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The sky had already gradually darkened. Ye Xiu sold the dead wolf to a family that specialized in purchasing prey at the foot of the mountain. Then, taking advantage of the dark night, he entered the Yulong Mountain!

The deep mountain at night was even more dangerous. Wild beasts that didn't come during the day all ran out at night without restraint. Countless different colored eyes stared at Ye Xiu, as if they wanted to eat the brat that had barged into their domain alive!

And at this moment, Ye Xiu's expression was extremely cold and lonely, as though he did not care about the surrounding wild beasts that were staring at him. Or it could be said that Ye Xiu had long gotten used to this way of life, living alone in the darkness!

Ye Xiu was eighteen years old this year, and was a villager from the Qingquan Village. He had just graduated from high school. However, due to the relationship with his livelihood, Ye Xiu had been hunting in the mountains since childhood, feeding himself, so his school results were not very good, and he did not even manage to pass the university entrance examinations.

But Ye Xiu was not an orphan. Even though he was born and bred in Qingquan Village, he wasn't born and bred there!

Ye Xiu also clearly remembered that he was born in a huge family in the capital, his grandfather Ye Zhentian, was once a person who held great power and was one of the core members of the big sized man. His father, Ye Shanhe, was the eldest son of the Ye Family and the first successor. Because of his strong Ye Family, entering that core circle was only a matter of time. Second Uncle, Ye Jianghe, and Aunt Ye Yuqing were both on the same team, and their positions were not very high either!

Considering how powerful his Ye Family was, he could be said to be a big man with great authority! As the eldest son of the third generation in the Ye Family, logically speaking, Ye Xiu should be the kind of Master Prince that lived up to his name. Even if he didn't do anything, walking around everyday to curry favor with girls, he wouldn't have to worry about it for the rest of his life!

But ever since Ye Xiu could remember, he had been met with cold stares from everyone in the Ye Family. Not a single person had spoken a word to Ye Xiu, even the servants of the Ye Family had looks of contempt when they looked at Ye Xiu. They scolded him loudly every now and then, treating him as if he was a child of their Ye Family, and treated him as a slave in the slightest. With regards to all of this, regardless of whether it was Ye Xiu's grandfather or father, they did not say a single word, as though they did not see it. The Second Uncle and Aunt even laughed it off, treating Ye Xiu as a joke! Ye Xiu had never even seen his mother before!

When Ye Xiu was five years old, he was brought out of the Ye Family by a few warriors in combat uniforms and sent to this remote mountain village to be reared. At that time, Ye Xiu was begging his grandfather, begging his father, not to send him away! But, no matter how much Ye Xiu begged, it was of no use. Furthermore, he was slapped in the face by his grandfather Ye Zhenshan, and although that slap was on Ye Xiu's face, it was actually on Ye Xiu's heart!

All these years, no one from Ye Family had ever come to visit Ye Xiu, not even once! But every once in a while, the village chief would receive a sum of money as Ye Xiu's living expenses! But that money was only enough for Ye Xiu's tuition for a year!

Ye Xiu couldn't understand what he had done wrong to make his relatives treat him like this. But this question, no one could answer Ye Xiu!

Those cold and detached eyes from back then, and that slap before he left the Ye Family left an extremely heavy shadow on Ye Xiu's childhood path! Adding on the years of living in the mountain village and interacting with the wild beasts in the mountain all year round, it caused Ye Xiu's temperament to be cold, unfriendly, and even more so, uncomprehending of the so-called wisdom of the world, treating many people and matters, and even reaching the point of being heartless!

At this moment, Ye Xiu's footsteps had gradually sped up, and he was sprinting deep within the pitch-black mountains!

With one leg lightly tapping on a rock, Ye Xiu moved like a ghost, jumping up a large tree. However, he did not cause any sound to the surrounding flowers or plants!

There were many stars in the night sky, and the weak moonlight illuminated half of Ye Xiu's face. Under the illumination of the moonlight, Ye Xiu continuously travelled between the rocks and trees, and finally arrived in front of a cliff wall.

This cliff was a hundred meters high, and was covered with vines and weeds. Most people would not go near this cliff, but a poisonous snake would suddenly appear from within the vines and weeds.

But Ye Xiu did not care about it at all, he flipped the vines and weeds away from the cliff, and inside, there was actually a cave!

Ye Xiu entered the cave, and from inside, he restored the vines and weeds outside, and then he walked all the way in. When they arrived at the end of the cave, there was an ancient well!

Without hesitation, Ye Xiu clasped his hands together in front of his chest, and a surge of energy instantly emerged from his body. The energy circulated one round through Ye Xiu's body, and all gathered at Ye Xiu's chest!

Ye Xiu held his breath, only to hear a "hua la" sound from inside the cave, as Ye Xiu jumped down the ancient well.

