Ye Chu sat there for three full days. In those three days, he completely absorbed the Flame Fire Sha. His blood and qi surged powerfully, full of vibrant life. There was not the slightest trace of old age about him. Compared to his previous peak condition, he was even more full of vitality.
The desolate, bitter atmosphere surrounding Ye Chu was incredibly dense, making people’s hearts tremble with fear. Yet Ye Chu stood there quietly, his expression calm. The entire person was utterly silent, extremely peaceful, carrying an aura of the heavens and earth encompassing all things.
This aura made Bai Xin and Bai Rou feel strange. At this moment, Ye Chu seemed to be in harmony with the heavens and earth. The spiritual energy around him autonomously merged into his body.
Amidst everyone’s confusion, seals began to appear one after another around Ye Chu. The seals seemed to grow from a sea of bitterness. Each one carried an incomparably desolate, bitter aura. When these seals appeared, the surrounding desolate atmosphere grew even thicker.
Such an aura made even Bai Xin and Bai Rou’s hearts tremble with fear. Only Ye Chu, sitting cross-legged there, showed no abnormalities whatsoever, his expression still indifferent.
Before Ye Chu, a Green Lotus slowly emerged. The Green Lotus carried an extremely strange rule. As its green light flickered, it gave people an extremely gentle, warm feeling, as if it truly nurtured the heavens and earth within it. As its light flowed, it gave people the illusion that a world of its own was forming there.
Bai Xin and Bai Rou were puzzled by this, but soon they became even more shocked. Because they saw that the seals, which had made them tremble with terror, were all branded onto the Green Lotus. The seals carrying infinite desolate, bitter aura sank into the Green Lotus. The Green Lotus remained silent and peaceful, still gentle and warm, like the source of all things. That heart-trembling bitterness did not affect its temperament in the slightest.
“Bloody hell! What kind of Will Pattern is this?” Bai Rou frowned. She had seen Ye Chu use the Green Lotus to oppose Bai Xin, and Bai Xin had suffered greatly under this move. She had already felt the Green Lotus was mysterious before, but now it was even more mysterious. It could so effortlessly merge with an aura of desolation bitter enough to cause even Kings to lose themselves. Its power and mystery needed no further explanation.
Ye Chu sat cross-legged there, still showing no sorrow or joy, as if he had entered a state of Buddhahood. But more and more seals emerged around him, and more and more seals merged into the Green Lotus.
This situation continued for a long time. A full day passed before the seals stopped appearing. Ye Chu’s Green Lotus slowly merged back into himself. At this moment, Ye Chu suddenly opened his eyes. There was a sharp gleam flashing within them. The gleam was like a sharp sword, shooting towards a withered great tree beside him. The tree collapsed with a thunderous crash.
In an instant, both Ye Chu’s Green Lotus and the desolate, bitter aura instantly vanished. Ye Chu stood up. The entire person was utterly silent, no different from an ordinary person.
Bai Xin and Bai Rou examined him carefully. They truly could not detect the slightest abnormality in Ye Chu. Ye Chu stood there, no different from an ordinary person in the slightest. If they had not witnessed Ye Chu’s strength before, they would really have taken him for someone without any cultivation.
“How can this be?” Bai Xin and Bai Rou could not believe it. This was too inconceivable. As Kings, their strength far surpassed Ye Chu’s. Although they might not be able to completely see through Ye Chu’s strength, it should not be difficult to detect something. Yet now they could detect nothing at all. Ye Chu was as calm as a spring lake, so ordinary it made people click their tongues in amazement.
For Ye Chu, the most ordinary represented the least ordinary. Bai Xin understood this principle very well. She just did not know what kind of transformation Ye Chu had experienced.
Ye Chu stood there, looking at the vegetation around him whose life force had been extinguished. He muttered to himself, “Is this the secret of the Supreme Will? I have only unlocked a small portion of it, yet it possesses such power. If it were fully unlocked, how terrifying would it be? Could I even withstand it? I’m afraid I really would lose myself!”
