Invincible Soul Emperor

Chapter 63: Chapter 63: The Martial Artist Breakthrough to the 6th Level

The Venerable was speechless.

In the time it took him to eat one chicken leg, the two people before him had finished the entire chicken?

It was just a single chicken leg. He hadn’t eaten his fill yet!

Seeing the Venerable staring blankly, Xiao Xiao couldn’t help but smile in embarrassment. ”Sorry, we’re used to gobbling our food down and forgot to leave any meat for you! Next time I make a roast chicken, you have to come and eat, haha!”

”Or, you could consider becoming the Young Master’s attendant. There would be plenty of opportunities to eat chicken then!”

The Venerable was taken aback.

Again? He suspected the young girl was trying to bait him into becoming her young master’s attendant with a single chicken leg.

An amused smile touched the Venerable’s lips at Xiao Xiao’s earnest expression. ”Well, I’ll think about it,” he said, not outright refusing the offer.

Seeing this, Ye Qingchen quickly spoke up.

”Xiao Xiao, stop this nonsense!”

The Venerable smiled faintly. It seems this Outer Sect disciple is somewhat perceptive. He’s probably guessed that my status is extraordinary.

However, Ye Qingchen’s next words made the smile on the Venerable’s face freeze.

”Outer Sect disciples are only allowed one attendant. Asking him to be my attendant would be a violation of the Sect’s rules! I’d have to apply to the Sect in advance!”

The Venerable turned his gaze to Ye Qingchen.

Does this kid want to take me on as well? This master and attendant duo seems rather unreliable... I really don’t know how this boy managed to obtain a Divine-Rank Technique.

”I appreciate the kind offer! I’ll take another chance to mooch a meal off you some other time!”

Having achieved his goal for the visit, the Venerable stood up and took his leave.

***

「Qingyun Sect, on the main peak where mountains soared into the clouds.」

This was the tallest mountain in the entire Qingyun Sect, and it was also the peak where the Sect Leader, Lin Qingfeng, resided.

At the highest point of the mountain range stood a towering structure, and in front of it lay a vast, man-made lake. The lake was filled with an endless expanse of green lotus leaves that seemed to stretch to the horizon.

A small boat rested among the lotus pads, a man in a bamboo hat seated within it. His eyes were closed as he fished, looking utterly content.

Suddenly, the calm surface of the lake rippled, and the man quickly pulled up his hook.

It emerged from the water, completely empty.

”Got away again. Tsk, tsk, what a pity!”

The man sighed. Just as he was about to cast his line again, a black-robed, middle-aged man suddenly appeared behind him.

”Sect Leader, you certainly know how to enjoy yourself!”

”I’m stuck at a bottleneck and can’t break through, so of course I need to clear my mind! What wind has blown you here today, that the great Venerable would seek me out personally?”

”I’ve come to tell you that someone has opened the barrier in the Transfer Technique Hall and taken the Divine-Rank Technique from within!”

”What!”

The man’s wrist shook uncontrollably. The fishing line he had just cast into the lake trembled, scaring away the small fish that had just taken the bait.

”Who opened it?”

As the Sect Leader of the Qingyun Sect, he had tried at least a dozen times to obtain the Divine-Rank Technique inside, but each attempt began with hope and ended in disappointment, with nothing to show for it. He knew full well how difficult it was to open that barrier of light.

Now, hearing that someone had opened the barrier and taken the Divine-Rank Technique, he, the Sect Leader, couldn’t keep his emotions from stirring violently.

”It was an Outer Sect disciple who just joined the Sect!”

”What! An Outer Sect disciple?”

Lin Qingfeng grew even more agitated.

”A mere Outer Sect disciple obtaining a Divine-Rank Technique is his fortune, but the Divine Wood Technique is incomplete! If he cultivates it, he could easily suffer a cultivation deviation! Venerable, why didn’t you stop him?”

