Supreme Sword God

Chapter 1045: Chapter 1044: The Primal Sky’s Grand Secret, Power of Time!

Ye Chen plopped down on the ground, his face a bit pale.

The fourth layer of Heaven-Ascending Step, "A Step Away, Worlds Apart," really was damn爽 to use, the speed was unbelievably fast, but the energy consumption was insane. Even with Ye Chen’s terrifyingly deep foundations, he’d almost been unable to bear it.

Just now, he’d forced himself to grit his teeth and hold on with one breath, only then did he manage to hack Mingkong to death.

"Master Legs, what the hell is up with ’A Step Away, Worlds Apart’? I remember you told me before that once I reached the Saint Realm I could use this body technique. I might not be in the Saint Realm yet, but trash in the Emperor Realm I can kill casually. My accumulated power shouldn’t be insufficient!"

Master Legs: "You already learned it?"

Ye Chen: "I already used it. I’m exhausted!"

Inside the Sword Tomb, Master Legs’ sparse leg hair was so shocked it practically fell off!

"I thought you couldn’t do it, so I didn’t tell you some of the deeper stuff..."

Ye Chen: "...Master Legs, there’s never a time when I can’t do it. Luckily this time I held my breath and didn’t slip up. If someone had noticed, we’d be in big trouble. From now on, finish your sentences, don’t say half and leave half, otherwise I’m going to get killed by you sooner or later."

Getting screwed over by Master Legs wasn’t just once or twice.

Back when they went to Lingyun Mountain, Master Legs had sworn up and down that he remembered the array there crystal clear, but in reality he’d just been gambling on some vague memory.

When they entered the Celestial Extinction Ancient Tomb, that whole "body immune to a thousand poisons" thing had almost gotten Ye Chen screwed again.

And now it happened again...

Thinking of the Celestial Extinction Ancient Tomb, Ye Chen felt a headache coming on.

The karmic entanglement with Ghost Girl still hadn’t been resolved, and up to now he hadn’t heard even the tiniest bit of information about the Three Lives Stone.

Master Legs sent a voice transmission: "Didn’t you already learn about my other identity?"

"You mean your identity in the Original Celestial Yin Family?"

"Yeah." Master Legs replied, saying, "My Heaven-Ascending Step is actually created based on the Yin Family’s In Character Secret Technique. Without cultivating the In Character Secret Technique, wanting to use ’A Step Away, Worlds Apart’ is basically impossible.

So when you said you wanted to try ’A Step Away, Worlds Apart,’ I figured it was impossible you’d succeed, so I didn’t say more. Who knew you, kid, were this damn monstrous..."

"My big bro is a monster, it’s not like you just found out today."

Little Phoenix lazily flew to Master Legs’ side, joining in the fun.

Ye Chen: "How do you cultivate the In Character Secret Technique?"

Master Legs: "I can’t teach you. Just like with your Soldier Character Secret, you need power differentiated out from the In Character Secret Root Mark to use for comprehension. Without that thing, no matter how much I say it’s useless."

"Alright, got it. When I have time I’ll go stroll around Original Celestial, bring back the In Character Secret Root Mark and slowly mess with it."

Finishing, Ye Chen cut off his connection to Master Legs and began mobilizing Ancient Clan Origin to restore his own condition.

In the Sword Tomb, Master Legs immediately went to find Long Chen and Luo Qingyi, saying, "Something’s off. No matter how freakish Ye Chen’s talent is, he shouldn’t be able to break the shackles of the Original Celestial Eight Secrets..."

Luo Qingyi couldn’t figure it out either. She looked to Long Chen, and said, "Uncle Long, what do you think is going on?"

Long Chen pondered for a moment, then said, "It might be related to the World-Suppressing Celestial Stele. He used the stele to comprehend a set of breathing cultivation method. That breathing method lets him cultivate three paths at once, which means it has a grand unification effect.

The World-Suppressing Celestial Stele is a thing that suppresses the great era itself.

No matter how special the Original Celestial Eight Secrets are, they’re still within the great era.

So Ye Chen was able to break the shackles of the Eight Secrets and unleash ’A Step Away, Worlds Apart,’ which requires the In Character Secret Technique as its foundation."

