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Within the deep cliff distancing a few kilometers from the surface, Tian Ye who was originally kneeling on the ground, let his back fall into the ground causing him to lie on the crater he created from his punches.
His remaining abled arm covered his eyes that were tearing up while his mouth laughed.
Crying and laughing at the same time, if one were to witness him at this time, they would probably think that he was simply a crazy person.
He laughed like a maniac, cried bitterly, punched the ground angrily, and tossed around on the ground.
As he tossed around, the blood from his punches smeared all over his already bloodied body and what remained after the sun had set and the night had fallen was simply a man lying in a pool of blood.
He didn't even notice time passing by as he drowned in his emotions.
His mouth was still laughing but what came out was simply coarse and dry chuckles.
He breathed in and out he calmed himself down forcefully with logic, 'Life will go on and the past will be left behind.'
With his logical mind forcefully taking over, his mind relaxed little by little, and as it did, he first absorbed spiritual qi to refill his empty dantian, after an hour or two, it was filled. But even then, he didn't open his eyes because he circulated spiritual qi throughout his spiritual pathway and enhancing his body's natural recovery rate.
In another 24 hours, his pores that had bled, his ears that were ruptured from the shockwave of the great explosion, his throat that was hoarse from screaming and laughing, his eyes that were red from tears, all of it had healed completely.
The only thing that was left injured on his body was the tattered elder's disciple uniform.
His eyes slowly opened, revealing calm eyes… terrifyingly so.
Without wasting any more time, he hurriedly stood up and jumped up high, his feet covered and blasted from the ground with immense spiritual qi causing him to be able to jump over the few kilometers high reaching the surface in one jump.
He looked down on the deep cliff before his feet touched the surface, 'It consumed more than 50% of my spiritual qi and slightly caused my feet pain, but it saved time.'
With him descending and touching the ground on the surface, he rushed towards the Seclusion Cave and found that it still existed in contrast to the Eternal Lotus Sect that had been obliterated without a trace.
He went in and took a fasting pill from the pillbox to satisfy the hunger he felt and closed his eyes to examine how many hundred-year old spiritual herbs he had left within his spatial ring.
'There's still 128 hundred-year old spiritual herbs in my spatial ring… it should be barely enough to reach the 9th Layer.'
His eyes flickering slightly and looking over the pillbox that had thousands of fasting pills, he nodded in satisfaction as he saw that it could last for at least 5 years.
Looking over to the entrance of the Seclusion Cave, there was still a little sadness in his eyes remembering the outside world but it was immediately replaced with a determined gaze, he raised and pointed his index finger and as if it acted like his sword, he used the Flowing River Sword Technique, 2nd Form, Turbulent Wave, to blast a condensed spiritual qi towards the entrance of the cave.
Boom!
The rocks on the entrance of the cave collapsed, leaving Tian Ye trapped inside.
With the Seclusion Cave engulfed in darkness, he closed his eyes and began to absorb spiritual qi.
After mainly absorbing spiritual qi for what felt like an eternity with his current state of mind, he finally took another fasting pill signalling the start of a new day.
'2 fasting pills.' he muttered as he took it.
'3 fasting pills.'
'4…'
'7…
'352 fasting pills…5th Layer…'
'835… 6th Layer…'
'1532… 7th Layer…'
'2431… 8th Layer…'
'3623… 9th Layer…'
'A total of 3623 fasting pills… 122 hundred-year old spiritual herbs… 3623 days… 9 years and 11 months… I've reached the peak of the Qi Refinement Realm.' Tian Ye thought as he slowly opened his eyes that had been closed for nearly 10 years.
He soon stood up, his dantian was filled to the brim with fire spiritual qi but then channeled a total of 10% of it into his arm and punched forward towards the entrance of the Seclusion Cave.
Bang!
The rocks that had closed off the entrance to his cave had opened! The shockwave from the rocks flying off and from his fist sent the surrounding trees around to be toppled.
