Chapter 9

After a moment, those ten large characters actually began to shrink, contracting into the interior of the bead. Even more shocking was that Ye Xiao's consciousness seemed to be sucked into the bead along with this force of contraction!

"This bead is clearly inside my body, so how can it suck me in? What's going on?" Just as Ye Xiao's puzzled thoughts arose, with a "whoosh," his consciousness had already entered a strange space.

After a brief moment of daze, Ye Xiao quickly regained his composure and looked around. In the midst of swirling white clouds, a massive palace stood majestically!

Directly below the palace were two huge white jade gates, completely empty and smooth as a mirror!

As Ye Xiao focused his gaze, a sudden sound was heard, and a character seemed to fly in from the heavens, landing on the left side of the empty gatepost like a falling meteor!

"Heaven!"

Then, another character fell.

Ye Xiao was already prepared; watching these characters fall like meteors from the sky and embed themselves into the gateposts, they were precisely the ten characters he had seen earlier: "The only master of heaven and earth, the first spirit of chaos!"

Then, a series of words began to flash on the white jade gates.

"Heaven and earth have only one master. Who is the master?"

"When chaos first opened, the spirit bead appeared; with the power of creation and the strength of the universe, this object was created; it gave rise to all living things, from the sun, moon, and stars above to the mountains, rivers, and earth below..."

It was a grand and extensive passage.

As Ye Xiao read, he felt a bit dazed. The words inside this bead seemed to be too grandiose. Could the sun, moon, and stars really be your creation?

That... can't be possible, right?

Do you think you're a god? A saint? A supreme being?!

The next moment, the originally tightly closed gates burst open!

A dense white mist surged out!

Behind the white mist was a long corridor.

Just as Ye Xiao was about to step in, a sudden flash of golden light appeared, and a line of text suddenly appeared before his eyes.

"To enter this gate, one must face life and death in a single thought!"

Ye Xiao paused, focusing his gaze.

After these eight characters, another twelve characters flashed, as if directly embedding themselves into his mind.

"Fail to become the master of heaven and earth, and you will turn into cosmic dust!"

Ye Xiao felt a heavy shock in his heart!

This was a clear statement: since you have entered here, you are destined to accept the inheritance here, and there is only one path: to become the master of heaven and earth!

If you fail, you will become dust!

You will perish!

In simple terms: no success, no life!

These conditions were extremely harsh.

No life, no death!

There was no room for compromise.

Ye Xiao stood quietly for a while, murmuring to himself, "A man in this world should be the master of everything! Even if I don't succeed, I will have fought to the end, and I will die without regret! What does it matter if I become dust? What does it matter if I become grass? Life is but a fleeting season!"

"If I succeed, I will be the master!"

With his hands behind his back, he walked in calmly.

He didn't even glance at the warning messages flashing around him.

To achieve greatness or to become dust!

He felt a surge of blood in his heart, filled with an indescribable impulse!

Indeed, it was so!

In the Qingyun Heavenly Domain, the three major sects!

You just wait! I, Ye Xiao, will return soon!

This place, with such warnings, was perfectly suited to Ye Xiao's character!—No success, no life!

And in his previous life, he had indeed lived by this principle!

Perhaps, the current Ye Xiao had even more confidence!

"Indeed, it's here!" In the vast hall, there was a peculiar area where the piece of Heavenly Crystal Spirit Marrow was placed in the center, slowly emitting a dense white mist, which merged with the purple aura in the hall, and the purple aura in the hall was also slowly entering the Heavenly Crystal Spirit Marrow...

"I guessed right, they are interacting, stimulating each other, forming a certain cyclic pattern." Ye Xiao thought. Although he didn't understand exactly what was happening, he could see that this bead might need the Heavenly Crystal Spirit Marrow as a power source...

Ye Xiao tried to take out the Heavenly Crystal Spirit Marrow but found that he couldn't even touch it.

"What the hell is this? I went through so much trouble to get this thing, and now I can't even touch it?" Ye Xiao was quite frustrated.

After confirming the presence of the spirit bead and the Heavenly Crystal Spirit Marrow, Ye Xiao looked around the surroundings and found that although he had entered this massive palace, he could only move in a very small area. The other buildings behind were still shrouded in dense white mist, making it impossible to see anything.

Suddenly, a "ding" sound echoed in the air, like the sound of a temple bell, resonating slowly...

Ye Xiao was stunned by the bell sound, and a feeling like "enlightenment" suddenly appeared in his mind. He clearly felt that this sound had shown him his countless past lives!

The long span of time in his past lives flashed by in front of Ye Xiao in a moment!

It seemed real, yet dreamlike, tangible yet elusive...

As the sound lingered, suddenly, a massive purple aura surged up from the center of the hall, forming ten large characters!