”Since fate allowed him to obtain the Divine Wood Technique, why should we interfere? Besides, I’ve already made contact with him. If anything goes wrong with his cultivation of the Divine Wood Technique, I’ll be the first to know.”

Lin Qingfeng instantly changed his mind. ”I see!” he said with a smile. ”Since the Venerable has already made a decision, I naturally agree with it!”

The Venerable nodded. ”I didn’t come here to ask for your agreement. I came to remind you of the warning left by the ancestors of the Qingyun Sect: when a Divine-Rank Technique emerges, a great event is destined to befall the Sect. Seize the opportunity, and the Qingyun Sect could soar to the heavens. Otherwise, I fear annihilation will not be far off. Sect Leader, you must begin your preparations early!”

After speaking, the Venerable took a single step off the small boat.

The foot that seemed destined for the lake’s surface instead landed on the solid ground of the shore.

It was the art of Shrinking Earth Into Inches.

Watching the Venerable’s departing figure, Lin Qingfeng murmured to himself. An opportunity? Indeed, it’s time to start preparing.

***

「Inside Ye Qingchen’s room.」

Full from his meal, Ye Qingchen sat cross-legged.

I wonder what the effects of cultivating with the Divine Wood Technique will be?

With excitement in his heart, Ye Qingchen focused his mind and began to operate the Divine Wood Technique, performing a Circulation of Energy.

HUM!

As the Cultivation Technique activated, the surrounding nature’s spiritual energy seemed to be pulled by an invisible force, rapidly converging around Ye Qingchen’s body. In an instant, a vast, white Spiritual Fog appeared around him.

If any expert from the Qingyun Sect had been present, they would have been utterly astounded. This was a phenomenon that occurred only when a Cultivation Technique gathered the surrounding nature’s spiritual energy too quickly for the cultivator to absorb it, causing it to accumulate around the body.

After completing a Grand Circulation with the technique, Ye Qingchen’s eyes snapped open, his dark pupils brimming with irrepressible excitement.

His cultivation speed was now dozens of times faster than before.

The heaven-defying power of a Divine-Rank Technique was completely beyond his imagination.

And this was with the Divine Wood Technique still being incomplete! If he could fully repair the Divine Wood Technique one day, his cultivation speed would likely become even more terrifying.

What if I cultivate with the Divine Wood Technique while also supplementing it with an elixir?

At the thought, Ye Qingchen’s eyes lit up. He took out a porcelain bottle and tipped out an elixir. It was none other than the First-Grade Soul Condensing Pill provided to Outer Sect disciples by the Sect!

Swallowing the Soul Condensing Pill in one gulp, Ye Qingchen once again began cultivating with the Divine Wood Technique.

The surrounding nature’s spiritual energy once again atomized and gathered around him. At the same time, his sea of consciousness trembled as the medicinal power of the pill furiously nourished his two Martial Souls, increasing their Soul Power at a blistering rate.

The increase in Soul Power, in turn, promoted his body’s absorption of the surrounding nature’s spiritual energy.

The nature’s spiritual energy was converted into pure Spiritual Power that gathered in his Dantian, nurturing his Soul Power and every cell in his body.

Under this virtuous cycle, Ye Qingchen’s cultivation speed grew faster and faster, and his aura strengthened at an unbelievable pace.

「Two days later.」

As the last trace of the Soul Condensing Pill’s medicinal power vanished, Ye Qingchen’s Dantian suddenly trembled. It expanded significantly and became much more solid, its capacity having increased by a large margin as well.

His eyes snapped open. He slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, his dark pupils shining with excitement.

”I’ve reached the Sixth Layer of the Martial Artist realm!”

The further a Martial Artist progressed in their cultivation, the more difficult breakthroughs became, and the longer they took.

But under the combined effects of the Divine Wood Technique and the Soul Condensing Pill, he had taken only two days to break through from the Fifth Layer of the Martial Artist realm to the Sixth Layer.

The speed of his power increase was simply incomparable to before.