Must Be Careful to Keep It Secret

Chen Mo brought back three items. Besides the green jade of the Transmission Jade Talisman, the other two items, excluding the White Jade Bead, were a palm-sized cloth bag, which was a Storage Bag used by True Person Xuan Ling.

This Storage Bag was a gift from a friend when he was young and still a Qi Refining cultivator. Therefore, he had protected it very well, drawing many protective runes and restrictions on it, so it wasn't damaged during the teleportation. However, his own Storage Ring was destroyed when spatial collapse occurred due to the activation of restrictions in the secret realm as he was exiting the teleportation array. Otherwise, a dignified Nascent Soul Realm cultivator would not use a Storage Bag, which would only invite ridicule. He hoped that the fated person would cherish this Storage Bag.

Finally, True Person Xuan Ling wished that if the fated person achieved success in cultivation, they would return to Ye Hui Star and inform the Ye Family of his cause of death, thus fulfilling his last wish.

As for some other items, he had placed them in the Storage Bag, and the fated person would naturally know once they had Spiritual Sense. The restrictions and protective runes on the Storage Bag were solely to protect the bag itself. It could be opened as long as one reached Qi Refining Layer One.

Chen Mo looked at the Storage Bag in his hand and couldn't help but inwardly complain. This Storage Bag must have been his token of love, otherwise, it wouldn't have been preserved so carefully. At this moment, Chen Mo realized how lucky he was to have encountered such a great opportunity. Although he still didn't understand what the White Jade Bead was, he still felt as lucky as if he had been struck by a falling stone from the heavens. He never expected that legendary events could happen to him.

In his more than ten years of life, he had never heard of cultivation. He only had some concept from reading novels. He never expected to encounter it personally today and become one of them. An opportunity of one in ten thousand, no! One in a hundred million, that he had encountered. How lucky! It also made him deeply understand that he absolutely could not reveal this matter to anyone, not even his parents. Otherwise, this would not be luck, but impending disaster.

"If the ruler is not discreet, he loses his ministers; if the minister is not discreet, he loses his life; if important matters are not discreet, they lead to harm!" The ancient saying was very true, and he should remember it firmly.

Now, he had no Spiritual Sense and couldn't open the Storage Bag. At this stage, he could only use his blood for authentication every time he wanted to read the Transmission Jade Talisman. Fine! "Authentication" was a word he thought of. In reality, after the Transmission Jade Talisman was refined with blood, it belonged to him. But without Spiritual Sense, every time he wanted to read the information within the talisman, he needed to smear his blood on it again to read a limited amount of information, as told to him by the talisman itself.

Cutting himself every time he read it? Isn't that self-harm? If his parents or others saw it, they would surely send him to a mental hospital! Chen Mo shivered all over and made up his mind to be extremely careful in the future, absolutely not letting anyone see him self-harming. Oh! It wasn't self-harm, it was learning the knowledge in the Transmission Jade Talisman!

The next day, taking advantage of the bright sunshine, Chen Mo packed some ropes and a piece of wood, intending to make a tombstone for True Person Xuan Ling, and headed towards the burial site from yesterday.

Ye Shang, also known as True Person Xuan Ling, could be considered his Master. He had given him a great opportunity and passed on the seed of cultivation to him. This was an immense favor to him! Therefore, he had to properly prepare the place where he would rest after his death. He also used tools to bury the cave, preventing other creatures from disturbing his Master.

As for informing the Ye Family after achieving success in cultivation! Master, you are making things difficult for me!

What level of cultivation counted as success? Chen Mo wasn't very clear. Seeing that his Master, who was in the Nascent Soul Realm, was killed, it was better to be cautious. He would go when his own strength was sufficient. Thinking of the Ye Family, they probably wouldn't care about a few hundred years. Cultivators, once they reached the Foundation Establishment Realm, could extend their lifespan by 300 years. It seemed they wouldn't care about time, hehe!

