Chapter 43: Baking the furnace to refine the elixir (Part 43)
“Hiss—hiss—!”

"Ss ...

Wild beasts will follow their instincts, ten-year soul beasts will succumb to their instincts, hundred-year soul beasts will overcome their instincts, thousand-year soul beasts will begin to think, ten-thousand-year soul beasts have the IQ of normal people, and one hundred-thousand-year soul beasts can speak and change shape.

This 90,000-year-old Thousand-Tier Ant King keenly sensed Yue Guan, Gui Mei, Dugu Bo and Liu Erlong, four guys who were not easy to deal with. He also sensed a hint of threat from Shui Feng, Huo Lie and Feng Wuji. The team of a hundred people behind him proved the saying "there is strength in numbers", so, to be honest, he did not want to conflict with this group of humans.

The premise is that these humans don't want to conflict with it.

If this group of humans were just passing by, it could turn a blind eye.

However, it saw a young human taking a step towards it, and the aura from his body burst out without any concealment, including a murderous aura that was no less brutal than its own, which undoubtedly explained the other party's intention.

Therefore, it will no longer tolerate it!

The other two Thousand Ant Kings that were over 90,000 years old heard the call of their brother and broke out from the ground on the other two sides, standing with the purple Thousand Ant King. One was emerald green and seemed to have undergone some mutation during the evolution process and had a high degree of toxicity. The other was dark red and, like the emerald green Thousand Ant King, seemed to have undergone some mutation during the evolution process and had enhanced fire resistance, which was roughly equivalent to enchanting itself with fire damage.

"I see!" Yue Guan frowned and gave Gui Mei a look, ready to take action at any time: "The most obvious difference between the Thousand Jun Ant King and the Thousand Jun Ant Emperor is the wings. The Thousand Jun Ants with wings, even if they are not Thousand Jun Ant Emperors of 100,000 years old, are not much different. The Thousand Jun Ants without wings, even if they are also Thousand Jun Ant Kings of 90,000 years old, still have many years to wait. These three Thousand Jun Ant Kings can already be called Thousand Jun Ant Emperors, especially the emerald green Thousand Jun Ant, whose wings are already complete and it is very likely to have the ability to fly..."

"But we can kill them!" Shui Feng did not blame Ye Qingcang for leading her to this broken place, nor did she believe what Ye Qingcang said. Having ambition is a good thing, but a level 40 Quasi-Soul Master, no matter how you look at it, cannot defeat three Thousand-Jun Ant Kings.

However, Yue Guan stopped her.

It also stopped everyone except her.

"See for yourself!" Yue Guan's voice was extremely normal. His words aroused everyone's curiosity: "This may be the upper limit of the soul master you will see in your lifetime... and in our lifetime, at this age and at this soul power level!"

"That's right." Gui Mei nodded and patted Hu Liena on the shoulder. His admiring eyes made Hu Liena feel strange: "It's great! If I can learn some experience and skills from him, I can still use them even if I become a Titled Douluo!"

Yue Guan and Gui Mei suddenly transformed into Ye Chui, leaving many people confused.

But no matter whether you can understand it or not, it is common sense to just listen to others’ explanations quietly if you don’t understand; especially when it comes from a Titled Douluo.

And in the next second, the development and direction of the situation was even more unexpected!
"I like to use courtesy before force..." Ye Qingcang did not attack first, but walked at a pace that Dugu Bo was very familiar with, neither hurried nor slow, as if taking a stroll, and even chatted during the stroll: "If you surrender, I promise you three that I will keep your souls and follow me on the road to eternal life; if you do not surrender, I can only regretfully take action, deprive you of your will, and transform you into tools."

Soul beasts that have lived for ten thousand years can understand human language, so these three thousand-pound ant kings should be able to understand it.

But compared to this, as a level 40 quasi-soul master facing three Thousand-pound Ant Kings that are more than 90,000 years old, you still have the mind to negotiate with them about depriving their souls and pursuing eternal life. Isn't that a bit too crazy?

Yan muttered softly.

And was glared back by Yue Guan.

Others may not know, but he and the ghosts know.

When it comes to depriving one’s soul, Ye Qingcang is not bragging.

Bibi Dong can suck souls. She sucked Qianxunji dry from the inside out, even his soul was not spared. Naturally, she can also deprive him of his soul.

Moreover, contrary to the arrogance that others felt from Ye Qingcang's behavior, what he felt instead was a respect for life. As a future god, Ye Qingcang could still communicate with the three Thousand-pound Ant Kings in a good tone, instead of being like Bibi Dong at the beginning, raising the sickle and not even leaving them face. It was a matter of surrender or death, a total of five words, and he was very stingy with words. Compared with Bibi Dong, Ye Qingcang was really too merciful!
He's the type who's willing to reason with you even though he can obviously kill you!

