Reborn as a Mountain: I Defy the Heavens with a Smile-Chapter 180: Reconstruction

Looking at the lunatic in front of her, Long Ruxue had no more words.

Who would dare to try something like this?

At least she wouldn’t.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

"Suppress!"

Ye Chen made a few hand symbols and in that instant, his cultivation dropped down to the eighth stage of qi-gathering.

However, this was not the end; his cultivation kept dropping down and didn’t stop until it reached the first stage of qi-gathering.

"Get ready," Ye Chen said suddenly.

Long Ruxue, who was staring at him, became stunned.

Did he ask me to get ready?

She thought with a question mark; nevertheless, she became prepared for any unexpected events.

Boom!

At this moment the whole world shook and a terrifying aura spread everywhere.

Zhu Dong and other alchemist slaves were instantly scared by this. Meanwhile, Xue Feng, the latecomer, had a dark face.

Long Ruxue looked at the sky and the sky seemed to gaze upon her, wondering what she was preparing for.

Now even an idiot would know Ye Chen did not speak to her.

Thinking of this, her face became red with embarrassment and she stomped her foot in anger before lying down again.

However, her eyes frequently stole glances at Ye Chen.

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Swoosh! Swoosh!

Inside Ye Chen’s room a small white pearl floated in mid-air before devouring spiritual qi greedily.

The commotion caused by such action was not small so everyone discovered it, even the little girl Wang Yiyi.

"What is he up to now?" Zhen Yunqi pouted while activating all of the hidden formations on the mountain.

It would be terrible if his identity got leaked after all.

Jing Xiao, sensing all of this, became more curious about Ye Chen; however, she did not dare use her spiritual consciousness to check, as her intrusion might harm him.

"Hmm? The bad guy wasn’t in his room just now," Wang Yiyi muttered with a bewildered look.

Rumble!

Suddenly the whole mountain trembled; however, except for Zhen Yunqi and Li Mei, no one cared too much about this and only thought this might be because some big formation was activated.

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Hum!

A golden pillar of light descended on Ye Chen, transferring an exorbitant amount of spiritual qi.

’This?!’

As he breathed the spiritual qi, Ye Chen finally discovered the difference, and it was the strange glyphs from the fire elemental crystal, which were imprinted on the fire-element qi.

He guessed the reason must be related to him, as his golden spiritual root also had such glyphs on it; however, it was not the time to ponder.

Shaking away his thoughts, he focused on reconstructing with a serious look.

As the famous phrase said, without destruction there is no reconstruction.

It was no wonder Long Ruxue called him a lunatic.

Puff!

Ye Chen suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood; however, his expression remained calm as he started destroying certain pathways and formations on his dantian.

This pathway and these formations are what allowed him to draw and gather spiritual qi inside his dantian. Also, it was what defined the limit of the cultivation stage.

Once a cultivator makes a breakthrough, these formations and pathways become engraved and entirely unchangeable.

This was the reason why it is impossible to re-cultivate previous stages. Furthermore, these pathways and formations act as a support for the next stages; if they’re destroyed or harmed, it can easily lead to dispersion of cultivation.

However, nothing happened to Ye Chen because he was reconstructing the formations and pathways the moment they were destroyed.

Furthermore, the new ones he reconstructed were more solid and powerful.

Everything looked easy and simple but the difficulty was higher than Ye Chen imagined, especially the soul-piercing pain when he destroyed and reconstructed.

Not to mention the size of his dantian, which can contain five football fields; one could imagine how many pathways and formations were on it.

Long Ruxue couldn’t help but stand up before staring at him seriously.

The most difficult part in reconstructing was yet to come; she wondered if he would fail or succeed.

And strangely, she wished for both. If he failed, she will be free at least for a few months, and if he succeeds, he will create a history. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

She can then shamelessly ask for the new technique, although she won’t dare to reconstruct her cultivation. It would be very beneficial if she could comprehend a few things.

Puff!

Ye Chen once again spat out a mouthful of blood.

After a long time of an hour, he had finally managed to finish reconstruction of all pathways and formations.

Now was the time for the most important step, which was to break through.

Only by doing this can his newly reconstructed pathways and formations completely merge together with his dantian.

Most importantly, this will increase his strength, which was what he aimed for.

"Break!"

Ye Chen snorted, pushing the circulation of spiritual qi to the limit.

In that instant new pathways and formations glowed red before expanding rapidly and merging together with dantian.

Everything happened in a flash then—

Boom!

A thundering sound came from his body, followed by him spitting out a mouthful of blood.

’Did he fail?’ Long Ruxue frowned with uncertainty.

Not only her but also Ye Chen was frowning as all of the reconstructed structure started shaking violently as if it was going to be destroyed.

As for the reason behind this? It was his golden spiritual root causing trouble.

He did not know why it didn’t react before but after he was about to finish everything.

Did his own spiritual root want to see his failure?

He suspected greatly.

Pushing away his thoughts, he resisted the change. It was his body so how could a mere spiritual root interfere?

But just then his divine dragon blood and nine-dragon heart acted, circulating his spiritual qi through a familiar yet unfamiliar path.

This?!

Ye Chen was stunned.

Then, before he could react, his golden spiritual root trembled, creating new pathways and formations on his dantian that merged with the circulating spiritual qi.

Boom!

Once again a thunderous sound came from his body; however, this time he was not injured but felt refreshed and full of strength.

’I broke through?’ He was stunned once again.

Although this has been his goal, he did not expect it to be like that; furthermore, this did not stop here.

Boom!

Once again he broke through as his entire second stage of qi-gathering was reconstructed on its own.

Just as he was stunned, Long Ruxue was shocked.

’How could this be? Why are the divine dragon blood and nine-dragon so obedient to a mere spiritual root?’ she questioned to herself but no answer came.

However, Ye Chen knew about it or rather, he could see his spiritual root bluffing by showing off the strange glyphs.

These glyphs were similar to heavenly laws he had faced in the mystic trial. The spiritual root took full advantage of it and used its aura to act as heaven itself.

Damn it! Where did it learn this?

He questioned and kept observing further changes.

Since his spiritual root took charge, he did not have to manually reconstruct anything. How great it would have been if it had done this earlier, saving him time and effort.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

His stages kept getting reconstructed and he broke through again and again, finally reaching his original ninth-stage cultivation of qi-gathering.

However, he was a lot stronger now and even had the confidence to fight with the late-stage Qi-condensation realm.

Just as Ye Chen thought his spiritual root would finally calm down, something unexpected happened.

It continued to reconstruct or rather create an entire new stage!

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Just as Ye Chen’s cultivation was undergoing changes, the sky in the southern province changed again; however, this time it did not look like a treasure getting born but an omen of a terrifying disaster.

Bang!

"Holy fuck, what’s wrong with our southern province?"

"Just a month ago there were treasures getting born and now a bad omen?"

"I think it must be someone committing a heavy taboo."

"You’re right! The fallen sect and heretical sects had surfaced again; it must be them who committed taboo."

The cultivators of the entire province placed the blame on fallen and heretical sects. They did not think anyone else had the ability to create such a bad omen except them.