Ye Chen stared at the dead trunk with clear eyes, the bark of the trunk was hanging, and there were slight traces of swinging when he looked closely, and the stillness of Fang Cai came from there.

The surroundings were quiet to freezing point.

From childhood to now, that is, when he was five years old, Ye Chen has been entangled by this thing.

Calling it a demon shadow, it never shows its face, nor does it make too big, out-of-the-ordinary moves, speaking of which, it is more like a little demon, coming without a shadow, going without a trace, and having to let people relax their vigilance.

The most serious time of Ye Chen's "serious illness" was four years ago, that is, at the age of thirteen, he was possessed by a ghost haunted by resentment, which made him behave differently from him, talking to himself, with a hideous face, and switching between joy and sorrow.

This kind of ghost haunted by resentment is the most troublesome, at least it is painful, and at worst it is directly taken away from consciousness and body, which is no different from death.

Fortunately, with Xiaoqing's incomparably pure true qi, it took nearly two weeks for the ghost to leave on its own.

The point is that during those two weeks, the demon shadow still kept hiding in the shadows and staring, even if Ye Chen found this ruin and lived there, it still had no intention of leaving.

The demon shadow is strange, it can't be seen, it can only be felt, because its breath is too depressing, full of the depression of death, and endless depth, which may be related to its dying state, and the strange cry can be heard from afar.

Pain, despair and hysteria are all mixed together.

However, over the years, Ye Chen has also become accustomed to this kind of life, and sometimes, he has a crazy idea of wanting to talk to the demon shadow head-on, but he has never done it.

At this time, the demon shadow didn't answer, and Ye Chen didn't bother to pay attention to it, and continued to bask in the sun.

"Don't get too close, I'll take your life at any time. Ye Chen closed his eyes and muttered to himself, he felt that the demon shadow was approaching.

"Leaf ~ Dust ~"

A slow voice floated in the air, clearly saying these two words, it was Ye Chen's name, the voice was very thin and sharp, like a sharp spike, but it was more like a song, a requiem!

Three years ago, when the demon shadow called Ye Chen's name for the first time, he was really startled, because this kind of thing can speak, and it is unbelievable in itself, or is it originally a human being.

Does it have vocalizations, which means it also has the Adam's apple and vocal cords of humans?

Of course, Ye Chen didn't know, it was strange that he could listen to it, it was an ominous sound!

Ye Chen's eyes were half-open, and the demon shadow had already left the trunk of the tree and moved to another one, which was closer to Ye Chen.

From 100 meters to 70 meters, 60 meters, and now to 50 meters, the demon shadow persevered, as if he would never give up and was obsessed with Ye Chen!

"It's getting too much!"

Ye Chen was uneasy, although he had Zhan Yu in his hand, he couldn't see the other party, and he couldn't figure out the reality and reality, and his hair would still stand upright.

"Leaf ~ Dust ~"

Burst!

Ye Chen's heart moved, and the war spear in his hand stabbed over in an instant, smashing the trunk of the tree to pieces, but he still didn't find anything.

No matter how Ye Chen tossed it, the demon shadow that transferred to another tree trunk was still motionless, and it didn't matter to Ye Chen at all.

In fact, Ye Chen had already made a move to find the demon shadow, he pierced all the tree trunks, smashed countless stones, and found nothing, and was teased by Xiao Xi, saying that he was a fool.

The demon shadow has moved to the back of another small piece of ruins, it is like a human being defending its rights for its own interests, it is constantly repeating similar behaviors, everywhere it exists, everywhere there is its voice, this is not pestering, it is one of the most troublesome things.

The place where the demon shadow was was already only forty meters away from Ye Chen, and it was ten meters closer!

"Leaf ~ Dust ~"

Rumble!

Where the war spear pointed, where the debris was, that piece of ruins was instantly razed to the ground by Ye Chen!

He was really angry, before, this demon shadow would only appear in the evening, and I don't know when, I actually dared to come out during the day, and I don't know when, it was no longer afraid of this ancient ruin, and became more and more fearless.

It seems that over the years, it is not only Ye Chen who has grown, but also grown.

Ye Chen raised his spear and kept attacking, but the surroundings were already dilapidated, and the gravel turned into ash, such a dense attack, if he was seen by outsiders, he would be extremely surprised.

"What should I do?"

