Chapter 851: Spiritual Energy Infusion, Cheating Cultivation

Kristina instantly tensed up. Once Pris revealed the location of the Underground City, she’d lose all value to Ye Xiu, and Ye Xiu would definitely kill her.

"Ha, Ye Xiu, you really underestimate the people of the Golden Family. You think I’d sell out the Golden Family just to save my own skin?"

Pris suddenly straightened his back, putting on a hard stance like some "sacrifice myself for the nation, treat death as going home" martyr.

In truth, Pris was panicking like crazy inside at this moment, but when he saw Kristina still alive, he started thinking:

If I talk, then I’ll be useless to Ye Xiu, and he’ll definitely kill me;

If I keep my mouth shut and act tough like I’m holding all the secrets, Ye Xiu will definitely keep me around and slowly interrogate me, and then I’ll have time to hold out until the Golden Family sends people to rescue me.

"Men of the Golden Family aren’t afraid of death. If you’ve got guts, kill me."

Pris was tough to the extreme, looking exactly like someone Ye Xiu wouldn’t dare to kill.

"Then go die."

Ye Xiu’s left hand shot out like lightning. With a crack, he twisted Pris’s neck.

Pris: "???"

Why did you actually do it?

Aren’t you supposed to scare me a bit, interrogate me, or negotiate some conditions or something?

Even if you just applied a little torture, I’d confess! How do you just kill me without saying a word?

"You three—talk, or die?"

Ye Xiu stared coldly at the three drivers, his left hand still gripping Pris’s neck, absorbing Pris’s Martial Prowess and Totems.

This bastard actually had three Totems—filthy rich!

"Mr. Ye, please understand, even though our families have lived in the Underground City for generations, this is the first time we’ve ever left it. We really don’t know where the Underground City is," one driver said urgently.

Another driver followed up: "We were taken to Nameless Island while unconscious. When we woke up, we were already on Nameless Island, and the people who brought us here had disappeared."

The third driver said: "After we woke up, Pris told us that once we loaded everything from the Library Pavilion and the Treasure Pavilion onto the trucks, we were to go to a place called Yangjiao Mountain. Someone would meet us there."

Hearing this, Ye Xiu’s eyes lit up!

Right!

Since Pris came to transport goods, he naturally had to ship them back to the Underground City.

The person in charge of receiving them would definitely know where the entrance to the Underground City was, and also know how to unlock the Formation guarding that entrance.

"How many trucks did you bring?" Ye Xiu asked.

"Five. Three are here, and two went over to the Treasure Pavilion," a driver said.

Ye Xiu immediately took Pris’s corpse, absorbing as he ran toward the Treasure Pavilion.

Very soon, he came back with two large trucks.

Then he ordered the five drivers: "Just load whatever you like into the trucks, fill them up."

Anyway, the five trucks Pris brought all had covers, so the receiving party wouldn’t be able to see what was inside.

But if they weren’t loaded, it’d be obvious at a glance that the trucks were empty.

"No need."

Right at that moment, a vast, resonant voice echoed over:

"Ye Xiu, you want to load up five trucks, drive to Yangjiao Mountain and lure me out. Good plan, pity—I already know."

The voice was like an echo from a deep valley, seeming to come from all directions at once, making it impossible to tell where the speaker actually was.

"Who are you? Do you dare show yourself and fight me?" Ye Xiu asked.

No one answered!

The speaker had already left!

Ye Xiu frowned: "Didn’t expect the receiver to actually follow Pris here... tch."

At this moment, one driver asked weakly, "Th-then... do we still need to load the trucks?"

The other four drivers were tense to the extreme. If Ye Xiu didn’t need them to load the trucks, it meant their lives were over.

"Kill yourselves."

Ye Xiu said expressionlessly.

The five drivers exchanged a glance, then decisively severed their own heart meridians and died. Suicide was still more dignified than being killed by Ye Xiu.

Just then, Tang Bo asked, "Big Brother, why didn’t you let those five help carry books?"

"What if they went into the Library Pavilion and made trouble, destroying the books inside?" Ye Xiu said.

Tang Bo thought about it and agreed, then happily scampered into the Library Pavilion to continue loading books onto the trucks.

By the time all the books in the Library Pavilion were loaded!

