Clatter!
Clatter!
In the dark night, on the silent ancient road, a thin horse walked slowly, the sound of its hooves striking the ground was slow and rhythmic.
Ye Chen lay tiredly on the horse’s back, quietly gazing up at the the void.
Since descending from Zhengyang Sect, he had been lying on this horse’s back, carried aimlessly by the thin horse.
He didn’t know where he was going, nor where he could go.
He had been an orphan since childhood and was brought to Zhengyang Sect; he had no home, no parents, and no memory of any relatives.
He had always regarded Zhengyang Sect as his home and his fellow disciples as his family.
Now, having been driven out of Zhengyang Sect, he had become a homeless child.
An unprecedented loneliness made him curl his body slightly.
“Where is home?” His murmured words were exceptionally clear in the dark night.
Unknowingly, Ye Chen’s eyes became hazy, and exhaustion made him unable to resist falling asleep.
However, at the moment his vision blurred, a dazzling star fell from the dark night sky, exceptionally piercing to the eyes.
Seeing this, he suddenly sat up, his eyes moving with the falling trajectory of that star.
The star was golden, appearing to gather the radiance of billions of stars, crossing through eternal ages and experiencing the vicissitudes of ten thousand generations.
A scorching golden glow fell, illuminating the entire starry sky.
“That…
what is that?” Ye Chen stared blankly at the night sky; he could even see the connected bolts of lightning.
Boom!
While he was in a daze, there was a sudden roar.
The star fell, and the earth trembled.
The thin horse seemed to be startled, rearing up and neighing, and he also fell off the horse’s back.
A falling star, a spectacle of the ages.
Ye Chen hurriedly scrambled up, slowly approaching while stepping on scorched earth and facing rolling heat waves.
However, only upon getting closer did he discover that it was not a star falling from the sky, but a palm-sized golden flame.
Ye Chen was stunned for a moment, never expecting that what caused such a huge commotion was actually a cluster of flame.
Soon, the golden glow dissipated, and the flame hovered there alone like the flickering light of a candle.
Although it was a flame, Ye Chen could not feel the slightest high temperature.
The small flame swayed, solitary, like a child without a home.
“Do you also have no home?” Perhaps because their lonely moods were similar, Ye Chen couldn’t help but reach out his palm and gently touch it.
The flame seemed to possess spirituality, as it actually jumped into his palm, playing there like an innocent and bright child.
“Interesting.” Ye Chen couldn’t help but reach out a finger to tap the flame.
However, this tap was no small matter; the flame actually transformed into a golden light and darted into his body.
“You…” Ye Chen’s face changed color in shock, having no time to react.
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The flame seemed very playful, circling once through his body before finally darting into his broken Dantian in a flash.
Soon, a scorching heat came from his lower abdomen, making him hurriedly look inside his body.
He saw an astonishing scene.
Because of the flame, his broken Dantian was actually healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
A sense of warmth flowed through his entire body, as if he were bathing in scorching sunlight during the freezing winter months.
“This…” Ye Chen opened his mouth.
However, it was not yet over.
The flame jumped up and down in his Dantian.
Seemingly feeling that the capacity of his Dantian was too narrow, its small flame body actually grew rapidly, emitting a brilliant golden glow until it turned into a golden sea of fire.
As it turned into a sea of fire, it also expanded Ye Chen’s Dantian.
Ugh…!
Ye Chen let out a muffled groan while clutching his lower abdomen and collapsed to the ground on the spot.
A tearing sensation spread from his lower abdomen throughout his entire body.
Pop…!
Such a sound came from the darkness.
Ye Chen’s just-restored Dantian actually ruptured again, burst open by the flame.
It became a hazy white expanse, as if forming its own world, with white mist lingering above and dazzling golden light below.
At this point, the flame finally stopped obediently, drifting back and forth there as if wandering through the new home it had created.
But while it acted like nothing had happened, Ye Chen’s state was not so good.
He lay on the ground gasping for breath, his body drenched in sweat.
The intense pain caused veins to bulge on his forehead, his eyes were bloodshot, and even his face had become quite distorted.
