Chapter 4: Escape, Departing for the Body Refining Sect

“I was refined into a pill?”

A chill ran through Ye Xiao. For the first time, he experienced the cruelty of the cultivation world.

【This simulation has ended.】

【Foundation Establishment, first layer cultivation obtained.】

【Mastery Sword Control Art obtained.】

【Mastery Fireball Art obtained.】

【One low-grade flying sword obtained.】

【One Azure Cloud Sect elder token obtained.】

【All cultivation insights from the past two years obtained.】

【All memories from the past two years obtained (no side effects).】

【Inherit?】

“Of course I’m inheriting!”

【Inherited.】

The next moment, a tremendous change occurred in Ye Xiao’s dantian.

His dantian, which had been deathly still, suddenly surged with a vast amount of spiritual power.

Ye Xiao began circulating the Longevity Art according to muscle memory. The spiritual power cycled once through his body.

A great deal of impurities within him were purified, and his body underwent earth-shaking changes.

After a long while, sensing his brand-new body, Ye Xiao could not help but marvel at the power of the Foundation Establishment stage.

As his cultivation reached the first layer of Foundation Establishment, none of his meridians were damaged.

It seemed the inherited cultivation would not affect his real body.

Given that, some bold ideas took root in Ye Xiao’s mind.

Host: Ye Xiao

Age: eighteen years old

Lifespan: two hundred and twelve years

Spirit Root: Wood Spirit Root

Realm: Foundation Establishment, first layer

Items: low-grade flying sword, Azure Cloud Sect elder token

Technique: Longevity Art (Foundation Establishment technique)

Simulations remaining: zero (after the Foundation Establishment stage, twenty years of lifespan can be spent per simulation)

Ye Xiao took out the elder token and toyed with it for a moment, muttering to himself, “With this, I should be able to escape, right?”

After hesitating, Ye Xiao did not immediately flee. He planned to run one more simulation, just in case.

After all, in reality, he only had one life!

Lifespan -20.

【Simulation begins.】

【You offer up your flying sword and begin flying on it.】

【Before True Person Zidan can react, you plan to flee quickly.】

【Soon, you arrive at the edge of the formation. You take out the elder token, and walk out of the formation with ease.】

【You look at the scene before you, shocked beyond measure.】

【This place was actually a graveyard!】

【So the scene you saw when you first entered was nothing but an illusion.】

【Now that your cultivation has reached the Foundation Establishment stage, you can easily see through these illusions.】

【With no time to think further, you follow what your Senior Sister said and fly north on your sword.】

【The north is precisely where the Azure Cloud Sect’s exit is located.】

【And all of this was scouted out for you by your Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters at the risk of their lives.】

【You fly out of the graveyard in one go, arriving near the sect’s cluster of buildings.】

【After putting away your flying sword, you switch to walking and quickly head toward the sect exit.】

【Because you learned from your Senior Sister that within the Azure Cloud Sect, cultivators below the Golden Core stage are forbidden from flying on swords.】

【Along the way, you also take the opportunity to observe the Azure Cloud Sect’s layout.】

【A group of Qi Refining cultivators are training in the martial arts arena, led by a Foundation Establishment cultivator.】

【After seeing you pass by, he nods at you in acknowledgment.】

【You smile in response, but your steps do not pause.】

【Elsewhere in the martial arts arena, a Golden Core elder is guiding Foundation Establishment cultivators in practicing spells.】

【You wish to go listen, but you know you are currently in a state of escape, and time does not permit it.】

【Along the way, you take in the entire Azure Cloud Sect.】

【You discover that this is not at all like the demonic sect you imagined.】

【Within the sect, the elders teach with care, and the disciples all cultivate diligently. There is no infighting at all.】

【There is not even any of the trouble-making that appears in novels.】

【You arrive at the Azure Cloud Sect’s main gate unobstructed. After glancing at the two Foundation Establishment cultivators guarding the gate, you offer up your flying sword and flee quickly!】

【You fly on your sword with all your strength, heading north the entire way, never resting for a single moment.】

【Only when the spiritual power within you is nearly exhausted do you find a hidden place to recover it.】

【After replenishing your spiritual power, you continue flying on your sword.】

【One month later, you arrive at a mortal city.】

【Releasing your divine sense, you discover that the highest cultivator here is only at the third layer of Qi Refining, and she is also a female cultivator.】

【Riding your flying sword, you appear before the third-layer Qi Refining cultivator.】

【“S-Senior.” Your appearance gives Li Yan a fright, and she directly kneels down.】

【“I ask, you answer.”】

【Faced with the enormous gap in strength, Li Yan tells you everything she knows.】

【Only then do you learn that you are currently in the northern part of the Heaven Mystery Continent.】

【This city belongs to the Great Yan Dynasty, and the nearest sect is the Body-Refining Sect.】

【Li Yan also happens to be an outer disciple of the Body-Refining Sect, which has a Nascent Soul Ancestor overseeing it.】

【One month from now is precisely the day the Body-Refining Sect recruits disciples from the outside.】

【And Li Yan, at the third layer of Qi Refining, is the one in charge of recruiting disciples for this city.】

【You decide to join this sect, to evade the pursuit that may come.】

【At the same time, this is also an opportunity to learn about this continent.】

【“Arrange a place for me to stay. In one month, I will go with you to the Body-Refining Sect.”】

【“Yes, Senior.” Li Yan gets up and begins arranging a place for you to stay.】

【Having not gone out for a long time, you wander around the city, feeling the atmosphere of the mortal world.】

【That night, you move into the residence Li Yan arranged.】

【“Senior, do you require this junior to attend your bed?” After leading you inside, Li Yan gazes at you with tender affection.】

【Hearing this, you glance at her, frown, and refuse.】

【Having undergone body refinement, Li Yan has a powerful build. In your last life, she would have been a proper she-hulk.】

【“If there is nothing else in the future, do not come looking for me.” You give the order to leave.】

【After closing the door, you begin cultivating.】

【The Longevity Art has cultivation methods for the Foundation Establishment stage, so for now you need not worry about subsequent techniques.】

【You circulate one cycle and discover that the spiritual qi here is thin, far less dense than the Azure Cloud Sect’s.】

【Cultivating in this environment, you feel it will take at least twenty years to break through to the second layer of Foundation Establishment.】

【“It seems this Body-Refining Sect is a place I must go.” You mutter to yourself. Since it is a cultivation sect, the spiritual qi within its gates will naturally be denser than here.】

【Tonight, for the first time in a long while, you give up cultivating and choose to sleep.】

【This is the first time you have slept in so long.】

【Tonight is a peaceful night. Nothing happens.】

【One month later, Li Yan knocks on your door. “Senior, it is time to set off.”】

【“Let’s go.”】

【In the open space of the city plaza, aside from Li Yan’s three Junior Brothers, only ten young boys and girls are waiting here.】

【Out of millions of ordinary people, only these ten possess the aptitude for cultivation. You are exceedingly glad that you have a spirit root, and a single spirit root at that.】

【Set off!】

【To save time, you personally fly on your sword and lead everyone, heading quickly toward the Body-Refining Sect.】