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Chapter 692 - 614: Feng Kuang’s Attempt

Chapter 692: Chapter 614: Feng Kuang’s Attempt

Early in the morning, as the first ray of dawn broke across the eastern and western horizons, cars and pedestrians began to appear on the streets, heralding the start of a new day.

In a bedroom within the Mingmen Club, as grand as a five-star hotel’s presidential suite, Ye Fan had already awakened. Yet, he did not engage in his usual cultivation practices. Instead, he propped his chin on one hand, gazing at Su Yuxin beside him.

Su Yuxin lay in Ye Fan’s arms like a little kitten. Her normally updone hair was now released, cascading like a waterfall and covering her sensually alluring collarbone beneath her pale neck. It draped over the uplifted snowy mounds of her chest, while a fair and straight leg restlessly pressed upon Ye Fan’s body, revealing her provocatively perky posterior, a sight irresistibly seducing.

Presented with such a tempting scene, Ye Fan had a normal man’s reaction but managed to control his desires with a strong will, making no further move. He simply watched the slumbering Su Yuxin in silence.

Gradually, under Ye Fan’s watchful gaze, Su Yuxin’s eyelashes trembled lightly twice before her eyes slowly opened, revealing a bewitching gaze filled with a slight daze, as if she was not fully awake from her dreams yet.

"Why didn’t you go practice?"

A few seconds later, Su Yuxin fully woke up, and, seeing Ye Fan so close by, she gently inquired.

After last night’s gathering ended, Ye Fan and she had stayed in a luxurious suite at the club.

The couple enjoyed their reunion more than a newly wedded pair, wrestling until late into the night until Su Yuxin, after reaching the peak of joy several times, fell asleep utterly exhausted.

"Today I decided to be lazy and relax a bit."

Ye Fan reached out his hand, gently brushed aside the hair obstructing Su Yuxin’s face, and said with a smile.

Hearing Ye Fan’s words and feeling his tender gesture, sweet warmth flooded Su Yuxin’s heart, spreading a blissful smile across her face.

She knew that Ye Fan was participating in the Hidden God List competition at the end of the year.

She also knew that Ye Fan had vowed to strive hard in his cultivation, determined to one day breakthrough that legendary realm first, command the masses, and eliminate the Qinghong Organization.

Knowing all this, she was acutely aware how precious time was for Ye Fan!

Ye Fan could not be like ordinary lovers, able to accompany her every day by her side.

And she did not wish for him to be so either.

Under such circumstances, Ye Fan choosing to be lazy one morning to be with her made her feel very contented and fortunate.

"I’m sorry, I probably won’t have time to be with you in the coming days."

Seeing the happy, content smile in Su Yuxin’s eyes, Ye Fan sighed in self-reproach, "Coming up, I need to..."

"I know."

Su Yuxin interrupted Ye Fan, then kissed his lips and sealed the rest of his words with a kiss. "We will also work hard on our cultivation."

"Alright."

Ye Fan nodded.

Since he, Su Liuli, and Situ Ruoshui were all focusing intensively on their cultivation in preparation for the end-of-year Hidden God List competition, Situ Ruoshui decided to become a disciple of the elder from the Yanhuang Organization to concentrate on cultivating magic, and Su Yuxin also decided to devote some energy to cultivation, apart from managing Tianshan Group.

Even Su Jindi was bound and determined to train hard and even talked about participating in the martial arts competition of Dong hai Foreign Language University Affiliated Foreign Language School and Affiliated Middle School of Tokyo University, to thrash the students of the American Alliance in Japan and elevate the prestige of the Hua Xia Cultivation World.

Clearly, Su Yuxin and the others, despite knowing they might never catch up to Ye Fan in their lifetimes, wanted to do their utmost to minimize the gap between them!

...

Although Ye Fan said he would be lazy for a day to be with Su Yuxin, she made an excuse to go to the Tianshan Group to handle business and prompted Ye Fan to attend to his affairs after they had lunch at noon.

Understanding Su Yuxin’s intentions, Ye Fan was as transparent as a mirror. Along with feeling self-reproach, he was even more moved by her gesture.

In addition to being touched, though he wanted to spend the afternoon with Su Yuxin, she insisted that he get busy with his matters.

Therefore, no longer playing the sentimentalist, after parting ways with Su Yuxin, he drove straight to the courtyard in Yanjing that belonged to Chu Ji—after Zhe Xuanji returned to Yanjing, he began his recovery and cultivation there, and he had the people from Du Sect send those twenty-five thousand Essence Stones over to the courtyard.

"Feeling good to be reunited after a small separation, isn’t it?"

As soon as Ye Fan entered the courtyard, Chu Ji stepped out of her room and looked meaningfully between Ye Fan’s legs.

"Where’s master?"

Ye Fan, already accustomed to Chu Ji’s teasing, neither blushed nor faltered, completely ignoring Chu Ji’s implications and deliberately changed the subject.

"Tsk tsk, you’ve learned to shift topics."

Chu Ji pursed her lips; she wasn’t foolish—Zhe Xuanji was right there cultivating in the room, and Ye Fan could certainly sense Zhe Xuanji’s presence.

"——"

With his thoughts laid bare, Ye Fan suddenly found himself at a loss for words.

"Alright, I’ll stop teasing you. The twenty-five thousand Essence Stones from Du Sect have arrived. With these stones, you might just be able to break through to the Gang Qi Introduction Realm in one go!"

Chu Ji spoke, showing an expression of anticipation.

She wanted to see just how powerful Ye Fan would become after breaking through to the Gang Qi Introduction Realm.

