A handsome young man could be seen running extremely fast through the Magical Beast Range. His movements were as fluid as water and he radiated an aura that made people feel like he was an old wise sage who has lived for thousands of years. His black eyes were sharp like swords and if you looked at him for too long, it felt like you were being stabbed by a sword. That young man was Ye Meng and he was currently heading to a city with a Divine Sea cultivator as the strongest expert.
He eagerly wanted to be promoted to a Tier 4 alchemist and after that a Tier 5 alchemist. It would serve as a way to protect himself and make a good reputation in the capital before going to the Divine Sky Academy which was known as the best academy in the world. Ye Meng had no use for the techniques that they offered, he recieved techniques a lot better than those trash techniques. He couldn’t wait till he his cultivation reached the Divine Sea stage because he could finally use the first move of Ye Qian’s fist technique, Azure Dragon Fist! Techniques could make you exhibit 100%, 120% or even 200% of your total strength but moves could make you exhibit 200%, 300% or even 500% of your total strength!
His total battle strength would skyrocket if he could use that move. Also, he could use the 2nd move of One Sword to Slay Gods! Once he reached Divine Sea stage. Excitement bubbled up in his heart thinking about how strong he’d be after reaching the Divine Sea stage. He felt that he could kill Dongxue Huan without much effort!
A couple of hours passed and he saw the city’s gates. He went back to clean himself up and wore expensive clothes he bought for formal occasions. He approached the city gates with an arrogant appearance and when the guards approached him he arrogantly looked down upon them with disdain. He tossed two bags that have thousands of silver coins inside them to the guards and arrogantly said while releasing the pressure of a peak Marrow Cleansing stage cultivator, “Hmph! If you knew who my master was you wouldn’t dare to block my path”.
The guards gulped at his strength and immediately moved to the side, with excitement hidden in their hearts when they looked at the bag. They just received thousands of silvers! That’s around 50% of the salary they get every 10 years! They could buy expensive pills and treasures to maybe even become a captain of the guards which quintupled their salary! Ye Meng entered the city with a domineering attitude, “So this is what it feels like to be a rich young master…” he sighed inwardly. Ye Meng in his past life was fairly poor with average qualities. Ye Meng marched arrogantly to the Alchemist’s Association branch in the city. While he was walking he heard countless whispers due to his superhuman hearing.
“Hey Zhang Li, see his young appearance and his high cultivation base?”
“Yeah yeah, what about it?”
“He must be a young master of those frightening clans! Don’t even slightly offend him or else he’ll kill all 9 generations of your family! One word from him could have the city lord killed!”
“Wow! I wish I was from a powerful clan but I’ll stay away from that young master. I don’t wanna die for a random offense!”
Ye Meng wryly smiled, his facade had worked a little too well. He wanted to quickly get promoted and acting arrogant was the best way to do it. Although Ye Meng enjoyed the rush and feeling of power, he hated people who killed people for no good reason like Wang Feng. He swore that he would never follow in the footsteps of the long dead Wang Feng. He arrogantly entered the branch of the Alchemist’s Association and he yelled out, “Get your branch leader out here! You should be honored I’m taking my Tier 4 Alchemist promotion test in this backwater area!”
“Who the fuck is this brat?!” yelled a robust middle aged man at the peak of Dan Forming stage. Ye Meng stared at him and the middle aged man started trembling, just one stare from Ye Meng was enough to completely immobilize a cultivator under the Marrow Cleansing stage. Other people saw this scene and knew he was someone not to be messed with. He had a high cultivation base at such a young age, he surely must be a young master! An old man walked out out a large door with his hands behind his back. When he saw Ye Meng he instantly turned respectful, he was an old man whose have had tons of life experience in dealing with stuff like this. “Haha! Young master, this old servant would be glad to have you promoted as a Tier 4 Alchemist in this humble city. But first, we must see your Tier 3 identification card as the rules force us to”
Ye Meng’s lips formed a smile and he flashed his Tier 3 Alchemist card. He said, “Okay old man, I’m gonna take the test right now. Lead me to the room.”
The old man gestured Ye Meng into his office and he followed. “Such a power young figure must be from an exalted clan! You surely know the procedures of the Alchemist’s Association promotion test but I have to go over it with you due to the regulations. You will be assigned 5 random pills with their difficulties varying and you must concoct each of them. Your job is to make a Marrow Cleansing pill, a Frosty Body Tempering pill, a 9 Revolutions Sunfire pill, a Tier 4 Qi Replenishing pill, and a Venomous Paralyzing pill. The ingredients will be provided for you.”
