Chapter 184 Heavenly Source Master (1/2)
Chapter 184 Heavenly Source Master
Over the next seven days, Ye Fan’s entire body began to overflow with light. His life force was like an ocean, and the strange scenes within his Wheel and Sea lit up and emitted all kinds of sounds.
This continued until the seventh day, when the light gradually withdrew and the cave became dimmer. Ye Fan’s body no longer glowed, becoming plain and quiet. His life force withdrew and no longer flowed out.
On the eighth day, his body began to dry up, an exceptionally different appearance from his previously shining body.
On the ninth day, his organs stopped working. His previous vigorous life force was replaced with a heavy, deathly air.
On the tenth day, his bones turned dull, no longer a pure white. It was like they were about to decay and could no longer exist.
This was the transformation of the Paramita realm.
After arriving at the Paramita realm, a cultivator’s flesh, organs, and bones would all wither, before then being reborn into a different new existence. After shedding one’s flesh and bones nine times, the transformation would be complete.
However, this wasn’t the exact same as what was currently happening to Ye Fan. He was going progressively step by step, instead of starting the transformation only after he reached the peak of the Paramita realm.
His nine transformations would be undergone separately. What was happening now was just the first transformation, so his body hadn’t completely withered and been reborn.
Ye Fan’s entire body seemed to want to return to the dust, the dust returning to the earth. He was about to completely decay, his life force reaching its end.
It was only on the eleven day that he became like a plant that had survived the frost, and once more recovered his life force. Vitality surged out of him.
The cave lit up as Life Qi filled it. Ye Fan’s essence blood had been reborn. It was like a large surging river and extremely loud, the surging sound capable of being heard from a great distance.
His heart pulsed with an even greater power, sounding like a drum was beating. The pulsing sound would definitely overwhelm ordinary mortals if they heard it. His organs were all shaking and ringing like bells. His bones were constantly ringing out as the grayness retreated and was replaced with a snowy jade whiteness. They shone brightly and purely as they trembled continuously.
All of his old injuries, whether it was outer ones on his skin or inner ones on his organs or bones, had now undergone another baptism. Although they had already been healed, this time, the process was a completely new rebirth.
His entire body was pure and completely reborn. This transformation persisted for several days before Ye Fan completely awoke. The divine energy within his body was now surging.
This time, it couldn’t be considered shedding his mortal body. But his body had been greatly improved and was now much more tyrannical.
“There are still eight more chances for transformations. If I continue to the end like this, with all eight overlaying over each other, it should be comparable to a ‘shedding one’s mortal body’ transformation.”
He had consumed two sacred fruits and once used the essence blood of the sacred heart of the demon race’s Great Emperor to refine his body. All together, there had been three shedding of his mortal body transformations. He sensed that if all nine of the Paramita realm’s transformations were added together, they would also be comparable to one “shedding one’s mortal body” transformation.
Ye Fan noticed that he had refined five kilograms of his Sources. This stunned him. His consumption was much greater than he had expected. He originally thought that this many Sources would be enough to reach the great circle of perfection of Paramita and enter the Dao Palace mystic realm.
“According to such consumption, just a couple dozen kilograms of Sources is not enough for me to continue all the way through nine transformations. I need to find more Sources.”
That fact that he had used up so many Sources also meant that his transformation had been very thorough and that his body had been powered up by a larger amount. This would definitely startle others, as it had far surpassed ordinary cultivators.
“This is really extravagant spending…” He was somewhat regretful. If he hadn’t come to the northern region, it would be very difficult for him to resolve this problem.
Over the next few days, Ye Fan bitterly cultivated in seclusion without leaving. He had enough food and water in the pure jade bottle that he didn’t need to be worried.
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Time passed quickly, and two months passed in the blink of an eye. Ye Fan passed through six transformations in total before using up all his Sources.
These six transformations powered him up even more, and at the same time, his Wheel and Sea also changed quite a bit.
Inside the cave, Ye Fan was towering and unmoving, his whole body covered in electrical arcs.His golden sea appeared around him, his green lotus and blue sky complementing it beautifully.
This wasn’t a true Variation, just one further evolution of his Wheel and Sea. It had broken through the restriction of his physical body and could now appear in the real world.
That green lotus was like the Dao that gave birth to one. It always had three leaves, just like how three gave birth to all things. It swayed gently, as primal chaos enshrouded it and also enveloped Ye Fan.
That blue sky was bright and pure, like a precious stone. Lightning dragons roved about, interwoven with thunder and light. It was like the thunder from the beginning of the universe had somehow managed to teleport here.
Within the waves of the golden sea, Ye Fan was a stable boulder. He didn’t move himself, but flowed naturally with the undulations.
This was marvelous scene. The thunder and lightning that seemed to come from becoming of the universe was deafening. Eventually, everything calmed down, to become quiet and harmonious.
This wasn’t a Variation, but was comparable to one. It had completely enveloped him, making him seem as if he were standing in a different marvelous world.
At this time, Ye Fan was completely calm and was in harmony with the pulsing of heaven and earth. Within that quiet calm was an exceptional strength.
Only a long time later did he open his eyes. The green lotus, blue sky, golden sea, thunder and lightning and the rest, all disappeared.
In Ye Fan’s current situation, he had no choice but to go looking for Sources. His body was like a bottomless pit and no matter how many Sources he had, it wasn’t enough.
By this time, he was truly envious of the disciples of sacred lands. With powerful ancient secrets and endless heavenly treasures, all they had to do was bitterly cultivate to succeed.
But he had to think of methods to steal cultivation techniques and find his own Sources. For just one secret art, he was chased into the northern region and barely survived.
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Rumble…
Ye Fan used the golden tome to slash through the land in search of Sources. This region was quickly turned over with huge cracks everywhere within the earth and stone.
He only found a stone vein on the fourth day. This was a vein of stones that commonly contained Sources within them, but after completely excavating it, he was disappointed to find he had found less than two hundred grams of Sources. So little!
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Half a month later, Ye Fan finally managed to collect over five hundred grams of Sources. This let him clearly understand that the mining areas controlled by the sacred lands were the best. In comparison, the other regions were far too poor.
Continuing like this wasn’t a solution. He had to think of something else.
When Ye Fan returned to his residence, the stone cave, he suddenly noticed a group of about ten people. Among them was an old man, while the rest were all able-bodied young men. Right now they were examining his stone mountain as they circled around it.
“Ah, Bandit Chen Da really is vicious and oppressive. If we can’t hand three kilograms of Sources over, he’ll have all the young and old folk in our village killed.”
“Nothing we can do about it. The strongest person in our village is just in the Spring of Life realm. How could we compare to his group of powerful roving bandits?”
“The deadline is coming up soon. If we still aren’t able to find enough Sources, our village really will fall into danger.”
“Fifth Grandpa Zhang, you’ve circled around this stone mountain already. Are there Sources in there or not?” asked a straightforward young man.
“Inside this stone mountain are definitely Sources, and high grade ones, too. Unfortunately, this stone mountain is over three hundred meters tall, and with our strength, there’s no way to excavate it,” that old white-haired Fifth Grandpa Zhang sighed.
Ye Fan had lived there for two months and hadn’t noticed any Sources. But this old man just circled around the mountain once to be sure there was one. It really was stunning.
“Let’s go looking around elsewhere.” Fifth Grandpa Zhang sighed and said, “Over these years, the easily found places have all been mined empty. Looks like we have to go somewhere more distant. I wonder whether we’ll make it in time.”
The ten people turned their horses and started galloping into the distance.
Ye Fan flew out a short time after and stood atop the stone mountain. He took out the golden tome and started hacking at the mountain.