After half an hour or so, when Ye Xiu appeared from the water again, he was no longer in the ancient well of the cave but had appeared in a warm pool.

This was a deep ravine the size of a football field. Aside from the thick fog, there was no other cover!

In the middle of the valley, there was a glazed tombstone. The glazed tombstone was over ten meters tall and there were many ancient words carved on it.

And behind the glass tombstone, there was a block of ice. That piece of ice was shaped like an egg. It could also be said that it was an ice egg. Its size was extremely large!

Outside of the Ice Egg, there were five giant Longsword s stuck in it. The five giant Longsword s were stuck in the ground around the Ice Egg. Each sword flashed with a different color. On the hilt of the sword, there was a word: Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth. Moreover, the five gigantic Longsword also shot out different colored rays of light, shining on the ice egg.

On the surface of the ice egg was carved a vermilion totem. It looked very ancient and mysterious!

After Ye Xiu came up from the pond, he directly walked in front of the glass tombstone without looking at anything else! Because Ye Xiu had already become familiar with everything here, and would not be surprised at all!

"Master, I've come to see you." Ye Xiu slowly kneeled in front of the glass tombstone. The words on the glass tombstone actually began to shine with yellow light, as if it was welcoming Ye Xiu's arrival.

"After half a year, my cultivation still hasn't made any progress. You must be very disappointed!"

In fact, even Ye Xiu himself did not know who the master that Ye Xiu called master was. This place was discovered by Ye Xiu three years ago!

When he thought about what happened three years ago, Ye Xiu still vividly remembered it. It was a night three years ago, and Ye Xiu had also hunted in the mountains for several days. After they had hunted enough prey, in order to return to the village as soon as possible, Ye Xiu chose the shortest route with the most dangerous Yulong Mountain! As a result, after passing through a cliff, he slipped and fell into this ravine.

Ye Xiu who had survived such a disaster discovered that there was actually a tombstone and an ice egg in the deep valley! There was no signature on the tombstone, no identity, no history, but there was an ethereal and traceless thing recorded on it, the art of cultivation. Moreover, it was written very clearly. Only by passing through the deep valley's pool of warm water would one be able to leave this place. But to withstand the heat of the warm water, one had to be at the first level of body refining. If a normal person were to enter, they would be cooked!

At first, Ye Xiu only had the mindset of trying to cultivate according to the method on the glass tombstone, but he never thought that this cultivation method was actually real!

At that time, Ye Xiu had stayed in the deep valley for an entire ten days, and according to the cultivation techniques on the glass tombstone, he had become a primary Cultivator, and his body was at the first level of body refinement. Because of this, he also took the owner of this glazed tombstone as his master. But until now, Ye Xiu still did not know who the owner of this glass tombstone was.

In these three years, Ye Xiu would come here once every three years! But unfortunately, Ye Xiu's cultivation had not improved at all! The ninth layer of the Body Refinement Realm stopped at the first layer, and the sixth layer of the cultivation method, "Ascending Dragon Spell", was only cultivated to the second layer! On the contrary, he had learned half of the set of medical techniques called "Profound Medicine Scripture", and he had even frequently practiced medicine in the village without a certificate.

He tried to study that ice egg many times, but in the span of three years, it didn't show any signs of abnormality!

Fortunately, by relying on his first level of body refining and profound strength at the second level of Ascending Dragon Spell, it was enough for Ye Xiu to freely move about in the mountain and deal with all kinds of wild beasts!

After chatting with the glass tombstone for a while, Ye Xiu started to meditate and cultivate. But the result was still the same, the Genuine Qi in his body showed no signs of strengthening at all!

Ye Xiu got up helplessly. Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly heard a "ka" sound from the Ice Egg behind the Glazed Tombstone! Ye Xiu immediately stopped in his tracks, looked straight at the gigantic ice egg, and slowly walked over.

The glow of the five giant Longsword around the ice egg weakened, but Ye Xiu didn't care about the swords anymore, because Ye Xiu had already noticed that on the ice egg, without him knowing, a crack had appeared!

Ye Xiu always thought of this Ice Egg as an ornament, and only the cultivation technique on the Glazed Tombstone was the main point. Otherwise, it would be impossible for there to be no signs of cultivation in the past few years.

But now, with the appearance of the crack on the ice egg, the entire valley suddenly became cold. However, this coldness only lasted for a moment, and then the valley started to heat up again.

After the cold and hot matter had ended, Ye Xiu couldn't help but reach out his hand and gently touch the ice egg. With this touch, the ice egg made a "ka" sound and another crack appeared. Following that, the rays of light shining from the surrounding five gigantic Longsword s on the ice egg disappeared, and the entire deep valley shook slightly!

Ye Xiu's heart tightened. He subconsciously took out the bow and arrow from his back, but the cracks on the ice egg continued to grow. The five giant Longsword also cracked at this moment, and then disappeared into thin air!

