“Senior!” After Liu Yun had agreed, he called Ye Chu over. Ye Chu was puzzled and did not know what Liu Yun wanted to say.
“You have entered the Ninth Heaven, so you can attempt to break through to the Xuanhua Realm. With your comprehension, reaching the Xuanhua Realm is not too difficult. What you lack is an opportunity. Therefore, what I must do is find this opportunity for you.” Liu Yun looked at Ye Chu and said.
“Senior, what do you mean?” Ye Chu was somewhat delighted.
Liu Yun did not answer Ye Chu. Instead, he turned and said, “Prince Yufu has reached the Xuanhua Realm. Although his strength cannot compare with your senior brothers, it is not weak. Compared with him, you are still one step behind. If you want any chance of defeating him, you must enter the Xuanhua Realm. I have always trusted the people cultivated by the Old Madman. As long as you can enter the Xuanhua Realm, you will have some chance of winning.”
“Does Prince Yufu master many secret arts?” Ye Chu asked. “Those who can be called outstanding figures are never simple people. They are much stronger than ordinary Xuanhua Realm cultivators.”
“The claim that Prince Yufu may reach the Supreme realm is not groundless. His talent truly defies heaven, and he has the hope of becoming the next ancestor of the Yufu Sacred Ground. As for breaking through to the Supreme realm, that depends on fortune. On this point, I am not optimistic about him. But even so, an existence that has hope of becoming a peerless powerhouse is still terrifying.” Liu Yun said to Ye Chu, “If you want to fight him, it will be very hard to win unless you reach the same level. Therefore, you must enter the Xuanhua Realm.”
“I understand!” Ye Chu felt pressure in his heart. Given Liu Yun’s status, when he said such words, eight or nine times out of ten they were true.
“You do not need to worry either. Since I agreed on your behalf, I will naturally help you. In the coming days, I will help you cultivate so that you can reach the Xuanhua Realm as soon as possible.” Liu Yun said, “With your talent and comprehension, this is not very difficult.”
“Then thank you very much, Senior!” Ye Chu said with a smile.
“No need. Just do everything I say, and I hope you can endure it!”
Liu Yun’s words gave Ye Chu a bad premoniment. Sure enough, Liu Yun soon told Ye Chu to take off his clothes, and a leather whip appeared in his hand.
Looking at the leather whip in Liu Yun’s hand, Ye Chu clicked his tongue and could not help covering his backside. He thought that Liu Yun was already old, so surely he would not play games involving whips and candles.
Ye Chu’s scalp tingled. He thought that if Liu Yun really wanted to play, his own strength truly could not refuse. Could his lifetime reputation be ruined like this?
Amid Ye Chu’s worry, Liu Yun really did exactly as he had imagined. The leather whip struck down directly and landed on Ye Chu’s body. Ye Chu only felt a burning pain spread across his body.
“Damn, he really is playing with a whip!” Ye Chu had the urge to turn around and flee.
“Hold your breath, sink your mind into the qi sea, and let your apertures absorb spiritual energy!” Liu Yun shouted. “I am using the leather whip to strike your apertures, stimulate your potential, and help you push into the Xuanhua Realm.”
Ye Chu was stunned, then steadied his mind and endured the whip striking him again and again. Every lash landed on Ye Chu’s apertures. The whip contained a scorching power that seeped into his apertures, as if it wanted to tear them apart.
“Absorb the power from the whip. It will help you open your apertures and stimulate your potential. Endure the pain and hold on!” Liu Yun shouted.
Ye Chu gritted his teeth and ignored the intense pain in his body. His mind merged into his apertures. Under the repeated strikes of the whip, the apertures began to heat up and swell. As they heated and swelled, the speed at which heaven and earth origin qi circulated within them became a little faster.
Heaven and earth origin qi surged into the apertures. Waves of power vibrated, and Ye Chu’s apertures seemed to begin some kind of tempering, holding a great deal of heaven and earth origin qi.
Seeing Ye Chu sitting there with his legs crossed, Liu Yun showed no mercy with the whip in his hand. He struck again and again, and by the end, the whip itself was flowing with radiant light.
With every strike, Liu Yun was somewhat astonished in his heart. Ye Chu’s physique was much stronger than he had imagined. He had originally thought that one tenth of his strength would be enough, but he had not expected that one tenth would barely have any effect. His power kept increasing.
“Has he cultivated some special technique? His physique is actually this strong. With his physique, fighting a High Grade Emperor would not be much of a problem.” Liu Yun was puzzled. He did not know what kind of physique or cultivation technique could achieve this.
“Perhaps he has swallowed some heaven and earth spiritual treasure.” Liu Yun guessed in his heart. After all, some heaven and earth spiritual treasures could greatly strengthen the physique, such as dragon blood.
Seeing Ye Chu’s physique so strong, Liu Yun was even more pleased. The stronger Ye Chu was, the greater the potential he could draw out. There were blockages in the circulation of the apertures, and under his whipping, the apertures could be forced open, allowing the body to transform and finally enter the Xuanhua Realm.
Liu Yun watched Ye Chu endure his ruthless whip strikes again and again, and the smile at the corner of his mouth grew deeper. The greater the power Ye Chu endured, the more beneficial it was for him.
During that day, Liu Yun only wielded the leather whip and beat Ye Chu. In the end, Ye Chu’s body was covered with streaks of blood marks. The blood marks spread all over him, and the sight was too tragic to look at. If anyone had seen it, they would surely have thought that Liu Yun was abusing Ye Chu.
Even so, Liu Yun still kept waving the leather whip without pause, and the power in his hand grew even heavier.
Ye Chu gritted his teeth and endured it forcibly. By now, the pain on the outside of his body no longer mattered. What was unbearable were his apertures. The swelling pain inside them felt as if they were about to burst.
The power from the leather whip kept surging in, burning his apertures like charcoal fire. Ye Chu’s apertures were so red that they seemed about to collapse.
Yet even in this situation, Ye Chu desperately used the power in his qi sea to charge his apertures. Every charge brought a stream of coolness, and the comfort from that coolness made Ye Chu drive the heaven and earth origin qi madly.
Ye Chu drove the heaven and earth origin qi to its limit, so fast that even he could not imagine it. He was only trying to bring a little relief to his scalding, swollen, and painful body.
Because of this, Ye Chu’s heaven and earth origin qi circulated faster and faster. At the same time, the green lotus rooted in his qi sea trembled without pause. The spring made of black iron surged with waves and battered the qi sea. The qi sea slowly opened up, and heaven and earth origin qi kept rushing into Ye Chu’s body, replenishing the expanding qi sea.
Liu Yun struck down again and again, and every strike brought a little surprise. He had originally thought his power had reached its limit and that Ye Chu could not endure anymore, but the next moment, Ye Chu’s breathing was long and steady, and he endured the strike.
Under these circumstances, Ye Chu endured immense pain. In the end, his apertures became so hot that they seemed about to melt. Under the impact of power, all the apertures merged with his meridians. If one did not look closely, one could not tell whether they were apertures or meridians. Power passed through the apertures without the slightest sense of blockage, and heaven and earth origin qi circulated madly through the apertures into Ye Chu’s limbs and bones.
It was amid this inhuman whipping that Ye Chu slowly transformed. His body was covered with wounds, and the sight was too painful to look at directly.