Ye Chu had been practising the Silent Breath Sword all along the way. He was gradually getting the hang of it, occasionally using Ye Jingyun for practice. Ye Jingyun became more and more alarmed as time went on. Because this wondrous technique was truly too bizarre, silently and noiselessly attacking a cultivator’s primal spirit.
If struck by this attack, it would definitely injure the primal spirit. Most importantly, this was an attack condensed from baleful energy. Injuring the primal spirit would make recovery extremely difficult.
In the end, Ye Jingyun finally didn’t dare let Ye Chu practise on her anymore. Because later on, she found the Silent Breath Sword increasingly difficult to detect. Sometimes she wouldn’t react and shatter it until it was almost touching her body. It truly deserved to be called silent and noiseless.
Ye Jingyun was afraid that if they really kept playing around, she would capsize in a gutter. In the end, she threatened not to tell Ye Chu the location of the spatial artefact, forbidding Ye Chu from using the Silent Breath Sword on her.
Ye Chu naturally couldn’t help but unleash a torrent of cold ridicule and sarcasm. But he didn’t know whether this woman had spent too much time with him, for she paid no heed whatsoever to Ye Chu’s cold mockery, treating it merely as wind blowing past her ears. Every day, she still voraciously devoured Azure Origin Pills to cultivate.
With the Silent Breath Sword entering a favourable state, Ye Chu also began taking Azure Origin Pills in large quantities to cultivate. With a large supply of Azure Origin Pills assisting his cultivation, Ye Chu’s strength improved extremely quickly.
In just a short month, Ye Chu’s strength touched the bottleneck of the third level of the Profound Life Realm, about to break through to the fourth level.
And Ye Jingyun was now about to break through to the fifth level. Yang Hui had already reached the fifth level, while Yang Ning had reached the seventh level. However, this was the effect of countless Azure Origin Pills piled up. The Azure Origin Pills in Ye Chu’s jade bracelet had been used up, over twenty thousand of them.
If others knew of this, they would definitely curse him as a wastrel, because such consumption was truly terrifying. For others, twenty thousand pills would be enough to sustain their cultivation until they reached the King level. But for Ye Jingyun and the others, even Yang Hui and Yang Ning, who had the poorest talent among them, were extremely outstanding prodigies. Especially when the two women were in harmony of mind, they were no inferior to heaven’s chosen daughters.
The Azure Origin Pills consumed by four such figures naturally far surpassed ordinary cultivators. Twenty thousand pills, just like that, gone. Even Ye Chu, currently wealthy, couldn’t help but feel heartache.
Along the way, apart from cultivating, Ye Chu spent the rest of his time instructing Ye Jingyun in cultivating the Burial Void Sword Technique. Of course, he occasionally encountered people sent by Bai Xin to hunt him down. However, given their lineup, the people Bai Xin sent to pursue them were quickly dealt with.
“Those two wenches really won’t leave me alone,” Ye Chu cursed. But Ye Chu didn’t think about how he had plundered on a massive scale, snatching away countless fortunes that originally belonged to them. It would be strange if they could remain calm and composed. If it were Ye Chu himself, he’d probably have the heart to cut off the other party’s little prick.
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However, this world was ultimately too vast. Bai Xin and Bai Rou couldn’t find them. Occasionally when someone encountered them, they were all dealt with by Ye Chu and the others. The news couldn’t get out, so the journey was relatively safe.
“How much further to the location of that spatial artefact you mentioned?” Ye Chu asked Ye Jingyun, feeling somewhat excited in his heart. Because he wanted the spatial artefact too much. With a spatial artefact, when doing things like plundering palaces in the future, he wouldn’t need to curry favour with Ye Jingyun anymore.
Ye Jingyun didn’t answer Ye Chu. After leading Ye Chu over several mountains, they arrived at a dilapidated temple.
That’s right, a temple. In the centre of this temple, there was still a stone statue of Sakyamuni. Only, because no one had tended to it for a long time, it was already covered in moss.
“Sakyamuni!” Ye Chu stared blankly at this stone statue. This head was exactly the same as the one he had seen on Earth. Ye Chu knew that there were also monks and temples in this world. But he had never seen them before, and didn’t know what the difference was between the monks and temples here and those of his previous life.
But judging from this temple, the difference shouldn’t be too great.
“You recognise this statue?” Ye Jingyun was extremely curious. Regarding the name Sakyamuni, she had only seen it in her ancestor’s notes. Although it couldn’t be said to be an extremely secret name, it was rarely known by ordinary cultivators.
Because, in this world, temples weren’t too numerous, and legends of Sakyamuni were also extremely few.
“I’ve heard of it. I just don’t know if what I heard is the same as what you know?” Ye Chu replied. “What do you know of Sakyamuni?”
“I don’t know. My ancestor only wrote one sentence in his notes, that Sakyamuni is a god, the supreme god of Buddhism,” Ye Jingyun replied.
Ye Chu muttered to himself, thinking that this wasn’t much different from what he had heard on Earth in his previous life. Ye Chu couldn’t help but laugh, wondering if there really were gods in this world, if Sakyamuni really existed?
Ye Chu couldn’t comprehend this. This was absolute secrecy, not something he could know.
“This is the place where the spatial artefact is located!” Ye Jingyun pointed at the temple before her and said to Ye Chu.
“This?” Ye Chu looked at this broken-down temple and couldn’t help but frown, thinking that there was actually a spatial artefact here. Was this a joke? This temple was situated in a remote mountain forest and was dilapidated beyond repair. It didn’t look at all like the extraordinary place Ye Jingyun had described, because it appeared far too ordinary.
“An elder of the family chanced upon this place and saw the spatial artefact. At that time, he also wanted to take it away, but it was too perilous, so he didn’t dare make a move. Now that I’ve brought you here, I’ve fulfilled my promise. As for whether you dare to take it or not, that depends on you,” Ye Jingyun led Ye Chu into this temple.
Ye Chu, Yang Ning, and Yang Hui were all puzzled, not knowing what was so perilous about this cobweb-covered dilapidated temple. They parted the cobwebs and walked into the broken temple. In the courtyard of the broken temple, there was a pool, but the pool had completely dried up. On the other side next to the pool, there was a waterfall cliff, but it had also dried up. On the waterfall cliff, there was a cave. Ye Jingyun led Ye Chu into this cave. “My ancestor was also a powerful figure. Back then, he entered this cave and discovered the spatial artefact. At the same time, he told me that this was once the place where an enlightened predecessor cultivated, imprinted with his Dao and Dharma. The spatial artefact fell within it, and he was powerless to retrieve it.”
Hearing these words, Ye Chu became even more puzzled. However, upon entering the cave, Ye Chu, Yang Hui, and the others all felt a warm spring breeze brushing their faces, as if there was a power belonging to nature and heaven and earth bringing them comfort.
This marvellous sensation made Ye Chu’s heart skip a beat, and he instantly believed what Ye Jingyun’s elder had said.
The cave wasn’t large. There was only a stone table, a stone bed, and a stone chair. And on the stone table, there lay a jade belt. This jade belt had an emerald green glazed lustre, flickering with an extraordinary aura there.
Of course, beside the stone table, there were several skeletons, all white bones.
“These white bones should be people who also chanced upon this place, discovered the spatial artefact and wanted to seize it, but were annihilated by the Dao and Dharma,” Ye Jingyun stood far away from the stone table, not daring to get too close. Because her ancestor had repeatedly warned her not to get any ideas about this jade belt. If Ye Chu hadn’t insisted, Ye Jingyun wouldn’t have wanted to bring him here either.