Chapter 84

"Even at the brink of death, you still dare to be so arrogant!" Dong Lao San sneered at Ye Chu, his face dark and sinister.

Ye Chu was not affected by the other party's words in the slightest. He suddenly took out the Jiyi Jade that Tan Miaotong had given him.

Dong Lao San looked at the Jiyi Jade in Ye Chu's hand, his eyes shining with greed, which was evident. The Jiyi Jade was a good thing, and among the Thirty-Six Caves, only the leader possessed some. He never thought that this young man could also take it out. However, was he taking it out now to buy his way out? But it was very unfortunate: even if he killed him, this thing would still fall into their hands.

As their greedy eyes focused on the Jiyi Jade in Ye Chu's hand, the thing Ye Chu took out again made their breathing quicken. Even Tan Miaotong couldn't help but glance sideways: "Shadan! What is Ye Chu going to do?"

Shadan! It was a pill refined from sha qi (negative energy). Sha qi was extremely harmful to cultivators. However, Shadan was different. It was refined using special methods, removing most of the destructive and violent properties that were harmful to cultivators. The remaining Shadan was highly beneficial to cultivators.

This could be considered a different form of spiritual energy. Taking Shadan was highly beneficial for cultivators.

Sha qi was like an unparalleled beauty. Before removing the unstable properties, doing something to her could result in her kicking your balls. But when her violence was tamed and she became as gentle as water, doing something to her would be a great pleasure.

Shadan was the tamed and gentle beauty.

Spiritual energy and sha qi were opposites. Under normal circumstances, cultivators could not touch sha qi. But what if one day they could absorb sha qi without harm? The opposing sha qi would stimulate the body, accelerating cultivation and greatly aiding it.

An old madman on Qingmi Mountain once said: "People divide the essence of the world into spiritual energy and sha qi, but they do not know that sha qi is also spiritual energy, and spiritual energy is also sha qi."

For the vast majority of cultivators, they could only absorb spiritual energy, and sha qi was their great enemy. But for some special species, they could only absorb sha qi and could not touch spiritual energy. For them, sha qi was spiritual energy.

Spiritual energy and sha qi were both essences of the world, but people could only cultivate with one of them. Both were forms of energy, and energy had no inherent good or bad.

People could refine sha qi into Shadan, which was enough to prove that it belonged to the essence of the world and could be used by cultivators! There was too much spiritual energy in the world, but sha qi was not common. In a certain sense, sha qi was more precious than spiritual energy, and the cultivation effect was even better. As long as you could bear it, the effect of cultivating with sha qi was far better than that of the same level of spiritual energy.

However, how many people in the world could bear the cultivation with sha qi? Therefore, a group of people took a different path, refining and forging Shadan, a good thing to aid cultivation.

Ye Chu had several such things that made others envious. Ye Chu's constitution was special; sha qi entering his body would not extinguish his vitality but could be guided by Ye Chu to condense into the Shadan that made others envious, and it was extremely pure. Of course, there was one difference: the destructive and violent properties of the Shadan condensed by Ye Chu were not tamed much.

Even Pang Shao and his group did not know that Ye Chu could condense Shadan. Ye Chu took a deep breath and recalled the words "sha qi and spiritual energy are one, which can transform into yin and yang."

It was not very realistic for sha qi and spiritual energy to be one, as they were opposites, and being one would easily turn his body into a battlefield.

So Ye Chu thought, should this phrase be understood in reverse, using the method of yin and yang transformation to make sha qi and spiritual energy exchange? Sha qi and spiritual energy were not present in the body at the same time but alternated, like yin and yang, where when the sun was out, the moon was hidden, and when the moon was out, the sun was hidden.

These days, Ye Chu had been verifying this, feeling that his guess might be correct. But because he was not sure, he had never tried it.

But now he had no other way out, and he had to try it, regardless of whether it was right or wrong. Even if it was wrong, the Shadan in his hand could still enhance his strength.

"Tsk tsk! You have quite a few good things. But I'm sorry, such good things will all fall into my hands." Dong Lao San's eyes were filled with fervor. He could see that the Shadan in Ye Chu's hand was extremely pure and of high quality, but he did not see that the destructive properties of Ye Chu's Shadan had not been tamed much.

"Be afraid that you won't get it!" After saying this, Ye Chu suddenly clutched the Shadan, and several Shadans began to seep into his body.

This scene made Dong Lao San and the others change their expressions, and they felt fear. Although Shadan had been refined, most of the destructive properties had been tamed. But it was still a product of sha qi, and using it required great caution, let alone absorbing several at once, which would likely cause severe damage to the body.

But the result surprised them. Ye Chu absorbed several Shadans without any abnormalities. Ye Chu completely suppressed the spiritual energy in his body, preventing the energy from the Shadan from mixing with it.

After the spiritual energy retreated, the energy from the Shadan rampaged in his body.

During the rampage, Ye Chu's body was slowly refined. The refining effect was completely opposite to that of spiritual energy, causing a strange change in the physical body.

It was like refining steel, where steel had to be refined in two opposing environments, cold and hot, to produce high-quality steel.

Because of the repeated cold and heat, the steel could transform. At this moment, Ye Chu's body was in such a state. Previously, his own true qi refined the physical body, but now it was the opposing sha qi refining the physical body, equivalent to the ice and fire exchange in steel refining.

This effect was obvious, and Ye Chu could feel the transformation.

Of course, not everyone could use this method; only someone like Ye Chu, who was not afraid of sha qi invading his body, could dare to try it.

"Cultivate the primordial spirit of the body!"

Ye Chu was at such a level, where the most important thing was to cultivate the body, refining the essence, energy, and spirit. Before reaching the realm of intention, the qi produced by cultivation in the body was just turbid qi.

Only by transforming turbid qi into the body's essence could one enter the innate realm and reach a higher level.

What Ye Chu needed to do now was such a transformation. If the transformation succeeded, it would represent a snake shedding its skin and being reborn, entering a new level.

Taking a deep breath, he tried to suppress the energy produced by the Shadan, allowing his true qi to reoccupy his body.

With the effect of cold, the sudden occupation of the body by fire was like a violent collision, causing Ye Chu's body to tremble, and his tendons and bones to contract and expand.

This instant contraction and expansion shattered a lot of Ye Chu's true qi, and he exhaled a mouthful of turbid qi.

Noticing that his true qi had decreased, Ye Chu was not sad but rather extremely pleased: "Could it be that my guess is really correct?"

All of this happened very quickly, and Dong Lao San did not know what Ye Chu was doing. He looked at the Jiyi Jade in Ye Chu's hand and said greedily, "Let's see how many good things you have on you; I, the Cave Master, will take them all."

As he spoke, he suddenly reached out towards Ye Chu.

"Fear that none of you will be able to take it today." Ye Chu's eyes suddenly shone, staring straight at Dong Lao San.