Chapter 135: Sect Mission

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In the distance, the grey-clad man from the Qinling, who had been closely watching the battle from the start, was taken aback when he saw Ye Chenxing’s terrifying strength. He was even more shocked when he witnessed Chen Fei and Su Ran working together to contend with a powerhouse of Ye Chenxing’s caliber. His heart, filled with a strange sense of expectation, yearned to see both sides suffer grievous injuries.
Boom!
The ground where Ye Chenxing stood erupted with a tremendous crash! A terrifying shockwave swept through the area, shattering the surrounding grass and splitting the ground. However, Ye Chenxing mysteriously vanished.
“Did he run?” Su Ran looked at the empty pit in disbelief. There was no trace of Ye Chenxing’s figure.
“Yes.” Chen Fei confirmed. “He used an escape technique.”
Chen Fei could clearly sense that as the Earth Spirit Technique descended, Ye Chenxing had used an escape technique, burrowing himself into the earth and quickly vanishing at an incredible speed, even faster than his own Earth Escape technique.
Su Ran turned her gaze towards Chen Fei, revealing a smile, as if she had narrowly survived a catastrophe. Though they had not killed Ye Chenxing this time, they had managed to win this difficult battle.
Su Ran was well aware that Chen Fei deserved most of the credit. If it weren’t for the Axe Spirit Weapon wounding Ye Chenxing’s magic weapon, they both would likely have died. Had Ye Chenxing not been forced to use the Soul Control Technique recklessly, causing himself to be injured, he might have fled. The final result could have been far worse.
For a moment, Chen Fei breathed a sigh of relief as he retrieved the Axe Spirit Weapon. His gratitude for this item grew stronger.
“Ye Chenxing probably won’t dare to come back for a while,” Chen Fei said. “Let’s focus on finding opportunities and turning the tables on our identities and status. Once we’ve gained enough power, we can hunt down Ye Chenxing.”
“Mm.” Su Ran nodded, her gaze lingering on the Axe Spirit Weapon. She still felt something was off about it.
Meanwhile, Ye Chenxing, having used the escape technique to flee, was severely injured and in urgent need of a place to recover his damaged mental power. His injuries seemed serious, but they hadn’t damaged his core, and with a little time, he could quickly recover.
What truly troubled Ye Chenxing, however, was the unexpected power of Chen Fei. It far surpassed his expectations.
“Who is this old guy pretending to be Chen Yang?”
“He must have had a Soul Spirit Master cultivation before he borrowed a corpse,” Ye Chenxing mused.
Soul Spirit Masters were extremely powerful. In his understanding, only a Soul Spirit Master could be considered a true cultivator. Regardless of whether they were spell spirit masters or martial spirit masters, when they reached the Earth Realm, they were all known as Soul Spirit Masters. At this stage, they must cultivate the power of the Earth, transforming both their spiritual power and mental energy into a deep understanding of the Earth’s force.
The force of the Earth was incredibly mysterious, far surpassing both spiritual and mental energy in complexity and unpredictability, making its power immense.
What was different was that spell spirit masters cultivated the Earth’s force to nourish their mental power vortex, while martial spirit masters used it to nurture their dantian vortex.
Ye Chenxing stopped at the outskirts of the core area. This place was safe, and he could attend to his own matters without fear.
“Su Ran, Chen Yang!” Ye Chenxing muttered. “Don’t get too comfortable!”
After his failure, Ye Chenxing did not give up on his ambition to seize Su Ran’s Phoenix Bloodline. He decided to risk everything—either succeed or die within this secret realm. He wasn’t afraid of death, but because he had no way out, he had no choice.
Ye Chenxing’s appearance in Huangwu City was not a coincidence. He had been sent with a mission, but upon discovering Su Ran’s secret, he abandoned his task, using all the resources given to him by the sect to deal with Su Ran.
This led to the failure of his mission. If he didn’t obtain Su Ran’s Phoenix Bloodline, the sect would surely punish him, and that punishment would be death—and a painful one at that.
Ye Chenxing, although a demonic cultivator, was different from Ye Chenyi. Ye Chenyi relied on the Blood Demon Art and had sacrificed his body to the Qi Yu’s Execution Scythe magic weapon, gaining strength from the magic weapon rather than his own cultivation.
Now, Ye Chenxing was going to take the same route as Ye Chenyi. He planned to offer his own life force to a magic weapon in hopes of quickly increasing his power. He believed that once he absorbed Su Ran’s Phoenix Bloodline, he would be able to find a way to break free from the sacrifice tied to the magic weapon.
He was only temporarily using the magic weapon’s power to enhance his strength enough to kill Chen Fei and Su Ran. Once that was done, he could focus on breaking free from the pact.
With that, Ye Chenxing took out a magic dagger and infused his blood and mental power into it, beginning the practice of the Blood Demon Art. From this moment on, Ye Chenxing had truly set foot on a path of no return. He thought that by killing Su Ran, he would be able to escape the Blood Demon Art’s sacrifice path, but little did he know, the dangers and difficulties were far beyond his imagination.
Otherwise, many people could learn the Blood Demon Art in the sect, but only a few dared to walk the path of a demonic cultivator.
Meanwhile, Chen Fei and Su Ran were unaware of Ye Chenxing’s decision to follow in Ye Chenyi’s footsteps. After defeating Ye Chenxing, they resumed their activities—hunting phantom beasts, gathering spirit essence, and searching for rare herbs to increase their cultivation.
Even the grey-clad man from Qinling, despite coveting Su Ran’s Phoenix Bloodline, couldn’t help but feel immense fear after seeing Ye Chenxing, a spell spirit master, flee. He knew that he could no longer follow them secretly, lest he be discovered and killed by their combined strength.
“I’m not in a hurry,” he thought to himself. “I still have a chance. If I can reach the fourth level and obtain the ultimate opportunity there, I could break through to the Soul Spirit Master realm. At that point, I’ll be able to kill both of them.”
The grey-clad man silently left the core area, heading toward the Snow Mountain Forbidden Zone, deciding to risk it all and enter the fourth level of the secret realm in order to reach the Soul Spirit Master realm.
Chen Fei and Su Ran were not in a hurry to enter the Snow Mountain Forbidden Zone. Their strength was still lacking, so they decided to wait until they both reached the peak of the Ninth-Grade True Spirit Master realm before heading there.
So, they turned back, hunting phantom beasts and searching for rare herbs along the way. With the help of the phantom beast essence, Su Ran’s strength steadily improved. On the other hand, Chen Fei’s martial spirit cultivation remained stuck at the fourth level of the Spirit Master realm.
However, his spell spirit cultivation steadily improved with the help of the Three-Color Realm, and the fourth light sphere was nearly completed.
Chen Fei estimated that once he reached 400 segments in his spell spirit cultivation, and combined it with the transformation of his spiritual power using the Void Heaven Cauldron, his power would be comparable to a Ninth-Grade True Spirit Master at their peak.
At that point, he and Su Ran would head toward the Snow Mountain Forbidden Zone.