After crossing the endless mountain ranges, Ye Chu and Yang Hui cultivated day and night within them. The mountain range was extremely vast and thick, with fierce beasts shooting out from time to time.
Some fierce beasts were so strong that they made Ye Chu and Yang Hui’s scalps tingle, so they could only carefully avoid them. Of course, sometimes they could not avoid them and had to take action to kill them.
Fortunately, Ye Chu and Yang Hui’s strength was quite good. Unless they encountered overly powerful fierce beasts, those creatures could only end up as food for the two of them.
Along this journey, Ye Chu and Yang Hui did not know exactly how long they had walked, but it was at least ten days and nights. On the road, they had killed countless fierce beasts. They had even slain four or five beasts comparable to the Profound Life Realm, and all their essence was refined by Ye Chu into pills using the soul swallowing origin transformation method.
After walking another five or six days and nights, Ye Chu and Yang Hui even encountered a beast comparable to a king level. In the opponent’s furious roar, they desperately ran and barely escaped.
Life in the mountains was dull, so Ye Chu and Yang Hui both became numb. They only knew to keep moving forward, not knowing how long it would take to leave the mountain range.
Young master. After more than half a month since they escaped from the deadly land, Yang Hui stood on a mountain peak, pointed in one direction and shouted excitedly to Ye Chu, City. A city.
Ye Chu’s originally listless eyes lit up instantly. Standing on the giant rock where Yang Hui stood, he looked into the distance and indeed saw the faint outline of a city.
Ye Chu suddenly had tears streaming down his face. He wanted to thank heaven, thank the earth, thank the mountain gods, and thank everything.
We are finally getting out. Ye Chu pounded the ground madly, falling into a frenzied state. If we cannot get out, I will starve to death. A day in the mountains feels like a thousand years in the world, but I do not care about that. However, how many years has it been since I last smelled the scent of meat.
Yang Hui stared blankly at Ye Chu as he grabbed a freshly roasted wild beast leg and bit into it.
Young master. Yang Hui called out to Ye Chu weakly, thinking that they had only been in the mountains for just over half a month. Was it really necessary to be this excited? As for meat, it seemed like he ate it every day.
Let us go. If we do not get out soon, we will both turn into wild people. A handsome man like me hidden deep in the mountains would be a sorrow for women and a misfortune for the world. Ye Chu expressed pity for the world, feeling that his own suffering did not matter. The problem was that he had descended into the world with the great ambition of saving it, and he could not let others fall into despair and misfortune.
Yang Hui felt that Ye Chu had truly become abnormal after more than half a month in the mountains. She stared blankly at him as he looked at the wild beast leg. In just a few short minutes, that huge beast leg had been reduced to only bones.
Let us go. Once we get out, we will eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks. We must eat meat. Ye Chu said through gritted teeth.
Yang Hui looked at the huge bone in Ye Chu’s hand and nodded vigorously. With a very sorrowful expression she said, Young master has been wronged, not even having meat to eat.
Ye Chu felt that Yang Hui understood him too well. Yang Hui was his true confidante, who knew how hard his days had been.
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The city was a king city, the territory of a king level expert. It controlled several thousand mines in the surrounding area and was adjacent to the Double Sword King, not too far away. The king of this city was called the Axe King, and he was on very bad terms with the Double Sword King because of competing for mine resources.
Yang Hui was somewhat familiar with this place. After introducing the city to Ye Chu, she said to him, The Axe King’s long axe technique is superb and matches the Double Sword King evenly. This place is quite a distance from where the dragon blood lake last erupted. Young master, do you want to go find Miss Ye or make other arrangements?
We have been away for more than half a month. They have probably left the dragon blood lake as well, making it hard to find them. However, since you and Yang Ning share connected minds, can you sense her location? Ye Chu asked.
Young master overestimates us. The distance is too far, so we cannot truly achieve mind connection. When far apart, we only have weak perceptions, such as knowing that the other is still alive and some basic information.
Ye Chu nodded, thinking that this was more realistic. If they could really transmit thoughts across a thousand miles, their physiques would be heaven defying.
In that case, there is no need to worry about them. Yang Ning knows you are still alive, and that is enough. Ye Chu knew it was extremely difficult to find someone in the vast sea of people, so he was not in a hurry to find Ye Jingyun.
At this moment, he was more focused on obtaining more azure origin pills. Whether for himself or Yang Hui, they both needed a large quantity of azure origin pills. With enough azure origin pills, both Ye Chu and Yang Hui could break through.
After discussing with Yang Hui for a while, Ye Chu and Yang Hui entered a trading house in the king city. Ye Chu took out ten profound spirit pills to exchange for azure origin pills.
It took a whole day before Ye Chu managed to exchange the ten profound spirit pills for over a hundred azure origin pills.
But for Ye Chu and Yang Hui, this was just a drop in the ocean and not nearly enough. Ye Chu took out some more profound spirit pills, but very few cultivators could afford to exchange for them.
After all, one profound spirit pill was worth ten thousand spirit origin pills, which was a large sum that most cultivators could not produce.
Young master. In this city, the only person who can probably exchange for a large number of profound spirit pills is the Axe King. For others, even if they exchange, it would be one or two at a time. To exchange for dozens of profound spirit pills would take who knows how long. Yang Hui reminded Ye Chu.
Yes. Ye Chu also knew this. He handed the exchanged azure origin pills to Yang Hui and let her absorb and refine them.
More than a hundred azure origin pills did not have a great effect on him and could at most increase his strength a little. Ye Chu did not need a slight increase in strength. His idea was to have enough azure origin pills to break through to the Profound Life Realm in one go.
Yang Hui saw that Ye Chu insisted on giving them to her and did not refuse. She directly absorbed and refined them. Yang Hui had her qi sea opened by the dragon blood lake, so the spiritual energy it could hold was extraordinary. After absorbing these hundred azure origin pills, her qi sea density only increased by twenty percent.
This result made Ye Chu click his tongue in surprise. He thought that if both of them wanted to break through, they would need at least two thousand azure origin pills.
Ye Chu calculated the profound spirit pills he had. With the previous remainder plus those refined from several Profound Life Realm beasts in the mountains, it was less than a hundred. That meant the azure origin pills he could exchange for were less than a thousand, far short of two thousand.
Most importantly, there was no channel to exchange for more.
The path of cultivation truly burns money. This is not something humans can cultivate. Ye Chu muttered. No wonder the further one cultivates, the harder it becomes. Just the required resources alone are not something ordinary people can bear.
Let us go. After staying in the trading house for a while, Ye Chu began to pack up and leave. Before leaving, he carefully placed ten profound spirit pills into a jade bottle.
After doing this, Ye Chu glanced around and saw many people showing hot and greedy eyes, though they all held back.
Young master. Yang Hui had obviously noticed it too and reminded Ye Chu.
Ye Chu smiled and did not say anything more. He took Yang Hui’s hand, walked side by side with her out of the trading house, and headed towards the outside of the city.