Three Days Later! [Pill Completion Spirit Increase]

Night fell.

Ye Jingheng looked at the azure scroll in his hand, unsure how he felt.

This was the first time he had personally come into contact with an item of the Battle Sovereign level.

Yet something he had always sought but could never obtain now felt almost too heavy to hold.

With this, it would be virtually impossible for Ye Yan to face any major danger while traveling abroad.

But without it, there might be far more twists and turns.

He was deeply moved on one hand, and wanted to return it on the other, yet hesitated after learning of the Ye Family's future crisis.

With this scroll, along with the attention of the Pill Tower's higher-ups, more than half of the Ye Family's crisis could be considered resolved.

"Ah, what should I do?!"

Ye Jingheng scratched at his head, having no idea what to do.

"If I take it back, Dad will probably beat me to death."

"But if I don't take it back, how will the Ye Family's crisis be resolved?!"

Ye Jingheng frowned deeply, his mind restless.

"Are you asleep?"

Just as Ye Jingheng was pondering, Ye Lin's knock sounded outside the door.

Before Ye Jingheng could reply, Ye Lin entered. Seeing Ye Jingheng's troubled face, he teased, "Oh? Jingheng is still awake as well!"

"Enough, Old Lin. Don't come bother me!" Ye Jingheng was already in a foul mood.

"You still haven't figured out whether to take it home or return it?"

"You make it sound easy. This is the thing that could save his life." Ye Jingheng was displeased!

"Precisely because it can save his life, you should bring it back to the family!"

"What do you mean?"

"It means that, in his eyes, the places he will go afterward won't have Battle Sovereign-level experts. It also means that, in his opinion, the Ye Family may truly be beset by crisis right now!"

Leaning against the doorpost, Ye Lin turned to look at the Starry Sky: "If you bring this scroll home, he'll be able to travel with peace of mind."

"Besides, as long as I'm here, ordinary experts won't be able to hurt him."

By the end, Ye Lin's tone was brimming with confidence.

As the person Ye Zhong had chosen to protect Ye Yan, he was no ordinary Battle Emperor.

He was already not far from becoming a Dou Zong.

Just as Ye Lin was giving Ye Jingheng a pep talk,

on the other side, in Ye Yan's room,

Ye Yan was figuring out how to cultivate the low-grade Earth-tier Battle Skill Xuan Yi had given him.

The Spear Art Xuan Yi had given him was called the Flame Dragon Cloud Piercing Art.

It had certain requirements for the solidity of one's Battle Qi and control over flames.

And he met all those requirements.

It was clear how much thought Xuan Yi had put into it.

To cultivate this Battle Skill, one had to draw the Battle Qi from the dantian vortex, slowly guide the fire-attribute Battle Qi along specific meridians to the palm, then transfer it onto the Long Spear.

Upon reaching minor mastery, one could condense a flame qi edge at the spear tip, about an inch long, solid and unscattered.

The formula was: "Use heartfire as the guide, let qi travel like dragons and serpents, gather at the blade's tip, condense without releasing."

Following the Battle Skill's description, Ye Yan mobilized the Battle Qi within his body and gathered it in his palm through his meridians.

However, without a spear in hand, the Battle Qi was somewhat scattered.

"I still need to find a Long Spear capable of withstanding violent fire-attribute Battle Qi."

Ye Yan waved away the ball of Battle Qi and spoke slowly.

As for the other low-grade Earth-tier Battle Skill, Flame Burning Palm, he already had Blazing Flame Force and still needed to practice spear techniques, so it was not suitable for him to cultivate other Battle Skills for now.

Time slowly passed as Ye Yan prepared and waited.

Three nights later.

Only Ye Yan and Ye Lin remained in the courtyard.

Ye Jingheng had left with the scroll two days ago.

Ye Yan had long prepared a table for bathing and burning incense, along with incense sticks.

He waited until the moon hung above the treetops.

As usual, Ye Yan, dressed in plain clothes, faced east and lit three sticks of incense.

At the same time, another plus sign appeared on the panel in his mind.

