Everyone assumed the hunt for Ye Chu had reached its end, that the curtain was about to fall.
Bai Xin and Bai Rou thought for a moment, then ordered someone to dig a pit, preparing to bury Ye Chu. However, that desolate atmosphere still lingered, making it impossible to approach him. Bai Xin and Bai Rou waited. Ye Chu was already dead, so this desolate atmosphere would surely fade away sooner or later.
But the result made them frown. They waited for a long time, yet the desolate atmosphere did not disappear. Instead, it grew stronger and stronger. The Flame Fire Sha on Ye Chu’s hand continuously seeped into his body.
“What is going on?” Bai Xin and Bai Rou found it hard to understand, staring fixedly in Ye Chu’s direction.
Ye Chu, who was in the centre of it all, suddenly underwent a strange transformation. The Flame Fire Sha continuously merged into his body. As it merged, Ye Chu, who had originally stopped breathing, actually showed faint signs of life again. Although this breath was so weak it was nearly invisible, who were Bai Xin and Bai Rou? As King-level experts, they could detect it completely.
“He’s not dead yet?” Bai Xin and Bai Rou exchanged glances, both seeing the astonishment in each other’s eyes.
Ye Chu’s breath in the centre grew stronger and stronger. Although his skin still looked like old, withered leather, his breathing gradually steadied. The Sha qi continuously seeped into Ye Chu’s body. Instead of extinguishing his life force as everyone had imagined, it replenished his vitality. The more he absorbed, the stronger and more powerful Ye Chu’s breathing became.
“Bloody hell!” One cultivator could not help but curse. Sha qi was supposed to destroy life force, yet here it was replenishing a cultivator’s vitality. If that was not bloody hell, what was? Even Sha Spirit Masters could not use Sha qi to replenish life force.
“Is this kid human or ghost?” Another cultivator cursed. The scene before them overturned their understanding. A person who had stopped breathing had actually come back to life. This would not be surprising if it were a powerhouse who had reached the level of seizing the creation of heaven and earth, but Ye Chu was merely an Xuan Ming Realm cultivator.
Ye Chu naturally had no idea of the shock he was causing those around him. At this moment, he was still absorbing Sha qi. The Sha qi sank into every single one of Ye Chu’s orifices, then transformed into vibrant, life-filled spiritual energy, continuously surging into Ye Chu’s Qi Sea.
The technique of Yin-Yang conversion to transform Sha Spirits, this was something only Ye Chu’s physique could utilise. The Sha qi also seeped into Ye Chu’s Yuan Spirit, seeping into the Supreme Will.
Stimulated by the Sha qi, the Supreme Will grew stronger once more. The surrounding desolation became even more dominant. As it swept out, the vitality of the vegetation around Ye Chu was extinguished, beginning to wither.
Bai Xin and Bai Rou stood far away, yet they were still affected, forcing them to retreat once again.
Ye Chu’s entire mind and spirit were within his Yuan Spirit. The Sha qi invaded his Yuan Spirit. Ye Chu’s physique was special, so the Sha qi could not harm his body, nor could it harm his Yuan Spirit.
Instead, it became a nourishing force, merging into Ye Chu’s Yuan Spirit, causing it to grow stronger. Ye Chu also felt that the Supreme Will was growing stronger under the stimulation of the Sha qi.
However, Supreme cultivators could also have their life force extinguished by Sha qi. Of course, if a Supreme were powerful enough to a certain degree, they could directly absorb and refine Sha qi.
But the Supreme Will that Ye Chu currently possessed was not yet strong enough, and the Flame Fire Sha posed a deterrent to it. The Sha qi could not extinguish the Supreme Will, but it could isolate the Supreme Will’s invasion and prevent it from causing Ye Chu’s Yuan Spirit to lose itself.
The Sha qi surged onto the Green Lotus. The Green Lotus’s light trembled, becoming stained with the aura of Sha qi, carrying the scorching intent of the Flame Fire Sha.
The Supreme Will was gradually growing stronger, but after the Sha qi merged into the Yuan Spirit, its effect of causing loss of self was greatly suppressed. Ye Chu gradually regained clarity. Ye Chu’s Yuan Spirit had also grown stronger because of the loss of self.
