Immortality Starts With Investment

Save me some face? You’re a real nice guy, aren’t you?

Ye Chen could tell Yao Gu wasn’t all bad. Just a bit dim-witted and prone to getting cocky. Being ordinary wasn’t a fault. Confidence wasn’t either. Ordinary and confident? Perfectly reasonable. But arrogance? That’s where he crossed the line.

Ye Chen didn’t rush to act. Instead, he asked, puzzled, ”I took down the Heavenly Intention Holy Son’s incarnation. You really think you’re stronger than that? Besides, you’re not the only one who’s broken through. I’m at late Nascent Soul now—two minor realms ahead. With my Heavy Pupils, what makes you think you can take me?”

Ye Chen genuinely couldn’t wrap his head around it. Normally, he wasn’t one for chatter, but he couldn’t help asking a few more questions.

Yao Gu smirked, brimming with self-assurance. ”Nascent Soul, whether early or late, is still Nascent Soul. Deity Transformation is a different beast. My nascent soul transforms into a divine soul, awakening the Heaven and Earth Manifestation divine ability.

”Deity Transformation cultivators aren’t even in the same league as Nascent Soul ones. Your Heavy Pupils are impressive, sure, but they’re not invincible. My clan’s Void Immortal Scripture has techniques to counter them.

”As a Yao, do you think I’d let the same trick beat me twice? As for the Holy Son’s incarnation? Just a wisp of divine will. It didn’t even have the Heaven and Earth Manifestation. How strong could it be? If it were me, I’d have handled it with ease.”

Ye Chen: ”…”

Logical, convincing, and hard to argue with. If it were anyone else, Yao Gu’s words might hold water. Too bad he was up against Ye Chen.

With no counterargument, Ye Chen didn’t bother talking. A beating would do the trick. Chaos qi radiated from his eyes, flooding the surroundings.

In an instant, a pure land formed around Yao Gu, enveloping him completely.

Yao Gu sneered. ”Asking for trouble! I didn’t want to step on you to climb higher, but since you’re begging for it, don’t blame me for crushing you.”

Boom!

The shadowy figure behind Yao Gu materialized, turning from illusion to reality. The void around it began to collapse. A terrifying aura flowed like something tangible. It was as if an ancient immortal, hundreds of meters tall, was awakening to descend upon this world.

This was the Heaven and Earth Manifestation. This was what made Deity Transformation cultivators truly fearsome. The Heaven and Earth Manifestation, powered by the divine soul, harnessed the forces of heaven and earth to create an overwhelmingly terrifying entity. Its appearance multiplied a cultivator’s destructive power exponentially.

As the shadowy figure solidified, it held an array diagram—Yao Gu’s Nascent Soul phenomenon. With his breakthrough to Deity Transformation, it too had turned from illusion to reality, growing even more formidable.

Yao Gu’s Heaven and Earth Manifestation brandished the array diagram, unleashing beams of divine light, each capable of obliterating a peak Nascent Soul cultivator. He aimed to shatter the pure land created by Ye Chen’s Heavy Pupils.

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Yao Gu laughed maniacally, waiting for the pure land to crack. He was ready to crow to Ye Chen: Heavy Pupils? So what? I, Yao Gu, bow to no one!

But in the next moment, Yao Gu fell silent. His divine light barraged the edges of the pure land, yet the chaos qi swirled and neutralized every blow. The void-shattering power of his array diagram was rendered useless within this pure land. Yao Gu panicked.

Ye Chen, meanwhile, had seen enough. Deity Transformation did have some tricks up its sleeve. This Heaven and Earth Manifestation? It reminded him of piloting a giant mecha from some anime in his past life. Pretty impressive.

But Yao Gu? He was just too weak. It felt like a waste to even use his Heavy Pupils on him.

Ye Chen transformed into a Kun Peng, instantly entering the pure land. With a wave of his hand, several true dragons materialized.

Yao Gu snorted coldly. ”Can’t break your Heavy Pupils? Fine, I’ll still crush you!”

He positioned himself at the brow of his Heaven and Earth Manifestation manifestation and clashed with Ye Chen, intent on teaching him a lesson. With a sweep of his massive hand, he shattered all the true dragons. But the moment they collided, the colossal Heaven and Earth Manifestation staggered, nearly toppled by the impact.

Yao Gu couldn’t believe it. Why were Ye Chen’s True Dragon Treasure Technique so much stronger than before?

And soon, his shock deepened. It wasn’t just the True Dragon Treasure Technique that had grown more formidable. The True Phoenix and Kunpeng Treasure Techniques Ye Chen had used before were now even more terrifying. Their mystical power made Yao Gu feel as if he were battling ancient mythical beasts. The pressure was immense. How had Ye Chen’s Ten Vicious Treasure Techniques progressed so rapidly? It felt like it was nearing major completion.

”How the hell did Ye the Fourth train the Ten Vicious Treasure Techniques? Did the Vicious Ten themselves show up to tutor him?”

What frustrated Yao Gu most was Ye Chen’s occasional blasts of mysterious lightning.

The lightning was terrifying, piercing straight through his Heaven and Earth Manifestation and striking his true body. His defensive techniques couldn’t fully block it. Even a sliver of lightning that slipped through left him scorched and rattled. If his physical body weren’t so robust, he wouldn’t have withstood it. Even so, his body trembled now and then.

Since when did Ye Chen master lightning techniques?

Yao Gu was starting to panic. Had he been too arrogant earlier? Ye Chen was, after all, his Holy Maiden’s partner—practically family. He should’ve been more polite. But the panic was fleeting.

Yao Gu quickly regained his confidence. He was in the Deity Transformation stage, his divine soul linked to the heavens, his spiritual power recovery far surpassing Ye Chen’s Nascent Soul capabilities.

Ye Chen’s Ten Vicious Treasure Techniques was powerful, but they had to be spiritual power-intensive. In a prolonged fight, Ye Chen would never outlast him.

Ye Chen’s Kun Peng speed kept him untouchable. But so what? Yao Gu could afford a hundred mistakes. Ye Chen only needed to slip up once to be suppressed. The advantage was his!

Soon, Yao Gu seized his chance. From his brow, he unleashed a Void Flower, its nine-colored divine light surging, briefly freezing Ye Chen’s movements.

In that same instant, the Heaven and Earth Manifestation beneath Yao Gu threw a blazing punch, its fiery light threatening to split the world in two.

Ye Chen, momentarily stalled by the Void Flower, took the full brunt of the blow.

A grin spread across Yao Gu’s face. The fight was over. He hadn’t gone all out, but that punch carried eighty percent of his strength—enough to leave Ye Chen gravely injured.

But in the next moment, Yao Gu’s expression froze. His Void-Splitting Dual Realms Fist had been blocked. This was a supreme technique from the Void Immortal Scripture!

Yet Ye Chen, with arms braced in front of him, hadn’t even been knocked back. He stood there, effortlessly blocking the strike. No matter how closely Yao Gu looked, he couldn’t find a single injury on Ye Chen’s body. Forget coughing up blood—there wasn’t even a noticeable mark on his arms!

What was going on? Ye Chen’s been training a top-tier body refinement technique too? His physical body is this strong now? This was absurd!

In that moment, Yao Gu’s inflated ego deflated rapidly.

A stiff, awkward smile spread across his face. ”Brother-in-law, I was just kidding earlier. My sister’s doing great in the Yao family. As for the chariot, forget the compensation! We’re family—who cares about small stuff like that? Brother-in-law, calm down!”