Translator: Alsey
Editor: Chrissy
Chen Yu secretly grumbled as he felt nervous in his heart.
If that Law Enforcer had searched him, he was seventy percent confident that he could get away with it.
But this Wang Lingyun was practically looking for bones in an egg. Even if there wasn’t a problem, he might be able to come up with a problem from nothing.
Chen Yu didn’t dare guarantee that he could deceive him with that excuse he had prepared.
In a moment, Wang Lingyun’s hand had already moved from Chen Yu’s neck to his chest.
Chen Yu’s heart was suspended in his throat.
His heartbeat abruptly accelerated.
That mystical crystal… it was kept close to his heart!
Ba-dump! Ba-dump!
Suddenly, Chen Yu sensed that the sound of his heartbeat was as heavy as a mountain, capable of shaking the world. It was as though the fluctuation of all space was resonating with the sound of his heartbeat in the unseen world.
There was even the illusion that the room was slightly swaying.
But strangely, Wang Lingyun, as well as the Law Enforcer in black robes, had the same expression as before.
“Hmm?”
There was a burst of scorching heat radiating from Chen Yu’s heart.
That formless heartbeat and pulse seemed to be coming from the mystical crystal that was placed close to his heart.
In that next moment!
Wang Lingyun’s hand felt the region to the left of Chen Yu’s heart.
At this moment, Chen Yu held his breath as a hint of fine sweat seeped out of his forehead.
The Law Enforcer in black robes and Wang Lingyun had also sensed Chen Yu’s abnormality, but they thought it was because that the “Inner Breath” Wang Lingyun had on him was putting a lot of pressure on him.
One breath… two breaths… three breaths.
Wang Lingyun’s hand had already moved over where his heart was and proceeded to search his abdomen and back.
Chen Yu was somewhat baffled. “What’s going on?! He didn’t discover it?”
At this moment, that scorching hot sensation where his heart was became increasingly distinct. Accompanying it, there was also a sensation of pain as though jolts of electric current were running through him.
The mystical crystal at his heart seemed to have disappeared without a trace.
On the other hand, Chen Yu’s entire body was in a rigid and numb state. He didn’t move a muscle as he let Wang Lingyun search his entire body as he pleased.
“Honourable Law Enforcer, I have already searched his person in detail, but I didn’t discover…” Wang Linyun respectfully said.
The Law Enforcer in black robes nodded and spoke with slight profoundness, “I feel assured since you’ve completed your inspection.”
He naturally could see the antagonism Wang Lingyun held towards Chen Yu and so, he knew that Wang Lingyun wouldn’t give the latter any shred of opportunity. He was even more reassured letting Wang Lingyun search Chen Yu compared to him personally doing so.
Once he had finished talking, the Law Enforcer in black robes turned around and left the house.
On the other hand, Wang Lingyun didn’t leave yet. He was calm and unruffled in the midst of chaos as he sized Chen Yu up with slight ridicule.
The two of them were the only ones left in the room, which made it terrifyingly silent.
Chen Yu didn’t move an inch. He felt that the numb feeling of electric currents on his chest was gradually waning.
He subconsciously reached out and touched his heart.
“What?!”
Chen Yu’s heart shook as the mystical crystal close to his heart had disappeared without a trace.
“What… was going on?” he thought.
There was only a hint of residual heat and slight pain left where his heart was.
On the contrary, Chen Yu didn’t really pay attention to the look of rumination on Wang Lingyun’s face.
Wang Lingyun was secretly pleased with himself at Chen Yu’s “dazed” appearance. He assumed that he had destroyed the other party’s “stroke of luck” this time, so it was undoubtedly a disastrous shock on him.
It was very likely that Chen Yu would find it difficult to breakthrough to the Connective Meridian Realm within the allotted time limit since he had lost his favorable circumstances this time, and therefore, would be evicted out of the sect.
“Chen Yu!”
Wang Lingyun suddenly spoke up as the expression on his face turned into a strict one. “My advice to you is this: you better give up on ‘Mu Xueqing’ soon and take a hike back to Xiangyang City. This sect no longer has a place for you to establish yourself!”
“Xueqing?”
