With Ye Qing’s help, Ye Meng somehow managed to hide his presence. Even though his cultivation was crippled, his body was extremely fit due to his previous accomplishments in cultivation. He could outrun Olympic runners and beat professional boxers in the comparison of punching power. As he was jogging deeper inside the forest, he was constantly getting memories from Ye Qian.
The process of transferring memories was mysterious and one had to be careful which memories to transfer.The reason for that was because, if you transfer memories of yourself getting burned alive, the receiver will feel like he’s getting burned alive. It’s like a youtube video taken by a GoPro which you can watch anything, but everything that happens in the video also feels like it happens to you. Short clips of memories are a lot easier because they’re just used to transfer techniques.
"The body refining technique I've given you was the reason why I died. I found this technique while I was exploring some ancient ruins and showed it to my brothers. They started attacking me for the method and eventually I died under their combined attacks, but before that, I exploded my Qi. That killed them all and with the little time my soul had left, I quickly memorized the contents. The enemies of the Ye Clan should be the clans that my so called brothers hailed from." Explained Ye Qing.
"The technique is called The Sovereign’s Body and it is extremely valuable, even to an expert like me. The technique is heaven defying as it literally transforms your body. One could go from average cultivation speed to a cultivation speed that is thousands of times faster than a normal person's if you complete all of the 13 stages of it by transforming and widening your meridians. The other advantage is that it is an absolute top tier body refining method but you need a lot of effort to break through. The first stage is quite easy as it just requires someone hitting you on certain points over and over again. But, the second stage requires a good amount of body refining medicines and treasures along with heavy pressure on your body. Getting to the 1st stage will allow you easily defeat Dan Forming cultivators. The second stage will let you easily fight against Divine Sea experts. If you reach the 10th stage then if I were alive I wouldn’t be a match for you, that shows how strong this technique is. The only downside is it needs tons of resources or else the cultivation speed of this technique will be extremely slow.”
Ye Meng started shaking with excitement, He's slightly above average and it took him 5 years to reach the peak of Spirit Forming so just 10 times faster means he will get to that level in half a year! 100 times faster means that he will get to that stage in about 2 and a half weeks! 1,000 times faster means that he’ll get there in 2 days!
Just the thought of that cultivation speed made Ye Meng extremely enthusiastic to cultivate it. "The standard cultivation method for the Ye family is not what you'll learn. You'll learn the best cultivation technique that I have. The technique should be in your memories, it's called the GodKing's Breath. There is nothing that special about the technique that I found besides the fact that is a very good one as your only absorb the purest of Qi. The pure Qi makes your foundation incredibly solid and helps you lessen the length of bottlenecks.”
Ye Meng recalled the technique from the memories he received a while back from his ancestor. His pitch black eyes widened because the technique he got is like heaven compared to the technique he got from the Jade Mountain Sect. “No wonder no one in The Jade Mountain Sect has a cultivation level over Divine Sea. Their techniques are so bad that no matter how talented someone is they wouldn’t be able to break through.
Seeing Ye Meng's completely dumbfounded expression, Ye Qing felt a strange burst of happiness and he exclaimed, "Haha! Do you think that I, Ye Qing, would be lacking in any top tier techniques? You should see my alchemy techniques, I was a top tier alchemist back in my day!"
"Holy shit.... This old man was a fucking pro at alchemy. Look at those skills! He doesn't even have to look at the herbs to know what they are!" Thought Ye Meng as he looked through his ancestor's memories. Ye Meng is a relatively young alchemist and he only knows about 2,000 herbs by heart, but the old man knows at least 1,000,000 by heart! Ye Meng felt a raging fire of determination ignite by scanning through the memories and his blood was boiling. “I want to be like him! I want to refine poison pills that can kill countless experts when inhaled!”
