King of Creation
Chapter 409 - 403 Bloodline Fluctuation

Chapter 409: Chapter 403 Bloodline Fluctuation

When she was there, you might not have felt a strong sense of longing, even if you traveled thousands of miles and were gone for months or half a year. You might have missed her, thought of her every day, but it would never be a constant yearning.

Not to the point where the longing hurts your heart!

Because no matter how far away you were, you knew deep down that she would be there once you returned.

But when you know that she’s gone for good, with no set date for her return, let alone for months or half a year, even a few days become unbearable.

That was how Ye Zhen felt right now.

All along, Caiyi hadn’t been a particularly prominent presence by Ye Zhen’s side. Even when he returned to Fairy Peak, Caiyi would always appear before him at the right time.

She never clung to Ye Zhen, begging him to take her on outings or to do certain tasks—that just wasn’t Caiyi.

Ye Zhen had thought that Caiyi’s departure wouldn’t cause an unbearable impact on his life.

But he realized he was wrong.

You only know you’re not used to it once they’ve left.

At Fairy Peak, after each silent cultivation session, Caiyi would always serve him a bowl of Ning Shen Jade Liquid.

That was still the case now.

Caiyi’s personal maid, Xiangcao, would bring Ye Zhen a bowl of Ning Shen Jade Liquid after his silent cultivation, following Caiyi’s instructions.

According to Xiangcao, Caiyi had given her a storage ring filled with more than five hundred bottles of Ning Shen Jade Liquid, which would last for more than a year even if Ye Zhen stayed at Qiyun Sect.

But still, he wasn’t used to it.

The Ning Shen Jade Liquid was the same, but the person was no longer Caiyi...

Including the cup of water after a day’s hard training, the freshly washed clothes placed at the bedside each night, the various mountain fruits after meals—it was all exactly as it had been when Caiyi was there.

What was different, though, was the person...

Suddenly, Ye Zhen realized that Caiyi filled his thoughts.

Ye Zhen knew that for a martial artist, this state of mind was not normal, a sign that a Heart Demon was forming and a step toward cultivation deviation.

But he couldn’t control it.

Over and over, Ye Zhen told himself he couldn’t go on like this, couldn’t keep pining like this, yet he found himself thinking about her involuntarily.

At that moment, Ye Zhen finally understood Caiyi’s predicament.

That feeling of not wanting to think about someone but being unable to help it.

The only solution Ye Zhen found was that if he devoted all his energy to cultivation, he could momentarily forget about Caiyi during those intense sessions.

And so, Ye Zhen began a round of almost frenzied cultivation.

By day, he practiced martial skills tirelessly, exerting every bit of his mind to comprehend the Three Styles of the Black Dragon Tyrant of Heaven.

Once fatigued from the Black Dragon Tyrant of Heaven, he would practice the Wind Cloud Sword Art and ponder the Floating Cloud Finger.

When Ye Zhen squeezed every bit of his physical strength dry, no matter the weather, he would collapse to the ground and start the grueling cultivation of the Red Jade Scripture, furiously tempering the Red Jade Battle Body.

For twelve hours each day, aside from the brief moments for eating and drinking, Ye Zhen would spend almost all his time cultivating.

Grueling training!

Self-inflicted grueling training.

In this masochistic regime, Ye Zhen’s cultivation progressed by leaps and bounds each day.

Almost every True Disciple, Sect Elders, and even some Spirit Summoning Realm disciples at Qiyun Sect could sense the ceaseless fluctuations of spiritual power from Fairy Peak.

In less than five days, Qiyun Sect Leader Guo Qijing personally came to visit Ye Zhen.

"Ye Zhen, if you keep up this continuous grueling training, in a few days, your body will completely collapse. You are draining your potential, and if this continues for a month, you’ll burn out," he warned.

"Ye Zhen, I understand that Caiyi’s departure has hit you hard..."

"Sect Leader, you don’t need to say more. In twenty-nine days, come see if I’ve burnt out yet!" Even with Sect Leader Guo Qijing’s presence, Ye Zhen did not stop cultivating.

"In twenty-nine days, have you gone mad?"

"Sect Leader, I’m not mad. I know exactly what I’m doing!"

Cultivating Ye Zhen was exceptionally calm, leaving Sect Leader Guo Qijing puzzled. And according to Guo Qijing’s senses, Ye Zhen, who had not slept for five days and nights, was in astonishingly good condition, certainly no worse than any True Disciple undergoing normal cultivation.

After standing in place for a long while, Sect Leader Guo Qijing left helplessly, but Ye Zhen’s punches never ceased for a moment.

Just as Ye Zhen had said, he wasn’t mad. He was very much aware of what he was doing.

Ye Zhen knew better than anyone that Caiyi wasn’t gone forever.

Caiyi had left because she didn’t want her Heart Demon to erupt and harm them.

What mattered most was that Caiyi would come back!

Right now, Ye Zhen simply couldn’t come to terms with Caiyi’s sudden departure.

As for his body, Ye Zhen held it in higher regard than anyone else did.

If Caiyi returned in a year or two to find a ruined Ye Zhen, it would be a colossal joke.

The reason Ye Zhen put himself through such intense and agonizing cultivation wasn’t just to restrain himself and prevent a Heart Demon from forming. His greatest confidence came from the Seven-Transition Soul Nourishing Technique.

The recovery secret technique he had obtained from Hua Wushuang, the direct heir of the Tiannan Hua Family—the Seven-Transition Soul Nourishing Technique.

This Seven-Transition Soul Nourishing Secret Technique, though named a soul-nourishing technique, primarily serves to rapidly recover depleted or injured divine souls.