Ye Meng nodded and he whipped out the pill furnace he used which was looked very expensive. The old man sighed on the inside, if only he could have such an extravagant and luxurious pill furnace. Once Ye Meng got the ingredients, he immediately tossed them all into the pill furnace. Seeing his brutish actions the old man wanted to bleach his eyes out, alchemy isn’t just tossing materials in a pill furnace and burning them. Alchemy isn’t cooking! But, he didn’t dare to say such a thing in front of this arrogant young master.
Ye Meng lit up the furnace and waited until the ingredients were all in their powder form. As soon as they turned into power, he flicked his fingers and all the powder was separated into 5 different sections for 5 different pills. He poured his Qi into the pill furnace and the temperature changed in the locations of the 5 different sections. The Frosty Body Tempering pill required a special type of wood called the Ice Fire Wood to concoct and it was highly reactive. It was a pill which could only be concocted alone, but Ye Meng was concocting it with other pills! Eventually, a couple dozen minutes passed and the pills were all done. They came out of the furnace with a fragrant smell and an extremely thick purple aura surrounded each of the pills. Thickness of the aura decided the quality of the pills and such a thick aura meant that the quality was extremely high! When Ye Meng looked at the old man, he saw that the old man was in a state of enlightenment. “Haha! I’ve barely used 10% of my total knowledge on pills yet just that was enough to send him into enlightenment.” he thought. Ye Meng waited for a couple of hours as the old man came to his senses. When Ye Meng looked at the old man, he saw a lot more wisdom and calmness in his eyes. The old man looked at Ye Meng as if he was his teacher. He kowtowed to him and he said, “May I please become your disciple?”
Ye Meng sadly shook his head, he didn’t have time to take in a disciple. Maybe later he might…. He pulled out a jade slip and wrote a slight bit of his knowledge in alchemy techniques. He tossed it to the old man and he said, “Here are some techniques, how much you can comprehend is based on you. “
The old man thanked him and gave him his well deserved Alchemist’s Association Tier 4 alchemist badge. Ye Meng quickly left the city and he did the same thing to get a Tier 5 alchemist badge. Unbeknownst to Ye Meng, that old man would become the 2nd Tier 9 Alchemist of this era. The first one naturally being Ye Meng of course.
“Now I can finally head straight to the capital. I’ve heard that Dongxue Huan said something about the Divine Sky Academy. It seems like a top tier academy… I guess I’ll join it for the resources.” Ye Meng thought. He had everything but large amounts of resources and if he pulled off his plan well, he could get extremely rich inside the academy. Sometimes provoking people is a good way to con money out of them.
As Ye Meng was running to the capital, he saw a dirty girl being chased by multiple men. Ye Meng wasn’t a saint, he was about to look away when he heard the name of his most hated clan. “Li Xiaoyu, your Li clan was annihilated for offending the Dongxue Clan! You’re the only one left! Just surrender right now and you might be able to become a sex slave for a Dongxue Clan young master!”
The multiple men all had auras of peak Divine Sea stage but one was a Golden Elixir stage cultivator. Ye Meng coldly snorted upon hearing those words, these guys were probably lackeys of the Dongxue clan. The dirty girl looked at him as if ushering him to run away and he just pulled out his sword. When the pursuers saw his actions, they started laughing and jeering at him.
“Haha! This peak Marrow Cleansing brat doesn’t know the immensity between 1 stage of cultivation! Haha!”
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Ye Meng slashed out, One Sword to Slay Immortals! A man threw a weak punch with disdain but the blue wave easily decapitated him. When the other men saw it, they all turned enraged. Ye Meng just killed one of their sworn brothers so how could they not be fuming mad? Ye Meng controlled the sword wave to go in the direction of the other pursuers. The stench of blood filled the forest as the heads of the pursuers were scattered across the bloodstained grass.
The dirty girl watched all of this with shock, she was just an early Marrow Cleansing cultivator but she couldn’t even endure a single blow from the pursuers yet he who looked around the same age killed them all with one strike! She limped over to him and weakly croaked out, “Thank you sir for saving my life. Is there anything I can do to repay you?”
Ye Meng looked at her calmly but on the inside he was almost crying due to joy. Ye Qian had a mysterious technique he found which was only for females with a certain type of body called the 81 Divine Yin Meridians Body. The technique was called the Heavenly 9 Yin Circulation technique. Ye Qian thought that the technique was extremely profound but, he couldn’t find anyone with an 81 Divine Yin Meridians Body. Ye Meng had managed to find one though! If the Heavenly 9 Yin Circulation technique was truly as mysterious as The Sovereign’s Body, he could have a valuable ally! But Ye Meng had to approach this carefully, he remembered how Ye Qian got betrayed multiple times by his closest friends. Especially at the time of his death, so Ye Meng decided to take safety measures. “Do you want to destroy the Dongxue Clan like they did with your Li Clan?” he calmly questioned Li Xiaoyu.