Master Legs’ remaining leg hair fell off a bit more in shock, as he said, "Then doesn’t that mean he has a chance to learn all Eight Secrets?"

Long Chen: "Not yet. He was already overloaded when he forced himself to use ’A Step Away, Worlds Apart.’ But if he can collect more World-Suppressing Celestial Steles to comprehend, he might have a chance to master the Original Celestial Eight Secrets."

Master Legs was silent for a moment, then said, "You two don’t know this, but in Original Celestial there’s a legend—whoever can gather all Eight Secrets into one body can open the door to the Ninth Secret.

The Ninth Secret, the Front Secret Technique, involves time itself. It only exists in legend, the terrifying great secret of which Original Celestial has poured endless effort and blood into searching, yet never found even the slightest trace!"

Long Chen’s mouth twitched, as he said, "If Ye Chen really manages to master the Ninth Secret, then on the Celestial Essence Continent he’ll be able to go wherever he wants. The Secret of Time—the supreme dao..."

Luo Qingyi said calmly, "I think he’ll be fine."

Little Phoenix: "My big bro is a monster, there’s nothing he can’t do."

......

At this moment, Ye Chen had no idea what kind of conversation was going on inside the Sword Tomb.

He spent an hour and consumed a huge amount of Ancient Clan Origin before he finally recovered his condition.

He’d been using Ancient Clan Origin a lot recently. Fortunately, he’d snatched the Soldier Secret Root Mark over in Original Celestial, which kept Original Celestial from using the Eight Secret Roots Marks to lock down the Origin Pool.

Once he’d recovered.

Ye Chen immediately left the cultivation room and went to where Liu Mubai and Xu Yanran were.

Xu Yanran had received Ancient Clan Origin to heal her injuries, and in just a short time her complexion had already become rosy and glowing.

As for Liu Mubai, he had a piece of Enlightenment Tea leaf in his mouth, while absorbing that dense, pure Spiritual Power lump Ye Chen had given him.

This stuff was even more useful than the Spirit Alliance’s Divine Sense. Liu Mubai had basically already touched the threshold of Emperor Spirit Master.

A day passed.

Powerful Spiritual Power fluctuations surged around Liu Mubai’s body. Waves of golden light flowed out from the spot between his brows, sacred and resplendent.

Ye Chen glanced over, and in the next instant his Spiritual Power swept out, completely covering up the aura fluctuations of Liu Mubai’s Spirit Dao breaking into the Emperor Realm.

Another hour passed.

Liu Mubai finally broke through.

Ye Chen: "Congratulations, Uncle-Master, for entering Emperor with dual paths!"

Liu Mubai felt deeply shaken, and said, "Your Spiritual Power can even conceal the fluctuations of my Spirit Dao stepping into the Emperor Realm... what realm is it at?"

Ye Chen said mildly, "Compared to you, Uncle-Master, my Spirit Realm cultivation is way behind. I haven’t even entered Saint yet."

Liu Mubai: "..."

Still, he’d finally stepped into the Emperor Realm with two paths. Liu Mubai was in a very good mood, and said, "Now, in a battle against veteran Emperors, as long as it’s not a Great Emperor, I’m confident. Brat, weren’t you going to chop up that Old Thief Mingkong? Come on, Uncle-Master will take you there. I’ll pin down the two veteran Emperors next to him, and you find a chance to kill Mingkong yourself."

"Mubai..." Xu Yanran called softly.

Liu Mubai: "It won’t delay us much. As an Uncle-Master, helping my nephew solve some problems is only right!"

Xu Yanran tugged lightly at Liu Mubai’s sleeve and said quietly, "Ye Chen already killed Mingkong."

Liu Mubai: ???

Ye Chen: "I appreciate Uncle-Master’s goodwill, I’m really touched. I wouldn’t bother you over such a small matter anyway. I’ll come find you to team up when I go hack Great Emperors in the future."

Liu Mubai’s soaring heroic spirit was instantly doused like by a heavy rain.

Ye Chen smiled and said, "Uncle-Master, Aunt-Master, there’s no time to waste. We have to head to the Martial Alliance Forbidden Land. Remember, you absolutely can’t act impulsively—just guard the exit. Whoever comes out, we snatch them. We have to grab all ten Token fragments!"