Chapter 489: Chapter 271: Celestial Spirit

Yin Hao wanted to dodge, wanted to counterattack, but he felt a terrifying pressure, immense as a mountain, weighing down on him. He could barely even move a finger.

Before the fist even arrived, his body was already being torn apart by the terrifying shockwave, and his legs sank into the ground.

’The Song Family are a bunch of idiots. They don’t even know what Xu Yang’s Cultivation is.’

Yin Hao cursed the eighteen generations of the Song Family’s ancestors in his heart. He could only watch, his courage shattering, as the incomparably fierce fist came crashing down.

"Lord Han will not let you go!" he roared in his final moments.

"I won’t let him go either."

Xu Yang watched Yin Hao with a calm gaze, his fist striking Yin Hao’s body with unstoppable force.

"BANG!"

A dull thud echoed. Xu Yang’s fist, weighing ten thousand jun, was terrifyingly powerful. Yin Hao didn’t even have time to scream before his body exploded with a BOOM. Flesh and shattered bone shot out with enough force to pierce gold and shatter stone, blasting craters in the ground as he burst into a firework-like cloud of blood mist.

"You’re already at the Celestial Essence Realm?" Song Wendeng was horrified, his body trembling like a leaf in the wind.

Celestial Essence!

Xu Yang had actually broken through to the Celestial Essence Realm!

If he had known Xu Yang had already broken through to Celestial Essence, he would have fled with Yin Hao the moment he saw Xu Yang, not let Yin Hao go forward to provoke him.

One had to understand that at this point, not even people like Zhang Hanzhou or Jiang Fan had broken through to the Celestial Essence Realm.

’He’s already at Celestial Essence...’

A terrifying thought surged in Song Wendeng’s mind.

’His Saber Technique, his Li Fire Technique...’

’If it’s true, as Elder Huoyun said, that he wasn’t the one who killed the Yushao Ancestor... could it be possible that the person who killed the Yushao Ancestor was Xu Yang, who has already broken through to the Celestial Essence Realm?’

’As for motive, Xu Yang’s was definitely stronger than Elder Huoyun’s.’

"Spare me! I wasn’t the one who told him to provoke you."

Song Wendeng quickly realized this was no time to be shocked; he had to save his own skin first.

"It makes no difference. Even if he hadn’t provoked me, I would have killed you."

Xu Yang strolled forward and threw another punch.

He had wanted to kill Song Wendeng for a long time, but he never had the chance since Song Wendeng always stayed inside the Purple Sun Sect.

"BOOM!"

The deafening roar was like a Life-Shortening Talisman, and Song Wendeng’s face filled with despair.

He had thought that with Han Yingjie sending Yin Hao, the Song Family would slowly rise again. He never imagined this would be the result—that he himself would die this time.

"BANG!"

The fist, heavy as ten thousand jun, slammed into Song Wendeng’s body. Just like Yin Hao, he exploded into a cloud of blood mist before he could even scream.

Xu Yang extended his Heart Spirit to confirm no one was around, then unhurriedly returned to the Purple Sun Sect.

Then, he heard a piece of news: Liu Qingyuan had come out of seclusion.

He had come out of seclusion after hearing that Han Yingjie had sent Yin Hao to help stabilize the Song Family’s situation. He probably wanted to curry favor with Han Yingjie, a disciple of the Celestial Strategy Academy.

The next day, when Yin Hao still hadn’t returned, the remaining members of the Song Family sent someone to the Purple Sun Sect to inquire. Only then did they learn that Yin Hao had left the Purple Sun Sect to return to the Song Family yesterday.

Yin Hao was missing!

Yin Hao, a follower of the Celestial Strategy Academy disciple Han Yingjie, had been killed just a few days after his arrogant arrival in Cyan Yang City. Killed alongside him was Song Wendeng, the Song Family disciple from the Purple Sun Sect.

"Who would be so bold as to kill Han Yingjie’s follower?"

"I’m afraid it’s the same person who killed Song Yushao!"

"So what if he’s Han Yingjie’s follower? You don’t even know who killed him. What can you do?"

"That Yin Hao was too full of himself. He thought just because he had the title of Han Yingjie’s follower, no one would dare touch him. Didn’t he know the person who killed Song Yushao might be an expert from the Purple Sun Sect? Daring to go to the Purple Sun Sect was simply courting death."

