Tan Miaotong’s initiative in kissing him was something Ye Chu often savoured in memory. That feeling was truly wonderful. Ye Chu also found it somewhat hard to believe that this charming girl would take the initiative like that.
His intimacy with Tan Miaotong lingered in his mind, a sensation that stirred the soul and made one itch.
“Hey! Back to reality? Thinking of harming which woman again?” Shuigu’s voice interrupted Ye Chu’s recollection of that kiss. He walked over to Ye Chu with drunken, swaying steps, collapsed onto the boulder beside Ye Chu and let out a yawn.
“At this moment you have reached the ninth level of the Profound Origin Realm, one step away from breaking through to the Sovereign level. Found your opportunity yet?” Shuigu asked Ye Chu.
“What, you are going to help me find an opportunity?” Ye Chu rolled his eyes at Shuigu.
Shuigu yawned repeatedly, staring at Ye Chu with contempt. “You think I want to? If not for Old Madman sending me to give you some pointers, I would rather face Golden Doll than see you. Since you do not want to listen, I shall leave then.”
“Don’t go. You sleep all day every day. Even if you yourself are not worried about sleeping away one day, I am worried you might sleep away one day.” Ye Chu said, “Well, since you are here, show me your crooked ways. Although this young master has no interest in your crooked ways, listening to them as stories is not bad either.”
Ye Chu’s provoking words made Shuigu yawn even more, completely losing interest in continuing the discussion with him.
This attitude naturally would not defeat Ye Chu. “If you have nothing to teach, then forget it. Anyway, when Old Madman comes out, I can continue asking him.”
“Do not put on that indifferent expression. Another purpose of your return this time is wanting to break through the Profound Origin Realm. Do not think I do not know.” Shuigu looked at Ye Chu disdainfully, then said, “Breaking through the Profound Origin Realm is very simple. Even this young master can help you. But people of Heartless Peak do not walk ordinary paths.” Shuigu said, “If you enter the Sovereign level through ordinary means, it would merely be of common grade, wasting your physical constitution.”
“Constitution?” Ye Chu muttered discontentedly. “Although I discovered I am not afraid of baleful energy, there is nothing to be happy about. Although baleful energy in this world is not scarce, what I can truly utilise is hard to find.”
Ye Chu becoming a baleful spirit master naturally meant he had some understanding of baleful energy. Back then there had been the patterned baleful spider, but it had disappeared after devouring Cold Fire Sovereign. To find such baleful energy again would be extremely difficult.
Thinking of this, Ye Chu felt particularly regretful. Because if at that time he had become a baleful spirit master at the Baleful Spirit Pavilion, he could have completely controlled and utilised that patterned baleful spider. His strength would have absolutely skyrocketed.
“The world is vast beyond measure. The places you have walked are merely the tip of the iceberg, not even a corner. Sooner or later you will encounter extraordinary baleful energy.” Shuigu said.
“That is who knows how many years away. If I do not encounter any for ten or eight years, then I never enter the Sovereign level?” Ye Chu glanced at Shuigu unhappily.
“Of course not. Although your constitution is special, it is not your only path to enter the Sovereign level. Your path is very broad. It is just a matter of whether you have the ability.” Shuigu paused here, then continued, “What is important in a person’s cultivation is cultivating one’s own intent, possessing one’s own principles and profound methods. At this moment your intent moves with your body, which is considered a decent realm. But this is for ordinary people. For true geniuses and outstanding figures from families with deep foundations, there is nothing to be proud of. Because they can rely on family foundations and bloodlines to quickly reach this level.”
“Then what do you mean?” Ye Chu asked.
“In Heartless Peak, apart from you and Xixi, everyone else has already entered the level of law, possessing their own principles and laws, profound ways.” Shuigu said, “For you to reach the Sovereign level is very simple. As long as you can comprehend and obtain your own principles and profound ways, entering the Sovereign level is effortless.”
“Profound way and principles?” Ye Chu stared at Shuigu wanting to curse out loud. How difficult was it for a cultivator to cultivate to this level of intent? Even among Sovereigns, even at the peak of Sovereign level, very few possessed it. Only those at higher levels could have such a realm. For himself, a King, wanting to reach this stage was impossibly difficult.
“What? Think you cannot do it?” Shuigu looked at Ye Chu and said, “Ou Yi entered this realm at the fifth level of King, Golden Doll at the fourth level. As for me, need I say more? You are already at the ninth level now. Is it hard to accomplish this?”
Ye Chu, who was preparing to curse Shuigu, abruptly stopped, staring blankly at Shuigu, thinking these three madmen could not possibly be this monstrous.
“In Heartless Peak, you are the most useless waste material.” Shuigu stared at Ye Chu disdainfully, his tone full of contempt. Only when saying this, a few moments of awkwardness flashed across Shuigu’s face.
What he said was indeed true. Several of them had entered the realm of their own profound ways and principles before the fifth level. But comparing the three of them to ordinary people would be too unfair. Because none of them were ordinary people. Each one had extraordinary origins. It would not be strange if they possessed profound methods and principles from birth.
Shuigu tried hard to stop himself from blushing, putting on a disdainful expression toward Ye Chu. “What? Still not confident?”
“If you few madmen can do it, I absolutely will not be inferior to you.” Ye Chu had clearly taken the bait, staring at Shuigu and saying, “But before that, should you not explain?”
Shuigu let out a hey laugh, thinking this kid indeed fell for this move. He would never admit he was inferior to the few of them. Everyone on Heartless Peak thought this way of themselves, because in their eyes, the others were all madmen. There was no reason he should not be equal to a madman.
“When intent is cultivated to a certain degree, it can condense into patterns. And patterns are the most fundamental things, conforming to the profound principles of heaven and earth. And the most profound patterns even contain the cultivator’s lifetime achievements within them. You possess the patterns of the Floating Life Palace. In fact that is a kind of way, the terrifying great way of that ancestor of the Floating Life Palace. If you could fully master it, you would absolutely grow to an unimaginable level. But this is impossible, because your realm is limited, unable to comprehend the laws represented within the patterns.” Shuigu said, “And you possess patterns, faintly having the embryonic form of law.”
“But you also said this is merely an embryonic form. It is a completely different distinction from true law, like the difference between a fledgling and a fierce eagle.” Ye Chu looked at Shuigu and said, “Can you tell me how to condense my own law?”
Shuigu did not respond to Ye Chu, but continued speaking, “Just as you said, if you can condense your own law, you can instantly transform from a fledgling into a fierce eagle. In this world you too can have a place of your own, truly walking into the continent and opening a new horizon. At this moment you are like viewing the world from a hill. When you reach that realm, it will be like viewing the world from a majestic peak. These are two completely different sensations.”