Chapter 43

These days of focusing on healing have left him extremely exhausted. Although true qi can alleviate fatigue, he had already given all of his true qi to Hua Menghan, leaving none for himself.

"Thank you!" Hua Menghan said weakly. She felt that her clothes had not been moved, and there was still residual true qi from Ye Xiwen in her body. It must have been left over from when Ye Xiwen was healing and detoxifying her. He wasn't a bad person.

"There should be an antidote in Luo Tian's storage ring!" Hua Menghan said intermittently.

"Which one?" Ye Xiwen poured out a pile of bottles and jars from Luo Tian's storage ring, containing various kinds of pills, all of which were far superior to the pills of Zhao Qiyuan and An Yunpeng.

Hua Menghan identified each one, and finally found the antidote. From Hua Menghan's words, Ye Xiwen learned that this poison was called Seven Stars Holly, colorless and odorless, with an extremely potent toxicity. It would kill a martial artist of the Later Heaven realm upon contact, and even a martial artist of the Innate realm would find it hard to escape. If it weren't for Hua Menghan's special means, she might not have been able to hold on until Ye Xiwen arrived.

After taking the antidote, Hua Menghan began to fully detoxify, and her complexion gradually improved, showing signs of vitality, unlike the previous state of being surrounded by death.

Ye Xiwen knew that Hua Menghan was fine now. He relaxed and fell into a deep sleep.

He didn't know how long he had slept, but when he woke up, he suddenly realized that Hua Menghan had already left, leaving behind a note. In summary, she was very grateful for Ye Xiwen's help this time, but she had something to do today and had to leave first. If there was anything in the future, he could take her jade pendant to the main sect of the One Yuan Sect to find her.

Ye Xiwen picked up the jade pendant beside him. It felt cool to the touch, with a phoenix intricately carved on it, lifelike and vivid. When he picked up the jade pendant, Ye Xiwen felt a coolness rush to his head, making his mind clear.

This was a rare treasure. If worn during cultivation, it would greatly enhance the effectiveness of cultivation, and there would be no fear of going astray.

Such a thing was far more precious than inner armor. The greatest fear in cultivation was going astray, but if one wore this jade pendant, there would be no fear of going astray.

This rare treasure was indeed very precious. Ye Xiwen knew that this must be Hua Menghan's way of repaying him for saving her life. Otherwise, if it were just a token of gratitude, any object would do, not such a precious treasure.

Since Hua Menghan had already left, there was no point in thinking about it further. However, since she was a disciple of the One Yuan Sect, they would surely meet again someday, definitely!

After this core disciple competition, Ye Xiwen would also report to the main sect of the One Yuan Sect.

They would surely meet again someday!

Ye Xiwen finally had time to look at Luo Tian's storage ring. Indeed, as an Innate expert, Luo Tian was far wealthier than Zhao Qiyuan and An Yunpeng, who were only at the Later Heaven realm. In Luo Tian's storage ring, there were no low-grade spirit stones, only 500 medium-grade spirit stones. When Ye Xiwen saw so many medium-grade spirit stones, he couldn't help but be amazed. After all, these were not low-grade spirit stones, but medium-grade spirit stones. One medium-grade spirit stone could be exchanged for 1,000 low-grade spirit stones. These 500 medium-grade spirit stones, if converted to low-grade spirit stones, would amount to 500,000 low-grade spirit stones, a truly astronomical number. Even a typical Innate expert wouldn't have such a rich fortune. It was only because Luo Tian was the young master of the Luo family that his wealth was far greater than that of a typical Innate expert.

Typical Innate experts would only use medium-grade spirit stones when necessary, although they could be exchanged for low-grade spirit stones, Ye Xiwen wasn't foolish enough to do that.

Exchanging medium-grade spirit stones for low-grade spirit stones was easy, but converting low-grade spirit stones back to medium-grade spirit stones was not so easy.

As long as Ye Xiwen wasn't foolish, he wouldn't do such a thing.

This time, Ye Xiwen had made a huge windfall. Besides these medium-grade spirit stones, there were also various kinds of pills, from those that restored vital energy to those that restored true qi, all of high quality.

However, what Ye Xiwen valued most was a cultivation technique called "Yi Jin Shuo Gu Gong" (Muscle and Bone Transformation Technique). The greatest use of this technique was to change a person's appearance, essentially for disguise. When practiced to a high level, it could even change one's bones and height, completely transforming one into another person.

Of course, it wouldn't change indefinitely, but would require continuous maintenance with true qi. However, once he broke through to the Innate realm, his true qi would be endless, and this consumption would be negligible for an Innate expert.

Even if he wasn't an Innate expert, as long as he took pills to replenish true qi from time to time, he could sustain it. Of course, typical Later Heaven experts wouldn't waste so many true qi replenishing pills. For martial artists, these true qi replenishing pills could save their lives in critical moments. However, Ye Xiwen wasn't short of them. Although the pills he had obtained from Zhao Qiyuan and An Yunpeng were used up, he had obtained a batch from Luo Tian, so he was not lacking.

However, Ye Xiwen didn't have time to cultivate the "Yi Jin Shuo Gu Gong" now. The core disciple competition was starting in just a couple of days.

After more than two hours, Ye Xiwen finally returned to the One Yuan Sect. It was even more bustling than three months ago, due to the core disciple competition. Many core disciples who hadn't been seen for years, like dragons showing their heads but not their tails, had returned to the sect to prepare for the competition.

On a normal day, inner sect disciples were the highest-ranking disciples in the sect, but at this time, they had to be cautious, as the core disciples had returned. These core disciples were the best among the inner sect disciples in the past, and they couldn't be provoked.

When Ye Xiwen returned to the sect, many inner sect disciples immediately recognized him from a distance and greeted him along the way. Now that Ye Xiwen was a core disciple, his status was naturally different. Moreover, he had come from behind as a dark horse, ultimately defeating Dongfang Bai and winning the championship, establishing his prestige.

Ye Xiwen wasn't arrogant and nodded to them.

As he entered the One Yuan Sect, he was about to go home when a wild laugh suddenly came from somewhere.

"Dongfang Bai, I've heard of your name before, a famous genius in the One Yuan Sect. But now, you seem to be nothing special!" A young, arrogant voice echoed. "It seems that the level of this year's core disciples in the One Yuan Sect is just that!"

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