Chapter 3

Yemo was just a collateral descendant of the Ye family. When he was a child, Yemo's status could be said to be on par with the Ye family's young master, Ye Changsheng, because Yemo was the son of the genius Ye Qing.

Ever since Ye Qing's fall, Yemo's status plummeted, and his life became worse day by day.

At first, Yemo could still receive 10 taels of silver as monthly allowance. But when the Ye family learned that Ye Qing had no chance of recovery, Yemo lost even his monthly allowance and had to work as a child alchemist for the Ye clan.

If it weren't for Uncle Fu, who went out to work every day to earn some silver, Yemo would have had to go out to work for money himself.

Yemo's own food was easy to solve, but Ye Qing also needed to eat.

Ye Qing's death did not cause much of a stir; only a few people in the Ye family knew about it.

After Ye Zhan Tian sent people to bury Ye Qing on the back mountain of the Ye clan, he also comforted Yemo. Ye Zhan Tian was once a good friend of Ye Qing and occasionally took care of Yemo within the Ye clan.

Although Ye Zhan Tian knew that Yemo had not been able to break through the Xuan Pass for five years due to other reasons, the five years without cultivation also meant that Yemo would not achieve much in his cultivation path.

This age was the golden period for cultivation, the period when the body was forming. Missing this period, it would be difficult to achieve anything in cultivation.

Yemo returned to his room. Although the room was old, Uncle Fu had kept it very clean. Uncle Fu was once Ye Qing's servant and had devoted half his life to Ye Qing. For Uncle Fu, Yemo also regarded him as his elder.

"My father once brought glory to the Ye family, but after his death, no one cared. This Ye family truly makes one's heart cold!"

"Today, I am five years behind others, so I must work five times, ten times harder than others. Those who once bullied me, I will definitely get back at them. I want to take revenge, I want to find my mother."

Yemo knew that he had to work a hundred times harder than others to have a chance to catch up with those so-called geniuses and to have a chance to enter the Withered Gate. Only by entering the Withered Gate could he take revenge.

Yemo sat cross-legged on the wooden bed, eyes slightly closed, and began to circulate his Dantian, absorbing the elemental energy from the air. Cultivation involved using the Dantian to absorb the elemental energy from the air and then converting it into yuan force, which was stored in the Dantian.

"I want to see what the Dragon Ascension Pillar is all about."

Since Yemo learned to visualize his Dantian at the age of 10, he knew about the existence of the Dragon Ascension Pillar. Ye Qing also told Yemo that this was a divine artifact obtained by his mother, Zining, in the Divine Venerable Realm. The Divine Venerable Realm was the pinnacle of the continent, and reaching the Divine Venerable level meant breaking through the heavens and chasing the sun, the supreme path, and eternal life and death.

After giving birth to Yemo, Zining sealed the Dragon Ascension Pillar in Yemo's Dantian. Then, the powerful members of Zining's family mysteriously arrived and forcibly took Zining away.

Now that Yemo was officially starting his cultivation, he wanted to see what the divine artifact left by the Divine Venerable Realm was all about.

Yemo began to visualize his Dantian, carefully observing the Dragon Ascension Pillar in his Dantian. The surface of the towering pillar was coiled with countless black dragons, as if they were restrained by the black pillar.

Yemo couldn't count how many dragons were on the pillar, but there were definitely many, as numerous as cattle hair, as numerous as stars. Yemo felt that the Dragon Ascension Pillar definitely had the power to confine dragons and the ability to ascend to the heavens. He faintly sensed the aura of the primordial and ancient times from the pillar.

Yemo began to circulate his Dantian, and the elemental energy from the air flowed into his nostrils, then rushed towards the Dantian, which began to refine the yuan force.

As Yemo began to refine the yuan force, the Dragon Ascension Pillar in his Dantian seemed to awaken. Countless dragon roars sounded, causing the yuan force in the Dantian to become chaotic. Then, the yuan force was continuously absorbed by the black dragon coiled at the bottom of the Dragon Ascension Pillar.

The black dragon emitted a faint black glow, which was very faint and hard to notice.

