Chapter 99: Yuan Power Storm!

In the pavilion opposite Jiutian Peak, Su Yubai stood up and brushed the dust off his clothes.

“Nothing worth watching anymore. Let’s go. Ye Yuan is beyond saving. I thought he had some trick up his sleeve daring to challenge the Nine Heavens Path, but he couldn’t even get past five steps in the second stage.”

“I’m not watching either. What a waste of time!”

“Let’s go, let’s go. After all this fuss, it turned out to be a farce. I thought there’d be something to see, but in the end, he’s no different from the rest.”

Once Su Yubai left, the other elders naturally lost interest and stood up one after another.

They had been watching Ye Yuan stand motionless for two hours, and it had been utterly boring.

Now convinced that Ye Yuan would never wake up, they saw no point in staying.

Su Yubai walked around the stone table, leading the group out of the pavilion.

They had only taken a few steps when a sudden commotion arose among the students at the foot of the mountain.

“Look! Ye Yuan moved!”

“Huh? He’s sitting down cross-legged right there. What is he trying to do?”

“Could he be trying to cultivate on the spot? Or has he gone berserk?”

“Is that what going berserk looks like? Doesn’t seem like it. He looks like he’s cultivating. But what’s the use of cramming at the last minute?”

“Ye Yuan often does the unexpected. Who knows what he’s up to. But from the look of it, he just broke free from the illusion. But he only made it five steps. How is he going to get past the rest?”

Ye Yuan’s movement finally gave the restless crowd something new to talk about, and various guesses spread through the crowd.

Huanyong Yong, Feng Ruoqing, and Feng Zhirou, who had been in despair, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

“That kid really scared me to death. I thought he’d never wake up!” Huanyong Yong wiped cold sweat from his brow.

Feng Ruoqing, however, remained silent, watching Ye Yuan as if she had noticed something.

“Teacher Feng, what’s wrong? Is something off?” Huanyong Yong asked curiously.

“Teacher Huanyong, don’t you feel something strange about Ye Yuan’s aura?”

“Huh?” Huanyong Yong sensed Ye Yuan’s aura and indeed found it unusual: “This kid, his aura is getting weaker and weaker. Could something be wrong?”

Feng Ruoqing shook her head, clearly unable to figure it out either.

But as they kept their perception locked on Ye Yuan, they noticed his aura growing weaker and weaker until it finally vanished completely!

The three of them were startled.

“Hmm? His aura disappeared. Is he dead?” Su Yubai had also noticed the change in Ye Yuan.

“Elder Su, Ye Yuan’s aura has completely vanished. Has he died on the Nine Heavens Path?” Elder Lin suddenly spoke up.

With Elder Lin’s words, Su Yubai became even more certain of his own conclusion.

Suppressing the ecstasy inside him, Su Yubai nodded: “Although the situation is a bit strange, his aura has indeed completely disappeared. It seems he is indeed dead.”

“Hmph, defying the Elder Council—this is the deserved outcome! Leaving him with a whole corpse is already letting him off easy!” Elder Lin snorted coldly.

“Haha, Dean Hu said it was the student’s right. Since he chose this way to die and is now dead, the Elder Council has simply carried out the academy’s rules.”

Su Yubai was in a good mood now and even tried to console Elder Lin.

Though the process had been tortuous, Ye Yuan was finally dead, and he had helped the Su family eliminate this threat.

In the pavilion, Hu Changsheng looked at Ye Yuan’s “corpse,” let out a long sigh, and stood up to leave as well.

Most of the higher-level Heavenly-rank students had also noticed Ye Yuan’s strange condition. Regretful as they were, they secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

One Dragon Hall was already suffocating them; adding an even more monstrous Ye Yuan would make life even harder.

“Who would have thought, who would have thought that Ye Yuan would kick the bucket at the fifth step! Old Long, no matter how monstrous Ye Yuan was, it’s all in the past now. You’ve seen how terrifying the Nine Heavens Path is. Are you still going to challenge it?” Zuo Bugui said to Long Tang.

Long Tang squinted, clearly not believing what he was seeing.

Ye Yuan had breezed through the first stage—how could he possibly fall at the fifth step of the second stage?

It made no sense!

Hearing Zuo Bugui’s words, Long Tang nodded: “Even if the Nine Heavens Path is a mountain of knives and a sea of fire, a dragon’s pool and a tiger’s den, I will still take it on! Succeed or die!”

“You really are stubborn! Forget it, I know you’re too proud to listen to me. Since you’re handing me the top spot, I’ll gladly take it!”

“The top spot? What does being first in the Danwu Academy mean? If you like it, take it.” Long Tang said indifferently.

“Sigh, you’re really too far gone! The man is dead. Are you still going to watch?”

“Let’s watch a bit longer. I have a feeling Ye Yuan isn’t so easy to kill.”

“Old Long, when did you become like this? He’s clearly already… Huh? What’s happening?”

As they spoke, they suddenly felt a noticeable disturbance in the surrounding yuan power.

The students at the foot of the mountain were about to leave when a gust of wind swept through, and the yuan power around them began to thin out.

“What’s going on?”

“Jiutian Peak is a place with extremely abundant yuan power. Why has it become so thin? Is someone breaking through?”

“It’s Ye Yuan! Ye Yuan is breaking through!”

Someone in the crowd shouted, drawing everyone’s attention back to Ye Yuan.

The heaven and earth yuan power around Jiutian Peak surged madly toward Ye Yuan!

Centered on Ye Yuan, a massive yuan power storm formed!

Ye Yuan’s aura also grew stronger at an astonishing speed!

Huanyong Yong and Feng Ruoqing exchanged glances, both seeing shock in each other’s eyes.

“This is… a mind as still as water! Ye Yuan has… actually achieved the state of a mind as still as water! Unbelievable! Even among Condensation Realm cultivators, very few reach this state in their mental cultivation. This is a legendary state! Ye Yuan is only at the sixth level of Yuan Power. How did he do it?” Huanyong Yong gasped.

Feng Ruoqing’s eyes flickered, clearly also in shock: “He won’t be at the sixth level of Yuan Power for long. He’s about to break through!”

“This kid is astonishing! He only broke through to the sixth level of Yuan Power a few days ago, and now he’s about to cross another small step and reach the seventh level directly. Truly terrifying!” Huanyong Yong clicked his tongue.

But seeing Ye Yuan’s extraordinary talent, he felt quite gratified. After all, a bond had been formed between Ye Yuan and the academy.

Having such a genius emerge from the Qin State Danwu Academy made him very proud.

“The seventh level of Yuan Power? Teacher Huanyong, look at this yuan power storm. Is it just the seventh level?” Feng Ruoqing took a deep breath and said.