Chen Yu was distracted as he temporarily placed that strange mystical crystal out of his mind.
In his mind.
The beautiful image of a young lady, a slender and elegant figure that was also exquisite and pure, flashed across his mind.
In Yunyue Sect, Mu Xueqing was gifted and intelligent, moving people with her pureness and beauty. She was the target of much admiration and pursuit amongst many disciples.
Chen Yu and Wang Lingyun were one of her many admirers.
In addition to that, Mu Xueqing, Chen Yu and Wang Lingyun were all from Xiangyang City.
But Chen Yu and Mu Xueqing had a slightly closer relationship, which gave rise to Wang Lingyun’s resentment and jealousy.
“Hehe, but I don’t need to remind you of this. Soon enough, you’ll be expelled from the sect. From then on, we will no longer be people from the same world.”
Wang Lingyun burst into mocking laughter.
After saying that, Wang Lingyun turned around and left.
From this moment onwards, Chen Yu was no longer worthy of a second glance.
How could a person who couldn’t even establish himself in the outer sect be able to compete with him on the same stage?
Chen Yu silently watched Wang Lingyun leave.
“There are still two months left. If I do my utmost to attack the ‘Connective Meridian Realm’, I am only thirty percent certain that I’ll be able to do so. Supposing that I have precious spirit materials aiding me, my probability of success would double. What a pity…”
Chen Yu sighed in his heart.
He couldn’t compare to Wang Lingyun. The other party was the young master of the Wang Clan and could obtain the greatest support of his family.
Chen Yu’s aptitude was pretty good in his own clan, and his status wasn’t so low either, but it was far from the valuable subsidies someone with the status of “young master” could get.
Innate talent was very important in this path of cultivation, but external resources were similarly of utmost importance as well.
Chen Yu had initially obtained a Space Metal Meteorite fragment. It was the first stroke of luck he had gotten, but unfortunately, Wang Lingyun destroyed it for him.
“That’s right!”
Chen Yu suddenly recalled something and closed the door in a hurry.
He undid the upper part of his garments and examined the place where his heart was. He had definitely placed the mystical crystal close to that region of his skin.
He was startled by what he saw.
There was a sanguineous “heart-shaped” pattern on over his heart.
Bzzt, bzzt~
Translucent wisps of crystalline luster flickered where the heart-shaped pattern was located, and there was a faint shocking sensation coming from it.
There was something even stranger though.
Chen Yu faintly saw an exquisite, almost-liquid crystal heart merging with his own fleshly heart little by little.
“This…”
Chen Yu was frightened out of his mind. This phenomenon was simply unheard of!
He carefully thought back to the events of what happened.
That mystical crystal had morphed and now resembled a “crystal heart”.
Ba-thump, ba-thump! Ba-thump, ba-thump!
Chen Yu felt that his own heartbeat had become steady and vigorous. Every throb brought about a kind of incomparably powerful confidence.
After several breaths.
The bloody pattern where his heart was at faded away and could no longer be seen.
Huff~
Chen Yu heaved a long sigh of relief. He felt a certain misconception that he had suddenly entered a dream.
But everything evidently wasn’t a dream.
Wisps of mystical clear streams faintly flowed towards his four limbs, the hundreds of bones in his body, and even towards his brain with the “heart” as the center.
This process persisted for a whole hour.
Bang!
All of a sudden, Chen Yu felt his forehead clear up, and the blood in his entire body boiling.
An indescribably odd energy rushed forth from his heart, closely followed by a lustrous and flourishing feeling throughout his entire body.
At this moment, he felt that his entire being was filled with energy from top to bottom.
Chrk!
He briefly touched the ground with his foot and jumped as high as half the height of a human. He was surprisingly much more athletic than he was in the past.
Pow!
He brandished his fist and produced a formless gust of the wind that had ample grandeur.
Bang, crack!
A thin crack split open in the wall in front of him. He was forty to fifty percent stronger than he usually was with this degree of strength!
“My speed and strength… has clearly increased!”
Chen Yu felt incredulous.
That wasn’t all.
As he looked out through the window cracks, the shadows of people, plants, as well as houses under the night sky, actually became a little clearer and brighter.
Even though it was night, it was as if he was seeing it in the daytime!
