Heavenly King Body

Sigh!

Ye Qiu let out a sigh.

But I'm not the one who wanted to live off a woman.

You can all bear witness for me.

It was all Brother Snake.

As for these Body Refinement materials...

Brother Snake ate the lion's share. It wouldn't be right to give them back to her now, would it?

Still, it genuinely bothered Ye Qiu.

The Great Serpent brushed it off. "You humans always make things complicated... It's just a few materials. At worst, pay her back double someday."

Ye Qiu said, "That wouldn't mean the same thing."

"What's the difference?" The Great Serpent snorted. "It's just that pitiful pride of yours getting in the way."

"You think you're so amazing that you shouldn't lose to a girl... and reality taught you a harsh lesson."

"Especially when that girl is your fiancée!"

"It's not the engagement you can't accept. You just can't accept that you lost..."

"Can you honestly say you don't feel anything when you see her?"

"Can you honestly say you don't want to sleep with her?"

Ye Qiu took a deep breath. "Brother Snake, give me a little dignity!"

The Great Serpent snorted. "Out in the world, you earn your own dignity. If you can't beat her, work harder! Fight with everything you've got! Push yourself! Prove it with your actions... What the hell is the use of sitting here lamenting your fate?"

"Back in the day, female dragons used to pin me down and bully me too. Not just one, but a whole group. What a sight that was..."

Ye Qiu's curiosity flared like a wildfire. "What happened next?"

The Great Serpent chuckled. "Next... Well, I got used to it."

Ye Qiu: "..."

That settles it.

Brother Snake really has no backbone!

The Great Serpent continued, "But you're different. You care about your dignity, so you have to work hard! You have to push yourself..."

Ye Qiu was speechless.

The Great Serpent said, "I'm telling you, everything in this world is fleeting. Only your fists are real... Nobody cares about your past. They only care about the final result! What you need to do is cast aside every stray thought, seize every opportunity, and grow stronger at any cost!"

Ye Qiu fell silent. Then his gaze grew firm.

Brother Snake might have a point!

He left his consciousness space with the Storage Ring, took out some Body Refinement materials, and immediately activated the Great Dragon Breath Technique.

A day later, Ye Qiu had absorbed all the Body Refinement materials into his body.

The energy inside him raged wildly.

He left the thatched hut and headed straight for the Gravity Tower.

The Tenth Layer.

Crushing pressure bore down on him, and the energy inside Ye Qiu began to refine at astonishing speed.

He walked up to the great bell on the Tenth Layer and struck it again and again with his fists. At first, it did not budge.

But as more energy was refined, the bell began to tremble, then sway. Finally, it rang out with a series of booming clang, clang, clang!

By the next day, its tolling had grown immense.

On the third day, it was deafening.

On the fourth day, Ye Qiu paused. He sat cross-legged and steadied his Qi and Blood, along with the Cultivation Level in his Qi Sea.

His Cultivation Level had not improved much, but his Qi and Blood had risen substantially.

Ye Qiu reckoned his Qi and Blood had passed 130,000!

"Brother Snake, something feels off," Ye Qiu said as a troubling thought occurred to him. "The materials I absorbed were good, but isn't my Qi and Blood growing too fast?"

Body Cultivation was notoriously difficult!

Even with resources, progress was slow.

It also demanded being hammered and tempered a thousand times over.

Ye Qiu had certainly endured a great deal, but he was still far from being hammered and tempered a thousand times over.

Yet his progress was far too fast.

For most people, it would have been a miracle!

Even with a profound art like Great Dragon Breath, it was a little too... unnatural!

The Great Serpent remained casual. "Nothing strange about it. My Origin Dragon Qi washed through you, after all. Your physique's potential naturally far surpasses that of ordinary geniuses."

Of course, there was something else he did not say: if the hidden Bloodline within Ye Qiu awakened, his growth would become even more terrifying!

And if he could fully control that awakened Bloodline, multiply that terror tenfold!

After all, the boy was this generation's Person of Calamity!

But awakening that Bloodline would be anything but easy. The Great Serpent had come to understand that over the past few days.

This boy might be even more terrifying than the previous Person of Calamity!

And that meant the difficulty of awakening his Bloodline would rise to an absurd degree!

It would also be harder to control. He might even be unable to control it at all!

Even now, the previous Person of Calamity still suffered the backlash of that Bloodline and had never truly broken free.

Ye Qiu did not ask any more questions.

Clang, clang, clang—

He stepped up to the great bell and resumed his frenzied assault, one peal following another.

One day, two days, three days... Ten days passed. Ye Qiu struck with his fist, and the great bell exploded with a boom!

Cleared!

All ten floors of the Gravity Tower, smashed!

Ye Qiu had also absorbed plenty of vital essence there. The tower was rich with it.

His Cultivation Level had broken through to Mystic Passage Fourth Level three days earlier, and he was already nearing the fifth level!

Ye Qiu was delighted. "Brother Snake, how much farther?"

The Great Serpent said, "Not far."

Ye Qiu was just about to boast when the Great Serpent added, "Only as far as heaven is from earth."

Ye Qiu: "..."

"Brother Ye, I knew you'd be here!" A burly young man's cheerful voice rang out.

Ye Qiu smiled. "Here to train too?"

Wu Xiaokai walked over. When he saw the shattered pieces of the great bell, his eyes lit up.

Then shock seized him!

He remembered that just a few days ago, Ye Qiu's Qi and Blood had been weaker than his.

Now Ye Qiu had surpassed even his limit.

After all, Wu Xiaokai had only shattered an identical bell yesterday, and nowhere near as completely as Ye Qiu had.

Wu Xiaokai genuinely admired Ye Qiu now. Just look at him: the most beautiful woman in Southern State was his fiancée, he was handsome himself, and his talent was monstrous!

Incredible!

"Want to head out?" Wu Xiaokai asked Ye Qiu, suppressing his shock.

"Something going on?" Ye Qiu asked.

Wu Xiaokai stepped closer and whispered a few words in his ear.

Ye Qiu's eyes flickered. "Are you sure?"

Wu Xiaokai said, "Absolutely! Once we get it, we split it fifty-fifty!"

Ye Qiu nodded. "All right!"

The two left the Gravity Tower and soon walked out of the Academy. But just as they stepped outside, a boom erupted overhead, louder and more terrifying than Thunder.

All across South Capital, people looked up in shock.

Above the Ye Clan, the very air trembled, and purple qi began to coil through it.

Gradually, a sharp edge emerged from the purple qi.

At last, it transformed into the enormous shadow of a sword!

"That's... the Ye Family's Heavenly King Body!"

"The Heavenly King Body has been in seclusion lately. Could he have broken through?"

"He must have, and it was no small breakthrough. He's even stirred up a celestial Vision!"

"Incredible!"

Ye Qiu looked in that direction too, but after one glance, he turned away.

He did not care what the Heavenly King Body was or how formidable he might be.

Nothing about the Ye Clan had anything to do with him.

As long as they did not come looking for trouble...