Ways of Martial Dao

"I think you must have felt the pain of thousands of tree species spitting out energy and attacking your Jing and Mai."

"Yes, your disciple has experienced it." Ye Hongtian recalled the feeling when he swallowed the beast core's energy and charged into his meridians, he could not help but shiver.

"Eat this before you fuse with your memories."

The black shadow reached out a hand and a white pill covered in runes appeared in his hand out of nowhere. The moment the pill appeared in the cave, it was immediately filled with the fragrance of the pill.

Ye Hongtian was not surprised by this pill that suddenly appeared. First, it was the almighty being that created his own path to teach him martial arts, and then his heart was dug out without dying. He was completely used to it.

"Hurry up and open your mouth, don't let the effects of the medicine dissipate!" The black shadow shouted loudly.

Sure enough, the pill had shrunk in size compared to when he had taken it out. When he took it out, it was only the size of a pigeon egg.

Seeing this, Ye Hongtian hurriedly opened his mouth, the moment he opened his mouth he felt something land on his tongue. It melted in his mouth and turned into a pure energy flowing through his throat.

Ye Hongtian closed his mouth and paced back and forth in the cave. He scratched his head and puzzledly asked the black shadow, "Master, what pill is this? Why is there no reaction from your disciple after swallowing it?"

"You'll know in a while. I'd advise you to lie in bed for now." The black shadow said with a smile.

Ye Hongtian was still scratching his head, not understanding what the black shadow was trying to express.

Suddenly, an extremely pure and brutal energy rushed into his mind. Before Ye Hongtian could even react, he fainted and fell backwards.

The black shadow saw the effect of the pill and teleported behind Ye Hongtian, supporting his body and making him sit down.

The black shadow slowly sat behind Ye Hongtian, both of his hands were placed on his back, a black soul force flowed from the palm of the black shadow into Ye Hongtian's body, directing that black soul force towards the space between his eyebrows.

After Ye Hongtian passed out, he came to a vast white world. In this world, he was translucent. In front of him was a dried up lake. Above the lake hung a black sun. There was nothing else.

"This is …" that Master gifted me with a peerless divine weapon, why is it here? Ye Hongtian was very confused.

In less than half a cup of tea's time, a black soul force wrapped around a pure blue soul force and flowed into the dry lake. The dry lake immediately overflowed, and Ye Hongtian's translucent body also became a lot more solid.

Every half a cup of tea, a flow of soul power flowed into the lake. The lake was always full, but it didn't seem to grow any longer.

Just like that, an incense stick of time passed, and Ye Hongtian's semi-transparent body looked no different from a physical body.

"The white and boundless world, the lake, the translucent body... "Could this be my sea of consciousness?" Ye Hongtian thought for a while and suddenly thought of something.

"My sea of consciousness needs to reach the legendary Divine Origin realm to condense. I'm only at the second layer of Body Tempering, how could I condense a sea of consciousness? Could it be that the divine pill was given by Master?"

Ye Hongtian guessed that it was due to the effects of the divine pill. In his heart, he was extremely grateful to the black shadow, first he had solved the problem that had plagued his meridians for more than ten years, and now he had passed on a heaven-defying cultivation technique and a peerless divine weapon. Now he had helped him condense his sea of consciousness while he was refining his body.

While he was still thinking about how to repay the black shadow, a strong suction force sucked Ye Hongtian's soul body out.

Inside the cave!

Ye Hongtian, who was sitting on the ground, slowly opened his eyes. His pupils were like a terrifying whirlpool, if a second layer Body Tempering martial artist were to stare into Ye Hongtian's eyes, he would immediately bleed to death.

Ye Hongtian closed his eyes to get used to the huge amount of soul. When he opened his eyes, he could no longer tell that Ye Hongtian had opened up his sea of consciousness.

The black shadow looked at the scene in front of him without showing any expression, but in reality, his heart was already in turmoil. He had just gotten the massive power of the God Soul, but it only took him a moment to stabilize himself.

After Ye Hongtian opened his eyes, he felt a pair of strong hands on his back. Although it was very cold, at this moment, Ye Hongtian felt a sense of warmth.

Just as he was about to stand up and bow, he nearly fainted on the spot.

"Don't move for now. You just ate an entire Pure Pool Pure Soul Pill. The aftereffects of the fusion of the Sea of Consciousness and memories have not passed yet. Be careful of the bones falling apart!" Seeing Ye Hongtian open his eyes, the black shadow hurriedly shouted.

"Yes!"

Ye Hongtian weakly replied. This side effect of opening up his sea of consciousness was truly terrifying, even breathing felt painful.

After a long while, the black shadow lowered his hands and pressed on his dantian, lightly exhaled and said, "The fusion of memories is complete. I have to say that your talent is the best I've ever seen."