When he held his breath with rapt attention, he could even hear the whispers of the other outer sect disciples in the neighboring houses as well.
Not only had his physical attributes been upgraded, but even his vision, hearing, sense of smell and his other sensory organs had improved as well.
“This body…”
Chen Yu trembled as he raised his hand. He questioned whether this was a constitution humans could possess in his heart.
He raised his arm in midair and stared at it once more.
“Something’s wrong! The scar is gone!”
Chen Yu stared at his arm as though he had seen a ghost.
He clearly remembered that he had a bloody scar on his arm when the meteorite fragment scratched him.
He took a closer look.
The faintly discernible thin, red scar on his arm was currently lightened at a speed that could be seen with the naked eye until it disappeared.
What terrifying self-regenerative ability!
Chen Yu sucked in a cold breath of air. Even though cultivators had ferociously strong physical constitutions, it took at least half a month for scars to disappear based on his past speed of recovery.
Yet his scar had completely disappeared in just a short period of time.
According to ancient records, only a few legendary constitutions and certain lost mythological races had this kind of self-regenerative ability.
“What exactly is that Crystal Heart?”
Chen Yu reached out and touched his heart to the left. That steady and powerful heartbeat gave him an indescribably powerful conviction.
For a moment, he had mixed feelings in his heart.
He was happy because the crystal heart had drastically strengthened his body—almost shedding his mortal body and exchanging his bones—yet he was worried because it really was difficult to predict the blessing and calamity an external foreign object would bring by merging with his heart.
Only god knew what kind of damned thing this mystical stone was. Would it make him walk toward the path of “dehumanization”?
Rumble!
The hungry protest in his stomach interrupted Chen Yu’s train of thoughts.
“How very strange. I even ate two hours ago…” Chen Yu muttered in a low voice.
Chrk!
He didn’t think more about it as he arrived at a mountain forest at the edge of the monastery alone.
With his “night resembling daytime” vision and the large increase in speed, Chen Yu caught a wild rabbit with ease. He then put it on a rack and roasted it.
In the end, Chen Yu ate a whole roasted rabbit, but he still wasn’t quite satisfied.
He beat up a wild wolf and ate almost half of it, which was no less than six kilograms. Only then did he feel that his stomach was full.
This intake of food and digestive ability had already exceeded the category of normal humans.
Chen Yu felt more uneasy after it.
But he no longer had a way out. In any case, he couldn’t dig his own heart out, right?
He simply started to practice his boxing techniques while it was still night.
“Metal Plow Fist!”
Chen Yu’s fists were like two metal balls that created audible wind as the speed of his fists became faster and faster.
The young man’s style and movements were strong, ferocious and powerful in the night, yet they didn’t lack harmonization and flow to them.
Chen Yu only practiced his boxing techniques a few times… when he felt that something was amiss!
The [Metal Plow Fist] was a martial arts boxing technique he had chosen when he entered the sect. The formidable power it possessed was of some repute amongst the low-ranking martial arts.
But compared to martial arts of the same rank, the [Metal Plow Fist] was easy to learn but difficult to perfect.
The introductory stage to this boxing technique was very simple and wasn’t considered to be too ingenious.
After that, the technique had relatively higher requirements towards an individual’s physical constitution, and even one’s personal willpower if they wanted to cultivate it to a certain maturity.
But just now.
Chen Yu realized that the [Metal Plow Fist] he practiced flowed much better than before. In terms of maturity… he seemed to have made significant progress?
“Again.”
Chen Yu concentrated as he launched his boxing techniques. The entire process resembled moving clouds and flowing water as he did it in one go.
He effortlessly replicated a few styles and movements that were usually extremely difficult.
Whoosh! Boom, boom! Boom, boom, boom…
The boxing technique of a young man blossomed like a rainstorm of falling pear blossoms in the dim light of night. Every fist of his was like whistling metal balls that were staggeringly suppressive.
A layer of dust rose around his body, and a violent whistle could be heard.
“How is this possible?! Not only did the Metal Plow Fist break through to its initial form, but it appears to be in a mature and very stable state on top of that…”
Chen Yu paused on the spot as he found it incredulous.