Ye Chen was a little flustered, he didn't expect the demon shadow to be so close all of a sudden, it must be false to say that he wasn't panicking, after all, Xiao Xi and Xiao Qing were not there, he was alone, and he was very uneasy.

"Go back to the little house!"

Ye Chen withdrew his war spear, immediately turned around and returned to the small house, closed the wooden door, stared at the wooden door, and then his divine sense spread outside.

He didn't dare to take the initiative to go out to hunt for killing no matter what? Take the initiative to approach, no, he would die like that, Ye Chen loved life very much.

"Uh, gone!?"

In the blink of an eye, there was no endless oppressive aura of the demon shadow outside, he carefully walked out of the small house, and probed the probe, only to find that the demon shadow was really not outside, and there were no traces of scratching on the wooden door.

It seemed that he had left, Ye Chen breathed a sigh of relief, to be honest, he had no foundation in dealing with demon shadows.

The key is the demon shadow, its action this time is really different from the past, if the demon shadow is a demon, it's fine, once it's a ghost, it's troublesome.

Ye Chen didn't know much about the demon shadow, and he was at a disadvantage and passive, but one thing was certain, that is, once the demon shadow disappeared, it would not appear again, at least two or three days later.

"Finally got through it!"

The time period when the demon shadow appeared was the most difficult time for Ye Chen.

And this time, it also proves that this ruin is no longer a place for self-preservation, and the only thing that can protect himself is his small house, which is too small to be small, and it may be time to move to another building.

After all, hiding all the time is not a long-term solution.

"By the way, I was so busy avenging the little rhino just now that I almost forgot that the business was not finished yet!"

Ye Chen stood up suddenly, and the war spear must have been held in his hand inch by inch.

He left the small house and ran all the way until he saw a ruin, which was a relatively large Terran building, much larger than the one where Ye Chen lived.

The stone walls of the building are dilapidated and scattered.

Turning the corner, he came to a small dirt pit behind a huge wall, which he had made, and there were a few digging tools scattered next to it, because he was only halfway through the digging, and the little rhino next to him suddenly became very uneasy, so what happened before.

There are many things in the world, things are urgent, good things are bad, random successively, for Ye Chen, digging a pit is a serious thing and must be completed, but in the face of urgency, he always chose the latter.

Therefore, the matter of the little rhino is urgent!

"My cultivation has stayed in place for too long, if I don't break through again, I can only wait for death!"

The forest wind is blowing, and the shadows of the trees are faint, as if the dark figures are swinging.

Ye Chen jumped into the pit, stretched out his hands, picked up the tools next to him, and suddenly started planing.

Alone, plowing the ground in the evening?

"What kind of bowl is this? It's ugly! Is this a pot? It's a bowl, how is this pot so like a bowl, it's a bowl, uh, it's all a bowl!"

Ye Chen sat on the ground, the corners of his red clothes were stained with a lot of dirt, and what he was holding in his hand was a black broken bowl holder, with bowls in front of him and behind him, and he felt that he had dug an unusual bowl nest.

"Why isn't there that thing?"

"No, I obviously sensed it, I bothered to work hard for a few days, how could it not be?"

The reason why he dug this place was because he sensed that there was something he wanted underneath, but he didn't expect that all he dug out were bowls, or the kind that was incomplete and couldn't hold rice.

Besides, it wasn't easy for him to find the ruins.

"No, dig again!"

Ye Chen dug up again with all his strength, but it didn't take long for him to stop, and the whole person was fixed there, his long black hair was stiff, especially the fluff on the back of his neck, which was white and stood up like ice, and then, layer after layer of goosebumps instantly covered his neck, the back of his hands and his whole body.

Dusk has arrived, and night is approaching.

At this moment, what was imprinted on the ground in his eyes was a human head that had not yet rotted, and his palm had crushed the skull at once due to excessive ploughing force, and it reached into half of his palm!

How can there be a human corpse here?

Is it the reason why it has been buried for too long?

It's too brittle, isn't it?

Ye Chen's eyes were stunned, blinked, his breathing was a little heavy, and the white brain water that he was staring at overflowed from the crack in his skull, staining his palm, although he had killed countless people, although there was no maggot or anything like that.

Ye Chen continued to dig down, digging through layers of damp soil, and found that this was not a simple head, there was a neck attached to the head, this dead man was actually buried vertically!

"He also wears a necklace...... Found it, finally found the spirit storage stone!"