Especially these three Thousand-Tier Ant Kings are soul beasts!

It's so rare to be able to reason with a group of beasts!
Yue Guan's self-admiration is entirely due to the support of his peers.

Ye Qingcang didn't do well.

But others did worse than him.

In response to Ye Qingcang's request to chat, the three Thousand Jun Ant Kings also started communicating: "Hiss - hiss - hiss - hiss - hiss - hiss!"

Others couldn't understand, but Ye Qingcang could: "Since we have decided to fight, let's not discuss tactics; I am different from other humans. I can understand your words, just like you can understand our words..."

The three powerful ant kings suddenly fell silent.

The Soul Hunting Squad also suddenly fell silent.

No, isn't what you know a little too extreme?

How come you even know the language of ants?

Does Blue Blade Academy still teach this?

"There's nothing strange about it." As if noticing the surprise of the people on the Soul Hunting Team, Ye Qingcang explained without even turning his head, "Humans are the leaders of all spirits. Soul beasts can understand what humans say, but humans can't. One reason why no one has studied this is that humans look down on soul beasts and are unwilling to even learn and understand the most basic things."

Many people made some small movements with complicated thoughts.

Some pursed their lips, some clenched their fists, and some lowered their eyes.

They don't like to be preached to.

But that doesn't mean they refuse to accept the truth.

"What I have learned in my life is quite varied..."

Ye Qingcang's speed gradually increased.

From a few meters in one step to tens of meters in one step.

The pace remains steady, like a walk.

But his figure had already begun to flicker, and suddenly appeared dozens of meters away, and before you could see clearly, he suddenly appeared hundreds of meters away.

Only the sound is not affected.

His calmness was unbelievable, and his content was even more shocking: "Looking at all the laws in the world, there are only two kinds: gong and fa. Gong is the art of strengthening the body, and fa is the art of protecting the body. Along the way, you have seen a lot of fa, which is what you call self-created spirit skills, and gong, there are very few, such as my star martial arts, and Tang San's Xuantian Gong."

Tang San:"???"

Everyone in the Spirit Hall: “???” Tianshui, Chihuo, Shenfeng: “???”

Shrek and his group: “???”

Did they just hear some incredible information?
Too many explosive points!

For a moment I couldn't tell what was important!
Tang San looked at Ye Qingcang with increasingly resentful eyes.

And was caught by Xiaowu who subconsciously looked towards Tang San.

"The purpose of Xuantian Gong is to purify. People who have practiced Xuantian Gong since childhood can raise their soul power level to the innate full soul power. If it acts on a soul master, it will make the soul master's soul power of higher quality, just like the difference between gas, liquid and solid. Even if the soul power level is the same, a ton of iron and a ton of cotton are equally heavy. Cotton cannot crush iron, but iron can crush cotton. Purification is the most precious characteristic of Xuantian Gong."

"The purpose of the Star Martial Arts is to encompass everything."

"If I have to say one characteristic, it might be the foundation."

Ye Qingcang raised his hand, and wisps of white energy began to spread from his fingertips, condensing into sharp gauntlets that looked like dragon claws, and extended backwards. He paused for a moment so that everyone could see more clearly:
"When I was young, I once thought about a question: What is the essence of soul power?"

"meditation?"

"No, that's too vague an answer."

"I have searched through all the books I could find, but none of them explained the essence of soul power. Perhaps for every soul master, they don't need to know the essence of soul power. They only need to know that the energy that helps them drive their martial souls is called soul power, and the energy that helps them transcend the ordinary is called soul power. Soul power is soul power. How can there be so many questions... What is the essence? Is it worth exploring?"

"But I'm different."

"I have always been a stickler for details since I was a kid."

"I have investigated more than 2,000 soul masters and dissected hundreds of soul beasts. The essence of soul power is not soul power, but a kind of energy extracted from cells + energy extracted through meditation → blended in a specific ratio → imprinted through blood = a special energy called soul power!"

“I define cellular energy as the body.”

“Define meditation energy as spirit.”

"The process of bloodline imprinting is defined as martial spirit."

“I got a formula.”

"Body + spirit → special ratio blending → martial soul imprint = soul power!"

"So, from the very beginning, the Star Martial Arts focused on the body and the spirit. The combination of the two is the foundation of a person, the life of a person, and the person himself!"

"If you want to make your body stronger, fusion and refinement are indispensable processes."

“Fusion means eating.”

"Refining is training."

"Any piece of good steel is forged by fusing together pieces of insignificant iron. Through various methods, impurities in these pieces of iron are removed, and the essence is taken out while the dross is discarded."