Besides, he hadn't even started cultivating yet. The road ahead was long! So, he muttered all his thoughts at his Master's grave. It's not that your disciple is unwilling, but the outside world is too terrifying. And the most important point, there's no teleportation array to leave Blue Sea Star!

Everything that needed to be said and done was completed. Not only did he block the earthen cave, but he also decorated it, transplanted two pine trees, and planted them in front of the now-sealed earthen cave. In a few years, no trace would be found here. After everything was done, according to local customs, he kowtowed nine times before the grave to repay Ye Shang for the inheritance.

Today, from home to the mountain gully, digging soil, burying the tombstone, sealing the earthen cave in the gully, and digging up trees, going back and forth, not to mention climbing up and down the gully many times, Chen Mo finally felt the abnormality of his body. Not only could he lift stones weighing several hundred pounds with ease, but climbing up and down a five-meter gully, which was a chasm yesterday, had become a smooth path today. Not only was it easy to go up and down, but he could also climb up directly in a few moves using the protrusions on the gully wall without ropes. Going down was even easier; he could just jump down, which was incredibly effortless.

Moreover, as he did more work, his movements became smoother, and the discomfort caused by the overall physical improvement gradually disappeared, and he gradually adapted to the changes in his body.

Because of this, when Chen Mo returned home, he went to the county town and quietly borrowed a gym membership card from a classmate. He tested his physical fitness in the gym.

He found that the strength of both his left and right punches had exceeded 200 kilograms, and his speed and reaction time far surpassed those of ordinary people. A force of 200 kilograms, apart from some boxing champions, was already superhuman strength. Ordinary people could only exert tens to over a hundred kilograms. It could be said that Chen Mo was no longer an ordinary person.

Furthermore, Chen Mo discovered that his memory had greatly improved. Not only was his memory excellent, but he could remember many books after reading them only once or twice. He could also gradually recall memories from his childhood. This was very good news for him, as it would save him a lot of effort in his studies in the future.

For a full four years, from graduating high school to his current university senior year, Chen Mo had been cultivating the first chapter of the Profound Heaven True Art, the Qi Refining Chapter, for over four years, yet he had not entered Qi Refining Layer One. The main reason was that the spiritual energy on Blue Sea Star was too scarce. His daily cultivation of Qi Induction felt like his True Essence wasn't increasing at all.

In fact, Chen Mo had experimented. The results of his cultivation at home, in the mountains, and in the urban area were different. It was best in the mountains; the spiritual energy was relatively better, although still limited. At home, it was weaker, but not significantly so; at least he could feel a trace of spiritual energy entering his body. However, in Shangshi, it was pitifully scarce. Every day, he felt as if his True Essence wasn't growing.

This also made Chen Mo realize that Blue Sea Star was now in a desolate era for cultivation, with very little spiritual energy. If he wanted to cultivate better, he could only go home and live closer to the mountains, where the pollution was less and the spiritual energy was more. In fact, Chen Mo had no choice but to attend university because his parents wanted him to have a good future. For a child from the countryside to get ahead, he had to study hard. Therefore, he could only choose biology, which suited him, but he couldn't skip university. Sometimes he really wanted to go home and not attend school, just cultivate at home. But thinking of his parents' expectations and the family's difficulties, he had to continue. It was truly sad that a cultivator was defeated by reality.

If cultivation didn't make his mind feel very refreshed and at least slowly increase his True Essence, he would have given up this tormenting cultivation long ago. Four years! Every night, he had to meditate for more than two hours. From being unable to sit cross-legged for long at the beginning, to being able to sit there for two to three hours, it was all thanks to time.

Also, because he couldn't cultivate in the dormitory while attending university, he had to wake up before dawn every day and go to a secluded place on campus to cultivate and meditate. Who knew about this four-year persistence?

More than a year ago, using money earned from part-time jobs, he rented a rental room in a village on the outskirts of the city. Although it was far from the urban area, the air was much better. While it didn't have a significant effect, it was at least better than being in the city! It also caused him to be late for classes every day. If it weren't for his good academic performance and excellent memory, he would have failed many subjects due to the torment.