Ye Chen found a necklace with exquisite workmanship on the neck of this human corpse, and a green stone hanging from the necklace was the thing he was looking for—the Spirit Storing Stone!

The spirit storage stone is one of the carriers for storing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and in the ruins domain, Ye Chen often takes one away when he finds one.

"It's finally time to break through!"

Ye Chen was excited, and then said to the human corpse: "Although I don't know who you are, I still want to thank you for the spirit storage stone you left behind, and I will never forget it, I broke your head, so I sincerely apologize here, and I hope to accept it!"

There are more non-decomposing corpses in the ruins, all of them are old, they were probably some nobles during their lifetime, this kind of non-decomposing burial method is both mysterious and unsolvable.

Ye Chen encountered a lot of non-decomposing corpses, but this was the first time he had encountered this vertical burial.

The sunset on the west mountain, near the evening, the black birds are whining, and the forest is deep and secluded.

Ye Chen reburied the corpse, and then quickly returned to the small house, not daring to slack off.

Looking back at the darkening complex, he could have stayed until dawn, but the small house was safer for him.

The night in the ruins is especially terrifying, those lonely ghosts often haunt the night, they can't speak, but they can also feel the desire for rebirth they want to express, it is rumored that they will possess the body of the human race for this thought, forcibly occupy and take away, in order to be reborn!

Ye Chen has a deep understanding.

Back in the small house, the sky behind him was already dark, and he couldn't see his five fingers, Ye Chen stepped into the building, and the oppression behind him disappeared immediately.

At this time, in the small house, he carefully took out the spirit storage stone from the storage bag and placed it on the bed, with a sunny smile on his face, the harvest this time was very rich, judging according to the size, this is a medium-grade spirit storage stone!

In his heart, he immediately sat down on the bed, crossed his legs, and made a knot with his ten fingers.

"Enlightenment!"

Ye Chen silently thought, located in the depths of the dantian in the abdomen, the true qi burst out, and under his drive, the true qi actually dragged up the spirit storage stone and floated into the air, this is the true qi royal object!

True Qi Imperial Weapon, a unique skill in the mouth of the outside world with a Qi Imperial Weapon, common sense to refine it is not as simple as an overnight talent and talent.

But Ye Chen just did it, he didn't have anything outstanding, he just used it for a longer time than others and paid a more difficult experience.

He lives in the ruins, very free, and has a lot of time to practice without worries and unfettered.

Sometimes, he is also puzzled, human beings can condense true qi in the dantian, so why?

What is true qi?

This gave him a lot of headaches, he couldn't understand it, and he was helpless......

Having said that, "Qiling" is a kind of true qi bombardment of the spirit storage stone, that is, the use of true qi to forcibly break the internal structure of the spirit storage stone, so that the spirit storage stone releases energy, this energy is called aura!

Reiki is the foundation of all things, and all things are the reservoirs of aura, whether living or dead, they all have aura.

Reiki is ubiquitous and very common, so it is worthless, but a certain amount of Reiki is worth a lot.

For example, what is the aura of a cow? Don't look at the cow being tall and strong, in fact, the aura in its body is just a breath of turbid breath of human beings.

The brute beast is different, its aura is much more than that of a cow!

When the spirit storage stone releases the aura, it slowly glows with green light, and the light becomes bigger and bigger, and then the spirit storage stone is green all over, and it can be seen in the void slowly spitting out a fine green mist, until the green mist is no longer generated.

"Convert!"

Ye Chen changed the seal knot of his fingers, and after a while, he saw that those green mist slowly turned purple, and as time lengthened, the purple mist reversed, invading the green spirit storage stone, and then completely changed it into a purple spirit storage stone.

Transformation is the assimilation of true qi into aura, this is the iron rule of this world, true qi is eternal, more advanced than aura, which is the same reason as shadows covering the ground and making the ground dark.

"Absorb!"

Ye Chen let out a soft sound, and the finger seal knot changed again, and at this moment, purple silk threads oozed out of the purple spirit storage stone, and then floated into Ye Chen's nostrils.

I don't know how long it took, when Ye Chen opened his eyes, the spirit storage stone in front of him had completely grayed, no different from ordinary stones.