Ye Qing purposely gave important memories of his life to Ye Meng as life experience was very important. He saw how the old man killed countless amounts of strong experts with one blow. But, he also saw all of the heartbreaking betrayals and tragedies the old man had to endure. Ye Qing's standing in his heart unknowingly went from a distant relative who has a business relationship with into someone who should be respected. Ye Qing was not in any ways righteous, but Ye Qing always followed the ideals in his heart until his last breath. He never cheated anyone or betrayed anyone even if they had done that to him.
Ye Qing lectured Ye Meng and told him every single useful technique he had so Ye Meng could use them when in need. They spent the whole night talking and Ye Meng felt extremely drowsy because he was currently a mortal right now even with his superhuman body he still had to sleep.
Ye Meng laid down and slept for 2 hours because with his current body, 2 hours of sleep is all that he needs.
Eventually, 3 years had passed in the blink of an eye. Ye Qing had been worked to the bone by Ye Meng. The former started liking Ye Qing more and more as time went by. The main reason why Ye Meng was so cold to Ye Qing was because in normal Xianxia's, the protagonist gets used by the old master or sage. It's not really hard to give someone your techniques, but something that is really hard is killing a guy who is several stages ahead of you in cultivation. If you can’t kill him, then you’ll have a heart demon for breaking a vow which makes you unable to ever grow in strength. During the three years, Ye Qing forbid Ye Meng from cultivating because his cultivation speed was just awfully slow. It would be better to refine techniques and temper his body to the first stage before beginning his cultivation. His cultivation speed was just too inefficient to be used.
Ye Qing never asked him to do revenge on his behalf but Ye Meng swore that he would do it anyways as it was him who saved his life. Ye Meng's alchemy skills had to be refined over the 3 years and he had been selling his pills along with buying materials at the closest Alchemist’s Association branch.
Indeed, he did get the memories of Ye Qing, but the memories were more like guidelines. Most average people had to practice hundreds of times to properly learn how to refine a pill, which was why alchemists were so rare, the cost of the materials were exorbitant, but Ye Meng only had to do it several times to get it right due to his inherited past experiences.
Ye Meng was currently cultivating The Sovereign's Body by repeatedly getting hit by a beast. You simply cannot temper yourself simply by sitting in a lotus position and circulating your Qi around your body to strengthen it. You need to endure some kind of pressure to help stimulate the growth of stronger cells.
Ye Meng got help at capturing a Magical Beast with the cultivation of a Foundation Building by paying someone and had it hit him in the proper places. Ye Meng wasn't scared of dieing because he bought a beast rearing collar which can enslave a beast making it follow all of your commands.
Cultivating The Sovereign’s Body is extremely painful as you purposely get hurt and then you circulate Qi from the air in the way it’s shown in the diagram. The Qi stimulates the growth of new stronger cells and helps you heal in the blink of an eye.
As he was repeatedly getting hit by the attacks and tempering his body, his whole body started glowing red. Ye Meng felt the excruciating pain of his body being reformed and changed thousands of times faster than it normally did. Every single cell in his body was screaming in pain because they were getting ripped apart and rebuilt every second. Ye Meng’s body was completely transforming, he grew taller and more muscular.
Instead of the skinny and feminine boy he used be, Ye Meng had transformed into a man. During the three years his appearance didn’t change much at all, he remained fragile and skinny but now he finally changed. He still retained his delicate facial features but he grew a several inches taller making him well above the average height. His body gained muscles that were very lean like a cheetah's. His face was a lot more masculine with a change in facial structure. His bones were denser and his lean muscles were packed with power that could punch holes in mountains and lift giant boulders with no problem at all. Even 'down there' grew bigger, which made Ye Meng the happiest. He circulated his Qi to test out his meridians and found out they were much wider and stronger than before. Whenever he circulated his Qi before it was like little strands of Qi coming into his dantian but now it was like a steady stream. He didn’t look innocent at all anymore, instead he looked like a refined young scholar.
