Chapter 1: Hunting the Ferocious Beast and Picking the Spiritual Herb

  Hunting ferocious beasts and gathering spiritual herbs

  Ahhhhh!!!!!

  A strange, mournful cry echoed through the jungle, followed by a fierce struggle, and then a loud crash, after which all was silent.

  One claw ripped the unicorn's skull, and then threw its body aside with a loud "thud". Ye Lin looked at his blood-stained hands, still with a bit of white brain matter on them, and felt a wave of emotion.

  "Hey, Da Dao Ben Yuan Jie is indeed Da Dao Ben Yuan Jie. After going through its baptism, my physical strength has increased by at least three times, if not more."

  Ye Lin looked at the monster's corpse that he had thrown aside, and felt a sense of accomplishment in his heart.

  "Thinking back to the time when I faced the Swallowing Heaven Python, I didn't even have half a chance of fighting back. I had to use the Slashing Heaven Blade and still needed her help...” Ye Lin's eyes became somewhat unnatural as he spoke, as if mentioning that person who didn't want to be named had some effect on his heart. He shook his head fiercely and continued to mock himself: “With her help, I was able to kill the Swallowing Heaven Python. But now, facing this same level of a Five-Heaven Refining Body's Unicorn Beast, with just my two bare hands, I can actually rip open its hardest skull."

  It was also the case that, at first, in order to deal with the same level of physical strength as the monster Swallowing Heaven Python, Ye Lin had used all his skills and almost got swallowed alive by that beast. Now, it's different, with the same level of physical strength as the single-horned beast, just two hands can tear it apart. If he had this power back then, dealing with the Swallowing Heaven Python wouldn't have been so troublesome.

  "Hmm, this Three Star Grass may only be a 3,000-year-old spiritual herb and not considered a precious spiritual medicine, but it contains powerful life energy, which is of great use to me."

  She bent down and pulled out a small green grass from the ground, holding it in her hand, looking at it left and right, Ye Lin said with some helplessness.

  It's also a 3,000-year-old spiritual medicine. With the wonderful use of my current magical divine eyes, in this mountain range, finding a spiritual medicine with such an age is still easy.

  However, Ye Lin's reason for having a final showdown with the unicorn beast on the ground and ultimately tearing it apart was precisely because of this small grass that was all green, with a three-star flower on top, which didn't put itself in his eyes.

  At first, Ye Lin was forcefully crossing the Great Dao Origin Tribulation, seemingly using the powerful properties of the Purple Extreme Heaven Fire to contain the divine dragon's aura. However, the Great Dao Origin Tribulation is just that - the Great Dao Origin Tribulation, and its divine might is immeasurable. Even if only a tiny bit of its aura leaks out, it would be enough to shatter a person's entire body, spirit, and vitality, taking away their life force.

  Although the final resort was to rely on the power of the Dragon Elephant Law to protect and forcibly cast the body with the Purple Extreme Heavenly Fire, and at the same time, to imprint the original breath of the Great Way at the root of all cells in the entire body, however, the vitality, essence, and spirit that were shattered by the Great Way's calamity would still need Ye Lin to exert another effort to recover. Otherwise, within three months, the fragmented vitality and some scattered essence and spirit that were forcibly locked in the body would directly dissipate.

  "Let's eat first and talk later."

  Ye Lin sat directly on the ground, circulating his entire body's divine dragon energy to wrap the Three Star Grass and send it into the Dan Tian's Zi Ji Tian Fire.

  If not, Ye Lin knew that the overbearing Zi Shu Tian Huo would have to directly devour this strand of life force that was not particularly powerful. This was something that Ye Lin could not allow to happen, as he still needed to borrow the vast life energy of the Ling Cao to nourish the broken life force within his body and restore its function. How could he let it be devoured by the Zi Shu Tian Huo?

  The vitality of living things is like the gears of a machine, spread throughout the entire body. Even if only a small injury is inflicted on a limb, it may seem to have not harmed its foundation, but in fact, it has already damaged its vital energy. However, vitality can also absorb nutrients and let itself grow through self-repair. Therefore, those who eat well, rest well, and do not overwork will generally live longer than those who do not eat or rest well and are always exhausted.

  Ye Lin is now trying to absorb the massive life energy contained in the Three Star Grass into his body, nourishing his own strong life energy, and allowing his strong life energy to gradually recover itself in the vast amount of life energy. Although his physical life energy was thoroughly shattered by the Great Dao's origin, it has not been lost; as long as he possesses enough powerful life energy, relying on the strong recovery ability of his life energy itself, during the prolonged process of self-recovery, it is sufficient to restore him to perfection.

  Good steel should be used on the blade, Ye Lin put this not-so-strong vital energy all into his own hands. In an instant, only to see the first joint of his fingers wrapped in a green aura, but just for a moment, his hands returned to normal, and no scars could be seen again.

