Xianyuan Holy Land.
Spirit Beast Pavilion.
The Xianyuan Holy Land kept a great number of spirit beasts in captivity.
At that moment, a disciple was carrying food to feed the spirit beasts when he suddenly noticed that the creatures were all bowing and prostrating toward a single direction.
He immediately ran off to report this to the elders.
Several elders rushed over to the Spirit Beast Pavilion and found beast after beast kneeling on the ground, prostrating themselves in the direction of Xinyao Peak.
All eleven hundred and thirty spirit beasts in the pavilion were kneeling toward that single direction at that very moment.
The majesty of a single thought, and ten thousand beasts submit!
The elders stood dumbfounded, struck with absolute shock.
"This... ten thousand beasts submitting! Could it be that another grandmaster beast tamer has emerged within our Immortal Gate?"
"If that is truly the case, it is undoubtedly a great blessing for our race!"
"Let us go and take a look at once!"
At the summit of Xinyao Peak.
Lu Yuting stared in astonishment at her Junior Brother.
There were two methods of beast taming. One was like Lu Yuting's approach—establishing a favorable relationship with the spirit beasts before gradually taming them.
The other was to project an overwhelming presence that forced the spirit beasts into submission.
Clearly, Junior Brother belonged to the second category.
The majesty of a single thought, and ten thousand beasts submit.
At that moment, Ye Chen appeared like the king of all beasts. Relying solely on the aura of that single thought, he had forced these spirit beasts to bow at his feet.
Looking at the submissive creatures before him, Ye Chen had never imagined that the Herding Gods Formula would be so immensely powerful.
With a single thought, he had made so many spirit beasts submit to him.
Yet he knew he could not expose his cultivation base, so he quickly reined in his divine ability.
Only then did the spirit beasts heave sighs of relief and struggle back up from the ground.
Ye Chen walked over to Lu Yuting.
With a delighted smile, Lu Yuting gently stroked Ye Chen's little head and said, "Junior Brother, you were simply amazing!"
Right at that moment, several formidable auras surged toward them.
They looked up into the sky.
Three elders flew down to the back mountain of Xinyao Peak.
Upon arriving, they saw Ye Chen and Lu Yuting standing atop the peak.
The three elders immediately descended.
Since Ye Chen was the son of the Holy Mother of Xinyao and Lu Yuting was a gifted beast tamer, how could these elders possibly not recognize them?
"Greetings, Elders!" Lu Yuting hurriedly pulled Ye Chen along to bow in salute.
The three elders looked at Ye Chen and Lu Yuting, demanding without delay, "Have the two of you been here the entire time?"
The two of them nodded.
An elder looked at Lu Yuting and asked, "While you were here, did you happen to notice a supreme grandmaster who made ten thousand beasts submit?"
At that moment, Ye Chen understood why the three elders had come.
It was undoubtedly his own display of compelling ten thousand beasts to submit that had alarmed the elders of the clan, drawing them here in droves.
Ye Chen and Lu Yuting hastily shook their heads. "No."
The Holy Mother of Xinyao had previously instructed that Ye Chen's cultivation must not be exposed.
The three elders observed the pair and felt no suspicion.
After all, Ye Chen possessed a useless Spiritual Root and could not cultivate at all, let alone become a beast tamer. And while Lu Yuting was a prodigy among beast tamer disciples capable of taming spirit beasts like the White Tiger, she was utterly incapable of commanding ten thousand beasts to submit in such a manner.
"That is true. A grandmaster who wishes to remain in seclusion would hardly allow you or me to lay eyes upon him," an elder remarked, shaking his head.
"Such a figure must be wholeheartedly devoted to profound cultivation; why would they ever expose themselves for mere fame?" another elder added.
With that, the three elders collectively bowed toward a certain direction on Xinyao Peak. "Since the senior does not wish to show themselves, we shall not intrude upon your cultivation."
Having paid their respects, the three elders departed.
Xinyao Hall.
The residence of the Holy Mother of Xinyao.
Ye Chen's five Senior Sisters and Ye Chen himself had all gathered before the Holy Mother of Xinyao.
