Yet Another Breakthrough

"How about you? What's your plan?" Lan Langlang and Zuo Wuji asked Ye Xiao in unison.

Ye Xiao actually looked perplexed and seemingly lost for words; his plan was totally different from theirs.

"I… I want to be an expert cultivator." Ye Xiao spoke seriously, "An invincible one."

"Hahahahaha… an expert cultivator?! Invincible?!" Zuo Wuji and Lan Langlang felt their legs go weak as their stomachs cried out in pain from their laughter. Tears were falling down their cheeks due to laughing excessively.

The foppish and lazy Lord Ye Xiao actually wanted to be an invincible expert cultivator. That was perhaps the biggest joke they had the pleasure of hearing in the entirety of their short lives.

Ye Xiao was stunned, "Seriously? Is my plan that unbelievable?!"

The two of them barely had any time to recover from their previous outburst of laughter, before they felt their knees go weak again and the pain in their stomach resurface as laughter once more rang throughout the General Ye's manor.

"Honestly, in everyone's eyes, we are just three foppish playboys. What dreams could we have? What decent future could we plan…" Lan Langlang laughed, "This conversation is fine in here, where it can be kept private. Because if people outside heard of these dreams, they would definitely laugh their teeth off."

In fact, except for Ye Xiao, none of them would even dare to dream that the plans they were currently talking about would all eventually turn into reality!

Zuo Wuji would hold the greatest political power - with which he would wield the scepter and dominate the world; Lan Langlang would become extremely wealthy and an unrestricted aristocrat; and Ye Xiao would become a supreme cultivator with unfathomable strength!

Oh, however, Lan Langlang's final dream - to finish their last dinner and then die together, would never materialize.

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"What is a foppish playboy?" Ye Xiao frowned and asked.

These days, he kept organizing his inherited memory and he realized that Lan Langlang and Zuo Wuji were not some wicked lads like he had imagined. At least they had never done anything dirty, like bullying and oppressing innocent people. Maybe the biggest problem they had was just being disappointing…

But, should they be regarded as foppish playboys because of that?

"Disappointing!" Zuo Wuji smiled with self-mockery, "All those good lads are following the rules. They go to the colleges, seek their teachers and practice the way of martial arts. All they are fighting for are the honors of their clans and good reputations of themselves. They try their best to get into the government so that they can contribute for their clans or become the leaders of their clans."

"People like us are regarded as losers that are useless and have no ambitions. We are only playboys and black sheep." Zuo Wuji smiled bitterly, "Normally in the wealthy clans, those who often go to the brothels and bully the innocents will be called the black sheep. But things are different in our clans…"

"What makes us the black sheep is that we have no ambitions. Ambitions mean everything!" Lan Langlang said sadly.

"Urh." Ye Xiao frowned, "What I hate the most is bullying!"

"Aha, haha, ha! Well, isn't that exactly what you did to rob someone today?!" Lan Langlang and Zuo Wuji laughed.

After dinner, Lan Langlang and Zuo Wuji walked to the door preparing to leave. Before they left, Lan Langlang seemed to have a bright insight in his drunken state. He spoke to Zuo Wuji, "Hey dude, so all these years… have you been showing us your disguise?"

Zuo Wuji smiled bitterly, "I have disguised myself for such a long time. Now the disguise has become my identity, I am no longer able to tell if it is true or false."

They laughed again loudly and then left side by side.

Ye Xiao stood at the door as he blankly stared.

He felt touched by the conversation they had during their feast. How many people like them… were actually showing their real faces?

Lan Langlang and Zuo Wuji were not. But who else?

Maybe the departed Ye Xiao… was actually a foppish playboy inside - so he died.

In his prior life, Ye Xiao had never seen things from this perspective - the point of view he has in this present life. He could clearly feel that it was a life lesson of utmost importance.

He clearly knew that the way in which he perceived the world had such drastic changes, making him feel like he was looking at the world through the eyes of someone else. Even so, the world he was living in as well as the realms that were in this world, were all still the exact same as they had been in his previous life.

Ye Xiao smiled, "It is always in this world, no matter where I live. There are always roads, no matter where I stand. Where do we sing and laugh; where do we weep and cry?"

When he just finished the last word of the poem, Ye Xiao calmly entered the space of the sphere.

Yet when he arrived inside, surprise quickly replaced the calmness on his face.

The spiritual qi in the space was obviously heavier than before. There was some white qi along with some purple qi. And there was another qi that was different from the original ones - a blood-colored qi that was barely noticeable.

That must be the spiritual qi from the essence of the blood ginseng.

Besides, there was a smell of plants. It was a lively smell of life - the purest smell of nature.

