Chapter 3

After being stuck at the second level of the Spirit Qi Realm for three years, Chu Chen never thought that it would take him less than three hours to advance from the second level to the third. If his junior sister were here, she would probably be even more excited than Chu Chen, surely hugging him and sobbing uncontrollably.

Chu Chen tried hard to suppress his excitement and decided to continue using the "Spirit Attraction Formula" to draw the Spirit Qi outside his body. He wanted to see just how far his limits were after experiencing the brink of life and death.

After five hours, another dazzling light of breakthrough shot out, illuminating the small room where Chu Chen was, making it as bright as snow.

Chu Chen's mind was also as clear as snow.

Not long after, another light of breakthrough shot up into the sky, dispelling all the darkness!

Chu Chen finally slowly opened his eyes, took a long breath, and saw a hint of dawn breaking through the darkness outside the window. It was already morning.

In just one day and one night, he had broken through three levels, three times! Directly from the second level of the Spirit Qi Realm to the fifth level!

The amount of Spirit Qi in his dantian and qi sea had increased by more than ten times in one night, making Chu Chen feel an overwhelming sense of boundless spiritual power.

In his memory, the strongest genius in the outer sect took more than three months to advance from the second level to the fifth level of the Spirit Qi Realm. Could he, in just one night, have become even more talented than a genius?

Am I finally not a waste anymore? Do I really no longer have to trek through mountains and rivers every month to gather the necessary medicinal herbs?

I don't have to be saved by my junior sister every time I get bullied...

I finally have a chance to catch up with that bastard Yao Jinghai!

I have hope!

I am not a true waste, absolutely not!

Tears welled up in Chu Chen's eyes. For so many years, as a waste in the outer sect, no one knew the immense pressure he had endured. Faced with a completely stagnant cultivation, he had had enough.

This crazy breakthrough, he had waited for it for too long, too long.

He wanted to rush out of the door and shout wildly, but Chu Chen told himself to calm down, not to lose himself in excitement.

After calming down, Chu Chen began to think about what had changed in his body.

Why did the "tsunami-like qi flow" that had always troubled him disappear?

There must be a reason for all this. No matter what, the person Chu Chen most wanted to see right now was his junior sister Tong Meng, to tell her about his changes. But she had already gone out to gather herbs. Would she be alright?

Chu Chen thought that if he could be by her side at this moment, it would be wonderful. Although his realm had improved, his weakness had not been completely eliminated.

After resting well and taking the "Qi Nourishing Pill" left by his junior sister, Chu Chen slowly fell asleep and found himself in a state of chaos again.

Chu Chen did not know that dozens of miles away, another version of himself was waking up, or rather, a clone of himself was about to be born.

The location was the top of a tomb at the edge of the Black Mist Valley, in an eagle's nest on an old tree.

An egg covered with mysterious dark golden patterns was constantly emitting a suppressive aura. Suddenly, some fine cracks appeared on the eggshell!

According to legend, only those who cultivated to the supreme legendary realm could cultivate a body outside their own, which is a clone.

Chu Chen, a novice at the Spirit Qi Realm, should absolutely not have a clone.

But during his accidental fall, due to a strong will to survive, a part of his soul had escaped into the eagle's egg, and now the egg was at the critical moment of hatching!

Chu Chen felt his consciousness fall into chaos again, unable to move, and he was instantly terrified.

He thought to himself that if he had known, he wouldn't have been so ruthless in his cultivation! Breaking through three levels in one day and one night, it seemed he had incurred the wrath of heaven and returned to the dark world.

Soon he realized that this was completely different from the last time. This time, the dark space he was in was very small, making him feel constrained. So he instinctively struggled fiercely.

"Snap!"

With a crisp cracking sound, a blinding light shone down on his forehead. The sudden brightness made him instinctively squint his eyes. When he adapted to the light above, Chu Chen stared at the source of the light, dazed and lost in thought.

This... this looks like a cracked eggshell?

Chu Chen shook his head and pushed his forehead hard against the crack where the light was coming from. His body struggled violently, and with a series of crisp cracking sounds, the surrounding darkness shattered, and the invisible restraints gradually decreased.

Sigh!

Finally, he took a deep breath and broke free from the last restraint under his feet, and the dark blue sky came into view.

Chu Chen turned his head and looked at what he had broken free from, and he felt a sense of helplessness.

His feeling was right; it was an eggshell, a grayish-white eggshell covered with mysterious dark golden patterns, with fragments scattered all around.

The edges of the broken eggshell even shimmered with a faint golden light, as if the grayish-white shell hid a golden essence.

Chu Chen looked around and confirmed an incredible idea. Around him, layers of soft grass were woven together to form a warm and comfortable bird's nest.

Yes, a bird's nest. Chu Chen had emerged from a bird's egg about the size of a basin, and his body had turned into a newly hatched chick!

It was too absurd. One moment he was a normal person, and the next he was a newly hatched chick!