"Sure enough, it is a medium-grade spirit storage stone, and there is really a lot of spiritual energy stored, and it is converted into true qi and then absorbed, the whole process took an hour, and the time is a bit long......" Ye Chen said to himself: "Fortunately, it has been absorbed...... "Three-step Assimilation Dafa" is worthy of being the most widely used spiritual energy replacement exercise today, and the efficiency is high!"

"In this way, these true qi should be able to last until the last moment of cultivation breakthrough, right?"

"My current cultivation is the sevenfold peak of the Xuanwu Realm, and the low-grade spirit storage stone last time was a little weak, and it broke through to the peak from the late stage of the Xuanwu Realm Sevenfold, and only then did I advance to the first level, I don't know how it will be this time?"

Ye Chen's breakthrough method is very peculiar, this is what he learned from the Gobi monkey, called handstand breakthrough!

Call!

Ye Chen took a deep breath, then propped his palm on the bed, and with a light press, the whole person bounced up, and the part that bounced up was all except the palm that was pressed on the bed!

Handstand breakthrough, also known as one-arm handstand breakthrough method, is a limit breakthrough method, which requires a large amount of true qi just absorbed in order to increase the number of cultivation, and it is necessary to break through the limit to go to the next level.

"If you want to break through the sevenfold peak, you only need to comprehend its true meaning on the basis of the true qi imperial object, if you guess correctly, the simple truth, that is, to take things from the air, as long as you are familiar with it, it is a new realm!"

Rumble!

Ye Chen's breath is constantly changing, constantly climbing, this feeling, he has experienced it for the first time, thinking that the medium-grade spirit storage stone is worthy of being a priceless treasure, not to mention the nobles of the outside world, some Dao systems may not even have one.

At this time, the speed at which Ye Chen's own aura climbed was particularly rapid!

Xuanwu Realm Sevenfold Peak......

The early stage of the eightfold abagus realm......

The middle stage of the Eightfold Realm in the Xuanwu Realm......

Late Eightfold Eightfold ...... of the Xuanwu Realm

"It can hold on!" Ye Chen's teeth were sweating, soaking a large piece of the bed.

However, the arm, which supported all the weight of his body, turned from numb and pale to comfortable and ruddy under the impact of his full force. This is the mystery of the one-arm handstand breakthrough method, whether the breakthrough is successful or not, the answer is all in this arm!

Xuanwu Realm, the eightfold peak!

"Success!" Ye Chen sat back violently, he couldn't believe it, the value of the medium-grade spirit storage stone was amazing!

"Advancing to the Eightfold Peak, this speed is a bit fast, if you want to fully consolidate, you can only find a brute beast that is not high or low. ”

He knew why people from the outside world came to the Ruins, the purpose was not only to hunt brute beasts, but also to store spirit stones.

You said that there was a lot of aura in the body of rare brute beasts? I'm sorry, compared to the spirit storage stone that lies quietly in place, the brute beasts running around are not easy to provoke.

"The spirit storage stone is a one-time consumable, after all, it is to be bombarded with true qi. ”

"Ha~"

Ye Chen stretched his waist, tear ducts oozed from the corners of his eyes, and then picked up the gray stone and said, "After using it, I don't know when I will find it again!"

Holding the gray stone, Ye Chen opened the only cabinet in the small house, and then gently put the gray stone inside, and next to the gray stone, there were many stones that were exactly the same as it, about a dozen!

There is no doubt that these are naturally the spirit storage stones used by Ye Chen.

"It doesn't seem to be early. ”

Ye Chen estimated the time, and by the way, he took a thick copy of the "Xuan Calendar" next to him and looked at it.

The "Xuan Calendar", that is, the wilderness, including the ruins and other common celestial geology, part of the concept of this world is in it.

After a while, he fell asleep unconsciously.

The sweaty bed was not changed......

The next day, Ye Chen suddenly woke up, and then, got up and walked to the door of the room, he felt that it was still gray outside, obviously the sky was not yet bright.

Quickly put on clothes, washed briefly, picked up the war spear and opened the door, at this moment, Ye Chen saw a white shadow floating in front of him, as if he had been standing outside the door and waiting for a long time.

He didn't go out immediately.

An hour later, when the low clouds of the eastern sky shone brightly, he stepped out of the door.

All things awaken, and all evils are avoided.

He ran all the way to the top of a cliff, and the easiest way to climb it was the nest of the giant cyan eagle!

When he saw the majestic Xiaoqing, Ye Chen's heart was steady: "Xiaoqing, did someone sneak over from the ruins?"