sword Tomb, it was noon.

Unknowingly, the night passed, and it turned bright again.

......

Anyway, he didn't feel tired, so Ye Chen directly entered the cultivation room, operated his Cultivation Technique, and began to enhance his cultivation level.

Whether it's Sword Intent or Body Technique, although they are important, one's own cultivation level is more crucial!

The speed of cultivation enhancement was fast because when Ye Chen was at the Element Gathering Realm, the cyclone in his Dantian had already been refined to a near-liquid state. Completely liquefying it posed no bottleneck for him!

......

Seven days later.

In the cultivation room, waves of energy surged from Ye Chen's body.

The cyclone in his Dantian, now liquefied, had eight clusters!

True Essence Realm Eighth Layer!

At this moment, Ye Chen again sensed signs of instability in his power. Continuing to break through wasn't impossible, but there was no need.

Stabilize it first!

There was still some time before the hunting event of the Cangxing Martial Arts Academy.

And Teacher Yang Tianji had said that he should outline seven strands of spirit patterns before the hunting event.

Senior Sister Liu Meng'Er had also explained that after outlining seven strands of spirit patterns, he could use some special secret technique.

"I currently have more than four groups of spirit patterns, three groups of Tier Two, and one group of Tier One. But the teacher's secret technique should require seven strands of spirit patterns. Since my spirit patterns have formed groups, it may be impossible to use the secret technique. It seems I still need to outline six strands to make up a scattered set of seven spirit patterns."

Ye Chen pondered and then began to outline the spirit patterns.

Without the amplification effect of the Spirit Tower, the speed of outlining spirit patterns was indeed much slower.

It took Ye Chen a full two days to outline nine strands of spirit patterns!

"Since seven scattered strands of spirit patterns are required to perform the secret technique, I now have ten scattered spirit patterns, as long as I don't let these spirit patterns form a group, it should be fine."

With more time, Ye Chen then used the Thousand Spirits Technique, mobilizing the white light points in his Spiritual Sea to fill the fourth group of Tier One spirit patterns.

The other three groups of spirit patterns are already Tier Two; this group being only Tier One is unreasonable!

......

A few more days passed.

In Ye Chen's Spiritual Sea, there were already four groups of Tier Two spirit patterns and ten scattered Tier One spirit patterns.

Apart from this, the mastery of both Thunder Sword Intent and Droplet Sword Intent rose to the level equivalent to Whirlwind Sword Intent.

However, these three Sword Intents are still incomparable to Kill Sword Intent, and more time is needed to comprehend them.

Heaven-Ascending Step... there was no time to practice it.

The Sword Control Celestial Scripture for nurturing the Sword Spirit also went unpracticed.

These past few days, Ye Chen profoundly understood the meaning of time being tight.

No wonder many people in cultivation often go into closed-door meditation, ignoring everything else.

On this day.

Ye Chen was about to enter the Sword Tomb once.

Suddenly, a voice rang next to his ear.

It was Teacher Yang Tianji's voice transmission, calling him over.

Ye Chen immediately left his residence and went to Yang Tianji's place.

Yang Tianji looked at Ye Chen. Although Ye Chen was his disciple, he never thought to probe into Ye Chen's Spiritual Sea.

Probing someone else's Spiritual Sea is taboo.

"How many spirit patterns have you outlined?" Yang Tianji asked.

"Ten."

Ye Chen didn't mention his four groups and directly stated ten strands.

Anyway, nobody would believe it even if he said it.

"Ten strands?!"

Yang Tianji's eyes widened. Approximately half a month ago, he set a total target of seven strands for Ye Chen, which was already evaluated with a genius's standard.

And now...

A total of ten strands of spirit patterns!

Looking at Yang Tianji's expression, Ye Chen thought to himself, if someday the teacher knew the truth, what kind of expression would he have?

"Good, very good!" Yang Tianji returned from his shock, nodding in approval, "Ten strands of spirit patterns; after the freshman hunting event is over, you should spend half a month to condense them into a group."

"Is it difficult to condense spirits into a group?" Ye Chen asked curiously.

"For ordinary people, it's very hard; spending three to five months would be considered good. For you, half a month should be enough."

Ye Chen: "..."

The four groups of spirit patterns in my Spiritual Sea all condensed into a group instantaneously... what should I say?

"Teacher... um, I'd like to ask, before the spirit covenants are condensed, is it possible to elevate the spirit patterns to Tier Two?"

"Don't even think about it!"

Yang Tianji's tone was very serious and said, "Doing so has only one consequence, which is that the Spiritual Sea cannot bear the Tier Two spirit patterns and collapses!"

"Wouldn't it be possible that someone is a bit special, like naturally having a very stable Spiritual Sea, and able to do it?"

Yang Tianji replied, "Even the most formidable genius has limited size and stability of the Spiritual Sea. This is the common understanding of the Spirit Master Realm. If someone like what you said really exists, the entire Spirit Master Realm would go crazy, and the highest possibility is that they would cut open this person's brain with special methods, extracting his Spiritual Sea for research."

Ye Chen's face turned pale.

That scary?

"Teacher, I'm just curious, casually asking…" Ye Chen said weakly.

Yang Tianji sounded an affirmative tone, without thinking deeply. Young people who just start encountering the Spirit Master's path usually are fanciful, which is very normal.

His big disciple, when he started learning the path of the Spirit Master, once came running over to ask if spirit patterns could be directly condensed in the Dantian...

Ye Chen now dared not reveal the matter of his Spiritual Sea, but there was still something he wanted to clarify.

"Teacher, in achieving Spiritual-Martial Unity, is it possible to integrate the path of an Extreme Spirit Master with the Martial Dao?"

Yang Tianji nodded and said, "Possible, but the path of Spiritual-Martial Unity is difficult to traverse by nature, and the path of an Extreme Spirit Master is also difficult. Doing so will only make it harder."

Enough, these matters aren't something you need to consider for now. When you condense your tenth strand of spirit patterns into a group, then I will tell you in detail.

Today, I called you to inform you that the freshman hunting event begins tomorrow.

Tomorrow at dawn, you will descend the mountain to gather with everyone.

The Star Spirit System and Star Martial System have been warned; they shouldn't take any actions.

Additionally, the instructor taking you to participate in the freshman hunting event is from the Star Alchemy System, so your safety is more assured."

Ye Chen blinked.

All right.

No more to say.

You can't blame me, teacher, for not telling you this.

I wanted to say it.

You didn't believe me, nor gave me a chance to explain.

Not my fault.

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