Ye Xiu had already drained Pris, the Sword God, and the Sword Demon—four Eighth Realm experts. Unexpectedly, all six of them had three Totems each.

Clearly!

They were all born with hereditary Totems and had also drunk Golden Blood, letting them bear two more Totems.

Six people, eighteen Seventh Realm Totems!

A huge haul!

Only, Ye Xiu was extremely annoyed: the Totems of these five Eighth Realm War Gods were all Sixth Stage—meaning only Seventh Realm strength.

It seemed Ye Xiu still hadn’t seen any Totems above Sixth Stage.

Stephanie’s avatar’s Totem was indeed above Sixth Stage, but the problem was that Golden Totems couldn’t be absorbed!

"Move, to the Treasure Pavilion!"

Ye Xiu led the people and vehicles to the Treasure Pavilion.

After loading all the Totems and Treasures from the Treasure Pavilion into the trucks, Ye Xiu took everyone and the convoy back to the plaza in front of the Library Pavilion.

Mo Luo asked:

"Young Master, where are we shipping all this stuff to?"

"No rush."

Ye Xiu arranged the corpses, placing them on the plaza in front of the Library Pavilion according to a special pattern, then asked:

"Mo Luo, how far have you gotten in your re-Cultivation?"

Mo Luo said, "Second Realm Qi Refining Period. Not just me—everyone’s stuck at this stage."

Mo Luo, the Thirteen Protecters, everyone else, including Ye Xiu and all of Ye Xiu’s subordinates, had previously cultivated in a "no Spiritual Energy" environment.

Now that Spiritual Energy had revived, the Spiritual Energy on the Eternal Islands was incredibly dense.

So everyone, Ye Xiu included, chose to cultivate anew.

This re-Cultivation!

Didn’t mean abolishing their Cultivation and starting from scratch!

It meant repairing the path they’d already walked, on the foundation of their existing strength.

For example, the Second Realm War God Qi Refining Period.

This stage required lingering for a long time, just like Huang Quan had said back in the Abandoned City on Biluo Island when he lectured.

The longer you stayed in the Qi Refinement Realm, the better. Gather Qi into Clouds, Clouds into Rain, Rain into Rivers, Rivers into Seas, Seas into a Core.

Core Formation!

Was the perfect state of the Qi Refinement Realm!

It required a massive amount of Spiritual Energy and long accumulation!

Even with Ye Xiu’s cheat of absorbing other people’s Martial Prowess, he had only just formed his core after absorbing the Martial Prowess of those Eighth Realm War Gods like the Sword Demon.

Mo Luo and the others were still far from Core Formation!

"Now I’m going to use the Martial Prowess inside these corpses to help you form your cores in a short time," Ye Xiu said.

The Martial Prowess contained in these bodies was extremely vast!

"How do we do it?" Mo Luo asked.

"Sit cross-legged and get ready to draw Spiritual Energy into your bodies!" Ye Xiu said.

Mo Luo immediately sat down cross-legged.

An Dongye, Ye Liuyun, Tang Bo, and Dong Fangbai all sat down cross-legged as well.

They hadn’t restarted their Cultivation!

But their Martial Artist Cultivation was also at the Second Realm Qi Refining Period.

"Everyone get ready!"

Using more than four thousand corpses as the Formation base, Ye Xiu finished arranging the Formation and gave a reminder, then instantly activated it.

At once, the Spiritual Energy inside the corpses was drawn out, converging above the Formation and turning into five pillars of Spiritual Energy that connected to the Baihui acupoints at the tops of Mo Luo, An Dongye, Ye Liuyun, Tang Bo, and Dong Fangbai’s heads.

And then forcibly poured Spiritual Energy into their bodies.

"Damn, Master is literally helping five people hack the system—who mass-produces powerhouses like this?" the Sword Fanatic clicked his tongue.

Kristina, Lanshan Valley, and the ninety-nine Seventh Realm War Gods were all utterly shocked as well.

They were all veterans, so they knew very well how dull the Second Realm Qi Refining Period was—scraping up nature’s spiritual energy bit by bit every day, relying purely on Time to accumulate.

Ye Xiu, on the other hand!

Was straight-up force-feeding Spiritual Energy into Mo Luo and the other four’s bodies.