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Everyone saw Yi Yan's face return to normal and secretly felt relieved. They were worried, but also confused. Maybe they really were overthinking things.

However, although Yi Zhao's worry had been mostly relieved, he still planned to inquire Yi Yan in detail. If Yi Yan was deliberately hiding it from them in order to not make them worry, they wouldn't be able to discover it. Once it developed to the point where there was no hope, they would regret it.

Yan'er, you've been looking very bad for a while now, and we're all very worried." He shouldn't be unable to recover from the fatigue after a few months, right? That's why we wanted to ask what was going on. Your grandfather and I may be old bones, but we still have so many years of experience. If you have any doubts regarding martial arts, you can ask us. I think we should be able to give you some advice.

Yi Zhao let Yi Yan sit down and spoke slowly while stroking the long beard that was scattered across his chest.

Ouyang Yu and the rest also nodded in agreement.

It seemed like he hadn't managed to hide the change in his appearance from them.

However, Yi Yan had already thought of the words in just a few steps, so he did not panic: "Grandfather, to be honest, since the time Yan'er went into closed door training, he has been wholeheartedly studying martial arts. It was just that a few bottlenecks had appeared during his training earlier, causing him to be unable to break through for a long period of time. Thus, he felt somewhat anxious. This caused the elders to worry. It was all because of Yan'er's lack of consideration. However, there are already signs of a breakthrough at the bottleneck. Elders, there's no need to worry. "

Yi Yan said this, implying implicitly that his bottleneck was caused by the secret scriptures he learned from practicing the secret cave. This was also to prevent everyone from asking further.

As expected, when Yi Zhao heard Yi Yan's explanation, he came to a sudden realization; it was because the cultivation technique left behind by his ancestor encountered a bottleneck. Indeed, without the experience of a senior, he was unable to ask Yi Yan and the others about it.

Ouyang Yu, however, didn't understand what Yi Yan meant by this. After all, even Yi Yang didn't know about the secret cave, let alone Ouyang Yu.

However, he was already an old fox. Judging from Yi Yan's grandfather-grandson pair's expression, they were obviously involved in some secret of the Yi family. As an outsider, it wasn't easy to get involved.

However, his purpose of coming here was only to confirm Yi Yan's condition. He felt relieved knowing that nothing was wrong with Yi Yan's body.

Yan'er, show me your hand.

Although Ouyang Yu already knew there were no problems with Yi Yan, he still needed to check the internal condition of Yi Yan personally to be at ease.

Yi Zhao wasn't worried at all about this.

From his point of view, if the Yi family's thousand year old secret art was easily discovered, then this secret would have been discovered long ago.

Yi Yan also knew that if he didn't let them check it out personally, he definitely wouldn't be completely at ease.

Thus, he naturally extended his left hand towards the tea table beside Ouyang Yu.

At the same time, he had to control the True Elemental Energy and prevent it from retaliating when Ouyang Yu's true qi entered his body. Otherwise, because the True Elemental Energy's protective layer would automatically injure Ouyang Yu, he would be in great trouble.

Ouyang Yu lightly placed his three fingers — Eating, Medium, and Nameless — on Yi Yan's wrist. Immediately, a strong wave of true energy emanated from Ouyang Yu's fingers. It was quite difficult for Ouyang Yu's true energy to enter Yi Yan's body.

After encouraging himself to control the Qi to circulate through Yi Yan's main meridians, he immediately left after confirming that Yi Yan was indeed alright.

What thick true qi!" "It seems like the martial art that Yan'er is practising is indeed extraordinary.

Ouyang Yu had already entered the Xiantian realm and was on par with Yi Zhao. He was already considered a top existence in the martial arts world.

Because of this, he was even more shocked by Yi Yan's cultivation.

It seemed like his judgement was right, Yan'er had indeed cultivated a secret technique of the Yi family.

However, why didn't Yi Zhao and Yi Yang cultivate?

If they were to cultivate as well, the Yi family's strength would surely rise to another level.

However, this was already a matter of the Yi family. Although Ouyang Yu was close with the Yi family, he couldn't ask directly.

He was just trying to comfort her by looking worriedly at his daughter, "Everything in Yan'er's body is normal. Not only that, the true energy within his body is abnormally thick. "Old Yi, looks like we really are old."

When Ouyang Qian heard her father say this, she finally put down a huge rock in her chest.

Since the birth of Yi Yan, her body had suddenly improved a lot. Even she had become young.

In the past, he had cultivated some martial arts that he was unable to cultivate due to his weak body.

She was someone who knew her father's cultivation, a top-notch expert on par with Old Man Yi Zhao.

Since he had already promised that he would be fine, there definitely wouldn't be any more problems.

Wu Tie originally wanted to personally test what level this grandson's cultivation base was at, but after hearing Ouyang Yu say so, he didn't think it would be good to probe further.

