Strength Breakthrough: Six Thousand Jin

Strength Breakthrough—Six Thousand Jin

Even so, Ye Wen did not immediately bury himself in grueling training. He first left the Extreme North Ice Plains and found a nearby city, where he wrote a letter through a merchant caravan that specialized in delivering mail, informing his grandfather and Ah Yin, far away in Holy Soul Village, that he was safe.

He also told them that he would be staying in the Extreme North Ice Plains for quite some time and that they need not worry. After that, Ye Wen threw himself back into training. In less than a month, his Soul Power broke through Level 30.

At the same time, he did not slack off on his physical training. He had several more iron plates weighing several hundred jin custom-made locally and added them to his barbell.

Before obtaining his Second Soul Ring, Ye Wen had clearly felt that the increase in his physical strength had reached some sort of limit. It had been difficult to improve any further after reaching around thirteen hundred jin, as though some shackle restrained him. Yet after obtaining his Second Soul Ring, that feeling of restraint vanished. In one month, Ye Wen's physical strength broke through three thousand jin—a truly shocking feat.

However, Ye Wen did not stop because of this, since the sense of restriction he had felt at two rings had not returned. He believed it was some kind of special bodily limit.

Before one's cultivation reached a certain stage, the body had a fixed upper limit. But once that limit was broken, the upper limit would rise, much like the limiter in that bald demon king manga from his Previous Life. As cultivation increased, the level of the restriction would also rise.

These limits also varied according to an individual's natural qualities.

For example, Ye Wen had been able to reach six hundred jin at one ring, while his dormmates could only struggle to reach four hundred jin, getting extremely close to the so-called age limit of the First Soul Ring.

So according to this theory, it was fortunate that Yu Xiaogang's disciple was Buddha Tang, that absurdly overpowered cheat. Otherwise, any ordinary commoner Soul Master who absorbed the Mandala Snake's Soul Ring would surely have been burst apart.

Over the following half year, Ye Wen continuously cultivated his Soul Power and trained his body. In the extreme cold, he also learned instinctive Soul Power cultivation—the sort of automatic internal energy cultivation described in Jin Yong's novels in his Previous Life.

Even without actively cultivating Soul Power, the Soul Power in his body would circulate on its own, driving his Martial Soul's transformation and cultivation. Its only drawback was that it could not match the efficiency of focused cultivation. Even so, Ye Wen was already very satisfied.

Based on this principle, Ye Wen planned to return and manually create such an environment for Ah Yin to cultivate in.

After all, making ice with saltpeter was far too simple for someone who was practically a graduate student. Ah Yin could also enter her mature phase more quickly and would not have to live in constant fear every day.

During those six months, Ye Wen finally sensed that bottleneck in his physical improvement once more. His strength had now reached six thousand jin, and a single punch could shatter mountains and split rocks.

"It's time." After finishing the last day of training, Ye Wen let out a breath, his gaze solemn.

For the upcoming Soul Beast hunt, even though Ye Wen possessed the strength to assassinate a Soul King, he was still alone and outnumbered.

Fortunately, the disguise provided by his Second Soul Skill meant that, so long as he did not venture too deeply into areas inhabited by Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts, he should have no trouble protecting himself. Even so, Ye Wen needed to make every possible preparation.

Fully equipped and ready to depart, Ye Wen entered the Extreme North Ice Plains again after half a year.

Yet Ye Wen still did not notice the figure watching him from afar.

Snow Empress remained silent as she watched that unyielding figure.

As the sole Heavenly Snow Woman born from heaven and earth, she was the emperor standing at the pinnacle of all Soul Beasts in the Extreme North.

She should have been humanity's mortal enemy. Yet for some unknown reason, half a year ago, her heart had suddenly stirred. On a whim, she came to the edge of the Extreme North and saw this human. Instinctively, she had wanted to protect him.

When she watched him successfully hunt a twelve-hundred-year Ice Silkworm, she felt no displeasure. Under normal circumstances, if a Soul Master hunted a Soul Beast before her, she would have killed that human without hesitation.

Yet when it came to this human, she instinctively could not bring herself to act. Instead, she had felt delighted when Ye Wen obtained that Soul Ring. It left her deeply puzzled. In the empty, bland, and tedious tens of thousands of years of her life, this was the first time such feelings had emerged.

"Why? Why do I instinctively want to protect him?" Snow Empress murmured.

Meanwhile, Ye Wen gradually ventured deeper into the Extreme North, already more than ten kilometers in.

Because Ice Silkworms were weak, even if they possessed five or six thousand years of cultivation, they still retained their primitive way of life. Unless the food in their cave ran out, they would not choose to migrate.

Thus, there was never anything wrong with using the old methods to search for Ice Silkworms.

But this time, Ye Wen's luck did not seem as good as he had imagined. After searching for more than half a month, he still had not found the Ice Silkworm of roughly four to five thousand years' cultivation that he so desperately wanted. It truly frustrated him.

"Ah, if only I had a Beast Martial Soul. One Martial Soul Possession and I could enhance my sense of smell. Finding an Ice Silkworm should be much easier," Ye Wen complained.

Suddenly, a cool and elegant voice rang out.

"Do you want an Ice Silkworm with five thousand years of cultivation? I know where one is. Do you want me to take you there?"

At those words, a delighted smile instantly appeared on Ye Wen's face, only for it to stiffen moments later. He had already entered the Extreme North by more than ten kilometers.

The Soul Masters who hunted Soul Beasts here generally came in groups. Almost no one was like him; only Soul Masters who needed to keep secrets would travel alone.

Yet he had not noticed the slightest movement before this sudden voice appeared. That alone was enough to show that its owner's cultivation far surpassed his own.

Slowly turning around, Ye Wen looked at the figure before him, dressed in white and radiating cold nobility. He swallowed. In this environment, even Titled Douluo had to wear thick cotton clothing, or else they would expend enormous amounts of Soul Power. Yet this woman was dressed so lightly. In this era, when Bibi Dong, the current pinnacle among female Soul Masters, had yet to grow into her strength, there was only one explanation for such a powerful being: the person before him was not human. The answer was obvious.

The number one vicious beast of the Extreme North—the Heavenly Snow Woman.

With more than six hundred thousand years of cultivation, she was a powerful existence capable of rivaling a Level 99 Limit Douluo.

A strained smile appeared on Ye Wen's face. Even he did not know how to speak in the presence of such a powerful being.

A hint of amusement appeared on Snow Empress's cold face.

"You seem to know who I am. But as I recall, every human expert I encountered should have been exterminated by me. Can you tell me how you came to know me?"

As expected of a top-tier vicious beast with intelligence comparable to a human's. With just one expression, Snow Empress had seen through Ye Wen.

But precisely because of that, Ye Wen knew there was no point in lying. Before the perception of such a powerful being, unless he could perfectly control every beat of his heart, his lies would be full of flaws. After all, the mouth could deceive, but the body was honest.