Chapter 3286: It's Downright a Scam!

Late at night, the plane landed smoothly at Jin Ling Airport.

Ye Chen and Lin Wan'er walked out of the airport, and Master Hong Wu was already waiting there.

Upon seeing Ye Chen, he immediately stepped forward and said respectfully: "Master Ye, you're back."

Ye Chen nodded and asked him: "Is everything at home alright?"

"All good." Master Hong Wu smiled: "The regular business and the Xiang Xie Li side are both normal, the old master and old mistress are also doing well, I often go to visit them, your father-in-law's mood has improved a lot recently, the day before yesterday he even went to Tian Xiang Fu for a meal with others, lately that Pei Hui Zhang has also been quite courteous toward him, as for your wife, I've also sent people to secretly monitor her, and everything is normal."

"Good." Ye Chen said: "Don't tell anyone I'm back for now, I need to go to Xiang Xie Li tonight, if all goes well, you can take me home tomorrow during the day."

Master Hong Wu respectfully agreed, saying: "Alright, Master Ye, then let's go now!"

The late-night roads were very smooth, and half an hour later, Ye Chen arrived at his half-mountain villa in Xiang Xie Li.

He told Master Hong Wu to go rest, and then he and Lin Wan'er entered the villa together.

Ye Chen was eager to try the ring, so the two went straight to the basement.

To prepare for emergencies, Ye Chen again took three Pei Yuan Dan from his medicine storage safe as backup.

Just as he was about to close the safe, he hesitated slightly, then took out five more, muttering: "Better safe than sorry, maybe I won't even need one."

After saying that, he took out the ring and placed it before his eyes.

Ye Chen slightly adjusted his breathing and said to Lin Wan'er: "Miss Lin, later I will infuse spiritual energy into the ring's interior, you just need to stand by and watch."

Lin Wan'er nodded slightly and asked him: "Young Master, is there anything you need this servant to help with?"

Ye Chen shoved the five Pei Yuan Dan into her hand, saying: "Whenever you see me struggling or unable to cope, just stuff the pills into my mouth, but never all at once—one at a time."

Lin Wan'er took the Pei Yuan Dan and said to Ye Chen: "Young Master, rest assured, this servant understands."

Ye Chen focused his attention on the ring, then tried to gather the spiritual energy accumulated from his hand seals within his body, first attempting to infuse it into the ring, but this spiritual energy simply refused to be directed—whenever Ye Chen subconsciously tried to use spiritual energy, only his own portion was mobilized.

Helpless, Ye Chen could only first try using his own spiritual energy.

He didn't know whether the spiritual energy accumulated from hand seals had any special properties, perhaps like a car's reserve fuel tank logic—only when the main tank's fuel is used up does the reserve tank begin to supply fuel—and to verify this guess, he would first need to exhaust his own spiritual energy.

Fortunately, he had prepared several Pei Yuan Dan, which should be enough to replenish his body's spiritual energy from empty to full several times over, so he steeled himself and decided to first infuse all of his body's spiritual energy into the ring.

But just as his surging spiritual energy within his body was mobilized, something strange suddenly happened.

The portion of spiritual energy originally not under Ye Chen's control seemed to suddenly awaken from sleep, and in an instant it enveloped his body's original spiritual energy, surging forth like a breached flood.

Ye Chen hadn't expected the uncontrolled spiritual energy to suddenly move, and, surprised and delighted, he thought it was a good opportunity to mobilize these energies, planning to rely on guiding his own portion to forcibly bring the other portion along into the ring.

But what he hadn't expected was that, originally the spiritual energy generated from hand seals was uncontrolled and his own spiritual energy was at his whim, but now, his own spiritual energy also became uncontrollable!

At this moment, the ring was gently pinched between Ye Chen's fingertips; his intention was for spiritual energy to emerge from the dantian and then pass entirely through his fingers into the ring, but the two streams of spiritual energy mixed together, and after emerging from the dantian, they did not go up his arms at all, but instead rushed straight into Ye Chen's brain, crashing into his sea of consciousness.

Ye Chen was startled by this sudden change; he knew his own body best—such a massive surge of spiritual energy instantly flooding the brain, the sea of consciousness simply couldn't withstand it—if it all rushed in at once, either the sea of consciousness would be directly overwhelmed, or his entire brain would be smashed into a paste!

Panicking, he desperately tried to control that stream of spiritual energy, his arms, neck, and cheeks even bulging with veins, but the spiritual energy still refused any control.

At this moment, Lin Wan'er saw Ye Chen's expression turn fierce and strained, drenched in sweat, and instinctively thought he could no longer hold on, so she quickly followed his instructions and stuffed a Pei Yuan Dan into his mouth.

Ye Chen was desperately guiding the spiritual energy, but it was all in vain; just as his divine sense was at a loss, another stream of strong, pure spiritual energy suddenly surged from his dantian—this spiritual energy he knew very well, it was the medicinal effect of the Pei Yuan Dan.

Although he subconsciously felt a pang of regret, after all it was a critical moment, and that uncontrolled spiritual energy was somewhat domineering—if he had more controllable spiritual energy, he thought he could turn the tide from a disadvantaged position.

So he immediately tried to circulate the spiritual energy in his dantian upward to the brain, to grapple with that stream of spiritual energy.

But ironically, just as he gathered spiritual energy upward to prepare to rescue the other stream being swept along, the entwined strange spiritual energy, as if sensing reinforcements coming from behind, directly reversed direction and charged all the way back from the brain, intercepting that new stream of spiritual energy in the meridians, then entangling it as well within himself.