[Name]: Ye Yan

[Realm]: One-Star Dou Shi

[Traits]: "Your Exotic Fire is Fake" "Battle Sense Awakening" "Qi Gathering Acceleration" "Battle Qi Solidification" "Meridian Slight Expansion" "Physique Slight Enhancement" "Meridian Stabilization" "Husband Aura" "Eat My Cauldron"+

[Technique]: Heaven-Burning Furnace Fire Art

[Battle Skills]: Flowing Cloud Steps (major mastery); Blazing Flame Force (major mastery); Flame Dragon Cloud Piercing Art (beginner)

Ye Yan focused his consciousness on the plus sign and tapped it.

The plus sign slowly vanished, replaced by a new trait.

[Traits]: "Your Exotic Fire is Fake" "Battle Sense Awakening" ... "Husband Aura" "Eat My Cauldron" "Pill Completion Spirit Increase"

[Pill Completion Spirit Increase]: Each time you refine a pill, your soul power will increase slightly according to the pill's grade.

After carefully examining the effect, Ye Yan's eyes instantly widened.

Increase soul power?

Was it the soul power he was thinking of?!

Could it increase just by refining pills?

Ye Yan felt as if he were dreaming, afraid that he was actually still asleep.

As far as he knew, the only things capable of strengthening soul power were Spirit Nourishing Dust and that Nameless Mantra.

Now, a single trait could do it.

He had even been waiting to get lucky in the future and pick some up cheaply, or trade for them from Xiao Yan.

After confirming it, Ye Yan tugged at the collar of his clothes.

He felt as though his entire body had become a little hot.

Because of [Husband Aura], he had to keep a low profile whenever he went out, leaving him frustrated.

Now, he felt better in an instant.

Trait draws were great!

Trait draws were exactly what he needed!

Wasn't this turning things around?

When he returned from this journey, if Xuan Yi saw that he had already reached a Spirit Realm Soul, it would surely be interesting.

With a thought, Ye Yan took out the Three-Legged Two-Mouth Medicine Cauldron and tossed in the ingredients for the Rejuvenation Pill he had refined the most times.

He immediately mobilized the Battle Qi in his body and drew upon the Heaven Burning Flame within the cauldron.

This Heaven Burning Flame had been nurtured by Yang Fire, Earth Core Fire, Millennium Earth Vein Fire, and a large amount of Wood Qi.

Although it was now merely a fire seed the size of a mung bean, it was already comparable to a sixth-tier Beast Fire.

Especially after the Life Fire Seed appeared, Ye Yan's control over fire had improved greatly as well.

Previously, he could only control the flames through the cauldron. Now, with his ten fingers dancing, he could precisely control the temperature and even shape the flames into simple forms.

Once his soul perception and Heaven Burning Flame grew stronger again, he would be able to condense weapons such as spears from flame.

"Whoosh!"

The crimson flames within the medicine cauldron suddenly pounced upon the medicinal ingredients.

In mere moments, the several ingredients for the Rejuvenation Pill had been refined into white powder and liquid.

Then, under the scorching of the Heaven Burning Flame, the powder and liquid gradually formed into a round pill carrying a medicinal fragrance.

Just as the pill was about to form, an extremely faint and strange fluctuation suddenly spread through the surrounding heavens and earth. Threads of pale, unusual airflow seeped from space, circled once inside the medicine cauldron, then slowly entered through Ye Yan's forehead.

Ye Yan first felt a burst of pain in his mind, followed by an extremely faint sensation of coolness.

The feeling lasted only an instant—less than an instant, even.

By the time Ye Yan reacted, he was somewhat bewildered, while the Rejuvenation Pill in the medicine cauldron had already formed.

"No, that's it?"

Ye Yan looked at his palm, somewhat confused.

That little cool sensation was gone just like that.

And the airflow that entered between his brows should have been spiritual energy extracted layer by layer.

It was probably because a first-grade pill was too weak, so the corresponding spiritual energy it fed back was also very little.

If he were to visualize the amount of spiritual energy, it was equivalent to a thread of Wood Qi extracted from an Evergreen Flower.

It seemed he could only accumulate it bit by bit, or refine more high-grade pills, to receive more spiritual energy in return.

As Ye Yan pondered, he refined another second-grade Qi Recovery Pill.

Just as before.

When the Qi Recovery Pill formed, a strand of spiritual energy slightly greater than before entered Ye Yan's forehead once more.

Another wave of coolness.