Chapter 1290: A Miraculous Encounter

"Kid, you're finally awake!"

As soon as Ye Yuan regained consciousness, Wu Chen's voice rang in his ears.

He had only just regained consciousness, unable even to open his eyes.

A piercing pain shot through him, making even his soul tremble.

Yet he couldn't even manage a groan.

His entire body felt as if it were no longer his own.

"Senior Wu Chen? I... I'm not dead?"

Ye Yuan was astonished that he had miraculously survived.

Recalling the spatial storm, Ye Yuan still felt a lingering fear.

Before those violent spatial energies, Ye Yuan was as frail as an ordinary mortal.

Ye Yuan had exhausted almost every means at his disposal, yet he couldn't withstand the storm's assault.

In the end, he was battered until not a single spot on his body remained intact. If not for his powerful physique and the Tyrant Dragon Rebirth Art, Ye Yuan would have been reduced to nothing but dust.

Even Ye Yuan himself didn't understand how he had managed to survive.

"I wish you had died! You're far too reckless!" Wu Chen said irritably.

Scolding aside, seeing Ye Yuan awake, Wu Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He hadn't expected that Ye Yuan would miraculously traverse the spatial storm and arrive at the Tongtian Realm!

Such a feat should have been impossible.

Yet it had happened.

Ye Yuan chuckled sheepishly, "Senior, don't be angry. I made it through, didn't I? Going back then might have been even worse than this situation!"

Wu Chen snorted coldly and said no more.

Ye Yuan ventured, "Senior, have I... arrived at the Tongtian Realm?"

Wu Chen grunted, "You've stumbled onto a stroke of luck! An absolute stroke of luck!"

This was as good as confirming Ye Yuan's question—they had indeed arrived at the Tongtian Realm!

Ye Yuan hadn't expected his luck to be this good.

"Haha, a stroke of luck is fine too! Senior, how did we get to the Tongtian Realm?" Ye Yuan asked delightedly.

At Ye Yuan's question, Wu Chen fell silent.

Even he felt as if he were dreaming, having arrived at the Tongtian Realm.

He truly hadn't expected Ye Yuan to actually cross the spatial storm—something that had never happened before.

A rookie at the initial stage of the Cave Mystic Divine Realm had traversed a spatial storm—it was utterly inconceivable.

"While you were unconscious, you stumbled into the center of the spatial storm! Unexpectedly, the center was calm, without any energy fluctuations, which is how you escaped! You drifted in the storm's center for half a year and were accidentally carried to a spatial rift leading to the Tongtian Realm! I really don't know how to describe this series of events except as a stroke of luck," Wu Chen said.

Ye Yuan was startled to hear this; he hadn't expected to have been unconscious for half a year.

As Wu Chen said, his luck had been extremely good.

This was entirely unconscious drifting, and he could have been swept into spatial turbulence, never to emerge.

Unexpectedly, he had arrived at the Tongtian Realm just like that.

Wu Chen suddenly added, "But the fact that you managed to reach the storm's center is already a miracle in itself! Kid, you've truly impressed me!"

The closer one got to the storm's center, the more violent the energy fluctuations became.

In the area near the center, even cultivators at the Divine Lord Realm had almost no chance of survival.

Yet Ye Yuan, relying on his own willpower, had endured.

This wasn't to say that Ye Yuan's strength surpassed that of a Divine Lord, nor that a Divine Lord was weak; it was simply that Ye Yuan's physiological functions were too powerful, his recovery ability too strong, enabling him to accomplish this nearly impossible feat.

Ye Yuan possessed the top-tier techniques of the Azure Dragon and Black Tortoise, two divine beasts, which were key to his reaching the storm's center!

Ye Yuan smiled and said, "Senior, where are we now? I can't release my divine sense or see, so I have no idea about the outside world."

Wu Chen recounted how Liang Wanru had saved him, and Ye Yuan felt a wave of fear.

After drifting in the spatial storm for half a year, Ye Yuan's stamina had reached its limit.

Any later, and he might never have woken up.

In fact, Wu Chen had been secretly anxious all these days.

But he couldn't help Ye Yuan at all; he could only resign to fate.

Fortunately, Liang Wanru had appeared.

In the spatial storm, Ye Yuan's essence, energy, and spirit had all suffered devastating blows.

Now, he couldn't even release his divine sense, but he could still perform internal inspection.

Ye Yuan examined his body and realized how dire his condition was.

After breaking through to the Divine Realm, his primal force had transformed into a divine sea.

But now, his divine sea was completely dry and severely damaged, unable to condense divine essence.

As for his physical body, it had been repeatedly ravaged by the storm's energy, and its regenerative ability had weakened to the extreme.

He could no longer activate the Tyrant Dragon Rebirth Art.

In all his cultivation journey, Ye Yuan had never suffered such severe injuries!

In fact, he was now essentially a cripple.

"Hmm? This... is a divine pill?" Ye Yuan suddenly exclaimed in surprise.

Liang Wanru had fed Ye Yuan a Profound Origin Pill, but without divine essence in his body, he couldn't refine the medicinal power; he could only wait for it to dissolve on its own, a very slow process.

The Profound Origin Pill was a holy remedy for injuries, greatly beneficial for restoring Ye Yuan's physical body.

But since Ye Yuan couldn't activate the medicinal power, his recovery was extremely slow.

Ye Yuan's lifelong pursuit was the realm of Divine Alchemist. Now that he had broken through to the Divine Realm and become a Divine Alchemist.

Yet he knew nothing about divine pills!

In fact, he now had to start everything from scratch, completely different from his previous cultivation life, which had been like cheating.

A strange world, a strange realm, and even his most skilled field—alchemy—was a complete mystery!

But the moment he sensed the divine pill, Ye Yuan was captivated!

This... was the pill he had pursued all his life!

Yet it seemed nothing special in the Tongtian Realm.

If Ye Yuan knew how precious the Profound Origin Pill was, he wouldn't have said that.

"Pfft, it's just the lowest grade of divine pill. What's there to get excited about?" Wu Chen said disdainfully.

Ye Yuan ignored him; he was already entranced. He tried to analyze the Profound Origin Pill's composition with his divine sense, but found he couldn't do it at all!

He didn't recognize it!

The divine-level spiritual herbs of the Immortal Forest World had long vanished, and Ye Yuan had never seen any divine-level spiritual herbs.

Occasionally, he had come across names of divine pills in ancient texts, but specific refining methods were absent.

"Senior, do you know this divine pill? What pill is it? What ingredients are used? Do you know the refining method?..."

Once Ye Yuan started, he fired off a barrage of professional questions.