Chapter 7: Dragon Elephant Fist

Ye Chen recalled that his father had been a cultivator at the eighth level of Qi Refining, holding a respectable position in the family and enjoying relative wealth. His father had always been fond of him, so before Ye Chen left, he had been given a generous sum of twenty low-grade spirit stones. Now, using only fifteen low-grade spirit stones to buy the pills felt like a breeze.

After the transaction was complete, Ye Chen felt quite pleased. With enough pills at hand, he no longer needed to waste precious system feedback opportunities on low-grade Qi Gathering Pills. Instead, he could offer Lin Ke’er something far more valuable.

Ye Chen didn’t rush back. He continued to stroll down the street, keeping an eye out for beautiful women. But he only wandered along the main street, avoiding the more secluded areas.

The safety of Silver Moon Market was only relative. Every month, there were still a few cultivators found dead, their bodies discovered in the outskirts. The market’s overseers couldn’t be bothered to track down the culprits, instead just occasionally finding some rogue cultivators in the wild to blame and hanging them by the roadside as scapegoats. This gave Ye Chen a sense of déjà vu.

As the saying goes: “A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall.” With the system at his disposal and a promising future ahead, why would he risk his life foolishly?

After wandering the main street for a while, Ye Chen observed the bustling cultivators entering and exiting the surrounding shops. Among them were quite a few female cultivators. However, system didn’t react to most of them. Either their looks or physiques didn’t meet the standards, or they weren’t virgins. Only a few of them passed the system’s criteria, but the rewards were just two or three times the usual. The highest was five times.

While these women were certainly beautiful, Ye Chen couldn’t be bothered to spare them a glance. After all, the system could only trigger once a week, and he had to choose the best option available. For now, it seemed Lin Ke’er was still the most suitable target. He couldn’t give up on her just yet.

One Leaf Pill Shop.

This was the Ye family’s pill store. Manager Zhang sat on the second floor, gazing at the spirit stones before him. As he listened to his subordinates’ reports, a smile slowly crept onto his face.

Ye Chen had indeed fallen for the trap. And the fact that this boy had a father who was a cultivator at the eighth level of Qi Refining meant his wallet would last quite a while before being sucked dry.

Manager Zhang had already stopped bothering with deliberately targeting Ye Chen. Instead, he planned to keep pressing Ye Chen with endless tasks to gradually wear his wealth down.

With a constant flow of spirit stones in and out, Manager Zhang was going to make a huge profit. All he had to do was wait for Ye Chen’s spirit stones to run out, causing him to explode in a fit of desperation. Even if Ye Chen’s father invested heavily to support him, Manager Zhang was confident that he could easily expose Ye Chen’s lack of ability by forcing him to refine pills in front of everyone.

In Manager Zhang’s mind, Ye Chen had already fallen completely into his grasp. He could destroy him at any time, so there was need to worry too much about it.

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Back in his room, Ye Chen immediately began rummaging through his belongings. It didn’t take long before he found a jade slip.

The Dragon Elephant Fist!

This was an external martial art. The Qi Refining stage was essentially the process of guiding the spirit qi to cleanse the body, removing the impurities of a mortal frame, and eventually achieving true spiritual foundation at the Foundation Establishment stage. A strong body was crucial for this process.

However, most cultivation techniques had minimal effect on improving the physical body, which was why it was essential to practice an external martial art to cultivate both internally and externally. This would not only enhance combat strength but also increase the chances of successfully reaching the Foundation Establishment in the future. The earlier one began, the better.

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However, martial arts techniques like this were not cheap. The Dragon Elephant Fist was bought by Ye Chen’s father for three mid-grade spirit stones. It was a simplified version of a technique passed down from a sect far more powerful than the Green Cloud Sect. Rumors had it that such techniques were deliberately sold by large sects for various reasons.

On one hand, it served as a means of screening potential disciples. If a genius cultivated it well, they could be invited to join the sect. There was also a rumor that these techniques had hidden weaknesses that could be countered by their original counterparts.

Whether the rumors were true or not, Ye Chen didn’t know. What mattered was that the Dragon Elephant Fist could temper the bones and tendons, making it an extremely valuable external martial art. After Ye Chen had come to this world, his time had been consumed with pill refining, and he hadn’t had a chance to learn it.

But Ye Chen didn’t plan to learn it either. These kinds of jade slips were one-time use only. Once you finished studying, the slip would shatter, and it was bound by a vow of the Dao Heart, thus preventing anyone from passing on the knowledge.

Given this, Ye Chen decided he would pass the Dragon Elephant Fist on to Lin Ke’er. The technique wasn’t bad at all, and it had cost three mid-grade spirit stones to acquire. What would happen if the ten-times return occurred? What kind of martial art would he get back? Could it even produce the original version?