Chapter 2142: Soaring Strength

Long Zhaotian's face had just begun to reduce swelling, but Long Xiaochun's blow made it swell up again.

"B-boss, did you hit the wrong person?" Long Zhaotian asked, tears streaming from the pain, his face full of innocence.

Long Xiaochun turned to look at him and said with a grin, "No mistake. Ye Yuan is my good brother. If you want to beat him into a pig's head, of course I'll beat you into a pig's head."

"G-good brother?" Long Zhaotian was dumbfounded.

Ye Yuan was speechless and said, "Xiaochun, how did you get into the Dragon Eye Cave?"

Long Xiaochun wrinkled her nose and said, "Hmph! I knew that old thing Long Chi had no good intentions, so I went to find Mother, and happened to overhear her and Uncle Zhi discussing you. I planned to stop it, but I was too late. So while they weren't paying attention, I sneaked in. You came to the Dragon Clan because of me; how could I watch you die? I came in to take you out!"

Ye Yuan felt a warmth in his heart upon hearing this.

From the first moment he saw Long Xiaochun, Ye Yuan felt a sense of blood connection, very intimate.

Perhaps they really were related by blood.

After all, no one knew the origin of the Dragon Clan's founder.

Maybe he was from Rain Dragon Village?

"Alas, you're too willful, girl. Now that you're here, things outside must be in chaos," Ye Yuan sighed.

Long Xiaochun laughed heartily and said, "Who cares! Anyway, I wasn't happy staying in Rain Dragon Village. But since coming in, being the boss feels pretty good. Hey, Xiao Tian, aren't you going to apologize to Ye Yuan?"

Long Zhaotian had come full of confidence, thinking he could get back at Ye Yuan and beat him into a pig's head.

But instead, he ended up becoming a pig's head himself.

And now he had to apologize to Ye Yuan—how frustrating!

However, since Long Xiaochun had spoken, he dared not disobey.

Long Xiaochun was naturally mischievous, and over these days, she had worn him down until he had no temper left.

"M-master, Xiao Tian was wrong!" Long Zhaotian said with a bitter face.

Seeing Long Zhaotian looking like a bullied little wife, Brother Xun was secretly amused.

Ye Yuan waved his hand; he couldn't be bothered to argue with such a minor character.

"Since you like being the boss, Xiaochun, let's merge the two camps from now on, and you'll be the boss," Ye Yuan said calmly.

"Great, great!" Long Xiaochun cheered with joy.

...

The two camps were directly merged, with Long Xun and Long Zhaotian handling the specifics, inevitably leading to some disputes.

Ye Yuan took Long Xiaochun to his camp and they began to talk.

Long Xiaochun looked Ye Yuan up and down with a strange expression and said, "How strange! In a place like this, your cultivation speed hasn't slowed down; it's even faster!"

Ye Yuan smiled and directly activated the Chaos Heaven True Scripture, causing the demonic miasma to surge wildly into his body.

Seeing this, Long Xiaochun's mouth fell wide open in amazement. "You... you... you can actually cultivate using demonic miasma? This... this is really bizarre! Since I was little, I thought I was a monster. Now I realize, compared to you, I'm perfectly normal!"

Ye Yuan chuckled. "How could a cute little girl like you be a monster?"

Long Xiaochun laughed heartily. "I'm different from others."

Ye Yuan could sense bitterness and loneliness in her laughter.

He had long known that Long Chi and the others called Long Xiaochun a jinx.

It seemed this little girl had a troubled past.

But since Long Xiaochun didn't want to talk about it, Ye Yuan naturally wouldn't press.

"Hehe, if that old man Long Chi knew about your current situation, he'd probably be so angry he'd reincarnate on the spot," Long Xiaochun suddenly remembered something and burst into laughter.

Ye Yuan also laughed. "Hehe, I think so too. To be honest, I really like it here now and don't really want to leave. The Dragon Eye Cave is practically a paradise for cultivation to me."

Long Xiaochun was speechless. "Only you would treat this place like your own backyard. But... how do we get out?"

Ye Yuan smiled. "I have my ways."

Long Xiaochun's pupils contracted. "You have a way?"

Ye Yuan nodded. "But the most important thing now is to improve our strength! Xiaochun, I'll be counting on you for the next few years."

Long Xiaochun patted her chest. "Tell me, what do you need me to do?"

Ye Yuan smiled.

"Hunt abyssal beasts and get as many black bane crystals as possible."

Long Xiaochun was speechless. "Alright, your way of cultivating is really unique!"

So in the following days, Long Xiaochun led the merged two camps to hunt abyssal beasts everywhere.

With the freakishly strong Long Xiaochun around, sixth-rank abyssal beasts were no match for her.

Ye Yuan only had one task: cultivate.

Without spending time on hunting, Ye Yuan's realm advanced by leaps and bounds.

Three years later, Ye Yuan completed a formidable task that would take others three thousand years, breaking through to the Ninth Heaven of True God!

Another five years passed, and Ye Yuan broke through in one go to the peak of the Ninth Heaven of True God, just one step away from the next realm!

His cultivation speed left everyone dumbfounded.

Whether it was Brother Xun or Xiao Tian, they could only describe Ye Yuan as a monster.

One day, Ye Yuan emerged from seclusion.

Brother Xun trotted over and flattered, "Master is truly divine! In just nine years, going from the Seventh Heaven of True God to the peak of the Ninth Heaven—I doubt there's a second person like that in the entire Tongtian Realm!"

This wasn't just flattery; he was genuinely shocked.

Ye Yuan's cultivation speed was almost maddening.

With Ye Yuan's rate of absorbing divine energy, an ordinary person would have their divine sea burst, but Ye Yuan was like a bottomless pit, absorbing as much as came.

It was too crazy!

He had never heard of anyone cultivating like this at the True God realm.

Ye Yuan laughed and scolded, "Stop flattering me!"

Brother Xun grinned. "Master, now that you're out of seclusion, are you going to take us out?"

Ye Yuan said, "Not yet. Since the cultivation environment here is so good, I naturally want to break through to the Heavenly Sovereign realm in one go before going out. Otherwise, it would take a lot of effort to break through outside."

For Ye Yuan to break through to the Heavenly Sovereign realm, he would need an enormous amount of spiritual energy.

Outside, he would have to prepare a huge pile of cultivation resources.

Here, there were plenty of black bane crystals and abundant demonic miasma.

Breaking through here was naturally the best choice.

"But... Master, shouldn't you consolidate your realm before breaking through?" Brother Xun hesitated.

For ordinary people, breaking through realms so quickly often leads to unstable foundations.

To break through to the Heavenly Sovereign realm, one usually needs a long period of preparation.

Otherwise, the chance of failure is very high.

But Ye Yuan seemed intent on breaking through in one go.