You Haven't Eaten? Hit Me as Hard as You Like!

Inner Sect.

Shen Yunfei walked along the Inner Sect's main street, glancing around.

He had heard that because there were few people in the Inner Sect, one could encounter many powerful experts here.

Yet after being in the Inner Sect for so long, he had not seen any elders, much less the two direct disciples.

Who knew where all those experts had gone?

There were quite a few senior brothers without any reputation, though.

"Junior Brother Shen, why are you here? Today is the day you challenge the Sky-reaching Tower. Everyone is waiting for you."

As Shen Yunfei continued wandering through the Inner Sect, a man came running over from the distance, panting as he spoke to him.

The Sky-reaching Tower?

Today!

How did I forget about that!

According to sect rules, cultivators who had just advanced to the Inner Sect had to challenge the Sky-reaching Tower once within the designated time.

A few days ago, Shen Yunfei had set the date. That date was today.

The Sky-reaching Tower.

It was said to have a total of ninety-nine floors.

Each floor had a different opponent, and the higher one went, the stronger they became.

Up to now, no newly advanced disciple had ever made it past the thirtieth floor.

Although there were not many Inner Sect disciples, there was no shortage of people who came to watch the spectacle.

The place was surrounded inside and out.

They were simply waiting for Shen Yunfei to enter.

Of course, Gu Yuan did not care at all about what was happening here.

What concerned him most was still the Inner Sect's inheritors.

The Great Elder's cave abode.

Before the white-haired Great Elder lay scattered fragments of jade, while spiritual energy danced at his fingertips.

The pieces of jade varied in type and even in size.

At the light touch of his finger, a piece of jade instantly shattered.

Failure.

Another failure.

The Great Elder frowned deeply, pinching a fragment of jade in his left hand as he sank into thought.

Still not working?

A thought crossed his mind, and the Great Elder could not help letting out a sigh.

For the past two months, he had been studying the storage of spiritual energy and the simplest methods of setting up formations.

So far, he had succeeded at neither.

He and the Second Elder were different from other cultivators. When others heard Tang Dongyang's bluster, they would doubt whether the Qi Refining Formula had truly been bestowed by him, thus lending him an air of mystery.

But they had personally participated in the incident involving the battle against the experts from another world.

They knew clearly that Tang Dongyang was stronger than them, but not by too much.

Naturally, none of them exposed the matter.

After all, Tang Dongyang had given them genuine offensive methods. One could hardly complain after taking something from another.

"What if I do it this way?"

The Great Elder did not give up and continued studying the jade.

With the possible arrival of experts from another world, he too wanted to contribute his strength.

There was certainly no way to rapidly improve his own cultivation, but there were still external means that could contend against them.

Formations!

If formations could truly be developed, they would hold immense significance for the entire world.

"The storage time is limited. This jade material won't do; it can't withstand it."

Standing nearby, Gu Yuan stared at the shattered jade pieces, sensing the faint spiritual energy within them before making his judgment.

This Great Elder did have talent when it came to using spiritual energy.

In Cangyuan World,

there were actually people who used ordinary jade as part of formations. However, such jade had to be engraved with special inscriptions beforehand, unless it was pure spirit stone.

"Right, why am I not researching engraved inscriptions?"

After giving the Great Elder a slight hint, Gu Yuan did not remain there any longer.

Engraving inscriptions was far from as simple as it sounded.

Among endless variations, trying to comprehend patterns that conformed to the laws—from nothing to something—no one knew how long it would take.

Ten years?

A hundred years?

Or a thousand years?

This counted as a long-term investment by Gu Yuan.

Shaking his head, Gu Yuan's figure began to fade away...

"Can this work too?"

Before Gu Yuan could disappear, the Great Elder's excited voice suddenly rang in his ears.

What the hell?

Surely he had not actually engraved an inscription already?

There was no way such a coincidence could happen.

Gu Yuan's expression turned strange as he looked toward the Great Elder.

At that moment, the Great Elder had already risen from the bed and pulled off the pillowcase, revealing an enormous piece of jade inside.

The jade was incredibly smooth, though the impurities within remained clearly visible.

Spiritual energy?

There was actually spiritual energy stored inside it, and it had not dissipated for a long time.

"That's right! If the jade is large enough, then even without engraved inscriptions, it can still hold spiritual energy!"

A smile spread across the Great Elder's face. He was as delighted as a child, waving his arms about as he muttered to himself.

So it was not engraved inscriptions.

That gave me a scare.

I knew it. How could one person create something from nothing so easily?

Still, using larger jade really was quite a good method. It was no easy feat to think of such an approach.

Gu Yuan had rarely even seen jade this large.

After carefully examining the jade before him, Gu Yuan found that it could continue absorbing spiritual energy. He just did not know what its limit was.

This thing was good, but it was expensive.

For a piece this large, if he needed many of them, who knew how much money the Great Elder had stashed away?

With the experience from the first one,

the Great Elder began calling jade merchants to buy more jade of the same kind.

There were size restrictions as well.

What money?

He did not lack money in the first place.

Otherwise, who would use a huge piece of jade as a pillow while sleeping?

Coming here to act was more about experiencing life.

As long as the jade could store spiritual energy, there would be no other major issues.

"Isn't this what it means to be heaven's chosen?"

In such a short time, he had broken through in his method of using spiritual energy. This Great Elder truly was talented.

Giving him a silent thumbs-up, Gu Yuan vanished from where he stood.

The back mountain.

A barren stretch of land.

Jin Ling'er held a wooden stick in her hand, channeling spiritual energy as she repeatedly struck the bare-chested Yi Changge.

Yi Changge let out miserable screams, yet he remained sprawled there without moving.

The sight was simply too beautiful.

If Lin Hao came and saw this, he would probably be dumbfounded too.

"Keep going! Hit me harder!"

After screaming, Yi Changge gritted his teeth and shouted.

"Have you not eaten?"

Well then.

This man really knew how to talk. He seemed afraid that he would not get beaten to death.

"Good thing I didn't choose body refinement. The Sect Master's body refinement method is just too hardcore. If this old body of mine went through that, I wouldn't even know how I died."

An elderly white-haired man watched Yi Changge's miserable state with lingering fear and could not help turning away.

"I originally planned to cultivate all three methods at once. Now it seems I should give up one. My energy is limited."

A slightly younger inheritor shook his head, mentally casting the body refinement method into cold storage.

"Ah! Keep going! I said you haven't eaten, so have you really not eaten?"

"Ah! Hit me as hard as you like!"

His mouth was stubborn, but Yi Changge's body was even tougher!

Today, he would show them what a real tough guy was!

A while later.

"I'm not hitting anymore, I'm not hitting anymore. Find someone else. I'm tired."

Jin Ling'er panted heavily and collapsed onto the ground from exhaustion. Waving her hand, she refused to keep hitting Yi Changge.

Pervert!!

He was absolutely a pervert!

Could this kid have some kind of masochistic tendency?