  If you look closely at his hands now, the first joint of his fingers and palms, you will be shocked to find that the first joint of his fingers is like a newborn baby's, but his two palms are extremely old, with countless dense cracks, like an old man's wrinkles.

  Of course, if you look at the rest of his body, you will also find that his entire body, except for his head, is covered with such terrifying cracks everywhere, only now they are all covered by clothes and ordinary people can't see them.

  "Hmm, you may be dead, but the lingering vitality within your body cannot go to waste."

  After Ye Lin fully absorbed the vast vitality contained in the Sanxingcao, his gaze refocused on the solitary horned beast. As long as it was a living being, there was no difference between its vitality and vital energy. Therefore, as long as you had strong enough means, you could forcibly plunder someone else's vitality to accelerate your own evolution. This was also why those evil cultivators who ate human flesh and drank human blood were able to cultivate faster than countless heavenly geniuses.

  In essence, cultivation is a means for the life body to self-evolve, or rather, it's a way of cultivating to plunder the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to nourish one's own vital energy, thereby achieving self-evolution. This method mainly manifests in two aspects: apart from having immense power, after obtaining strong vital energy through cultivation, the internal life mechanism undergoes self-transmutation, self-perfection, and ultimately self-breakthrough under the nourishment of this powerful energy. This is also why cultivators' lifespan increases with each major breakthrough they achieve. According to ancient legends, after becoming an immortal, one can break free from reincarnation, transcend the three realms and five elements, and become a carefree divine immortal.

  "Uh, those evil practitioners, because they cultivated the wrong way, forcibly seized the life force of living beings, will always leave behind a huge aftermath. However, I am different. In my body, there is an extremely overbearing flame, the Zi Ji Tian Huo (Purple Extreme Heaven Fire). In front of this Purple Extreme Heaven Fire, any material energy that does not possess the Dragon's aura will be treated as fuel and burned. What makes me different is that my body possesses the Great Dao aura of the Dragon Elephant. As long as I use the Dragon Elephant Great Dao aura to envelop the alien life force, all impure energies will necessarily be burned by the overbearing Purple Extreme Heaven Fire. At that time, what remains in my body will naturally be the purest life force, enough for me to absorb and refine into my own life force."

  The old man with the broken arm is an extremely powerful figure, and this power not only lies in his own strength but also in his understanding of cultivation.

  Although the Broken Arm Old Man was unwilling to accept Ye Lin as a disciple, he carefully explained some of his insights on cultivation to Ye Lin. Or rather, he lectured Xing Tian, but treated Ye Lin equally and didn't object to him listening in. The above-mentioned insights on cultivation were what Ye Lin heard from the Broken Arm Old Man three days ago. Ye Lin remembered that at the time, the Broken Arm Old Man was overly excited and said that it wouldn't take ten years for his broken arm to regrow. He also said that cultivation is a way of self-evolution and self-improvement, and when one reaches a certain level, the regrowth of a broken arm isn't as far-fetched as imagined. The legendary Great Emperor can even revive from the dead with blood dripping from their body.

  "Give it to me!!"

  Ye Lin opened his mouth wide and sucked in the Unicorn Beast with great force, actually lifting it off the ground. Moreover, his widely open mouth seemed to possess magical powers, as the three-meter-long Unicorn Beast gradually shrunk in size as it approached Ye Lin's mouth, eventually becoming a chicken egg-sized rare beast that he swallowed in one gulp.

  "Hmm, the raw food's freshness has never been destroyed, although there's a strange taste, it's also another kind of enjoyment."

  Looking at the green vitality that emerged again from his ten fingers, Ye Lin couldn't help but feel a sense of satisfaction, nodding his head and saying: "I didn't expect the remaining vitality in the Qilin beast's body to be so abundant, allowing my ten fingers to recover once more. This time, my strength is likely to increase again."

  The vitality contained in the Sanxingcao was indeed immense, but compared to Ye Lin's needs, it could only help him recover one section of each finger on his ten fingers. However, after swallowing the Du Jiao Ling beast, he unexpectedly discovered that another small section had been restored, which further boosted Ye Lin's confidence in his own recovery.

  "Hmm, it seems that in the next ten days, I must go on a massive killing spree and seize a large amount of vital energy to recover my physical body."

  The Ye family clan gathering is only two months and a few days away, and no matter what, Ye Lin must rush back before the gathering begins. He can only stay within his own clan to constantly pay attention to the internal situation of the family, find out who is the traitor in the family, and catch this traitor, so as to truly protect the family.

  However, in Yelin's heart, it had already been decided that before returning, he must obtain a sufficient amount of Divine Dragon Blood. Only by possessing enough Divine Dragon Blood could he thoroughly change his bloodline talent and rapidly increase his own strength at an extremely fast speed.