However, while restoring divine soul power, it is also extremely powerful in healing the flesh, almost rivaling the recovery of divine soul power.

As is well known, due to the unique nature of divine soul power, there are few elixirs that can quickly restore it. Even the Ning Shen Jade Liquid only speeds up the recovery process instead of directly restoring soul power.

The best way to restore divine soul power is through sleep.

The Seven-Transition Soul Nourishing Secret Technique, however, induces a deep, womb-like sleep across the five internal organs and six hollow organs, bones, and muscles of the entire body through a specific breathing frequency.

It brings the entire body into an extremely natural and innate state.

Just like a fetus in the womb, growing from nothing to something, though asleep, every part of the body radiates with vigorous vitality, blooming unknowingly.

In such a state, a martial artist’s ability to recover skyrockets several times over, even up to ten or dozens of times more potent.

With Ye Zhen’s current condition, he can only manage up to the Fourth Transition, barely the Fifth Transition. But the recovery effect has already reached twelve times that of normal rest.

In other words, Ye Zhen now by sleeping for two hours, equates to other martial artists sleeping for an entire day. Normally, a martial artist of Ye Zhen’s cultivation would only need to rest for four hours a day to be in their peak condition.

Yet with just an hour of entering this state through the Seven-Transition Soul Nourishing Secret Technique, Ye Zhen can recover to peak condition.

So, even though Ye Zhen continues with this self-torturous intense training, his physical condition remains without any issues.

Furthermore, as Ye Zhen got increasingly proficient with the Seven-Transition Soul Nourishing Secret Technique, it wouldn’t take long for him to reach the Sixth Transition or even the Seventh Transition of Inner Breath.

In a state of Seventh Transition’s recovery, the ability to recuperate would be thirty times that of an ordinary martial artist!

Sometimes, cultivation is like forging steel from iron!

A large block of iron, if you wish to hammer it into hundred-refined fine gold, striking it ten thousand times a day, might need to continue for two months or even longer.

But if you can strike it fifty thousand times a day, it might only take six or seven days.

The same is true of cultivation.

With accumulated madness, such a qualitative change is triggered.

Normally, for any martial artist, the Spirit Transformation Realm is an extremely time-consuming stage.

Previous stages, such as the Spirit Summoning Realm and the True Essence Realm, might be advanceable with a single rare elixir.

But not the Spirit Transformation Realm.

Even in Ye Zhen’s current situation, where he almost enjoys the unlimited supply of cultivation resources like the children of a noble family, it requires a process.

No matter how abundant or precious the cultivation resources are, they can only shorten this period of cultivation, never achieving instantaneous success.

Normally, an average martial artist breaking through from the Second Stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm to the Third Stage, the Organ Transformation Realm, at the fastest, would need at least two years.

Some genius martial artists could shorten this to a year and a half.

Those geniuses with unlimited cultivation resources could potentially reduce the time to a year.

A year is already the limit.

According to the records of Qiyun Sect, even the founding ancestor, who cultivated the fastest, took a year and a month to break through from the Second Stage of Bone Transformation to the Third Stage of Organ Transformation in Spirit Transformation Realm.

However, when the crackling sound of Ye Zhen’s bones ringing like thunder was transmitted from Fairy Peak, the Qiyun Sect Leader and the many elders, who were silently monitoring Ye Zhen’s condition, were all shocked.

Less than nine months, not even a full nine months!

Compared to this period, which had already numbed the elders of Qiyun Sect to other disciples’ surprising breakthroughs, Ye Zhen’s leap from the Second Stage of Spirit Transformation Realm to the Third Stage in less than nine months truly shocked them.

But there was no envy!

Only curiosity!

If their disciples could also endure this sort of harsh training for nearly a month like Ye Zhen, perhaps their cultivation could make another leap, stunning them once again.

However, in most cases, before the breakthrough could happen, their bodies would be completely wrecked!

Everyone was curious about what secret techniques or what kinds of elixirs Ye Zhen had used to sustain such a punishing training ritual that almost destroyed his own body?

Atop Fairy Peak, Ye Zhen’s bones exploded loudly.

Amidst the sound of his bones, the skeleton tinged with a faint reddish hue like jade or steel was continuously enduring Ye Zhen’s limit-testing movements.

Even the previously impossible First Style of the Three Styles of Black Dragon Tyrant of Heaven — Divine Dragon Tail Swinging, seemed to be bearable now.

His figure, like a spinning top, lashed out wildly, and the Body Spirit’s spiritual power surged from his legs like a tide. Amidst a series of illusions, Ye Zhen’s legs whipped out in a continuous scythe.

With the high-speed activation of spiritual power, Ye Zhen’s legs whirled more than three hundred and sixty times in an instant, and his thoroughly tempered bones finally withstood such intense rolling.

As the spiritual power inside his body revolved wildly, it forced Ye Zhen’s breath to burst out from his throat in a peculiar rhythm.

Roar!

A roar akin to a dragon’s chant sounded abruptly, accompanied by a hundred-meter-long red streak of light.

It looked very much like the tail of a dragon lashing out wildly.

Click, click, click!

Underneath the dragon’s tail, the air began to crackle as if squeezed, like a string of firecrackers going off madly.

The moment the spiritual power dragon tail successfully whipped out, Ye Zhen’s eyebrows suddenly raised, and a look of astonishment swift surfaced in his eyes.

Just then, Ye Zhen clearly sensed that the second innate bloodline—which had been dormant and turned black within him—had moved! (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you’re welcome to vote for it on Qidian. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)