He was clearly still sleeping in the small courtyard, so why did he open his eyes and become a bird?

Chu Chen helplessly lowered his head and carefully examined himself.

His newly born, tender body was covered with a layer of soft down. From the size, it looked very much like a newly hatched eagle. His two small claws, though just born and still a bit yellow, were incredibly sharp, seemingly able to easily crush steel.

Compared to those two small claws, his body seemed a bit bulky. When he tried to take a few steps, he immediately rolled over and had to instinctively extend his two tender wings to stop himself.

Could it be... that he would have to start learning to walk like a chick from now on?

Chu Chen looked at his tender wings and couldn't help but feel a bitter smile, but the next moment he realized that this roll had coincidentally brought him to the edge of the eagle's nest.

From his vantage point, a range of green mountains stretched endlessly to the horizon.

This scenery... why does it seem familiar?

Chu Chen squinted his eyes; an eagle's vision far surpasses that of a human.

Moreover, the chick Chu Chen had become seemed to have some extraordinary qualities, with even sharper vision. At a glance, he could see places hundreds of miles away, and everything was clearly visible.

That range of mountains... how does it look so much like the Biquan Immortal Mountain? That quadrangle courtyard, isn't that where the outer sect disciples live?

Chu Chen felt more and more amazed as he looked. When his gaze swept over the area below, the mysterious valley shrouded in black mist made him draw a sharp breath. The Black Mist Valley!

This was clearly the place where he had the accident. He remembered that there was a tree on the edge of the Black Mist Valley, and on the tree was a dilapidated eagle's nest.

He was now in the eagle's nest!

Chu Chen felt a sense of helplessness. He never thought that while sleeping in the sect, he would wake up as an egg in an eagle's nest!

What on earth is going on?

Chu Chen closed his small eyes and vaguely sensed that dozens of miles away, there seemed to be another version of himself.

Could there be two of him, one still sleeping in the sect, and the other turned into a chick on an old tree?

Chu Chen's heart was filled with confusion. The eagle's nest was not small, about the size of a carriage wheel. There was only him in the entire nest, with no adult eagles, as if an irresponsible eagle had laid the egg and then flown away.

Chu Chen, who was looking around, did not realize that a gentle breeze was blowing, and a faint black mist from the Black Mist Valley was drifting to his nostrils.

When he smelled a somewhat pungent odor, he immediately reacted, and the sight made him terrified!

It turned out that the entire eagle's nest was covered by a large patch of black mist, which seemed to have naturally blown up from the Black Mist Valley below.

The Black Mist Valley's demonic mist, deadly upon contact! This was something everyone in the Biquan Immortal Sect knew. He had once inhaled a bit of the mist and nearly died.

And now, he had inhaled this terrifying nightmare-like demonic mist again!

Chu Chen's heart trembled. But the next moment, he was surprised to find that after inhaling a few breaths of the black mist, apart from the pungent smell, his body showed no other abnormal reactions. It seemed that his chick body was not afraid of the mist.

That's right. Since the eagle had dared to build its nest above the Black Mist Valley, it must be because this special eagle was not afraid of the black mist. If that's the case...

Chu Chen suddenly thought of the reason for his resurrection. Perhaps because of his accidental fall, he had gained this chick clone, and since the chick clone was not afraid of the black mist, his original body had also benefited, being cured without medicine.

Understanding the reason for his survival, Chu Chen's gaze involuntarily turned to the Black Mist Valley.

A fiery impulse suddenly appeared in Chu Chen's heart, an uncontrollable urge. He would never forget the shocking scenes he had seen when his soul left his body and entered the Black Mist Valley.

The countless corpses of gods and demons, and the broken and discarded weapons and magical treasures... If he was not afraid of the black mist, then when he grew up and could fly, wouldn't he be able to move freely in the Black Mist Valley?

Then, wouldn't the countless corpses and treasure fragments covering the entire land be an unimaginably rich treasure trove?

The ancient gods and demons had astonishing cultivation, their bodies refined to the ultimate state, eternal and indestructible. Without mentioning anything else, just the ancient bodies of the gods and demons were supreme treasures. Not to mention their weapons and magical treasures.

These heavenly treasures were refined from legendary divine materials over countless years. Even a fragment of them would be far stronger than the current ordinary weapons. If he had good luck and found one or two undamaged treasures... that would truly be a great fortune!

Incredible! A look of unparalleled joy rose in Chu Chen's heart. He clearly remembered that when his soul left his body and wandered the immortal mountain, and after entering the Black Mist Valley, he saw the storage ring of the founding ancestor of the Biquan Immortal Sect, the "Creation Green Emperor Ring," which was shining with treasure light, clearly undamaged!

The storage ring of the founding ancestor!... How many good things could be inside? It was unimaginable!

If he had these things, would he still fear that damn outer sect senior disciple Yao Jinghai?

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