At some point, the sharp pain gradually dissipated, and waves of warmth filled his body again, restoring Ye Chen’s clarity.
At this moment, he stared blankly at his Dantian after its earth-shaking transformation.
He opened his mouth, his throat somewhat dry.
“Is…
is this a dantian sea?”
The six realms of a Cultivator: Qi Condensation, Human Origin Realm, True Yang Realm, Spirit Void Realm, Void, and Heavenly Silence.
The reason Ye Chen was so shocked was that the so-called dantian sea was one Level higher than a Dantian.
Only when one’s cultivation reached the Void Meditation Realm could they truly open a dantian sea.
He never imagined that the flame would not only repair his Dantian but also open a dantian sea for him.
Suddenly, there was a fluctuation in the thin Spiritual Qi of the world.
Soon, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered toward Ye Chen one after another, forming a Spiritual Qi vortex centered on him.
It poured into his body through the acupoints and pores of his entire body, and then surged into his dantian sea.
His body was like a bottomless pit, devouring the Spiritual Qi of the world.
At this time, the flame became active again.
Any Spiritual Qi that surged into the dantian sea was forcefully refined by it into pure golden True Qi, so that the somewhat dry dantian sea that had just been opened became golden and bright, with True Qi like a golden ocean.
Staring blankly at the dantian sea, Ye Chen’s eyes were somewhat hazy.
His body swayed a few times, and he collapsed to the ground.
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The night passed in silence, and dawn arrived in the blink of an eye.
In the morning, the warm sunlight shone through the window onto Ye Chen’s face.
Slowly opening his eyes, Ye Chen saw a youthful little face right in front of him, looking at him with blinking large eyes.
“Big Brother, you’re awake.” The youth revealed two rows of white teeth.
“Who are you?” Ye Chen sat up with a start, looked at the youth, and then looked around; it was very unfamiliar.
“What place is this?
Why am I here?”
“I’m called Hu Wa.” The youth was simple and gave a shy smile.
“This is Hengyue Sect Small Spirit Garden.
You fainted in the mountain forest last night, and it was Grandpa and I who brought you back.”
“Heng…
Hengyue Sect?” Ye Chen was stunned.
In the Great Chu state, there is One Hall and Three Sects.
Bloodthirsty Hall dominates Northern Chu, while Zhengyang Sect, Qingyun Sect, and Hengyue Sect occupy Southern Chu.
In a certain sense, Hengyue Sect and Zhengyang Sect are still enemies.
Ye Chen never expected that shortly after being driven out of Zhengyang Sect, he would come to the rival Hengyue Sect today.
“You must be hungry!
I’ll get you something to eat.” Seeing Ye Chen in a daze, Hu Wa spoke while already running out.
On the bamboo bed, Ye Chen was stunned for a while, and his mind gradually regained clarity as he remembered the events of last night.
“Last night?” Thinking of last night’s events, Ye Chen hurriedly checked his body.
The dantian sea was a golden expanse, like a world of its own, with hazy white mist above and surging golden True Qi below.
“It wasn’t a dream; all of this is real.”
Ye Chen’s breathing was somewhat rapid.
Upon waking up, not only was his broken Dantian repaired, but a dantian sea had also been opened.
Even the True Qi in the dantian sea had become increasingly refined.
Clenching his fists, he found the long-lost feeling of being a Cultivator.
His vision and strength also underwent an unprecedented transformation at this moment.
And all of this was thanks to that golden flame.
Thinking of that golden flame, Ye Chen’s gaze subconsciously looked at the golden flame floating in the dantian sea.
It swayed its fire, still jumping joyfully like a child.
“You wouldn’t happen to be True Fire, would you?” With a thought, Ye Chen summoned the flame into his palm.
Immediately, the temperature in the room rose instantly, yet he could not feel any terrifying heat; instead, he felt a sense of intimacy with the flame.
“You will follow me from now on.” Ye Chen smiled and gently stroked the True Fire, his mood indescribably pleasant.
“Big Brother, come out and eat!”
“Coming.” Stowing the True Fire, Ye Chen flipped and jumped off the bed.