This natural smell was certainly brought by the blood ginseng too.

Ye Xiao realized that the blood ginseng he brought was the first plant absorbed by the sphere, and it had contained the qi of life.

He then walked along the purple tunnel and found that the spiritual qi here was heavier just as he had expected. He took a deep breath and then felt relaxed and happy.

He walked around for a moment and then prepared to get out for cultivating, but when he turned to the entrance, he suddenly felt that something was different. He quickly turned back and observed the room carefully until he finally found it…

The egg!

It had become bigger!

It was as big as a duck's egg before, but now it had grown even bigger. It was at least as big as a goose's egg now.

"Oh? This thing could actually grow?" Ye Xiao was surprised, "It is truly an egg of a mythical creature. I haven't seen any eggs that can actually grow…"

That was truly his first time seeing something like this, even while counting both of his lives.

Ye Xiao was certain that it was a mythical creature's egg!

Because the egg was really amazing and mysterious.

Peerless lord of the world and primal spirit in chaos!

The sphere was very arrogant, so it must be something outstanding. The egg inside it with endless qi must be something beyond the ordinary. [It must be a top-grade mythical creature!] He thought.

Since Ye Xiao had first come into contact with this egg, he had frequently been lost in thought. When would it finally hatch and what kind of creature would be born from it? He was even starting to dream about a creature so powerful that it could swallow the entire Qinq-Yun Realm with just a single gulp!

He touched the egg and found it to be cold. But he couldn't feel any rhythm of a living creature. He murmured, "You are such a powerful being. How powerful will you be?"

Ye Xiao was delighted. He left the space and sat cross-legged to cultivate so as to improve his strength. The spiritual qi in the space then went into his Jing and Mai like streams to assist his cultivation.

Other than the qi from the sphere, the qi, which was scattered throughout the world, gathered around Ye Xiao to assist in his cultivation too. The path that the spiritual qi traversed was, however, invisible. Nobody, not even the expert cultivators, could sense the movement of the spiritual qi in the world. The purest spiritual qi was quietly absorbed by the space and then flowed into Ye Xiao's Jing and Mai…

When the world was built, the purple qi rose from the east!

Another night had passed. At the moment when the sun released its first light, Ye Xiao felt an indescribable sensation!

This was the first time that he truly performed the East-rising Purple Qi and felt the purple-rising qi!

At the moment, the sky lit up at once with sunshine. The next moment, his Ni-Wan Acupoint [1] suddenly beat, tak tak tak…

His blood began to boil all at once!

His hair stood on end, pointing at the ceiling!

In his dantian, a wave of power which was originally dormant suddenly rushed up… all the way towards his scalp!

Boom! Bang!

It felt like there was a wave of spiritual qi breaking through the top of his head. His entire body was filled with an indescribable feeling of relief!

He felt that he was bathing in a bathtub filled with warm water, and the heat from the warm water spread all over his body. He was experiencing all of these conditions at this moment.

Ye Xiao's mind was now completely blank, and he couldn't utter a single word.

Massive spiritual qi was breaking through in his body, and within his mind, he saw that there were stars dancing, three flowers blossoming and five streams flowing!

Ye Xiao was quickly taken over by surprise.

It was the sign of breaking through the first level of the Earth Origin Realm!

Could it be that he had already reached the second level of the Earth Origin Realm?

[That… It shouldn't be. I just broke through the first degree of the East-rising Purple Qi several days ago and became an expert cultivator of the Earth Origin Stage. How did I improve myself by this much so quickly?

That was insane!

How can a six hundred years old blood ginseng have such efficacy?

Although I have only used one blood ginseng - even if I had used ten, it shouldn't be possible for me to break through the first level of the Earth Origin Realm in such a short amount of time.] He thought.

Ye Xiao recalled that when he reached the same level in his prior life, he had suffered immense pain, comparable to the feeling of his Jing and Mai melting. But this time, he felt really comfortable.

That was so simple, so easy, and so comfortable!

Ye Xiao immediately began to execute the East-rising Purple Qi, and then he learnt that it was still only at the first grade, even though his normal cultivation had apparently possessed immense improvements!

"Comparing the level system of cultivation and the level system of the East-rising Purple Qi… How big is the gap between them?" Ye Xiao could be regarded as an expert cultivator in this mortal world now, but he was still only at the first degree of the East-rising Purple Qi.

Ye Xiao felt stunned when he thought of this.

It was an extreme excitement that flowed through his veins, "If I improve my East-rising Purple Qi to the top grade, I will… live forever… and become a legend, right?!"

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[1] Ni-Wan Acupoint: An acupoint on the crown of the head.