65: Chapter 65 Yuanling Guiqi Technique

"Not good!" Ye Tian turned pale with fright, wanting to stop it but it was already too late!

The moment that frigid energy entered his body, the bone-chilling cold nearly froze his Meridians solid!

However, amidst this extreme agony of ice and fire, that scorching aura quickly enveloped the frigid energy, and the two diametrically opposed energies clashed wildly inside Ye Tian's body!

The violent energy conflict caused intense pain in Ye Tian's internal organs!

But soon, under the mediation of the chaos bead's Origin power, the ice and fire actually began to merge, turning into a rampaging aura that charged straight into his Dantian Qi Sea!

"Ah!"

Ye Tian felt as if his Dantian was about to explode, as that rampaging aura crashed about uncontrollably inside him!

At the critical moment, Ye Tian endured the pain and frantically circulated the Nine Revolutions Purple Heart Art, desperately refining this rampaging aura!

This was an extremely dangerous process; the slightest mishap would result in shattered Meridians and a collapsed Dantian!

As time ticked by, Ye Tian's clothes were completely soaked and his body trembled slightly, but his eyes grew brighter and brighter!

He could feel that the rampaging aura was being rapidly refined, turning into pure True Qi and flowing into his Dantian!

After an unknown amount of time, when the last sliver of rampaging aura was thoroughly refined...

The aura within Ye Tian's body suddenly surged!

His cultivation instantly climbed from the Qi Gathering Realm Early Stage, past the Qi Gathering Ninth Stage Middle Stage, and only stopped once it reached the Qi Gathering Ninth Stage Late Stage!

He had actually turned a misfortune into a blessing. By using the frigid energy accidentally drawn in by the chaos bead to merge with his own scorching True Qi, he broke through from the Ninth Stage Early Stage to the Ninth Stage Late Stage in one leap!

Ye Tian slowly opened his eyes, feeling the True Qi inside him that was several times stronger than before, his heart filled with unspeakable joy!

"This truly is an unexpected harvest!" he thought to himself.

One must know that the higher the cultivation, the harder it is to advance.

With his current cultivation, even with the assistance of the Nine Revolutions Purple Heart Art and the chaos bead, reaching the Late Stage would have taken at least a month of hard work.

As for an ordinary Martial Artist, without several years of accumulation, they couldn't even dream of it!

This was also why many Elders of the Ye Family remained stuck in the Qi Gathering Realm despite their advanced age.

He suppressed the excitement in his heart and checked on Ye Ruyi's condition again.

He found that the frigid energy near her heart vessels was still there, but it seemed slightly diminished because he had just absorbed a sliver of it.

Moreover, with her heart vessels protected by his True Qi, she was much more stable than before, and a trace of color had returned to her face.

"Although it hasn't been eradicated, her condition has finally been temporarily stabilized."

Ye Tian breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and stood up to walk out of the room.

Seeing Ye Tian come out, Great Elder Ye Zhengyuan and Ye Wenshan immediately surrounded him, asking nervously, "Ye Tian, how is it?"

Ye Tian looked at the Grand Elder's anxious eyes, smiled slightly, and comforted him, "Grand Elder, rest assured, Ruyi's condition has temporarily stabilized.

The frigid energy in her body is quite troublesome; I couldn't eradicate it, but I managed to suppress it and protect her heart vessels.

In the short term, there should be no danger to her life."

Hearing this, Great Elder Ye Zhengyuan let out a long sigh of relief. His tense nerves finally relaxed, and he excitedly grabbed Ye Tian's hand, tears streaming down his old face: "Wonderful! Wonderful! Ye Tian, thank you! Thank you!"

"Grand Elder is too polite, it was only my duty."

Ye Tian said modestly, not mentioning his Breakthrough in cultivation.

However, his mind was pondering the fact that the frigid energy in Ye Ruyi's body was exceptionally strange. He had to find its source as soon as possible, otherwise, it would remain a major hidden danger.

After bidding farewell to the Grand Elder and Second Elder, Ye Tian returned to his own courtyard.

Without any delay, he immediately entered his room, sat cross-legged, and began to stabilize his newly broken-through Realm.

Leaping from the Qi Gathering Ninth Stage Early Stage to the Late Stage in a short time was a huge jump, but it also brought the risk of floaty True Qi and an unstable Foundation.

He had to spend time carefully polishing his strength to completely control the surging power and make it his own.

He calmed his mind and circulated the Nine Revolutions Purple Heart Art over and over, guiding the True Qi in his body to perfectly align with his Meridians.

At the same time, he repeatedly reflected on the insights gained during his clashes with Yan Sha and the Grand Elder, deepening his understanding of power application.

After about half a day, Ye Tian slowly opened his eyes, his aura steady.

The Qi Gathering Ninth Stage Late Stage Realm had been thoroughly stabilized by him, and his Foundation was solid.

However, amidst the joy, that strange frigid energy in Ye Ruyi's body remained a headache.

"That frigid energy is definitely not something that could be formed by a common Qi Deviation."

Ye Tian frowned slightly. "A mystic heart ginseng might nourish the heart vessels, but whether it can eradicate this frigid energy is still unknown.

Besides, mystic heart ginseng is so difficult to find..."

While he was worrying about this, his gaze unconsciously swept across the corner of the room, and he suddenly glimpsed something wedged under the foot of the bed, revealing a corner of yellowed paper.

"Hmm?"

Filled with doubt, Ye Tian stood up, walked over, and bent down to pull the object out.

It was a thin booklet with a severely worn cover. The paper was yellowed and emitted an old, musty scent.

When he clearly saw the four words on the cover, he was instantly stunned!

Mystic Tortoise True Explanation!

"This... isn't this the booklet Old Uncle Ye Zhong left for me?!"