Firstly, Ouyang Yu's cultivation level was similar to his, so it was obvious that the result would be the same if he attacked again. Secondly, he didn't trust Ouyang Yu even if he attacked again.

Yi Zhao was a sly old fox who had lived for dozens of years. Naturally, in front of some juniors, he would not do such a thing that would cause old friends to lose face.

Yi Yan maintained a smile on his face after dealing with his family's investigation, but the irritation in his heart couldn't be quelled.

After dinner, Yi Yan left the living room after chatting with his family for a while.

Avoiding his family, Yi Yan came alone to the rooftop.

He laid down quietly and looked up at the summer sky. The cold moonlight shone on Yi Yan's face and body.

Feeling the starlight from the depths of the universe, Yi Yan's anxious mood seemed to be comforted by the coldness that had existed since the ancient times, slowly calming down.

While his mind was in a daze, Yi Yan seemed to have returned to the days when he was at Cultivation Realm, where he was following his master and cultivating. Daoist Master Hao Cheng's face was becoming clearer and clearer, and there was also the little girl who had been silently following him for the past 400 years.

When he fell into the black hole, he reckoned that the Jade Chip's soul must have been shattered.

Unknowingly, Yi Yan became a little silly.

No one knew when, but Yi Yan had already closed his eyes slowly. Only his consciousness was wandering aimlessly around his body.

Yi Yan's mood went from fretful to calm as he entered the realm of the Great Void.

This kind of completely unconscious cultivation state was a state of Heaven Man Unity that many cultivators could only encounter and not seek.

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Heaven Man Unity, on the other hand, was a fusion of the mind and the world. The advantage of this was that he could better understand the nature of the world.

In this state, the Elemental Energy in his body was no longer under his control. Instead, it began to move in a trajectory that was getting closer to nature.

It could be said that after a cultivator entered this realm, not only would their mental state improve to different degrees, the true Elemental Energy would also become purer. Furthermore, it would move in a more natural manner, and their future cultivation would benefit greatly from this.

The purpose of cultivation was to explore the mysteries of nature, to breathe with the universe, and to absorb the energy of heaven and earth into one's body.

He should have no distracting thoughts, and everything should have been in accordance with nature, with nothing to do.

/p p However, although every cultivator knew this, almost no one could do it.

This was because cultivators were also people. As long as they were people, they would have emotions, desires, and disputes.

Cultivation, Magic Treasures, Medicinal Pills, Kinship, Friendship, Master and disciple, Friendship with the same sect … There were too many things that cultivators couldn't part with.

Therefore, it was impossible for them to completely abandon all distracting thoughts and return to their original state.

However, for Yi Yan, whose cultivation had stopped at the peak of the late stage of the Spirit Realm, to fulfill his promise to Sang Yiting, seek revenge for his Tianqian Sect, pursue the laws of the world, and obtain greater power, all of this remained in the deepest part of his heart.

In a hundred years, he would be just like an ordinary mortal, with only a grain of loess remaining.

The despairing Yi Yan had already abandoned all of his desires or forgotten them. He was only immersed in reminiscing and reminiscing about the past.

Yi Yan, who had entered into a unconscious state, didn't notice. He quietly looked down at the moonlight and the star radiance sprinkling on his body, and for some reason, slowly merged into his dantian.

The energy sprinkled by the stars and moon initially scattered chaotically in his dantian, as if the night sky above him could only be viewed from afar by the starry sky.

Gradually, the starlight was covered up by the True Elemental Energy in his dantian, and it became more and more blurry. The tiny bits of energy slowly fused with the True Elemental Energy.

At this moment, the Life and Death Taiji Fish that was spinning like a machine in Yi Yan's mind suddenly shook. A wave that seemed to be spinning passed down from his sea of consciousness.

Along the way, he treated everything as if it was nothing. This wave of fluctuation went straight to Yi Yan's Dantian and fused into the energy mixture that was made up of the energy of the star moon and true Elemental Energy.

Perhaps it was because of this fluctuation, but the energy in Yi Yan's Dantian was no longer a pool of stagnant water, and actually began to slowly rotate. It was like a life and death Taiji Fish, although not as distinct as the life and death energy, it was still perfectly round and smooth, as if it had existed since time immemorial.

/p At the beginning, it was only the energy of the moon and stars that was moving about. Gradually, Yi Yan's own Elemental Energy also began to move with a little bit of the energy, revolving with the energy of the moon and the stars.

The surrounding True Elemental Energy continued to join this wheel like swirl, as if it was the destination of their fate. They smashed their heads in, and although every thread of True Elemental Energy was pulled in by the energy, like a moth flying into a flame, the remaining True Elemental Energy remained steadfast.

Finally, all the True Elemental Energy were pulled into this energy whirlpool. The energy in the entire Dantian rotated slowly, resonating with the Life and Death Taiji Fish in the sea of consciousness.

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