781: Chapter 781 Taking a third of your treasury isn't too much to ask, is it?

So it's not trash anymore?

So... Ye Chen wasn't joking. The medicinal pill she had been holding earlier was indeed trash.

After all, compared to a Saint-grade pill, what else would a ninth-grade one be if not trash?

Ning Wanqing took the jade box with trembling hands and hurriedly bowed. "Mr. Ye, I have truly had my eyes opened today. It was my Ning Family who was too stingy and too abrupt!"

The four female disciples behind her were completely dumbfounded.

Wait... this meant that not only had their gift-giving failed, but Ye Chen had also given them an even more astonishing "big gift" in return.

Great Elder Tantai Honghou swallowed hard and subconsciously took half a step back.

He suddenly had a bad premonition.

Sure enough, Ye Chen turned his head and looked at him.

"It's your turn."

Great Elder Tantai Honghou hesitated for a second, but still handed over the wooden box.

Ye Chen took the wooden box, removed the animal skin scroll inside, and unfurled it.

The three ancient characters for "Undying Body" came into view.

His gaze then swept across the scroll.

Great Elder Tantai Honghou didn't dare to even breathe when he saw this.

He didn't know what Ye Chen was going to do, but his intuition told him that what was about to happen might subvert his understanding of cultivation techniques.

About five minutes later, Ye Chen closed the scroll and tossed it back to Great Elder Tantai Honghou.

Great Elder Tantai Honghou caught it in a flurry, looking bewildered. "Mr. Ye, what is this..."

"Your 'Undying Body' cannot be cultivated."

Ye Chen said casually with his hands in his pockets, "It's not because the practitioners lack aptitude, but because the technique itself is flawed."

Great Elder Tantai Honghou's expression changed instantly. "The technique is flawed? Mr. Ye, you shouldn't say such things lightly. This is one of the foundations of my Dantai Family..."

However, before he could finish, Ye Chen raised a finger and interrupted him directly.

"First, the energy circulation path at the beginning of your technique has the order of two meridians reversed."

"The correct order should be to traverse the Hand Shaoyang Triple Burner Meridian first, then the Foot Yangming Stomach Meridian. You wrote it backwards, so the energy flow is blocked from the start. It would be a miracle if you could actually cultivate it."

Great Elder Tantai Honghou: "???" Reversed? So their circulation path was backwards?

This point... they had never doubted it.

But as he silently deduced it according to the reverse path Ye Chen described, it seemed... completely unobstructed!!!

Ye Chen didn't wait for him to react and already raised a second finger.

"Second, the core of your technique, the word 'Undying,' does not rely on True Qi to temper the body, but on drawing the Essence Energy of Heaven and Earth into the body to fuse with your own flesh and blood."

"The part in your technique about repeatedly scouring the body with True Qi is wrong in its direction."

"True Qi is your own; no matter how much you scour with it, you won't produce anything new. You need to draw in outside Essence Energy and let that energy grow together with your flesh and blood. That is what 'Undying' truly means."

Great Elder Tantai Honghou: "???"

He recalled that for the thirty-plus years he had been cultivating the "Undying Body," every time he circulated energy to a certain critical node, he felt as if there was a wall inside his body that he could never break through.

He had always thought it was due to his own lack of aptitude, but now, hearing Ye Chen say this, he realized it wasn't his problem, but a problem with the technique itself.

However, something even more astonishing was yet to come. Ye Chen directly raised a third finger.

"Third, and this is the most critical point."

"Your technique is missing a section."

"Not incomplete, but intentionally missing."

"The person who created this technique held something back and hid the most crucial mental cultivation method."

"Without that mental cultivation method, even if you practiced the 'Undying Body' until you died, you would never succeed."

Great Elder Tantai Honghou: "???" Missing a section? But the problem was... that was left behind by the Ancestor, and the Ancestor had no reason to harm them!

Great Elder Tantai Honghou looked up at Ye Chen, his eyes full of shock.

"Mr. Ye, you... you just looked at it once, and you saw all these problems?" "You aren't messing with me, are you?"

Ye Chen shrugged. "It's just a cultivation technique, is it that hard to understand? Why would I mess with you?" "Let me tell you, I can even complete the missing parts of the technique, but it will cost extra. Are you in or not?"

Great Elder Tantai Honghou: "..." Can even complete it? He wasn't joking with him, was he? That was a technique passed down for hundreds of years...

The four male disciples behind him were also stunned.

The Dantai Family's "Undying Body" had been passed down for centuries; none of the successive Family Heads, Elders, or genius disciples had ever discovered that the technique was flawed.

Everyone had been blaming themselves, saying their aptitude was poor, their comprehension was insufficient, and they weren't cut out for cultivation.

But today, a twenty-five-year-old young man had casually flipped through it for a few minutes and found three fatal flaws in the technique.