...

For a time, all of Cyan Yang City was in an uproar, with all sorts of speculation flying around.

The situation the Song Family had barely managed to stabilize became precarious once more. The remaining family members were terrified that the expert who killed Song Yushao would come for them next. Some of the more timid ones had already quietly left Cyan Yang City for faraway lands.

’Yin Hao is dead?’

Liu Qingyuan, who had just come out of seclusion, felt a wave of lingering fear. He, too, believed that the person who killed Yin Hao was likely the same person who killed Song Yushao.

’It’s a good thing I didn’t get involved, or I would have brought disaster upon myself.’

...

On Medicine King Peak, in the residential area for Inner Sect Disciples, the door to a quiet room within a particularly elegant courtyard, sealed for several months, slowly opened. Ye Qiuling walked out gracefully.

In that instant, a boundless and immense pressure surged out, causing the Power of Heaven and Earth to ripple along with it.

Her skin was fairer than snow, as delicate as Mutton Fat Jade, and currently glowed with a faint luminescence, her aura becoming even more ethereal.

The Medicine King Peak disciples living in the nearby courtyards instantly felt their Heart Spirits tremble. It felt as if a thousand-jin boulder was pressing down on them, causing their Gang Qi circulation to stagnate.

"Senior Sister Ye has broken through to the Celestial Essence Realm!" someone exclaimed in shock.

While both Zhang Hanzhou and Qi Xuancheng had failed their breakthroughs, Ye Qiuling had actually succeeded in breaking through to the Celestial Essence Realm.

Soon, the news of Ye Qiuling breaking through to the Celestial Essence Realm spread like wildfire across Medicine King Peak.

...

Xu Yang paid no mind to the various speculations outside. He continued his seclusion, refining the Crystal Lotus Root.

Half a month flew by in a flash, and the refinement of the Crystal Lotus Root was complete.

When Xu Yang came out of seclusion, the matter concerning the Song Family and Yin Hao had long since been forgotten by most.

[Li Fire Technique First Layer (47301/10000)]

’My Cultivation is still increasing too slowly,’ Xu Yang frowned.

’Three stalks of Crystal Lotus Root were only equivalent to less than three months of arduous cultivation.’

’I need to find a way to get a Pill Formula for a Celestial Essence Realm elixir.’

He had already inquired about Pill Formulas for Celestial Essence Realm elixirs. They required over three thousand contribution points to exchange for, but he currently had less than one thousand.

Moreover, the hardest part wasn’t the Pill Formula, but gathering the medicinal ingredients required to refine the elixir. Even someone of Elder Huoyun’s status mostly used the Dragon Tiger Great Golden Pill for cultivation. One could only imagine how rare Celestial Essence Realm elixirs were.

Getting up and leaving his quiet room, Xu Yang headed to the dining hall. He saw disciples of Li Fire Peak sitting together in twos and threes, chatting about their treasure-hunting encounters in the Yunling Mountain Range.

Xiong Kun was talking with Lu Ren, but they immediately fell silent when Xu Yang appeared.

"Junior Brother Xu, over here!" Sun Tao beckoned from a distance, sitting with Jiang Fan and Jiang Yan.

Xu Yang got a plate of food and quickly sat down at their table. His gaze swept over Jiang Fan and Sun Tao, and he saw that both had powerful auras; their Marrow Cleansing was nearing Perfection.

This was normal for Jiang Fan, but very unusual for Sun Tao. He felt that if this continued, Sun Tao might even achieve a Secondary Dragon Ascension.

"Senior Brother Sun, the speed of your realm advancement is frankly terrifying," Xu Yang said with a smile.

"How could I compare to you?" Sun Tao shook his head.

’Based on his understanding of Xu Yang, he’s probably already attempting to break through to the Celestial Essence Realm in secret, and might have even succeeded.’

Jiang Fan’s eyelids were already twitching wildly. As Xu Yang approached, the Exotic Treasure on his body sent out frantic warnings, far more intense than ever before.

The more intense the warning from his Exotic Treasure, the greater the threat the other person posed to him.

’Xu Yang has broken through to the Celestial Essence Realm,’ Jiang Fan thought, shocked.