Seeing the countless cracks that had already appeared on the ice egg, Ye Xiu thought in his heart, there shouldn't be any monsters inside, right?

Without waiting for Ye Xiu to think, beams of golden light shot out from the crack on the ice egg. The golden light seemed to have life, gathering above the ice egg, and finally forming a 10 inch gold piece. On the gold piece, there was a painting of the starry sky. It was very beautiful, but the gold piece was missing a corner. It was an incomplete gold piece.

With a "shua" sound, the broken golden plate turned into a stream of light and charged towards the center of Ye Xiu's brows!

In an instant, Ye Xiu felt waves of pain in his head, as if a needle had pierced through the center of his forehead. This made Ye Xiu immediately kneel down and firmly press his hands against his temples.

Ye Xiu was unable to bear the pain and fainted.

After Ye Xiu fainted, the ice egg quickly melted and turned into water, fusing into the soil!

After a few hours, Ye Xiu gradually woke up. When he woke up, the pain had disappeared. However, Ye Xiu could clearly feel that the broken gold piece that was formed from the golden light had appeared in his mind!

"What's going on? What is this thing? How did it get into my head! No, it's not in my mind. I can clearly feel its existence, and this should be in my mind, or perhaps in my consciousness! "

The incomplete gold piece vibrated in Ye Xiu's mind, unexpectedly there were four words written there: Nature Manifestation.

At the same time, a warm current also appeared in Ye Xiu's body!

This warmth circulated around Ye Xiu's body nonstop. Finally, it merged with the Genuine Qi at the first level of the Refinement Realm and made Ye Xiu's Genuine Qi become one, increasing his cultivation by a large amount!

"How can this be? I haven't been able to strengthen the Genuine Qi for the past three years, so why did the Genuine Qi immediately become stronger after this wave of warmth fused with it? "

Ye Xiu didn't care so much now, as the Genuine Qi, which had been unable to be strengthened for three years, had become stronger. And this feeling was the same as when he had just started training and reached body refining first level!

Could it be because of that warm current that he had broken through the first level of body refining barrier and was about to reach body refining second level?

Ye Xiu immediately sat cross legged on the spot. This kind of opportunity, Ye Xiu had already waited for three years, he definitely could not miss it!

But as soon as he activated the strengthened Genuine Qi s in his body, Ye Xiu felt his body becoming heavier, as if he was pressed down by a huge rock, and he couldn't even straighten his waist.

Ye Xiu who was sitting cross-legged supported himself on the ground with both hands, the pressure on his body increased by two to three times, and it seemed as if there was some kind of invisible force that was attacking him, causing the bones in his entire body to crack, as if they were about to break.

Puff …

Following the increase in the pressure, and the attack of the invisible force, Ye Xiu felt waves and waves of enormous pain from his chest, and a mouthful of jet-black blood was spat out from his mouth.

He vomited blood! Is this an upgrade? This is simply taking my life!

Ye Xiu wanted to curse loudly, but due to the great pain in his chest, he was unable to say a word.

But what Ye Xiu did not expect was that after he spat out the blood, the pressure on his body started to lessen and the invisible force also disappeared. What followed was a light and comfortable feeling, as if all his troubles and dangers wouldn't happen to him.

Was it just a process?

Ye Xiu closed his eyes tightly. This kind of comfortable feeling made it so that Ye Xiu no longer had any thoughts in his mind, as if he was roaming through the nine heavens.

After more than two hours, Ye Xiu slowly opened his eyes. He realized that the Genuine Qi in his body had doubled in strength!

Fiercely standing up, Ye Xiu gathered all the Genuine Qi onto his fist and also activated the second stage of the Ascending Dragon Spell. Streams of electric currents appeared on his fist and Ye Xiu faced a gigantic boulder as he shouted coldly: "Upgraded, Second Floor of Refinement … "Break!"

With a rumbling sound, the rock that Ye Xiu struck was smashed into smithereens, and the shattered rocks scattered all over the ground.

Ye Xiu was ecstatic. Looking at his fists, he said excitedly: "I finally broke through! In three years time, I have finally reached body refining second level! "

As Ye Xiu was feeling excited, he turned his head to look at the glass tombstone. Only then did he realise that the ice egg had disappeared and melted!

"Everything!" Was the Ice Egg used to store this thing? Now that it has entered my mind, I naturally do not need the Ice Egg! "

Ye Xiu sighed deeply, then looked at the glass tombstone and said: "Master, could it be that all of this was arranged by you? You have honed me for three years, and only then did you allow me to obtain the things inside the Ice Egg, and reach the second level of the Body Refinement Realm? "

Right now, Ye Xiu did not care what kind of use the gold piece, which was called Universal Nature Manifestation, had. Since the sky was already bright, let's leave first.