"At the beginning of heaven and earth, only the purple aura comes from the east!"

A dense, brilliantly glowing purple aura suddenly appeared, burst forth, and rushed into Ye Xiao's forehead at an incredible speed!

Instantly, Ye Xiao felt a sense of dizziness, but a cultivation technique suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Creation of all things, the Purple Aura from the East Technique!"

"At the beginning of heaven and earth, the purple aura comes from the east, the mother of all things, nourishing the cosmos... This technique for gathering the purple aura, with a pure heart and spirit, my heart as heaven, the yin and yang revolving, the three lights merging, the mind clear as ice, the purple aura from the east."

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"The Purple Aura from the East Technique!"

Ye Xiao carefully read through the cultivation technique, and after a moment of contemplation, a sense of enlightenment, as if he had found a treasure, filled his heart!

Before his rebirth, Ye Xiao had achieved a great reputation, and his cultivation foundation was extraordinary. The cultivation techniques he had practiced were also exceptional, and his insight and discernment were far beyond ordinary people. However, even if the "Purple Aura from the East Technique" might not be the first technique to create heaven and earth, it was far superior to the Pure Yang Technique he had practiced before his rebirth. The difference was like the sky and the earth, or even more exaggerated, because they were not even on the same level!

Just reading the opening of the technique made him feel the boundless and vast path of cultivation.

He sat on the bed, fully focused on running the new cultivation technique, over and over again, guiding the meager energy in his dantian through the new path...

The scattered spiritual energy in the world began to slowly gather here, flowing into Ye Xiao's body, bit by bit, entering his dantian...

Inside the bead, the newly entered Heavenly Crystal Spirit Marrow continued to emit pure spiritual energy, making the space increasingly solid...

Ye Xiao sat there for a whole night!

Ye Xiao clearly remembered that when he was running the new cultivation technique for the 1,999th cycle, suddenly, with a "whoosh," it felt as if his soul was also shaken, and all his body's acupoints opened simultaneously. The spiritual energy from heaven and earth rushed into his body like a mad flood.

In his dantian, the massive amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth was absorbed, and at the same time, a cool force appeared, like an extremely resilient thread, entering Ye Xiao's meridians!

This was the first thread of innate spiritual energy created by the bead and the Heavenly Crystal Spirit Marrow!

If ordinary spiritual energy entering the dantian and condensing into ordinary threads, then this innate spiritual energy was like a thousand-pound silk thread!

This was the so-called gap between mortals and immortals!

A world of difference!

As Ye Xiao continued to run the Purple Aura from the East Technique in a trance, a layer of sticky, smelly liquid gradually seeped out of his skin, black and foul-smelling...

Ye Xiao remained motionless, seemingly unaware of his body's gradual dirtiness, his heart filled with inexplicable excitement!

This state was precisely what cultivators most desired in the early stages of cultivation—

Refining the body and purifying the bones!

This was the first step on the path to true cultivation; with ordinary techniques, one would need to reach the innate realm to achieve such effects, completely transforming the mortal body into a dao body.

Unexpectedly, the Purple Aura from the East Technique began this process of refining the body and purifying the bones right from the start!

He had truly found a treasure this time.

Perhaps, the opening of the technique, which stated that the Purple Aura from the East Technique was the first technique to create heaven and earth, was not an exaggeration!

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The next morning, before dawn, Ye Xiao hurriedly walked out of the room and jumped into the fish pond outside with a "splash."

In the fish pond, the several-foot-long carp were startled by this unexpected visitor and swam around in panic.

There was no choice; Ye Xiao had just woken up from his cultivation and was shocked to find his body had turned into a cesspool, incredibly foul-smelling!

The body of the former playboy contained so much filth, all of which was now expelled, forming a thick layer on his skin...

Ye Xiao even felt that his eyelids were covered with the filth...

With a casual rub, he picked up a large clump, solid. Another rub, and he got a long strip, as thick as his finger, more than a foot long... Anyone who didn't know would think that Lord Ye had caught a small catfish in his own fish pond...

The strong stench spread with the wind, making anyone who smelled it feel nauseous.

The smell was so bad that a guard, covering his nose and frowning, came to check, but was directly scolded by Ye Xiao: "Can't you see I'm taking a bath? What are you doing here?"

The guard, covering his nose, fled in panic.

Damn, I know you're taking a bath, but the problem is, one, it's too early to take a bath before dawn, and two, anyone who doesn't know would think you're cleaning a public toilet...

The fish pond in the Ye residence was very large, extremely large.

But when Ye Xiao climbed out of the fish pond, he looked back and saw that all the large fish in the pond were floating on the surface, their bellies up, gasping for fresh air with their mouths open...

If the fish could speak, they would surely cry: "Damn, it's too smelly... No way to live..."

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