"This Dragon Ascension Pillar can absorb yuan force."

After thinking about it, Yemo began to absorb the elemental energy again, but the speed of the Dantian's circulation was too slow, and the Dantian's absorption of the yuan force could not keep up with the Dragon Ascension Pillar's absorption of the yuan force.

Yemo sat in meditation for a full hour, continuously absorbing the elemental energy. The black dragon at the bottom of the pillar emitted a stronger glow.

Yemo felt a surge of joy and continued to absorb the elemental energy. The black dragon at the bottom greedily absorbed the elemental energy, and a loud dragon roar sounded. The black dragon coiled at the bottom of the pillar seemed to awaken, and a black yuan force dragon flew out from the bottom of the pillar, circling in Yemo's Dantian.

Yemo felt that the black yuan force dragon seemed to be listening to him. Indeed, under Yemo's control, the black dragon directly rushed towards the Xuan Pass in Yemo's right hand, impacting the Xuan Pass in Yemo's right hand. After the impact, Yemo's arm felt numb.

A martial artist officially begins cultivation and enters the Qi Creation Realm by first breaking through five Xuan Passes. The process of breaking through the Xuan Passes is also a process of strengthening and refining the body.

"Ha ha, this Dragon Ascension Pillar is indeed extraordinary."

Dragons are ancient fierce beasts, the lords of all beasts, with the strength to move mountains and break rivers, and their power is extraordinary.

Yemo experienced the wonders of the black dragon pillar. This black dragon force was definitely much stronger than ordinary yuan force.

For the entire morning, Yemo absorbed the elemental energy, allowing the Dragon Ascension Pillar to absorb it. As long as the Dragon Ascension Pillar absorbed a certain amount of yuan force, the black dragon at the bottom of the pillar would emit a black glow, and a black yuan force dragon would fly out.

Yemo controlled the black dragon to impact the Xuan Pass in his right hand. By the end of the morning, Yemo's right arm felt as if it had undergone a thousand hammerings, and it was about to burst with powerful strength.

Yemo could feel that the Xuan Pass in his right hand was about to be broken through.

"Creak" The door was pushed open, and Uncle Fu had already brought in the food. Yemo opened his eyes and looked at the dishes in Uncle Fu's hands, wiping the saliva from the corner of his mouth. He rushed over, sat at the table, and began to eat voraciously.

Seeing Yemo's good appetite, Uncle Fu felt relieved. He had originally been worried that Yemo would be disheartened by Ye Qing's death, but he didn't expect Yemo to be even more spirited now.

"Master, eat slowly."

"Uncle Fu, I still have to go to Elder Yin to help him blow the furnace. If I'm late, he'll beat me to death." Yemo hurriedly finished his meal and rushed to Elder Yin. Elder Yin was a second-level alchemist hired by the Ye clan, and his status in the Ye clan was high. Yemo's assigned task was to help Elder Yin blow the furnace, a difficult job.

Yemo arrived at the alchemy room and saw that the door was closed. Yemo patted his chest; if Elder Yin had arrived earlier, Yemo would have been slapped twice. Yemo took the key from his pocket, unlocked the copper lock, and opened the door.

He saw two people rummaging through the medicine cabinet in the alchemy room. When the door opened, both were startled. When they saw it was Yemo, they immediately stopped and showed no signs of panic.

"Yemo, you'd better pretend you didn't see anything, or you'll end up like before." Ye Ming and Ye Xiaotian each held several valuable herbs, threatened Yemo, and then ran out of the alchemy room.

Ye Ming was a direct descendant of the Ye clan. Over the past five years, Yemo had suffered no shortage of bullying from Ye Xiaotian and Ye Ming. Regarding the theft of herbs, Ye Ming and Ye Xiaotian had done it many times. The few herbs they stole were worth at least 10 taels of silver, which was not a small amount for these ordinary direct descendants.

Yemo had once told Elder Yin about this, but he ended up being beaten by Ye Ming and Ye Xiaotian.

Yemo looked at their backs and said fiercely, "Once I break through the Xuan Pass, we'll see if I tell Elder Yin or not."

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