A cold glint appeared in her eyes and she trembled with hatred but in the end she sighed. She wasn’t stupid, she couldn’t even protect her own life so how could she think of revenge? “I wish…” she muttered.
Ye Meng looked her in the eyes and lifted up her dirty chin with a finger. “I swear to the Daos that I have killed a Divine Sense Dongxue Clan elder named Dongxue Huan before 30 years old. If I told a lie then may the Heavens pass judgement onto me.”
The dirty girl looked at him with her mouth agape. He said he killed a Divine Sense elder at such a young age and he even swore to the Daos! If you swear to the Daos, then you have to tell the truth or else you’ll be smited by the Heaven. Ye Meng smirked upon seeing her flabbergasted expression and he arrogantly said, “How about this, since you have decent aptitude I’ll let you become my maidservant. If you accept then you should be able to annihilate the Dongxue Clan by yourself in 200 years but if you decline then I’ll just forget about you like we’ve never met in the first place.”
LI Xiaoyu found all this too sudden, a couple of minutes ago she was on the verge of being captured and now she was offered lots of power coupled with revenge on her most hated enemy. She bit her lower lip and said, “Can you give me a night to think about it?”
Ye Meng nodded and he said,”I'll give you the maximum of 3 days to think about it.”
She agreed and went to a nearby river to wash herself off. Ye Meng tossed her a set of white clothes to change into before she washed herself off. She smiled at his attention to detail, her family just died so wearing anything but white would be extremely disgraceful. A couple of hours of hard scrubbing and a beauty wearing white robes came out of the river. Although she was quite beautiful, she didn't faze Ye Meng that much because in Ye Qian’s memories he had seen many beautiful women that Li Xiaoyu couldn't compare to.
Li Xiaoyu noticed his lack of reaction and felt a bit depressed. Her charm was one of the things she felt the most confident in. She wanted to seduce him and have Ye Meng under her thumb but it he was just indifferent. Li Xiaoyu went to think about the decision that could change her entire life for 3 days straight. Li Xiaoyu was a smart girl but she was far too emotional, she loved her whole family but they were all massacred by the Dongxue Clan just because the vile young master wanted to spend a night with her! All that love that she felt for her family transformed into hate for the Dongxue Clan.
It was noon and they were both sitting down on the hard ground. Ye Meng was calm on the outside but in the inside he was extremely anxious. “What if she declines? I don’t want to coerce her and have her hate me for eternity. I know that my conditions were too harsh but I have to do this! Even Old Man Qian didn’t find someone with an 81 Divine Yin Meridians Body. Even if that technique is half as good as The Sovereign’s Body, then she’ll be able to be a supreme expert with the growth speed around my level. That’s what I need most, my cultivating speed is too fast to make allies. I’ll just end up passing them in strength within a couple hundred or thousand years.”
On the other hand, Li Xiaoyu was quite anxious as well. If she agreed, she didn’t want to be forced to do things she didn’t want to do. She wouldn’t mind being his servant as long as she could annihilate the Dongxue Clan but a small voice in her head said that she had her own dignity. Although he was quite good looking, she didn’t want to do that with someone she didn’t love. She gritted her teeth and she said, “I agree on one condition.”
Ye Meng was quite worried on what that one condition was, if it was too demanding then he would be forced to coerce her. “What’s your condition?” he asked her. She started turning red and she whispered, “No doing ...that… until I’m ready…” Her voice was extremely soft, if Ye Meng didn't posses superhuman hearing he wouldn’t be able to hear it. As soon as he heard those words he felt like he was gonna collapse, he was super worried for nothing. “Okay okay, I agree.”
Li Xiaoyu swore that she would follow each and every command except her previous remark while Ye Meng swore that he would give her his best techniques as long as she stayed as his maidservant. Now it was time for Ye Meng to give her a technique. Ye Meng wrote his memory of the The Heavenly 9 Yin Circulation technique on a slip of jade and handed it to Li Xiaoyu, “This technique is called The Heavenly 9 Yin Circulation technique which requires a special type of body to cultivate. You have that body, and you know that there is a level above the Mortal Realm right?”
She nodded and asked, “What about it, young master?”
Ye Meng wryly smiled and said, “This technique will probably let you reach the pinnacle of the realm above the Mortal Realm called the Immortal Realm. I was lying to you the whole time, if you didn’t agree on your own I would’ve coerced you because of your talent.”
Li Xiaoyu was speechless, she knew that peak level experts could ascend to the Immortal Realm but this technique could let someone reach the pinnacle of that realm! What kind of technique was it?! He had no reason to lie so she trusted his words. Her beautiful black eyes widened and she exclaimed, “How long do you think I can destroy the Dongxue Clan in, young master?”
