Chapter 9: Helpless Penance

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Ye Bai's bad luck has just begun, and after a few days of searching, there will be some accidents, there are always demon beasts coming out, guarding everything in their territory like crazy, and launching a fierce attack on Ye Bai, and every time Ye Bai can only flee in a hurry, with little gain.

The most terrifying time was when picking a seven-star flower between the cliffs, a group of iron-winged eagles descended from the sky and chased Ye Bai to intercept him, and the steel needle-like feathers hit his aura cover like a rainstorm, instantly penetrating his protection, fortunately, Ye Bai was alert, and immediately threw out a mist talisman to interfere with the sight of the iron-winged eagle, but he himself took the opportunity to burrow into the shady woods and escaped.

"Fooled! It's all a lie! As long as you refine the fifth layer of qi, you can come here to break through, and after you go back, you must expose these shameless seniors to the sect, and they actually deceived the junior disciples to come and send them to death!"

In a hurry, back to his cave, Ye Bai reluctantly pulled out the feather needles on his body, applied the wound medicine, and scolded.

In fact, he wronged the good people, the original intention of the seniors was to hope that the disciples in the sect would go together, take care of each other, and deal with the unfavorable situation together, where did they think that it would happen that Ye Bai would face the situation of the entire Xiao Shijie alone.

Moreover, although Ye Bai currently has the realm of the eighth layer of qi refining, it is because of the skyrocketing opportunity, and his real combat ability is still at the fifth layer, or even below the fifth layer. The reason for all this is not unrelated to his usual blind dedication to penance and not asking about the world.

Ye Bai's mind turned extremely fast, and after calming down, he quickly thought of this, and had a clearer understanding of his own strength.

In the past, he had always wondered about the overnight rain senior brother of Canglang Peak walking in the world, and he always felt that it was a waste of time, and it was better to retreat and cultivate, but now that he thinks about it, he is still too naïve.

Those who cultivate the Tao fight for their lives with the heavens. What we are fighting for is resources, what we are fighting for is magic weapons, what we are fighting for is opportunities, and what we are fighting for is that glimmer of life. But if you don't have the means to subdue demons, what can you fight for? If you have no mana and are not good at fighting, sooner or later you will fall.

Since entering the Lianyun Dao Sect, I have really lived a little reluctantly, and I have a teacher and brother to support everything, as long as I concentrate on cultivation, I seem to have returned to my carefree youth. But it is precisely this kind of comfort that wears out his competitive spirit, and his mind may become more and more pure and closer to the Great Dao, but it is by no means in line with the law of heaven and earth.

Thinking of this, Ye Bai had a hint of enlightenment. In my mind, I reproduced the situation of the past few days one by one, and after repeated consideration, I soon found a lot of mistakes, some problems that could have been solved by casting some spells and means, but the best time was delayed because the reaction was too slow, and some spells were too pale and monotonous, and if you mixed several other spells at the same time, the power would not increase.

It's a pity that these can only be thought about in hindsight, and the gaps in fighting experience cannot be accumulated in a short period of time. Ye Bai thought about it again and again, and decided to improve his cultivation first, so that whether it was spiritual sense, reaction, or spell power, there would be a big improvement.

I checked the situation around the cave and found that there was nothing abnormal. Ye Bai walked into the newly opened practice room on the left side of the cave mansion and sealed the door with stones with exorcism.

Gritting his teeth, he took out three Jing Yuan Dan pills and threw them into his mouth, the heat in his body suddenly surged, and his vitality overflowed, Ye Bai immediately sat down cross-legged, breathing and exhaling.

In the deathly silence, Ye Bai's breathing gradually stabilized, and the vitality released from the pill and the vitality between heaven and earth were constantly absorbed by him.

While Ye Bai closed his eyes and cultivated, the purple light spots between his eyebrows appeared silently again, this time it seemed to be much more condensed than last time, and it was no longer like a hair ball. The thin lines of branches spread throughout the body again, as if they were another completely different meridian map on the body.

The white dragon-like airflow in Ye Bai's body was pulled by the thin lines, turning into white points of light and merging into the purple lines, and after a few breaths, it turned into purple airflow and integrated into all parts of the body. For all this, Ye Bai didn't notice it in the slightest.

About half a day later, the vitality in the Jing Yuan Dan dissipated, and Ye Bai came to his senses, his brows furrowed, and he obviously felt the difference in his body. In the past, after eating the Jing Yuan Pill, although there was also vitality emerged, not all of it was absorbed by him, and most of it escaped into the air.

But this time it was different, although it was still escaping, most of it was absorbed, and you could obviously feel the growth of vitality in the body. Ye Bai's body even felt a trace of shortness of breath and tightness in his chest, which was a phenomenon that would only occur when the aura in the room was overabsorbed.

After speculating for a long time, he couldn't figure out what the problem was, could it be that his physical qualifications had been transformed under the baptism of thunder vitality? Looking back on his recent experience, it seemed that only this might be more reasonable. Obviously, the matter of the purple beads has been completely forgotten by him.

His original qualifications were extremely poor, and his ability to absorb pills was also comparable to those genius disciples, and the "Imperial Sword Student" Bu Yuan often sighed after throwing him a bottle of pills: "That's it, just take in a few more disciples!"

This is also the reason why he has been reluctant to take those three bottles of Jingyuan Pill.

Ye Bai stood up, walked a few steps around the room, thought for a moment, swallowed three Jing Yuan Dan again, and sat down to cultivate.

Half a day passed quickly, Ye Bai woke up from the surprise, it shouldn't be wrong, the Yuan Force in his body has improved a lot, and the body's ability to absorb the pill is really different from before. Whatever the reason, it's always a joy.

The years in the mountains are fleeting, three months later, Ye Bai is still cultivating silently, these three months of cultivation can be said to have made great progress, and he has obviously touched the threshold of the ninth layer, just waiting for an opportunity.

On this day, Ye Bai was meditating, and he clearly felt the buzzing sound after the surge of vitality, and the six senses also lost their former sensitivity, as if they were not in a quiet practice room, but in the crowded city, the spirit was quiet and abnormal, and there was a tearing feeling of separation from the body, which was unbearable, and it was almost called born.

Ye Bai knew that if he shouted at this moment, he would definitely fall short, so he hurriedly took out the remaining zuihou bottle of Jingyuan Pill, which was not counted, and poured it all into his mouth.

The frenzy of vitality in the body of "Bang Bang ----" skyrocketed again, washing every inch of the meridians.

After a while, Ye Bai raised his head to the sky and spurted out a mouthful of blood, the vitality of the riot finally receded, and the six senses gradually recovered, even more sensitive than before, and even the thin aura flow in the surrounding air was captured by him.

"It's a big deal, although I was promoted to the ninth layer this time, Zuihou took too many pills, and the aura was absorbed too quickly, and there was still a little damage to my body, and I still needed to cultivate for a few days. Ye Bai wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and said secretly in his heart.