The cultivator quickly became as thin and dry as firewood. His entire bodys essence and energy drained away, turning into a dried corpse that fell straight to the ground. All his essence disappeared completely.
Ye Chus intent patterns were lively and agile, with flowing light and brilliance. His origin spirit had grown several times larger. At this moment Ye Chus essence, energy and spirit were full and abundant. True essence surged in his qi sea, oscillating without cease. Ye Chus strength increased successively, advancing directly from the second layer of Origin Spirit realm to the fifth layer, a full three levels higher.
This was an astonishing advancement that even shocked Ye Chu. But thinking that he had swallowed the essence of a Profound Life realm cultivator, advancing three levels was not strange at all.
Ye Chu sensed himself. His own origin spirit had merged with countless spirit moulding qi, and there was endless true essence in his qi sea. It was not spiritual qi but true essence. For ordinary cultivators, this was something only possessed upon reaching the Profound Life realm. Yet at this moment, more than half of Ye Chus qi sea was filled with true essence.
Although Ye Chu was currently only at the fifth layer of Origin Spirit realm, he was by no means comparable to an ordinary fifth layer Origin Spirit realm. Ye Chu had absolute overwhelming advantage against ordinary fifth layer Origin Spirit realm cultivators.
Below the Profound Life realm, who could possess so much true essence? The spiritual qi in Ye Chus qi sea was almost entirely replaced by true essence.
Ye Chu was shocked in his heart by this. This set of techniques was simply too heaven defying. It could seize others cultivation achievements for ones own use. It would not be excessive to call it an evil technique or demonic technique.
Just relying on this set of techniques, Ye Chu had advanced three levels and saved himself several years of cultivation effort. This was a situation that could drive others mad. Ye Chu did not doubt in the slightest that if anyone knew he possessed such a set of techniques, the entire world would go crazy over it.
At this moment Ye Chu very much suspected that this set of techniques was created by the Soul Swallowing Empress. Such a set of techniques was probably not created by the Soul Swallowing Empress herself. Rather, the Soul Swallowing Empress had relied on it to achieve her status as an empress.
The more Ye Chu thought about it, the more possible it seemed. There were many legends about the Soul Swallowing Empress. One very inspiring one was that in her childhood the Soul Swallowing Empress was an ordinary cow herding child.
If that was truly the case, then the Soul Swallowing Empress had reached such heights all thanks to this set of techniques. An ordinary person relying on this set of techniques had become a regional empress. From this it could be seen that the value of this set of techniques was imaginable.
Refining others origin spirits for ones own use was not unheard of. On the contrary it was very common. But refining it so thoroughly, decomposing the origin spirit into spirit moulding qi and then completely absorbing it, and also thoroughly swallowing and refining the entire bodys essence, this was not something ordinary people could achieve.
At the very least, before having this set of techniques, Ye Chu as an Origin Spirit realm cultivator could not have done it. But after obtaining this set of techniques, he could achieve this almost heaven defying feat.
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Ye Chu stabilised his own realm. After swallowing the soul and refining the essence there were some aftereffects. Ye Chus emotions had become irritable, tainted by the opponents intent realm.
But for others this might be a big problem. For Ye Chu who used black iron and the Floating Life Palace clan patterns, it was not too difficult to resolve. After continuing to cultivate for another three days, Ye Chus realm was completely stabilised and that irritable emotion disappeared completely.
However, Ye Chu felt a familiar desolation. This desolation surged into his heart. Tears could not help flowing from the corners of Ye Chus eyes. The tears kept dripping, falling at Ye Chus feet and soon wetting a patch.
That desolate and deathly silent feeling permeated Ye Chus entire body. Ye Chu felt as if his heart had turned to dead ashes. The clan patterns of the Ruo family and the black iron vibrated. Their light penetrated into Ye Chus origin spirit, bringing him a few traces of coolness.
This desolate, deathly silent sorrow lasted for a long time. Only under the vibration of the patterns did it gradually disappear. However, Ye Chu clearly felt that the supreme intent had become a few degrees stronger again.
Ye Chu had not lost himself, but that feeling still made him extremely uncomfortable. With the clan patterns left by the Ruo family and the patterns from the Ancient Nightmare Forbidden Land, combined with the black iron, Ye Chu could guarantee he would not lose himself. But Ye Chu did not know how long he could persist.
Ruo Shui had once said that with his physique it was best to find baleful qi. Relying on baleful qi could prevent the supreme intent from causing him to lose himself as much as possible. Ye Chu wiped his face covered in tears, let out a light breath, and thought that with his current strength he could also try wandering the continent. To find baleful qi, he could only search within the continent.
When that desolate feeling disappeared once again, Ye Chu slowly stood up. He carefully closed the jade book and put it into his bosom.
After doing all this, Ye Chus gaze fell on the Soul Swallowing Empresss skeletal remains. He thought that the Soul Swallowing Empresss bones were good items. If used for refining artifacts, they could increase the strength of the artifacts several times and make their intent realms full.
But since Ye Chu had received the opponents legacy, it was naturally not good to take away all of the opponents bones. Of course, the most important reason was that his own intent realm simply could not withstand the surging intent realm from the opponents white bones.
Ye Chu looked at the corpse of the cultivator beside him, with a few traces of coldness at the corners of his mouth. He thought that the opponent had wanted to seize his origin spirit, but had not expected to instead complete him, with all his essence being refined by him.
However, Ye Chu also discovered that although he had refined the opponents entire essence, it was not that the stronger the opponent the stronger he became. He had only increased three levels. There was still a world of difference with the Profound Life realm.
The essence of his entire life could only raise me by three levels. It seems my foundation is much more than his. When I reach the Profound Life realm one day, my strength will far exceed his.
Ye Chu searched around and found no other items in there. Instead, on this dead cultivators body he found several spirit origin pills.
This surprised Ye Chu. He had not expected this fellow to have such good items on him.
Ye Chu took these few spirit origin pills, glanced at the white bones, and slowly withdrew from this palace.
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Ye Chu! Where have you been? We have not seen you for more than ten days! When Ye Chu came out, he found that Liang Shan was still waiting outside. This left Ye Chu stunned.
Liang Shan saw Ye Chu walk out from the tower and looked at him with puzzlement. Ye Chu had been inside for more than ten days. During that time he had also gone in to look for Ye Chu but had not found any trace of him. Liang Shan had even suspected that Ye Chu had already left. He just had not expected him to still come out from the tower.
Ye Chu patted Liang Shans shoulder, smiled and said, I have been inside the tower the whole time!
Liang Shan was curious and wanted to say something more but was interrupted by Ye Chu. He took out a profound stone from his bosom along with the spirit origin pills and handed them to Liang Shan, saying, Take these things to the old marquis of the Ye family marquis residence.
Liang Shan looked at these items, his eyes heated up. He swallowed his saliva. Do you have any more?
Ye Chu directly ignored Liang Shan. If his strength had not surged so greatly, he would not have been willing to take these things out.
Seeing Ye Chu glare at him angrily, Liang Shan chuckled. Why do you not deliver them yourself?
Ye Chu shook his head and said, Since more than three years ago, I have not been a member of the Ye family. Deliver these things to the old marquis.
Liang Shan sighed. There was nothing he could do about it. Back then when the old marquis knelt before the ancestral tablets and expelled Ye Chu, it had doomed that there was no turning back between Ye Chu and them.
But who knows whether the people of the Ye family marquis residence would regret their actions from back then…