Ye Meng shook his head and he answered, “I don’t know, this technique is extremely mysterious like the body refining technique I’m currently cultivating.”
Li Xiaoyu’s eyes started glowing when she wondered about how powerful the technique could be. Ye Meng was currently feeling annoyed, the sound of Young Master reminded him of many unfortunate events. “Xiaoyu, stop calling me young master. Just call me Ye Meng.”
Li Xiaoyu stopped calling him that obnoxious name and she started cultivating The Heavenly 9 Yin Circulation technique. He gave her one year to reach the Divine Sea stage. Li Xiaoyu was a peak Dan Forming cultivator when he first saw her but in a year she managed to reach the early Divine Sea Stage with the help of Ye Meng’s pills. Since Ye Meng got better ingredients, he could make pills of higher quality. His cultivation had broken through to reach early Divine Sea as well. In a nearby city, Ye Meng had been known as the ‘Mad Pill Concocting Youngster” simply because he would show up to the city every 4 weeks with a few hundred pills and bloodshot eyes. A 100 Tier 5 pills took a long time to concoct compared to the 100 Tier 1 pills he was making in the Jade Mountain Sect. The higher tier the pill, the more time and concentration it took. So, concocting hundreds of pills in 4 weeks was extremely fast to the point where people wondered if he ever stopped concocting pills.
During the one year, Ye Meng was often quite bored so he always flirted around with Li Xiaoyu during the one year. They had gotten awfully closer to the point where she trusted Ye Meng with everything. Ye Meng felt it amusing that she would probably listen to every order except that even without the agreement forcing her to. One day, Li Xiaoyu was cultivating the Heavenly 9 Yin Circulation technique when a dark light came out of her body. She was feeling excited, that meant she had reached the first stage! The dark light made her faint and her body was undergoing slight external and internal changes. Ye Qian had received the whole technique but he had only been able to interpret a bit of the technique. There were a lot of other parts he didn’t understand about this technique. After the change, Li Xiaoyu pulled out a mirror and saw her appearance. She was extremely happy about the new changes and she felt extremely confident. She walked towards Ye Meng’s cabin and entered the door.
Ye Meng was currently having fun eating delicacies such as a frosted cake, perfectly roasted meat with spices scattered all over it and a jar of thousand year old wine. Although he didn’t have to eat, he still did because the dishes in this world tasted countless times better than on Earth due to the nourishment of the Qi in the air. When he saw Li Xiaoyu come in, he instantly spit out the wine on the floor. After his long stare of shock, he sputtered out, “W-What happened to you?!!”
Not even Li Xiaoyu’s mother would’ve recognized her right now. She was completely different, in a good way though. Although she was a beauty before her change, her past couldn’t be compared to her current appearance. It was like comparing a mortal to an Immortal Fairy whose descended from the Heavens! She had long hair flowing down her shoulders and her back. Her beauty was absolutely flawless with thin pink lips and snow white skin. Her large emotionless eyes were the color of beautiful black jade. Her body was extremely well proportioned with a variety of perfect features. Her arms were thin and fragile as if they were a piece of porcelain. Her waist was thin as willow with her breasts were rather large but not too large. Her hips were wide and her butt was round and perky. Her facial expression was a cold type of emotionless as if nothing could ever phase her. Li Xiaoyu previously gave off a slightly noble aura but now, she gave off a cold, noble and graceful aura.
It was the first time that Ye Meng had seen such a beautiful woman, even in Ye Qian’s memories there wasn’t anyone more perfect than her. He felt incredibly blessed to have her as a maidservant but he also knew that beauty invited trouble. Li Xiaoyu felt bashful and delighted at the same time. Bashful because he was staring at her too intently but delighted because her charms were finally making their way into his heart. Ye Meng quickly suppressed all ideas of lust in his heart, lust was the downfall of many heroes in this world. He asked her playfully, “So, are you ready to do ...that thing… now?”
She immediately turned slightly red and she glared at him angrily. She walked towards him with exceedingly graceful movements that were mesmerizing to the eye and said coquettishly, “I’ve reached the first stage in The Heavenly 9 Circulation technique. Do I get any rewards?”
Ye Meng put on a vile smile and he hugged Li Xiaoyu right there taking full advantage of her. He wrapped his hands around her slender waist while pulling her towards him. Her body was soft and he felt her soft breasts pressing on his body. Li Xiaoyu was totally enraged, she had expected him to give her a powerful technique but in the end he just took complete advantage of her. She fiercely bit her arm and she angrily said, “You rascal! Go die!”
Ye Meng let go of the hug and his expression turned serious, “We’re heading to the capital now so get ready.”
She nodded and she started backing up things she needed. It was time to head to the capital!