Ye Chen was horrified to discover that the spiritual energy transformed from the Pei Yuan Dan had actually betrayed him, completely coming under the control of that strange spiritual energy.

Immediately afterward, even stronger spiritual energy continued to surge upward, frightening Ye Chen into desperately trying to shut off his meridians to block it, but there was no controllable spiritual energy left in his body, so this futile effort manifested physically just as before, making him look fierce and pained.

Lin Wan'er panicked badly, not daring to delay, and quickly stuffed another Pei Yuan Dan into Ye Chen's mouth.

Then that strange phenomenon happened again.

The spiritual energy already nearly reaching the sea of consciousness felt spiritual energy gathering again in the dantian, and before Ye Chen could even mobilize that energy upward, it directly did a 180-degree turn and rushed wildly toward the dantian.

That stream of spiritual energy, now growing ever stronger, at this moment was completely unstoppable—the newly injected spiritual energy in the dantian hadn't even warmed up before it was completely sucked dry by the opposing force!

Ye Chen felt his mind about to break—he never imagined this damned strange spiritual energy would play Snake inside his own body!

The bewildered Lin Wan'er, seeing Ye Chen eat two pills with no improvement, quickly stuffed another into his mouth.

Ye Chen thought to himself: It's over, this ghost thing is here to cheat spiritual energy—eating like this, the precious pills will just be wasted!

But at this moment, he was truly unable to divert attention, unable even to open his mouth to speak to Lin Wan'er; the only thing he could do was to try his best to close his mouth and clench his teeth, to prevent Lin Wan'er from stuffing more pills into his mouth.

On one hand he truly regretted the pills, on the other he was also worried that if he kept eating like this, the spiritual energy would brew into a spiritual energy bomb inside his body—if it rushed into his brain, it might not be much weaker than Chang Sheng Bo's self-detonation, by then not only would Lin Wan'er likely lose her life, but the entire half-mountain villa complex would probably be razed to the ground!

But at this moment his strength was clearly insufficient—even if he gritted his teeth with all his might, he still couldn't stop Lin Wan'er, who was anxious to save him, from pinching both sides of his cheeks, forcing his upper and lower teeth apart, and stuffing another pill in.

Thus, that strange spiritual energy again played Snake inside Ye Chen's body.

Three, four, five...

Lin Wan'er, to prevent Ye Chen from coming to harm, stuffed all five pills into him at once, her mouth constantly praying: "Young Master! Young Master, can you hear this servant's voice? Is the spiritual energy still not enough?! If it's still not enough, just tell this servant the safe's password, and this servant will get more pills to feed you!"

Ye Chen could no longer respond to her—the spiritual energy had already grown to terrifying strength, reversed direction again, and surged toward his brain.

That immense spiritual energy flooded into the sea of consciousness, causing Ye Chen's vision to go black, feeling as if his brain were being torn open with intense pain, and then he lost consciousness.

And at the very moment he lost consciousness, a majestic and towering pagoda suddenly rose up out of nowhere above the sea of consciousness, its appearance virtually identical to that of the Four Directions Pagoda.

Unfortunately, Ye Chen couldn't see this scene.

At this time, in Ye Chen's sea of consciousness, vast as the ocean, that immense spiritual energy suddenly stirred up waves like those capable of swallowing everything, but immediately afterward, that spiritual energy, which seemed capable of crushing decay, transformed into countless tiny points of light, rushing toward the pagoda suspended in midair.

And after the pagoda absorbed those points of light formed from spiritual energy, one second it still looked like a weathered, broken relic, the next second it burst forth with seven-colored Buddha light, while its own shed colors gradually restored at this moment, as if, after a thousand years, it had returned to the moment it was first built!

The new, solemn, and dignified pagoda floated above Ye Chen's sea of consciousness; after absorbing all the spiritual energy, it suddenly sank into the sea of consciousness and vanished without a trace.

And Ye Chen's sea of consciousness returned once more to tranquility.

At this time, Ye Chen had already fainted, collapsing directly into Lin Wan'er's arms.

Lin Wan'er was extremely anxious, holding Ye Chen's head, crying and shouting: "Young Master, don't scare this servant, please hurry and wake up, okay......"

Ye Chen also slowly opened his eyes at this moment.

At this moment, he felt his body as weak as if he'd been locked in a black coal mine, nonstop digging coal for seven days and seven nights—his entire body had not a shred of strength, every inch of skin, every muscle, every bone, ached terribly.

He saw Lin Wanner holding him in her arms and instinctively asked, "Am I still alive?"

Lin Wanner saw that he had awakened and immediately burst into tears of joy, crying, "Young Master, you've awakened! I was nearly scared to death by you! What exactly happened to you just now?"

Ye Chen recalled everything that had just occurred, then tried to inwardly inspect his meridians and dantian, but there was not a trace of spiritual energy left—everything had been completely absorbed by that strange spiritual energy.

He instinctively asked Lin Wanner, "Miss Lin, just now... how many pills did you feed me?"

Lin Wanner blurted out, "I fed you all five pills, Young Master, and it still wasn't enough—I nearly thought you wouldn't pull through..."

"Five?!" Ye Chen instinctively felt his vision go black again, and his whole body nearly fainted once more.

Afterwards, two lines of clear tears traced down the corners of his eyes as he gritted his teeth and cursed, "What damned hand seal, making me think the Buddha had manifested... this... this damn thing is nothing but a scam!"