The feedback from the Exotic Treasure right now was identical to its reaction when he had encountered the Purple Sun Sect’s Celestial Essence Elders in the past.

Even though he usually didn’t care about things like Cultivation, at this moment, he was somewhat tempted to ask Xu Yang how he cultivated.

"Senior Sister Ye... Ye Qiuling has broken through to the Celestial Essence Realm!"

Suddenly, a disciple from Li Fire Peak ran into the dining hall from outside, his face flushed and his expression a mixture of shock and excitement as he announced the news of Ye Qiuling’s breakthrough.

Instantly, you could hear a pin drop in the huge dining hall. The news was like a giant boulder thrown into a calm lake, creating monstrous waves in everyone’s hearts.

No one had expected that, while both Zhang Hanzhou and Qi Xuancheng had failed their breakthroughs, Ye Qiuling would successfully break through to Celestial Essence, becoming the first of the Purple Sun Sect’s Ten Prodigies to reach the Celestial Essence Realm.

"Is this news real?" someone asked in disbelief after the initial shock.

The person nodded. "Of course it’s real. Medicine King Peak is in an uproar. It’s said that the Medicine King Peak Master and the four great Elders all went to Senior Sister Ye Qiuling’s residence and confirmed that Senior Sister Ye has indeed broken through to the Celestial Essence Realm."

No one doubted the news of Ye Qiuling’s breakthrough any longer. It was impossible for the Medicine King Peak Master and the four great Elders to lack that much discernment.

For a moment, the dining hall fell silent again, and many people wore dejected expressions.

This was because most of them had entered the sect earlier than Ye Qiuling. Only a few, like Xu Yang, had joined later. The rest had, at the very latest, joined in the same batch as her.

Now, Ye Qiuling had already broken through to Celestial Essence, while most of them were still at the Minor Success Realm of Marrow Cleansing. Some hadn’t even reached Marrow Cleansing Minor Achievement.

’Junior Brother Xu has probably already broken through to Celestial Essence,’ Sun Tao thought. His gaze shifted to Xu Yang, and he noticed that Xu Yang’s expression was calm, showing no signs of shock or envy, as if breaking through to the Celestial Essence Realm was nothing special to him.

’Even after taking that strange Spirit Medicine, my Cultivation is now advancing by leaps and bounds, yet I still can’t catch up to Junior Brother Xu,’ Sun Tao thought in shock.

"We have no hope!" Xiong Kun’s face was a mask of despair.

He aimed for a Secondary Dragon Ascension, but the true geniuses who had a real hope for it had already broken through to the Celestial Essence Realm. Meanwhile, he was still struggling in the Bone Marrow Cleansing Realm, not even having reached the bottleneck of Marrow Cleansing Great Success.

Two years from now, even if he managed to break through to Celestial Essence, he wouldn’t be able to contend with these people.

He had always been praised as a genius, but now the gap between him and others was only growing wider, leaving him both desperate and unwilling to accept it.

He believed his talent was not much inferior to that of Li Chuyang or Jiang Fan, but he didn’t have their resources.

"There are still nearly two years left. I won’t admit defeat!" Lu Ren’s fists clenched so tightly they creaked.

He still had his fighting spirit!

’If Xu Yang can keep up with these geniuses, there’s no reason that I, Lu Ren, can’t.’

"Instead of resigning to fate here, I should strive to be stronger!" Lu Ren left these words behind, abandoning his meal as he stood up and walked away.

But after just a few steps, he stopped, because Jiang Fan’s voice rang out.

"Ye Qiuling must have taken a Celestial Spirit Pill."

Jiang Fan said, "If she hadn’t taken a Celestial Spirit Pill, it’s unlikely she would have succeeded in breaking through to the Celestial Essence Realm on her first try."

Celestial Spirit Pill?

Many people were confused and turned to look at him.

Jiang Fan explained, "The Celestial Spirit Pill is a rare elixir refined from more than a dozen types of Spirit Medicine. Its main purpose is to assist a Martial Artist at Marrow Cleansing Perfection in breaking through to the Celestial Essence Realm. Even a person of average aptitude has a fifty percent chance of breaking through to Celestial Essence after taking it.

For a genius like Ye Qiuling, the success rate is basically ninety-nine percent."

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