The Yuan Spirit and the Supreme Will were growing stronger simultaneously, complementing and stimulating each other, gradually becoming more powerful.
If not for the fact that the Supreme Will could cause him to lose himself, this would absolutely be a great opportunity, enough to make Yuan Spirit cultivation a hundred times easier. But precisely because it could cause loss of self, every time the Yuan Spirit increased, the Supreme Would would also grow stronger, making the loss of self even more terrifying when it occurred.
The effect of the Sha qi was extraordinary. For Ye Chu, it was a great tonic, but for the Supreme Will, it could play a suppressing role. With the help of the Sha qi, Ye Chu’s extinguished life force began to recover once more.
The Flame Fire Sha continuously merged into Ye Chu’s body. Ye Chu’s aura was increasing. The power transformed from the Flame Fire Sha continuously merged into Ye Chu’s body, and Ye Chu’s strength was rising frantically.
The spiritual energy transformed from the Flame Fire Sha was incredibly dense, far more profound than the spiritual energy stirred up by the Green Origin Pills. For Ye Chu, this was the best spiritual elixir.
Within the Qi Sea, the Sha qi was also converted into Coloured Pattern Sha qi. The Coloured Pattern Sha qi was of extraordinary grade, and with the Fire Ice King acting as its spirit, it could autonomously absorb external power and transform it into Coloured Pattern Sha qi. For Sha qi, it was even more capable of absorbing and refining it.
The increase in strength was not unexpected for Ye Chu, because he knew that Sha objects were great tonics for him. What surprised Ye Chu was that when the Sha qi seeped into the Yuan Spirit, the Supreme Will seemed to have been slashed by a blade. Although the Supreme Will was growing stronger, its power to cause loss of self had decreased.
The Green Lotus was also stained with Sha qi. Originally glowing with green light, carrying a vibrant vitality that warmed all things, the Green Lotus now carried a scorching, extinguishing aura. It was as if a layer of thorns had been added to the Green Lotus!
Ye Chu’s Yuan Spirit was transforming. During this transformation, the Supreme Will was affected and became even stronger, with strange flowers flashing into existence. As these flowers flashed, Ye Chu sensed a strange aura.
This aura was extremely desolate and bitter. If not for the violent, extinguishing aura brought by the Sha qi, which masked the negative emotions brought by the seal, Ye Chu would have lost himself once again.
The Sha qi was indeed effective against the Supreme Will. Just as Ruo Shui had said, the Sha qi combined with the Fu Sheng Palace clan pattern produced extraordinary effects and could suppress the Supreme Will’s loss of self.
Ye Chu maintained absolute rationality. His body was under his control, no longer extinguishing his own life force. The seal manifested by the Supreme Will flashed, and the strange bitterness caused Ye Chu’s mind and spirit to merge into it.
Ye Chu felt that if the Supreme Will truly held a secret, even an esoteric principle within it, then this flashing seal was absolutely a suspect worth investigating.
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Ye Chu sat cross-legged there. The desolate, bitter atmosphere around him grew thicker and thicker, forcing Bai Xin, Bai Rou, and the others to retreat again and again. They could not endure this desolate, bitter aura, because as soon as they drew near, they could not help but feel grief well up in their hearts, tears forming in their eyes. Most importantly, they felt the urge to end their own lives.
At the same time, they witnessed a bizarre scene. Ye Chu, who had just extinguished his life force, whose blood and qi had withered, and whose skin had looked like the bark of an old tree, suddenly saw his blood and qi growing stronger and stronger. The crisscrossing wrinkles of age began to slowly smooth out, and he once again recovered his fair, rosy complexion.
Watching this scene, everyone found it utterly bizarre. It was not impossible for a person whose longevity had reached its end to be reborn, as long as they could seize the creation of heaven and earth, extending their life by another thousand years would not be too great a problem. But how difficult was it to seize creation? Even peerless experts found it nearly impossible to defy heaven and change their fate when their longevity was nearing its end. What gave Ye Chu the right to accomplish this?