“Ah! What are you two saying? I really don’t understand!” Ye Chu could only pretend to be clueless. However, seeing the two women’s seductive and alluring figures, he still could not help but swallow hard a few times.
“Not understanding is good! My sword will make you understand!” After Bai Xin finished speaking, her sword shot forward like a venomous snake, striking straight at Ye Chu. The attack was fierce and cunning, clearly aiming to kill him in one blow.
Ye Chu was greatly shocked. Without caring about the cliff edge, he leaped desperately downward, his eyes locked on a large tree jutting out from the cliff face. He had noticed this tree earlier and decided that if they truly tried to kill him, he would jump toward it.
The sharp sword missed its mark. Bai Xin and Bai Rou watched Ye Chu leap off the cliff. The two women exchanged a glance, then walked to the edge and saw Ye Chu land precisely on the tree growing from the cliff.
However, as soon as Ye Chu stepped on the tree, it cracked loudly, on the verge of snapping. Ye Chu quickly steadied himself and hurriedly moved toward the cliff wall.
“His reaction is quite fast!” Bai Xin snorted coldly and prepared to jump down to chase and kill him, but Bai Rou reached out to stop her. “No need to go. There is killing aura below. He will suffer enough.”
Hearing Bai Rou say this, Bai Xin only huffed and said, “He got lucky. If he had not jumped so quickly, I would have dug out his eyes.”
Ye Chu walked along the tree trunk until he reached a large rock on the cliff. Just then, a stone beneath his foot fell loose. Listening to the sound of it shattering far below, Ye Chu patted his chest in relief. He thought that if he had fallen, he would probably have been smashed to pieces.
“Those two women are really ruthless. Just for looking a little while, they want my life. As if I care to look.” Ye Chu muttered a curse under his breath and surveyed his surroundings. The cliff was covered with jagged giant rocks. Moving carefully, he had no fear of falling.
However, climbing back up would be extremely difficult. Ye Chu looked left and right and noticed a cave about ten or more metres away. He moved toward that direction.
As soon as he entered the cave, a wave of killing aura rushed toward him and seeped into his body. The icy chill made Ye Chu shiver involuntarily.
“No wonder those two women did not chase after me!” Ye Chu had been worried they would pursue him, but they never jumped down. Now he finally understood why. They probably thought this killing aura would deal with him.
The killing aura in this cave was not particularly strong. Of course, it was more than enough to handle any martial artist below the level of a great cultivator. If Ye Chu did not have his special physique, this corrosive aura would have left him unable to stand.
But thanks to his unique constitution, this level of killing aura had no effect on Ye Chu at all.
Ye Chu walked deeper into the cave. The cave was not very large, and he soon reached the end. The killing aura surged up from deep underground and filled the entire space.
“This place is actually quite good!” Ye Chu smiled. To others, this was a dangerous spot, but to him it was a blessed land.
These killing auras could serve perfectly as spiritual energy to help him break through.
Ye Chu’s cultivation had already reached the peak of the eighth layer of the Innate Realm. He only needed the right opportunity to break through to the ninth layer and then advance toward the Primal Spirit Realm. The Primal Spirit Realm was the most important stage for cultivating one’s own primal spirit. At this level, Ye Chu could condense his own primal spirit patterns and begin walking his own path of Dao and laws, profound techniques and principles.
This represented a massive transformation. Although Ye Chu could currently fight against those in the Primal Spirit Realm, he could not face the truly powerful ones. Only by truly reaching the Primal Spirit Realm would his strength surge dramatically. Even against strong Primal Spirit Realm opponents, he would then have the power to fight back.
Ye Chu sat cross-legged and allowed the killing aura to flow into his body. As the aura entered, he used the method of converting it through his yin-yang apertures, transforming the killing aura into spiritual energy that his body could accept and merging it into his sea of qi.
Killing aura and spiritual energy were opposing forces, yet at this moment they fused together. Ye Chu’s aura carried the cold, violent, life-extinguishing nature of killing aura, while also possessing the vibrant, flourishing vitality of spiritual energy.
As the two forces mingled, they mutually reinforced each other, making the spiritual energy in Ye Chu’s sea of qi even purer.
This was an invisible form of tempering, and it also affected Ye Chu’s physical body. Within his sea of qi, true essence flowed and mixed with spiritual energy. Carrying the killing aura, it refined his body.
In this world, the most effective power for tempering the body was naturally killing aura, though very few people could utilise it. The reason fiend spirit cultivators were so terrifying was precisely because they could harness killing aura. Apart from its own attributes, another key reason was that killing aura could strengthen their bodies, making them far more powerful.
The body was one of the foundations of cultivation. A stronger body naturally made cultivation much easier and more effective. This was also why fiend spirit cultivators were generally much stronger than ordinary cultivators.
As killing aura poured into Ye Chu’s sea of qi, the spiritual energy there grew stronger. Ye Chu had repeatedly touched the Supreme Will, which was very dangerous. Yet it was not without benefits. With the Supreme Will permeating him, his comprehension of the primal spirit deepened, and his primal spirit became far stronger than others’.
Ye Chu’s primal spirit insights had long been sufficient to reach the ninth layer of the Innate Realm. What he lacked was only enough power. Now, with the killing aura being converted, everything flowed naturally, and he quickly broke through to the ninth layer of the Innate Realm.
True essence flowed in his sea of qi, blending with spiritual energy and intertwining with his will. The will became even more lively. This liveliness made Ye Chu feel refreshed, as though his soul was about to undergo a sublime transformation.
Ye Chu even felt that if he wished, he could break through again right away.
However, he forcibly held himself back. He had only just reached the ninth layer of the Innate Realm. It was not suitable to break through again so soon. The quality of killing aura here was not particularly high. Using it to break through one layer posed no major problem, but pushing for another breakthrough might damage his foundation.
Ye Chu ruthlessly suppressed that urge to advance further. The killing aura continued to convert, turning into his own power and merging into his sea of qi, steadily consolidating his newly reached realm.
The killing aura surging from underground was plentiful, but Ye Chu could not absorb it all. Suddenly, he thought of the multicoloured pattern fiend spider. Could he let it absorb these killing auras?
The moment the thought arose, the multicoloured pattern fiend spider trembled slightly. A terrifying pulling force erupted from it, frantically devouring the killing aura. The aura rushed toward Ye Chu’s body like surging gas and poured into the multicoloured pattern fiend spider.
The spider had previously been left with only a tiny trace of power. But as it absorbed these killing auras, it slowly began to recover and grow stronger.
“It really can absorb killing aura!” Ye Chu’s eyelids twitched, and joy filled his heart. This meant he could still use the multicoloured pattern fiend spider as his trump card.
Ye Chu absorbed madly. The underground supply continued to surge out at a rate roughly equal to his absorption speed. All the surrounding killing aura gathered around him.