Breaking Through to the Organ Refining Realm, Guarding the Ore Vein

[Three months later, nineteen Mysterious Grade Treasure Medicines were successfully refined into a Profound Grade Top Quality Bone Strengthening Root Growing Treasure Pill. Ye Changming soon delivered the Bone Strengthening Root Growing Treasure Pill to you. When you received the Treasure Pill, you were deeply moved. Your sense of belonging to the family rose immensely. You knew that even for the Ye Family, a Profound Grade Top Quality Treasure Pill was not easy to obtain.]

[After preparing everything, you swallowed the Mysterious Grade Treasure Pill. Soon after taking it, a small amount of filth was expelled from your body. You knew this was the impurities within you. This time, your Bone Structure rose to Yellow Grade Middle Rank. This was already the limit of the Treasure Pill. Still, you were quite satisfied. Most direct lineage disciples of the Ye Family only possessed Yellow Grade Bone Structures, and you also had the Talent of an Innate Medicinal Heart. You believed you would not be inferior to those geniuses with Mysterious Grade Bone Structures.]

[In the forty-fifth year, your cultivation broke through to the initial stage of the Organ Refining Realm, reaching the final realm of the Body Tempering Three Realms. At the same time, after all these years, your Mountain Shaking Fist had reached the peak of the Perfected Mastery Realm. However, because your fist intent was insufficient, you had been unable to break through to Peak Attainment. Likewise, the Mayfly Step Slash that you had painstakingly cultivated was stuck at Perfection Realm within Perfected Mastery, unable to advance.]

[You were extremely anxious, but there was nothing you could do. You had previously sought out your father, Ye Changming, to ask him about it, but he himself had never comprehended a Martial Skill at Peak Attainment. Ye Changming had been left stammering by your questions, unable to teach you. Regarding this issue, you turned to the Family Secret Manual and searched through the autobiography of the First Generation Ancestor, the only person to have cultivated the Mountain Shaking Fist to Peak Attainment. The First Generation Ancestor had not written in detail about how to break through. Instead, he explained that everyone understood the same Martial Skill differently. Even if others possessed Great Completion fist intent or blade intent, they could not teach it to anyone; it had to be personally comprehended.]

[Only after reading the First Generation Ancestor's autobiography did you understand that to break through into the Perfected Mastery Realm, one's comprehension of "intent" in a Martial Skill needed to reach Minor Accomplishment. To break through to Peak Attainment, it needed to reach Great Completion. Thus, your current comprehension of fist intent was still insufficient. Seeing this, you calmed down. You were suddenly no longer so anxious about breakthroughs in Martial Skills, and simply let nature take its course.]

[That same year, because you had broken through to the Organ Refining Realm, the family had little Pill resources left to give you. You were deeply resistant to taking Pills of this level and did not want to ask your parents for more, as that would drag down the pace of their cultivation. After reaching the Organ Refining Realm, ordinary Mortal Grade Pills were utterly useless to you. Only Yellow Grade spirit medicines or spirit pills could help you. If you wanted to catch up to those geniuses with Mysterious Grade Bone Structures, you would need to consume large quantities of spirit pills and spirit medicines. Otherwise, the time it took for you to break through realms would only grow longer.]

[The Ye Family treated its own descendants differently from outsiders. For example, Guest Clansmen from collateral families attached to the Ye Family had to be forcibly assigned various tasks or made to guard certain posts by the Ye Family, even if they were only at the Body Tempering Realm. In exchange, they received the Ye Family's protection and a small amount of resource support.]

[As for the Ye Family's collateral branches, they would only be assigned tasks or posts after reaching the Blood Transformation Realm. Most of these posts were not too bad, offered some degree of safety, and came with considerable resource support.]

[The Ye Family did not impose mandatory requirements on most members of the direct lineage. However, most families whose circumstances were not as good as Ye Feng's would still consciously or voluntarily accept family assignments. These included, but were not limited to, guarding resource sites and Secret Realms controlled by the family, tending Spirit Fields, and watching over family-owned shops. The resources acquired each year in this way were no fewer than what one could obtain through adventures outside, while the danger was far lower.]

[You did not discuss your desire to go out and handle family affairs with your parents, fearing they would refuse. Instead, you went alone to the Family Affairs Building and selected a mission with a certain degree of danger but abundant resources: heading underground on the outskirts of Fengyuan to guard an ore vein resource site.]

[You learned that the Ye Family had assigned five Organ Refining Realm Martial Artists, including yourself, and one Essence Gathering Realm expert to this Xiao Tie Ore Vein resource site. The Essence Gathering Realm was the realm after the Body Tempering Three Realms, the first realm of the Three Essences Realm. An expert of this realm could be considered a person of standing even in all of Fengyuan City.]

[So long as you did not encounter a Yao Beast Tide that occurred only once in several centuries, this force would face no danger in the outer regions of the Fengyuan Secret Forest. You were not too worried about the danger rating marked above.]

[After arriving at the Xiao Tie Ore Vein resource site, you met the four Organ Refining Realm Martial Artists stationed there. You also discovered an acquaintance—one of your few friends, Ye Mingyue. At this time, Ye Mingyue had already reached the Viscera Refining Middle Stage, surpassing you in cultivation. But in terms of combat strength alone, you reckoned you could take on ten of him.]

[Ye Mingyue was delighted by your arrival. He had been alone in this place, without even anyone to talk to in ordinary times. Though there were other Ye Family members here, none of them were truly close to him. He warmly arranged a place for you to stay and told you amusing stories about guarding the ore vein. Through your conversations with Ye Mingyue, much of your discomfort at undertaking a mission away from home for the first time faded. Although the residence was underground, the cave entrance Ye Mingyue arranged for you was not bad at all. It was not as good as Room B-8 in the Ye Family, but it could hardly be called suffering outside.]