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Whilst Ye Meng was undergoing his drastic change, Ye Qing was watching all of this with shock in his eyes. He had read the technique but as they say seeing is believing, "No wonder those old fogies attacked me for that technique! With his body he could currently fight a Dan Forming cultivator without any problem at all! His body is comparable to a Rank 3 Demonic Beast! This is just the first stage and each other stage is supposed tens of times stronger than the latter! His meridians are many times better than before! It seems that if he reaches the 3rd stage, he’ll get the talent of an above average youth in the Immortal Realm!
There are two different kinds of beast in this world, magical beasts and demonic beasts. Demonic beasts are ranked 1-9 from weakest to strongest. A rank 2 demonic beast is can fight against 10 cultivators of the Foundation Building stage but lose out to Dan Forming cultivators slightly. Demonic beasts are ferocious and stupid unlike magical beasts which have intelligence. Magical beasts are beasts who cultivate and are intelligent.
Magical Beasts have magical cores which are used for powering arrays, formations and can be used to make pills that increase your cultivation. Demonic beasts don't have a core but their bodies are incredibly touch which can be used to make weapons, armor and jewelry.
Ye Meng was currently gnashing his teeth due to the intense pain he had to endure. Over the 4 years he spent with Ye Qing, his personality and ideals changed a lot. He cared more about getting stronger than living a comfortable life, woman or money. If you become strong, then you will naturally get these even though you don’t want it. If you’re the strongest expert in the world, no one will mess with you, women will flock to you like flies and people will gift you money just for them to stay in your good books.
His personality got a lot colder to people who weren’t related to him due to seeing all of Ye Qing’s memories. Experiences change how someone’s personality is because if you had gotten betrayed in the past multiple times, you would be colder and less trustful of other people. When he looked through Ye Qing’s memories when he stood on the peak of the Immortal Realm, he felt a sense of superiority and he got addicted to the feeling. He wanted to be on top, he wanted to be respected and he wanted to be strong. All of those desires converged together to form his iron will and his firm determination.
Ye Meng kept enduring the nerve wracking pain until it suddenly stopped and a stinky thick black liquid came out from his body. Ye Meng felt as if he was floating in soft and fluffy clouds as his body was releasing all the impurities he had. Eventually, the release of impurities stopped and Ye Meng looked down. He saw a puddle of sticky, thick and stinky black liquid under his feet. When he caught a whiff of the smell, he almost threw up and immediately ran to the nearest body of water.
He came upon a small lake and jumped right in there washing away all the remains of the impurities that were stuck to his body. After he was done washing himself, he swam to the shore and spat out the water he swallowed, “Pwah! Pwah! Cough! Cough! Cough!”. Ye Meng knew that in normal Xianxia after going through an impurity cleansing, one’s strength increases by leaps and bounds but he wanted to see for himself. He found a giant tree to use as a target and he threw a punch with all his might. When his fist hit the tree, the tree instantly snapped and fell in his direction.
Without a single trace of panic, Ye Meng caught the 100 foot wide tree with his bare hands and did a couple of squats. With a satisfied expression on his face, Ye Meng muttered, “Before I reached the first stage, I had the strength to just shake the tree whenever I punched it. But now, I can easily break a tree this size. I think my strength has increased by 3 times. Previously, I had the strength of 100,000 jins of force in a punch but now, I have the force of 300,000 jins of force in a punch even without techniques. I reckon with the techniques that I’ve learned I could punch out 600,000. This technique is amazing…”
After seeing Ye Meng’s satisfied expression, Ye Qian harshly scolded Ye Meng, “Hmph! Why are you satisfied with just that? This level of power is incomparable to what you could have by cultivating The Sovereign’s Body! Never stop aiming for the peak and remember, there is always someone stronger than you so don’t dare to be arrogant with this measly amount of strength. In a while, I’ll tell you a secret that only the upper echelons of the Immortal Realm know once you reach the Foundation Building stage. ” Ye Meng listened to the old man’s wise words and made sure to remember them. “The hard part of your training is over, I’ve built a firm foundation for you in The Sovereign’s Body so you can start cultivating now. Use those pills to boost your cultivation as soon as possible as you can absorb more now.”
