Chapter 41

Yezhen remembered Tufangye because of the sect's forbidden area.

That day, while with Fairy Caiyi at the edge of the sect's forbidden area, Yezhen heard a strange sound and felt that the forbidden area might truly hide some great secrets.

After returning, Yezhen subconsciously inquired about the situation of the sect's forbidden area from various sources.

What Yezhen could inquire about was limited to the circle of outer disciples, and this circle was too low-level, unable to obtain any useful information.

Many outer disciples, let alone give Yezhen any useful information, most of them had never even heard of the 'sect's forbidden area.' It was only Jin Yuanbao, who had been in the sect for a long time, who knew a bit more and barely knew of the existence of the sect's forbidden area.

As for the sect's forbidden area being the place where the former true disciple Tufangye fell, no one knew about it, not even Yezhen.

Yezhen never expected to find the notes of the already fallen true disciple Tufangye in the pages of the Lightning Leopard Electric Fist.

"The words are for those who come after. The Lightning Leopard Electric Fist is extremely fast and powerful, but if the true essence is not pure enough, the explosive power will be insufficient, unable to effectively defeat the enemy. Initially, I achieved success in practicing the Lightning Leopard Electric Fist, but was troubled by the lack of purity in my true essence. After much research, I discovered that the Lightning Leopard Electric Fist can be perfectly combined with the Inch Step Collapse Fist.

If the two are combined, the power increases several times, compensating for the lack of purity in the true essence. Its power can rival a mid-grade human-level martial technique. Later, I refined my true essence, and when it became pure, the combined technique's power approached that of a high-grade human-level martial technique.

Seeing these words means you have a connection. If you are interested, you can practice according to the following method......"

After reading Tufangye's notes, Yezhen's shock was indescribable.

Combination!

The fallen Tufangye could actually combine two low-grade human-level martial techniques, and the power could rival a high-grade human-level martial technique, which was simply amazing.

Even inner disciples could only practice low-grade human-level martial techniques, and only the elite among them might practice mid-grade human-level martial techniques.

As for high-grade human-level martial techniques, according to Instructor Liao Feibai, only one in a hundred inner disciples could obtain them.

In other words, Yezhen had found a treasure.

As long as Yezhen followed Tufangye's method to combine the Lightning Leopard Electric Fist with the Inch Step Collapse Fist, with the purity of Yezhen's true essence, he could obtain a powerful fist technique.

This would allow Yezhen, as an outer disciple, to obtain a top-tier fist technique that only inner disciples might obtain.

Yezhen carefully stored the true disciple's notes and couldn't help but feel a bit regretful. It seemed that when Tufangye was practicing the Lightning Leopard Electric Fist, he was also an inner disciple with not high cultivation, but he could creatively combine two completely different fist techniques, increasing their power several times.

If Tufangye hadn't fallen and was still alive, he would have been an incredibly talented existence.

Unconsciously, Yezhen became even more curious about the fallen true disciple Tufangye.

What kind of existence was Tufangye?

As a true disciple, a powerful existence, how could he have fallen in the back mountain not far from the sect?

Not only did he fall, but his place of fall was designated as the sect's forbidden area. What secrets were hidden there?

Without hesitation, Yezhen went to the scripture hall again and brought back the low-grade human-level martial technique, the Inch Step Collapse Fist.

Fortunately, Yezhen had earned a substantial amount of sect contribution points before. Otherwise, even if Yezhen had obtained the true disciple's notes in the Lightning Leopard Electric Fist, he wouldn't have been able to obtain the Inch Step Collapse Fist in a short time.

There was no other reason. Yezhen had entered the top three of the Earth Rank, and the sect had rewarded him with the qualification to enter the second floor of the scripture hall, where he could choose low-grade human-level martial techniques that only inner disciples could choose.

However, the qualification was just that. To select and practice the techniques from there, he still had to pay sect contribution points.

The sect contribution points required for low-grade human-level martial techniques were almost double those required for high-grade mortal-level martial techniques.

The Lightning Leopard Electric Fist required 500 sect contribution points to exchange, the Wind God Step required 400 points, and the Inch Step Collapse Fist also required 500 points.

Three martial techniques required 1400 sect contribution points. Yezhen had previously earned 2000 sect contribution points, which were almost depleted.

No wonder the sect's old steward was extremely surprised when Yezhen chose the sect's techniques again, as even some veteran inner disciples couldn't come up with so many sect contribution points at once.

Yezhen had obtained the new body technique, but he wasn't in a hurry to practice it. His top priority was to refine the last bit of blood qi vortex in his body, allowing his cultivation to fully enter the True Essence Realm.

After entering the True Essence Realm, there would be a high-grade human-level martial technique waiting for him, which only top-tier inner disciples might obtain.

Yezhen had three days left!

Within three days, Yezhen must break through to the True Essence Realm, or he wouldn't be able to obtain the reward promised by Instructor Liao.

After swallowing a True Essence Pill, Yezhen sat cross-legged again, activating the medicinal power and practicing intensively. Now, Yezhen had two bottles of True Essence Pills, and he was confident that with such abundant resources, breaking through from the peak of the fifth level of Blood Refinement to the True Essence Realm was just a matter of time.

But things did not go as planned.

Day by day, Yezhen's True Essence Pills were consumed one by one. The true essence accumulated in Yezhen's body from continuously taking the pills made his meridians ache, but the bottleneck of the True Essence Realm did not waver in the slightest.

Three days passed in a flash. Within three days, Yezhen took ten True Essence Pills in succession but still did not break through to the True Essence Realm.

"Still can't break through?" Yezhen opened his eyes and smiled bitterly. After the life-and-death battle, taking ten True Essence Pills in three days, Yezhen had tried all the methods he could think of to break through, but he was still stuck at the bottleneck of the True Essence Realm.

"Three months have passed. It seems the high-grade human-level martial technique promised by Instructor Liao is out of my reach. I wonder how Instructor Liao will deal with me, will he cut me down every time he sees me?"

Seeing that the time agreed upon with Instructor Liao had passed, Yezhen felt disappointed and couldn't help but sigh. Some things couldn't be forced. It seemed he could only use a gradual approach to slowly break through this bottleneck.

Just as Yezhen completely gave up on Instructor Liao's reward, the last bit of blood qi vortex in his dantian trembled, and the blood qi collapsed, condensing into droplets of true essence. Instantly, a true essence vortex appeared in Yezhen's dantian.

"Is it just like this to break through?"

"Once I let go of that obsession, I broke through?"

In surprise, Yezhen suddenly remembered a saying, 'Everything should be done naturally, without forcing it!'

The moment the true essence vortex formed, it began to疯狂地吸收充斥在经脉中的药力，叶真的修为开始飞速提升。

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PS: 对不起，凌晨两点才更新。

可能是新书综合症吧，有一个细节剧情分歧，很是纠结，想了老半天都无法决定下来，删了写，写了删，到现在才勉强做出了决定。

兄弟们晚安，猪三也得赶紧休息，早上七点不得起床送闺女上学！

(Translation of the PS: Sorry, updated at 2 AM.

It might be the new book syndrome. There was a plot detail that was very troubling, and I couldn't decide for a long time, deleting and rewriting, until I finally made a decision.

Good night, everyone. I need to rest quickly, as I have to get up at 7 AM to take my daughter to school!)