"So, there are the foundation-building chapter and the Qi and blood chapter."

"Many soul masters are stuck in bottlenecks not because their innate soul power level is too low, but because their bodies and spirits are already deficient. Humans and fruit trees have a common principle in this regard. Some fruit trees can only bear fruit once a year. If you force them to bear fruit twice, the result will only be that the fruit tree will be deficient and will not bear fruit next year, or the yield next year will be extremely low."

"This is why spiritual food can help many soul masters break through bottlenecks."

"It's not that the spiritual diet is too powerful."

"It's that most soul masters are in poor condition."

The people from Tianshui Academy, Chihuo Academy, Shenfeng Academy and Wuhun Hall, who had never heard of this theory, felt their scalps go numb.

This theory directly denies the common sense of soul masters!

But it sounds surprisingly reasonable!

At this moment, everyone saw the purple Thousand-Tier Ant King leap to the top of Ye Qingcang's head, and its sickle-shaped outer foot chopped down. Before they could exclaim, it was caught by Ye Qingcang's palm wrapped with Qi. The area within a thousand meters suddenly shook, the sand and rocks rose and fell, and then returned to a state where nothing had happened.

Only the figures of Ye Qingcang and Qianjun Ant King confronting each other told everyone that it was not that nothing had happened just now, but that everything had just begun!
"Incredible force-dissipating skills!" Yue Guan's screaming made Gui Mei suspect that his old partner was about to be beaten. "He actually channeled all the power of the Thousand-Tier Ant King into the ground. It was equivalent to the Thousand-Tier Ant King hitting not him, but the ground within a thousand meters. How well did he control his own power and the power of the Thousand-Tier Ant King!"

The Shrek Seven Devils looked dazed.

The teachers and students of Tianshui, Chihuo and Kamikaze academies also had dazed expressions on their faces.

Even on the Spirit Hall's side, Yan quietly swallowed his saliva, Xie Yue's eyes twitched slightly, and Hu Liena opened her mouth slightly, her pink little tongue faintly visible.

Is this really something a human can do?

“As for the method…” Ye Qingcang spoke according to the current situation, looking at the other five outer legs of the Thousand Jun Ant poking at him, he twisted his hand and used brute force to pull the Thousand Jun Ant to stagger. Then, he bent his elbow and used force first. Everyone, including the three Thousand Jun Ants, seemed to see a roaring thunder dragon. “There are two types of fighting methods, the external method is the means, and the internal method is the spirit. No matter what means you use, as long as I use the internal method to calm your spirit, I can make you die without knowing how you died!”

The roar of the thunder dragon was imprinted in everyone's memory.

But in reality there is no roaring thunder dragon.

There was only Ye Qingcang's extremely solid fist intention, and the Thousand-pound Ant King who was knocked hundreds of meters away by his elbow, smashed into a rock wall, and then broke through the rock wall that was more than ten meters long, fell to the ground, and was buried by the falling rocks!

The rock wall collapsed and rocks fell!
Under the dark yellow dust, the pale faces of Shui Bing'er, Huo Wu, Hu Liena and others were made even paler, but there were also people like Ning Rongrong, Dai Mubai and Xiao Wu whose faces were slightly flushed!
No matter what, the lethality is still too amazing!

The Qianjun Ant is famous for its strength and defense. You, a level 40 Quasi-Soul Master, knocked over this 90,000-year-old Qianjun Ant with just one elbow?
“Not enough.” Gui Mei shook his head and quietly held down his arm that was shaking unconsciously under the roaring thunder dragon-like fist. The shock brought by this fist was even stronger than Chen Xin’s sword power: “Ninety thousand year old Thousand Ton Ants are not so fragile... This is just an appetizer, a test from the three Thousand Ton Ant Kings!”

"But Brother Ye seems to be just warming up..." Xie Yue finally understood why Gui Mei, the Titled Douluo, had praised Ye Qingcang so much before. Under the fist just now, he had been deprived of his mind. If Ye Qingcang had hit him instead of Qianjun Ant King, with the power of this punch, he would have been blessed by God to have a breath left: "So far, Brother Ye has only hit once with an elbow, and he hasn't even opened his martial spirit!"

"That's why I told you to shut up and learn silently." Yue Guan looked at Ye Qingcang eagerly: "The reason why Chen Xin is so strong is because he has sword intent. Anyone he chops to death will be killed by a Titled Douluo below level 95, unless it is a Titled Douluo of the spirit system, who may be able to dodge. There are many similarities between fist intent, sword intent, knife intent, and staff intent. If you can comprehend one intent, it is not an exaggeration to be called invincible at the same level!"

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