This guy is not human, he's a monster! The most terrifying thing is that he actually bragged that he could fix it!

"Mr. Ye, can you really fix it?" Great Elder Tantai Honghou's breathing became exceptionally rapid.

Ye Chen nodded. "The price is fair, and I treat all customers honestly."

He really wasn't deceiving Great Elder Tantai Honghou. Because... he really could fix it.

Everything that happens on the earth is under the jurisdiction of Houtu. Cultivation techniques are no exception.

If Ye Chen wanted to deduce the subsequent trajectory of the technique, he only needed to use the [Houtu Divine Eye] to deduce it using the trajectory at the end of the technique.

This was the miraculous nature of the [Houtu Inheritance].

"H-how much?" Great Elder Tantai Honghou asked as if possessed.

Ye Chen grinned. "Not much, just one-third of your treasury. I guarantee you'll feel it's worth more than the price."

"What?!" "One-third of the treasury?!"

The disciples behind Great Elder Tantai Honghou all gasped. Damn it! This demand was simply too ruthless...

The Dantai Family had been passed down for hundreds of years, and the gold in their treasury was piled up like mountains. This wasn't a concept of a few gold bars or dozens of gold bars, but entire mountains of gold!

Ye Chen asked for one-third right off the bat; wasn't that taking their lives?

Watching this scene, Ning Wanqing felt secretly relieved. It was fortunate that her family had gifted medicinal pills; although Ye Chen had dismissed them as trash, at least he hadn't asked for their treasury.

On the contrary, they had even earned a Saint-grade pill! The Dantai Family was miserable; just thinking about one-third of their treasury made one's heart ache.

She couldn't help but look at Great Elder Tantai Honghou, only to find that the old guy was about to cry.

"Mr. Ye, this... is one-third of the treasury too much?" "Although my Dantai Family is not a wealthy and powerful clan, the gold in our treasury is worth at least tens of billions. One-third is over ten billion..."

Ye Chen glanced at him and spoke indifferently. "Heartache over money?"

Great Elder Tantai Honghou smiled bitterly. "It's not heartache, it's just that the amount is really..."

"Let me tell you." Ye Chen interrupted him directly. "In the future, if anyone wants me to help them fix their techniques, they won't even get in the door without offering their entire treasury." "And you still think it's expensive now?"

The whole place was dead silent. Ning Wanqing gasped, the four female disciples looked at each other, and the four male disciples of the Dantai Family had their jaws almost hitting the floor.

Did they hear that right? No entry without the entire treasury? This... if this isn't robbery, what is?

Upon hearing this, Great Elder Tantai Honghou began to struggle intensely in his heart.

One-third of the treasury was not a small sum; it was enough to make the entire Dantai Family ache for several generations.

But upon reflection, Ye Chen had casually flipped through it for five minutes and spotted three fatal flaws in the "Undying Body." This kind of ability couldn't be found a second time in the entire cultivation world!

Moreover, he also said he could complete the technique. The "Undying Body" was one of the Dantai Family's treasures. If it could really be successfully cultivated, the Dantai Family's overall strength would increase by a huge margin.

By then... the lost treasury could be earned back sooner or later. But if he missed this opportunity... Great Elder Tantai Honghou didn't dare to think any further.

He took a deep breath, cupped his hands, and bowed deeply. "Mr. Ye, I agree!" "One-third of the treasury, my Dantai Family will pay it!" "As long as you help us fix the technique, I will report to the Family Head after I return and have him send people to deliver the gold to your home!"

Ye Chen looked at him, his expression becoming strange. "Aren't you afraid your Family Head won't agree?"

Great Elder Tantai Honghou gritted his teeth. "Rest assured, Mr. Ye. If the Family Head knows you can complete the 'Undying Body,' he would be overjoyed; how could he possibly disagree?"

"Moreover..." He paused and smiled bitterly. "I, Great Elder Tantai Honghou, still have some weight in the family; I will make the decision on this matter."

Ye Chen nodded. "Alright, I assume you wouldn't dare to deceive me."

As he finished speaking, he raised his right hand and pointed his index finger at the center of Great Elder Tantai Honghou's forehead.

Great Elder Tantai Honghou's body stiffened abruptly, and his pupils suddenly constricted.

The next second, a massive torrent of information, like a monstrous tidal wave, surged into his mind along Ye Chen's fingertip.

That was the missing mental cultivation method of the "Undying Body," the correction of the order of the three meridians, and the complete method for drawing the Essence Energy of Heaven and Earth into the body.

Every word and every diagram seemed to be carved into his brain, even more detailed than the original technique he had been cultivating for over thirty years.

Great Elder Tantai Honghou's body began to tremble with excitement. He had lived for most of his life, and for the first time, he knew that the "Undying Body" was actually supposed to be like this.

He immediately closed his eyes and began to circulate the technique according to what Ye Chen had transmitted into his mind.