Kurota's cultivation talent is a story for another time.
After following Ye Fan for a while, his catchphrases had become increasingly eloquent…
"What's wrong?"
Ye Fan quickly asked.
"This guy is cracked… Kurota replied, "He looks like he's about to die."
Ye Fan didn't rush forward, but said again, "Give him two more hits, put some strength into it."
"You got it!"
The mecha's fist, as large as a pot, grabbed the cloaked man's leg and began playing whack-a-mole…
"Boom boom boom!"
It was like the Hulk grinding Loki…
And the cloaked man's body twitched irregularly with each swing…
One minute later.
A pit about a foot deep had been smashed into the ground.
The cloaked man lay motionless in the pit, his life or death unknown…
"Is that enough?" Kurota stopped and asked, "If we continue, he might really die…"
"You wait here."
Ye Fan instructed Liang Rujing before leaving the flying ship.
"Holy crap…"
Ye Fan was startled himself when he reached the pit!
The cloaked man's cloak was now largely torn, revealing greyish-white skin underneath.
There was a hole the size of a bowl on his chest, likely caused by the sniper bullet.
Countless cracks spread from the edges of the hole, radiating outwards.
Just as Kurota had said.
He was truly cracked…
And the cloaked man's aura was now extremely weak, looking like he could die at any moment…
"Wake up."
Ye Fan extended his foot and gently kicked the cloaked man twice.
Several seconds later, the cloaked man struggled to open his eyes.
"Cough cough…"
"That thing isn't something you should touch…" The cloaked man coughed out several mouthfuls of purplish-black blood, his eyes vacant as he mumbled, "Uncontrollable power will only bring you destruction…"
"What the heck is that broken stone?" Ye Fan quickly asked.
"That thing… isn't something you should touch…" The cloak remained vacant as he repeated the words, his voice growing weaker, "Uncontrollable power… will only bring you destruction…"
Ye Fan quickly pulled the cloaked man out of the pit, anxiously saying, "Are you a recording machine? What in the world is that broken stone?"
As he spoke, Ye Fan took out a Reversion Pill from his ring.
Although he had only auctioned off one, several had come out of that batch.
"That's not power you can control!" The cloaked man shouted with fanatical fervor, as if a dying light flashed back, "You will be devoured sooner or later!"
Then he closed his eyes, his head lolled to the side, and he became still…
Ye Fan's hand holding the pill froze mid-air…
At this moment, he could clearly feel that the guy was completely dead…
"Damn it…"
Ye Fan complained and casually tossed the cloaked man back into the pit.
"Kurota, didn't you know when to hold back?"
Kurota: ???
What?
You told me to put strength into it!
You can't be this shameless!
"Forget it, let's bury him."
Ye Fan put the Reversion Pill back into his ring and turned to walk towards the flying ship.
Kurota dejectedly grabbed some nearby soil and began filling the pit…
Before long, the flying ship set sail again.
Ye Fan returned to his room and sat on the bed, pulling at his hair…
He had finally met someone who knew something, only to accidentally kill him…
What rotten luck…
Of course.
If he could do it again, he would still choose to do the same.
After all, his own life was more important than satisfying his curiosity.
Ever since his system exploded, he had become increasingly cautious about his life…
In the past, he courted death daily, but now he was all about survival…
If the system were still alive, it would probably explode again from anger…
Besides the lost lead, another thing that troubled Ye Fan was the disappearance of the stone.
The stone he had auctioned off had vanished after he emerged from its internal world.
Ye Fan guessed that the stone had most likely entered his body, but he had no idea where it was.
This feeling was incredibly frustrating!
Although he had previously felt that the stone was like an unexploded bomb, at least he knew where it was and could monitor its state at any time.
Now, it had gone completely invisible…
As he was thinking, a familiar sensation returned.
Ye Fan face-planted onto the bed.
Cold and hard…
Meanwhile, the bodyguard trailing them in the shadows broke out in a cold sweat!
Because the moment the sniper fired, he had felt a sense of threat!
Stronger than the last time!
So strong that even he wasn't confident he could withstand that attack!
And this was only because the sniper wasn't aiming at him.
If it had been aimed at him…
It was only then that he realized he had underestimated Ye Fan before…
However, he couldn't understand how that strange weapon…
Achieved it?
Despite being like scrap metal with no energy fluctuations, it could unleash such terrifying attacks!
And the power of each attack was different!
Did this mean it could unleash even more terrifying attacks?
As expected of someone chosen to conceal their strength!
Hoo—
Fortunately…
He wasn't his enemy…
The rest of the journey was uneventful.
Most of the time, Ye Fan and Liang Rujing spent in their respective rooms cultivating.
Of course.
If Ye Fan's actions could be considered cultivation…
He managed to steal a bit of spiritual energy from the seal every day.
However, this only made him feel more energetic and seemed to have no other use.
His physical strength was no different from an ordinary person's; he could still be cut or pierced by sharp objects.
Compared to Liang Rujing, Ye Fan was even more fragile…
His personal strength was also within the normal human range.
A punch wouldn't kill a cow; he might even break a bone if he exerted too much force…
By all appearances, he was no different from an ordinary person who hadn't cultivated.
He ate so much monster meat every day, but he had no idea where all that energy went…
Furthermore, a normal person would have likely exploded from the energy contained in this monster meat…
What kept him going was likely that sliver of faint hope.
Ye Fan's intuition told him that a great secret was hidden within the seal!
The day he stole all the spiritual energy would be the day the secret was unsealed!
Besides, even if there was nothing to gain then, being able to steal all the spiritual energy would be excellent.
At that point, no matter who he faced, he could simply use a monstrous mental attack to suppress them!
Except for a few oddballs immune to mental attacks, Ye Fan would likely be able to roam the cultivation world unchallenged!
After all, his spiritual energy had accumulated for a million years, even including beings of divine-level existence.
It was far beyond what cultivators could compare to!
During this period, Ye Fan also tried to touch the stone in his spiritual sea, but he couldn't enter the internal world again.
The insights he gained from cultivating in the stone's internal world couldn't be replicated externally.
No matter how Ye Fan concentrated, that profound feeling could not be reproduced.
A few days later, the flying ship successfully returned to the Qingxin Sect.
Imperial City.
Myriad Phenomena Sect.
On this day, the Second Elder returned to the sect after handling affairs outside.