Ye Tian felt both surprised and delighted.

He clearly remembered that before the Clan Sacrifice Ceremony, Old Uncle Ye Zhong had quietly departed, leaving behind only this booklet.

He had skimmed through it at the time; it recorded a Body Refining technique and several escape techniques. Deeming them temporarily useless, he had left it on the table in his room.

But later, somehow, the booklet had disappeared. He had been annoyed about it for a long time, thinking it had been accidentally lost during cleaning.

He never imagined it would be used to prop up the foot of the bed!

Ye Tian didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Without even thinking, he knew this must have been the work of his illiterate mother.

In her eyes, this shabby booklet probably wasn't much different from waste paper, and it was just right for propping up an uneven bed foot.

"Truly... a waste of a precious treasure!"

Ye Tian shook his head helplessly and carefully brushed the dust off the booklet.

He walked to the table and opened the Mystic Tortoise True Explanation once more.

This time, he no longer skimmed it as he had before, but studied it carefully, word by word.

This close reading immediately gave him the feeling of having found a priceless treasure!

The Body Refining technique recorded in the first half of the booklet was actually the continuation of the nameless Body Refining technique he had been practicing!

It turned out this technique was called the Dragon Elephant Art, and it was divided into nine layers. The fragment he had obtained before was the first volume, which recorded the cultivation methods for the first four layers.

And what was recorded in the Mystic Tortoise True Explanation was precisely the second volume of the Dragon Elephant Art, containing the complete cultivation methods from the fifth to the ninth layer!

"The nine layers of the Dragon Elephant Art Body Refining—if practiced to Major Achievement, the Physical Body will be comparable to a dragon or an elephant, possessing infinite strength and being indestructible!"

Ye Tian was extremely excited.

With this second volume of the technique, his path of Body Refining would lead directly to an even higher Realm!

He suppressed the urge to immediately practice the second volume of the Dragon Elephant Art and continued to flip through the pages.

The content recorded in the latter part of the booklet was all-encompassing. Besides several exquisite life-saving escape techniques, there were also some peculiar secret methods, Foundations of Formations, medicinal herb identification, and so on; it could be called a miniature encyclopedia of the Martial Dao.

When his gaze rested on one page and saw the introduction to a Mind-Cultivation Technique called the Yuan Spirit Qi Returning Technique, his heart skipped a beat!

"Yuan Spirit Qi Returning Technique: An auxiliary Mind-Cultivation Technique. Once mastered, it can guide and refine foreign True Qi and energy, turning external forces for one's own use, guiding Qi back to the Origin, and harmonizing Yin and Yang.

It has miraculous effects on healing, expelling poison, and neutralizing the invasion of foreign True Qi..."

Seeing this description, Ye Tian's eyes instantly lit up!

"Guiding and refining foreign True Qi?

Turning external forces for one's own use?

Guiding Qi back to the Origin?"

He repeatedly whispered those few phrases, and an idea surged in his mind: "If I master this technique, will I be able to draw out the frigid energy inside Ruyi and refine it?

Even if I can't eradicate it, I could at least greatly alleviate her pain and buy time to find a permanent cure!"

This thought made him incredibly excited!

He immediately immersed his mind and began to carefully study the cultivation method of the Yuan Spirit Qi Returning Technique.

Fortunately, although this Mind-Cultivation Technique was profound, starting it wasn't too difficult; it mainly relied on the control of True Qi and a special guiding method.

With the Foundation laid by the Nine Revolutions Purple Heart Art and his keen perception of power, Ye Tian's cultivation progressed with half the effort.

After a sleepless night, Ye Tian devoted himself entirely to practicing the insights of the Yuan Spirit Qi Returning Technique.

The next morning, Ye Tian opened his eyes. A wisp of True Qi flowed at his fingertips, sometimes condensing and sometimes dispersing, controlled entirely by his will.

He felt that his control over True Qi had reached a brand-new height!

"Yuan Spirit Qi Returning Technique, I've gained a basic understanding!"

A look of satisfaction appeared on Ye Tian's face.

However, he didn't immediately go to Ye Ruyi to try it out.

After all, he had just started practicing this method and the effects were unknown. Ye Ruyi's body was extremely weak and couldn't withstand any accidents; he absolutely could not use her as a test subject.

After thinking for a moment, he got up, walked out of the bedroom, and went to the Family Martial Arts Arena.

On normal days, many Disciples practiced here, and occasionally someone would cause their True Qi to become disordered or their Meridians to be damaged due to excessive haste.

Soon, Ye Tian found a young Disciple who was pale because his True Qi was flowing in reverse after practicing a fist technique too violently.

"Don't move, let me take a look for you."

Ye Tian stepped forward and said gently.

That Disciple recognized Ye Tian and, although in pain, endured it and nodded.

Ye Tian stretched out his right hand, lightly pressed it on the Disciple's Qihai acupoint, and secretly circulated the Yuan Spirit Qi Returning Technique.

A soft True Qi with a special pulling force slowly flowed into the Disciple's body, accurately finding those few strands of reverse-flowing True Qi that were crashing about wildly, and began to comb through and guide them bit by bit.

In just a few moments, the look of pain on the Disciple's face quickly faded, and his pale complexion regained some color.

He moved his body in surprise and found that the piercing pain had vanished. He hurriedly bowed to Ye Tian: "Thank you, Senior Brother Ye Tian! You are truly amazing!"

Ye Tian smiled slightly, but he felt even more certain in his heart.

The Yuan Spirit Qi Returning Technique was indeed effective!

Although this was just smoothing out disordered True Qi of the same source, which was far simpler than neutralizing foreign frigid energy, it at least proved that the direction of this Mind-Cultivation Technique was correct!

"It seems it's time to pay another visit to the Grand Elder."