Ye Chu had not expected it would be this kind of situation. Only by losing oneself could one excavate the secrets of the Supreme Will. Ye Chu had lost himself once before, but at that time he had no rationality. The seal had appeared briefly like a flash in the pan. Ruo Shui had told him about it afterwards, but Ye Chu had not paid it much mind.
What Ye Chu had not expected was that that single instance of losing himself had left a brand upon him. This time, losing himself again, the brand reappeared and deepened simultaneously.
Possessing rationality, he could use his mind and spirit to comprehend the seal. Ye Chu’s Yuan Spirit was extraordinary, and his comprehension was astonishing. But relying solely on these two points, it was still difficult to excavate the secrets within.
But Ye Chu possessed two supreme treasures, the Black Iron and the Chaos Green Essence. Together with the Fu Sheng Palace clan pattern and the Ancient Nightmare Forbidden Ground pattern, they all exerted their power. Combined with Ye Chu’s powerful comprehension, he finally comprehended a trace of the Supreme Will’s true intent.
This was an unreplicable opportunity, because no one could possess both Chaos Green Essence and Black Iron, along with two mysterious patterns, all fused within one body. Nor did anyone possess the comprehension of someone who had lived two lives like Ye Chu, let alone a body that could treat Sha qi as a tonic.
Only with all of these factors working together could enlightenment be achieved.
“The Supreme Will truly requires losing oneself to comprehend. The more times one loses oneself, the deeper the comprehension.” Ye Chu smiled bitterly. Each time he lost himself meant he might extinguish his own life force, fraught with extreme danger.
Ye Chu had lost himself twice. Both times, he had nearly died. If he were to lose himself again, who could guarantee he would survive?
But now that he had comprehended a trace of the Supreme Will’s true intent, that loss of self was inevitable.
Ye Chu finally understood why the old madman said to walk one’s own path, and also said that if one kept growing stronger, it would be a situation of nine deaths and one life. Ye Chu now understood, because the secret of the Supreme Will told him that nine deaths and one life counted as lucky. Walking this path to the end was nearly certain death.
The Green Lotus was extraordinary, bringing Ye Chu traces of cool, refreshing sensation. Because of the Chaos Green Essence, Ye Chu’s degree of harmony with the heavens and earth was extremely high. Naturally, he could conceal all of his own aura. Ordinary cultivators looking at him would see an ordinary person, at most feeling he was somewhat transcendent.
Three days of comprehension. The gains were too great, greater than Ye Chu had imagined.
Exhaling lightly, Ye Chu turned his gaze towards Bai Xin, Bai Rou, and the others. This was a huge trouble. He had tormented them back then, so they definitely hated him to the extreme.
Ye Chu’s gaze could not help but sweep across Bai Xin’s tall, sensual chest. He thought to himself, this woman’s soft flesh in front of her chest really had excellent texture.
Bai Xin also detected Ye Chu’s lecherous gaze. Her expression instantly turned ashen. She said to a cultivator beside her, “Go see what is strange about him!”
Bai Xin was unwilling to act personally, because she feared repeating her previous fate. She had a shadow over what had happened that day. At this moment, Ye Chu was also extremely strange. She was unwilling to take risks.
The cultivator beside her was precisely the fifth level Xuan Ming Realm expert who had ambushed Ye Chu before. Although he was also astonished by Ye Chu’s current state, he had no choice but to obey Bai Xin’s command. His figure flashed rapidly, erupting with his strongest power, drawing upon the essence of the sun and moon. A palm struck straight towards Ye Chu.
This attack employed his strongest strike. He thought that even if such an attack could not defeat Ye Chu, it should be enough to give Ye Chu a headache.
Watching the other’s killing strike thunder towards him, Ye Chu smiled, revealing his pearly white teeth. His palm rose lightly, without any terrifying momentum. There was only a single seal. As this seal emerged, the surrounding area once again surged with a desolate, bitter aura. A palm directly landed on the cultivator’s body.
The previously surging howl of the wind instantly returned to calm. The silence was suffocating. Everyone swallowed their saliva, staring fixedly ahead, their eyes widened to an enormous size, a chill rushing straight from the soles of their feet to their minds.