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"Next up ~ ~ ~ ~" The black shadow suddenly appeared in front of Ye Hongtian.

"Pu ci!"

"Honorable Master!" Ye Hongtian looked at the black shadow in shock and said.

The black shadow's hand grabbed Ye Hongtian's heart. Ye Hongtian never would have thought that his master who he had just acknowledged would kill him just like that. Ye Hongtian could only feel his head getting heavier and heavier, and he fell down.

After an unknown amount of time, Ye Hongtian suddenly sat up, he was panting heavily, both his hands touched his neck and forehead, he touched his heart, and found that he was fine. In his dream, he had experienced hundreds of ways to die, and thinking about those ways to die, Ye Hongtian swallowed a mouthful of saliva, he felt a chill down his spine, he did not know if it was a dream or something.

Ye Hongtian looked around and found that the cave was still there. He was still sitting on the stone bed and the black shadow was still sitting in front of the black ball.

"Master." Ye Hongtian walked behind the black shadow, cupped his fist and bowed as he shouted.

"Not bad, this boy has survived!" The black shadow looked at Ye Hongtian and said with praise, "Your heart was dug out by me and you have to experience hundreds of deaths to plant it. You little brat at the First Sky of Body Tempering are not simple. How do you feel now?

When Ye Hongtian heard "his heart was dug out", his whole body was in a mess, he could still come back to life after his heart was dug out. He was indeed quite handsome, and only when the black shadow asked him to give two punches did he hit out like a puppet.

"Bam!"

Ye Hongtian was shocked and looked at his hands in disbelief. He had casually punched out with his fist and had shattered a rock in front of him. This power should be around the 4th layer of Body Tempering.

The black shadow looked at the stones on the ground and nodded in satisfaction, then faced the black ball and sat down, chanting some incantations that Ye Hongtian could not understand. Ye Hongtian listened to it for a long time but still could not understand.

"Caw ~ ~"

Suddenly, a strange sound broke the silence. Ye Hongtian embarrassedly touched his stomach, then raised his head to look at the black shadow, only to find that the black shadow did not show any sign of stopping.

Ye Hongtian clenched his teeth as he stood up and said to the black shadow, "Master, your disciple is hungry. I wonder how I can find food."

The black shadow pointed at a wall and said, "The cave entrance is over there. Outside the cave is the forest. There should be a lot of wild beasts." The shadow's voice sounded weaker this time.

Ye Hongtian looked in the direction the black shadow was pointing at. There was nothing there, but since the black shadow said that this was a cave entrance, then it should be right. He walked in front of the wall and began to slowly grope around, and when he touched a small protruding stone, Ye Hongtian suddenly appeared outside the cave.

"Formation!" Ye Hongtian turned around and looked. He actually walked out from a tree. It was hard to imagine that he was in a tree that was as thick as two people.

Ye Hongtian left a mark on the big tree. He looked at the sun to get a rough idea of the position of the prey and then started to search for it. He just so happened to be able to familiarize himself with the current strength.

Ye Hongtian fumbled around in the forest, picking some edible fruits along the way to satisfy his hunger.

After searching for a long time, they finally discovered that their first prey was actually a third level beast, a Single Horned Tiger. The Single Horned Tiger was one of the stronger third level beasts, and its strength was equivalent to a human at the peak of the third level of Body Tempering.

Ye Hongtian slowly approached the single-horned tiger, and the single-horned tiger also noticed Ye Hongtian. It roared at Ye Hongtian to warn him that Ye Hongtian had entered its territory, and it could feel a dangerous aura from Ye Hongtian's body. This was the instinct of a beast, if it was a normal first layer Body Tempering martial artist, it would have already torn that person to shreds.

When Ye Hongtian heard these two roars, he smiled and closed in on the third stage Single Horned Tiger at an even faster speed.

When the distance between the two was less than 10 feet, the level 3 beast suddenly let out a roar and pounced towards Ye Hongtian. Obviously, Ye Hongtian had crossed his last line.

Ye Hongtian saw the wild beast coming towards him and was very happy. If this wild beast wanted to escape, Ye Hongtian really didn't know if he could catch it. Ye Hongtian dodged to the side and followed up with a punch to the head of the Single Horned Tiger.

"Pfft!" The head of the Single Horned Tiger was smashed open by Ye Hongtian's fist, blood and brain matter flew in all directions.

Ye Hongtian looked at his hands in disbelief. He never thought that his full strength punch would be able to instantly kill a Single Horned Tiger that was difficult to deal with even a Third Sky of Body Tempering realm cultivator.

"My current cultivation is at the early First Layer of Body Tempering, but my true strength should have reached the peak of Body Tempering Fourth Layer!" Ye Hongtian said with a face full of excitement.

Ye Hongtian used the small dagger he carried around with him to cut open the belly of the Single Horned Tiger and took out a beast core the size of a pigeon's egg. The beast core was the essence of the beast core, and it contained a huge amount of energy, but it could only be used for special methods.

When Ye Hongtian dug out the beast core, Ye Hongtian's mind kept reeling with this voice, so he couldn't tell if it was male or female.

"Swallow it!"

