Chapter 883: Earning Points

"Wind-Shadow Kill! Netherworld Hundred Blades!"

This time, Leng Qing struck first, unleashing two supreme true-intent martial techniques right from the start.

Extremely fast movement combined with unmatched blade techniques gave a powerful visual impact.

"Leng Qing is using his ultimate move! How long has it been since anyone forced him to go all out on the second floor?"

"Now, finally, someone can threaten Ye Yuan, right? After all, Leng Qing's strength is quite impressive even on the third floor."

"This Ye Yuan is too arrogant! Once he can't keep up with Leng Qing's lightning speed, let's see how he can still be arrogant!"

The old man and the young man on the viewing platform shook their heads. Wind-Shadow Kill was the technique they dreaded most.

Combined with the supreme true intent of speed, Leng Qing was incredibly fast.

But they knew that Ye Yuan hadn't yet used his magnetic field!

That was the greatest counter to speed.

Leng Qing's figure suddenly burst forward, vanishing before everyone's eyes.

But everyone knew he hadn't disappeared; he was simply too fast for the naked eye to see.

"Boom!"

Everyone saw Leng Qing reappear, flying backward and slamming hard into the formation.

Then, Ye Yuan closed in, chasing after Leng Qing.

Leng Qing's strength was clearly far above Lu Licheng's. Although he took a punch, he wasn't incapacitated.

Seeing Ye Yuan pursue, he was startled and quickly activated his movement technique to escape.

Ye Yuan smiled. "Trying to run? Think it's that easy?"

Activating the magnetic field, Leng Qing felt as if trapped in quicksand, his speed plummeting.

"Boom!" Another punch.

But Leng Qing's speed was indeed fast; he dodged most of Ye Yuan's force, barely avoiding being crippled.

The power of Ye Yuan's punch was simply too fierce.

The martial artists on the viewing platform were dumbfounded. One chased, the other fled—it didn't look like a fight but more like a game of cat and mouse.

The kicker: the one being chased was Leng Qing, the top fighter on the second floor!

This scene was utterly颠覆ing.

Leng Qing's strength was clearly far above Lu Licheng's, yet facing Ye Yuan, he was still beaten and couldn't lift his head.

This guy's strength was ridiculously formidable.

"I surrender!"

This was an unequal battle; it couldn't continue long ago.

Only now did Leng Qing find a moment to catch his breath and utter the words of surrender.

With Leng Qing's surrender, his killing intent flowed toward Ye Yuan, and the sixth star dimmed considerably.

The higher the soul general's rank, the more killing intent lost upon defeat. In an instant, the fourth star on Ye Yuan's forehead brightened.

One more step, and the fifth star would appear.

At this moment, Leng Qing felt as if his whole body was falling apart, aching everywhere.

Even with his strong will, he winced in pain.

"Th-thank you for going easy, Brother Ye." Leng Qing gasped.

Ye Yuan smiled. "You're different from Lu Licheng; you don't deserve death."

Tu Gang and Lu Licheng had clearly intended to kill Ye Yuan, so he had no mercy and struck them down with thunderous means.

Although Leng Qing had forced Ye Yuan into battle, Ye Yuan could sense that he was only honing himself through combat—a fundamental difference.

For such an opponent, Ye Yuan didn't mind sparing his life.

But Leng Qing's coercive methods annoyed Ye Yuan, so he taught him a lesson.

The crowd on the viewing platform was already stunned. The invincible Leng Qing had been utterly defeated, barely escaping with his life only by Ye Yuan's mercy.

A Heaven Initiate third level being so powerful was extremely rare in the Shura Field.

At least, none of them had ever seen it.

With even Leng Qing, the strongest on the second floor, becoming Ye Yuan's defeated opponent, Ye Yuan naturally earned the right to advance to the third floor.

But Ye Yuan wasn't in a hurry. For him, the priority was to earn enough points to exchange for the Killing Sword Art.

After the battle with Leng Qing, Ye Yuan went into seclusion to refine pills.

...

Five days later, Ye Yuan emerged from seclusion and went straight to the Shura Shop.

When Ye Yuan placed nine small bottles before Si Yin, her mouth formed an O, and she was stunned for a long time.

"Your mouth is so wide, you could fit a fist in it." Ye Yuan teased.

Si Yin snapped back to reality. This time, her surprise wasn't feigned but genuine.

Ye Yuan had bought over thirty types of spiritual herbs and actually refined nine finished pills!

Of course, if she knew that Ye Yuan had refined far more than nine, who knows what she would think.

Ye Yuan naturally wouldn't tell her that his success rate was one hundred percent; he only showed nine pills to avoid causing too much of a stir.

In fact, during his five-day seclusion, Ye Yuan had refined eighteen seventh-grade pills, all top-tier seventh-grade.

What he presented was only half of what he had refined.

"For the other pills, just buy them at fifty points each. As for this Seven-Orifice Spirit Pill, I think one hundred fifty points isn't too much, right?" Ye Yuan said calmly.

Si Yin nodded mechanically, then suddenly remembered something and asked, "Th-these pills... did you refine them?"

"You just need to buy them. What does it matter whether I refined them or not?" Ye Yuan said.

Si Yin's question was amateurish. Normally, one shouldn't ask about the origin of pills brought for sale.

But Si Yin was too shocked now, and these pills were clearly made from the herbs Ye Yuan had bought.

So... how high was Ye Yuan's alchemy skill?

"Ah! Young master, Si Yin didn't mean that. Please don't misunderstand. It's just... just that I'm too amazed! This is a Seven-Orifice Spirit Pill—even a Pill Emperor might not be able to refine it. You bought only two sets of materials and actually refined one! This is simply too astonishing!"

Si Yin's feelings were beyond words; such a prodigy defied description.

But Ye Yuan had actually refined two Seven-Orifice Spirit Pills, not just one!

The Seven-Orifice Spirit Pill was one of the hardest seventh-grade pills to refine. Taking it could permanently increase a martial artist's cultivation speed several times, similar to Ye Yuan's 'Soldier' character technique.

The preciousness of the Seven-Orifice Spirit Pill also lay in its effectiveness not only for Heaven Initiate realm martial artists but also for early Formless realm martial artists.

However, it was most effective for Heaven Initiate realm martial artists, so it was classified as a seventh-grade pill.

In fact, not to mention Pill Saints, even Pill Venerables rarely succeeded in refining it.

Thus, Ye Yuan quoted a price of one hundred fifty points.