Chapter 35: The Immortality Brought by the Three Thousand Flame Fire, Pure to the Extreme

Time passed slowly, and before they knew it, Ye Xuan and Lin Miao had spent a week in the nature reserve.

During this time, they nearly every day ventured into the Mist Hidden Mountains to hunt mutated beasts, then carved up their flesh and brought it back to cook.

Under the nourishment of the luminous dishes, Ye Xuan’s spiritual energy increased significantly.

As for the mutated beasts, due to the vast gap in strength between Ye Xuan and them, for the first two days he relied primarily on his sword; but in the following five days, he fought them almost entirely with pure physical strength.

Thanks to the immortality granted by the Three Thousand Flame Fire, he never worried about injuries, which caused him to ignore his own wounds during combat and engage the mutated beasts in direct, brutal close-quarters fighting.

Although his body had grown considerably stronger through cultivation and the integration of the Three Thousand Flame Fire, it still fell short compared to the mutated beasts.

Moreover, just because Ye Xuan didn’t use spiritual energy didn’t mean the mutated beasts didn’t.

So in most cases, Ye Xuan was at a disadvantage during battle.

Yet as the number of battles with mutated beasts increased, his experience in this area grew at an astonishing rate, and his body continuously strengthened through constant damage and self-healing.

Now, even with just his physical strength, he could crush the vast majority of mutated beasts; and with the added immortality of the Three Thousand Flame Fire, unless a mutated beast could kill him in an instant, he could always slay it in combat.

Of course, if he truly encountered a mutated beast capable of killing him in an instant, do you think he’d use his spiritual energy and cut that beast in half with one sword strike?

He was merely tempering his body and refining his physical weaknesses—not insane.

Without the Three Thousand Flame Fire, he could never have trained himself this way.

But perhaps because Ye Xuan had spent too long in the Mist Hidden Mountains and slain too many mutated beasts, the others had become familiar with him.

In the last two days, unless Ye Xuan directly locked onto a mutated beast’s aura with his sword and swiftly closed in to corner it and force it into combat, the moment he stepped within the limits of their olfactory range, they fled.

Combat? Fights?

Who wants to fight this terrifying two-legged creature? We’re the most peace-loving animals around.

Ye Xuan found this frustrating.

If they fought to the death when cornered, he wouldn’t mind; but even when cornered, they refused to fight, instead crouching on the ground in submission, offering no resistance.

He wondered if it was because he’d killed too many mutated beasts that had resisted when cornered.

There was nothing he could do about it—beyond killing a few mutated beasts each day for food, he stopped hunting altogether.

Yet during his exploration of the Mist Hidden Mountains, Ye Xuan discovered surveillance devices hidden in many locations throughout the range.

Between tree canopies, on jagged rock faces, even embedded within tree bark textures.

Unsurprisingly, these were the work of the Tian Shu Bureau.

These devices were distributed with extreme density, nearly covering the entire core region of the Mist Hidden Mountains; clearly, the Tian Shu Bureau valued this nature reserve far more than they had assumed.

That was understandable.

Since they knew spiritual tides would descend on some future day, causing mutated creatures to grow stronger due to increased spiritual energy and become a threat to humans,

the Mist Hidden Mountains—home to the most mutated creatures in Hangcheng—naturally became their primary focus.

They didn’t want to see these mutated creatures flee the mountains en masse after the spiritual tide and storm human cities.

So they had to prepare in advance; Ye Xuan even spotted pre-established firepower defense lines along the mountain’s perimeter.

But what Ye Xuan cared about wasn’t these—he was just thinking.

Since the Mist Hidden Mountains were under surveillance, hadn’t the Tian Shu Bureau personnel seen the scenes of him fighting mutated beasts these past days?

“Forget it. Let them see. The healing effect of the Three Thousand Flame Fire doesn’t show on the surface—they can at most deduce I have some unknown self-healing ability, never connect it to the Three Thousand Flame Fire.”

Ye Xuan shook his head and paid it no mind.

For a person to obtain even one Celestial Treasure is already an extremely rare occurrence, let alone two.

The Tian Shu Bureau personnel would at most assume Ye Xuan, besides possessing the Wang Quan Baye template, had also awakened some unknown ability related to self-healing—they’d never consider it a Celestial Treasure.

In the Hangcheng Tian Shu Bureau,

many members gathered around surveillance screens, staring in stunned silence at the footage of Ye Xuan fighting mutated beasts, utterly disregarding his own injuries, nearly trading his life for theirs.

“If I remember right, this guy is the Wang Quan Baye template holder, right? Why doesn’t he use his sword? Why fight these mutated beasts with his body?”

“What else? These mutated beasts are too weak—they don’t even deserve his sword.”

“Not just the sword—he’s not using any spiritual energy at all. He’s fighting them with pure physical strength.”

“How do you know he’s not using spiritual energy?”

“Because he kicked a mutated wild boar to death with one kick.”

“Do you think if he’d used spiritual energy, these mutated beasts would still be alive to fight him now?”

“.”

If before, Ye Xuan had impressed them as a genius and powerhouse who possessed the Wang Quan Baye template and could unleash “Heaven and Earth One Sword,” now they added another impression of him—Brutal One.

Too brutal. This guy is terrifyingly ruthless toward himself.

Who in their right mind would, just because their strength surpasses mutated beasts, deliberately abandon their mastery of swordplay and the spiritual energy flowing through their body, and fight them with pure flesh alone?

These aren’t ordinary beasts—they’re mutated.

If the Wang Quan Baye template had granted Ye Xuan a powerful body, fine—but the Wang Quan Baye template’s strength lies entirely in the sword; his body is barely stronger than an ordinary human’s. To claim it’s strong enough to fight mutated beasts is pure nonsense.

He’s not a dedicated body cultivator.

So in their eyes, Ye Xuan was fighting with his weakest point against the beasts’ strongest point—and yet, he still killed them using only physical strength.

He used his weakness to challenge their strength, won, and even killed so many that the remaining mutated beasts were terrified of him.

They fled at his approach, and when caught, refused to fight—crouching on the ground, willing to die rather than strike back.

God knows how they felt watching this.

(End of Chapter)