"I’m not in a hurry to break through, so let’s save those Essence Stones for Master to recover his strength," Ye Fan shook his head and said, "Where are the Essence Stones? I’ll take them to Master."

"Do you think Master would accept them?" Chu Ji gave a wry smile.

Twenty-five thousand Essence Stones, even among the ancient cultivation families, amounted to a huge fortune that could drive a strong person in the Gang Qi Realm mad.

She had no doubt that Ye Fan would give all the Essence Stones to Zhe Xuanji so that Zhe Xuanji could absorb the Heaven and Earth Essence and recover his strength, but she also knew that Zhe Xuanji would absolutely not accept them!

"Keep the Essence Stones for breaking through the realm. You don’t have to worry about me," Zhe Xuanji said.

As expected, right after Chu Ji finished speaking, Zhe Xuanji walked out of the room and refused Ye Fan’s kind offer.

"Master, the urgent task at hand requires you to recover your strength as soon as possible to deal with Chen Daozang alongside Master Yan..." Ye Fan was getting anxious.

"Chen Daozang is cunning and meticulous. After being injured by my burning Gang Qi at Tian Shan Sword Sect, he will most likely find a secret base to heal and only reappear when his strength has reached a new level—even Master Yan’s entire Yanhuang Organization’s intelligence network won’t be able to locate him," explained Zhe Xuanji, interrupting Ye Fan.

"As such, there’s no need for me to rush my recovery. It is you who must break through your realm quickly and strengthen yourself for the upcoming Hidden God List competition at the end of the year. Only then can you ensure a sweeping victory over all contestants."

"But..."

"Alright, Xiao Fan, no need to keep trying. With Master’s personality, he is absolutely not going to accept your Essence Stones," Chu Ji interjected, cutting off Ye Fan once again.

Ye Fan wanted to say more but sighed and closed his mouth upon hearing Chu Ji’s words.

Clearly, he also knew that what Chu Ji said was true. Zhe Xuanji had always been proud and solitary, and the fact that he did not provide Essence Stones and Magic Artifacts for Ye Fan’s cultivation, which he already felt guilty about, meant he surely would not ask for Ye Fan’s Essence Stones in return.

Seeing Ye Fan fall silent, Zhe Xuanji said nothing more and turned back to his room while Chu Ji took Ye Fan through a Formation laid out by Zhe Xuanji, leading him to the storage room.

In the center of the storage room, there were nine large black bags arranged according to nine different positions, emanating rich Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi. The Qi did not disperse but concentrated in the middle of the nine bags.

Nine Star Gathering Spirit Array!

At a glance, Ye Fan recognized that the nine black bags full of Essence Stones were being used as Array Eyes to lay out a Nine Star Gathering Spirit Array, which, unlike ordinary Spirit Gathering Arrays, had some slight alterations to it.

"This array was set up by Master to assist you. As long as you step into the array, you can absorb the Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi within the Essence Stones," explained Chu Ji.

"Once you stop cultivating and leave the array, the Primordial Qi within the Essence Stones will stop leaking out," she added.

Feeling a surge of emotion, Ye Fan remained silent.

Ever since he learned about the events of the past, he knew that Zhe Xuanji had not been providing him with the necessaries for cultivation, not only because of an independent nature but also because Zhe Xuanji wanted to cultivate his ability to survive on his own.

Now, Zhe Xuanji’s actions were clearly due to a feeling of remorse, looking to offer Ye Fan the most significant help within his power!

"Begin your closed-door cultivation," said Chu Ji, seemingly understanding Ye Fan’s feelings and gently patting his shoulder before stepping out of the array.

"Whew~"

Ye Fan took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and stepped into the Nine Star Gathering Spirit Array.

As soon as he entered the array, Ye Fan was engulfed in the thick Primordial Qi, feeling incredibly comfortable.

Instead of rushing to cultivate, he opened one of the black bags. Inside, there were Essence Stones, each almost the size of a chicken egg, crystal clear, and shimmering like sparkling pearls.

"Going from Innate Great Perfection to the introduction of Gang Qi is a process of breaking and standing. The first thing you need to do is ’Transforming Force into Qi’, turning Gang Jin into a purer, higher-quality Gang Qi, and breaking through to the Half-step Gang Qi realm," Ye Fan reminded himself.

"In the process of breaking through to the Half-step Gang Qi realm, it is necessary to constantly compress Gang Jin and transform it into Gang Qi, and this requires control with the mind, making sure the Gang Jin does not go out of control and destroy the Dantian," he thought.

"Ordinarily, this step is challenging for a Pure Martial Artist but should be much easier for me. However, since cultivating the Nine Heavens Profound Skill, I have Power Seeds in all one hundred and eight acupoints in my body, and they are interconnected, forming a whole. Therefore, I need to simultaneously compress the Gang Jin in each of those Power Seeds, which makes it a hundred times more difficult than for other cultivators."

"Fortunately, I first broke through the Magic Cultivation to the Half-step Gang Qi realm, which increased my mental strength significantly, allowing me to control the Gang Jin in all one hundred and eight acupoints at the same time. Otherwise, breaking through to the Half-step Gang Qi realm in Martial Arts Cultivation would be no easy task."

With these thoughts in mind, Ye Fan sat cross-legged, his eyes and nose aligned, gathering his spirit and calming his Qi.

"Since that’s the case, let’s try to break through the introduction of Gang Qi in one go and achieve true unrivaled superiority in my generation!"

After reaching his optimal state, Ye Fan was struck with a wild idea and quickly entered into a meditation state.

The next moment.

The rich Primordial Qi from all directions surged towards him, engulfing Ye Fan completely.

Ye Fan began his first breakthrough cultivation since starting his training, aiming for consecutive breakthroughs and true peerless dominance!

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