Chapter 23: Flattery and Bootlicking

  Half a time later, Ye Hao cultivated under that thousand-year-old cypress tree.

  "Yao Erdou, don't look at me with such a resentful gaze, I've got goosebumps all over my body." Ye Hao said with a smile, his legs crossed in a relaxed manner, as he spoke to Yao Erdou who was kneeling before him.

  Yao Ergou's face twisted in agony, this new master was really good at tormenting people. Clearly, it would only take a few more minutes to expel the hidden poison from his blood, but he insisted that it would take two more hours, causing Yao Ergou's will to collapse instantly.

  However, Yao Ergou still had great respect for his new master, and was able to effortlessly resolve this heavenly poison that even the one who poisoned him, Han Hai Zhenren, couldn't resolve, because he simply didn't know how to.

  This kind of bloodline hidden poison is extremely sinister. Once poisoned, all direct blood relatives will be poisoned unknowingly.

  "Master, what should I do next?" asked Yao Ergou.

  Ye Hao tossed a storage bag to Yao Erdou and said, "After you go down the mountain, settle your family first, then I want you to establish an underground force, gather all usable people. The storage bag has a complete plan, just follow it."

  "Yes, Master." Yao Erdou replied respectfully.

  Ye Hao stood up, with his hands behind him, gazing at the floating clouds above and below the cliff. He said faintly: "Ergou, don't disappoint Ye Daren's trust in you. Following Ye Daren will bring you benefits a thousand times greater than following Hanhai Zhenren, but if you betray Ye Daren, your suffering will be ten thousand times greater than that of following Hanhai Zhenren."

  Yao's back suddenly felt a chill, he could imagine that if he were to betray the refined and elegant-looking young man in front of him, his fate would be extremely miserable.

  "When alive, I am the master's dog; when dead, I am the master's ghost..." Yao Ergou hastily knelt down to show his loyalty.

  "Your grandpa's, this sounds so disgusting, get out of here." Ye Hao looked at Yao Erdou's old face and scolded with a smile.

  Yao Erdou left the Yunxia Sect, and perhaps at this time he would not have thought that his life would become incredibly turbulent after intersecting with Ye Hao.

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  Ye Hao sat under the thousand-year-old cypress, and the Tian Zhong Tian Mai absorbed the vast spiritual energy from the high altitude into his body. Once the spiritual energy entered the Tian Mai, the impurities within would be automatically absorbed by the Tian Mai, while the purified spiritual energy would flow along the Tian Mai into the Dan Tian Qi Hai. Then, it would circulate repeatedly in the ninety-nine body meridians, transforming from quantity to quality, and finally condensing into that one spiritual energy embryo in the Dan Tian.

  Ye Hao discovered that the impurities in the spiritual energy were absorbed by the Heavenly Veins and actually entered the space of the Heavenly Veins, settling on the ten-mile radius boundary. If he wasn't mistaken, later on, as he continued to absorb spiritual energy, the impurities in the spiritual energy would increase, and these impurities would become the main element for expanding the Heavenly Vein's space.

  At this time, Ye Hao, who was cultivating, slightly furrowed his brow. He discovered that the spiritual energy embryo in his dantian had reached a limit and could no longer absorb any more spiritual energy. No matter how much he absorbed, it would disperse into nothingness after circulating into the spiritual energy embryo. In other words, he was essentially doing useless work.

  "How could this be? Then how can the spiritual embryo become the true heart of the spiritual fetus?" Ye Hao thought deeply.

  "Open the heavenly pulse at the center of the chest, draw in the power of heaven and earth, nourish the soul inwardly, and moisten the spirit outwardly..."

  Ye Hao's mind flashed back to a sentence from the opening of "Jian Tian Jue", and he suddenly froze.

  The fragrance in the middle of the heavenly pulse, internally can moisten the soul, should refer to spiritual consciousness and spiritual power, externally can moisten the body, that is the physical body.

  During the Qi Accumulation stage, Ye Hao had already used his spiritual energy to nourish his five organs and six viscera, bones, muscles, and skin to the point where they emitted a faint golden glow. It could be said that he was as solid as iron. For ordinary cultivators who practiced general cultivation techniques, this was already the limit. After all, cultivators of immortality valued the power of their techniques, and many had powerful defensive spells and incantations. Furthermore, with the development of alchemy, even a single piece of magical clothing or a spiritual sword had its own built-in defensive capabilities. Therefore, in the world of cultivation, few people paid attention to cultivating their bodies, and high-level body refinement techniques were truly scarce.

  However, once a cultivator's spiritual energy is exhausted and their magical powers are sealed, they can only be slaughtered at will.

  Ye Hao had heard the legend passed down from the immortal realm, that there was once a person who specialized in cultivating physical techniques. His body was as strong as a mountain, his entire body was like a diamond, he could pluck stars with his hand and tread on the moon with his foot. His body itself was an indestructible treasure, extremely formidable.

  "If this heavenly vein can also condense a person's body to that extent, and with a surgical method, Ye Dage would be prosperous." Ye Hao thought to himself, and then transferred some of the absorbed spiritual energy through the heavenly vein, trying to see if he could strengthen his body.

  Every time the spiritual energy emerges from the heavenly vein, it disappears without a trace.

  "It won't work, it's not that easy. It still has to go through the 99 meridians, but nourishing the body through the meridians has already reached its limit." Ye Hao was puzzled and couldn't figure it out. Since the opening of the Tian Xian Decree mentioned it, it shouldn't be wrong, so why did he only see the method of moistening the soul in the first chapter, but not the technique of moistening the spirit?

  "Ye Dage has been with that brainless chick for too long, his brain must have rusted, I only got the upper half of the Tian Xuan Scripture, it seems that the Ruan Xu technique is in the lower half." Ye Hao muttered to himself, the more he thought about it, the more possible it seemed, and he couldn't help but feel a bit discouraged.

  At this moment, Ye Hao's mind was filled with that big-breasted and brainless girl driving her purple-green leaf from the edge of the sky.

  Mo Xuanxuan jumped down from the purple-green leaves and looked at Ye Hao's gaze, which was extremely strange.

  "Hey, what are you looking at? If you've got a crush on Old Ye, just say it." Ye Hao leaned against the thick tree trunk, chuckling.

  "I'm too lazy to bother with you." Mo Xuanxuan gave Ye Hao a white eye, walked two circles in front of Ye Hao, and said with a smile: "Yezi, do you know how miserable you are?"

  "It's inexplicable." Ye Hao picked a small piece of licorice root from the base of the tree and began to chew on it leisurely.

  "Hmph, don't believe me? Let me tell you, the only daughter of the Lotus Sect's sect master, Qing Luan Fairy, who was teased by you, will arrive at our Yunxia Sect in half an hour." Mo Xuanxuan hummed.

  "Xiao Qinglan?" Ye Hao's moving lips stopped, his eyebrows raised.

  "Not bad, scared now? If she finds out you're here, think of the consequences. Hurry up and flatter this young lady." Mo Xuanxuan said with satisfaction.

  "You mean, if Uncle Ye doesn't spank your butt, you'll go and report him, right?" Ye Hao's gaze slid along Mo Xuanxuan's side profile, her buttocks were quite perky.

  "That's..." Mo Xuanxuan didn't notice the trap in Ye Hao's words for a moment, and replied.

  With a loud "slap", Mo Xuanxuan let out a sharp cry and covered her buttocks with both hands, which had just been slapped heavily.

  "As you wish, you said snap and I snapped, Old Man Ye is very cooperative with you, don't go telling on me... hmm, the feel of it isn't bad." Ye Hao laughed slyly.

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