Ye Chen's Third Senior Sister, Fourth Senior Sister, Fifth Senior Sister, and Sixth Senior Sister were all singing his praises before the Holy Mother, recounting everything that had happened over the past few days.
In just four days, Ye Chen had mastered the Stealth Technique, learned alchemy, and studied a zither melody that had left everyone stunned. Even more absurdly, the mere release of his aura had directly forced the ten thousand beasts of Xinyao Peak into submission.
Upon hearing the accounts of her daughters and disciple, the Holy Mother of Xinyao wore a look of utter astonishment.
She had never imagined that her son possessed such formidable talent.
Meanwhile, listening to the other Senior Sisters recount these events, Ye Chen's Seventh Senior Sister, Zhao Xiyao, wore a look of utter disdain and let out a cold snort.
Originally, she possessed the greatest talent among the Holy Mother of Xinyao's seven disciples.
But now that Ye Chen had awakened his divine spiritual root, he had stolen all the limelight, leaving her feeling rather disgruntled.
Zhao Xiyao was only ten years old, merely two years older than Ye Chen, and still retained a childish temperament.
Hearing the older sisters' tale, she gave another cold snort and declared, "A cultivator's cultivation base is what matters most! No matter how well you practice other things, what use is it if your cultivation doesn't advance?"
Hearing Zhao Xiyao's cold snort, the other Senior Sisters looked at her and asked, "What is it, Little Sister? Are you jealous just because we're praising Xiao Chen?"
"Hmph! I am not jealous at all! I would never be jealous of this brat!" Zhao Xiyao retorted, oozing jealousy from every word.
Ye Chen chuckled inwardly. Inside this body of his resided the soul of a twenty-year-old; how could he possibly lower himself to bicker with a ten-year-old child?
Besides, coming to Xinyao Hall today meant he could sign in again.
A location could be signed in once or several times; last time he had signed in at this very Xinyao Hall and obtained his divine spiritual root. He wondered what reward he would draw this time.
"Sign in."
[System: The host has signed in at Xinyao Hall and is rewarded with the cultivation manual "Heavenly Evolution Formula".]
[The "Heavenly Evolution Formula" is a human race cultivation manual capable of deriving countless divine abilities and martial arts techniques. When cultivated to mastery, it can pierce through the heavenly secrets, resonate with the great dao of heaven and earth, and rank among the strongest cultivation manuals of the human race.]
[The manual has been issued. Do you wish to cultivate it?]
The Heavenly Evolution Formula?
Ye Chen was inwardly startled.
Previously, he had signed in for the Herding Gods Formula, which could suppress foreign races, while this Heavenly Evolution Formula was one of the supreme manuals of the human race. Whichever one looked at, both were ultimate supreme scriptures.
How could anyone refuse to cultivate such a manual?
"Cultivate!" Ye Chen immediately declared in his mind.
[System: The host has successfully cultivated the manual and is now at the first realm of the Heavenly Evolution Formula.]
Instantly, rolling waves of spiritual energy surged toward Ye Chen.
At that moment, Ye Chen's Senior Sisters were chatting and laughing with the Holy Mother of Xinyao when they suddenly noticed vital energy stirring around Ye Chen. Spiritual qi poured endlessly into his body, and at that instant, Ye Chen actually showed signs of a breakthrough.
One had to remember that Ye Chen had only started cultivating three days ago, and by the second day he had broken through the Qi Refinement Realm to reach the Foundation Establishment Realm. Was he about to break through yet again?
Right then, Ye Chen's cultivation base climbed steadily, rising directly from the Early Foundation Establishment realm into the Mid Foundation Establishment realm.
Witnessing this scene, the Holy Mother of Xinyao and all of Ye Chen's Senior Sisters were left dumbstruck.
Ye Chen had broken through to Foundation Establishment only two days ago, and in a mere two days, he had already reached the Mid Foundation Establishment realm.
Such a rate of cultivation was practically defying the heavens!
Zhao Xiyao, who had just been disparaging Ye Chen's cultivation a moment ago, now stood with her mouth agape, too shocked to utter a single word.