The light from the shining sun hung in the sky began to illuminate his Seclusion Cave, his eyes squinted slightly, not yet used to the light, but after a few seconds, he had gotten used to it.
In normal times, he might have turned blind the moment his eyes were exposed to light after 10 years of not seeing it but he was not normal, so he can't be compared to normal times. He was, after all, a 9th Layer, Qi Refinement Realm cultivator!
As he walked out of the cave, the light began to touch his skin, revealing his facial features that were originally round and childlike to have turned more mature with sharper features. His long black hair that had reached his shoulders was now even longer, reaching even the ground as he stood up with his height of at least 180 cm.
Feeling his long hair dragging on the ground, he slightly turned his head and muttered, "What a bother."
He then grabbed his long hair and directly chopped it in half and with his fire spiritual qi burned the hair he cut off.
His eyes then noticed a hair tie on the wrist of his left arm so he fixed his hair into a ponytail.
He also noticed that his tattered elder's pants that he hadn't changed the moment he started cultivating, didn't fit him any longer, his tattered pants were so tight that it felt like it would burst. If it wasn't for the fabric's good quality, his pants would have been ripped off due to his growth from a child into an adult over the past 10 years.
He was originally 9 years old turning 10 in a month, but then he went into a seclusion for 10 years after his sect's obliteration. He could be said to be 19 years old now, turning 20 in a month but that doesn't really matter to him.
He frowned and said with an annoyed tone due to his tight pants, "The transition from a child's body into an adult's body is such a hassle."
Using not even a percentage of his total spiritual qi, he jumped up high into the air tens of meters high and surveyed the surroundings.
In a total of 10 years, the toppled trees had been healed, trees once again dominated the mountains but there was still a huge hole in the middle.
'Looks like it really wasn't a dream.'
Tian Ye hoped to think that that day was simply a dream and that he just decided to go into seclusion for 10 years.
It's not that he hadn't accepted it, it's that he didn't want to accept it. But reality was reality so as he surveyed the land, he looked for the sign of a moving creature, and as he saw one, a few hundred meters away down the mountain, he rushed towards its direction.
He didn't know whether it was a human or not but if it was a human that'd be convenient.
Jumping from one tree to another, he reached the place he saw a movement, but then heard the desperate voice of a woman, "Please! Don't!"
"Hehehe~ Pretty lady, just give up, I brought you here for this sole reason."
"Please… I can give you a lot of money…"
Hearing their conversation, Tian Ye didn't really care but he went in their direction and when he saw them, the man was above the woman, pressing her down on the ground.
Tian Ye then casually appeared behind them and asked, "Need help?"
"What?! Who's there?!" The man looked behind him and then said angrily upon seeing Tian Ye, "It's just a pretty boy huh?! Piss off!"
Tian Ye repeated his words, saying expressionlessly, "Need help?"
"Yes." The woman cried.
The man snorted, "You expect this pretty bo…"
Before he could finish his words, his head directly separated from his body, blood splattering everywhere.
The woman then screamed in fear, "Please don't hurt me!"
Tian Ye then tilted his head in confusion and asked, "Didn't I just help you? You said you needed help and I got rid of your problem."
The woman slowly backed away, her back against the ground, slowly crawling away like a lizard.
"Please…"
Tian Ye frowned and said in annoyance, "Shut up or I'll kill you too. You're starting to annoy me. I helped you out when you asked and when I help you, this is how you treat me?"
"Yes…!" The woman knelt on the ground, her body trembling in fear.
Tian Ye then smiled happily, nodding in satisfaction to the woman's good attitude. He then looked over to the dead body of the man he had just killed.
He couldn't help but sigh seeing the blood on the robes of the man, "His figure was quite fit with me so I was thinking of getting his robes after killing him but maybe I shouldn't have killed him too early."
Hearing Tian Ye treat the man's life, even if it was an evil person, like some kind of plaything, she cried but didn't dare to be loud as she knelt with her head down.
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