"Swallow it!"

"…"

Ye Hongtian suddenly felt his heart heat up. He recalled the words the black shadow said, "Your heart was dug out by me and ten thousand tree species were planted in it." He was shocked. Ten thousand tree species wanted to devour the beast core.

Ye Hongtian looked at the beast core in his hand and swallowed it. Then, he thought about how the ten thousand tree species that were planted in his body by the black shadow would not harm him. Thinking about this, Ye Hongtian no longer hesitated and swallowed the beast core.

As soon as the beast core entered his mouth, a strong power turned it into a liquid and slowly dragged it to his heart. This power kept hitting his Jing and Mai, causing Ye Hongtian to grimace in pain as he broke out in a cold sweat.

Ye Hongtian was not allowed to look inside, otherwise he would have discovered that a seed in his heart had actually grown a mouth like a human being. Ten thousand trees swallowed the dissolved beast core and then spat out a purer energy than that beast core, the energy washed over Ye Hongtian's meridians causing the pain in Ye Hongtian's body to increase exponentially. The pain lasted for an incense's worth of time before it slowly subsided, and the ten thousand trees finally absorbed all of the energy from the beast core.

Ye Hongtian sat cross-legged on the ground with a pale face. His clothes were already soaked in sweat and it took him half a cup of tea to recover.

"This should be the condition for the tree species to grow. The feeling of having energy rushing through one's meridians is not something that an ordinary person can withstand." Ye Hongtian let out a sigh and said.

Ye Hongtian jumped and stood up. This jump actually hit a tree branch above his head and it broke. Then, Ye Hongtian fell heavily onto the ground and fell in confusion.

Ye Hongtian used his hands to prop himself up. He brushed away the dust on his body and exclaimed, "Second Sky of Body Tempering!"

"Hahaha ~ Hahaha ~"

Ye Hongtian was laughing out loud in the forest. He did not expect that a beast core like this would be able to help him break through to the Second Sky of Body Tempering stage. He no longer needed to be called a trash that he could not cultivate anymore.

Ye Hongtian was in a good mood. He nimbly peeled the single-horned tiger and roasted the single-horned tiger using wood. This was the most fragrant barbecue he had eaten in the past ten years.

After eating the roast meat, Ye Hongtian tried to determine the direction, humming a tune as he walked towards the tree at the entrance of the cave. After rummaging through the tree for a while, the scene in front of him changed, it was the cave from before, the black shadow was still sitting in front of the black ball chanting.

"Master! Master! " Ye Hongtian excitedly walked in front of the black shadow and said, "I have already reached the Second Sky of Body Tempering, I can really cultivate now!"

The black shadow turned around and nodded at Ye Hongtian, then he smiled, "Not bad, you only went out for half a day and you already broke through. It seems like you found a way to grow the ten thousand tree species."

When Ye Hongtian heard the black shadow praise him, he did not feel happy at all because the black shadow's voice was weaker than before he went out to hunt.

"Master, your body …" Ye Hongtian asked worriedly.

"Tomorrow at noon, Master's last remnant soul will also disappear from this world." The black shadow had his back facing Ye Hongtian. It was unknown what expression it had.

"Master!" Ye Hongtian was just about to ask if there was any way to save her, but he was stopped by the black shadow.

Holding the black sphere in his hand, the black shadow slowly turned around and smiled, "This is my last gift to you. In my hand is a peerless divine weapon that has been forged with one hundred and eight unique divine materials that have lasted for tens of thousands of years. It can change its shape at will, it can be hard, it can be soft, it can be short, it can be long.

Ye Hongtian was about to go crazy. To refine a weapon for tens of thousands of years, even the time of a huge existence like the Mysterious Sky Sect would not be as long as refining a peerless weapon.

Ye Hongtian did not know the value of the one hundred and eight treasures, but the black shadow actually emphasized that this must be a priceless treasure. Ye Hongtian did not know the value of the one hundred and eight treasures, but the black shadow actually emphasized that it should be priceless treasure.

"Try imagining the shape and length of the weapon you want the most." The black shadow looked at Ye Hongtian and said.

Hearing this, Ye Hongtian slowly closed his eyes, his mind was thinking about which weapon would be the best.

"Sword, the king among soldiers …"

"Saber, is the tyrant among soldiers …"

"Spear, a dragon among soldiers …"

"…"

Ye Hongtian was still thinking when he suddenly felt his hand sink, and a strange weapon appeared in his hand. It was neither sword nor blade, it was nothing at all.

Ye Hongtian embarrassedly scratched his head, the shadow beside him laughed and said, "Haha, good kid. This is your first time condensing a weapon and you can even form a physical body at the Body Tempering realm. Master has not misjudged you!"

"Thank you, Master, for your praise." Ye Hongtian cupped his fists and bowed to the black shadow and said.

"In the remaining time, I will assimilate the information of all sorts of weapons and basic training methods into your memories. The fusion of memories will be even more painful than the release of energy from ten thousand tree species," the black shadow said slowly as he paced back and forth in the cave with his hands behind his back.

"I think you must have felt the pain of thousands of tree species spitting out energy and attacking your Jing and Mai."