Hearing those words Ye Meng felt relieved, he had to endure nerve wracking pain to temper his body while cultivating was essentially just sitting in a lotus position while circulating Qi. But, before he started cultivating, he went to the beast he had enslaved and killed it cleanly. The first time Ye Meng had killed, he almost puked but after killing hundreds of beasts he got used to it. Some people have tried to rob him before and he killed them without an ounce of regret. If people try to rob someone, they should be aware of the risks and be prepared to die.
He went to his cabin he built as a shelter inside the Magical Beast Range. He cleaned the blood off of him and he put the beast rearing collar inside his interspatial pouch which was worth several pills that Dan Forming experts used.
He sat down cross legged and took out pills from his bag. He sighed and remembered his past “My life has really been turned upside down. Before, I could only use pills for Spirit Forming cultivators but now I can use the pills that the Marrow Cleansing elders in the sect used.” He popped a handful of those pills inside his mouth and quickly absorbed them into his dantian. If anyone else saw what Ye Meng did they would’ve pitied him for his stupidity but Ye Meng isn’t a normal mortal. He’s reached the first stage in The Sovereign’s Body which is an extremely powerful body refining technique. His meridians have been strengthened to the point where he can use several of those pills in one go.
He absorbed the Qi then ate pills, he absorbed the Qi then ate pills, the cycle went on and on. Eventually, 2 weeks had passed and Ye Meng had reached the peak of the Spirit Forming stage. He sighed and muttered, “I took so much pills and I only increased my cultivation to the peak of the Spirit Forming stage. I reckon if anyone else took those pills they would at least reach the peak of Foundation Building stage. The Sovereign’s Body really is expensive to cultivate…”
If you’re wondering why Ye Meng didn’t take pills during the three years to increase his cultivation it was because it had no effect. The Sovereign’s Body greedily devoured everything inside the pills to improve the speed it took him to reach the first stage. His meridians were really weak due to being a mortal and they could only absorb pills made for Spirit Forming cultivators. But, the pills had an extremely meagre level of Qi compared to the pills Ye Meng previously devoured so he only got a few scraps of Qi for cultivation. It wasn’t worth it so he just didn’t try at all to absorb the Qi whenever he took pills.
Ye Meng decided to test his strength and looked around for Marrow Cleansing magical beasts. He found multiple Dan Forming beasts and he killed them with a single strike without using any Qi. He took their cores to make pills later on and continued the search. He spent about 2 hours before he found a Marrow Cleansing magical beast.
It was the Two Headed Tiger that had the aura of a king. The Two Headed Tiger saw him and disdainfully snorted. The tiger ran at him with anger because the tiger thought that the Spirit Forming cultivator was mocking him by entering his territory. The speed would be like a blur in the eyes of most Spirit Forming cultivators but for Ye Meng, it was slow. He simply sidestepped and slashed at the side of the tiger’s body using Ye Qing’s favorite sword technique, 7 Swords to Slay Gods. Blood gushed out of the tiger’s side and he retreated back quickly. The tiger might be a beast, but it was still intelligent. If the first exchange ended up with him being heavily then what would happen in 10 exchanges, 20 exchanges or 30 exchanges? Would he even be alive after 20 exchanges? In his eyes, the mortal cultivated some amazing body refining technique which made his body incredibly strong.
He chased the tiger through the forest and slowly overtook him. The tiger had none of that arrogance it previously had and it was like a deer trying to run away from a magnificent dragon. It only took a couple of slashes to kill the Two Headed Tiger. He took the tiger’s core and decided to use it for alchemy.
He ran out of the forest at the speed incomparable to his speed a couple of weeks before. After a couple of hours, he found was on the outskirts of the forest. After almost being killed by Wang Fang, Ye Meng went to a city where no one knew his identity as he wanted to start anew. He kept the same name because there were hundreds of billions of people in this world. How many people would be named Ye Meng? A million? 10 million?