Reborn as a Mountain: I Defy the Heavens with a Smile-Chapter 108: Helping Lan Ming

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Jun Wang had not even recovered from his shock when a few more bodies of fallen sect disciples were thrown out with the same bloody hole in their chests.

"W-who? Who is there?" Jun Wang shouted with an ugly look.

Lan Ming's expression also didn't look good; however, it didn't take too long, and her expression turned into a delight.

"Heh, the so-called fake grandmaster's disciple truly lives up to their reputation—shameless enough to team up with fallen sect disciples without a second thought. I doubt there's anyone else in this world who would dare do such a thing," Su Ying stated coldly as she stepped out of the forest.

"Hey, you stole my opportunity to mock him," Ye Chen also walked out but with a complaint.

"Sister Su Ying! Brother Chen!" Lan Ming exclaimed happily and with relief as she saw both of them appearing.

Ye Chen had long been here even before Su Ying and Lan Ming decided to steal the herb from the lake.

But he just decided to observe them silently and only intervened when there was a need.

"It's you!" Jun Wang recovered from his shock and shouted angrily.

If not for Ye Chen spreading the formula and provoking his master, he would still be living a lavish life, but everything changed because of him, and now he was a runaway living in the wild.

He hated Ye Chen to the bone for this and swore to kill him.

However, currently he was thinking of how to escape. He wasn't afraid of Ye Chen; however, he had seen Su Ying's strength and had heard about why half of the disciples died in the mystic pond.

There was no way he would be able to fight with three of them even if his cultivation was higher.

But how could Ye Chen give him a chance to escape?

His figure flashed, and he directly arrived in front of Jun Wang.

"Blame yourself for this," Ye Chen stated with a cold look.

Jun Wang didn't understand what he was saying; however, when he looked down, he saw a hole in his stomach and his spiritual root in the hands of Ye Chen burning inside an ice flame.

Immediately after this, he felt his meridians setting up on fire and burning his flesh from inside.

"ARGGHHH!" He screamed in agony and started to wriggle on the ground like a worm in pain.

However, the pain didn't end here; it further increased, making him bleed from seven orifices and bang his head on the ground again and again.

The spiritual root was, after all, closely linked to the soul, although the extraction or destruction of it was not enough to kill anyone; the pain was.

Ye Chen would have liked to use this method on everyone, but it was too hard and easy to get backfired as the spiritual root held all the cultivation; it would be no good if it exploded. Of course, he would be only slightly injured; however, it was not worth doing it on everyone.

But it didn't mean he wouldn't, especially when he wanted his enemy to suffer in excruciating pain before death.

'A pity that I haven't taken control over the emperor void pearl; if not, these people would be placed inside the miniature world and work as slaves or even as training puppets for my techniques,' Ye Chen thought with regret as he burned the blood of his hand.

"Let's go; there is nothing left here," he said, and without waiting for the reply, he grabbed their waists and flew off.

…

The flight didn't last too long, and after a few minutes, they arrived in front of the cave. However, this time it was not an empty one, but it did matter to Ye Chen as he killed the fierce beasts inside easily.

After this, he didn't waste any time and helped Su Ying with the breakthrough. The overall process was the same; however, Su Ying's thunder physique was not as powerful as Li Mei's, so her benefits were not as great as hers.

But still she achieved a great boost as her dantian expanded by the size of a football field and her meridians by two centimeters.

Compared to Wang Yiyi, who only had the dantian of three basketball courts and meridian expansion of one centimeter, her benefits were greater.

Su Ying was quite shocked to know that her spiritual Qi was now 'True Refined,' but she didn't let the excitement get over her head like a little girl and started to consolidate her cultivation.

This left Ye Chen and Lan Ming alone.

"Are you upset about not having enough strength?" Ye Chen embraced Lan Ming and inquired. She had been silent from the time he brought her here, although she said a few words; that was it.

"Mhhm, I am the weakest and the least talented one," Lan Ming replied truthfully.

How could she not feel upset for not having enough strength and dragging everyone down? It's just that she forced herself not to think too much about it, but she can't avoid the fact no matter how she tries.

"Who said you are the least talented one? Sit down here and let me help you absorb Molten Heart Spirit Fruit; also raise the grade of your spiritual Qi," Ye Chen said with a smile.

He had not done this before because he needed to have stabilized cultivation before entering the mystic pond, but since there were no other things stopping him now, he could help Lan Ming accommodate her mutated fire spiritual root as well as purify her spiritual Qi.

"Really, Brother Chen? But you don't have to do it now; you should break through and stabilize your cultivation first," Lan Ming, although excited, rejected his offer.

Hearing this, Ye Chen couldn't help but roll his eyes.

"Just do as I say and leave everything to me," he stated sternly.

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Watching him like this, Lan Ming understood he had made up his mind, so she nodded reluctantly and sat down to adjust her realm.

Ye Chen didn't disturb her and took out golden needles. Lan Ming, after all, was consuming the tier-6 spirit fruit, although he could transfer most of the energy inside his dantian; she would still end up getting injured, so he needed something else that could control her remaining energy inside her body, and the golden needles were great at this.

It's just he had to use spiritual consciousness to control them, but there was no problem as the needle technique was just a simple one.

After he was done preparing, he sat in front of Lan Ming, who had adjusted her cultivation realm. He didn't hesitate further and gave her heart-shaped red fruit.

Boom!

As soon as Lan Ming consumed the fruit, a massive surge of fire Qi surged wildly inside her; if she didn't stop this, a severe injury was unavoidable and even life-threatening.

However, at this moment, the golden needles flew in the air and pricked her acupuncture points, instantly calming the raging Qi.

After this, Ye Chen placed his hand on her dantian and started to circulate his fire spiritual Qi inside her while dragging most of the fire Qi from the fruit inside his body.

By doing this, he will refine Lan Ming's spiritual Qi, and as well as making her more powerful, he can merge the spirit fruit Qi with the strange characters he had gotten from the fire crystal.

Although he didn't have a full understanding of them, he could clone it and even transfer it to others. Of course this came at a price, and that was he couldn't use these strange characters for a period of time, but he didn't care and transferred them into the spirit fruit Qi before sending them back to her dantian.

Because Lan Ming had broken through the first stage of Qi-reining with 'initial refined' spiritual Qi already, her dantian was only the size of one and a half basketball courts, while her meridians were 1.5 centimeters wide.

She was just slightly above average; despite having a mutated spiritual root, it was no wonder why she was upset and feeling down.

Swoosh!

As soon as the spirit fruit Qi with strange characters entered inside her dantian, her red spiritual root trembled excitedly and started to devour everything with a red illuminance.

Then a burst of fire Qi erupted from the spiritual root and coursed through her meridians.

All Lan Ming felt was smooth-moving warm Qi in her body, which meant her body and dantian had fully accustomed to the mutated spiritual root.

However, this was not the end, as the amount of fire Qi the tier-6 spirit fruit had was a lot, and as Ye Chen continued transferring it inside her body with cloned strange characters, a strange change happened in her spiritual root.

If one looked closely, they would discover her whole spiritual root getting filled with strange characters; meanwhile, at Ye Chen's side, they were dimming; nevertheless, he didn't stop and continued what he was doing.

Boom!

Suddenly Lan Ming's spiritual root erupted once again; however, this time the force was much greater, almost making her spit out blood and cry in pain.