Ye Hongtian really wanted to turn around, but every slight movement of his body would cause his entire body to move. Right now, his breathing was filled with a heart-wrenching pain.

"You don't need to turn around. My remnant soul is about to dissipate. I'll tell you a few things about cultivation in the future. You just need to listen." The black shadow said weakly.

When Ye Hongtian heard this weak voice, he could not help but feel pain in his nose. Although he had only been accepted as a master for a few days, this master whose name he did not know had helped him get rid of the bad luck of having reached the first stage of Body Tempering in his entire life.

Ye Hongtian's eyes turned red and he used all his strength to shout, "I swear by my heart of martial arts that if there is a chance in my life, I will cut off Master's head to pay for it."

Saying that, Ye Hongtian forced back the pain in his body, he raised his right hand and slammed it into the ground, this hard ground actually had a fist mark on it. After finishing this fist technique, more than half of the capillaries in Ye Hongtian's right arm were broken, and blood flowed down his arm. The bones of his right arm were dislocated, and it was a whole section shorter than his left arm.

Even someone like the black shadow, who had experienced all sorts of life and death, couldn't help but feel a pinch on his nose. Soon after, he reprimanded with a trembling voice, "Your injuries haven't even fully healed and you're still using force? Do you want to cripple your right arm?"

The black shadow had smeared a medicine on the bone of Ye Hongtian's right arm. Ye Hongtian's right arm was actually recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in a few breaths time, it returned to its original state. This effect shocked Ye Hongtian, but he was still unable to move his right arm.

"Remember to practice that godly weapon I gave you. You need to be able to switch to whatever weapon you want to use. Only then will it be able to play its greatest role in battle."

Give your weapon a name. It's necessary to have a name to cultivate an artifact spirit. At that time, a weapon with an artifact spirit would be equivalent to you. Summoning an artifact spirit in a battle won't have the same advantage of one plus one equals two.

"I have an internal space in my body. There are too many items in this space, so I will seal it in my Divine Weapon. When your soul force reaches a certain level, you will be able to retrieve it."

Before long, there will be an inheritance that will appear nearby. That is the brother who went through life and death situations with me, and he died to protect me in the battle I was surrounded and annihilated. After my remnant soul disappears, the barrier will not be able to hold on for more than a few days.

"…"

The black shadow spoke a lot behind Ye Hongtian's back and even told a lot of his legends about the past. The voice behind the sermon was barely discernible, but even now there was no sound.

It was a middle-aged man in his forties, with long black hair that was tied into a braid and tied around his neck. He did not look outstanding, but there was a sharp look between his brows, giving him a domineering air.

"Plop!"

Ye Hongtian kneeled on the ground, looking at the figure that gradually turned into particles and disappeared, tears instantly flowed down his face.

"Master! Your benefactor's disciple has no way to repay you. Your disciple will kneel here for seven days to allow you to reincarnate! " Ye Hongtian cried with tears all over his face.

Ye Hongtian was not a cold-blooded person and was instead a very emotional person. In this situation, he could not control his tears and just wiped them away.

The black shadow looked at Ye Hongtian with a smile and nodded. His lips kept moving, and just as he finished his sentence, he turned into particles and completely disappeared from the world.

"You have done good in this life, and you have also done bad things. God gave you to me! This is the virtue of how many times I have lived. I will die — without any regrets!"

Ye Hongtian had just stopped his tears, hearing these words, his tears immediately gushed out. As he cried, he kowtowed three times, until his head was covered in blood. The tens of thousands of tree species in his body emitted a faint light, but in just a breath's time they had healed the wound.

Ye Hongtian also did not notice the changes in the tens of thousands of trees. After he finished kowtowing, he immediately began chanting the Man-kind Scripture, and the black shadow entered the cycle of reincarnation.

In the blink of an eye, seven days passed.

Ye Hongtian knelt on the ground for seven days with his eyes glazed over, supporting himself with his hands to slowly stand up. As soon as he stood up, his body almost fell to the ground.

After adapting for a while, Ye Hongtian reluctantly left the cave. He walked out of the cave and looked at the thick tree in a daze. This tree was where he had risen to prominence. From not being able to cultivate to reaching the pinnacle of martial arts.

Ye Hongtian jumped to a height of 10 feet and used the dagger he brought with him to carve the words "Tomb of the Unnamed Master" in the middle of the tree trunk.

He landed on the ground and used his right hand to stroke the tree trunk. He glanced at the sun and decided that it was time for him to return to the Profound Heaven Martial House. He didn't know if Gao Yu Ling had left or not.

Ye Hongtian suddenly felt like returning home as he thought about Gao Yu Ling's sad eyes and sad face.